SWTOR Companion Gifts: An Explanation

From Swtorface: It's getting close to Christmas, the time of gift-giving. In SWTOR, the benefits reaped from giving gifts to your companions are immense. Not only do gifts grant extra reputation with your companions, and possibly unlock romantic interludes, but every new level you reach with your companion unlocks a series of very simple quests which are often just a conversation. These conversations can grant massive amounts of experience really fast. I found myself jumping through half a level in five minutes when unlocking a series of companion quests. There are multiple levels of gifts which grant multiple levels of companion reputation and you can either purchase these companion gifts from vendors in major cities or you can acquire them through crew missions from professions like Treasure Hunting. Make sure you give your companions the rights gifts though. Every companion has particular preferences. Some gifts will grant lots of reputation and others will grant no reputation at all. You will waste a gift if you give it to the wrong companion.

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Full SWTOR Companion List on SWTORFace.com

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Companions are going to play a massive part in your experience in SWTOR. Whether you use your companion to craft, or gather, or to tank for you, or even heal you, you'll never be alone. Much more than a simple pet, companions will share their opinions during your experience and judge you on your decisions.


You'll be able to customize their look and all their armor and weapons in the same way that you can customize your own look and gear. During your journeys in SWTOR you'll even get custom items for specific companions.


Every character, by the time they've finished the main story line, will have access to five companions in total. Every class has five different companions which are unlocked as you progress. Whether you choose to journey with a companion because of their special skills, or just because you like their company, it's totally up to you. Some players may even choose their main character's class based on the companions connected to a class, but the five different companions attached to each class represent one from each of the five skill sets (DPS, tank, heals, etc).



Click on the images below to see full details of Bounty Hunter, Jedi Consular, Smuggler, Jedi Knight , Trooper, Sith Inquisitor, Imperial Agent and Sith Warrior companion stats and gifts.

Qyzen-Fess Planet: Tython Qyzen Companion Gifts: Theran Cedrex Planet: Nar Shaddaa Theran Companion Gifts: Zenith Planet: Balmorra Zenith Companion Gifts: Lt Iresso  Planet: Hoth Lt Iresso Companion Gifts: Nadia Grell Planet: Belsavis Nadia Companion Gifts: Corso Riggs Planet: Ord Mantell Corso Companion Gifts: Bowdaar Bowdaar Companion Gifts: Risha Risha Companion Gifts: Akavi Spaar Akavi Companion Gifts: Guss Tuno Guss Companion Gifts: T7-01 T7-01 Companion Gifts: Kira Planet: Courscant Kira Companion Gifts: Doc Doc Companion Gifts: Sargent Rusk Rusk Companion Gifts: Lord Scourge Planet: Empires Palace Scourge Companion Gifts: Aric Jorgan Aric Companion Gifts: Elara Dorne Planet: Taris Elara Companion Gifts: M1-4X M1-4X Companion Gifts: Tanno Vik Tanno Companion Gifts: Yuun Yuun Companion Gifts: Khem Val Planet: Korriban Khem Companion Gifts: Andronikos Revel Planet: Tatooine Andronikos Companion Gifts: Ashara Zavros Ashara Companion Gifts: Talos Drellik Talos Companion Gifts: Xalek Planet: Voss Xalek Companion Gifts: Kaliyo D'jannis Planet: Hutta Kaliyo Companion Gifts: Vector Hyllis Planet: Alderaan Vector Companion Gifts: Doctor Lokin Lokin Companion Gifts: Ensign Raina Temple Planet: Hoth Raina Companion Gifts: Scorpio Planet: Belsavis Scorpio Companion Gifts: Vette Planet: Korriban Vette Companion Gifts: Malavi Quinn Planet: Balmora Malavi Companion Gifts: Jaesa Willsaam Planet: Hutta Jaesa Willsaam Light side Companion Gifts: Jaesa Willsaam Dark Side Companion Gifts: Lieutenant Pierce Planet: Taris Pierce Companion Gifts: Broonmark Planet: Hoth Broonmark Companion Gifts: Mako Planet: Hutta Mako Companion Gifts: Gault Rennow Planet: Tattooine Gault Companion Gifts: Torian Cadera Planet: Taris Torian Companion Gifts: Blizz Blizz Companion Gifts: Skadge Skadge Companion Gifts:

Star Wars The Old Republic SWTOR Preview on SWTORFace.com

Before we start, let's make it very clear that this preview is based on the Beta and not on a finished product. The second thing you need to be aware of is that I am a massive Star Wars fan boy, so I may be biased. Whilst I won't sugar-coat any negatives I've found, I am of course immediately engrossed in just the very idea of playing in a Star Wars universe. Hell, I survived five years in Star Wars Galaxies (a Sony MMO game that in the end had a lot of gameplay issues).

Setting

Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) is set three thousand years before the Star Wars time line that most of us know from the six George Lucas movies. It is set three hundred years after the BioWare game called Knights of the Old Republic. There is a lot of expanded universe content based around this time including comics and novels.

Opening scenes

Starting the game, you are presented with the gorgeous cinematic videos that we've all grown to love; and depending on the faction you choose, you are presented with either the Sith invading the Jedi Temple or the Troopers fighting the Sith on Alderaan.

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[H]ard | Gaming Community Goes Live

HardOCP is a site I always have in my bookmark bar top center! Now they have a gaming site! This is one site I will be watching closely! If Hard Gaming is a shadow of HardOCP it will kick ass, this is one gaming revolution I want to be apart of!

From HardOCP
[H]ard | Gaming Community is now launched. You can check it out here at [H]ard | Gaming Community Website . This website is fully decked out with everything we need. We can keep track of our competition scrimmages and matches for any game, we can stream our gaming live straight to the website, easy means of contacting management and specific division leaders, advertising, sponsorship and affiliate capable, downloads section, and a active news feed. This website was designed by our very own [H] member DDigital. He did an astonishing job and it looks excellent. Keep in mind we are still adding content and fixing things daily. If you see any errors or bugs please use the contact form on the site.

The Gaming community management has been working closely with one of the best gaming service providers in the business End of Reality closely the passed couple of weeks and we have decided it would be best for [H]ard|OCP, [H]ard | Gaming Community, and End of Reality that we work together. End of Reality is now the main sponsor of [H]ard | Gaming community. We would like to extend a very heart felt thanks to Robby @ End of Reality who is a [H]ard Forum member himself. We are very proud to be powered by End of Reality and will wear his logo proudly like we do the [H].

We promised you all day 1 servers and we have not failed you. We will be launching Battlefield 3 with 2 servers online waiting for you to get home from the midnight release. News is still fairly scarce with MW3 but we plan to have a server for it on launch day as well. We know some of you may hate BF3 or MW2 or both. We however do not. We are not playing sides as we are here to provide as many of you with a Gaming home that we can. We also have 2 Counter Strike Source servers up and running. These are still very incomplete as time hasnt permitted us to configure them fully. For a full list of our servers please check here.

We have teamed up with the [H]ardcraft team. We now have adopted their server and management to manage the [H]ard | Gaming Minecraft division. If you play minecraft and are looking for a server that protects your builds and has a very high quality server then please check out our site for more info.

We also have our own section here on the forums for discussion. We use this to talk to everyone and as a way for a medium for [H] members to interact with each other out of game. We also discuss all types of gaming from FPS, RTS, MMOs, and even consoles are welcome.You can check out our section here .

We are very excited about this much like when it started. The motivation and determination has only escalated since the original idea. We have a very level headed crew with a lot of experience in management and the server infrastructure. All of these things show and it matters. Kyle Bennett @ [H]ardOCP, Robby Hicks @ EoReality, and the [H]ardcraft team all believe in us and what we are doing. We have made so many connections and relationships thus far and its only the beginning. There are a lot of communities out there like [H] with gaming organizations. I think its time we put [H] back on the map in gaming. Do you want to be apart of the revolution?

SWTORFace In SWTOR, Will The Force Influence You?

We've all seen the video demonstrations from Star Wars The Old Republic where the developers have talked about Light side and Dark side options in the SWTOR. When you set up a character, remember that you don't choose Light or Dark side at the same time that you choose the class, faction, race and look. You choose to act Light or Dark as you make decisions. A character is not simply either Light or Dark.

So in SWTOR will you choose the Light or Dark side for the sole purpose of achieving certain levels in Light or Dark that then open up your access to certain weapons and equipment (according to the developers)? Or will your decision be based on morals and the type of character you want to play? Would you, for example, take out a camp of children in order to get Dark reputation that might earn you an uber cloak?!

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Steam Hacked Seriously Hacked

Keep an eye on your credit cards on Steam, keep a close eye on your transactions.

From the Steam forums:

Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users:

Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.

We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.

We don’t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.

While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.

We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.

We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.

I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Gabe.

GAME FACE Episode 10: First Impressions of Diablo III beta.

Hillary Nicole: I got to play the Diablo III beta so these are my first impressions of it. I played the Demon Hunter and Witch Doctor.

DC Universe™ Offline free to play!

DC Universe is now Free to play and Sony has screwed the change over up big time  after downloading 13GB + to test out the game I got to play for 15 minuets and then the server went off line.. that was 18 hours ago this is what Sony are saying on Facebook  :

We are still actively working on issues with both US PC and US PS3. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to have things up and running as quickly as possible. Thanks so much for your patience.

As folks have seen we have had some major issues today keeping our US Servers up and running. We are working very hard to correct the problem and we will be keeping the servers down until we can deploy new software to help us fix the issues....

Update:!!

Update from DCUO Exec. Producer: "We will be reopening the server soon. Although we do not have a fix yet for this problem we have added additional code to try and catch and diagnose the problem. I apologize in advance if we crash again, but know that the information we get will help to make sure we solve this problem as quickly as possible." 

It’s still fracked but we will just kick it and hope for the best!

If this was a once of I might give them some slack but with servers doing down up to 9 out of the last 14 days this is not looking good for Sony.

The forums and Facebook are full of angry players complaining about freeloaders crashing there servers, and to be honest I might be upset too if I paid for a game that then went free to play, and then crashed all the time.. But i didn't pay for it but I would not have even looked at it if it was not free to play. If Sony get their act into gear and get this mess cleaned up I might give it a run and if I do like it I would me more than happy to pay for it to enhance my experience.... but that a big IF...

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WTF Frackin'cc'ss Pandas Blizzard!!

This is a must see for any MMO gamer.. If you get this mad about a game step away!

look at that cute face....