At the beginning of 2021, data miners discovered an image showing Lapras wearing a bow tie in Pokémon GO. Now this event Pokémon has received stats and many suggest that it could be appearing soon.
What kind of Pokémon is this? The image found in 2021 is titled Lapras Costume 2020 and is also referred to as “Drip Lapras” by the community. In this special event version, Lapras wears a blue bow tie. This skin is based on a plush toy collection that Nintendo released in 2018.
For a long time, this was the only image available in the files. Icons, stats, and further information were missing. However, the PokéMiners have now found new details about Drip Lapras:
On April 14, a visual update for the Lapras skin was identified
Today, on May 7, the PokéMiners discovered the stats and abilities
For a short time, the costume also showed the option to be transferred to Pokémon HOME. This option was disabled less than an hour after the data mining.
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When will the costume be available in the game? There is currently no official statement on this. Drip Lapras has been in the game’s files for at least a year, and it is possible that it will remain there a bit longer.
However, the water festival will take place from May 12 to May 20. There is no detailed information about this event yet. Many hope that Lapras with the bow tie will make an appearance at this event.
Why are so many looking forward to Lapras? Drip Lapras is highly anticipated because the bow tie makes the Pokémon a true gentleman.
There is even a dedicated Twitter account named “Where is Drip Lapras” (via Twitter). This account has already tweeted that the news about Drip Lapras has made their day.
What do you think of the Lapras costume? Are you eagerly waiting for the Pokémon with the bow tie?
If you want to battle and catch a Lapras, you can take advantage of the ongoing Air Event, which lasts until May 8. Lapras is part of the level 3 raids. You can find everything about the Air Event here:
Studio Blizzard (WoW, Overwatch, Diablo 3) is facing major issues following a sexism scandal in summer 2021. With Jen Oneal, they initially found a new leader committed to equality. However, she resigned after just a few months on the job. Oneal was paid less than her co-leader. Now Blizzard presents Jessica Martinez as the next hope as the new number two.
Who has been the boss of Blizzard until now?
For years, Blizzard was led by Mike Morhaime (54), a likable, softly spoken man who fostered a family atmosphere and was well-liked by fans and employees. He came from the time when Blizzard was independent. Morhaime co-founded the studio in 1991 in Irvine, California
In 2018, J. Allen Brack, a veteran WoW guy, took over. He once made headlines by saying, people didn’t actually want WoW Classic, they just believed that, but it wasn’t true. After the sexism scandal in summer 2021, Brack had to leave. He was seen as a “representative of the old guard”, who once laughed at BlizzCon about a woman complaining that women in WoW looked like they came from a lingerie catalog.
Activision installed a dual leadership at Blizzard in August 2021 with Mike Ybara and Jennifer “Jen” Oneal. But after just a few months, Oneal left. Since then, former technical chief Ybara has been leading Blizzard alone within the larger company “Activision Blizzard”, which could soon belong to Microsoft.
In fact, she apparently resigned because she was paid less than her co-chair Ybara. Allegedly, he had a higher salary due to his previous position, and Blizzard did not want to adjust her pay – only when it was too late did they relent.
Oneal apparently felt that Blizzard was not taking its “renewal” as seriously as publicly stated, and stepped down.
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This is the new one: Blizzard has now introduced Jessica Martinez as “First Vice President” and “Head of Culture”. She is thus the “number 2” at Blizzard behind Ybara, who was quietly promoted to “President” in February 2022. Previously, he was only “Leader”, whatever that means (via activisionblizzard).
Martinez is expected to work on Blizzard’s “culture”, focusing on the development and promotion of talent. This likely corresponds to an agreement that Blizzard made with an equality committee (via mmorpg.com).
Martinez comes from 14 years at Disney, where she worked as Chief of Human Resources and strategic advisor. Blizzard highlights that she also contributed to culture at Disney.
Kirsten Hines is effectively the new equality officer at Activision Blizzard.
In addition to Martinez, Activision Blizzard had already appointed Kirsten Hines as the new Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Officer in April.
The controversial head of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick, emphasized during the presentation of Hines that they wanted to become the “most inclusive company in the gaming industry”.
We have already extensively addressed Blizzard’s “women problem” on MeinMMO:
In May, Lost Ark will receive its second major update since its release in February. The focus is on the new class Destroyer and many group contents. Highlights include the Legion Raid and a new Guardian Raid. However, you will need a high item level for these contents. Casual players will also find something for themselves.
What exactly is included in the May patch? The patch brings the following new features:
The Legion Raid Valtan
The new Guardian Raid Deskaluda
The class Destroyer
The new weekly activity Guardian Raids
The hard mode of the Chaos Lines
New activities in South Vern
The new area Wildwings Island
New PvE and PvP activities for the guild
Neria’s Wardrobe – a limited-time skin shop
Balance changes to many classes
“Quality of Life” features, including summoning random mounts and new hairstyles
The extent of the update is therefore very large. Anyone who has slowly started to get bored after the first three months in Lost will now have many new tasks ahead of them.
When will the patch be released? There is no specific release date yet. However, it was stated in the latest patch notes that the update will not be released before the third week of May. Possible dates for the update are therefore only the 19th or the 26th of May.
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New Raids will be challenging and require high Gearscore
What are the highlights of the update? For hardcore players, the two new raid contents are the big highlights.
Valtan is the first Legion Raid in the West. These contents are particularly difficult and require a lot of teamwork. As with Argos, there are checkpoints that you can reach to grab some loot and save your progress. Valtan comes directly with the normal mode (1,415 Gearscore) and the hard mode (1,445 Gearscore).
Deskaluda, on the other hand, is a new Guardian Raid that requires a Gearscore of 1,415. In this raid, you only fight against one opponent, whom you can even attack alone – if you want to try.
What else does the patch bring? In the new area South Vern, which was released only in April, new challenges await you. In addition to the hard mode of the Chaos Line, there are also new activities, including:
Thunderwing Area Boss
The Chaos Portal of South Vern
Ghost Ship of South Vern
Chaos Dungeons of South Vern
Additionally, Wildwings Island will be released, a place where you can transform into a chicken and fight against the Rooster King for event coins. This sounds hilarious and looks funny in the first screenshot already.
Against this rooster you will fight on Wildwings Island.
For guild players, there is also a new PvP activity where you can fight against other guilds for conquest points. For PvE guilds, there is also a raid match where you fight against the Sylmael Devourer. The faster you defeat him, the higher your guild ranks on a leaderboard.
Players demand new skins and get them
What is the deal with the new wardrobe? With the May update, Neria’s Wardrobe will open for a month. There you can buy new skins, such as T-shirts, jeans, and dresses. After a month, the shop is supposed to disappear again.
However, it is unclear whether you will pay with in-game or real money currency.
How is the balance? The blog post states that Smilegate recently released a balance patch for many classes in Korea. This seems to be coming to us as well. Details about it should only be released with the patch notes.
What do you think about the changes in May? Are you interested in the big update? Feel free to write it in the comments.
For some time now, there have been contents that make returning and catching up in Gearscore easier. This is something our author Mark Sellner has been intensively working on:
In FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, the Premier League TOTS is the first major Team of the Season that has been released. You can find out which players are included here.
This is the Premier League TOTS: For the Premier League TOTS, fans had the opportunity to vote for the best Premier League players of the current 2021/22 season. The players with the most votes have made it into the new TOTS with massively upgraded special cards. These can be found in FIFA Packs.
These are the cards of the Premier League TOTS
These cards are included: The new Premier League TOTS includes a lot of extremely strong cards, as expected. Especially the new TOTS cards of Ronaldo (97), Salah (97), Van Dijk (96), De Bruyne (96), and Mané have incredibly strong values.
A really weak card is hard to find in this impressive TOTS.
Previously, the community speculated about what the TOTS might look like. You can see how close the predictions were in the following section.
Here’s what the predictions for the Premier League TOTS looked like
What are TOTS predictions? The predictions for the Team of the Season are forecasts made by the community. They try to guess which players could make it into the TOTS based on their strong seasonal performances and the votes of the fans.
However, keep in mind that these predictions are not guarantees. The final TOTS may differ significantly from the predictions.
The predictions come from the FIFA website futbin:
Goalkeeper:
GK: Mendy (Chelsea FC)
Defender:
RB: Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool FC)
CB: Van Dijk (Liverpool FC)
CB: Ruben Dias (Manchester City)
LB: Cancelo (Manchester City)
Midfielder:
CM: De Bruyne (Manchester City)
CAM: Silva (Manchester City)
Forward:
RF: Salah (Liverpool FC)
LF: Son (Tottenham Hotspur)
ST: Ronaldo (Manchester United)
ST: Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)
Subs:
GK: Jose Sa (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
LB: Robertson (Liverpool FC)
CB: Rüdiger (Chelsea FC)
RM: Bowen (West Ham United)
CAM: Mount (Chelsea FC)
LF: Mané (Liverpool FC)
ST: Diogo Jota (Liverpool FC)
ST: Toney (Brentford)
CDM: Rice (West Ham United)
RM: Saka (Arsenal FC)
CM: Gallagher (Crystal Palace)
RB: James (Chelsea FC)
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This is how you can get the new TOTS cards
These are your options: There are several options to obtain the strong TOTS cards. The cheap but also most stressful method is the Weekend League, because now you can earn TOTS cards as rewards there. In the FUT Champions Finals, you must achieve at least rank VI to guarantee Premier League TOTS cards.
The next option is the FUT transfer market, where the prices for strong TOTS cards are pretty steep. It might be wiser to do one of the weekly TOTS SBCs (Squad Building Challenges) which guarantees a TOTS card. However, it is also possible to end up with some of the weakest TOTS players.
Finally, there are packs where TOTS players might be hidden. However, the chances of getting strong TOTS cards here are extremely low.
You can find an overview of the entire TOTS event here:
Destiny 2 welcomes Xur today, the best Exotic dealer this side of the solar system. Right at 7 PM, he will visit you again so you can complete or enhance your exotic arsenal. MeinMMO shows you where to find him and what his offers include.
All info about Xur on May 6, 2022 – PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Google Stadia
When does Xur come? The Exo dealer takes his position every Friday at 7 PM and sells his goods from then on.
Where is Xur? This is his stock for the weekend
Xur’s location: As punctual as he is upon his arrival, players must first track him down every weekend after he arrives because Xur likes to be mysterious. This time he is located in the EDZ, in the Winding Cove.
This is his stock for this weekend
Xur’s inventory from May 6 – 10 – All Exotics at a glance
What does Xur offer? Xur sells an exotic weapon and armor for all characters every week, so for Warlocks, Hunters, and Titans. We will also update you on what exactly he has in store starting at 7 PM.
Weapon: Skyburner’s Oath – Scout Rifle for 29 Legendary Shards
Titan: Heart of Inmost Light – Chest Armor for 23 Legendary Shards
Mobility: +4
Resilience: +14
Recovery: +17
Discipline: +2
Intellect: +14
Strength: +14
Total: 65
Hunter: Celestial Nighthawk – Helm for 23 Legendary Shards
Mobility: +17
Resilience: +15
Recovery: +2
Discipline: +10
Intellect: +14
Strength: +7
Total: 65
Warlock: Felwinter’s Helm – Helm for 23 Legendary Shards
Mobility: +16
Resilience: +8
Recovery: +9
Discipline: +2
Intellect: +12
Strength: +14
Total: 61
Xur always carries: You can always get an Exotic Engram for 97 Legendary Shards from Xur, as well as the weekly quest for an exotic code.
This is what Xur has with him this week
In the video from Nexxoss Gaming, you can see all the items in more detail:
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He also offers you a unique roll for Exotics from no longer available exotic missions every week. Currently, he has these two weapons available every week.
The exotic hand cannon “Hawkmoon” with the perk “Textured Grip”
The exotic scout rifle “The Last Word” with the perk “Hip-Fire Grip”
The cost of the weapons: For these two Exotics, the cost is 1 Ascendant Shard, 1 Exotic Code, 125,000 Glimmer, and 200 Legendary Shards.
Trials of Osiris on May 6 – 10 – Map, Weapons and Info
The Guardian Games 2022 are in full swing and this evening you can also complete the Trials card with Eva for the Trials of Osiris, shortly referred to as “Trials”. In the Trials, the best Guardians will again compete against each other. Show that your favorite class can dominate there as well.
Which map is up this week? Every weekend you play on a designated map. We will update you with the map as soon as it is known. This time you can fight on the map Altar of Flame, as it has already been chosen by the Guardians in advance.
This is your map for this weekend
If you are interested in playing the Trials in a team, MeinMMO recommends the Callout Maps over Warmind. This way, you can accurately describe to your fireteam where the enemies are currently located on the map, which is useful information for the entire team.
Here’s how to get your loot: The Trials of Osiris have a reputation rank system. Your elite 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: Every week, a very special weapon is waiting for you at the Lighthouse, which you receive for your flawless run, meaning 7 victories, as a Master version. This week, the Solar Auto Rifle “The Summoner” is up. You can earn the weapon until the coming Tuesday at 7 PM.
All Trials weapons have a Trials origin perk: “Quickdraw” – Improves reload speed, stability, aim assistance, and range when you are the last living member of your fireteam or fighting alone.
If you have received your desired weapon, you can focus your Trials Engrams at the 14th Saint specifically on your desired weapon. In addition, there are upgrade prisms and Ascendant Shards. Remember that your reward increases even more once you have a complete pass – even if you lost one or two games.
When do the Trials start? The Trials (Trials of Osiris) start this Friday at the Daily Reset at 7 PM.
What do you think of Xur’s inventory currently? Do you have reasons to finally visit the black market dealer again or would you rather ignore the good guy? Let us know in the comments!
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Although there have been official servers via 4Game since 2021, offering a modern version of the game with Ragnarok Online Prime, many players do not want to play the current version, but the old one they loved in their youth. However, these Classic servers are not offered by Gravity at all.
Some players also avoid the official servers because they claim they are infested with hackers and bots. It is believed to be much more pleasant on many private servers.
Why exactly Gravity is now taking action against private servers is not entirely clear. After all, some of these servers have been around for years. However, Gravity is currently also releasing many new Ragnarok games that could be threatened by the private servers.
However, many of the new games are currently failing to impress:
Although there have been official servers via 4Game since 2021, offering a modern version of the game with Ragnarok Online Prime, many players do not want to play the current version, but the old one they loved in their youth. However, these Classic servers are not offered by Gravity at all.
Some players also avoid the official servers because they claim they are infested with hackers and bots. It is believed to be much more pleasant on many private servers.
Why exactly Gravity is now taking action against private servers is not entirely clear. After all, some of these servers have been around for years. However, Gravity is currently also releasing many new Ragnarok games that could be threatened by the private servers.
However, many of the new games are currently failing to impress:
What do you think about the situation surrounding the private servers? Are you currently playing on one or have you left the MMORPG behind?
Ragnarok Online is an MMORPG that was released in the West in 2002. However, the official servers closed a few years ago. Since then, many players have turned to private servers. Now, the developer Gravity is taking action against these.
What is Gravity currently doing? The Korean company announced almost two weeks ago that it would take action against private servers for Ragnarok. In a statement, it says:
In cooperation with official and private entities, we are investigating private servers and taking action in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. An illegal private game server is defined as a game server that uses copyrighted works and intellectual property without a license or proper agreement with the legally recognized owner. This harms the future development of the official game, as private servers deprive rights holders of revenues.
According to Gravity, there are currently seven lawsuits pending in North America alone, with many more worldwide.
What are the implications? The first private servers for Ragnarok Online have already shut down. Some others are still running, although they are already involved in legal disputes.
The developer of Ragnarok Online is also said to be taking action against Twitch streamers showing private servers of Ragnarok. Some streamers are complaining about copyright strikes that have led to deletions of recordings and even temporary bans (via reddit). There are mentions in several comments of 48-hour bans.
Currently, it appears that fans of the brand will only be able to play on official servers in the future – which many do not like.
Private servers rely on nostalgia and a different monetization
Which servers are currently at risk? The website MassivelyOP has a letter in which Gravity is suing the server NovaRO. This server is based in California. Despite the lawsuit, there are currently (as of May 6 at 16:30) over 2,600 players online at the same time (via NovaRO).
Another server, TalonRO, has already closed completely as a precaution (via reddit).
However, many of the new games are currently failing to impress:
Although there have been official servers via 4Game since 2021, offering a modern version of the game with Ragnarok Online Prime, many players do not want to play the current version, but the old one they loved in their youth. However, these Classic servers are not offered by Gravity at all.
Some players also avoid the official servers because they claim they are infested with hackers and bots. It is believed to be much more pleasant on many private servers.
Why exactly Gravity is now taking action against private servers is not entirely clear. After all, some of these servers have been around for years. However, Gravity is currently also releasing many new Ragnarok games that could be threatened by the private servers.
However, many of the new games are currently failing to impress:
In League of Legends, G2 Esports is the best team in Europe. However, the Korean LoL team T1 still has a score to settle with them: The Koreans, led by superstar Faker, are currently considered the strongest LoL team in the world. They are the favorites to win the MSI 2022 tournament. The challenge is articulated by G2 in an iconic clip: It revolves around the German top laner Broken Blade, the Topfather.
What’s going on with G2 and T1?
There are only a few occasions when teams from different regions play against each other in LoL: Either at the Worlds or at the MSI, the “Mid-Season” tournament.
In 2019, G2 Esports managed to knock out T1 in the semifinals of the crucial Worlds tournament as actual underdogs. They had long been playing a chaotic “brawling” style, which the strategically minded Koreans couldn’t cope with. Since then, Faker in particular has a score to settle with G2 and wants to take on the veterans, jungler Jankos and midlaner Caps – which he mentions at every opportunity.
Meanwhile, G2 enjoys their reputation as the “Korea Nightmare” and is already looking forward to the upcoming MSI 2022 tournament. Because they could meet T1 again. After a long break from the international stage and lackluster months, the MSI is a highlight for G2. And the social media team is once again in top form.
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Video about the “Topfather” aims to pump up fans for MSI
This is the video now: In a video lasting over three and a half minutes, G2 celebrates a parody of the film “The Godfather”: The mafia classic is known in English as “The Godfather”, so the German Turk Broken Blade suddenly becomes the “Topfather”.
His teammates come to him as supplicants and assassins. Jankos particularly shines in his role – he apparently missed his spear with Nidalee again, is mumbling and now has to bear the consequences.
Nidalee is a jungler in LoL: It’s tricky to hit with her spear throw. But that’s crucial for success. Jankos is known to carry extremely well with Nidalee when he hits the spears, and completely falls apart when he misses the spears. This is a Caps/Craps situation.
In the video, there’s also a jab at “Evil Geniuses”, who surprisingly became champions in the USA and dared to challenge G2: With these big-mouthed geniuses, who after a single success immediately start bragging, the Topfather announces he will make short work of them while talking to a duck.
Ultimately, team leader Ocelote also appears, who makes a request to the “Topfather” to ensure that G2 wins the tournament.
The Topfather replies that he cannot do that. But knocking T1 out of the tournament? That’s definitely doable.
Chaotic underdogs against the young team with the greatest of all time
How good are both teams? On paper, T1 has had the most dominant season of any team in LoL ever. T1 has simply never lost in Korea, they have won everything.
T1 has surrounded its star Faker, the “immortal demon king”, with outstanding young talents such as the supporter Keria and his brilliant bot-lane partner Gumayusi. After several weak years, the success-hungry T1 looks really strong in 2022. Faker is eager to finally win his fourth World Championship after 2013, 2015, and 2016.
2022 could be the year of T1 and Faker again after many years of drought.
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G2, on the other hand, has actually been considered out of form for years; the team even fell apart before 2022 and had to restructure. Ultimately, G2 was able to get back in shape after a mediocre season and even win the LEC championship again.
On paper, G2 has no big chance of winning the MSI, and T1 is considered a strong favorite. Bookmakers see:
T1 at 1:1.57
Royal Never Give Up at 1:2.75
G2 Esports at 1:8
However, bad odds have never bothered G2. The Topfather will make it happen.
How important T1 and especially Faker are in South Korea is evident from news like:
The free battle royale Call of Duty: Warzone celebrated fantastic successes at its release in 2020, but then lost more and more appeal over time. This was largely due to a lack of exciting content and numerous problems within the game – which can be traced back to a slight misjudgment.
With Call of Duty: Warzone, CoD attempted its first Free2Play title on PC and consoles. And what can we say: Warzone skyrocketed, went through the roof, all the way to the moon. The battle royale exceeded all expectations for publisher Activision Blizzard.
Exactly here lies the problem with the title. Incorrect expectations quickly lead to misjudgments in the business environment. And the critical misjudgment with Warzone: The shooter was supposed to be merely an addition to CoD MW 2019.
“We messed it up” – Developer with an honest admission
The one mistake: They simply did not anticipate the incredible success of Warzone. And it’s hard to blame the responsible parties.
Warzone came at a time when virtually half the globe was in lockdown. In March 2020, Corona was really getting started. No one probably had this on their radar during development.
In a conversation with the press, people from the developer studios Infinity Ward and Raven Software, as well as from publisher Activision, summed it up with the following sentence: “We messed it up” (via CharlieIntel.com).
Warzone was only supposed to last as long as CoD MW 2019 – at most until November 2020.
Then came the change of mind: Due to its great success, Warzone was to continue and take over thematic content of the following premium CoDs. Warzone received all weapons from Cold War and CoD Vanguard.
This led to Warzone losing more and more of its own character. The developers commented: “It no longer feels like Modern Warfare, but also not like Black Ops”.
Then there were the limited capacities. Call of Duty is a well-oiled machine with major annual releases. Developing another big game “on the side” is challenging.
This led to “significant development challenges” and they learned “the limits of the technology used”.
With the introduction of elements from Cold War and Vanguard, they were constantly chasing the mistakes and also failed to produce exciting content at a satisfactory level.
The peak of this development was seen at the end of January 2022. Vanguard and Warzone were full of bugs, and the entire franchise suffered from one mistake.
Cheaters also became a bigger problem during this time. The popular Free2Play Warzone attracted cheaters like a magnet, and it took until the end of 2021 to establish a new anti-cheat system.
Here too, one can draw the connection to the misjudgment that Warzone wouldn’t be so successful. Free2Play games are known to attract more cheaters because the cost of the game is not high when banned.
If they had anticipated the success, probably more would have been done in advance.
The numerous bugs and persistent cheaters caused Warzone to lose many players. The entire franchise lost 50 million players in a year.
What’s next? The successor to Warzone is supposed to be presented this year and likely released in 2023. However, the current Warzone is not being completely neglected.
After the postponement of Season 2 of Vanguard and Warzone, things steadily improved, and many bugs were fixed. However, far from all. But the pace in Warzone has increased – in terms of content, changes in the game, and bug fixes.
Warzone 2 is to be completely rebuilt, thus avoiding the mistakes of the first part.
How the current Warzone will hold up until the release of its successor remains to be seen in the ongoing Season 3. With the most ambitious event so far, you can rampage over the map Caldera as Godzilla and King Kong. The battle royale can show what it is capable of once again.
We also want to know from you what you think about the topic. What mistakes do you think Warzone has made? Can a successor build on its success? Feel free to leave us a comment.
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On April 23, YouTube veteran Manuel “GermanLetsPlay” B. announced in a video that he would be leaving the platform for an indefinite period. Some content creators are reacting to the video, and Maximilian “Trymacs” Stemmler is quite sure that GLP will be back soon.
This is the situation surrounding GermanLetsPlay:
The YouTuber has been active since 2010 and has been uploading Let’s Plays without interruption. He is one of the largest German gaming YouTubers on the platform with 3.65 million subscribers.
GermanLetsPlay spoke in his farewell video about an incorrect diagnosis by doctors that led him to believe he would die soon for 10 years. Only at the end of 2021 did he find out that he does not actually have the terminal illness primary sclerosing cholangitis, but there is still something wrong. What exactly, no doctor has been able to tell him so far.
Now, due to his medical history, the 30-year-old announced that he would be leaving YouTube. GLP stated that he might return occasionally during major game updates like Rift or Minecraft, but he should not be counted on.
He is considered a childhood legend by many viewers, and many of his YouTube peers respect him. Trymacs stated in his reaction to the video, “He will come back faster than we think.”
Trymacs, Paluten, Rezo, and Niekbeats reacted to GLP’s farewell
What did Trymacs say in his reaction? He initially praised GermanLetsPlay and emphasized how long the YouTuber has been around as a Let’s Player. He only listed Gronkh and Paluten as comparisons. In addition, Trymacs notes that GLP is the most successful German YouTuber without a facecam.
When GermanLetsPlay mentioned in the video that he might bring a few videos during major updates, Stemmler said that he would definitely return faster than everyone thinks:
He will come back like that. (…) He will definitely take a break first, but he also enjoys it too much – he will definitely come back. (…) But you should not annoy him at all. He will come back faster than we think.
Furthermore, Trymacs expressed his shock over the misdiagnoses by the doctors and stated that people in the USA have sued doctors for billions over false diagnoses. The video affected him more than he thought, and he wishes GLP a good recovery.
What did Paluten say about GermanLetsPlay’s farewell?
The YouTuber deliberately did not react to GermanLetsPlay’s video, as he does not articulate well on such topics.
Moreover, Paluten is one of GLP’s best friends and was already aware of the indefinite break before the video. Together with YouTubers Zombey and Maudado, they form the popular “Freedom Squad” among the viewers.
Fans expressed concerns that the Freedom Squad might dissolve, but Paluten denied this and reaffirmed that the four of them are more than just YouTube colleagues – they are very good friends.
Additionally, Paluten watched another video called “The End of GermanLetsPlay,” in which there were again some clips of him together with the other three. He sadly remarked, “That we won’t be sharing epic moments together anymore, that’s just – well…” and lowered his head.
Paluten also said that “something will simply be missing on YouTube” and fully supports his friend’s decision.
What does Rezo think of GLP’s video?
Rezo does not have many connections to GermanLetsPlay, but he was persuaded by his viewers to watch the video (via YouTube). He also stated that it must have been burdensome to live with a death diagnosis for 10 years that turned out to be wrong.
However, Rezo expressed understanding towards the doctors: “People just want to get through their day or make mistakes or make wrong decisions or whatever – everyone does that, it can’t be otherwise.” Doctors are also just humans, like, for example, a plumber, Rezo said, and you should always definitely get a second or third opinion.
Finally, Rezo emphasized that GLP made the right decision to take a break.
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What did Niekbeats say about GermanLetsPlay’s farewell?
Niek said in his reaction that it’s really a “big deal” when someone like that leaves the scene. He also feels sorry for GLP and believes he deserves his break after working hard for many years.
In conclusion, Niek added: “You always think: The YouTubers and streamers are living their best lives and so on. But they have exactly the same problems as everyone else. Or also partly health problems. Everyone has those; you’re not immortal due to privilege.”
The gaming community is eagerly waiting for more information about GTA 6. So far, little is known, not even the name is confirmed. Yet, the new GTA title is already breaking a record.
This caused a huge stir in the community. On YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, and many other social channels, the news was widely shared and went viral. Without even the smallest official information about the game’s content, GTA 6 is already breaking a gaming record.
GTA 6 is the most popular on Twitter
This is the record: With the big news and the confirmation of work on the new installment of the GTA series, Rockstar Games earned the “most liked tweet of all time related to gaming”. In the tweet, Rockstar Games wrote on February 4, 2022:
“Given the unprecedented longevity of GTA V, many of you have asked us about the next installment of the Grand Theft Auto series. With every new project we undertake, it is always our goal to exceed what we have delivered before – that’s why we’re very pleased to confirm that development for the next installment of the Grand Theft Auto series is well underway.”
On May 6, 2022, at 1:35 PM, the tweet with 599,442 likes ranks first among gaming tweets. We include it here in the article:
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In third place in the ranking of the most popular gaming tweets, there is a tweet from Splatoon, which was posted on April 22, 2022. It announced Splatoon 3. It has received over 364,000 likes so far.
Outside the gaming theme, tweets have gathered many millions of “likes”. For example, Elon Musk tweeted recently, “Next, I will buy Coca-Cola and bring back the cocaine.” He received 4.8 million likes for the tweet.
In 2020, actor Macaulay Culkin sent a tweet into the world, writing: “Hey guys, want to feel old? I’m 40. Here you go.” Many still remember the actor from his role as “Kevin McCallister” in Home Alone, when he was ten years old.
On May 5th, the new expansion Sentinel for Path of Exile was announced. This will again make adjustments to the gameplay and bring the eponymous Sentinels, which you can collect and use to empower enemies. This innovation has received mixed reactions. However, players are much more concerned about the lack of balance adjustments.
What’s coming with the new expansion? The new expansion revolves around the Sentinels. These small drones can be summoned by you. Once summoned, the Sentinels provide buffs – but not for you, instead for the enemies.
These buffs depend on the colors and configurations of the Sentinels. Because you can make these buffs even deadlier through a skill tree.
In addition to the drones, there are further adjustments made by the expansion:
Your Atlas gets 20 new Keystone Notes, introduced with the last expansion, including buffs that give your enemies less health but more damage.
The Archnemesis mechanic from the last season is simplified, but still allows you to create your own minibosses.
There are adjustments to the UI.
Controller support on PC will be introduced, making Path of Exile playable on Steam Deck as well.
There are new unique skins that you can earn.
There will again be an organized league. Whoever defeats the new Pinnacle Boss first gets to design a unique item or a divination card, which will come into play in August.
Another peculiarity of this season is that there will be no balance adjustments. The developers want to give players the opportunity to continue playing with their current builds in the new season. However, this is not well received.
When will Sentinels be released? The release is planned for May 13th on PC and May 18th on consoles.
This trailer provides you with a glimpse into the new expansion:
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Path of Exile Sentinel Trailer
Sentinels buff your enemies and are somewhat complicated
How exactly does it work with the Sentinels? The Sentinels are dropped by enemies. Once you collect the drone, you can summon it through special slots in the interface. Each color has a different effect:
Red Sentinels hover near you for a while and constantly buff the enemies around you
Blue Sentinels move directly forward and buff all enemies currently within sight once
Yellow Sentinels constantly buff like the red ones, but only rare mobs and boss enemies. They can become particularly strong.
The exact effects and behavior can be controlled via the so-called Sentinel Controller. This controller is structured like a branched skill tree, and over time you unlock more and more abilities:
On the left is the Sentinel Controller.
Each Sentinel can only be used once per area. Additionally, they will eventually run out of batteries. In this regard, there is a new crafting item called Power Core.
For this item, you can scrap two Sentinels and create a new one from them. This one also inherits the perks of its parents, as this screenshot shows:
Why should one buff enemies at all? Boosting enemies with the Sentinels simultaneously increases the chance for better loot from these enemies. A higher risk therefore brings a better reward.
How is the mechanic received? Generally, the mechanic is received positively, if not overwhelmingly well. Many players are looking forward to making certain enemies even harder and combining the Sentinels with the Atlas Passives.
Others, however, find the mechanic cumbersome and confusing. They believe there could have been simpler methods to achieve the same effect.
It is also problematic that the Sentinels are overshadowed by another design decision. The lack of balance changes is not well received by many.
“Without balance changes, it will be a boring season”
What do players say about the new expansion? On reddit, many players criticize the decision not to make any balance adjustments. In the official statement from the developers, it says:
We are trying something new with character balance in this expansion. We deliberately will not make any changes to character strength. That means no nerfs, no buffs, nothing. Every single build and every single build guide created for Siege of the Atlas will function exactly the same in Sentinel.
You can now begin planning your league and can rely on knowing exactly how the character will play.
But some players return to a new expansion precisely because of these balance changes. Additionally, some classes are supposedly not particularly strong, which discourages fans of those classes:
jzstyles writes: “The most exciting thing about each league for me is playing different builds that arise from nerfs/buffs. This is quite disappointing.”
The user Lacain even loses all hype for the league: “No nerfs or buffs for skills is a mistake in my opinion. I didn’t realize how much this would ruin my hype for the league until they officially announced it.”
Iwanttemplates simply writes: “RIP Trickster.”
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Everything that is known about Path of Exile 2 so far – in 2 minutes
Overall, players fear that the new expansion Sentinels will be more of a weak phase for the game, despite some good adjustments.
How do you see the season? Do you also need constant balance adjustments? Feel free to write it in the comments.
The hardcore shooter Escape from Tarkov is considered one of the most realistic games in the genre. Now, a Tarkov player shared a clip on Reddit showcasing his recent discovery: He found a phone number on his rifle, called it, and hung up in panic when someone actually answered the call.
What is shown in the video? Reddit user u/JudgeDreddMain is in the middle of a raid in the shooter Escape from Tarkov while recording the video. He takes a closer look at his equipped rifle. He discovers a phone number and finds that it looks very realistic.
The player does not hesitate long and decides to call the phone number from the rifle in real life. It turns out that the phone number not only looks real – it is.
After several seconds of ringing, a woman’s voice answers the phone and asks what she can do for the caller. The player realizes that this is the actual customer service phone number of the American firearms manufacturer “Knight’s Armament Company.”
The video ends with the player’s astonished reaction, who ends the call in a panic. At the same time, his teammate, who could hear the call on speaker, says to him: “Hang up.” The calling player then replied laughing, “I did.”
If you’re interested in how the call went, you can watch the video from Reddit user u/JudgeDreddMainhere:
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Reddit user u/JudgeDreddMain calls a phone number he discovered on a rifle in Escape from Tarkov
After the call: Players have questions for customer service
What does the player say about his experience? The player writes in the Reddit post with the video: “I know that Battlestate Games [Note: developer studio of Escape from Tarkov] is trying to make a very realistic shooter, but this might be a bit too realistic.”
In the comments on Reddit, there were numerous suggestions about what the caller should have asked support. However, u/JudgeDreddMain responded to one of those suggestions by saying he didn’t want to waste customer service’s time.
How did the EFT community react? The Reddit community of Escape from Tarkov had fun with the video. While some players expressed ideas with questions for support and wanted to joke around, others found the caller’s panicked reaction amusing.
But the level of realism shown in the call also sparked discussion. MeinMMO presents a selection of comments that the video received:
u/FetusMeatloaf via Reddit: “You should have asked about the weight of the handguard to see if it corresponds with the weight in-game.”
u/Immortal_Crab via Reddit: “Hahaha, I love this level of curiosity. And then the total panic and fear of wasting their time, lol. So funny. BattleState Games goes all in.”
u/VoodooSweet via Reddit: “So it’s actually the phone number of the real Knight’s Armament Company – pretty cool! They must be wondering: ‘Who the hell is Nikita [Note: Nikita Buyanov is the lead developer of Escape from Tarkov] and why are all these people asking when the wipe is?'”
u/jasonalloyd via Reddit: “You should have told them that you’re having problems with your rifle and need support. Then you turn up your volume and start shooting, lol.”
EFT: Hardcore shooter with long-term motivation
What is Escape from Tarkov? The hardcore shooter Escape from Tarkov developed by Battlestate Games focuses on realism. Besides various mechanics that aim to depict real-life movements and weapon handling, the sound design of the shooter stands out especially.
The gameplay of Tarkov even establishes a new genre term among shooter fans: EFT-Like. These are shooters that, like Escape from Tarkov, focus on raids where PvEvP is played. The goal is to collect equipment and continually upgrade one’s possessions and base.
MeinMMO summarizes some core aspects of EFT or EFT-like games:
No shrinking zone: The map remains unchanged throughout the entire raid.
You can bring equipment into a raid that you’ve collected, purchased, and potentially upgraded in previous raids.
While in a Battle Royale the goal is to win the round (the last survivor wins), in EFT the progress over a longer period matters.
Long-term motivation through wipes that reset all progress of the past months and remove collected equipment from a player’s possession.
If you’re interested in more about Escape from Tarkov:
Escape from Tarkov has been a successful shooter for several years, regularly exciting its fans. On the streaming platform Twitch, EFT is also a real viewer magnet.
After the last wipe in December 2021, EFT averaged 125,000 viewers in January 2022 (via SullyGnome.com)
If the realism of EFT appeals to you and you’re wondering how and where you can buy Escape from Tarkov, MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus has compiled all the information you need.
The video game developer Bungie (Destiny 2) has commented on a current political debate concerning the right to abortion in the USA. This, in turn, sparks a discussion about whether Bungie should clarify its political stance. Some Twitter users believe they should focus on games instead. With such an attitude, they only anger one half of the player base. However, Bungie and another part of the users see it completely differently.
What is it about? The Supreme Court in the USA has been populated with conservative judges under Donald Trump. The court is currently obviously in the process of overturning a landmark decision regarding abortion rights from 1973, “Roe v. Wade”. Thirty years ago, it was established that a woman can decide for herself whether to terminate or continue a pregnancy.
However, there are now efforts in the USA to declare abortion generally illegal, except when the birth endangers the mother’s life.
The Supreme Court in the USA has now shown a tendency to return the decision of whether an abortion is legal or illegal to the states. It is assumed that up to 26 US states would then prohibit abortions (via Guttmacher Institute).
A bill is circulating that, although not yet final, already causes a lot of excitement (via Politico).
Ultimately, the decision is about whether abortion remains legal and is to be a decision for the woman, or whether abortion becomes illegal in large parts of the USA.
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This is the discussion: A discussion broke out under the tweet, as several people reminded Bungie: “You make video games” – “You are a video game company”.
It was said that if Bungie chose a side, they would only anger the other side. Bungie should stay out of it and focus on making people happy with their games. That is their job.
However, Bungie states that the court’s decision is very significant for its employees. They will “never stop” speaking out on political issues.
The developers of Destiny 2 emphasize that the values they stand for also extend beyond their own games. They have chosen a side – and it was not difficult.
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There are also people who specifically praise Bungie for their clear stance in this case. Especially from women comes support. A Twitter user says: “That’s why I still play Destiny at 66 years old despite the grind.”
The decision should lie with each woman. The government should stop interfering in women’s lives.
Bungie as the “Anti-Ubisoft”
This is what it’s about: Bungie proves to be the “Anti-Ubisoft”. Ubisoft often deals with political issues in its games or allows its games to take place in politically highly charged settings, such as “The Division 2”, where one goes armed to Washington to take down a corrupt government.
However, Ubisoft keeps emphasizing that they are not political.
In contrast, Bungie creates a science fiction shooter that has little to do with current political discussions but takes a clear political position.
In December 2021, there was an insider report that Bungie is also struggling with internal problems:
In Destiny 2, the Gjallarhorn has narrowly avoided a nerf and has temporarily been spared by Bungie. However, the exotic rocket launcher has a long history in the space shooter and its reputation as the ultimate weapon icon precedes it by miles. MeinMMO tells you why the nerf for the Gjallarhorn is still on the table.
Many players expected a clear nerf for the Gjallarhorn during the biggest TWaB of all time. But that didn’t happen right away. Bungie left the Gjallarhorn as it is, and players could breathe a sigh of relief. However, the popular “Gjally” is still not really safe from a nerf, and the players know that.
The Gjallarhorn continues to be one of the most powerful weapons in the entire game.
The exotic rocket launcher has two rockets in the magazine due to its catalyst.
“Gjally” is a 3-in-1 weapon that is strong for add-clearing, against champions, and against bosses.
The Exo also has tracking projectiles, and with the Gjallarhorn, unlike the raid Exo “Eyes of Tomorrow”, you do not have to wait for the target acquisition.
In Gambit, the Gjallarhorn is a must-have for many players and a plague at the same time.
The usage rates of the icon in PvE and PvP continue to rise, according to Warmind.
The players simply see no reason not to use it, because right now it tops everything. That, however, was once the reason why the weapon received a hefty nerf. Bungie will not allow history to repeat itself.
No Guardian wants to forgo the Gjallarhorn, even in 2022.
The Gjallarhorn knows how to dominate Destiny: The exotic rocket launcher is not without reason the most famous weapon in all of Destiny. The entire PvE in year 1 of Destiny was overshadowed by the Gjallarhorn. Many teams demanded that you possessed the weapon. Without the Gjallarhorn, you were sometimes not allowed to participate in the endgame.
Everyone wanted to play at the top, so everyone wanted the Gjallarhorn. The hype around the weapon was huge, and, as it is today, not unfounded.
Back then, the Gjallarhorn scored points for quick reloads and always had 2 rockets in the chamber – in case something could still crawl after the first atom strike.
The damage was so high that many game mechanics could simply be bypassed or broken with the Exo rocket launcher.
Even raid mechanics could be easily circumvented with the Gjallarhorn.
History repeats itself: The Gjallarhorn once received the nickname “the golden crowbar” because of this strength.
Where can you currently get the Gjallarhorn? The exotic rocket launcher returned to the game with the 30th Anniversary Bungie pack at the end of 2021 and was meant to remind of past times. Players must first purchase the “30 Years Bungie” pack to obtain it. After that, they can quickly obtain the Exo rocket launcher and its catalyst within the framework of the exotic quest “All Wolves Fly High” in the dungeon “Sog der Habsucht”.
If you take a look at the current weapon meta statistics for PvE, then the Exo rocket launcher has also become an all-purpose weapon in 2022 that prevents players from being creative. It ranks first among the weapons currently used by players in both PvE, Gambit, and even PvP. The old icon is thus on track to once again live up to the nickname “golden crowbar”.
Even Bungie sees this development. In its current state, the exotic rocket launcher is really very strong. The Gjallarhorn has been the number 1 power weapon for weeks.
A nerf could align the Gjallarhorn with other power weapons and ensure that players find more diversity in their power weapon slot.
What do you think? Are you among the players who take the Gjallarhorn into every activity? Or are you so annoyed by the exotic rocket launchers that you would welcome it if Bungie made some corrections? Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
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The new Combat Pack for Season 3 in Call of Duty: Warzone and CoD: Vanguard is available. As a PS Plus subscriber, you can now secure a skin, two blueprints, a calling card, and more content.
What is this “gift”? Through the collaboration between Call of Duty and PlayStation, special content regularly appears for players on PS4 and PS5.
The new Combat Packs play an important role, as they provide you with skins, blueprints, and more. At least if you have an active PS Plus subscription. We will show you what is included in the pack.
Combat Pack Odyssey for Season 3 – What’s included?
What’s in the pack: The new Season 3 in Warzone revolves around the battle between Godzilla, King Kong, and the map Caldera. To ensure you’re properly equipped for this, you will find the following content in the latest Combat Pack:
Legendary Operator Skin for Padmavati Balan
Legendary LMG blueprint
Legendary MP blueprint
Epic emblem
Epic watch
Epic talisman
Epic calling card
60-minute double XP token
What does it look like? You can find a preview of the bundle in the tweet from Call of Duty:
You can collect it during Season 3. Whether there is a time limit within which you can collect it is currently unclear. Typically, bundles only go offline as a purchase option when a new Combat Pack is activated.
You need to keep in mind: To use the Operator skin, you must own CoD: Vanguard. The other items can also be used in Warzone without Vanguard.
Is it available for PC and Xbox as well? The Combat Packs are exclusively intended for players on PlayStation consoles. So far, there has been no option for players on PC and Xbox to purchase them in the stores of the platforms.
In Fortnite, since the start of the conflict between IO and the Seven, there has been a battle for dominance over the island. The Seven want to prevent IO from using a precious energy source for evil. Despite a dramatic story and many twists, players find all of this boring. They want the crazy Fortnite missions back.
What is happening in Fortnite right now? Players in Fortnite are currently fighting alongside the Seven to thwart the machinations of IO. They are fighting on the front lines and capturing locations that IO has claimed.
This reduces the influence of the imagined order on the new island. However, players are not interested in these serious battles. They would rather complete fun missions and quests instead of taking down terrorists.
Driving lessons with a banana are more exciting than battles
On Reddit, the user potatoinabeanie created a thread stating that driving lessons with Peely, the banana, are more interesting than the important battles between IO and the Seven.
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He is not the only one who thinks this: Many players comment under potatoinabeanie’s post that they find the main story about reclaiming the island actually boring compared to the side missions.
In this regard, user RiddleEatsRainbow says the following about the thread: “Peely’s driving style is much more interesting than the constant power struggles of the Seven, to be honest.”
Despite a dramatic story with many twists and cool battles, players are obviously hardly engaged. They would rather have missions in the style of Fortnite. Absurd driving lessons with a banana are just part of it. However, when it gets serious, it becomes boring for many.
What could be the reason for this? Following the story of the Season 2 in Chapter 3, everything started relatively simply. Stealth missions in which players had to move from A to B and set up satellites and other espionage activities.
As the preparations were completed, the Seven began to finally confront IO. Players could participate in the battles to assist the Seven.
After each completed week, a stronghold fell, and this continued for weeks. It follows a boring pattern, without unpredictable twists that could bring excitement to the game.
So far, every battle has been won by the Seven. Players therefore also expect that the Seven will win these confrontations.
Although a major battle is being fought, there have been hardly any collateral damages so far – airships are even driven into the sea to prevent the map from being destroyed. All of this is something players do not find really exciting in the long run. Therefore, absurd banana missions in such a serious scenario are much more fun.
They lighten the mood and give the situation a crazy Fortnite style, and that’s exactly what players want.
What do you think of the story in Fortnite? Are you following it or are you just playing your rounds of Battle Royale and completely ignoring the story? Let us know in the comments what you think.
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May 5th is considered a holiday for some Mexicans – “Cinco de Mayo”. A streamer took this as an opportunity to bring a Mariachi band into his living room and celebrate every victory in Call of Duty: Warzone in a special way.
A victory in the free Battle Royale CoD Warzone is still something special for many players. However, for streamers who engage deeply with the game, it is almost routine.
The Facebook streamer “Rexzilla” still celebrates his regular victories and came up with something crazy on “Cinco de Mayo”: a Mariachi band in his living room.
A Mariachi band plays for victory on Cinco de Mayo
What does that look like? Rexzilla shared a clip of the event on Twitter:
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After a sweaty victory on the small map Rebirth Island, he encourages the band to play. The well-known song “La Bamba” immediately gets into your ears and creates a nice atmosphere after the win.
However, Rex was actually not the first Warzone streamer to bring Mexican flair after a victory. On March 27, “HunterTV” already celebrated his successes with a Mariachi band:
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What is celebrated on May 5th? The day is not actually a national holiday in Mexico. Only in the city of Puebla and surrounding areas are there parades and larger festivities to mark the occasion (via history.com).
In the USA, the festival is more popular and is seen as a day to honor Mexican traditions.
The Cinco de Mayo relates back to an attack by the French on the city of Puebla in the middle of the 19th century. A Mexican army was able to stop the attack, leading to May 5th becoming a holiday in the region.
We want to know what you think of such actions. What kind of band would you bring into your living room to celebrate a victory? Feel free to leave us a comment.
In World of Warcraft, Stormwind and Orgrimmar have served as the capitals of the Alliance and Horde factions since the game’s release. In the new patch 9.2.5, Blizzard makes minor changes to the capitals and introduces updates that seem aimed at new players. This sparks a discussion about whether the capitals should be fundamentally altered, as some believe they deserve a complete overhaul.
How are the capitals changing in the patch?
The content creator Dan “MrGM” Carter is known for his content on World of Warcraft. He was on the WoW test server and checked out the new patch 9.2.5.
He noticed two changes to the capitals: Stormwind received a new asset, a type of “stable” – and there is also a stable in Orgrimmar with patch 9.2.5, where no one is currently standing.
Some speculate that the stables might indicate that new players could learn to ride earlier or that the way to obtain their first mount will be revised. Others joke: Maybe one could park their new dragon from Dragonflight there and pet it in the game.
Here’s how the cities are expected to change. Source: Reddit
„The two things have more polygons than the rest of the city“
This is the discussion being had: On Twitter, people are discussing the new buildings. One player says: “The things have more polygons than the rest of the city” (via twitter).
Another says: New assets are great in themselves, but when they are slapped onto old content, the old content just appears older.
Many wish for a redesign of the whole cities: It would look odd if new, modern buildings were now standing next to the “very old things.” Especially the trees or the statues in Stormwind are now seen as unsightly pixel heaps.
With Dragonflight, WoW aims to reconnect with its glorious past:
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The problems an MMORPG has after 17 years
What is the problem? The “old world” of WoW was last majorly revised with the Cataclysm expansion. That was 12 years ago: The expansion came out because Blizzard believed it was time for a revision after 5 years.
Especially because new areas in WoW feel higher quality, some players desire a redesign of their “old cities.” Many argue they should be livelier and provide access to the new gimmicks that regularly come with expansions.
This is a problem with WoW that is often criticized: In WoW, new content exists that has been developed by modern standards, alongside old content that visibly shows its age.
This is likely a problem when an MMORPG is continuously developed and supplied with content for over 17 years.
A fundamental “overhaul” of WoW is repeatedly a topic. People like to publish videos showing how World of Warcraft would look if it had been developed with a modern engine, like Unreal Engine. The results are spectacular:
Battlefield 2042 has been struggling with bad news, few players, and a miserable mood in the community since its release. However, a small new feature makes fans happy for the first time in months. Nothing changes in gameplay.
The controversial and widely regarded as failed shooter Battlefield 2042 is currently trying to recover. The largest patch so far, 4.0, was released a few weeks ago and brought useful improvements as well as hated changes.
All the more surprising is that a relatively insignificant new feature is actually well-received in the community. The probably most popular news in months is a simple helmet for the unpopular specialist Navin Rao.
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What is the new feature? For some time now, there have been weekly missions in Battlefield 2042 that allow you to unlock a new skin each week.
With this week’s mission, you can unlock the epic “Balidan” helmet for the specialist Rao. This completely covers the specialist’s face, making the soldier almost look like a character from Battlefield 4.
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To unlock the helmet, you need to do the following:
Get 3 Recon Medals.
Defeat 20 enemies and vehicles.
Capture or neutralize 10 objectives.
Fans mainly celebrate the skin, but others call it a “disgrace”
What does the community say? Although this is a relatively small new feature, the community is indeed quite euphoric. The fact that a soldier in the military shooter can now look like a classic soldier seems to make fans very happy.
In the subreddit for Battlefield 2042, you can find praise posts with titles like “Finally a real Battlefield skin” and “Look how good this looks! This is Battlefield.” These have thousands of upvotes:
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Users in the comments view this similarly positively:
“This looks like the Russian attacker from Battlefield 4. This is a good improvement in terms of cosmetics” – caballo_vago27
“The only reason I don’t like it is that it reminds me of how classes should have been” – Grove-Knight
Are there dissenting voices? However, not all voices are positive. Users like n1weaponizedautism accuse the community of being easily blinded by such superficialities:
Imagine we’ve had the game for 6 months and there have been no real content updates other than some small skins for the crappy specialists that most people don’t want in Battlefield.
And some people clap their hands and call these pitiful cosmetic updates “this is Battlefield”. How low has our “brutal” expectation become? It’s such a disgrace and there’s still no roadmap.
So far, the skins from the weekly missions have attracted little attention. However, this realistic-looking helmet has at least positively resonated with parts of the community. There were also negative exceptions like the “Tactical Beanie,” which many players mocked.
This beanie was one of the reasons why MeinMMO author Marko Jevtic was of the opinion:
Fortnite was removed from the App Store due to changes by Epic Games. Epic did not take this lightly, and thus a legal dispute arose between the two companies. However, Xbox has now created an option that gives players the chance to finally play Fortnite on Apple devices again.
Why was Fortnite banned by Apple? Every app that sells something within its games and is featured in the Apple Store must pay a percentage of the game’s revenues to Apple. These percentages range from 15% to 30% of the revenue generated.
However, Epic no longer wanted to be forced by the corporate giant to pay these fees. Therefore, the prices for the in-game currency “V-Bucks” were permanently reduced. Now only Epic receives the full profits generated from the purchase of V-Bucks.
Apple did not like this and quickly removed Fortnite from the App Store. Thus, a legal dispute ensued between the two companies, which means that Fortnite is still not featured in the Apple Store until Epic resumes these payments.
However, Xbox is finally giving you the chance to play Fortnite on iOS devices again. We will show you how to do this.
How to finally play Fortnite on iOS
The CEO of Epic Games is also promoting the new Xbox method on Twitter and promises no necessary subscription or unnecessary costs imposed by Apple.
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In order to play on your iPhone or iPad, you will need the following:
A Microsoft account
An internet connection
A device that has a browser
If you have all these things, log in on the Xbox website and you can immediately start playing with your device.
Will Apple take action against this? Basically, Microsoft has created a clever loophole for Epic Games where players have the chance to play despite the Fortnite ban.
However, whether Apple will accept this remains unclear. It will be difficult to take action against it since everything runs through your browser.
It is also unlikely that Apple will block Microsoft’s site to prevent you from playing your colorful BR shooter. However, if Apple does comment on this, we will inform you directly.
What do you think about Epic finding a way to make Fortnite playable on iOS devices? Do you think it’s good, or is this method not official enough for you, and would you prefer to wait until the Fortnite app works again? Let us know in the comments!
This is an AI-powered translation. Some inaccuracies might exist.
