In Diablo 4 there are over 200 affixes on loot and that is a problem

Benedict Grothaus Benedict Grothaus Reading time 2 minutes

Loot is one of the most important features in Diablo 4. At the same time, loot is also so complex that it is extremely difficult for the average player to spot upgrades. Fans have now compiled all kinds of affixes and created an extensive list.

What are these affixes?

  • Every item in Diablo 4 has a fixed attack or armor value as well as a fixed property depending on the type. Armors and jewelry can have different fixed properties here.
  • Additionally, each item has “affixes,” meaning extra values like critical hit value. Holy and Inherited items have more properties than “normal ones.”
  • If you count all possible affixes that can appear on items, the list comes to over 200 different properties (via Reddit).

This is the problem with affixes: The sheer breadth of possible affixes has two major disadvantages:

  • If you don’t delve deeply into loot, it can be impossible to recognize upgrades
  • Finding upgrades at all is unlikely because most affixes are not suitable for your build

To reliably improve a character, you need to rely on damage buckets that can multiply your damage. However, according to players with the many affixes, this is only difficult to achieve.

Since many of these properties are in the same “bucket,” they only add up if you can even use them with your build. Properties related to critical hits or barriers are only meaningful for some classes.

No desire to farm? Good items are also available directly from merchants:

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“Who asked for this?”

Players on Reddit are currently dissecting the various affixes and even creating “cheat sheets” with all possible properties at a glance (via Reddit). However, the consensus is: so many options are absolutely unnecessary.

In the predecessor Diablo 3, such items would simply have been scrapped directly. In Diablo 4, however, you need the items to craft legendaries. Yellow, or “rare” items, are more important in the game than in previous Diablo installments.

However, since you constantly find them while farming, it takes a lot of time to find the items that actually improve you given the vast amount of properties.

For a quick overview of the best builds and which properties you need for them, check out our tier list:

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Users on Reddit lament: they simply have no time to read each item carefully. Websites like D4Craft.com are necessary to recognize upgrades without much prior knowledge, but they take even more time. Those who work and are married do not want to invest this time.

Some players have even quit because of this. Path of Exile has a similarly opaque system, and that is exactly why they would have preferred to play Diablo. Such features are “artificial complexity.”

The good news is that this problem mainly affects “min-maxers,” meaning the players who fight for every percentage of improvement. For the majority, farming the best items in Season 1 has become significantly easier:

Diablo 4: The best loot can now be farmed easily from the new boss

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3 Things You Should Know About the Combat System of Baldur’s Gate 3

Alexander Leitsch Alexander Leitsch Reading time 4 minutes

In a few days Baldur’s Gate 3 will be released. With its many features, classes, and spells, it is a complex game. We will tell you 3 things about the combat system that the game doesn’t explain well, but are still important.

How does the combat system work? The combat system in Baldur’s Gate 3 is turn-based, and it is important to make the best use of your actions to win the fight. Therefore, you should familiarize yourself with the battles.

  • It starts with the combat action. With this, you can perform an attack or a spell, but also revive a companion or remove a condition. Retreating from a fight also counts as an action.
  • After the combat action, there is the bonus action. This includes quick spells, certain class abilities, and maneuvers like jumping or pushing. The rogue also has the option to perform an additional attack with two one-handed weapons.
  • Additionally, there is the movement action, which allows the character to cover a certain distance on foot.

But that’s not all. In this article, we present three special features of the combat system that the game doesn’t really explain well. This involves reactions, throwing, and improvised weapons.

If you want to delve deeper into the level system, you can find a separate article about it here: Why you may only play up to level 12 in Baldur’s Gate 3 and why that is good.

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Reactions in combat

What are reactions? Reactions are an action that can only occur when a certain situation arises. This can also happen when it is actually not your turn.

You can find your reactions in a corresponding window in the character menu. There you can set two checkmarks. The first ensures that the reaction is triggered automatically when the conditions are met, and the second checkmark ensures that you are asked beforehand whether the effect should really be triggered. However, only one effect can be triggered per round of combat.

Moreover, most effects or spells are tied to a class and require an additional resource. Only the “Attack of Opportunity,” where you attack an opponent who is fleeing from you, is available to all classes. However, this is not found in the menu but is activated automatically.

Examples of reactions include:

  • If you take damage, you create a flame effect around you that causes fire damage – Only Oathbreakers
  • A bonus effect when you land a critical hit – Oath of Devotion and Oath of the Ancients
  • A counter effect when an opponent misses you with their attack – Only Battlemaster
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The interface during battles.

Does every class have a reaction? Not yet in Early Access. Most reactions have the paladins with two different variants per specialization. The berserker, however, only has access to the automatic “Attack of Opportunity.”

However, the number of reactions is likely to increase with the full release of Baldur’s Gate 3.

The action “Throw”

What is throwing? Throwing can be used as a melee action both during exploration and in combat. The exact action depends on the strength attribute. The more strength you have, the heavier things you can throw.

In principle, everything can be thrown in the game. You can take objects from the environment, but also enemy creatures and transport them to another location. When you throw, both the hit and the thrown enemy take damage – however, the latter takes less. The heavier the selected object is, the more damage it causes when thrown.

As a melee fighter, you can also throw your weapon to perform a ranged attack. The chance to hit and the damage amount are based on your strength and not on your dexterity value. But pay attention to the weapons that have the note “Thrown.” Weapons without this marking only cause one point of damage.

To perform the action, you can select the option “Throw.” After that, a menu will open in which you see a list of objects you can throw. After you select an object, you will see a field on the screen showing how far you can throw.

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The Berserker’s special feature: The berserker also has the bonus action “Enraged Throw.” With this, he can take items or creatures from the environment and throw them across the battlefield without having to sacrifice his actual action for it.

Is it worth it? Sort of. Throwing random things is not very effective. Throwing enemies can result in two enemies being hurt, and one also being placed in another location on the battlefield. However, there is a weight limit due to scaling with strength. Really heavy enemies cannot be thrown.

However, throwing weapons is effective. The damage in ranged combat is significant for melee fighters.

Improvised Weapons

What are these weapons? All melee fighters have the action “Improvised Melee Weapon.” With this, you can pick up items or even enemies from the surroundings and use them as a weapon. This includes stones or chairs, but also gnomes who then deliver slaps to the opposing enemies.

Here, the strength value is also used to calculate how heavy the object can be that you use as a weapon. Otherwise, the functions are similar to those of throwing.

Here you can also learn more about a hidden skill tree that makes you strong but also evil: There is a hidden super skill tree in Baldur’s Gate 3, but it makes you evil.

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That’s why your favorite anime rarely get a second season

Cortyn Cortyn Reading time 3 minutes

Really good anime series rarely get a second season. But why is that? The reason behind it is logical – but bad for anime fans.

Anime are one of the best forms of entertainment overall. It can be incredibly frustrating when a beloved series is suddenly canceled “in the middle of the story”. Many popular anime only get a single season, despite the series clearly having been successful.

Series like “No Game No Life”, “Deadman Wonderland”, or “Talentless Nana” have made waves only to disappear into oblivion after one season.

But why is that? We want to briefly explain it to you here.

What is the purpose of anime? Those who are not well-versed in anime and manga might think that anime is an end in itself. If an anime is good and successful, it makes money – but that’s not the case. The production of an anime is usually quite expensive and serves primarily one main purpose:

To boost the sales of the corresponding manga in Japan.

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Successful anime are primarily one thing: advertising. Sounds harsh, but that’s the way it is.

The idea is: through an anime adaptation, a story gets more attention. Those who have watched the 13 episodes of an anime should be so captivated that they go on to buy the manga to learn more about the story.

There are also “anime original” productions that typically exist independently of manga or light novels. For these series, it is of course not the case that they are primarily supposed to promote another product – but these anime series are still quite rare.

Exactly this creates a dilemma. Because the more successful an anime is, the more it has fulfilled its original purpose. If an anime is successful, it has boosted the sales of the manga and its purpose has been fulfilled. A second season is therefore not necessary for the time being.

If an anime was not successful, it did not boost manga sales and missed its purpose. Even in that case, a second season is unlikely.

For an anime to actually adapt the entire story of the manga – which is already completed – like in the case of the original Bleach series or Attack on Titan, is rather an exception. This is usually financed through additional products of the franchise. Thus, one can spend a lot of money on figures or merchandise, and it’s not surprising that many PC games enter into collaborations with Attack on Titan – like Dead by Daylight or Overwatch 2.

Ninotaku also has an interesting video with more information on this topic:

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Is that changing? Slowly but surely, yes. Due to the increasing relevance of streaming services that license anime worldwide – such as Crunchyroll, HiDive, Netflix, etc. – the worldwide marketing of anime is also becoming increasingly lucrative. While the primary purpose is still to promote the corresponding source material, such as a manga or an associated video game, a change is slowly becoming apparent.

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Through the global marketing and the fact that anime have increasingly entered the mainstream during the Corona crisis, the share of revenues from anime through streaming services is growing. This means that anime is slowly becoming worthwhile “in itself” – but it may still take a few years until that happens.

If you are wondering why your favorite anime is not getting a second season, the reason is often: it was simply too successful and doesn’t need a second season. Because it almost always revolves around the manga behind it, not the series itself.

In most cases, anime are one thing: pretty good advertising.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 has no preload on Steam and weighs 122 GB – “The release will be a complete chaos”

Jasmin Beverungen Jasmin Beverungen Reading time 2 minutes

The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 is only a few days away. Fans are wondering why they still can’t pre-download the title. With its considerable size, it takes some time to complete the download on a slow internet connection.

When does the preload come? To make it short: Never. In an interview, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke revealed that he expected someone to do something about it (via YouTube).

The game is very large and has constantly changed in Early Access, therefore it would be cool if there was a preload.

However, the development studio has confirmed in an update that there will be no preload. As a user explained on Reddit, this is because Baldur’s Gate 3 was previously in Early Access. Steam would not implement a preload for such titles (via reddit.com).

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When is the release of Baldur’s Gate 3? Since there is no preload, you can download the game on August 3, 2023, at 5 PM Central European Summer Time. At release, you will need to download a substantial 122 GB.

Fans of Baldur’s Gate 3 are annoyed and fear worse

For many players, it is not good news that they cannot pre-download the title. Due to slow download speeds, it will be impossible for many to play Baldur’s Gate 3 on the release day (via reddit.com). After all, a total of 122 GB must be downloaded to play.

In the linked Reddit thread, many users complain about the lack of a preload. Some now have to change their plans because they were supposed to play right after work that day. But now they are looking for ways to start the download from work, for example.

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Some users have such a slow internet connection that they expect to be able to play only the next day. Some of them even predict that this will be the case for most players because the Steam servers will collapse due to the simultaneous massive download.

MeinMMO has summarized some concerned voices from the community:

  • mug3n: “Seems to be a massive miscalculation, the release will probably be a total chaos because everyone will be storming the Steam servers.”
  • oNamelessWonder: “Don’t worry, the Steam servers will crash anyway, we’ll probably all play on the 4th :’)”
  • Conner_S_Returns: “For me, it will be the 5th [August], maybe even the 6th.”

Depending on where on Earth the players live, they will have to rearrange their day to download the game at release. In Germany, the download starts at 5 PM, so many of you could start the download directly after work.

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Baldur’s Gate 3: Twitch Drops give you exclusive items at release – Here’s how to get them

Christos Tsogos Christos Tsogos Reading time 2 minutes

Baldur’s Gate 3 and Twitch are collaborating for the release. You can secure some cosmetic items through Drops to wear in the game. We will show you how long the event lasts, what you need to keep in mind, and what you will receive.

What are Twitch Drops? Twitch often collaborates with game developers by providing items for free that you can grab while actively watching streamers play. This feature on Twitch is freely accessible to everyone and comes at no cost. However, there are a few things you need to keep in mind in order to do this.

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How to secure your Twitch Drops

To secure these items, you need to link your Twitch-, Steam-, and “Baldur’s Gate 3”-account. Once you have done that, you just need to keep an eye on the important time periods and have watched a stream for 2 hours.

When does the offer start? The offer starts on August 3, 2023, at 6:00 PM German time and ends on August 17, 2023, at 6:00 PM German time. During this period, you just need to find a streamer in the Twitch section of Baldur’s Gate 3 who has titled their stream “Drops active” or “Drops aktiv”. You watch this stream and then collect the rewards.

What items are available? Baldur’s Gate 3 rewards its fans at the release with the Camp Clothing Set.

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The following items you can grab:

  • Streamerhopper Loafers – Shoes
  • Periwinkle Undergarments – Underwear
  • Channerler’s Trunks – Underwear
  • Chatterbox’s Tabard – Clothing

All items are colored in a striking purple hue, matching Twitch.

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What you need to keep in mind: If you can’t stand streams but still want the items, you can choose any stream and let it run in the background on your phone or PC. This way, you don’t have to spend two hours waiting and can either play Baldur’s Gate 3 or do other activities in the meantime.

What do you think of the items? Will you indulge in them or would you rather skip? Let us know in the comments!

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Pokémon GO includes Community Day in August with Froxy and strong bonuses

Franzi Korittke Franzi Korittke Reading time 3 minutes

In Pokémon GO you can expect the water-type Pokémon Froxy during the Community Day in August. When the event runs and what strong bonuses it brings you, we have summarized here for you on MeinMMO.

What event is it? Every month, you can find a so-called Community Day in Pokémon GO, where a specific Pokémon is highlighted. It can then be found almost everywhere in the game. Its shiny chances are also significantly increased. In addition, there are various bonuses.

The developers have now announced the contents of the Community Day in August, where you can meet the starter Pokémon Froxy from the sixth generation of games.

When does the event take place? The Community Day with Froxy takes place on August 13, 2023, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM. After that, there will be special level 4 raids with Amphizel.

All bonuses for the Community Day with Froxy

These bonuses are available: During the event, you can not only encounter lots of Froxy, but also benefit from several bonuses. The following are waiting for you on the event day from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM:

  • 3x Stardust when catching
  • double candies when catching
  • double chance of XL candies when catching (from Trainer level 31)
  • Lures and Incense last 3 hours
  • Surprises from snapshots
  • Event field research with Froxy
  • Event stickers with Froxy from PokéStops and gifts

In addition, the following bonuses will be available to you on that day until 10:00 PM:

  • Exclusive event charge attack Aquahaubitze, when you evolve Amphizel to Quajutsu
    • 80 damage in trainer battles
    • 90 damage in raids and arena battles
  • Quajutsu can learn the new quick attack Water Shuriken from this day on
    • 6 damage in trainer battles
    • 10 damage in raids and arena battles
  • additional special trade (up to 3 per day total)
  • 50% less stardust cost when trading
  • Bonus raids of level 4 with Amphizel (from 5:00 PM)
    • can only be played on site
    • bring another 30 minutes of Froxy spawns around the arena after the victory

Is there a shiny Froxy? Yes, for the first time you have the opportunity to encounter a shiny Froxy during the Community Day and evolve it accordingly. You recognize it by its light blue body.

Froxy, Amphizel, and Quajutsu normal (top) and as shinies (bottom)

Are there also items in the in-game shop? Yes, the following Community Day items can be purchased in the in-game shop:

  • Special research Blubberblasen for Froxy for about 1.00 Euro
  • Event stickers with Froxy
  • Community Day box
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Which bonuses are particularly worthwhile?

Stardust bonus: One of the highlights of the event is the stardust bonus. During the Community Days, you can secure triple stardust when catching Pokémon.

This is celebrated by numerous trainers on social networks. For example, the Reddit user Atzen_keikaku (via reddit.com): It will be a good month for stardust, and we will need it.

For all those who want to improve their stardust stock, this is one of the best opportunities. Combine the bonus best with additional star pieces that bring you more stardust.

New attacks: The exclusive charge attack Aquahaubitze that Quajutsu can finally learn might also be particularly interesting. So far, the monster has not been able to hold its own against other attackers in raids and the GO battle league.

However, this can change with the new charge attack. In raids, it can score particularly well and secure a spot among the best water attackers. Therefore, you should not miss this attack.

New shiny: And the introduction of shiny Froxy also generates excitement among many trainers. Especially shiny hunters will get their money’s worth on this day. For instance, thebeatbruh writes on Reddit: I am so excited about shiny Quajutsu.

What do you think of the contents of the Community Day in August? Which bonus do you definitely want to use? And what monster are you hoping for in September? Let us know here in the comments on MeinMMO.

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Remnant 2 Lament: How to solve the puzzle around the door and the jumping section

Christos Tsogos Christos Tsogos Reading time 4 minutes

In Remnant 2 you can visit the ruin of Lament in Yaesha. It has not only many graves but also a puzzle, a jumping passage, and a locked door. We show you how to solve the puzzle, master the jumps, and open the door.

Where is the puzzle located? The puzzle is located in the main area “Yaesha” in the vault of “Lament”.

How do I solve the puzzle? To solve the puzzle in Lament, you first need to go to the burial chamber of the vault.

After you have braved the traps and the parkour, you open the door and see many graves on your left and right sides. You initially ignore them and go straight to a skeleton lying next to a book.

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Straight to the light
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Here you find the skeleton and the book next to it

This book is the solution to the puzzle. The text is not the important part, but the marking in the book. In Remnant 2, almost everything is randomly generated. My symbol is red; yours can be different, so keep that in mind.

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For you, only the symbol and the color are important; the text is just lore

If you remembered the symbol, you need to take a closer look at the graves. This book was about the queens’ graves. Each of the graves is covered with a special cloth, but you are only interested in the graves that bear the symbol on the cloth found in the book next to the skeleton.

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Pay attention to the symbol and the color of the cloth

So look for these graves and remember the different glowing symbols that are located above the graves.

Now you walk with your knowledge to the pedestal that has the symbols and enter all the symbols in the order you discovered them.

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Here you enter all the symbols that you found regarding the selected graves

Now activate the pedestal so that you can open the door in front of you. In front of you is now a checkpoint, as well as items, and a grave on the right side with a tough enemy. You should defeat this one to get Kolket’s knife.

Next, head to the jumping passage near the puzzle.

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How to master the jumping passage in Lament

Where is the jumping passage located? To find the jumping passage to another secret, you need to keep to the right where the pedestal was. You will find a closed door that you can open as a shortcut.

We have created a map showing exactly where you need to go to find this passage.

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The pink dot marks the door that serves as your shortcut

Note that this room is full of enemies. Therefore, proceed slowly and carefully.

How to master the jumping passage: Once you have defeated all the enemies, you can approach the jumping passage. It consists of many platforms that hover in the air and are not connected to each other. However, do not be deceived, as some of them are connected with invisible transitions.

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This is how you can identify which platform you can use

To find out which platform is the right one, look at the stone pattern in front of the “jumping passage”. This pattern shows an arrow in the direction where a transition is safe. Now remember the symbol of the first platform you pass. All platforms with this symbol have an invisible “bridge” that you can follow.

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How do I open the door? Once you master the jumping passage, you stand in front of a locked door. To open this door, you need to take a closer look at Kolket’s knife. This can be activated to create a key.

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This is the door with the symbol of Kolket
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This is what the activated key looks like

Now open the door with the key and collect all the loot that can be found in this room.

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Multimillionaire (27) is immensely successful on Twitch, but fans ruin every relationship for him

Schuhmann Schuhmann Reading time 4 minutes

Canadian Félix “xQc” Lengyel (27) is at the top of the gaming streamer scene on Twitch and Kick. He reportedly signed a contract worth 100 million USD with Kick, and alone from Twitch subscriptions, he brings in about €120,000 a month. But he apparently can’t share the luck with anyone.

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xQc managed to keep his relationship private for 1 month and everything was cool

These are the downsides of success: As it now turns out, his third romantic relationship with a colleague has fallen apart in a relatively short time.

The problem: Every relationship that xQc enters is critically viewed by his fans.

The fans feel: When xQc is in a relationship, he doesn’t stream as frequently as usual. Some viewers prove to be intrusive: A partner by his side even reported stalking and midnight break-ins into his house.

The latest relationship was with a content creator for Overwatch, known as Fran. But this relationship also became public and couldn’t withstand the pressure.

When the relationship became known in June, xQc was already upset about it because he had done a “good job” keeping the relationship under the radar this time.

Everyone advises him as well: If you don’t want “parasocial behavior from the fans”, you need to keep relationships private.

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But he only succeeded for a month, then the relationship became “publicly violent”, as he says.

As soon as the relationship became known, the fans ripped each other apart

His partner made the relationship public in June 2023 on her Instagram channel (via reddit), after rumors were circulating. As the site Dexerto reports, xQc’s fans once again proved to be “critical” of the new girlfriend and commented negatively on the relationship – on reddit and in the Twitch chat:

  • So people wondered if xQc knew that his girlfriend was a “crypto scammer”.
  • Cynically pointed out that he “didn’t learn anything from the relationship with Adept”.
  • In any case, this was not a real relationship, it was speculated, but some kind of business thing.
  • In any case, the woman is the reason that xQc now streams less.
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“I somehow radiate something bad around me”

This is how it broke down: xQc announced at the end of July 2023 that he and Fran were no longer together. They have parted amicably.

However, this apparently didn’t go well either: xQc says he mentioned in a stream that Fran was no longer here and didn’t inform her beforehand. This took her by surprise.

She tried to maintain the facade, but they had not been together for a while.

xQc says the signs for a relationship just aren’t good:

Yeah, there are just too many parts in motion and it’s just too much. I wish everything were much easier, but it’s not. And I also don’t think things will get easier anytime soon. I’m really tired of causing so much damage around me. It seems like everyone around me is suffering a lot and it feels like I’m radiating something bad. I need to take a break.

What does he mean by that? xQc apparently has many young fans who focus on him strongly and have difficulty coping when they have to share his attention with a woman.

Especially in the way he tears apart his former partner Adept and portrays her as a mix of vampire and gold digger, one can see how harsh his fans react to people in his environment. This is likely the “damage” he radiates around him.

Every partner who engages with xQc becomes totally the focus of these fans when the relationship becomes public.

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Even the relationship between xQc and Adept was publicly discussed.

Are there partnerships between streamers that can endure this? Yes, there are some well-known streamer couples that seem to be solid. It seems mainly about the relationship being a part of the streamers’ identity and being accepted by the fans.

Couples like Ludwig/QTCinderella or Tyler1/Macailya are known, although the women have to endure quite a bit. QTCinderella once shared how she struggled with being introduced as “Ludwig’s girlfriend”: When Ludwig says in his stream that he is hungry, people in her stream would tell her to make him a sandwich.

There are also power couples in the scene like Ninja and Jessica Blevins or Doublelift and Leena Xu, who are clearly together and where such dynamics don’t seem to play a role.

Asmongold Pink Sparkles
Asmongold is not allowed to have a girlfriend – and Pinksparkles absolutely not.

If someone who has been single for a long time and has made it part of their image suddenly appears with a partner, it seems to be difficult for the fans – as in the case of Asmongold. Fans said: They could no longer identify with him. They wanted the MMORPG streamer to be as “lonely and unhappy” as they were. The MMORPG streamer Asmongold had a relationship with a streamer that was widely discussed in 2019.

In contrast, there is constant speculation about extroverted streamers like HasanAbi being involved with one streamer or another.

Some successful female streamers seem to completely keep their private lives out of the public eye. Amouranth hid even a husband for years:

Amouranth: The largest streamer on Twitch said tearfully that she is married – and her husband is blackmailing her

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Pokémon GO: Spotlight Hour today with Vulpix and XP bonus

Franzi Korittke Franzi Korittke Reading time 2 minutes

Today, on August 1, 2023, the Spotlight Hour with Vulpix is taking place in Pokémon GO. We at MeinMMO show you everything about the bonus, the shiny, and the start of the event.

What is a Spotlight Hour? Every Tuesday, Pokémon GO hosts a short event where a predetermined monster is highlighted for one hour and spawns more frequently. This week it’s happening again, and you can encounter the Fire-type Pokémon Vulpix.

The Spotlight Hour is accompanied by an additional bonus that is supposed to enhance the event. What that will be and whether you can catch Vulpix as a shiny, we have summarized for you below.

Spotlight Hour on August 1 – Start, Shiny & Bonuses

When does the event take place? The Spotlight Hour starts today, on August 1, at 6:00 PM local time, and lasts for one hour. It will be over by 7:00 PM.

What bonuses are there? During the event, you can catch plenty of Vulpix in the wild. They will spawn seemingly everywhere. If you want to attract even more specimens, it’s best to use incense. Additionally, you will receive double XP for evolving Pokémon during this time.

By the way: In August, there are 4 more Spotlight Hours coming up. What they entail, we’ve summarized in the post below.

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Can you catch shiny Vulpix? Yes, with a bit of luck, you may encounter a shiny Vulpix. You can recognize it by its golden-yellow body. However, note that the shiny chance is not increased during the event.

Pokémon GO Shiny Vulpix Vulnona
Vulpix and Vulnona normal (left) and as shinies (right)
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Is the Spotlight Hour worth it? Vulpix and its evolution Vulnona are not particularly strong. They can be less convincing in raids and the GO battle league. Thus, the event is primarily worthwhile for shiny hunters and trainers who want to evolve a few Pokémon and utilize the additional XP bonus.

How do you like today’s Spotlight Hour? Are you participating? Let us know here on MeinMMO in the comments.

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WoW: The Lotus Cartel of Hackers bans you when you pick herbs

Cortyn Cortyn Reading time 2 minutes

The Lotus cartel in World of Warcraft shows no mercy. Whoever harvests herbs will be immediately banned.

No matter which version of World of Warcraft you play, crafting resources are always important. In the Classic variant, the “Black Lotus” is a particularly important resource for creating potions and thus powerful buffs. For this reason, the flowers also fetch extremely high prices in the auction house and are therefore particularly lucrative.

What is the problem? The high value of the Black Lotus also makes it particularly desirable for bots and gold farmers, who want to sell the gold to players – which is actually prohibited. However, it is now an open secret that bots and gold sellers are quite present on the Classic realms.

Because the Black Lotus is so valuable, it is virtually farmed non-stop by bots and hackers.

A video by AzAMOuS shows – in his usual monotonous speaking style – what it looks like for normal players. They see the Black Lotus spawn, but when they want to harvest it, it disappears, even though no player is nearby:

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AzAMOuS addresses the concerns that many players already have, as the hardcore realms are about to start. Because they will likely also be flooded with bots and hackers if Blizzard doesn’t find a solution here.

The secret is that the bots and hackers mostly sit “underground” and harvest the lotus from there. They are already waiting at all known spawn points or quickly change positions using hacks.

Particularly audacious: When real players do manage to get ahead of the hackers, they are threatened by the hackers. They are told to stop harvesting immediately or they will be banned. Those who do not comply with the request often find themselves excluded from World of Warcraft shortly after.

Why is there a ban for that? Even though the video is somewhat exaggerated, it does highlight a problem that exists in World of Warcraft – whether in Classic or Dragonflight. Because the reporting system can be exploited by players.

Blizzard has stated in the past that every sanction is ultimately confirmed by a Game Master, but there are contradicting stories from the last months. There have often been threats from botters or “cartel operators” who threatened others with account penalties and then enforced them outright.

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The method of choice is mass reporting. If a character is reported by dozens of accounts – which all belong to the botter or a cartel – the penalty follows almost instantly.

The experiences contradict the statements of the developers.

The problem is not only exclusive to WoW Classic but Dragonflight is also affected. Here an “Elemental loop cartel” imposed a penalty on a competitor who had sold his necklaces at a low price.

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In Skyrim and The Sims, nude mods are a hit – That’s why you don’t need them in Baldur’s Gate 3

Alexander Leitsch Alexander Leitsch Reading time 2 minutes

Is there nudity in this Game? This is a question that is repeatedly asked in role-playing games. For titles like Skyrim or The Sims, fans even create their own mods to get rid of the clothing. In Baldur’s Gate 3, however, you don’t need anything like that.

How does the game handle nudity? Very openly, as freedom is very important to the developers. Even in the character creation, you can freely choose the genitals or even adjust the pubic hair according to your wishes. And this line continues throughout the rest of the game.

It is intended that there will be scenes where characters are portrayed completely exposed. There will also be an implied sexual act that will be staged through clever camera angles or by fading out.

It is no coincidence that the role-playing game received an “Mature” rating. In the description of the ESRB, it says:

The game contains nudity scenes: characters with exposed breasts, buttocks, and genitals. In a handful of sequences, characters are shown topless during brief sexual acts (e.g., positioning a character’s head over a partner’s groin; pushing a character’s hands toward a partner’s crotch). The sexual acts are shown off-screen or with obscured camera angles. One sequence shows a naked couple on the beach just before they have sex – the camera pans up and the scene fades out.

That there will be sex scenes in the game is not surprising. A few weeks ago, the game made headlines with a video that even dampened our chief editor Leya Jankowski’s enthusiasm for the Druid class.

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Nude mods are a hit in role-playing games, there are even some for WoW

What are nude mods? Nude mods are almost as old as the video game industry itself. Even in the first Tomb Raider in 1996, there were players who wanted to see Lara Croft unclothed. Since then, such modifications have been made for hundreds of PC games.

Today, such mods can be found for almost all role-playing games, but sometimes also for completely different genres. They are particularly popular with Skyrim, The Sims, or even Resident Evil. For Skyrim, there are even

Even WoW has such mods, although their use is officially banned and can lead to account suspension. Here, the modifications are usually integrated into the role-playing game.

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Are there other mods for Baldur’s Gate 3? Yes, Nexus Mods already has dozens of adjustments for the early access version of the game. These include additional hairstyles in Tav’s Hair Salon, custom buff foods, or better starter equipment.

What do you think about the topic of nudity in role-playing games? Do you need it or do you focus solely on gameplay?

In Baldur’s Gate 3, you also have many freedoms beyond appearance, including the choice of 11 races and 12 different classes. We reveal here which class suits you best.

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The Elder Scrolls Online suddenly has long queues; according to Google, it is as popular as it hasn’t been since 2021

Alexander Leitsch Alexander Leitsch Reading time 2 minutes

The MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online struggled with some long waiting times last weekend. But where did these come from and why is it currently as popular on Google Trends as it was in 2021? We will tell you.

What happened with ESO? This weekend, three things came together for ESO:

  • From July 20 to July 27, the base game of ESO was free at Epic Games. In general, the MMORPG can now be played permanently there.
  • Currently, ESO+ is available for free for 7 days. This bonus ends on August 3.
  • Until August 8, the “Zenithar’s Zeal” event is ongoing, where you can earn rewards for the first daily quest per day. This led many users to log in accordingly.

These three actions together caused sudden waiting times over the weekend. Players reported waiting times of 30, 80, and in some cases up to 120 minutes for login. Especially the EU servers were affected.

Both the release at Epic Games and the waiting times ultimately led to ESO generating a very high level of search queries. It reached its highest value on Google Trends since December 2021.

However, the placement in our ranking would not have changed: The 10 largest MMORPGs in Germany in 2023, according to Google.

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Epic Games brings a bigger boost than the new expansion

Is Epic really the cause of the increase? Apparently yes. Because the search volume for the terms “Elder Scrolls Online Epic Games” and “ESO free” was very high. It is also noticeable that the player numbers on Steam did not experience a significant increase but are even declining.

When the new expansion Necrom launched, around 30,000 players were at peak, but recently it was more like 22,000 to 24,000 (via SteamDB).

ESO Trends 12 Monate
ESO in global trends. The release of Necrom in June is hardly noticeable.

In general, Necrom has caused little attention. Despite the new class Arcanist, there was no significant increase in search volume and no major spikes in the press.

This looked a bit different in the past days, where the interest reached its highest value in almost two years.

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How will things continue for ESO? On August 21, the MMORPG will release the new Update 39 for PC and on September 5 for PlayStation and Xbox. This focuses on some “Quality of Life” changes, including adjustments in PvP, new daily quests, and a general update of the quest structure.

At the end of the year, a special patch is expected to be released. This will bring a major innovation for dungeons and break the old update pattern. However, there are still not many details available. We have summarized everything here: The MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online will get an endless dungeon in 2023 – what we know.

What do you think of ESO’s current surge? Is it deserved and should more people generally take a look at the MMORPG? Or are you rather surprised where this interest is coming from?

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EA Sports FC 24: All 19 Hero Cards at a Glance – A Dutch Legend is Here

Julian Schröder Julian Schröder Reading time 3 minutes

The release of the FIFA successor EA Sports FC 24 is slowly approaching and EA is already showing us the first new hero cards for Ultimate Team. Here you will find out which heroes will be included in FC 24.

These are hero cards in Ultimate Team: The FUT heroes introduced in FIFA 22 are special cards that are very similar to “icons”: They receive strong cards for performances from the past, with which they have become fan favorites.

The special feature of these cards is that, unlike the icon cards, each one is assigned to a specific league. A FUT hero from the Bundesliga gets a chemistry point in Ultimate Team for players from that league. In addition, there are the usual links to players of the same nationality.

This is new with the heroes in FC 24: The major innovation of the heroes in FC 24 will be that there will finally be female hero cards. Because the female players are fully integrated into Ultimate Team of FC 24, which also applies to special cards.

Additionally, in addition to hero cards, icon cards of the female players will also be introduced.

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All 15 new hero cards of FC 24 Ultimate Team at a glance

These are the new heroes in FC 24: EA has now introduced all 19 new hero cards for FC 24, some of which have been on fans’ wish lists for years. In addition to the overall ratings, the respective leagues of the new heroes are known. However, EA has not yet released detailed stats and positions.

The new heroes bring a fan favorite: The Dutch legend Wesley Sneijder has been highly sought after for a hero or icon card for years. The offensive player made waves during his active time with precise passes and especially with his powerful long shots, earning him the nickname “Sniper.”

Now the Dutchman, who played for Real Madrid, Inter Milan, and Galatasaray Istanbul, will also appear in FC 24 – as a hero card with a rating of 91 and a Serie A link to FC 24.

However, besides Sneijder, especially German players will be pleased with the new cards of Bayern legend Lizarazu (90), Dortmund’s Rosicky (88), and Nadine Keßler (90).

All new heroes with their respective leagues:

  • Wesley Sneijder (91) – Serie A
  • Gianluca Vialli (91) – Serie A
  • Bixente Lizarazu (90) – Bundesliga
  • Carlos Tevez (90) – Premier League
  • Alex Scott (88) – England WSL
  • Nadine Keßler (90) – Women’s Bundesliga
  • Tomáš Rosicky (88) – Bundesliga
  • Ludovic Giuly (88) – La Liga
  • John Arne Riise (87) – Premier League
  • Nwankwo Kanu (87) – Eredivisie
  • Dimitar Berbatov (88) – Bundesliga
  • Sonia Bompastor (89) – France Division 1F
  • Jari Litmanen (89) – Eredivisie
  • Rui Costa (89) – Serie A
  • Paulo Futre (89) – Liga Portugal
  • Vincent Kompany (89) – Premier League
  • Ramires (87) – Premier League
  • Steve McManaman (89) – La Liga
  • DaMarcus Beasley (86) – Eredivisie

What about the hero cards from FIFA 23? Whether some hero cards from FIFA 23 will also make it to FC 24 is still unknown. It is quite possible that they will be introduced at a later date.

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If you want to secure a hero card at the start of FC 24, you need to get the Ultimate Edition of FC 24. A random hero card is included in the pre-order bonuses, but only until August 22.

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360 million people see how a German Twitch streamer hits a ball in the face

Sarah Sarah Reading time 2 minutes

Papaplatte throws a ball with great force against a door, which bounces off and hits him back in the face. This viral TikTok clip has already reached 36 million views within a few hours. The comments, however, only consist of one topic: This was botted.

Who is Papaplatte? Kevin “Papaplatte” Teller (27) is one of the best-known German streamers and content creators in the gaming sector. With his authentic and humorous style, he has built up a loyal fan base on platforms such as Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok. Just recently, he broke his own viewer records, where he had over 100,000 simultaneous viewers at the streamer event r/Place.

Another clip that went viral on TikTok and the story behind it can be found in this video:

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TikTok clip with 360 million views draws attention

What happened? One of his latest TikTok clips recently caused a stir on social media. In the short video, Papaplatte can be seen in a long corridor, swinging a ball and throwing it with full force against the door at the end of the corridor.

The ball bounces off and hits the German streamer hard in the face. The video ends abruptly with this unexpected event.

What’s interesting about it? Curiously, this clip has received an incredible 360 million views in a short time, while the like and comment numbers differ in comparison to his usual TikToks. These typically achieve an average of 100,000 to 300,000 views.  

You can find the complete clip, including comments, here:

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The view counts quickly caught the attention of his community and have sparked discussions in the comment section. All comments under the video mainly consist of accusations that Papaplatte or someone else may have manipulated the view counts.

“Relaxed 360 mil. bot views,” comments one user. However, other users take it humorously: “I must have fallen asleep during that TikTok; the few million views go to me.”

It remains unclear whether “bots” are really behind the high views

What’s behind the allegations? Papaplatte’s TikTok community is unsettled due to the extraordinary virality of the clip. There is speculation that the streamer or someone from his community could be responsible for having “botted” the view counts.

Botting involves paying a website or service that artificially increases the click counts using so-called “bots”. These automated clicks do not come from real users, but from computer programs that simulate the interactions.

What is true about these allegations remains unclear. Papaplatte himself only comments: “Ah yes, 31 mil chill bots.”

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What’s so dangerous about “botting”? Botting view counts is a controversial topic on social media, as it can undermine the credibility of content creators and platforms. It often violates terms of service and can lead to penalties.

Moreover, it can influence discussions within the community, as distorted interaction numbers can inaccurately represent the relevance and popularity of content. Whether and who is behind this “botting attack” remains unclear. One thing is certain: Papaplatte has already established a firm name for himself in the creator scene, without bots.

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LoL: German Twitch streamer becomes number 1 in the strongest country

Niko Hernes Niko Hernes Reading time 2 minutes

In League of Legends, the new ranked split started a few weeks ago. Players need to play many matches again if they want to rank up in the leaderboard mode. A German player has now made it to number 1 in the ranking. And that in the best LoL country.

What happened? The German streamer and challenger player Agurin has made it to the top of the leaderboard in Korea. The jungle main achieved this feat after only 2 weeks. That is truly impressive, especially considering he did it in Korea.

Korea is considered the best country in the field of League of Legends. A Korean team has won the Worlds 7 times. T1, formerly SKT1, holds a legendary status. With 3 Worlds wins, the team holds the record for the most World Championship victories.

Even in the normal ranked area, the country is incredibly good, and the skill level is considered significantly higher than in other LoL regions. However, Korea did not perform as well at this year’s MSI:

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How did Agurin do it? As a solo queue jungler, he is just damn good. He even plays with NNO in a German team with streamers. Agurin primarily plays Jarvan IV and Elise, with which he currently has a win rate of over 60%. (via OP.GG)

Apart from that, he also occasionally played Nocturne and Kha’Zix, with which he also has a good win rate. This shows that he is not only good with a few champs but has a good range of options. He celebrated his success on Twitter with the simple words GG.

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Agurin is a complete SoloQ threat

What does the LoL community say? A Reddit post about the success has 2400 upvotes and currently almost 500 comments. In the comments, his success is celebrated.

  • Sand-Surfer: Agurin is a complete SoloQ threat, I’m not surprised that he is the one who makes it. People like him make the German League scene so fantastic to watch and follow.
  • Ashankura: An absolute beast
  • Win_Conditioner: This is the same guy who was rank 1 in EUW. He is clearly one of the world’s best solo queue players in the last few years

Users find his success very remarkable. The time in which he achieved it is also an important factor that should not be forgotten. Whether he will achieve such success in even more regions, this season will show. It can be expected of him.

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In Baldur’s Gate 3, it matters almost not which race you play, and that can be a problem

Benedict Grothaus Benedict Grothaus Reading time 2 minutes

There is a new role-playing game coming soon called Baldur’s Gate 3 where you can create and customize your own character. Developer Larian gives you a lot of freedom but uses a rule that fans of Dungeons & Dragons find problematic.

Why is the folk election “almost” irrelevant?

  • In Baldur’s Gate 3, you have the 12 classes as well as 11 races from Dungeons & Dragons.
  • In the past, all races in D&D had special abilities and certain attribute bonuses, sometimes even a penalty.
  • With an official supplementary rule, these bonuses are gone. Instead, you choose them yourself.

Why could this become a problem? Due to the race-specific properties, classic archetypes emerged in the past. Dwarves were dedicated paladins or clerics, elves often wizards or druids.

Corresponding bonuses to intelligence, charisma or willpower along with special abilities like saving throws against effects, darkvision or even spells granted by the race ensured a certain harmony between class and race.

Now, however, in Baldur’s Gate 3, you can freely decide which attribute you get a bonus on, as a screenshot reveals (via PCGamesN). You receive +2 on one attribute, +1 on another. This makes classes like halfling barbarians or half-orc rogues suddenly “playable” without disadvantages.

Particularly the folk bonus Luck of the halflings, which allows you to have almost no critical failures, is extremely strong for classes like barbarians. Previously, the attribute bonuses and penalties ensured that halfling barbarians were not really useful.

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Race rules from a supplementary book caused trouble before

The problem is that the bonuses of certain races are chosen in such a way that certain classes become unattractive for them because they would otherwise be too strong. You would have to give up strength in favor of other talents. This is no longer the case.

As YouTuber Old Man McLoyf explains with an example, there is a turtle folk that has absurdly high natural armor (via YouTube). This would be interesting for wizards who do not wear armor. However, the race inherently has a bonus to strength and constitution – which wizards only need to some extent.

Now the race could easily be played with intelligence and wisdom, becoming the perfect wizard, and you would have a “broken build.” Something that Baldur’s Gate 3 already gives you many means to do.

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The rule is actually optional and comes from the supplementary book “Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything.” Meanwhile, the rule has been officially adopted, including by Larian, to allow maximum freedom.

That this is the goal was already shown by the developers with the freely customizable genitals and the many romance options. However, this decision has a significant impact on the gameplay, as you can make many situations much easier.

Among D&D fans, the optional rule was already controversial back then, simply because it can break the fantasy and imagination players have about the races. For you, this at least means: if you want to play a gnome warrior or an elf sorcerer now, nothing stands in your way, except perhaps the limited level:

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Diablo 4 has no endgame? Players explain what many get wrong: ‘Treat it like Diablo 2’

Benedict Grothaus Benedict Grothaus Reading time 2 minutes

Diablo 4 constantly faces criticism that players find it too boring in the endgame. Some fans of earlier installments explain that it might be due to the expectations: those who expect progress like in Diablo 3 are stuck on the wrong point.

This is the criticism of the endgame:

  • Although Diablo 4 offers several endgame activities, especially frequent players get bored roughly starting at level 80.
  • They criticize that there is not enough variety: those who want to make real progress must complete nightmare dungeons.
  • At the same time, it becomes nearly impossible to obtain improvements starting around level 70. The highest item levels can already be attained here.

This is what players say: On Reddit and other platforms, the topic comes up again and again. However, hardened fronts often collide, with little objective explanations, on how the endgame can still be fun for frequent players.

In several threads, another hint has now emerged from fans who have apparently been playing Diablo for a significantly longer time. There, players advise: don’t rush to level 100. That’s when the game ends; the endgame starts much earlier:

Too many people expect a Diablo 3, where you quickly reach the maximum level and the endgame doesn’t really begin until then. That’s the complete opposite of what they are doing in Diablo 4 now. Your character is nearly complete at 75 and fully complete at 100.

One should treat Diablo 4 more like Diablo 2. There, 99 was the maximum level, beyond that, it simply didn’t continue. Once the character is finished, you can either polish your build further or do something else.

With Season 1, gameplay should return, but there are still critics:

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“At a certain point, your character is finished”

Even critics often agree, that Diablo 4 is quite fun up to level 75 and only becomes tedious from there. However, that is exactly the point, as some now explain: they have never played to the end in Diablo 2 and will not do it in Diablo 4 either.

The actual endgame starts at level 50. From here, many new possibilities arise that contribute to making the character “complete”:

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Some users even believe that there has simply been an unfortunate choice of designations here. If level 50 had been the maximum level with 200 Paragon added, it would have stifled most complaints immediately – even though it’s not really different now.

Other users argue that this system is not a problem for them at all. When they finish with one character, they move on to the next or experiment with different builds.

Blizzard itself keeps adjusting the endgame. The nightmare dungeons have already been completely overhauled and with patch 1.1.1 additional mechanics are supposed to be adjusted. The patch will be released on August 8.

In addition, the seasons every 3 months, in which players can explore new stories and mechanics with fresh characters. In just the first week of Season 1, over 7 million new characters were created.

The recently announced changes have received good feedback outside of Reddit:

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Why you can only play up to level 12 in Baldur’s Gate 3 and why it’s good

Benedict Grothaus Benedict Grothaus Reading time 3 minutes

Coming soon, Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the most anticipated games on Steam, which has to meet high expectations. The only thing that surprises some fans is that the level cap is set at 12. MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus, an avid Dungeons & Dragons player, explains why this has to be the case.

This is the maximum level in Baldur’s Gate 3:

  • You can reach level 12 in Baldur’s Gate 3. Originally, only level 10 was planned.
  • Level is tied to the character, so it doesn’t matter which or how many of the 12 available classes you play.
  • Compared to other role-playing games, this is quite low. Even the D&D template and the Pathfinder games offer 20 levels or more.

Why was level 12 chosen? In Dungeons & Dragons, you receive new bonuses at different levels. At certain “breaking points,” more happens than at others. Level 12 is one of them.

Here, for the third time, you get the chance to increase your attribute values or choose a talent. This makes your character significantly stronger, depending on how well you planned beforehand.

Another and for most classes more important breaking point is at level 13:

  • the practice bonus increases from 4 to 5
  • most spell classes learn their first spell at rank 7
  • rogues receive an additional die for their sneak attacks
  • some archetypes subclasses gain new abilities

Although developer Larian has not officially commented on this, as a D&D player, I know: from level 13 onward, it’s all about becoming really powerful. And even though it may be a bit disappointing: for the game, the limit of 12 is probably sensible.

You don’t need a high level for the most interesting scenes in the game:

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You are only heroes, not gods

The probably most important reason for the level cap is the available spells. Larian adheres quite strictly to the requirements of the rulebook, and even rank-7 spells can be absurdly powerful.

Bards, for example, receive the “Dream of the Blue Veil,” which allows the whole group to switch to another reality plane, provided there is a connection to it. Without spoiling: those who know the intro understand that this would be a big problem for the story. Even worse would be spells at rank 9, which become available at level 17. Here, there are things like:

  • Word of Death: Kills a target with less than 100 hit points, with no real way for it to defend itself.
  • Wish: Does pretty much exactly what the name implies, namely fulfilling a wish. The most powerful spell in the game.
  • Powerful Fortress (technically level 8): Creates a castle with walls, turrets, a mansion, rooms for the group, servants, and enough food for a nine-course banquet for 100 people daily. It doesn’t sound “powerful,” but it would be absurd in the game.
  • over 400 spells are still unknown
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Moreover, you can basically create your own classes in Baldur’s Gate 3 by combining several classes. This is already a popular strategy in D&D, which can lead to characters that are excessively powerful, especially among experts. In short: from level 12 onward, you are no longer legendary heroes, but become demigods.

If done correctly, you can find combinations that are simply unfair. This has happened in pen and paper, where it could only be “patched out” slowly. To avoid “game-breaking” bugs, Larian likely needed to develop further for several more years. However, it is possible that DLCs will raise the level cap further.

Even though I personally would have loved to see how “Wish” works accurately in a video game, such things only really work if you can discuss them with the master and not with fixed code. And level 12 will surely suffice for enough playtime:

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23-year-old fights her way into the Twitch charts with a 7-day stream – so broken that she dreams of forbidden things

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Antonia “Reved” Staab (23) is currently streaming 7 days in a row on Twitch – even while sleeping. She reports on her dream where she did coke and got thrown out of her house.

Who is she? Reved, also known as Toni, is a German streamer and content creator who has made a name for herself in the gaming community over the past few years. With her charming demeanor and enthusiasm for video games, she has gathered a large fan base.

On platforms like Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok, she shares her streaming experiences and entertains her viewers with fun and exciting content. From gaming, reactions, and IRL streams to quiz shows and music streams – there is something for everyone, and that is one of her secrets to success.

You can learn more about the streamer Reved in this video:

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Several thousand people watched her while she was sleeping

What’s the deal with the 7-day stream? In 2021, Reved streamed for 341 hours straight, that is, for 14 days. This broke her own records – 75,000 people watched her. This success motivated her even more, and she decided to stream for 7 days in a row once a year.

In 2022, she held her first official 7-day stream. During that time, she built Lego models, hosted quiz shows, reacted to other videos and creators, cooked, got a tattoo, exercised, played video games – and slept in front of the camera.

This year, another 7-day stream is taking place. It started on 28.07.2023. You can find out what has already happened and what will happen on a special homepage of hers: Schedule 7-Day Stream by Reved

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What happened in the current 7-day stream? The catch of this special livestream is that the streamer even showcases her sleep publicly. In a specially set up sleeping area that is part of her streaming room, she laid a mattress and let the cameras run while she slept through the night.

On 30.07.2023, around 7 in the morning, Reved revealed a curious statement in a half-asleep state. She told her viewers that she had consumed cocaine in her dream – an experience she has never had in reality. This curious statement caused a stir and was featured on many TikTok homepages.

I just had to do coke in my sleep. I’ve never done coke. I did coke with both nostrils. Totally shit! And then I had to go shopping at Penny. And then there was an uproar … and all the people wanted to throw me out of my old house.

You can see the full clip here:

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What does this mean for Reved’s viewer numbers? Despite this bizarre situation, Reved continues to gain popularity. With her extraordinary 7-day stream, she not only thrilled her loyal fans but also attracted new viewers.

Her viewer numbers rose rapidly, and she managed to jump to 3rd place in the German Twitch charts. This currently puts her ahead of well-known figures like MontanaBlack88 and Gronkh (via Sullygnome).

Reved’s unconventional approach to publicly streaming her sleep may be polarizing, but her genuine nature and enthusiasm for gaming make her a fascinating and versatile personality. She shows that the gaming community also has room for unconventional ideas.

You can find another article about a streamer who streams for several days here: Fans persuade small Twitch streamer to crazy project to support him – now live for 26 days

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CS:GO – In Cologne, the top team is facing humiliation as a professional loses it and yells an insult

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The E-Sport tournament IEM Cologne 2023 is currently taking place in Cologne in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). The nominally strongest team, Heroic, actually had an easy matchup against a team from Mongolia. But that threatened to derail the favorites, leading to “psychological warfare”.

This was the situation:

  • The Norwegian team Heroic plays with 5 Danes and is a well-oiled machine. The core of the team has been together since 2020, and they have been ranked number 1 in the world rankings for 36 days.
  • They faced off in Cologne on July 28 in a Best-of-Three against “TheMongolZ”, a team based in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. In the world rankings, they are ranked 41st.
  • What seemed like an easy win for Heroic shook heavily after the underdogs won the first map 16-11.

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What was the outburst? When Heroic was leading 4-1 on the 2nd map, the captain of the CS:GO team, Casper “cadiaN” Møller, shouted at the top of his lungs: “Wohoo! You fucking noobs. You fucking noobs.”

The outburst seems to have occurred unprovoked, as the 28-year-old Dane lost his composure, having already won nearly $600,000 with CS:GO in his career.

The man has a pulse:

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This is the discussion about it: As the website Dotesports points out, the outburst has sparked a debate in the scene, as it came off as one-sided trash talk. Furthermore, the players from Mongolia did nothing to warrant this, other than daring to win a map against the favorites.

Players say: It’s okay if both sides trash talk, but what cadiaN did was a bit over the top.

However, many defend the Dane and say the criticism is exaggerated. He is only criticized because he is seen as a “villain” in the scene and often finds himself under scrutiny.

One user even says: The people criticizing him are soft. They should go to E-Sports for Riot Games. Another says: Such things are “psychological warfare and are part of E-Sports.”

How did it turn out? “The psychological warfare was successful”:

  • Heroic won the match 2-1. The team also won the next game and is in the Upper Bracket Final of Group A. They are favorites to win the tournament and the prize money of $400,000.
  • The MongolZ lost the match, subsequently lost a 2nd match against “GamerLegion” in the Lower Bracket and have now been eliminated. They fly home with $10,000 in prize money.
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This is what the player says: cadiaN sarcastically apologizes on Twitter: He is very sorry for the trash talk. He knows he is the only player who still screams at his opponents.

He will try to improve himself.

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This is what’s behind it: Even though E-Sports is adapting to traditional sports in some aspects, fans still want to keep their “peculiarities”. They stand for fair play and disdain cheaters. But trash talk is something many believe should be part of E-Sports.

What one can also see here, and what is unusual for Twitch viewers: CS:GO can actually be played. Many Twitch streamers have previously operated it solely as a “loot box simulation”:

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