Pokémon GO: Guide to the Community Day with Teddiursa – How to take advantage of the event today

In Pokémon GO the Community Day with Teddiursa and several bonuses will take place on November 12th. We at MeinMMO will show you what event content awaits you on this day and how you can make the most of it.

What kind of event is this? In Pokémon GO, a so-called Community Day is held every month, focusing on a specific Pokémon. It spawns everywhere in the wild during the event period, and the chances of encountering a Shiny are increased.

After the C-Day Classic with Dratini took place last weekend, you can now look forward to the Community Day in November with Teddiursa this Saturday. We have summarized all the content you can expect about the little teddy and how to use the day for yourself.

Community Day in November 2022 – Start, Bonuses & New Monster

What? Community Day with Teddiursa
When? Saturday, November 12, 2022, from 14:00 to 17:00 local time
Pokémon of the day: Teddiursa will be found almost everywhere in the wild
Exclusive Attack: Horsepower, if you evolve Ursaring into Ursaluna (up to 5 hours after the event)
Bonuses:
– Incense and Lures last for 3 hours
– Triple Stardust when catching Pokémon
– Double Candy when catching Pokémon
– Double chance of XL Candy when catching Pokémon (from Trainer level 31)
– 5 surprise encounters from snapshots
– Event stickers in PokéStops and gifts
 
Additional bonuses until 5 hours after the event (10:00 PM local time)
– Additional special trade (maximum 2 on this day)
– 50% less Stardust cost when trading

As you’ve come to expect from Community Days, the C-Day with Teddiursa will also run for 3 hours. However, you can make use of the exclusive attack and trading bonuses up to 5 hours after the event, until 10 PM local time.

Special Raid Battles: Following the actual Community Day, there will again be special level 4 raids. These will only be available on-site, as you surely know from the past, so you cannot participate via remote raids.

In the raid, you will encounter Teddiursa’s first evolution, Ursaring. Once you successfully complete the battle, Teddiursa will spawn within 300 meters of the arena for 30 minutes again. The Shiny chance will be the same as during the C-Day.

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What to expect in the shop: In the in-game shop, you can find some content related to the Community Day with Teddiursa. Here’s what to expect:

  • Event ticket for the special research “A Sweet Snack” about Teddiursa, for about 1 Euro
  • Community Day box with 50 Ultra Balls, 5 Super Incubators, 5 Luck Eggs, and a Charged TM for 1,350 coins
  • Event stickers for Teddiursa
Event sticker for the Community Day with Teddiursa

Pokémon Debut for the Community Day with Teddiursa

Which monster is new? For the Community Day with Teddiursa, you can encounter its final evolution for the first time: Ursaluna. The monster from the 8th generation of games, of the types Ground and Normal, can evolve using 100 candies. 

During the event and up to 5 hours afterward, it will receive the event Charged Attack Horsepower, which can deal 100 damage in Trainer battles and 110 damage in raids and gym battles.

What to consider when evolving: Anyone who wants to secure the new evolution should do so by Sunday, November 13, 2022, at 06:00 local time at the latest. Ursaluna can only evolve during a full moon. If you miss this opportunity, you will have to wait until the next full moon.

More about Teddiursa’s final evolution will be revealed in the article below:

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How to make the most out of Community Day with Teddiursa

How to prepare: As with every major event in Pokémon GO, you should also create space in your Pokémon storage for the Community Day with Teddiursa. If you still have a lot of Dratini in your bag from the past weekend or if you generally need to clean out your Pokémon, it’s best to do that before the event starts.

The easiest way to do this is with the filter function in Pokémon GO. By entering “0*,1*,2*”, for example, you will only see monsters that have a rating of 2 stars or lower. The input “Age0” is also suitable for sorting during the event since it only shows Pokémon that are not older than 24 hours.

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Use the filters to sort

However, having space in your Pokémon storage alone is not enough to utilize the event optimally. You will also need plenty of items, which take up space too. So sort your item bag and make room for the most important items. We have summarized what you need below.

These items are needed for the C-Day with Teddiursa

Balls: The most important item for the Community Day with Teddiursa is, of course, Balls, because without them you cannot catch. So it’s best to keep a supply of about 200 balls so that you don’t have to restock during the event. Ultra Balls are the best choice since they keep stubborn monsters in better.

Here we explain how to get balls in Pokémon GO.

Alternatively, you can also look out for golden PokéStops right now. These give you more items when spun, including plenty of balls.

Incense & Lures: There will also be an extended duration for Incense and Lures during the Community Day. Therefore, it’s advisable to have at least one item of each in your bag. Activate them during the event, and you will attract even more monsters for 3 hours.

If you want to place more than one PokéStop with Lures, you will naturally need more.

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Items that will be useful for the C-Day

Sananabeeren: To secure as many Teddiursa candies as possible, you should use Sananabeeren when catching. These will double the candies. Since you already receive a candy bonus during the event, you will gain 12 candies for each Teddiursa caught with a Sananabeere.

These are important for evolving it into Ursaluna and to level up your Pokémon.

Star Pieces: In addition to the candy bonus, you will also enjoy triple Stardust when catching during the event. If you want to enhance your supply even more, you can additionally use Star Pieces, which will increase the Stardust by 50% for 30 minutes.

Other important items: Following the Community Day, there will again be special level 4 raids, in which you can only participate on-site. If you want to do this, keep your Raid Pass or Premium Battle Pass ready.

To keep the best attackers in Pokémon GO ready for battle quickly after the raid, you will also need a few revives and potions.

What you need to keep in mind: When sorting your item bag, remember that you can relearn frustration for the “Rocket Takeover” event starting Monday. You will need your Charged TMs for this. If you want to take advantage of this opportunity, it’s best not to sort this item out.

Here you’ll find out for which monsters relearning frustration suits best.

Use the right Mega Evolution

Why is a Mega Evolution needed? If you want to make the most out of the Community Day with Teddiursa, you should activate a corresponding Mega Evolution. If the type of the caught Pokémon corresponds to the type of your Mega Evolution, you will receive additional candies.

Which evolution do you need for Teddiursa? Since Teddiursa is a Normal type, you also need a Mega Evolution of this type. Therefore, the following Mega Pokémon are suitable:

  • Mega-Tauboss
  • Mega-Kangama
  • Mega-Schlapor

Why is Mega-Schlapor particularly worthwhile? If you want to participate in the raids against Ursaring after the C-Day, you should evolve it into Mega-Schlapor. This monster belongs to the types Normal and Fighting.

This way, you can farm additional candies when catching Teddiursa and its evolutions, while also using it as an optimal counter against Ursaring in battles. Ursaring is particularly weak against Fighting attacks.

Since Mega-Schlapor is a Fighting Pokémon, you can also use it in the raid and it will simultaneously boost all other Fighting attacks. Thus, you can defeat Ursaring faster.

Is the Community Day with Teddiursa worth it?

Is there a Shiny Teddiursa? Yes. Teddiursa has been available in its Shiny form in Pokémon GO for some time. Since the Shiny rates during Community Days are usually slightly higher, your chances of encountering one are good. You can recognize it by its green body.

Teddiursa, Ursaring & Ursaluna normal (top) and as Shiny (bottom)

How strong is Teddiursa? The Normal Pokémon from the second generation does not impress with its stats. This is different for its first evolution, Ursaring, which has high attack and stamina values.

However, Ursaring cannot compete against the best attackers in Pokémon GO and therefore plays a minor role in raids. Also, in the GO Battle League, it is less interesting according to PvPoke.

With the Community Day, you will also get the opportunity to evolve Ursaring into Ursaluna for the first time. The Ground and Normal type monster has enormous values in attack, stamina, and defense, which would make it an optimal candidate in raids and the GO Battle League. However, Ursaluna struggles due to a poor moveset.

If Ursaluna gets better attacks in the future, it might rank among the best Ground attackers. For now, this remains to be seen.

A selection of the best attackers in Pokémon GO can be found in the video below:

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Who should make use of the C-Day? The Community Day with Teddiursa is primarily worthwhile because of the new Pokémon Ursaluna, which you can develop only until November 13, 2022, at 06:00 local time, and you should definitely secure it for your Pokédex.

Ursaluna also offers great potential due to its high stats for use in raids and the GO Battle League, but it still needs a better moveset. If you’re hoping for this, make sure to secure a strong specimen. Additionally, shiny hunters will have a great time on this day.

The Stardust bonus is also beneficial for all trainers looking to enhance their supply, which can be essential if you want to trade Pokémon or power them up to level 50.

What do you think of the content of the Community Day with Teddiursa? Are you looking forward to the Pokémon debut of Ursaluna? And will you participate in the raids after the event? Let us know here at MeinMMO in the comments and exchange thoughts with other trainers on this topic.

In the coming weeks, a lot is still happening in Pokémon GO. We will show you all events in November and which ones are worth it.

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New World: Leveling Arkana quickly to 200 – Here’s how

New World offers several professions that you can level up to level 200 and beyond. In this guide, we from MeinMMO would like to explain how you can level Arcana especially quickly and what special tricks you should pay attention to.

What does Arcana do? This profession focuses on the creation of magical weapons as well as potions and elemental reagents. As a mage, this profession is essential and can also be very useful otherwise.

How to level Arcana effectively? Arcana is relatively straightforward in the leveling process. You primarily start with weapons, switch to potions in between, and at the end, you create weapons again.

It is important to pay attention to the prices of the elemental particles on your server. Air, earth, fire, water, soul, life, and death differ significantly in prices depending on the server.

Leveling Arcana – Here’s how

From Level 1 to 50: For the first levels, you have the choice between fire staff or life staff made of iron, depending on whether fire particles or life particles are cheaper. You create 44 of these staffs and need:

  • 1,408x Freshwood
  • 880x Iron ore
  • 176x Coarse leather
  • 264x Fire particles or life particles

Level 50 to 100: Starting from level 50, you stick to this pattern but switch to the steel variant of both staffs.

For the full levels, you need 136 staffs:

  • 1,088x Raw wood
  • 2,729x Iron ore
  • 544x Coarse leather
  • 816x Fire particles or life particles
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Level 100 to 150: From this level onwards, it is advisable to either create powerful health potions or switch to ice gloves or cursed gloves. This is because wyrdwood is relatively expensive and is required for the two staffs. However, powerful alkahest for the potions is very cheap on many servers.

Ideally, you should proceed as follows. First, you create 86 powerful health potions. For this, you need:

  • 86x Powerful alkahest
  • 86x Cattail flower
  • 86x Earth particles
  • 86x Summoning bloom

With this, you reach level 108. From there on, you switch to powerful concentration potions. For this, you need 1,034 pieces or the following materials:

  • 1,034x Powerful alkahest
  • 1,034x Water particles
  • 1,034x Summoning bloom
  • 1,034x Earth particles

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Level 150 to 200: For the last levels, we recommend the production of 280 ice gloves or cursed gloves, again depending on the costs of the water or death particles. You need:

  • 17,920x Resilient animal hide
  • 20,677x Thick animal hide
  • 6,892x Coarse leather
  • 5,686x Mature tanning agent
  • 5,600x Fibers
  • 4,480x Iron ore
  • 1,680x Water particles

Additionally, you can also create treated health potions or treated mana potions in between, as both are also useful for you since you can use them in combat.

More on New World and the topic of crafting can be found here:

New World: How crafting works, which is how you get the best gear in the game

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FIFA 23: Path to Glory is live – With Heroes and Upgrade Cards

In FIFA 23 the “Path to Glory” event for Ultimate Team has been released. We show you what you can expect in the event.

Update, November 11, 19:00: The event has now started. EA released the heroes team via Twitter, which is now available in FUT.

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Additionally, the “Path to Glory” team has also been released:

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Both teams are “Team 1” – so more will come.

What is Path to Glory in FIFA 23? The “Path to Glory” event has been seen before in FIFA, for example in FIFA 18. It revolves around the players participating in this year’s Football World Cup.

This year there are also World Cup contents in FIFA 23 and even in Ultimate Team, the tournament will be noticeable – for example through the new PTG event.

When does Path to Glory start? The event started on Friday, November 11, 2022, at 19:00. Since then, new special cards have been in the packs of FIFA 23. However, it should be noted that the chance of getting special cards from packs in FIFA 23 is low.

What does Path to Glory bring? The event brings various player cards related to the World Cup. They will receive unusual upgrades depending on how their national team performs in the tournament.

What upgrades does Path to Glory bring in FIFA 23?

How the event works: As usual, the special cards receive a stats upgrade in FIFA 23 when they enter the packs. But it doesn’t stop there: they are dynamic cards that can receive better stats depending on performance.

However, this is not limited to the typical stats on the card, as in other events, but also affects further attributes of the players.

This is how the upgrades to Path to Glory work
  • If a team survives the group stage, the player receives an upgrade
  • After the first knockout round, there is another upgrade
  • Winners in the quarter-finals receive 5 stars on their weak foot
  • Winners in the semi-finals get 5-star skills
  • The final winner receives another stats upgrade and three new player attributes

Additionally, there is also a swap event in Ultimate Team where you can earn tokens that can be redeemed for rewards.

Overall, the new cards come with rather unusual upgrades compared to other events. Accordingly, they are also quite expensive on the transfer market.

While the PTG players cost a lot of coins, many cards in Ultimate Team are currently becoming cheaper. A market crash in Ultimate Team caused many prices to plummet.

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LoL: Disappointment in Germany – The 5 Twitch streamers will not play in the 1st league, despite miraculous ascent

In the German eSports of League of Legends, there has been a bitter disappointment. The team “No Need Orga” spectacularly defeated Hertha BSC in the relegation match on September 27 and was promoted to the 1st league. However, the five players will not play in the top league in 2023 – the rules of Riot Games are incompatible with a career as a Twitch streamer. Riot Games did not agree to an exception rule.

This is the situation in the leagues:

  • The professional league in Europe is called “LEC”: It is a franchise league, from which you cannot be relegated or promoted. To get into the league, you have to buy a spot from an existing team. The spots go for 30 million €. Schalke sold its spot in 2021.
  • Below the LEC, however, there are regional leagues, such as French, Spanish-speaking, or German-speaking competitions: You can be relegated and promoted in regional leagues. Teams have to go through a relegation if they want to be promoted from the 2nd league to the 1st league.
  • The team “No Need Orga” spectacularly managed to win in the relegation against Hertha BSC and get promoted to the 1st league. The decider game was viewed by 100,000 spectators – it was a huge deal.

This fantastic play decided the series for promotion 2 months ago:

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“Miracle Run” of the Senior Team Excites Germany

Why was the promotion so special? No Need Orga is not a typical LoL team from the 2nd league with managers, coaches, and young talents who want to prove something and dream of a big career at Fnatic or G2.

No Need Orga consists of some of the biggest German Twitch streamers in LoL, many of whom had already left their eSports careers behind. They actually stopped competitive LoL in 2019 or 2020, wanting to play 2nd league just for fun. The players of the team are therefore unusually old for professional players. Normally, you are considered an exception in pro LoL already at the age of 26:

  • Midlaner NoWay4U is one of the biggest German Twitch streamers and is 30 years old
  • ADC Broeki is 31 and acted as the “janitor” for Eintracht Spandau
  • Tolkin (24) has since worked for Freaks4U. After failing to qualify for the LEC twice, he saw no point in continuing to play in the Prime League, as he explained.

NNO calls itself a “senior team”.

The “Miracle Run” of the streamers was an incredible story: The 2nd league ultimately had significantly more viewers in the final than the 1st league:

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Twitch Streamers Cannot Comply with Rules, Want Exception

What is the problem? The conflict with Riot Games has been anticipated for a long time: Riot Games never envisioned in the rules that Twitch streamers would be promoted to the 1st league. They apparently expected full-time professionals.

Riot Games has some requirements for teams that want to play in the 1st league, and these rules conflict with the careers of the 5 players as Twitch streamers:

  • Teams are not allowed to advertise brands that fall under certain criteria, and they cannot become affiliated with other video games, consoles, or betting providers
  • The main problem is that there are restrictions relating to streaming. Streamers are not allowed to be live while the “main broadcast” is running. Riot Games apparently wants to exclude competition. This means that the streamers could not go live on several days, significantly limiting their streaming careers.
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Frederik “NoWay” Hinteregger (30) is the second largest German Twitch streamer: He has the biggest problems with the restrictions.

The biggest streamer in the group, NoWay, explains:

  • He himself, according to these new rules, could not stream on two or three afternoons and evenings
  • This would require NoWay to switch to mornings and forenoon to get his hours in
  • He would then be competing with his two teammates Tolkin and Agurin and stealing their viewers

Even beforehand, players from NNO, to comply with the rules, had to quit their jobs because they worked for companies that were directly affiliated with Riot Games.

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This is the current situation: The team from NNO has submitted proposals on how Twitch streamers can function and play in the 1st league. Their reports indicate that they have filed an appeal.

But now there has been the decision from Riot Games that they will stick to the rules and not give in. They communicated this to the streamers via email, as they explained during Twitch streams on November 10.

The ADC of NNO, Broeki, said in a stream: All proposed changes have been rejected by Riot. Therefore, they will not play in Division 1.

Also, Midlaner NoWay, one of the biggest German streamers, said: They will not play in Division 1, at least with the current roster.

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The reason given by Riot Games for the rejection is that such an exception rule would have to apply to all leagues, including the major French league LFL, as explained by NNO Midlaner NoWay in a YouTube video (via youtube).

Furthermore, it appears that Riot Games fears “unnatural growth through influencers” – they would then be dependent on the streamers: What would happen if the streamers exit again? How would sponsors react if the numbers suddenly collapsed?

Streamers Understand Riot Games’ Decision, But Regret It

How do the streamers react? The streamers themselves respond fairly calmly, as it was partly their decision not to comply with the rules. Moreover, Broeki had already joked that he would be heavily kicked by the ADCs of the 1st league. Athletically, they believe that without much training, they simply would not be able to compete in the 1st league, the veterans suspect. This could possibly damage the brands.

  • Top-laner Tolkin writes: Really a pity that we will not play in 1st Div. But it was a fantastic year with you.
  • NoWay says: He can understand all of this. It is sad news, but now it is necessary to find solutions.
  • Broeki says: Riot’s decision is absolutely correct. But it comes extremely late and puts the team under pressure now.
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What happens next? NNO says they are looking for “new solutions” – it seems they now want to quickly assemble a new team of “non-streamers” that can play under the name “No Need Orga” in the Prime League. But everything seems to be quite chaotic at the moment.

One option would likely be to seek a merger with a team from the 2nd or 3rd league.

Moreover, the team distinguished itself by having no organization and playing purely for fun.

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Fans Are More Disappointed Than the Players

How do the fans react? They are disappointed: Many on Twitter express their disbelief. It is a huge setback for the German scene.

Many say on Twitter: They discovered the Prime League because of NNO – and now, without NNO, they lack the motivation to continue following the German league.

All the more bitter is the situation because NNO’s relegation opponent, Hertha BSC, has now also announced its withdrawal from LoL.

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NoWay summarizes the situation in a video.

It looks like the hope for 2023 now rests on HandofBlood and Eintracht Spandau. After all, the promotion of NNO was such a beautiful story:

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Update, 6:27 PM: We have enriched the article with some information derived from NoWayU’s video “The End of NNO”. There, the Twitch streamer goes into the background of Riot Games’ decision and explains the details of the negotiations.

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Destiny 2: Xur today – Location and offer on 11.11.

This weekend, players can find out in Destiny 2 whether Xur has been spared by the power-hungry Exotic “Telesto”. He will reopen his trade so you can shop for Exotics and legendary items at a good price. MeinMMO tells you where to find him and what his offerings look like. Count your Glimmer.

What happened in Destiny 2 this week? At the beginning of the week, Bungie brought the advance nerfs for Lorentz Driver and Arbalest online. These were necessary, because both weapons were far too dominant in PvP. In the meantime, players have conducted extensive tests and determined: The nerfs were fine, but maybe not strict enough. The upcoming Trials weekend will show how the changes affect the PvP endgame.

Additionally, since Tuesday, the power-hungry Exotic “Telesto” has caused quite a stir. Normally, as Bungie itself admitted in the weekly blog, problems with Telesto should be swept under the rug and waited for a permanent solution. However, the Guardians sensed a new secret behind the events and immediately set out to investigate.

On Thursday evening, reality struck for all hopeful Guardians:

There are neither puzzles to solve nor secrets to reveal. Whatever the machine says – We have the situation fully under control and there is no reason to panic.

wrote Bungie in the Telesto of the Week from 11/10/2022

Overall, it has become quieter in Destiny 2 towards the end of the season, and the franchise is thus struggling with declining player numbers.

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Eramis and Mithrax in direct duel of the Season 18 story.

All info on Xur on November 11, 2022 – PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Google Stadia

When does Xur come? The exotic merchant visits Destiny 2 every Friday at 6 PM. Anyone who still has gaps in their Exotic collection expects him then, because he is the easiest way to get Exotics. It only costs you a one-way ticket and some materials as payment.

Where is Xur? This is his warehouse for the weekend

Xur’s location: Every week, Xur can be found at a different location. So you never know exactly where you will encounter him.

You can find Xur on Nessus in the landing zone “Guardian’s Grave”
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Xur’s inventory from 11/11 – 11/15 – All Exotics at a glance

What does Xur have in store? As the chosen Exotic trader of the “Nine,” a mysterious group in Destiny 2, Xur delivers new weapons and armor to players weekly on their behalf. All characters, including Warlocks, Hunters, and Titans, can shop from him. Whether you are new to the game or already experienced Guardians.

This is what Xur’s offering looks like this week:

Xur’s offer from November 11 – 15

Weapon: Telesto – Void fusion rifle for 29 Legendary Shards

Titan: Kephri’s Horn – Solar helmet for 23 Legendary Shards

  • Mobility: +14
  • Resilience: +7
  • Recovery: +13
  • Discipline: +12
  • Intellect: +16
  • Strength: +2
  • Total: 64

Hunter: Weak-headed Radar – Void headpiece for 23 Legendary Shards

  • Mobility: +3
  • Resilience: +21
  • Recovery: +7
  • Discipline: +2
  • Intellect: +12
  • Strength: +17
  • Total: 62

Warlock: Starfire Protocol – Void chest piece for 23 Legendary Shards

  • Mobility: +6
  • Resilience: +26
  • Recovery: +4
  • Discipline: +13
  • Intellect: +8
  • Strength: +10
  • Total: 67

Legendary Armor Set: Xur sells a new armor set every week. This week you can get the Xenos-Thal IV armor.

Our recommendation: This time, Warlocks score with a 67 total value “Starfire Protocol” Exotic, which has +26 Resilience.

Here Nexxoss-Gaming shows you the complete Xur offering once again:

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Xur also sells legendary items and offers unique rolls for Exotics from no longer available Exotic missions from past DLCs every week. However, note: You can only purchase the weapons if you also own the corresponding expansion.

Currently, he has these two weapons available:

  • The exotic hand cannon “Falcon’s Moon” (Beyond Light) with the perk “Snapshot Sights”
  • The exotic scout rifle “Tale of a Dead Man” (Beyond Light) with the perk “Moving Target”

The cost of the weapons: For these two Exotics, the costs are 1 Ascendant Shard each, 1 Exotic Engram, 125,000 Glimmer, and 200 Legendary Shards.

Xur always has with him: You can always get an Exotic Engram for 97 Legendary Shards from Xur, as well as the weekly quest to obtain an exotic code.

Trials of Osiris on 11/11 – 11/15 – Map, Weapons, and Info

The Trials of Osiris is an endgame PvP activity that takes place every weekend. There is only one exception, which is when the Iron Banner event is active. Otherwise, Bungie fills the inventory of the 14th Saint with new Trials passes and loot every weekend, so you can increase your glory in the PvP endgame.

Which map is on this week? The so-called PvP trials always take place on a fixed map. Normally, this is random. However, Bungie gave Guardians another vote. They could choose the new map that is now being added to the Trials map rotation. The voting was done through registration with Bungie via email.

This weekend’s Trials map is “The Cauldron”. It brings a bit of fresh air to the game.
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This map is new in the Trials rotation: The Cauldron.

If you’re interested in playing the Trials in a fixed team, MeinMMO recommends the Callout Maps via Warmind. This way, you can well describe to your fireteam where the enemies are located on the map, which is useful information for the entire team.

This is how you get your loot: The Trials of Osiris have a reputation ranking system. Your top loot reward from the PvP matches is currently available for:

  • Seven victories
  • 50 rounds
  • as well as the notorious flawless run that takes you to the Lighthouse

This is the reward for a flawless run: Each week, a very special weapon awaits you at the Lighthouse that you receive for your flawless run, meaning 7 victories, as a master version. You can earn the weapon until next Tuesday, November 15, at 6 PM.

As a reward, you will always get an Adept weapon if you safely make it to the Lighthouse.

This week it is the shotgun “The Inquisitor”.
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The 14th Saint has some shiny pieces for you in his loot pool.

All Trials weapons have a Trials origin perk: “Haste” – Improves reload speed, stability, aim assist, and range when you are the last surviving member of your fireteam or fighting alone.

You can focus your Trials Engrams at the 14th Saint on your desired weapon. On top, there are upgrade prisms and Ascendant Shards. Remember that your reward increases even more once you have a complete pass – even if you’ve lost one or two games.

When do the Trials officially start? The Trials of Osiris begin today, November 11 at 6 PM and end with the Weekly Reset on November 15 at 6 PM.

Are you looking forward to this little change in the Trials of Osiris? Or would you have preferred the map “Anomaly”? Feel free to leave us your comment here on MeinMMO.

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An MMORPG player has had 2 heroes worth 640 € stolen – He goes to the police

A story from Poland has a curious happy ending. A player had two characters stolen from him during a transaction on the gray market in the MMORPG Metin 2. But he did not let it rest and went to the police – short two and a half years later, the district court contacted him.

This happened to the player: An MMORPG player named Filip offered two of his characters in the MMORPG Metin 2 for sale in May 2020. He did this through the platform “AllegroLoacal”: It’s something like the Polish eBay, an “e-commerce site” based in Poznań. He valued the characters at around €640.

The two characters were sold in an auction, but the buyer did not pay. Ultimately, he lost the two characters.

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Player Goes to the Police

What the player did: For most people, the case would have ended there, and the characters would simply be gone. That is a known risk in such transactions on the gray market.

The situation was particularly critical because the characters were not on an official Metin-2 server from GameForge, but on a private server.

But as a Facebook group and several Polish sites report, Filip did not want to let it rest and went to the police to report the incident. The police actually took on the case.

The private server could not help him in his plight because even on the private server, the sale of accounts was not supported, and they could only suspend the accounts.

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Thief Must Repay Money and Do 300 Hours of Community Service

This is how it ended: After two and a half years, the news came that the police investigation actually ended after a long time with a happy ending.

This is confirmed by a letter from the district court of Kozalin, Criminal Department II, which was shared on Facebook with some names redacted. The investigation of the “unfavorable appropriation of property” took place on September 7. The accused was convicted under paragraph 286, section 1.

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The thief was caught and sentenced to complete 30 hours of community service every month for 10 months – unpaid. Furthermore, he must pay the MMORPG player 2850 Zloty in damages. That is about €610.

Chinese invests €1.3 million in MMORPG character – friend sells it for €500

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German Twitch streamers are now starting at the Wok World Championship – pretenders are a bit too loud that they want to cheat

On November 12, the Wok WM 2022 will take place on ProSieben. Among the participants are some of the biggest German content creators: Marcel “MontanaBlack” Eris, Maximilian “Trymacs” Stemmler, Jens “Knossi” Knossala and Sascha “unsympathischTV” Hellinger. The Twitch crew seems to have only one goal in mind: to win at all costs.

Update November 13: The WOK WM is over and you can read more about the success of the Twitch streamers here: Twitch streamer Trymacs injures himself at WOK WM, Knossi falls in the grand final.

What is the Wok WM? It is a format from the TV station ProSieben. In the disciplines “Single Wok” and “Four Wok,” more or less well-known personalities slide down a luge track.

However, they do not sit in a sled or bobsleigh, but in a pan known from Asian cuisine.

The Wok WM was launched in 2003 by Stefan Raab, and then it took place annually until 2015. Now ProSieben is bringing the Wok WM back, and a team consisting of German streamers and YouTubers is participating.

The whole event is moderated by Elton.

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Weakness: Unsympathisch TV – Missing the kilos

What strategy are the streamers pursuing? In a talk (via YouTube), Knossi and unsympathischTV discussed their strategy. They agreed on one thing: they want to win.

“Sascha, I talked to Marcel [MontanaBlack], we want to win – this is no joke,” Knossi opened the discussion. unsympathischTV confirmed that he also wants to win.

Knossi has already identified a weakness: The slim unsympathischTV simply does not weigh enough. As the lightest of the four, he will sit right in front of the wok, but Knossi fears that it is not enough to “blast down the slope with 180.”

However, Knossi’s plan could lead to a conflict with the rules:

You need to make sure we somehow strap lead weights to your apron. Really, I’m serious. You’ll be sitting in the front, the strategy is clear: the lightest in front. But you need lead weights. We need to check what the rules say.

Knossi

Final Boss Joey Kelly

The streamers fear this team: Ironman participant Joey Kelly from the Kelly family will also compete. He has already stood on the winner’s podium of the Wok WM multiple times; in 2004 and 2005 he won gold in the four-man, and in 2006 and 2014 he was victorious in singles.

Knossi apparently considers Joey Kelly to be the most dangerous competition:

He trains and he’s serious about it. He’s one who comes and has all the big companies stuck to his chest, and then it’s on!

Whether the streamers have used the time since their talk to train diligently, or whether they will rely on their cheating strategy remains to be seen. It will also be exciting to see if MontanaBlack will show up, as he seemed unsure about when it would take place just two days before the event (via Twitter):

Where can I watch this? For you (and MontanaBlack) here’s what to note:

  • Friday, November 11, 2022, at 10:35 PM ProSieben shows the qualifying
  • Saturday, November 12, 2022, at 8:15 PM the live show follows, also on ProSieben

If you miss it, you’re out of luck, as there will be no repeat (via swp).

While Knossi focuses on the weight of unsympathischTV, a completely different factor could lead to the Twitch crew’s downfall: MontanaBlack has a terrible fear of heights, as recently shown during his stream from the Wild Park Schwarze Berge.

How he will manage the slope remains to be seen.

MontanaBlack hosts “Retiree Stream” on Twitch and 60,000 watch

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A mystical co-op game with 92% positive reviews is available for €4 on Steam – sends you to different times

The mystery game “The Past Within” is currently on sale on Steam for €4. You play the game cooperatively with another person, where you must work together from two different perspectives.

What kind of game is The Past Within? It is a mystery game with horror elements designed for 2 players. Together, you need to solve puzzles and uncover Albert Vanderboom’s plan.

The special thing about it is that you are in different times. One player works in the “past” while the other person acts in the “future.”

This way, you are in the same game world but see things from two completely different perspectives.

Here you can see the trailer for The Past Within:

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The Past Within – Official Trailer

Communication is key in The Past Within

What does the gameplay in The Past Within look like? One person plays in the future, while the other plays in the past. Each player explores their respective surroundings.

The communication exchange between players is crucial in the game. You need to tell each other what you see in order to cooperate and solve the puzzles.

The game functions as a point-and-click adventure for two. The game world is designed in both 2D and 3D. The game consists of two chapters, which take around 2 hours to play through. Thus, it is more intended as a casual game with friends.

However, after the first playthrough, you can play the game again with swapped perspectives. There is a “replay function,” where the puzzles are equipped with new solutions.

How does the coop work in The Past Within? As for the coop, The Past Within is a pure coop game for two people and cannot be played alone.

This means: Both players must own the game and must be able to communicate with each other – whether directly next to each other on the sofa or online. You can either play the game with a friend or find another person on the official Discord server of the game.

How do players rate The Past Within? The game has a very positive rating on Steam. Of the total 2,511 user reviews, 92% are positive (as of November 11, 2022, via Steam).

Players praise The Past Within as a short, entertaining coop game with partners or friends that can be played together in an evening. The puzzles are fun but not too difficult.

However, one person notes that the replay function doesn’t work very well, and a second playthrough was not enjoyable. Due to the reduced price, it was just acceptable for the user.

How much does The Past Within cost? On Steam, the mystery game is currently on sale. Instead of €5.99, you pay 40% less, which is €3.59. The introductory offer runs until November 16, 2022.

For which platforms is The Past Within available? Once the two players have found a way to communicate with each other, they can play across different platforms. The Past Within is available on:

  • PC
  • Mac
  • iOS
  • Android
  • coming soon to Nintendo Switch

If you’re currently looking for interesting games on Steam, you can find a popular action shooter with coop that has 96% positive reviews on Steam – currently costs only half.

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Overwatch 2: New exploit ruining the game – Now fans fear for Sombra

Sombra is likely to land on the ‘hit list’ of Overwatch 2 soon – an exploit is so nasty that the opposing team can hardly win.

The release of Overwatch 2 is now several weeks old, but Blizzard’s shooter is still plagued by a lot of problems. Once again, a nasty exploit has appeared that can be exploited to ruin the game for everyone involved. This time, the culprit is Sombra.

What kind of exploit is this? The exploit occurs on the map Paraiso and consists of a Sombra being able to “exploit into the payload” – that is, with her translocator. This keeps her protected by the payload while she is still in the “contested” range, making it difficult for the opposing faction to push the payload. A victory is therefore only hard to achieve.

Why this error occurs is quite questionable. On all other maps, the payloads are capable of destroying created objects of the players. For example, turrets from Torbjörn and Symmetra are destroyed when the payload rolls over them. This should also be the case with Sombra’s translocator – but apparently not on this map.

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What can be done against the exploit? First of all, you can report the player who exploits this error. Because causing the error “accidentally” is practically impossible; it is always cheating or exploiting. Additionally, you can try shooting “under” the payload. This can often hit Sombra because her hitbox slightly protrudes under the payload, even if you cannot see her.

In recent weeks, Blizzard has repeatedly banned characters. For instance, Bastion and Torbjörn had to be removed from the game for a while, and currently Mei is also missing, as she was able to help heroes get “out of the map” to gain unfair advantages.

The concern of many players now is that Sombra will meet the same fate and will be temporarily removed from the game. Alternatively, Blizzard could also take the map “Paraiso” out of the rotation for now.

Why do bug fixes take so long? Many wonder why Blizzard takes so long to fix such errors. It has always taken several weeks for an exploit to be fixed and the banned characters to be accessible again. However, this is not because Blizzard takes so long for bug fixing, but due to another circumstance: patches for the Xbox and PlayStation versions of games must first be approved and authorized by Microsoft and Sony. This process can take several weeks.

Since Overwatch 2 relies on crossplay, all versions of the game must function uniformly – therefore, it is also not an option to simply release the PC patch “immediately”. The only solution left is to disable a hero or a map server-side until the next patch.

Do you also diligently report such exploiters? Have you already seen other problems of this kind?

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CoD MW2: DXGI Adapter not found – Here is how you can easily fix the error

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a pesky bug is currently causing trouble. The error “No supported DXGI adapter found” usually occurs at startup and prevents you from joining a match. But don’t worry, you can quickly fix the error. MeinMMO explains how.

Where does the error occur? Console players can breathe a sigh of relief for now, as this nasty bug only affects PC players.

But we can reassure you as well. Although the game displays the error message “No supported DXGI adapter,” it is not a hardware problem.

CoD MW2: “No DXGI Adapter” – Error Fix

The graphics driver is the issue: Check your graphics card driver, it is most likely outdated. Usually, a newer version is available for download.

While many games can be opened with older driver versions, if you haven’t updated your drivers in a while, problems can arise more frequently. So keep your drivers as up-to-date as possible.

If your driver is updated, the error “No supported DXGI adapter found” should no longer occur. By the way, this is not the only error currently causing issues in Call of Duty. A bug is making a mode in CoD MW2 nearly unplayable – players think it could be intentional.

Check out changes for Warzone 2.0 in the video:

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How can I update my graphics card driver? It’s quite simple. Gone are the days when you had to manually compare version numbers to find the right driver. Nowadays, graphics card manufacturers offer management software that handles the downloads for you.

Depending on which manufacturer your graphics card comes from, there are differences:

  • Nvidia graphics card: GeForce Experience
  • AMD Radeon graphics card: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition

If the program doesn’t automatically prompt you to update your graphics driver, check under the “Drivers” tab. You can start the installation from there.

Even if you have a brand new graphics card, it can be worth checking your drivers regularly. Especially for new hardware, new software is released at fairly short intervals.

What experiences have you had with the launch of CoD: MW2? Have you encountered this or other bugs? Feel free to let us know in the comments!

Things are about to get intense in Warzone 2.0! CoD Warzone 2.0 launches on November 16 – Release time, preload, DMZ mode

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Hearthstone: We reveal three cards in one – The legendary Astalor Bloodsworn

For the new Hearthstone expansion “March of the Lich King”, we present to you a card – or rather three. So powerful is “Astalor Blood Oath”.

The release of the next expansion “March of the Lich King” in Hearthstone is coming soon. The addon brings 145 fresh cards and introduces the new class, the Death Knight. All cards will be announced and revealed piece by piece in advance – and we at MeinMMO get to present a card as well.

Although that isn’t exactly true. Because Astalor Blood Oath is actually 3 cards in one!

Astalor Blood Oath – A legendary minion for all occasions

Astalor Blood Oath is a neutral, legendary minion with a mana cost of 2 and stats of 2 / 2 – so at first glance a bit below average. But its true strength comes from the Battlecry, as you get “Protector Astalor” into your hand. Since Astalor is a Blood Elf, it also has a Mana Thirst effect. If you have at least 4 mana, Astalor also deals 2 damage to any target when played.

Also Protector Astalor has rather standard stats. For 5 mana, it brings 5 / 5 onto the battlefield. Again, it is its Battlecry that makes it really strong. Because that gives you “Flamebringer Astalor” into your hand. Again, this is paired with a Mana Thirst effect: If the player has at least 7 mana, they receive an additional 5 armor as a bonus.

What is Mana Thirst?
“Mana Thirst” is a new keyword in “March of the Lich King” and is mainly found on Blood Elf cards. Mana Thirst cards have an additional effect when played while the player possesses the specified amount of mana. Note: They do not have to pay an additional amount of mana, but merely their current, maximum mana must meet the Mana Thirst requirement.

Flamebringer Astalor is then the final form of the card and brings significantly more weight to the battlefield. For 8 mana, it has stats of 8 / 8 and its Battlecry also deals 8 damage, randomly split among all enemies. Thanks to Mana Thirst, this damage can be doubled again – as if you have 10 mana when played, a total of 16 damage is dealt.

This makes Flamebringer Astalor an extremely powerful card that is not only very versatile but will also fit into many decks.

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Hearthstone: March of the Lich King – Astalor Phase 1 and 2

What combinations are conceivable? Astalor will likely fit into many decks “just like that”, as its Mana Thirst effects are always useful. However, he could be particularly strong in Rogue decks, which can pull Astalor back to hand multiple times using Shadowstep. This would allow for multiple instances of dealing 16 damage, leaving very little left on the opponent’s field.

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Hearthstone: March of the Lich King – Flamebringer Astalor

Who is Astalor Blood Oath? Anyone who is familiar with the story of Warcraft may already recognize the name. Astalor Blood Oath was the first person on Azeroth to come into contact with a Naaru. He ensured that the Naaru M’uru was brought to Silvermoon and later from its powers, the first Blood Knight Lady Liadrin was created.

In WoW: Warlords of Draenor, he appeared again – as the author of a letter and is directly responsible for the story of one of the saddest NPC fates. There he rejected a young elf as an apprentice, who then fell into madness and had to be killed by the heroes.

Can you already imagine some strong combos with which Astalor can truly shine?

Hearthstone is currently giving many returners a lot of card packs – our author Patrick Freese received and opened 150.

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FIFA 23: Hacker is increasingly attacking streamers and deleting expensive teams – professional creatively defends his account

A hacker is on the loose and is emptying the accounts of various streamers for FIFA 23. Now there are more victims, one of whom even managed to creatively defend against the attack.

Who has been caught? After Elias “eliasn97” Nerlich, currently the largest German streamer for FIFA 23, had to deal with a hacker attack on his PSN and FIFA accounts, further members of the Fokus Clan have now fallen victim to hackers. Among those affected are Fokus Koray and former FIFA world champion MoAuba, who also plays for the Fokus Clan.

This means that the Fokus Clan is apparently a target for the unknown hacker, who has already hacked 3 members of the E-Sports team founded by eliasn97 in 2018.

Fokus Koray displayed the extent of the attack on Twitter with a graphic showing that the hacker simply destroyed his team worth 19 million coins. Quite similar to what had already happened to eliasn97.

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Another victim is FUT Donkey, a very well-known trader in Ultimate Team. He also lost his entire team due to a hacker attack and was even banned by FUT. He shared the attack via Twitter and claims that employees of the “PSN Live Chat” leaked his data to the hacker.

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But while FUT Donkey and Fokus Koray have to cope with the painful loss of their entire teams, MoAuba creatively defended himself to protect his expensive cards.

MoAuba uses smart tactics and the hacker can’t do anything

This is how MoAuba defended himself against the hacker: After MoAuba got wind of the hacker attack, he seemed to still have access to FUT and was able to protect his team. He put all his expensive Icon and Hero cards on the transfer market for 3 days at the maximum price.

This way he wanted to ensure that the cards could not be sold quickly and that no one would buy them on the transfer market, as the maximum price was simply too unappealing.

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With this strategy, MoAuba even succeeded, as he reveals on Twitter. The only cards that the hacker could sell were the gold cards of Theo Hernandez (85) and Maignan (87), worth a comparatively cheap 85,000 coins.

What do you think about the hacker attacks? Are you worried about your account? Please let us know in the comments!

If you are still looking for cheap players for your team, then you are in luck. A market crash in Ultimate Team caused many prices to plummet.

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Why you should currently prefer to buy a graphics card from AMD instead of Nvidia

Black Friday, Amazon’s Cyber Week and co. are just around the corner and many want to acquire a graphics card. But if you want to buy a graphics card, you might find good deals especially at AMD.

If you want to play current games, you need a graphics card with decent performance. The GPU takes on important tasks such as rendering graphics while you are gaming.

If you are currently considering buying a new graphics card for Black Friday or Cyber Week, you might find what you’re looking for especially at AMD. MeinMMO explains why you should keep a special eye on “Team Red.”

This is especially true for gamers who want to buy a graphics card this year and do not want to wait any longer for RX 7000 or RTX 4000.

AMD is considered a real price-performance tip with RX 6000 graphics cards

What does the current situation look like? By now, both AMD and Nvidia have presented their latest graphics cards. However, these cards are either so expensive that players are up in arms, or they are not yet officially available in stores. And the majority of our users are not willing to pay more than 800 euros for a graphics card in 2022.

Currently, you should focus on the available graphics cards, and there is a powerful selection with the RTX 3000 series and the RX 6000 series. AMD has also lowered the prices for the RX 6000 series to make room for the next generation.

Which graphics cards are particularly worth it right now? Especially in the mid-range and lower high-end sectors, you can save a lot of money with AMD graphics cards. In other words: If you mainly want to play in Full HD (1080p) or are interested in WQHD (1440p), you will currently find the better price-performance ratio with AMD (via geizhals.de):

  • If you want to buy a graphics card for Full HD, you pay about 330 euros for the RX 6600 XT. For the comparable RTX 3060, you will incur over 400 euros.
  • If you are looking for a WQHD graphics card, you currently pay around 500 euros for the RX 6700 XT. For the comparable GeForce RTX 3070, you pay at least 100 euros more, depending on the model and availability.
  • In 4K, similar price differences apply: You currently pay around 750 euros for an RX 6900 XT, while you will pay at least 850 euros for the similar RTX 3080.

A similar picture arises if you want to pay attention to efficiency with the current energy prices: AMD’s 6900 XT is more efficient than the RTX 3090, while Nvidia’s GPUs perform slightly better in the mid-range. In the budget area (RX 6500 XT), AMD offers the more efficient cards. Nvidia slightly outperforms AMD in terms of performance per watt, but AMD wins in terms of performance per euro.

Nvidia offers features that AMD (still) lacks

Where does Nvidia still have the advantage? You should be aware that Nvidia continues to have the upper hand in certain areas when it comes to graphics cards:

  • The ray tracing performance of Nvidia graphics cards is better than that of AMD GPUs, even though the Radeon models are slowly but surely narrowing the gap.
  • Nvidia’s DLSS technology is currently better than AMD’s FSR technology. With FSR 2.0, AMD has significantly caught up and is expected to narrow the gap further with FSR 3.0.
  • Certain software suites, such as Blender, currently require an Nvidia graphics card (via blender.org).

You should keep these differences in mind. If you are not interested in either ray tracing or DLSS and do not need your graphics card for professional rendering, then AMD is currently often the better offer when comparing RTX 3000 and RX 6000 if you want to upgrade.

For further details and differences between AMD and Nvidia, we explain in the following article:

How important is it whether I buy AMD or Nvidia for a graphics card?

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CoD MW2 & Warzone 2 change their Battle Pass – Pick the best feature from Fortnite

Call of Duty had a linear system with the introduction of the Battle Pass. You leveled up and could earn items at each level. Now, with Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2, the system will change and it strongly resembles Fortnite.

What will change? Anyone who has been playing since Modern Warfare (2019) and Warzone knows that the Battle Pass was unlocked linearly. Players could fight through 100 levels consecutively and had to invest time until they could get their desired item. There were no shortcuts, and levels could not be skipped without real money.

With Season 1 in MW2 and Warzone 2, players are now supposed to get more control over what is unlocked in the Battle Pass. If you particularly like an item, you don’t have to wait until you reach a certain level. You can decide for yourself when you unlock something, and we will show you how this works.

You can decide what you want to unlock

Where does the system come from? The system has existed in Fortnite since June 8, 2021, in Season 7 Chapter 2. Players can now unlock their desired items early in the form of Battle Pass stars. The same system is now to be implemented in MW2 and Warzone 2.

How does the new system work? The new system for the CoD Battle Pass is supposed to work almost identically to that of Fortnite. Here’s how it will be structured:

  • Your BP overview is no longer a linear line, but a map with different sectors
    • Each map will have 20 sectors
      • Each sector has a total of 5 items that can be unlocked
Modern-Warfare-2-BP
Basically a collection of many items that will be grouped.
  • Sectors can be unlocked by earning so-called “Battle Token Tier Skips”
    • These will likely be earned by leveling up.
  • Battle Token Tier Skips are then used to unlock neighboring sectors or to purchase items in already unlocked sectors.

This new system is supposed to give players a better chance to unlock the items they really want. More freedom and less pressure for the grind.

Is there a catch? The BP system in Fortnite is not as unrestricted as Epic Games has presented it. Players can unlock the things they want in Fortnite, but only to a certain degree. In Fortnite, the sectors, as they are called for MW2, are divided into pages.

If you want a skin on page 6 now, you can’t get it, even if you have the necessary Battle Pass stars. You must first have unlocked a certain number of items before you can unlock other pages and items. Basically, the system offers more freedom, yes, but to earn the level 100 skin in Fortnite, you also have to reach level 100 in the end.

Basically, this freedom is entangled in smaller restrictions, and we believe that CoD will adopt this as well to keep you engaged longer.

Do you believe that the new Battle Pass system is better and finally what CoD needed? Feel free to leave us a comment!

Find out more about Warzone 2.0 and everything you should know about it here:

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Diablo 4 sacrifices an important comfort feature to be more realistic

Diablo 4 (PlayStation, Xbox, PC) will, unlike all its predecessors, no longer use color coding for enemies. This feature has accompanied the Diablo franchise since the first installment in 1996. In an interview, the executives explain that this is intended to create more immersion.

What is this feature? Since Diablo 1 (1996), especially strong enemies have certain colors to differentiate them better. In Diablo 3, for example, Champions glow blue, Elite enemies yellow and have special names.

Especially in endgame content like portals from Diablo 3, this code was useful for players to determine which enemies drop better loot or grant more progress. In some playstyles, all other enemies were even practically completely ignored and killed only as collateral damage.

Diablo 4 draws from the best features of all predecessors, but apparently not this one. Diablo chief Rod Fergusson and game director Joey Shely explained in an interview with IGN that Diablo 4 will no longer have this coding.

Why do enemies lose their color? As Fergusson explains in the conversation, enemies are meant to feel more “grounded,” making the gameplay feel “more realistic.” Glowing enemies do not fit in with that.

As the colleagues from GameStar have already observed, special enemies can still be distinguished by certain affixes. It will only be apparently more difficult to recognize elite enemies in Diablo 4.

Watch gameplay from Diablo 4 for 3 of the 5 available classes at launch:

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Diablo 4: Druid, Sorceress and Barbarian in Gameplay Trailer

“Less High Fantasy, more realistic”

Diablo 4 aims to be darker than its predecessors, especially compared to Diablo 3. The colorful comic style has upset many hardcore fans, and the latest Diablo installment apparently wants to return to its roots, to a dark Gothic setting. Fergusson says about this:

I think it feels different in the way that it is more grounded. Even regarding visual effects. They feel less like High Fantasy, more realistic.

Elements such as the required time to kill an enemy also play a role. If it is too high, enemies feel just like “meat bags with too many health points.” If it is too short, it feels like everything is made of paper.

The feeling of power is an important point in the game design, which Fergusson already explained in a previous interview:

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To still provide challenge, Diablo 4 will offer so-called “World Tiers.” To rank up to higher difficulties, you will have to defeat world bosses that you should conquer together with other players in the open world.

However, some players doubt whether this will really be a hurdle. MyMMO reader Furby for instance predicts: “It’s probably harder to unlock a door drunk than to take down a ‘World Boss’ in Diablo 4.”

How difficult Diablo 4 will ultimately be, you can experience for yourself in 2023. The game is set to be released, rumored in April. A concrete date is still missing, but an insider claims to at least know when pre-orders will start:

Insider says you can buy Diablo 4 as early as 2022 – has been right about everything so far

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German Twitch streamer has been live for 4.5 days continuously and wants to keep going

The 21-year-old streamer Imani has been continuously streaming on Twitch under the name “iimany_” since Monday, November 7. With this, she has set a new record, but she is not done yet. She would like to hold out for a whole week.

What kind of stream is this? Imani intends to set a new record for the longest uninterrupted stream. For this, she has been on air continuously since Monday, November 7 at 00:30 without sleep.

This record was previously held by an American veteran who streamed for 103 hours straight under the name “Cryptowrench”. He aimed to raise awareness about sleep disorders, which he suffers from due to PTSD:

Veteran streams 103 hours straight on Twitch because he can no longer sleep

We at MeinMMO are an editorial team specialized in gaming and do not have the medical expertise to assess the effects of prolonged sleep deprivation from a medical standpoint.

However, the “Techniker” health insurance company explicitly warns against the consequences, which become more extreme depending on the duration of sleep deprivation and can even lead to hallucinations (via Die Techniker).

If you are suffering from health problems and insomnia, please consult your trusted doctor. Extensive health tips can be found at the Federal Ministry of Health (via bundesgesundheitsministerium.de) or by having a conversation with your personal physician.

Why do this? However, there are no known illnesses affecting Imani, she only wanted to break the record. She succeeded today, on November 11, 2022. But that is not enough for the 21-year-old.

How long is the stream supposed to go? Currently, she is still live, and the stream has been running for over 105 hours (as of 11:30). When asked how long she wants to keep streaming, Imani replied that her goal is a whole week. Then she would be online until Sunday night.

However, she also admitted that this plan would likely get her into trouble with her viewers and her own mother. Because depriving one’s body of sleep for so long is a heavy physical burden.

Therefore, she initially aims to stream just until this evening and wants to “chill” with her viewers. With that, Imani has already lasted longer than her cam. She has already turned it off since it has now been running for a consecutive four and a half days.

In Imani’s chat, comments are already appearing that it should be enough now. The record has been broken, and the streamer should go to sleep. However, she claims not to be tired yet.

What does she do all the time? In her continuous stream, Imani mostly plays GTA V Online. In between, she chats with her viewers or ventures into the party game Pummel-Party and the shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.

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How does this stream affect Imani’s channel? The streamer has gained 204 new followers through her continuous stream so far. On average, 133 people watched her, with a peak of 298. Additionally, there were 6 subs, that is, paid subscriptions.

Whether for a good cause, attention, or just for fun, Twitch streamers have set all sorts of records. The record for the most concurrent viewers is currently held by the Spaniard Ibai Llanos Garatea. Previously, it was held by the Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who also holds the title for the most followers.

A European shatters the all-time record for most viewers on Twitch – 3.35 million

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WoW: Dragonflight is about to be released, but it seems a feature has been forgotten

Transmog should be much better in WoW: Dragonflight. But Blizzard forgot something – or did they?

In less than a week, the Dracthyr will debut as a new race in World of Warcraft, and two weeks later, the latest expansion, Dragonflight, will finally launch. With the new talent system, less “borrowed power” and the implementation of many community requests, Blizzard seems to be on the right track.

However, a promised feature is missing and collectors are now raising the alarm: The transmog changes for white and gray items are still not here – neither in the live game nor in the beta.

Which feature is missing? The transmog system of WoW has been expanded increasingly over the past years. Restrictions have been removed step by step, artifact weapons have been added, and numerous items can now be used as transmog templates that previously could not.

However, one category of items is still excluded. We’re talking about “non-magical” items – that is, white and gray items that have no stats but are mostly left as “junk” by enemies.

In an interview, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas promised that the feature would be available “before or by Dragonflight.”

So far, there is no sign of these transmog changes. Neither in the live version of patch 10.0 nor in the beta for Dragonflight is the feature available.

Stylish transmog is important to some players. And it doesn’t always have to be as “fancy” as in this picture.

Why do players even want this? Especially because white and gray items resemble ordinary clothing and in some cases even have looks that are not found on any other items, many players yearn for these transmog templates.

Especially roleplayers are always pleased when they have more options available, but all others also benefit from more choices in customizing their characters.

One hope of the fans is that Hazzikostas’ words were taken too literally and that the feature will instead be received “during” Dragonflight and not just “by” Dragonflight. After all, the new WoW expansion is supposed to receive many smaller patches, in which such a feature could easily fit.

In the WoW Subreddit, many players report that they have hoarded countless white and gray items since the announcement, in order to soon feed them into the transmog system. For some, even inventory space is becoming rare, forcing them to store the items on bank alts.

We can only hope that Blizzard does not quietly let this feature fall by the wayside – because at least the transmog fans will keep pointing it out. They now fear that this promise will become the “new dance studio”, that is, a promised feature that simply fades into oblivion.

Have you also hoarded a lot of white and gray stuff to later use for transmog collections? Or is this “problem” completely unimportant to you?

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Players complain about the release condition of CoD MW2 – “Game for 70 dollars turns out to be a beta for a Free2Play BR”

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 launched with great success. However, the release state is not well received by many players. The shooter is partly referred to as “Beta” because many standard features are missing that have always been included in recent years.

What a release: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 shatters the old player record for the launch of a CoD premium title. 40% more players were attracted at launch than ever before.

What is the problem? The success had its consequences: Especially during the first weekend after release, the servers were shaky and crashes were the order of the day. Things are functioning better now, and the focus is shifting to the content at release.

There are many experienced players who are dissatisfied with the state of CoD MW2 in the current pre-season. Features that should be part of every CoD title’s standard repertoire are missing, whether at release or at the end of the life cycle.

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CoD MW2 at launch – players call it “Beta”

Looking at the big battle royale Warzone 2.0, which comes as a free-to-play expansion for CoD MW2, some even go so far as to label Modern Warfare 2 after release as a beta for Warzone:

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“The game I bought for $70 turns out to be a beta for a free-to-play BR” – titled Reddit user “r4bb1th0l3z”, hitting a nerve. After just 11 hours, the post has around 2,800 upvotes and over 450 comments (as of 11.11.22 – 11:15 AM).

Just a few days earlier, “thecloudbruh” discussed features that are missing in CoD MW2 after release – although they are usually included right from the start (via reddit.com):

  • Hardcore mode
  • Barracks
  • Challenges
  • Emblems
  • Leaderboards
  • Customizable reticle

The disappointment is palpable in the thread creator thecloudbruh. He titles: “I love the gameplay. But the state of the game is unacceptable.” He even says he is addicted to CoD – he needs it as an “escape” in his life.

This thread also gathered more than 400 comments – and many agree that the current state in pre-season deserves their criticism.

Will all of this still come to the game? Yes, with the launch of Season 1, things should ease up a bit. Hardcore mode will be added to the game, statistics will soon be viewable, and countless unlockable items beyond weapon skins are also in planning through the new prestige system.

What do you think about this topic? Season 1 starts on November 16 and the pre-season will last approximately 3 weeks. Is it acceptable for familiar core features to be missing at launch, in favor of focusing on performance? Leave a comment on the topic.

If you want to know about the contents of Season 1, you can find our big overview here: CoD MW2: Season 1 brings more new content than ever before – start, battle pass, Warzone 2.0

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Players of Pokémon GO are still mourning a 4-year-old April Fool’s joke – „It would be cool if it were adjustable“

In Pokémon GO, the post of a reddit user is currently causing nostalgic feelings in the community, which is why they are now mourning a 4-year-old April Fools’ prank. We at MeinMMO show you what prank this is about.

Pokémon GO hosts a fun April Fools’ prank every year to lead its trainers astray and thus send them into April. This year, you were able to find Professor Willow with Ditto eyes and the shape-shifting Pokémon played a central role that day.

Now, however, trainers are longing for an April Fools’ prank from 2018, where the appearance of the monsters in the Pokémon storage was changed. We have summarized how the prank looked and what the trainers wish for below.

That was the April Fools’ prank of 2018

Why is the community talking about an old April Fools’ prank? Some players are currently reminiscing nostalgically in Pokémon GO. The trigger for this was the user Tomantini with his reddit post. He showed a picture of a Pokémon storage that was completely pixelated in the old Nintendo style.

Additionally, he wrote (via reddit.com): “How do you get your Pokemon storage to look like this? I found this here and want to get the nostalgic pixels too.”

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What is the deal with the appearance? While such graphics cannot usually be found in Pokémon GO, this view is not unusual for trainers who have been active in the game for more than 4 years. This is due to an April Fools’ prank from 2018. For a few days, Niantic had switched the appearance back to the nostalgic style to prank the trainers.

What trainers wish from Niantic

It is certain for some trainers that this was one of the best pranks from Niantic, which is why they are still mourning it over 4 years later. Players who missed it are frustrated that they couldn’t experience it, and that this appearance no longer exists in the game.

This is primarily because the pixelated Pokémon remind trainers of the beginnings of the main Pokémon games for the Nintendo Game Boy. Therefore, it is not surprising that many want this graphic back for nostalgic reasons. You can read the following in the comments (via reddit.com)

  • DouchNukem: “The worst April Fools’ prank was taking that away from us!”
  • TheRealMrRogers: “I’m so angry that I missed that.”
  • DAZW_Doc: “I don’t know why this feature is not adjustable.”
  • Amonster101: “It would be cool if it was adjustable. But then Niantic would have to create some of the sprites, and do we really want that after what they did with Blanche?”
  • LorenzoLBaldo: “The best update of all time, and it was a prank.”

Could the graphics come back someday? Although trainers wish for a feature that allows them to adjust the game’s appearance to get a nostalgic gameplay graphic, some players believe that this is not feasible.

The reason for this could be the newer game generations, such as Hisui. These games no longer have a pixelated appearance in the main games, which means that Niantic would have to develop this separately for Pokémon GO. Whether Niantic will do this for the sake of the players remains to be seen.

What is your opinion on the nostalgic appearance from the April Fools’ prank of 2018? Do you wish for the graphics to come back? Let us know here on MeinMMO in the comments.

Pokémon GO has celebrated its 6th birthday this year. Therefore, we took a look back and show you how huge the game was when it came out.

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Bug makes a mode in CoD MW2 almost unplayable – Players think this could be intentional

In the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, players are currently debating a bug in the “Search and Destroy” mode. Enemies can see when a bomb is being defused. This makes it incredibly difficult for the affected team to win. Some users believe this is intentional.

Which mode are we talking about? The “Search and Destroy” mode is a classic PvP mode, as you already know from Counter-Strike: One team must plant and protect a bomb, while the other must defuse it.

This mode is quite popular and is considered one of the greater challenges of the game by many fans. However, a mistake is making the mode disproportionately harder – almost unplayable.

What kind of bug is this? When someone tries to defuse the bomb, the enemy may see a bomb icon on the minimap. This means: They know that the bomb is being defused. This bug also existed in Modern Warfare (2019).

For a defending team, meaning those who need to defuse, it becomes almost impossible to win. Because the attackers have to pay less attention to the bomb site after planting. They can see if someone is tampering with it.

Especially when you, as the last defender, try to turn the round with a hidden defuse, it becomes nearly impossible. Former CoD pro Tommey shows in a short clip what the bug looks like:

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“This could be an intended feature”

This is how players react: Some users on Twitter are angry that Tommey shared this bug instead of quietly reporting it to the developers. Now everyone knows it’s a problem, and only because of that, it becomes a “game-breaking bug”.

Others believe, though, that this is not a bug but a feature. There has been a dispute about this since the beta, whether Modern Warfare 2 is “too easy” and “casual-friendly”.

It is possible to see enemies through two arrows in the HUD, if you use them correctly. A display of when the bomb is being defused fits perfectly into the narrative, users believe.

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However, most fans agree with Tommey and hope that the developers will react as quickly as possible and fix the problem.

Is it a bug or a feature? In fact, despite the opinions of some users, this problem is likely a bug. Because the icon appears only under certain circumstances and not when someone is defusing a bomb from start to finish.

Since the bug has now been shared on many social channels, the developers should have become aware by now. However, we cannot currently say when a bug fix will come.

However, the first season of Modern Warfare 2 is about to start. The developers are bringing a lot of new content. This would be a good time to deliver important bug fixes:

CoD MW2: Season 1 brings more new content than ever before – Start, Battle Pass, Warzone 2.0

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