Good day TORWarriors! Welcome to TORWars Podcast #157: Treek – The New SWTOR Companion On The Block. Today Jeff and I talk about all the upcoming features coming to us in Game Update 2.3, Double XP Weekends, Cartel Market Companions, Titans of Industry, Subscriber appreciation and much more! For those that need the breakdown (and links that were mentioned in the cast), you’ll find the show notes below. As always, we like to hear your thoughts, so please put your comment in the comments section after the post.

News:

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• â— Double XP Weekends are over. How did you fare?
  

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• â— Game Update 2.3: Titans of Industry is live on the PTS.
  

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• â— New Old Republic Insider Video released: In August, which is right around the corner, we can expect some brand new content. A new event is planned, Bounty Contract Week. Bounty Contract Week is a monthly event that brings a whole new event to lower level players scaling with level from 15 to 55. There’s going to be more missions and more story content to keep all of us very busy and very happy. Also in August we will be seeing Titans of Industry, a whole new story arch spanning two new Flashpoints – Czerka Corporate Lands and Czerka Core Meltdown – complete with new daily missions with new reputation gains and rewards. In the Cartel Market, we will be seeing a new Companion, Treek with two ways to obtain her – she will part of the Legacy System with Legacy level requirements and in-game credits, or, you can purchase her with Cartel Coins.
  
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  • â— Some Additional Confirmed Data was given out on the official SWTOR site after the Insider Video was released:
    
  
  
  

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• â— New level 55 Daily Mission Area
  
• â— Two new level 55 Flashpoints: Czerka Corporate Labs and Czerka Core Meltdown!
  
• â— New Legacy Galactic Reputation Organizations: Complete CZ-198 missions to earn Galactic Reputation with the Ordnance Acquisition Corps (Empire) / Adjudicators (Republic) and purchase special rewards including powerful all new companion armor for Droids! Complete Bounty Contracts Earn Galactic Reputation with the Bounty Broker’s Association by completing bounty contracts during Bounty Contract Week! The Bounty Contract Week Event is not available on PTS.
  

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• â— TORWars Intelligence Report: Looks like we’re moving into space combat. We know that Game Update 2.4 is promised to be a big PvP update that PvPers are guaranteed to love. Could this be epic PvP space combat?
  

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• â— Subscriber Appreciation: All Subs received 500 Cartel Coins. This brought out mixed feelings from the Community. What are out thoughts?
  

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• â— On July 15th, BioWare will be honoring the 10th anniversary of KOTOR.  Events Include:
  

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2. A blog from BioWare Creative Director, James Ohlen, where he talks about KOTOR and how it helped set the stage for making Star Warsâ„¢: The Old Republicâ„¢.
   
3. A brand new title “Revan’s Heir†coming to the Cartel Market for only 24 hours at the low price of 10 Cartel Coins! (July 15 2AM CT to July 16 2AM CT)
   
4. Cartel Coin giveaways throughout the day on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic Facebook Page.
   
5. Cory Butler gave us a new nugget of information via Twitter: BW plans on celebrating the 10th anniversary of Knights of the Old Republic with an in-game ‘something’. What it is, we don’t know. We already have some gear, and even Cory says it’s not goingg to be gear related, so what could it be?
   

Discussion Topics (Two of Them!  Woot!):

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• â— New Companion: There’s a new companion coming to us and it’s an Ewok! Healer/Tank Treek will be available to us via Cartel Market and Legacy Unlock. Thoughts?
  

Yes, this is an in-game render of Treek. Really, it is. Trust me.

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• â— SWTOR’s Patch 2.3 Role-Neutral Content: Last week, BioWare released the Patch Notes for Game Update 2.3: Titans of Industry. Although the notes are for the Public Test Server only, even as our own intrepid writer, Marshall Carr posted that news article, one thing above all else stood out to him: role-neutral story mode flashpoints. We discuss that topic and give our thoughts.
  

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• â— New Old Republic Insider Video released: In August, which is right around the corner, we can expect some brand new content. A new event is planned, Bounty Contract Week. Bounty Contract Week is a monthly event that brings a whole new event to lower level players scaling with level from 15 to 55. There’s going to be more missions and more story content to keep all of us very busy and very happy. Also in August we will be seeing Titans of Industry, a whole new story arch spanning two new Flashpoints – Czerka Corporate Lands and Czerka Core Meltdown – complete with new daily missions with new reputation gains and rewards. In the Cartel Market, we will be seeing a new Companion, Treek with two ways to obtain her – she will part of the Legacy System with Legacy level requirements and in-game credits, or, you can purchase her with Cartel Coins.
  

Shout Outs and Community Announcements:

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2. Unnamed SWTOR Podcast interview: DD is interviewed by SWTOR and TORWars writer/friend JD (aka Gaddock Teeg) for his Unnamed SWTOR Podcast (So good, it doesn’t need a name!).
   
3. Enjin.com
   
4. TORWars Guild
   
5. Paypal Donors: Thank you to Tom and Matt!
   
6. New Fansite: The Concealed Blade created for Operatives by our own TORWars guildie, Du’morte.
   
7. Walk Now For Autism Speaks: Our own guildie Kurtulmak is walking for Autism awareness in November, please donate to the cause.
   

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