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Pokémon GO: All Spotlight Hours in October 2023 and Their Bonuses

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After 3 years, only a quarter of you have reached the highest level in Pokémon GO

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Which events are particularly worth it?

These events are worth it: In October, there is again a series of events that you certainly shouldn’t miss. Below we show you which ones they are:

Spotlight hour with Knilz: On October 10, you will encounter the grass Pokémon Knilz during the spotlight hour. It is one of the 22 monsters that give you more stardust when capturing, which is why you definitely shouldn’t miss this event if you still need stardust. For each capture of the little monster, you will receive 500 stardust. If you use a star piece during this time and are lucky with the weather, it can even go up to 938 stardust per capture.
Community Day: On October 15, the Community Day for October will run in Pokémon GO, where you will encounter Praktibalk. The monster has a really strong evolution with Meistagrif, which is one of the best attackers in the game. In addition, shiny hunters will get the full benefit on this day.
Halloween event: From October 19 to October 31, this year’s Halloween event takes place, which is again divided into two parts. During this, you usually have the chance to encounter strong ghost and dark attackers. Many players are also hoping for a release of Mimigma in this context.
Rocket takeover: Another highlight will be the Rocket takeover, which will take place from October 26 to October 31 as part of the second part of the Halloween event. During this, you can usually encounter the members of Team GO Rocket more frequently and have your crypto Pokémon forget frustration. Additionally, during such an event, the bosses’ monsters usually change, and Giovanni will recruit a new legendary crypto for the team.

Moreover, raids are also worth it in October. Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Schlingking, and Darkrai belong to the best attackers in Pokémon GO. Mega-Gardevoir, Mega-Gengar, and Mega-Banette are also a good choice for your team.

What do you think of the prospects for the events in October 2023? Which one do you definitely not want to miss? And which event do you suspect from October 5 to October 9? Feel free to let us know here on MeinMMO in the comments and share with other trainers.

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Destiny 2 hired players from the reddit forum as new weapon experts

Schuhmann 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

The story of Jeff Kaplan at Blizzard is legendary: Originally a feared forum troll, Blizzard noticed the approximately 30-year-old Kaplan and gave him a job. Later, he was to shape WoW and Overwatch. Bungie follows similar paths and has recruited a weapon expert for Destiny 2 directly from the reddit forum.

What was it like back then at Blizzard?

The story is now legendary: Kaplan played the original MMORPG Everquest around 2000 under the name “Tigole”: He was a hardcore player who achieved everything in the MMORPG with his guild but liked to post in forums about the weaknesses and problems of Everquest.
One of his guild members was Rob Pardo, one of the founders of Blizzard, who noticed Kaplan and offered him a job at the then-young company.
Kaplan became a celebrated game designer at Blizzard over the next 19 years, he worked on WoW and Overwatch and later left the company as one of the most popular employees of Blizzard.

Overwatch Jeff Kaplan big titel title 1280x720 — Jeff Kaplan.

Destiny recruits renowned weapon expert directly from the forum

This is how an expert found a job at Destiny: In the early times of Bungie, the content creator Mercules drew attention with long posts about weapons. He earned a reputation as the greatest expert in the fandom regarding weapons.

We have often quoted Mercules’ opinions on weapons on MeinMMO, especially around 2017, as we repeatedly referred to Mercules when it came to breaking down complex mechanics in the chronically under-explained Destiny, such as mobility.

In contrast to Kaplan, who also impressed with performance but was notable for his rough troll posts, Mercules maintained a much more moderate tone. As early as 2019, Bungie took notice of Mercules, and together with YouTuber Holtzmann Bungie hired him as a consultant and expert, but only for a limited time.

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In March 2022, Mercules proudly announced that he had today landed his first job as an Associate Weapon Designer at Bungie. With the permanent position, a dream has come true.

Since then, he frequently speaks out on social media and in interviews when it comes to weapons topics, such as recently with the Necrochasm.

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Born and raised in the Destiny subreddit

How did he get the job? Mercules says (via reddit), that a forum also played a big role in his case. He posted his weapon analyses on reddit and someone at Bungie noticed him and recommended him.

In hindsight, he says: He was born and shaped in the Destiny subreddit. He now hopes to make the fans proud.

In the past, in 2015, Bungie had utilized reddit (via gamerant): Community manager Cosmo originally founded the reddit. However, the currently difficult relations between Bungie and the community have not changed this.

At Bungie, the relationship with the community has been severely damaged since individual members of the player base have been offensive in tone and even issued death threats against individual employees and their families. Bungie has not accepted this and has severely restricted communication since then:

Destiny 2: Community manager resigns after death threat – Bungie: ‘Expect no more answers’

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On Netflix, you can now watch 4 fantastic short films that were more expensive than The Lord of the Rings

Linda Knabe 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

Since September 30, 2023, Netflix has added four short films to its lineup, which not only come from the eccentric director Wes Anderson but also cost the streaming service over a billion dollars. You can watch the trailer for the first of the four films here.

What kind of films are these? In total, Netflix has added four short films at the end of September, which are based on the fairy tales and fantasy stories of the author Roald Dahl. He is known for his fine, dark humor and surprising endings in his works.

Under the direction of Wes Anderson (Grand Budapest Hotel), one can rightly expect certainly good short films with a rather strange humor mixed with a melancholic overall atmosphere. Above all, however, the typical visual playfulness characteristic of Anderson awaits you.

We have embedded the trailer for the first and longest short film here for you:

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I see what you don’t see Wes Anderson Trailer

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This is the correct order to watch the films:

I see something you don’t see – 39 minutes
The Swan – 17 minutes
The Pied Piper – 17 minutes
Poison – 17 minutes

Netflix secured the rights to Roald Dahl’s stories quite a while ago, for over a billion dollars (via Moviepilot). Even if the short films weren’t so expensive to produce, they have been a billion-dollar project for the streaming service.

Netflix competitor Amazon reportedly paid “only” an estimated 250 million US dollars for the global TV rights to J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels to work on a “Lord of the Rings” series (via Filmstarts).

Director Wes Anderson has been dreaming of adapting the short story collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More for two decades and quickly realized that a feature-length film was out of the question.

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What is the first short film about? The first film deals with the story of a player, played by Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), who wants to learn a trick that seems rather impossible. Without using his eyes, he wants to see through his fellow players to read their cards.

You can also see Dev Patel (Gawain from The Green Knight), Ben Kingsley (Trevor from Iron Man 3), and Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort from Harry Potter) in the cast. The actors will also appear in the other three films.

The writer and author Roald Dahl will also play a role in the short films, portrayed by Ralph Fiennes.

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CoD Warzone gets a shotgun that you could use to pump demons away about 30 years ago

Dariusz Müller 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

Call of Duty Warzone und Modern Warfare 2 haben 2023 bereits einige außergewöhnliche Kollaborationen herausgebracht. Nach „The Boys“-Charakteren und Nicki Minaj soll der Fokus im Oktober allerdings auf Dämonen liegen. Dazu wird es eine passende Schrotflinte geben.

What kind of shotgun is that? Vor knapp 30 Jahren, um genau zu sein 1994, erschien Doom 2. Im Gepäck des ikonischen Shooters war damals eine doppelläufige Schrotflinte, die „Super Shotgun”.

In Doom 2 half die Schrotflinte dabei, in der Rolle des Space Marines gegen Dämonen zu kämpfen, die durch ein Portal aus der Hölle flohen und folglich auf der Erde wandelten. Eine ähnliche Aufgabe soll die Super Shotgun jetzt auch in CoD ausüben – inklusive Oldschool-Animation, beim Nachladen.

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When will the shotgun be available in CoD? Eine Blaupause der Super-Shotgun soll ab dem 09. Oktober, mit dem „The Haunting“-Event von Season 6, in CoD Warzone und Modern Warfare 2 als Teil eines Doom-Bundles erhältlich sein.

Einen Trailer zu den Multiplayer-Maps, die MW2 mit Season 6 hinzugefügt wurden, seht ihr hier:

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare II – Season 6 Multiplayer Maps

Bundle bringt auch ikonische Kettensäge aus Doom

What else is included in the Doom bundle? Zusätzlich zu der Blaupause für die legendäre Schrotflinte wird es mit dem Doom-Bundle in CoD auch einen Blueprint der Doom-Kettensäge geben, die ihr als Nahkampfwaffe nutzen könnt.

Ebenso wird es einen Doom-Ladebildschirm, passende Embleme, Sticker sowie einen Doomguy-Gunscreen geben. Hier seht ihr nochmal alle Bundle-Inhalte in der Übersicht:

Super Shotgun Waffen-Blaupause
Kettensäge (Meele) Blaupause
Doomguy Gunscreen
Doom Weapon Charm
Cacodemon & Slayer Stickers
DOOM Loading Screen
Embleme: Gibs, Health Mug (animiert), Lost Soul (animiert), POV (animiert)

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Mit der Super-Shotgun aus Doom gegen Diablo 4’s Lilith

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Ihr könnt also ab Season 6 mit einer Schrotflinte, die in Doom 2 dafür gedacht war Dämonen zu bekämpfen, gegen die beiden Protagoisten aus Diablo 4 antreten: Inarius, einem gefallenen Erzengel und Lilith, der Tochter von Mephisto sowie Königin der Sukkuben.

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Whoever wants to struggle with hard decisions should definitely play Frostpunk 2

Benedict Grothaus 2. October 2023 Reading time 4 minutes

11 bit Studios have a penchant for games that are dark and consistently put you in tough situations. They are now planning Frostpunk 2 and have given MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus a first look at the game.

I can’t play a game from 11 bit Studios for long. Really: I like the games, I love the ideas behind them. The developers simply know how to sell a tragic story so well that it becomes compelling. Perhaps too compelling.

In This War of Mine, one of the best survival games, they tell the story of the civilian population in a devastated city after a war. The core question: how cruel would you be if your survival depended on it?

Frostpunk is one of the biggest titles from 11 bit. The city-building game is one of the best post-apocalyptic games and takes place in the middle of an apocalypse. The world is frozen, and you must somehow generate enough warmth to keep a small city alive.

In the gameplay trailer, you can get a personal impression of Frostpunk:

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Frostpunk – Gameplay Trailer

Both games fascinate me, and yet I can’t bring myself to finish them. Although I like to be really evil in games, the storytelling simply affects me too much.

Now the studio has announced the sequel to Frostpunk. It was clear to me right away that I definitely want to take a look at the next game, which I will definitely not play for long. And, oh boy! Everything just clicks.

What happens when you survive the apocalypse?

Frostpunk 2 is pretty much exactly what you would imagine from a sequel to a story-driven city-building game. In the first part, you have to manage a small group of people as a captain to help them survive in the eternal ice.

Now, 30 years later, that is behind you. The city is established, everything is developed enough that you no longer have to fight for survival every day. You have time to consider what the future should look like.

Passing new laws, renegotiating them, and voting on them is an important part of Frostpunk 2.

Instead of managing individual buildings rigidly, you will plan the city in districts to expand it. The core of the game is, of course, decisions, as the game aims to explore the nature of humanity:

you manage the city but have different groups of inhabitants with their own needs
in the senate, you hear what the different groups have to say – and decide on a path forward
depending on the group you support, the cityscape changes, leading to different opportunities and problems
further factions emerge from the groups themselves, and more groups can form, often with opposing ideas

Although there is no more autocratic regime dictating everything and making the hard decisions, you still give the direction in the end. However, if a large number of people are too unhappy, disputes may arise…

In Frostpunk 2, you need to pay attention to the mood in your city if you don’t want the inhabitants to gradually radicalize.

“Expect that everything has consequences – Dark ones”

Frostpunk 2 aims to explore how a society develops after surviving the apocalypse. It can still happen that you manage the city so poorly that the cold kills everyone – but that’s not really the idea of the game.

Instead, you are supposed to decide how things will continue from now on. The bosses said in an interview at gamescom: “The focus is not on what you have to do, but on what you can do. Your choice depends on who you are.” Every decision you make will have a consequence. Maybe not immediately, but eventually:

You decide that children need education and should not work? In 5 years, production may fall below an important threshold.
You prefer to build sustainable bio-plants instead of implementing advanced ideas? That might make workers sick who have to work in those plants.

Although you can try to find a middle ground and satisfy everyone, you may find yourself stuck in place. If you choose the same ideas over and over again, that may turn out to be the wrong path and fail catastrophically.

The technocrats protest: education should no longer take place through parents, but in schools. School attendance is, of course, mandatory. Will you yield to their demands?

11 bit wants to tell a story that can “only be told through the language of video games,” the developers said. “Tools that no other medium has.” In my first impression, after seeing 2 gameplay sessions, Frostpunk 2 masterfully achieves this.

Only by playing can you see the consequences of your decisions. And when an 8-year-old child directly tells you that it doesn’t want to work in the biogas plant anymore because it has to cough all the time, that affects a person.

What is actually the “nature of man”?

Frostpunk 2 seeks to explore the “nature of man,” to understand how a society develops that no longer has to fight just for survival but can develop. When asked what this “nature” actually is, the developers provided interesting answers:

we are a duality, the ultimate elements of destruction and creation; in one moment we destroy the rainforest, in the next we replant it
man is not inherently evil, but no one can naturally suppress the inner demons of greed
the only way to survive is humility, to recognize this duality

In Frostpunk 2, this nature is evident. No single decision is only good or only bad. It always comes with a consequence that you must then live with. I would have liked to explore what that means for longer – but after an hour, it was already over.

Frostpunk 2 was announced in 2021, but a specific release date has yet to be announced. Currently, 2024 is mentioned, but without a more specific timeframe. The game is expected to be released only for PC (Steam, Epic, and GOG).

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In EA FC 24, players are desperately searching for a weak bronze player – why does everyone want him?

Max Handwerk 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

In EA FC 24, Kobbie Mainoo is currently in high demand, despite his actually weak stats. What’s going on?

This is Kobbie Mainoo: Mainoo is an 18-year-old football player who is currently under contract with Manchester United, where he was also trained. He belongs to their talents, and Mainoo is also an English U-national player.

In EA FC 24, his card looks like this:

With an overall rating of 62, his midfield card is rated very weak compared to other players, as all his stats are not particularly high. It is not a card one would have played in previous FIFA titles in Ultimate Team.

Nevertheless, many players are currently trying to get it. So much so that it is practically continuously sold out on the transfer market and can only be purchased at its maximum price of 10,000 coins with a lot of luck when someone puts Mainoo on the transfer market.

Currently, the chances are only very brief since the card is sold within seconds when it lands on the market.

In short: Mainoo is currently brutally rare. But why?

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How Mainoo quickly becomes a top card in EA FC 24

This is the reason: In the new evolutions feature, you can improve certain cards in your club. And players have now found out what a strong version of Mainoo you can get if you use him for this.

The evolution calculator from futbin shows how you can turn Mainoo into a current top card in midfield:

First, you use the Welcome to Evolutions-evolution to raise him to 63
Then you use Useful Supplies (Part 1) for the jump to 79 overall
And then Useful Supplies (Part 2) finally transforms Mainoo into an extremely strong midfielder

This brings Mainoo to an overall rating of 83 with perfectly balanced stats for a central midfielder.

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Players are desperate for Mainoo: Strong prospects for players who have the card in their club. However, for everyone else, the Mainoo evolution is difficult to implement as you need a lot of luck to get Mainoo on the market.

In the community, some are already noting that he is currently probably the rarest card in the game. Some are now expecting that he might get a price-range update, meaning he could be sold for more than 10,000 coins. Then it would be conceivable that the card stays on the market a bit longer than just a few seconds – but also becomes more expensive.

What do you think of the evolutions? Which players are you developing? Tell us in the comments.

Do you want to improve your team cheaply? Then we show you some strong cards under 10,000 coins in EA FC 24.

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Cyberpunk 2077: The 4 coolest innovations since Update 2.0

Sophia Weiss 2. October 2023 Reading time 3 minutes

Night City has a lot more fun to offer since update 2.0 for Cyberpunk 2077: In addition to the system changes for skills and cyberware, there were also a lot of quality-of-life adjustments that received positive feedback from many users.

With update 2.0 for Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red has polished the game to the best of their ability. Players praise this, even though they die more often since the patch than before. Among other things, on reddit and TikTok, the community also shows their personal highlights, which we have gathered here for you.

Car Fights

In one of the first trailers for the base game, V shoots their way out of a moving car. Unfortunately, this was not possible at launch. This was a point that caused unrest in the community.

Since update 2.0, however, you can do just that: fight in the streets with your firearms. With the new perks, you can hack other cars and use them as distractions, for example. In

In the video, you can see a chase between V and the NCPD after the update:

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Cyberpunk 2077: Car battles and the new NCPD AI

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You Equip Yourself with Cyberware Now

Since update 2.0, you can finally dress your V however you like. Previously, your armor value and how much damage V could withstand depended on the level of your clothes. This led to many wild clothing combinations, which unfortunately does not fit the Cyberpunk lore:

In Night City, you are what you wear. Your own style influences how other people react to you and talk to you. Although this feature unfortunately did not make it into the final game, theoretically, a V dressed as a Corpo would expect more rejection in areas populated by street gangs. A Nomad-V, on the other hand, would get into trouble in the Corpo-heavy city center.

To allow players to have individuality and a “cool style” anyway, CD Projekt Red even introduced a kind of transmog system like in World of Warcraft in an earlier update. But now, as mentioned, all of that is irrelevant, and you could, if desired, even play as a naked V.

On reddit, however, user srjnp also says: “Before 2.0, I never felt that I needed cyberware for my revolver and sniper headshot build. With the revised armor system and other changes, it finally feels like an important part of the game.”

The New Cyberware System

Cyberpunk 2077: The new Cyberware system in Update 2.0 at a glance

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Cyberpsycho

One of your first longer quest lines you receive from Regina Jones. She sets you on so-called Cyberpsychos – Night City residents who have too much cyberware installed. They slowly lose their own identity and go insane. Most Cyberpsychos leave a trail of destruction and death behind.

Regina expects your V to help her understand cyberpsychosis better. For this, you should incapacitate the affected persons and leave them alive at the scene. Now, your V could also become one of Regina’s cases.

David, the main character from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, also has his experiences with cyberpsychosis:

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners: Fans of the RPG epic celebrate the Netflix trailer, but also hope for a cool story

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Since update 2.0, you have a limit on how much cyberware you can install. While it is possible to exceed the limit to a certain point, to get the most out of the available upgrades, you need the “Edgerunner” perk.

We present our suggestion for a good “Edgerunner” build in our build guide:
The 3 Best Builds for Cyberpunk 2077 After Update 2.0

New NCPD AI

CD Projekt Red has revamped the AI of the Night City Police Department (NCPD). On one hand, they are now more present, on the other hand, they react more quickly to your illegal activities. Hacking a car to escape a gang? Accidentally hitting an NPC while parking? The NCPD is now after you.

Depending on the severity of your crimes, you have more or fewer police officers on your tail. If you flee into your car, you will quickly find yourself in a full-blown chase – this is where the aforementioned car fights really come into play.

A reddit user is confused by the new behavior: When he intervened in shootings before the update, the police were grateful for the help. In a video, he shows that the NCPD now attacks him themselves. User Rock_Soldier_Tom only responded: “Well, technically, you are not supposed to ‘help’ the police to kill people, right?”

How persistent the NCPD can be, you can also see in the video above.

Have you had fun in Night City after the update? Have you been in Dog Town yet? We look forward to your comments.

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LoL: „This will be legendary“ – German Twitch streamer co-streams the Worlds 2023

Fabienne Kissel 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

One of the biggest German LoL streamers is allowed to co-stream the League of Legends Worlds 2023 on Twitch this year. He announced this with a crazy video. MeinMMO tells you what it’s all about.

Who is it about? The German LoL streamer Tolkin will officially co-stream the Worlds 2023 on Twitch this year. Co-streaming allows him to add his own commentary and perspectives on the Worlds and interact with his viewers.

The news has been announced by Tolkin in a particularly creative video together with Maxim, Broeki, and Sola on YouTube and Twitter.

Here you can watch the video:

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What does the video show? In this video, Tolkin, Broeki, and Maxim share their excitement for the League of Legends Worlds 2023, which will take place in Korea, in a crazy way. Maxim emphasizes the importance of Korea as the birthplace of esports. Broeki mentions the game’s meta and highlights the feared LeBlanc on the top lane, which might be played in the Worlds and could be strong – as players are playing on an older patch.

Tolkin is an enthusiastic Faker fan and points out that Faker will play the Worlds in his home country for the first time this year, which is a significant event. The streamers present everything in a humorous way, making Tolkin seem crazy. At the end of the video, he announces that he will co-stream the Worlds on October 9 on his Twitch channel – with the words: […] Almost as cool as Faker.

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League of Legends Briar – Animated Video about the new Jungler

This will be legendary

In the comments on Tolkin’s Twitter post, users react enthusiastically to the announcement:

lifefindsuhhway comments: Strong, then I guess I’ll treat myself to Worlds with a German cast for the first time in my life.
mondi_chan writes: OMG!!! How cool. Worlds Co-Streaming with Tolkin and Friends. This will be legendary!!!
sabarion2179 Tolkin’s video (via YouTube): Tolkin’s dark circles make this picture of a sleep-deprived madman perfect. Mega nice video.

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The first trailer looked like there would be plenty of action and excitement in the series.

It is not yet known whether more German co-streamers will be announced for the Worlds 2023, but the excitement in the community is already palpable. This opportunity promises to be an exciting and entertaining experience for all League of Legends fans.

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New Netflix series about Castlevania causes excitement: “This Woke-Vania makes no sense”

Jasmin Beverungen 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

Just a few days ago, Castlevania: Nocturne launched on Netflix. The press is raving about the series and gives it a perfect rating. In contrast, the user rating stands at a below-average 54 percent. A glance at the ratings shows why users have taken aim at the Netflix series.

How do the low ratings come about? Many users give the series on Rotten Tomatoes a maximum of one or even just half a star as a rating. Some of the ratings consist only of a sentence in which, for instance, the story, the voice acting, or the pacing of the series are described as trash.

As further research reveals, there is a completely different message behind the ratings. We have translated some for you into German so you can see why users rate the series so poorly (via rottentomatoes.com):

Daniel A.: ‘I feel that this series is primarily about pushing a race and LGBTQ agenda. All that is good is colored and all that is evil is white.’
x x: ‘Cheap version of the story. I could say it’s pure propaganda. What to expect from Netflix.’
Louielouie51: ‘It was a tedious task to watch the whiny Belmont and too much of the racially swapped Annette… You miss nothing if you skip the series… it’s definitely Netflix woke…’
Comensal E.: ‘A missed opportunity to adapt Castlevania Rondo of Blood or Symphony of the Night. This Woke-Vania makes no sense from the start. I quit after episode 2.’

In the comments, it becomes clear that many of the low ratings are dissatisfied with the cast of the Netflix series. They complain that Annette, Olrox, and Drolta have dark skin and that there are homosexual characters in the series.

The trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne, however, does not look like the story will be left short:

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The Netflix trailer for Castlevania: Nocturne

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Review Bombing for Castlevania: Nocturne

Is the rating of 54% justified? There are also some criticisms from the trade press. While the series is good, it cannot compete with the original Netflix series (via rottentomatoes.com).

Nevertheless, Castlevania: Nocturne currently boasts an astonishing 100% from 12 reviews. This means that all previous reviews are positive. The shift into the France setting is said to benefit the series, and the voice actors are said to do an excellent job.

Furthermore, the animations and fights are said to be top-notch. Michael S. even praises Annette, who is much more interesting in the series than in the video game. However, he finds that the pacing is not always optimal.

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What other cases have there been? Castlevania: Nocturne is not alone with this problem. There was already a review bombing for The Last of Us Part II because homosexuality and LGBTQ played a role. Metacritic has changed its guidelines to prevent such a mass of unjustified negative ratings.

Through the review bombing, users want to punish the series and films. There has also been such a review bombing against Overwatch 2 because players disagreed with the developers’ approach.

We also had to experience such a case in the Epic Games Store. Many games that were exclusively or time-exclusively available on the platform were rated poorly on other sites and stores. The Epic Games Store does not offer any functionality to rate games itself.

It probably won’t be the last Netflix series to undergo such review bombing. If you still don’t know which Netflix series to watch next, the following list on MeinMMO may help you: 4 series and movies on Netflix for fans of One Piece

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New strategy game on Xbox and Steam is ideal for Game Pass: But I don’t mean that as a compliment

Schuhmann 2. October 2023 Reading time 7 minutes

On October 3rd, the new strategy game “The Lamplighters League” (PC, Xbox) will be released on Steam and will be available on Game Pass. MeinMMO author Schuhmann has tested the turn-based strategy game and says: The game is ideal for people who use Game Pass to play a genre they would never otherwise touch. But the game punishes me for using more than 3 heroes.

Here’s The Lamplighters League in short: It is a turn-based strategy game consisting of two parts:

On the world map, you select a mission to play each in-game week. You also assign additional agents to side missions, where they must seize resources or uncover secrets that unlock special missions in the following week. You must ensure that the threat from 3 enemy factions stays within limits.
In the actual missions, you control 3 characters (normally) or 4 characters in special missions and eliminate a plethora of enemies: from dumb soldiers to ninjas to burning mummies. Occasionally, a mini-boss appears, who has a few tricks up his sleeve and significantly more hit points than his minions.

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Small stealth phase before each battle

This is the twist in the game: Before starting a battle, you can already eliminate some enemies by fighting them with 3 different traits. The traits have limited charges per mission, just like your “Ultimate Combat Skills”:

“Stealth characters” can sneak up behind an enemy and knock them out
“Shooter characters” throw a mine
“Brawler characters” charge forward and catch up to 3 enemies at once

This “stealth” aspect of the game sounds important at first, but becomes less significant over time because the “strong enemies” are immune to early elimination. Stealth often leads to frustrating moments for me because I can never initiate a battle quite as ideally as I wish.

The stealth reveals an initial balance issue: Charging at 3 enemies feels significantly more powerful than sneaking. In practice, it is much more efficient and safer. One would prefer to throw mines from a distance or charge in heroically rather than sneak, getting caught and starting a battle with their pants down in the midst of enemies.

You gradually unlock progress systems through allies

What is the gameplay like? In Lamplighters League, you start with 3 playable heroes: However, you quickly recruit more agents throughout the missions, and you also rescue allies who unlock additional progress trees: Allies provide passive bonuses or allow you to buy better armor and consumables like healing items or grenades.

The gameplay is grindy: You complete missions that last between 20 and 40 minutes, collecting resources that allow you to improve your characters or expand the selection of items from allies.

You fight your way through missions made up of a series of battles, usually with a main battle featuring particularly many or tough opponents and some lighter fights per mission.

Between battles, you run in real-time through the sleek mission areas, collecting as much loot as you can carry: This isn’t as exciting as it sounds. You just pick up some consumables and resources that you can spend on permanent upgrades.

However, you won’t find better weapons or anything that changes your gameplay significantly, just items like a grenade, a bandage, or a smoke grenade.

Fights feel like puzzles, but you quickly find a tactic

This is how the battles proceed: The battles feel like small puzzles that you can calculate once you get a sense of how the individual figures function on their own and how they interact with each other. The number of actions and damage values are constant. Only the hit chance is left to chance.

But you quickly realize things like: “There’s a ninja with 120 hit points; if I shoot him 2 times with Eddie, he will have about 50 HP left, and then Ingrid can knock him out and gain another action.”

The characters in the game have clear roles:

Ingrid is a melee fighter who gains action points when she kills enemies. So the game revolves around getting enemies down to low health so that Ingrid can kill them, gain another action point, and move on to the next enemy.
Eddie is a gunslinger with powerful ranged attacks; he can unleash a cone-shaped hail of bullets or give a quick shot to any visible enemy.
The third starter hero, Lateef, the stealth character, is rather unsuitable for combat because he does not deal direct damage but relies more on tricks and distractions. He is likely to quickly land on the bench for many players and spend his time being sent on side missions.

A third “standard character” would probably be the healer Anna Sofia, who can fully heal both teammates once and has a buff ability that allows her allies an additional turn.

A standard combat routine involves luring as many enemies as possible and positioning them to stand clustered in front of your team. Then Eddie unleashes a double hail of bullets that instantly takes out weak enemies and at least weakens strong ones. Then you move in with Ingrid for melee combat and try to gather as many kill shots as possible.

Anna Sofia supports from the background.

This “one tactic for every problem” situation reveals a weakness in the game: The balance is somewhat strangely regulated for a strategy game because the starting heroes Ingrid and Eddie are hard to outshine.

The AI doesn’t really act cleverly anyway: They behave like goons in an action movie: Despite being outnumbered, they don’t attack cohesively but tend to come in waves so the player has enough time to shoot or beat them one by one.

Progress trees as the game’s weak point

This is a problem with progression: Characters have their own talent trees into which you invest the resource “experience points”. The smartest way to distribute the resource is to focus on just 3 heroes and put all points into these heroes. Especially a skill at the bottom of the skill tree, weapon enhancement, greatly increases the agent’s power.

However, the weapon upgrade can only be unlocked by completing a special mission, a “Coup,” for which you can use 4 heroes.

Ultimately, “The Lamplighters League” punishes players for trying out multiple characters because then points go to heroes that you don’t actively use. You should also focus resources on items, armor, or talismans on your team of choice.

Additionally, progression is somewhat strange because you receive resources as a team and can distribute them freely among agents, whether they participated in the mission or not. Only the cards, a special resource, are received solely by agents that are actively used in the mission.

For a PC RPG, I also miss features like a statistic showing how many enemies a hero has taken out, and generally a more granular skill system: something like a hit chance that grows with experience and rewards me for playing a hero a lot. But such a thing does not exist.

“The Lamplighters League” pretends to have depth with dozens of skills and tabs, but is actually rather simply cartoonish in detail. No matter how good or weak a hero was in a mission, what matters is only how I, as a player, distribute the resources.

Also, disadvantages a hero suffers during a mission when hit points drop to 0 remain inconsequential because they can quickly be healed away.

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The Lamplighters League: Much quality and love, but some weak design decisions

Is the game worth it? “The Lamplighters League” is crafted with much love, and there is a lot of quality and work put into the game. The atmosphere of the game reminds me of the “The Mummy Returns” films with Brendan Fraser; the missions are enjoyable.

However, after 2-3 hours of a session, I always have enough. It becomes tedious, and you feel like you are not playing the mission because you want to but because you need the experience points for the next skill.

The gameplay loop gets stale over time; the processes in the missions are the same, and the game lacks surprises, new skills, or items that fundamentally change the gameplay.

Gameplay-wise, the heroes get stronger, but Ingrid’s gameplay does not change significantly from the first mission deep into the game. She gains a few tricks, can kick or blind enemies, but remains trapped in her archetype.

The game mechanics unfortunately prevent experimentation with other heroes, which makes the game somewhat monotonous: Other characters that act defensively offer more possibilities, but against the Eddie/Ingrid combo, they feel cumbersome and toothless.

GameStar is notably more excited about The Lamplighters League than I am.

Ideal game for Xbox Game Pass

This is my conclusion: Trying out The Lamplighters League should be a must for anyone with Xbox Game Pass.

The Lamplighters League feels like a strategy game for “casuals” who come from another genre and want to dip into turn-based strategy:

The game has strengths in presentation and accessibility.
However, it makes sacrifices in gameplay depth and progression systems.

This makes The Lamplighters League an ideal game for Game Pass, allowing people to sample a game from a genre they would never usually touch.

For me, however, there remains a bitter aftertaste: The Lamplighters League is a stylish genre game that has issues with balance and progression systems. Such a game should actually encourage building multiple characters and developing alternatives, rather than forcing players to limit themselves and invest all resources in just a few characters.

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Haaland initially disappointed me in EA FC 24, but with a small change he will be OP

Thomas Dummer 2. October 2023 Reading time 3 minutes

After more than 50 matches with Erling Haaland in EA FC 24, I am convinced that the cover star is one of the best strikers in Ultimate Team. However, the path to this was arduous, as I first had to make a small adjustment so that the Norwegian superstar could unleash his full power.

Why was I disappointed? As much as I was happy to pull Haaland, the disillusionment after the first matches was just as great. I knew beforehand that the Norwegian wasn’t a technical wizard. Haaland’s strength lies in his physicality, which he uses to create space for powerful and precise shots.

However, there was no sign of assertiveness at the beginning, especially at a price of almost 500k coins. Haaland was often caught by opponents and easily pushed aside in duels, prompting me to think about a small change in his chemistry style. With success.

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Haaland with even more physicality shows: Lengthy still OP

What was that small change? If you play Haaland at full chemistry, you have many options to further increase his physicality. The chemistry styles ‘Hawk’ or ‘Marksman’ are certainly the most suitable, as both chemistry styles improve the physicality as well as the shot, essentially maximizing them.

The magical threshold that you need to reach with Haaland’s strength stat is 96. With a strength of 96, the gap to his agility, which stands at 76, is 20 higher.

What does the change bring? The crux of the matter is that at this distance, Haaland’s running style changes. The (mostly) sustained running style now becomes a sustained running style, which last year at the beginning of FIFA 23 was the dominant acceleration type and long considered the benchmark (keyword Lengthy-Meta).

It also seems that Lengthy is OP again this year, because after I switched Haaland to this running style, his influence on the game changed dramatically. What changes exactly I was able to observe, you can read below.

By the way, Haaland is also a prominent part of the first Road to the Knockouts team in EA FC 24. Check out his improved card in our overview of Team 1.

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With Lengthy running style, he is the machine we know

What exactly changed with the Lengthy running style? I could immediately notice the effect in the first running duels, because once I got past the opponent, it was significantly more difficult for him to keep up with the long, expansive steps of the Lengthy mechanic.

The best defenders in EA FC 24, such as Virgil van Dijk, already have this acceleration type automatically, as they bring as much physicality as Haaland. However, what Haaland has over them with the Lengthy sprint style is his good start combined with his explosive top speed. With the chemistry style Hawk, Haaland reaches a staggering 98 sprint speed.

With Lengthy, you basically beat the center-backs at their own game and create enough space to utilize Haaland’s strengths in the game.

What other strengths does Haaland possess? There are no doubts about the finishing skills of the wonder striker. The 93 on his shot value feels just as good. Whether under pressure or not, Haaland strikes hard and precisely at goal.

His acrobatics are also impressive. He is one of the eleven cards in Ultimate Team that have the Playstyle+ in acrobatics. This makes his volleys from the air incredibly precise, and he can utilize crosses, no matter what height they are coming in.

However, you also need to be aware of some small weaknesses. The gold card only has three stars for skills and weak foot usage. Additionally, due to his stature, Haaland is not particularly agile and dribble-strong in tight spaces.

If you are aware of these weaknesses, then it’s best to play him as a target player who can hold the ball and distribute it with one or two touches to start again in open space. As soon as you are near the goal, press the shot button. Haaland will take care of the rest for you.

It’s best to leave dribbling to players who have mastered the new OP dribbling in EA FC 24.

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After 10 years, the first one has completed the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV – Players marvel at such dedication

Fabienne Kissel 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

After 10 years, an exceptionally ambitious player in Final Fantasy XIV has unlocked all available achievements – the community is thrilled. MeinMMO reveals what’s behind it.

Final Fantasy XIV is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and amid the celebrations, player Free-dial Olzo from the Elemental data center (World: Garuda) has achieved a remarkable feat. He is the first player to have earned all 26,000 points in achievements, which according to ffxiv-collect is currently all the points that can be achieved. There are more achievements that, however, can no longer be earned today.

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Player achieves the rarest successes, community is thrilled

What are these achievements? These achievements are often tied to various activities in the game, whether it’s fishing, ultimate raiding, completing letters of recommendation, PvP, or collecting mounts – and much more.

The player has undoubtedly spent countless hours playing through the game to its deepest corners and mastering the toughest challenges…including the Necromancer title (Deep Dungeon) from the achievement Lonesome Depths Explorer III and the latest ultimate raid TOP.

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Particularly admirable is one of the rarest achievements For the Hoard VI, where you need to find 20,000 hidden treasures from deep dungeons. It is so rare that apparently only ffxiv-collect has 46 players.

There are also other achievements that are considered extremely challenging or time-consuming. On Reddit, the player PrismaticParrot impressively shares some of the toughest achievements the player must have completed, including:

Complete all five ultimate raids
Master all deep dungeons solo
Find 20,000 treasures from the deep dungeons
At least 2,000 successfully completed mentor roulettes
3,000 victories in frontline
1,000 victories in rival wings
Farm each relic weapon from all expansions
Catch all fish
Complete 5,000 S-hunts and 10,000 A-hunts, and obtain each hunt mount
Complete all letters of recommendation (15,000), which according to him takes at least seven years
And much more

DioDiablo702 is thrilled and emphasizes: This is a true dedication to a game, especially given the type of achievements that FF14 has to offer. Very commendable.

Konaaa humorously writes: A shining example of what we all could be. This man hasn’t wasted a second in Limsa.

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With the release of Patch 6.5 on October 3rd, more quests and tasks will be added to the game, which means that the successful player can hunt for even more achievements. With the Dawntrail expansion coming next summer, even more successes await him.

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Nintendo insiders talk about the Switch successor: Allegedly featuring a new Donkey Kong, Far Cry 7 and Monster Hunter

Niko Hernes 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

The Nintendo Switch is already over 6 years old, and many are finally expecting information about a successor console. However, there are constantly rumors and leaks about performance, appearance, or games. Insiders reveal more details about new ports and an old acquaintance.

Due to the relatively old age of the Switch, more and more rumors and alleged leaks about a new Nintendo console are emerging. This includes supposed dev kits for developers as well as planned games.

As Twitter user Stealth40K summarizes, there are rumors about new games that reveal something about the possible performance of a new Switch. Allegedly, Far Cry 7 is set to launch directly on the new Nintendo console, and a new Donkey Kong game is also in development.

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Nintendo journalist Necro wrote on Twitter that Far Cry 7 should be available at launch on the next Nintendo console, and according to him, a new Monster Hunter should also be launched on this console.

If Far Cry 7 indeed appears on the new Switch, it indicates significantly better performance than the current console, and Nintendo could also benefit from major releases from third-party titles. The announcement of new CoDs on the Switch would also fit into this narrative.

However, the other two rumors are likely to be more interesting for Nintendo fans. As reported by User Zippo in his blog, a new 3D Mario and a 2D Donkey Kong spin-off are in development.

The alleged 3D Mario is supposed to be oriented towards the new Zelda titles, featuring an open world and incredibly good graphics. Additionally, this title is expected to be a launch title for the new console, according to Zippo.

The Donkey Kong game in development is being created by the team behind Bowser’s Fury.

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The rumors should be taken with caution. One should still not get too excited. As Jeuxvideo writes, Zippo is not always reliable as an insider. Many of his information he tends to change quite often. The rumor of a new 3D Mario is not a big surprise and almost to be expected.

Much more interesting are the rumors around Far Cry 7 and a new Monster Hunter on a new Switch. If a new Nintendo console were to deliver such performance, it could compete not only with great first-party games but also in the third-party arena against the big players.

What do you think about such leaks and which games would you like to see on a new Switch? Share it in the comments.

For a new Nintendo console, the question of backward compatibility is also important, and whether it ends up like the 3DS:

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The head of Starfield thinks players have drastically changed expectations today because everything is an RPG

Dariusz Müller 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

Starfield is Bethesda’s big new role-playing game. Accordingly, the expectations of players for the ambitious space adventure have been and are high. Just under a month after the release, Starfield’s chief Todd Howard stated that players today have changed expectations.

Who is it about?

Todd Howard is the Game Director and Executive Producer for Bethesda Game Studios and is responsible for Starfield.
Additionally, Howard is responsible for the development of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls series.
Howard leads Bethesda along with Studio Director Ashley Cheng and before the release, was the only person allowed to talk about new information regarding Starfield at Bethesda.

On September 25, 2023, Todd Howard was a guest on the “AIAS Game Makers Notebook Podcast” where he spoke with Ted Price, the CEO of Insomniac Games (Spyro, Ratches & Clank, Marvel’s Spider-Man).

During the podcast, Price asked whether players’ expectations for an RPG have changed over time and whether it has changed what is important in a role-playing game (via YouTube).

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“You can choose any game you want. That’s somehow flowed in”

What does Howard say? Howard believes that players’ expectations have changed “dramatically” because the RPG genre mixes with everything. He can no longer look at a game without it having experience points and a leveling system. This has somehow flowed into the games.

Howard loves the genre himself because it can be anything. He further explains that an RPG can have action or merge with other types of games. Even a racing game can become an RPG; it just depends on what you focus on. An old school RPG fan probably has their own list of things that define the genre for them (via YouTube).

According to Howard, Bethesda tries to stay true to what they want to see in a game and thinks about how to incorporate elements that they believe belong in an RPG. They mix things within the genre and have also developed a space shooter with Starfield.

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What does Howard mean by saying that the RPG genre mixes with everything? Many games that are not classic role-playing games today also have RPG mechanics.

In addition to dialogue options and skill trees (i.e., the character system), leveling up your character and enemies that also level up during the game are elements that make up a role-playing game. Making decisions that have consequences is also important.

But all this has long since ceased to exist only in role-playing games and can also be found in other genres. For example, Assassins’s Creed has increasingly incorporated RPG elements with Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla.

Dying Light 2 also offers RPG mechanics such as interaction with NPCs and the leveling system without being a classic RPG. More and more games borrow elements from the genre.

In the podcast with Ted Price, Todd Howard also revealed that Bethesda intentionally made the enemy ships “really dumb”:

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WoW: In the next patch, Stormwind will change – as many residents are missing

Cortyn 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

Stormwind in World of Warcraft will soon change again. Many guests are leaving the city – and then finding a new home.

Anyone spending a lot of time in the human city of Stormwind in World of Warcraft will have noticed some changes over the years. The most striking are the numerous refugees that arrived with the start of the “Battle for Azeroth” expansion. After all, Teldrassil was burned at that time – all Worgen and Night Elves fled to Stormwind.

What is changing? If you look at the PTR for Patch 10.2 Watchers of the Dream, Stormwind has changed significantly. All Night Elf and Worgen refugees have disappeared from the streets. The small campfires by the canal and the associated sleeping spots have been removed.

Also in the north of the city, by the fields, the Night Elves and Worgen have withdrawn. There, the Druids had previously helped at the pumpkin farm.

The colleagues from wowhead have taken a small “before” and “after” picture:

Where are the refugees then? From Patch 10.2 Watchers of the Dream, the refugees will be near the Amirdrassil. This is the new World Tree, whose seed Tyrande received at the end of “Shadowlands” and which has been growing in the Emerald Dream ever since.

Although the tree is currently still in the Emerald Dream, the inhabitants seem to be preparing to move. This is not surprising, as the patch takes place in the Emerald Dream and everything revolves around protecting the new World Tree from Fyrakk and the Druids of the Flame.

It is to be assumed that with the end of Patch 10.2, the Amirdrassil will then transition from the Dream to the real dimension plane. The perfect place for this would be the large, round indentation in the southwestern sea of the Ohn’ahra plains.

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When will it go live? There is still no release date for Patch 10.2 Watchers of the Dream. However, the release will likely not occur until after the BlizzCon in November – because at BlizzCon you can try out “upcoming playable content,” which according to the infographic refers to Patch 10.2.

Are you looking forward to the new home of the Night Elves and Worgen?

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A new Free2Play game is a mix of GTA, Starfield and Spider-Man

Jasmin Beverungen 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

Project Mugen resembles a mix of several well-known games and has shown gameplay material with a new trailer. The game is currently under development by NetEase and is set to be released for PS5, PC, and mobile at an unknown time.

Which games does Project Mugen remind you of? The free-to-play game feels like a mix of already popular titles. Among them are the following games:

Grand Theft Auto
Marvel’s Spider-Man
Starfield

The gameplay of Project Mugen is reminiscent of Rockstar’s GTA. The title takes place in an urban open world inspired by a metropolis. The trailer showcases beaches, bustling streets, skyscrapers, and many recreational activities such as concerts and arcade halls.

The fighters also partially resemble those in GTA. There are several enemies in the city that we must combat with pistols and submachine guns. Additionally, the anime characters have some more imaginative attacks available, allowing them to generate massive whirlwinds of flames around them.

The development team explains that they want to reveal many recreational activities of a city without players having to leave their homes. This approach is similar to Grand Theft Auto, as there are also many exciting activities in the surroundings outside of the main missions.

The development team presents the game in a trailer:

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Project Mugen: NetEase explains the city system and more

Movement like in Spider-Man and city-building system like in Starfield

To navigate through the city, characters can zip around in vehicles or swing through the air like in Spider-Man. However, instead of a web, a hook is used for the characters to latch onto building facades.

The characters swing through the air similarly to the Marvel title and use the grappling hook to pull themselves towards objects. The playable characters can even temporarily walk along building facades.

The city was also procedurally generated during the development phase. We know this technique, for example, from the planets in Starfield. This involves randomly generated content that is structured differently in each playthrough. In Project Mugen, this technique was immensely helpful in creating the city.

According to the development team, this allowed a whole city to be built in a very short time, as revealed in the video embedded above. In this way, a vibrant urban landscape can be created in addition to the urban ecosystem.

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Development of Project Mugen at NetEase

Who is behind Project Mugen? Project Mugen is currently being developed at Naked Rain’s studio. The publisher responsible is NetEase. You might already know the publisher from projects like the mobile game based on The Lord of the Rings.

The game is set to be free to install upon release. However, Project Mugen is a gacha title. This system is used, among others, in Genshin Impact. In gacha games, certain items and new characters can be purchased with real money, which usually happens much faster than gathering the in-game currency for it.

It can easily tempt one to invest more money into a game than one originally intended. Therefore, individuals who have a tendency toward gambling addiction should be cautious with titles like Project Mugen.

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Sony wants to make money with live service on the PS5 alongside large single-player games, but that doesn’t seem to be working

Niko Hernes 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

Probably would every major video game company like to have a successful live-service game like Fortnite. Unlike single-player games, live-service has the potential to be long-lasting and generate constant revenue. Sony is also planning such a strategy, but it doesn’t seem to be going well.

What is Sony planning? The major Sony studios responsible for successful blockbusters are also developing live-service games.

Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and Guerrilla Games
Most of these games have not been announced yet
The development of the online game in the The Last of Us universe is not going well

Also in April, we reported on Sony’s service plans, but there hasn’t been any truly new positive information so far.

You will soon be able to play the new PS5 blockbuster:

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What is the problem? As Bloomberg reports, it seems that not all live-service games are progressing positively. As Naughty Dog confirmed itself on Twitter in May of this year, the multiplayer game was delayed, indicating a difficult development process.

Bloomberg points out in its article that it is not easy for developers to break away from familiar strategies. Live-service games like Anthem, Marvel’s Avengers, or Battleborn were games from studios that were originally known for single-player games and yet remained unsuccessful.

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The problem is that the necessary resources must be provided for the maintenance of such games. Every year, various live-service games die because they no longer yield the desired revenue and consume too many resources. Earlier this year, a fair number of games were affected:

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The question is also whether Sony is not already too late with their live-service strategy. Even the giant Fortnite is no longer the mindless money-printing machine it once was in its heyday. Whether a new live-service game from a AAA studio will still succeed is questionable.

Epic itself has laid off many employees due to miscalculations:

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WoW: Player compares Rogues from Classic and Retail – Shows how the MMORPG has changed

Cortyn 2. October 2023 Reading time 2 minutes

World of Warcraft has developed drastically. The differences between WoW Classic and WoW Retail are evident in the direct comparison of the classes from then and now.

Sentences like ‘WoW isn’t quite the same as it used to be’ and ‘WoW is just a different game today’ can be heard repeatedly – especially from Classic fans who are not warming up to the later expansions of World of Warcraft. Although World of Warcraft still adheres to its core mechanics, much has changed. Not just the nature of quests or stories, but also how the classes are played. A Reddit user points out the drastic differences through a comparison of the rogue’s rotation.

What has been shown? The Reddit user No-Dougnut-293 has posted two screenshots from different rogue guides side by side. One shows the rotation of a Subtlety rogue in Classic and the other the rotation from Retail.

While in Classic a rogue only has to keep track of about 4 abilities, the list in Retail consists of 18 different instructions – depending on whether you are fighting 1-2 or 3 or more targets.

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What is the big difference between Retail and Classic? When you compare the combat in the two versions of World of Warcraft, you will notice most of the differences.

Looking at the classes, the play style of all specializations is noticeably different. While in Classic many classes actually manage with 2 or 3 abilities (just think of the frost mage in Molten Core), in Dragonflight significantly more abilities need to be used.

However, this comes at the cost of clarity. Anyone watching a dungeon run in Classic can easily follow most actions. Everything is a bit slower, spells take longer to cast, and there’s much less happening on the screen.

In Dragonflight, however, there is a storm of effects and everything is much more hectic. This poses a significant barrier for many players to make the transition from Classic to Retail. The combat system, although still fundamentally identical, has simply become significantly faster and filled with more effects, altering the gaming experience.

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