Our adventures in the Shadow of Revan continue!

Chill turned his favourite warzone experience from last week into a YouTube video.

Congratulations to this week’s winner, Lachimba of The Harbinger! Thanks to Caranome for entering.

Caranome recommended this explanation of how reverse engineering works for the new tier of crafting introduced in Game Update 3.0.

Please send your tips to ootinicast@gmail.com by next Wednesday for a chance to win an M8-R3 code, courtesy of BioWare, and an OotiniCast-provided Cartel Market pack from the latest shipment.

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• With the seven days of early access concluded, the Shadow of Revan digital expansion is now available to all players! A launch trailer (also on YouTube) was released, along with Andrew Horwitz’s welcome.
  
• Patch 3.0.0a was deployed on Tuesday, which included the removal of ability costs from the game. No refunds for players who spent credits on abilities during early access will be provided.
  
• Patch 3.0.0b was deployed on Wednesday morning.
  
• Galactic Starfighter (GSF) has been unintentionally impacted by the changes to abilities introduced in Game Update 3.0. These issues are intended to be fixed in Game Update 3.0.1.
  
• An apparent increase in difficulty of strong (“silver”) mobs is being investigated.
  
• The customer service options available have been updated in this post on the official forums.
  
• To celebrate the third anniversary of SWTOR’s release, a vendor gwill be offering special decorations for a limited time from Tuesday 16 December until Monday 12 January 2015.
  

Kuze walked us through his guide to obtaining the new datacrons on Rishi.

This picture of Ootini Rage’s new ride, The Star Crawler, was taken by @ForceChuckle:

On the show this week were Chill (@BrandonLStarr, twitch.tv/chillswtor), Teo (@jasonetheridge), Redna (@R3DN4, twitch.tv/r3dn4) and Kuze (@kuze_roh, YouTube).

Information about our guilds on The Harbinger, Ootini Knights (Republic) and Ootini Rage (Empire), can be found here.

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