The AIE Podcast #420 – Falling into Force, Fourth, Fallout, and Fun

On this episode of The AIE Podcast... For some reason, Fallout is really popular right now! The Dark Heart cometh Cata is in pre-launch… again! So much new in SWTOR And, we are talking to ourselves All that and more coming up right now... Podcast Audio Raw Video http://youtu.be/W9rJJr886XQ Open Welcome to episode #420 of the podcast celebrating you, the Alea Iacta Est gaming community, the die has been podcast. This is Mkallah- and, since it’s 420, there are plenty of munchies in the guild kitchen! To my left is Tetsemi: - (catch phrase here). And to my right is Mewkow: (catch phrase here). We are chatting with ourselves this week!! Ok, we’ll be digging into what we’ve been doing in and out of game shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news... AIE News Community Just a reminder, we’ll be starting announcements for Summer of Love in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out on the AIE Discord for all the announcements and events. If anyone would like to host their own event or help with events, feel free to tag @officer in the AIE Discord with your ideas. Mandatory Fun Nights Where the fun is mandatory but the attendance is not. Sunday - You all get a day off! Monday - GW2 9:30 pm Eastern Monday - STO 10:00 pm Eastern Tuesday - SWTOR 9:00 pm Eastern Wednesday - HFO Mythic+ Mayhem (WoW) 8:00 pm Eastern Thursday- Board Game Night (1st and 3rd Thursdays) 7:00 pm Eastern/6:00 pm Central Friday - ESO 9:00 pm Eastern Friday - FFXIV(Magical Misc Tour) 9:00 pm Eastern Saturday - LotRO 8:30 pm Eastern Saturday - FFXIV (Maps) 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - WoW Classic Hardcore 9:30 pm Eastern Saturday - Noob Raid (WoW) 11:00 pm Eastern Streaming and Guild Podcast News We have a ton of AIE member podcasts! Want to know where to find them? Look no further than here- New Overlords Podcast (Max and Sema) https://www.newoverlords.com Working Class Nerds (Marcus and Nick) - NSFL https://workingclassnerdscom.wordpress.com Boards and Swords (Chris and Philip) https://boardsandswords.com/blog?category=Boards%20%26%20Swords Dr. Gameology ( Dr. Daniel Kaufmann ) https://drgameology.com/ STO - Fleet Action Report (Grebog and Nikodas) https://www.youtube.com/@fleetactionreport A Podcast Reborn: A FFXIV Community Podcast (Brandon aka Old Man Franks, Meagan, and Rho) - NSFL https://www.bonusroll.gg/directory/a-podcast-reborn/ NOMADS Fallout 76 has been popping. The Alien Invasion event last week and this week has a few of us engaged there. The show was great and what sparked interest. WoW Confront Xal’atath When Dark Heart Arrives on May 7 Mark your calendars for the release of the next content update for Dragonflight—Dark Heart— on May 7! Dive into the final chapter of Dragonflight as it sets the stage for the upcoming expansion—The War Within™, sojourn into new questlines, Heritage Armor sets for Draenei and Trolls, six new hair colors for Kul Tiran Humans, access to all Dragonflight quests regardless of Renown for maximum-level characters, and more. https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24090236/confront-xalatath-when-dark-heart-arrives-on-may-7 WoW Classic Cataclysm classic pre-patch is live, and Deathwing is claiming lives randomly in the zones around his lair. Not a smooth pre-patch at all, Blizzard outdoing itself this time. This are getting more stable, even with goblins and worgens running around. May 20th will be Cataclysm launch, with only 15 months until the following expansion. SWTOR This week we had a livestream about Game Update 7.5, "Desperate Defiance", which is due this spring, possibly even this month. We will be getting a new pvp season, a new game system called Ventures, and a new Spring Event. The game continues to get art updates--this time for the planet Hutta. The Public Test Server is up now and players are able to test the new Ventures. The Dantooine Spring Abundance Festival looks like a co...