SWTOR Matrix Shard Recipe and Video Guide

SWTOR Matrix Shard is an item used to craft or assembly a relic called Matrix Cube. Three SWTOR Matrix Shards are required to assembly a Matrix Cube. They are only can be found in datacrons scattered all over the universe. Every character has 2 slots of relic equipment, but only one Matrix Cube can be stored in the inventory at a time because it is considered a limited mission item. The cube gives passive stats bonus.

SWTOR Matrix Shards

The SWTOR Matrix Shards and datacrons are limited in number, there are only 67 datacrons and 16 matrix shards in the game. The SWTOR Matrix Shards and datacrons are located in all the worlds, including Republic Worlds, Imperial Worlds and Neutral Worlds. Since I love Sith Assassin, let me start the list from Sith Empire World:

Sith Empire Worlds
Hutta= Blue Matrix Shard
Korriban= Red Matrix Shard
Dromund Kaas= Yellow Matrix Shard

Galactic Republic Worlds
Ord Mantell= Red Matrix Shard
Coruscant= Yellow Matrix Shard
Tython= Blue Matrix Shard

Neutral Worlds
Balmorra= [Imp] Green Matrix Shard
Taris= [Rep] Green Matrix Shard
Hoth= Red Matrix Shard
Nar Shaddaa= Yellow Matrix Shard
Ilum= Yellow Matrix Shard, Red Matrix Shard
Belsalvis= Green Matrix Shard
Corellia= Blue Matrix Shard, Green Matrix Shard
Tatooine= Blue Matrix Shard

So, the total is four Red Matrix Shards, four Green Matrix Shards, four Blue Matrix Shards, and four Yellow Matrix Shards. See the video guide below for the exact location of the datacrons for the SWTOR Matrix Shards.

SWTOR Matrix Shards Video Guide

Three Matrix Shards are needed to craft the Matrix Cube. You can combine the same colors or different colors. Every different combination of SWTOR Matrix Shard color can produce different effects and different level of Matrix Cube. Each of the color represents:

Red= Strength
Green= Cunning/Aim
Blue= Willpower
Yellow= Endurance

To assemble a Matrix Cube, an assembly is essential. The Sith Empire’s is on Dromund Kaas, in any-access phase around the Dark Temple. The Republic’s is in the Jedi Temple Ruins on Coruscant. It is free to assemble a relic. If you think that you have assembled a wrong relic, you can disassemble it to get the materials back. Though, using disassembler is not free, you need a power core to operate it. Buy one for 20,000 credits on Tatooine or Taris. Buy it from a Jawa.

Now that you have known the basics, let me start the listing. There are 4 tiers of Matrix Cubes. Level 15, level 24, level 32, and level 50 cubes. The level 50 cubes are divided to Force user and Tech user’s Matrix Cube. There are several bugged Matrix Cubes too. The list below maybe not complete, but it is the latest information available.

Level 15
-Red+Yellow+Green = M2-W1
8 Endurance + 18 Willpower
-Red+Blue+Green = M2-W2
15 Aim + 11 Endurance
-Red+Blue+Yellow = M2-W3
18 Strength + 8 Endurance
-Blue+Green+Yellow = M2-W0
11 Strength + 14 Endurance

Level 24
-Yellow+Yellow+Blue = M3-J1
19 Aim + 24 Endurance
-Yellow+Yellow+Red = M3-J2
19 Strength + 24 Endurance
-Yellow+Yellow+Green = M3-L1
14 Endurance + 28 Cunning
-Blue+Blue+Yellow = M3-A1
19 Strength + 24 Endurance
-Blue+Blue+Green = M3-A2
28 Aim + 14 Endurance
-Blue+Blue+Red = M3-V2
24 Endurance + 19 Willpower

Level 32
-Green+Green+Red = M4-B1
39 Cunning + 23 Endurance
-Green+Green+Blue = M4-A1
29 Aim + 33 Endurance
-Green+Green+Yellow = M4-L0
29 Strength + 33 Endurance (bugged?)
-Red+Red+Green = M4-B2
39 Aim + 23 Endurance
-Red+Red+Blue = M4-V1
33 Endurance + 29 Willpower
-Red+Red+Yellow = M4-O2
29 Strength + 33 Endurance (bugged?)

Level 50 – Tech Users
-Red+Red+Red = M7-R3
72 Cunning + 48 Endurance + 7 Critical Rating
-Green+Green+Green = M7-G0
50 Strength + 43 Endurance + 18 Critical Rating + 26 Surge (Bugged?)
-Blue+Blue+Blue = M7-B3
58 Strength + 50 Endurance +24 Critical Rating
-Yellow+Yellow+Yellow = M7-Y3
52 Aim + 60 Endurance + 18 Defense Rating

Level 50 – Force Users
-Red+Red+Red = M7-R3
50 Endurance + 58 Willpower + 24 Critical Rating
-Green+Green+Green = M7-G0
58 Strength + 50 Endurance + 24 Critical Rating
-Blue+Blue+Blue = M7-B3
50 Aim + 43 Endurance + 26 Accuracy + 18 Critical (bugged?)
-Yellow+Yellow+Yellow = M7-Y3
52 Strength + 60 Endurance + 18 Defense Rating

That was the recipe of Matrix Cube from combinations of SWTOR Matrix Shards. Don’t be shy to leave a comment!

UFC Personal Trainer: Free Workout Pack!

On June 28th 2011, this revolutionary fitness game, UFC Personal Trainer was released. It is not only a usual fitness or workout game, but it gives you the real workout sessions of UFC champions. You can choose various champion’s workout sessions and also learn actual moves like kickboxing uppercut, flying knee, isometric lunge, wrestling sprawl, et cetera. It is published by THQ and developed by Heavy Iron Studio. To play this game, you will need Kinect for Xbox 360 and PS Move for PS3. No additional peripheral is needed for Wii.

UFC Personal Trainer was released full of bugs, crashes, and freezes. Since the August 2011’s patch, the game has been better with less errors. The Xbox 360 Kinect version has voice command feature, allowing you to command the game without getting your hands on the controller. But, the Wii version did not get any fixes since it is impossible.

In this game, there are 4 coaches. Greg Jackson, Mark Dellagrotte, Rachelle Leah, and Javier Mendez. You will be told what to do by the coaches plus motivational words to keep you on fire. The workout itself is not a common fitness workout, there are times that you imitate the moves of UFC champions. You will feel like a real bad ass mixed martial artist when working out with this game.

UFC Personal Trainer

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UFC Personal Trainer is not just words. There are testimonials and results from real customers. It will surely make you lose weights and make you healthier by any means. Despite all the advantages, UFC is still a niche. The sales is not that surprisingly high, it is so-so. And to promote UFC Personal Trainer, on January 6th 2012, THQ released a free workout pack by Urijah Faber in Xbox Marketplace. Urijah Faber is a Bantamweight UFC fighter. The free workout pack will include 5 new workout routines and also 15 Hit the Mitts practices with the Bantamweight. It also includes an Undisputee Trainee achievement that will allow you to unlock Create-a-Fighter boost exclusively for the upcoming UFC Indisputed 3. The boost will save you like 10 hours of gameplay for your character. THQ does not stop there.

Two workout packs are currently planned to release on the end of this month and also on the mid of next month. The workout packs cost 800 Microsoft points each. The Cain Velasques workout pack will release on the 31st of January 2012. It includes five brand new workout routines and Hit the Mitts drills with the virtual Mr. Velasques. The other one is Jon Jones workout pack. It is planned to release on the 21st of January 2012 featuring five workout routines and 15 Hit the Mitts session with the current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, Jon Jones.

This fitness-fighting game is considered underrated. THQ prefers and supports mostly the Xbox 360 version since that version is the one that sells the most. There is no official statement and announcement yet regarding the Wii version and PS3 version DLCs. If you want to buy it, it is priced at around 50 bucks. In spite of its average review scores, UFC Personal Trainer is still a good and worthy fitness game. I haven’t got my hands on this game yet, but I want to. UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Workout for the Ultimate UFC Body!

UFC on Xbox LIVE – Epic Fail Premier

The premier of UFC on Xbox LIVE was last Friday. This jaw-breaking, intense show is favored by a lot of people, including gamers. To please the customers hunger of violence, Microsoft released the UFC application in Xbox LIVE on the 20th of December 2011. The app allows gamers to watch UFC on Xbox LIVE and because it is a pay-per-view show, you still have to pay per view. This app surely attracts attentions from the gamers and UFC’s die-hard fans. The premier was scheduled to air on Friday, the 30th of December 2011, 10 days after the initial release of the app. Gold members will have access on pre-fights and extras. Chatting to friends when watching the match is also possible. But, did it go that well? Let’s see.

UFC on Xbox LIVE

Before the premier UFC on Xbox LIVE, Microsoft has issued 30,000 freebie codes and sent it to lucky customers to promote the app. The premier was UFC 141 Lesnar versus Overeem. It was supposed to be a thrilling, action-packed fight. The freebie watchers and the subscribers are all waiting for this awesome fight of the century in front of their Xbox 360. But shit happens ‘nuff said. The show was actually far from the expectations, it was a total wreckage. Imagine you are streaming a video with rapid auto-switching video quality from HD, standard, even to “egg scramble” quality. For some people, the app won’t start even though button-mashing was well performed. The UFC on Xbox LIVE app bounces and crashes, making viewers very much disappointed. The chat feature did not work, nor the fast-forwarding. For some poor guys, they couldn’t watch other than the start of the show. Lesnar looked like scrambly white and black dots while Overeem looked like moving static lines on the screen.

This is likely to be caused by server overload. Since UFC is very popular, a lot of dudes have already subscribed to the UFC app. Followed with Microsoft’s 30,000 freebie viewers. Watching the live pay-per-view in a channel with that amount of viewers have surely wrecked the app. I don’t know why Microsoft did not consider this kind of problem to the testing phase.

Regarding this problem, Microsoft humbly apologized to the viewers, freebies and non-freebies. The 30,000 freebies can be used on future fight to compensate the disappointment. But, on the verge of the disaster, Microsoft said to watch UFC on alternative way. Microsoft is simply turning down the customers’ hope and refusing money. Can you imagine yourself as a die-hard fanatics of [insert your favorite show here] that failed to watch your long-awaited live limited-time special edition show episode because of a technical problem and to make it even worse, you paid for it. What are you going to do? Sue? Put a shotgun in the responsible person’s mouth? If I were one of the disappointed viewers, I would simply ask for a refund or a massive compensation.

So, do you think UFC on Xbox LIVE will succeed seeing the first impression was really a made-me-pissed-off material? Let’s see what do you say about this, leave a comment below!

Survive L.A. Noire: Tips and Trick

Developed by Team Bondi and Rockstar, L.A. Noire has shown its outstanding quality to gamers. L.A Noire is proven to be revolutionary and unique, despite its adoption of usual sandbox gameplay that involves free-roaming, car-driving, and side-missions. L.A. Noire introduces the face motion capture technology. It means that real actors act while the developers are recording the face motion. The records are processed and combined with animation software to make the best-ever face expressions in the video game history. The game was released around May last year for XBOX 360 and PS3, the PC edition came on the 8th of November 2011 in North America and 11th of November worldwide with all DLCs included and dubbed “L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition”.

Even though the genre is similar to other games like True Crime and Mafia, it offers different and exceptional features. In this game, we cannot outrageously shoot pedestrians or crush random people’s heads with tires. We play as the good guy this time, which is Detective Cole Phelps. Our job as Detective Cole Phelps is to bust baddies and fight in the name of righteousness. Detective Phelps was a soldier in the World War II. He got his ass shipped back to the States because of some “accident” (no worries, no spoilers are gonna be spoiled). L.A. Noire features detective investigation in the crime scenes, in interrogations, or in shootouts. As a detective, you have to be critical and sharp-eyed to find evidence in the crime scenes. As an interrogator, you have to be good at reading people’s expressions to tell whether they lied or they told the truth. You are given a handgun and a notebook as your primary starter equipment.

L.A. Noire

To play L.A. Noire and survive to the end with high scores, you have to understand the rules. I will tell you the tips and tricks to get high ranks and master L.A. Noire, preventing you from messing up your playthroughs. Don’t worry, like I said before, no spoilers are going to be spoiled. Continue ahead, fellow readers!

Notebook is Mighty Crucial
Open the notebook and you can see the case’s progression. You can also look at datas like places you can travel to, evidences that you have found, and intuition points. Use the intuition points if you meet a dead end on where to find evidences in a certain area.

Your Partner is not a Bag of Dirt
In L.A. Noire, your pal is useful. Even though your pal is not a bag of dirt, don’t expect him to be smart. At least he is able to drive the car for you and tell you his boring opinions about the current condition. But, those boring opinions might prove to be helpful.

Keep your Ears Open
The voice-acting and the background music also sounds are are indeed fabulous. When you play L.A. Noire, listen to the sounds. When the music fades and disappears, it means the clues and evidences in that area are 100% discovered. There also different sound effects in interrogations that tell you whether your choice were right or wrong.

A Horny and Sireney Car
Activate the siren when you are in a chase. This will prevent you from crashing other vehicles and innocent pedestrians. The horn and siren is useful if you want to keep your rank good.

Eyes, Hands, Lips, Evidences
The key in interrogation is observation. Make sure you observe closely movements of lips, eyes, and hands. Sudden, unusual, fast movement is a sign. Before you are accusing someone of lying, check your notebook whether you have the evidence or not. Doubt if you don’t have enough evidence to back-up your offensive accusation.

Rockstar Games Social Club
If you want to check on your complete detailed progression and stats, sign up. You can link your account to the social club.

If you do those things in L.A. Noire, your playthroughs are bound to be successful. But, if you need specific help on something, don’t be shy to ask. Thanks for reading the tips and tricks of L.A. Noire!