Gaming Update #44

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Gaming Update #44

Your friendly, neighborhood Praetor to the Fist will be providing the main gaming updates for the next few months. Val will be bringing you supplementary updates around the middle of each month.

Battlefront

Battlefront releases on November 17th. We had 69 activities submitted during the short span of the Battlefront Beta. This is A New Hope (see what I did there?) for Star Wars games. We will be hustling hard to to support this game as quickly as possible with values for all multiplayer content. Did you catch the launch trailer yet? I’m so excited for this. As much as people are justifiably upset at EA’s tactics of selling a season pass already I have paid in full my pre-orders for both Star Wars Battlefront Deluxe Edition and the Season Pass. A recent teaser was also released for the Battle of Jakku . Don’t forget the Battle of Jakku DLC is free to all players on December 8th, but it will be available on December 1st for everyone who pre-orders at least the standard version.

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Wiki Updates and PoB Changes

Thankfully our staff received a recent overhaul. Due to this, the Fist Staff has a chance to get caught up on updating our Wiki pages and other projects. Battlefront is by far the biggest project our staff will be focusing on. Bloodfyre will continue to be dedicated to ToR.

We have added new page that explains what the Fist-o-matic gaming bot is and how it works. A new Novitiate Hall course and exam has been sent to the Shadow Academy staff for edits and implementation. The table for Diablo 3 has also been updated.

The Pendant of Blood page has been updated to reflect changes to PoBs awarded for ToR and Destiny.

  • Destiny will only award PoBs for achieving the maximum character level for your first character (currently level 40). You may earn additional PoBs once for each of the following Light levels: 295, 300, 305, 310, 315. This provides a cap of 6 PoBs for Destiny (excluding Club Firsts).

  • The Old Republic will only award PoBs for achieving the maximum character level for your first character (currently level 65). You may earn additional PoBs once for each of the following Legacy levels: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. This provides a cap of 6 PoBs for ToR (excluding Club Firsts).

November Gaming Releases

Here are some releases coming out in November.

  • Need for Speed on Xbox One, PS4 and PC
  • Call of Duty Black Ops 3 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC (November 6th)
  • Fallout 4 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC (November 10th)
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider on Xbox One and Xbox 360 (November 10th)
  • Starcraft 2 Legacy of the Void (November 10th) on PC
  • Star Wars Battlefront (November 17th) on Xbox One, PS4 and PC
  • Deadpool (November 17th) on Xbox One and PS4
  • Game of Thrones Episode 6 (November 17th) Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3 and PC

October’s Gaming Stats

Total Members vs Environment and Members vs Others activities reviewed and approved by FIST Staff:

  • Destiny: 242

  • Star Conflict: 168

  • Diablo 3: 83

  • Battlefront 69

  • TOR: 51

  • Matchmaking (Misc.) : 4

Total Member vs Member activities reviewed and approved by FIST Staff:

  • Pazaak: 100

  • Jedi Academy: 12

  • TOR Duels: 5

  • Starcraft: 4

  • Battlefront (Older game): 2

Gaming Competitions

Ask the Fist Staff

  • Nero Inferni asked “When will GTA V be a supported game. :p”

Likely never :P

  • Nero Inferni asked “How about FIFA 16 :p” And then Wally and Nero debated whether Madden or FIFA was better.

There's no planned support for any sports games. It would be nice if one day we could have generic screenshot matchmaking for multiplayer games that don't get dedicated support like others. One can only dream…

  • Wally asked “Halo. Support planned?”

It's already supported. I'm planning on chatting with you Halo players and seeing what revisions are needed in it's current support structure

  • Sight/Mako asked “What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swalow?”

Feel free to browse this link

  • Warp/Rulvak asked “will the division be a supported game?”

It would depend on the interest. I'm personally excited for the game and know others who are. However, it's not rooted in the general themes of games that get supported. I wouldn't be against lobbying for support if there was enough interest though.

  • Celevon asked “When are your wiki pages with CF/CE tables getting?”

Several pages have been updated thanks to the addition of new staff. The others are on a task list. I'd expect TOR to take the longest to get updated

  • Braecen asked “Erno, when are you going to get FIST'd? :-p”

I'm already Praetor. :P I will be taking over the main Fist Report for the next few months and Val will be giving the mid month supplementary updates

I don't really think six PoBs is a very fair limit for ToR, given that people have earned well over this - and those same people can still earn PoBs for the new legacy level system.

Like with destiny being limited to 6 PoB as is most other pob generating platforms, 6 PoB from TOR is a proper number. As far as getting PoB form TOR if you have some already, the approach will be the same as in destiny. If you have already recieved 6 or more PoB from TOR you will not be able to get more. If you have recieved 1 PoB then you now can only get 5 more from TOR starting with the second level of atainment. Basicly this if member has less than 6 TOR PoB then 6 - x pob already atained is what they can get from TOR going forward. And then starting from the bottom and going up X is they next pob they can get from TOR.

Thank you, Ernordeth & Valhavoc for your work and support in gaming for the club. You have a ton of work to do in your position day-to-day, but you still find time to be answer questions, talk to gamers, and help us through the difficult situations that pop up. Great update, Ernordeth!

Need for Speed looks good, just got Syndicate. Good report! Keeping us in that loop-d-loop! Yay Erno!

Game of Thrones episode 6! Woo!

Ernie, when can I request PoB for my legacy levels through the site?

I maxed out my legacy at 50 a long time ago. So i guess that means i can't get anymore PoBs through TOR. :(

I would assume you could use the "Reached Max Level" portal to enter Legacy levels until there is a button on the reporting page...

On that note, I am at Legacy Level 31...does that mean I can only get two more POBs from Tor? Or can I submit a screenshot with my Legacy level 31?

Aren't Legacy Levels way harder to get than normal levels? It almost seems a bit punishing to ToR players.

And yes I realize D3 has a similar system, but it feels like ToR Legacy Levels are agonizing to get.

I think you have to get the equivalent of 8 toons to level 50 to get to legacy level 50.

What about 16 characters to level 25?

Considering how slow the game feels at times and what not, that is most certainly agonizing. Haha.

I doubt that'd do it Shad since I think legacy xp is a percentage of your normal xp :P

Rhiann, after the recent expansion it is a lot faster to level up, you no longer have to do every single mission on a planet, and with your level being synced to the planet you're on at the time you can earn great xp doing heroic missions as well, heroic missions actually seem to be the fastest way but I think you can only do them once per week, but they'll still at the very least give you a handful of levels.

I dont know much about TOR, but i do know the PoB is not a participation award like clusters. It is ment to mean a bit more be it the grind or the skill needed to EARN it. The Destiny POB change will be hard to get the last few. It all depends on random gear drop from the hardest content in the game. But it will be a challenge that i can appreciate and when i do get those POBs I will not look back and just remember the pain they where to get but the fun times I had with my gaming buddies to earn those POBs. I guess my point is that we shouldnt have an easy time earning POBs they used to be very very hard to get and only for pvp plus we already have two thanks for coming out awards.

Having obtained all the possible D3-related PoBs, I can confirm that it's far easier (and quicker) to max those than max TOR Legacy levels.

Also, anyone know how to report TOR legacy levels? All I see is an option for max level.

For now it is being treated like the D3 paragon level POB submissions. Char name, legacy level.

True that PoBs should be hard to get. Even harder when you have no one to game with :p

(I'm lonely xD)

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