The AIE Podcast #282 – Fleet Commander on the Bridge!

On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

Tetsemi: Three Cheers for Corley

Mkallah: Winter is… sorry, Gamescon is coming

Mewkow: Pants, we don’t need no stinking Pants

Tetsemi: The Final Fantasy move has been Fantastic for AIE!

Mkallah: Our new AIE Star Trek Online director, Grebog, is here to talk about AIE in STO

All that and more coming up right now...

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Welcome to episode #282 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mewkow: To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mkallah: (Hey, guys, there is carrot cake in the guild kitchen). This week we are joined by special guest Grebog who is here to talk to us about AIE in Star Trek Online!!! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into STO shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE News

NOMADS

Big shoutout to Corley for continuing to maintain and upgrade the Rust server that AIE has been playing on. If you have Rust and are interested in finding out exactly how many caves that Arv has set up shop in, the Rust server info can be found https://rust-servers.net/server/110215/

Thanks again to Corley for keeping this going.

WoW

Gamescom is coming up on August 22 through August 26 and Blizzard will be there with a lot of game news, trailers and announcements. For WoW, gamers will be able to group up with other gamescom attendees and run through a dungeon from World of Warcraft’s upcoming Patch 7.3—details about this content update will be unveiled on stage and via live stream during the Blizzard Reveal Ceremony on Wednesday.

Looking forward to more information about 7.3 and what the new dungeon design is and where the story is going. If you’re looking for information about all the Blizzard games, they will be live streamed at http://gamescom.blizzard.com .

Also, if you’re a caster (sorry warlocks), you have new casting animations to look forward to in patch 7.3. These look very cool, and definitely update the casting animations to match the ‘class fantasy,’ if you’d like to see a preview of them Blizzard has a blog covering what was updated and their thought process behind it http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/20946579?page=1#1

If you have a lot of alts and are having a hard time keeping track of where they are in the various 7.0 story/achievement lines, Wowhead has a new feature for you, http://www.wowhead.com/attunement . Works really well and they’re taking feedback about what else you’d like to see on the page.

And if you’re into transmog, be sure and check out the Trial of Style going on now through August 22nd. Check out the themes for the contest, put together your sets and get your butt on that catwalk. http://www.wowhead.com/news=269877/trial-of-style-transmog-holiday-august-17th-22nd

SWTOR

Mandatory Fun Night is on the Imperial Side this week, so make sure your armor and weapons are on the right characters and you’re wearing pants (*cough* Max *cough*).

Also, dropping this week is new content called “Crisis on Umbara” which will bring a new planet, a new flashpoint, and a new Stronghold (tied to the flashpoint). For those that haven’t listened to episode 207 of The Escape Pod Cast, where Max and Sema cover it, Umbara is the “Shadow Planet” and played a role in the Clone Wars.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 206: The Current Sea of Currency

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-206-the-current-sea-of-currency/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-206 talk about what we think a legacy merge of currencies might look like and what we heard about it so far in the brief note from Keith.

SWTOR Escape Pod Cast 207: Umbara Unraveled

http://www.newoverlords.com/swtor-escape-pod-cast-207-umbara-unraveled/

This week @AIESema, @MaxTheGrey and Astromech EPC-207 we talk about the lore behind the planet Umbara, which is central to the update coming next week

FFXIV