The two winners of the election for the Community Days in June and July 2020 for Pokémon GO have been determined. You voted and gave your favorite the most votes.
On Twitter, each user could cast one vote. The two Pokémon that gathered the most votes in the 24 hours of voting are the participants for the following Community Days.
Who won? The most votes in the survey went to the Bug/Poison Pokémon Hornliu. With 34.1%, it won the majority of votes. Closely behind, with 32.3% of the votes, is winner number 2 – the Ghost Pokémon Nebulak.
Hornliu with 34.1% of the votes
Nebulak with 32.3% of the votes
Schiggy with 22.8% of the votes
Sandan with 10.8% of the votes
A total of 671,633 users participated in the survey on Twitter.
Based on the election results, it is now clear which species will be in focus during the next two Community Days.
Community Day in June with Hornliu
What we know: Since Hornliu received the most votes, it will be in the spotlight as the Pokémon for the Community Day in June.
Niantic did not want to reveal at this time what bonuses will be active.
The Community Day takes place on Saturday, June 20th. If you evolve Kokuna into Bibor during the event, it will learn the special Ground move “Drill Run”.
Community Day in July with Nebulak
What we know: Since Nebulak gathered the second most votes, it will be in the spotlight as the Pokémon for the Community Day in July.
Niantic has not said anything yet about the additional bonuses here as well.
If you evolve Alpollo into Gengar during the event, Gengar will learn the Ghost move Shadow Punch.
How did you like the voting for the upcoming Community Days? Should Niantic do this more often on Twitter or would you prefer such an option directly in the game in the future?
Get your promo codes now as a reward for voting quickly here. A new one was added on the night of May 25th, granting a lot of Poké Balls.
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In WoW: Shadowlands, a spell has an exceptionally long duration. You have to wait a proud 10,000 years until it loses its effect …
Some spells in World of Warcraft have a long casting time. Others have an unexpectedly long duration. The new record is likely set by “Warden Shackles”. Once cast, it lasts for 10,000 years – at least that’s what the tooltip says.
What kind of spell is this? The spell “Warden Shackles” is a variation of the Demon Hunter ability “Imprison.” This actually locks up a demon, a humanoid, or a beast for one minute, thus removing the creature from combat – a rather simple crowd control effect.
A duration of 10,000 years … you don’t want to be a victim.
“Warden Shackles” is one of the Anima powers from the new expansion Shadowlands and the Tower Torghast. This power extends the duration of “Imprison” to a whopping 10,000 years – at least that’s what data mining suggests.
What benefit does this have? If you don’t want to fight a specific opponent, you can permanently remove them from combat. This makes it easier to pick fights in Torghast that you really want to engage in. Normally, enemies are only removed from combat by Imprison for a minute, but this way you can essentially banish them for your entire stay in Torghast. A good way to completely avoid unwanted enemies.
Does it really last 10,000 years? No, and this is mainly because the servers are restarted once a week (usually) or maintenance occurs. During this time, instances like Torghast are reset. In the worst case, the spell lasts for 7 days on a target – and that’s only if you never log out during that time.
The duration of 10,000 years is actually a reference to the Demon Hunter Illidan Stormrage. He was imprisoned for 10,000 years and was only freed later in the storyline of Warcraft III.
Let’s hope that no player finds a way to smuggle this effect into PvP through a bug – or let’s look forward to the first videos of it.
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The Quad Mode in Call of Duty: Warzone has a new kill world record. The last one wasn’t long ago, and it’s already been broken again. A total of 138 kills has been achieved by a squad of eSports professionals in the battle royale mode.
This is what happened: Just last week, players set the kill record in Call of Duty: Warzone. An impressive 121 kills were secured by the team.
Now, a professional team consisting of YouTuber Vikram “Vikkstar123” Singh Barn and 3 players from the Call of Duty League eSports team Atlanta FaZe has broken the record, achieving a remarkable 138 kills in battle royale.
This was the team’s performance: The 138 kills were distributed among the 4 players as follows:
Cellium achieved 36 kills with 11,403 damage
Vikkstar123 achieved 35 kills with 11,237 damage
Priestahh achieved 34 kills with 10,681 damage
ABeZy achieved 32 kills with 10,961 damage
Two 2-player teams are hunting for maximum kills
This is how the round went: The round was captured in a livestream from Cellium’s perspective. The record starts at about 01:14:00 and continues until around 01:42:00.
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Like the last record team, the professional players also split into two 2-player groups to take down as many opponents as possible.
They only meet late in the match to eliminate the remaining teams in a coordinated manner. The last minutes seem particularly hectic and stressful.
Here’s how 138 kills are possible: Call of Duty: Warzone is played with 150 players on a massive map. Already eliminated players have the chance to re-enter the match through a victory in a duel in the Gulag.
Teammates can also buy back eliminated players. Thus, it is certainly possible for a player to have multiple attempts to reach first place. Other teams, like the world record holders, are given the opportunity to rack up many kills this way.
In shooters, it is often said that a high frame rate is important to compete at the top level. However, there are also certain advantages in MMORPGs. In some games, better graphics performance can even increase your dealt damage.
What is behind the frame rate? The frame rate describes the number of images delivered in a specified time period. Typically, this is expressed in FPS (Frames per Second).
A high frame rate ensures that you can see more images in one second. This, in turn, influences your gameplay behavior.
To fully capitalize on this, your monitor must also have an appropriate hertz rating. Otherwise, you won’t see the faster images. The input latency of the hardware also plays a role.
However, with the right hardware, you can indeed gain advantages in MMORPGs. We will reveal what exactly changes.
High FPS make you faster and can even increase DPS
How do you benefit from high FPS? With a faster transfer of images, you are more responsive. You might see an attack a fraction of a second earlier than a player who only has 30 FPS or has a higher input lag than you. Similarly, you can use a skill a fraction of a second sooner.
Of course, many other factors, such as the latency of your internet connection, also play a crucial role. Nevertheless, the frame rate should not be completely disregarded.
The test results regarding the frame rate show that more hits were landed.
How does the frame rate influence MMORPGs? Especially in modern MMORPGs with action-packed combat systems and dodging roles, you need to react lightning-fast to avoid damage.
However, you can even increase your dealt damage with additional FPS. A particularly extreme case is Black Desert Online, where there are many discussions that the game is pay-to-win because you need a good PC for PvP (via reddit).
But a good frame rate also helps in Guild Wars 2 and other games.
Black Desert as an extreme case
What is so special about Black Desert? In Black Desert Online, there has been a discussion about the frame rate for years. In this MMORPG, you can visibly increase your DPS if your system is simply better.
The video on YouTube demonstrates how extreme the differences can be. The creator took:
5:14 for the kill with 60 FPS
5:28 for the kill with 30 FPS
10:12 for the kill with 5 FPS
According to various users on reddit, the best results can even be achieved only with 140 FPS. The difference between 60 and 140 frames per second should be up to 5% of the damage (via reddit).
Why does this work? The reasons for the higher DPS lie in two points:
Faster reactions
Skipping the aftercast
The faster reactions are self-explanatory and are particularly noticeable when you play with 10 FPS instead of 60 FPS. Everything automatically feels slower and clumsier.
The “aftercast”, on the other hand, describes the part of the animation that is executed after dealing damage. With practice and a faster frame rate, you can cancel this animation and overwrite it with the next skill. This leads to skill combos that were not actually intended by the game.
Some animations in Black Desert take a long time and can be skipped with practice.
Other MMORPGs also benefit from a better frame rate
How does this look in other MMORPGs? In Guild Wars 2, it is also known that you can bypass the aftercast. To do this, you briefly press the key that sheathes the weapon during longer animations, and then immediately use the next skill.
This trick can be used faster if the images are presented to your eyes quicker and have been trained a bit. However, there are not such significant DPS differences as there are in Black Desert.
Also, in games like Warframe (via Warframe Forum) and WoW (via MMO Champion), there are similar discussions.
Some greatsword skills in GW2 have a long animation.
How can you achieve more FPS? If you want to achieve a higher frame rate in MMORPGs, you can first reduce the graphics of the respective game. This usually helps especially when many players are nearby and many animations are used.
In a further step, upgrading the hardware helps, both for the PC and the monitor.
However, unlike in shooters, it is not always about the perfect setup and perfect damage in MMORPGs. Those who play mostly casually and also pay attention to the game’s aesthetics will be willing to sacrifice additional DPS for beautiful graphics, such as those in the 5 most beautiful upcoming MMORPGs.
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There are sites like newfreeskins that promise you infinite free Fortnite skins. However, you should stay away from these sites, and we at MeinMMO will show you why.
What kind of sites are these? Sites like newfreeskins advertise free skins. No matter which skin you want, you’re supposed to be able to easily and freely generate it on these sites.
What happens when you open one of these sites? When you click on it, a page appears asking you to enter your Epic username and the platform you play on.
Once you have done this, you can supposedly “generate” the skin. However, once the process is completed, a message appears stating that you need to complete a short “Sponsor Activity” to help pay for the skins.
This is where you need to complete an activity to pay for the supposedly free skins.
Actually, Fortnite skins should be free, but it is mentioned there that you first need to complete the activity to help with the payment for the skins. This should make every user skeptical.
Do not use these sites!
Why you should never use such sites: You should not use such sites, as there is no guarantee that you will actually receive the skins or that you might have to pay for them instead. Furthermore, it is not allowed to acquire skins outside of the Fortnite Shop – this could also result in an account penalty.
You should not share your data such as your Epic name or password. This could lead to your data being stolen or your account being hacked. You might even lose your Epic account with all purchases. We strongly advise against using generators, hacks, or such dubious sites.
Why are such sites of great interest?
Why do players pay attention to these? Skins can only be obtained for V-Bucks in Fortnite. When there are free skins, they usually come from a special event, but this rarely happens.
If someone really wants a skin but does not want to spend money for it, such sites sound very tempting. To suggest more security to the player, this site even uses the same browser icon as the official Epic Games site.
When comparing the icons, there is no noticeable difference.
This could lead players to think that this is a site supported by Epic Games and thus allowed. Players who are less knowledgeable about the topic could easily fall for it.
Such sites should not be used. However, if you still want to collect or gift V-Bucks without buying them directly in the Fortnite shop, there are some options that are allowed. If you own the “Save the World” mode, you can earn some V-Bucks there.
In Pokémon GO the voting for the Community Days in June and July is currently running. Half of the election is over – time for an interim report.
What kind of election is this?The two Community Days in June and July do not have a designated Pokémon yet. Instead, the trainers will again determine which monsters should be the focus of the two events. Four monsters are available for selection:
Squirtle
Butterfree
Gastly
Sandshrew
The voting started on Saturday night to Sunday at 03:00 AM. It lasts exactly 24 hours. Until then, you can cast your vote. And the current numbers already paint a fairly clear picture of which monsters we can expect in June and July.
All Pokémon up for vote at a glance
Your favorites are leading – voting ends in 12 hours
This is what the voting looks like: As of now (Sunday, 3:00 PM), two monsters are comfortably in the lead. They are Butterfree (about 34% of the votes) and Gastly (about 32% of the votes).
These two monsters also topped our pre-vote on MeinMMO, where you could indicate your favorites. At least Squirtle (about 23%) still has a chance to catch up. Sandshrew is lagging in fourth place (about 11%).
The voting is now halfway completed, over 550,000 players have already voted via Twitter. Unless there is an extreme turnaround throughout the day, Butterfree and Gastly will probably be the event monsters at the upcoming Community Days.
Gastly and Butterfree are leading in the voting
If Butterfree and Gastly ultimately win, you can expect the following special attacks:
Butterfree’s final evolution, Beedrill, will learn the Ground-type attack Drill Run.
Gastly’s evolution Gengar would learn the Ghost-type attack Shadow Punch.
However, the voting is not finalized yet. If you want to ensure that either Squirtle or Sandshrew moves up into the top two spots, you have until 03:00 AM tonight to cast your vote. Currently, the Community Day in May is still ongoing. Here, the Pokémon Samurzel is front and center, which you can still encounter in abundance until 05:00 PM.
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The steampunk survival game Volcanoids is currently in Early Access on Steam and now allows you to drill into the Earth’s core with friends in a 4-player co-op.
What Volcanoids is: The steampunk survival game Volcanoids was released in Early Access in January 2019 but could only be played in single-player mode at that time.
Since May 20, 2020, this has changed. Indie developer Volcanoid has released a co-op mode for up to 4 players that lets you build gigantic drills, fight robots, and explore the Earth’s depths for resources with your friends.
This is how the new co-op mode works: In multiplayer, one player acts as the host. He is essentially the crew captain and starts the co-op mode. 3 friends can then access the server and start together. However, the crew can currently only control one of the distinctive drills, also called “Drillships”. In later updates, it will be possible to obtain more.
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This is the steampunk survival Volcanoids: On a deserted rocky island, a gigantic worm-like drill serves as your base. With this, you can travel through the world, set up your base, and process resources.
As is common in survival games, gathering resources is one of your main tasks. You can process them to craft equipment and upgrade the drillship.
Hostile robots will stand in your way throughout the island and underground. They use the local volcano as an energy source, which regularly erupts due to their actions and devastates the surface.
You cannot manually control the drillship itself, but you can specify fixed targets in the control room, to which the drill then takes you. The journey takes place in real-time, and you can craft items, perform maintenance, or fight off invading robots during this time.
With the gigantic drills, the drillships, Volcanoids distinguishes itself from other survival titles. The steampunk setting is also still very fresh in the survival genre. However, if you are more interested in other survival titles, check out our list of the 23 best survival games of 2020.
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The developers of Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare have been working from home since March to counter the spread of the novel Corona virus. This has also brought something positive, explains a developer now. They now have a much better understanding of online gamers and their social needs. However, there are also difficulties.
Who is speaking? It is Amos Hodge, the Creative Director of Raven Software. They are working together with Infinity Ward on Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare.
How Corona positively affects development: One day in March, everyone at Infinity Ward and Raven Software got up, packed their work PCs, and went home to work from there. Everything now functions via the communication tool Slack or through web videos: testing, development, and meetings.
According to Hodge, one process has completely changed due to the new situation: the actual testing of the games in the team.
Previously, it was a kind of “couch co-op” experience. The testers sat “shoulder to shoulder” together, able to talk to each other at any time.
Now, testing is truly an online experience – people sit at home alone.
Before Corona, the developers played closely together in couch co-op with the new builds.
Developers Alone at Home
This change has altered the perspective:
It has allowed us to put a greater focus on the social elements. What kind of social elements can we bring into the game now that we are no longer all together? We are no longer shoulder to shoulder; we are all alone at home playing the game. This is a different kind of experience and it allows us to look at problems from a different perspective than we did before. So I think it has really helped us to shift our priorities to think more socially.
Amos Hodge, Creative Director at Raven Software
So if we see new ways in the future how players communicate online in Call of Duty: Warzone, it may be due to the developers having to play online together now and not huddling in couch co-op.
These are the disadvantages of working from home: As a negative aspect of working from home, Hodge sees that communication has suffered greatly, especially in the area of brief, verbal feedback immediately following game sessions.
Joe Cecot, the Multiplayer and Design Director at Infinity Ward, talks about how brief personal conversations have become in the home office. He also noted that the shift to working from home occurred right during the release of Call of Duty: Warzone. Cecot highlights the achievements of the IT department, which has solved many technical difficulties.
Cecot says: “I don’t want to pretend it was easy.”
Similar statements about working from home during Corona times were already made by Bungie, the developers of Destiny 2. They also emphasized how important technology is.
Storage is currently scarce if you have CoD MW installed.
Another issue that the developers of CoD Modern Warfare and Warzone mentioned in a recent interview is the enormous storage space requirement of the game.
Our MeinMMO author Sascha Asendorf didn’t stop after his recreation of the WoW human city of Stormwind, but wanted to detail all of Azeroth. However, he only completed the popular raid Karazhan.
That was my plan: My original plan was to assemble a whole team to recreate Azeroth in Minecraft. For about half a year, it worked out great. We simply called it “Project Azeroth”.
The team of WoW and Minecraft fans initiated several projects during that time:
Schattenfang Keep
New Tinkertown
Blackrock
Darkmoon Faire
Eversong
Wyrmrest Temple
Orgrimmar
I, on the other hand, dedicated myself to the coolest raid from Burning Crusade: Karazhan.
These were the challenges: Unlike Stormwind, Karazhan is much more compactly built. Many corridors and rooms that are connected but don’t meet until much later complicated the planning.
Thanks to my spatial imagination from my draftsman training back then, I managed the challenge quite well. I even found myself marveling now and then at how well everything fit together in Minecraft.
I took this long to build it: Since I worked more with the editor this time to create large areas such as floors, straight walls, or towers, I only spent about half a year building Karazhan – which corresponds to about 600 hours.
This is how I started: Basically, I built Karazhan just as you would progress through the raid. Starting with Attumen’s stable, I went up to Moroes’ banquet hall. After that, I created the chambers and the boss room for the virtuous maid and then the theater.
The first 3 boss rooms were still easy
The theater presented my first major challenge. After all, the theater is one of the largest venues in Karazhan. I invested a few days in the construction, during which I was actively building for several hours.
The theater is quite large and was a popular farming spot during Burning Crusade due to the optional mobs
When the theater was finished, I decided on the Little Red Riding Hood event and created the stage.
The theater event was one of the absolute highlights in Karazhan
After the theater event, we go to the curator, who protects the menagerie. A great boss from whom I used to take his T4 parts for my paladin during my WoW times. The only difficult part here were the owl statues, which you simply can’t get detailed in Minecraft 1:1.
“The Menagerie is only for guests!” – every BC player probably knows the curator’s quote
I certainly didn’t forget the optional boss “Terror of the Night”, which can only be summoned on the terrace in front of the curator after completing a long quest chain.
On the terrace, you could defeat the optional boss “Terror of the Night” in the past
This was an absolute nightmare: Anyone familiar with Karazhan will know what comes after the curator. The Library of the Guardian. A damn large room with several levels where reality seems to break apart. The library connects the menagerie with several boss rooms. These include:
Aran’s Shade, the spirit of Medivh’s father
Terestian Illhoof, a demonic satyr
The dragon Nethergroll
The popular chess event
Here, above all, attention to detail and a lot of planning were necessary. I spent the longest time working on the library. Several weeks passed and the individual boss rooms were created alongside. The result is certainly something to behold and ranks among my favorites in Minecraft-Karazhan.
I don’t even want to know how many blocks were used just for this room…
The rest was basically a child’s play and went quickly through. Okay, Nethergroll was challenging again with all the telescopes and the tilted domes. But that was nothing compared to the library, which really gave me headaches.
Nethergroll was one of the stronger, but optional bosses that required a coordinated group
This is how the chess event was created: For the chess event, I also attempted a timelapse video, which unfortunately got interrupted midway. But at least this way you can see how I built it to some extent.
It is easy to see the use of the MC in-game editor, a plugin for server admins, which allows me to copy buildings or create large areas in seconds.
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The construction of the chess event in timelapse. Unfortunately, the recording was interrupted back then
With the theater and chess event, Blizzard really outdid themselves. Cortyn from MeinMMO thinks so too and counts Karazhan among the best raids in WoW.
The chess event in Karazhan is unique but also very easy. It can even be done solo
This is how big Karazhan really is: When you look at the original Karazhan from the outside and then go into the raid, it becomes clear: It’s much larger than you thought. And it’s the same in Minecraft. I built the actual tower in a different place and linked the two entrances to the interior of Karazhan via a portal mod.
For the interior, I also had to make full use of the entire height that was available to me in Minecraft 7 years ago. Karazhan is a total of 255 blocks high – from the cellar to the final boss.
A not quite finished Karazhan – You only recognize the complexity when you view it from the air
I currently lack screenshots of the rest. The interior has been completed, including all accessible rooms. Only the exterior is still unfinished; here, especially the terraforming and final details are missing. However, I haven’t touched that for 7 years, and I will probably never finish it 100%.
In the Minecraft community, there are tons of great buildings that often involve years of work. If you are interested in such mammoth projects, check out Hogwarts from Harry Potter. It not only looks really cool, but also turned into a genuine RPG.
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Usually, Sergio Agüero scores goals in the Premier League in droves. Currently, the football star is on Twitch – and also very successful. At the moment, he has the fastest growing channel on Twitch. He showcases FIFA 20 – but not only.
This is Sergio Agüero: Sergio Agüero is one of the best football players in the world. The Argentine is under contract with Manchester City and has scored 254 goals in 368 matches for the English club.
Among other things, he has been a four-time English champion, and he also won the Europa League (back then with Atlético Madrid). In short: Sergio Agüero cannot complain about a lack of titles or success.
Now, the Corona crisis has put global football into a state of pause. Agüero has taken this unusual state to stream more on Twitch. And there, too, he is starting to rack up successes.
Agüero is growing faster than Tfue and even Anomaly
How things are going for Agüero on Twitch: Looking at the numbers from the last 30 days (via TwitchMetrics), Sergio Agüero is the fastest-growing streamer on Twitch. He is currently ahead of people like the very successful Valorant streamer Anomaly (2nd place) or Fortnite streamer Tfue (11th place).
No one is growing faster on Twitch right now than Agüero (via TwitchMetrics)
Especially with FIFA streams, Agüero has initially caught attention. This led to interesting situations. For example, he got angry about a goal conceded exactly like his character in the game did. And the poor pack luck in FUT FIFA 20, which many players complain about, has also hit him – which he criticized significantly.
In this Twitch clip, you can see how Agüero unboxes his own 99-rated card in FIFA. Professional players receive their own card in FIFA 20 in an outstanding 99 version. Agüero had to wait some time for his card.
In general, Agüero streams in Spanish and not in English, which hardly affects his viewer numbers. FIFA 20 is not the only thing Agüero focuses on on his channel. He also plays GTA from time to time and has also given Valorant a chance.
Meanwhile, in FIFA 20, the Team of the Season So Far event continues. There are currently particularly strong TOTS cards from Serie A.
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While we wait for the PS5 release or at least its design, Sony continues to actively publish patents. According to the latest patent, the PS5 could soon dynamically control your music.
Where does the information come from? It is a patent that has been published on patentscope. These patents describe ideas and designs from Sony that are not necessarily intended to be implemented in the PS5.
However, it is interesting what this patent entails. Because music plays an important role for many players – especially when it comes to emotions. We will explain how exactly the PS5 should take on this task for music or what it is supposed to do.
The PS5 is supposed to be able to design music? At least this is how the diagram looks like, as Sony envisions it. Source: patentscope.wipo.int
The perfect soundtrack thanks to AI – How does it work?
Before the actual process, the artificial intelligence is fed with metadata: This is how the system should be able to distinguish between certain areas:
Between characters like the main character, partner, boss enemies, wizards, etc.
Activities like combat, relaxation, or planning
Or what areas there are, such as forest, city, or desert
How exactly is this supposed to work? Sony describes in its patent the individual steps that the system should perform so that players can hear the right music:
First, the system collects data from the finished music that the game has. In the next step, the system breaks down the music into its components: melodies, harmonies, and rhythms.
In the third step, the system collects emotional data. Reviews, postings, or texts are also to be evaluated to better capture the emotions.
Finally, an artificial intelligence (convolutional neural network) connects the music metadata with the analysis of the emotional data.
What else does the artificial intelligence do? It analyzes the game itself: the individual areas, the emotions, and which components are characteristic for the game:
The locations, attributes, or spells are then linked with the emotional data
Each individual character, landscapes, or scenes have a specific music motif that the system can recognize.
The analyzed data can then be linked to the player’s emotions.
Games like Horizon Zero Dawn rely on a clever combination of emotions and music. Thanks to AI, this could soon run much more dynamically.
Emotions as the most important element for music
The artificial intelligence should be able to recognize with some practice which music should be played at what time and can also already “plan ahead”:
If a dark cave comes after the current level section, the game could emotionally cue the music in advance thanks to artificial intelligence.
According to the patent, the Artificial Intelligence can always offer you the right music at the right moment.
Sony emphasizes in the patent that the emotions of the players are of the utmost importance and very important for the music. These include feelings such as joy, tenderness, peacefulness, but also nostalgia or pain.
And besides interesting music, the very fast SSD in the PS5 and Xbox Series X could also bring features into the game that developers always had to scrap. Because players absolutely dislike loading times:
What do you think about it? Would you like it if an artificial intelligence controlled the music of your game, and you might always hear the perfect music, or should the developers rather determine what happens?
Do you want to know more about the PlayStation 5 and what is currently known about Sony’s new console? Then check our overview. Here we have summarized all important information about the PS5 for you.
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Today, on Sunday, May 24, 2020, the Community Day with Samurzel is taking place in Pokémon GO. Here you can find all information regarding the start time, Shinys, and bonuses.
What is the Community Day? Typically, the Community Day occurs once a month. It highlights a specific Pokémon that will appear more frequently and can learn a special move. Additionally, you can catch the Shiny version of the event Pokémon.
In May 2020, the Community Day revolves around Samurzel.
Community Day in May 2020 – Start Time and Bonuses
What: The Pokémon GO Community Day in May 2020 When: On Sunday, May 24, from 11 AM to 5 PM German time Pokémon of the Day: Samurzel Exclusive Move: Seed Bomb for Tengulist Bonus 1: Triple Catch XP Bonus 2: Incense lasts for three hours during the event Bonus 3: Buddy Pokémon (at least Great Buddy) will bring you items like Pokéballs Additional Bonus: Seed Bomb can be learned by evolving Tengulist until 7 PM
Samurzel is your event Pokémon on Sunday
How to Make the Most of Community Day
How to Utilize the Bonuses: You get triple catch XP with every Pokémon you catch. To collect XP for leveling up, you should catch as many Pokémon as possible.
The extended incense duration helps with this. If you stack two Incense, you will already cover the entire event duration. So activate the incense around 11 AM – then more Pokémon will appear in your surroundings.
Also, choose a buddy that has at least Great Buddy status. This way, you ensure that you will be supplied with items like Pokéballs during the event.
Your buddies can bring you items
Good Bonuses for Home: Overall, the bonuses combined with the long duration are well-suited for playing the Community Day from home. You should be able to gather enough Samurzel even if you don’t step outside.
Highlights of the Samurzel Community Day: In addition to the normal event, players can unlock the special research “Double Vision” for one dollar (99 cents in our shop). This revolves around Samurzel and rewards you with three Incense, five Golden Razz Berries, and other rewards.
There should also be surprises during the Community Day when you take GO snapshots. So occasionally snap a photo of your Pokémon.
Shiny Samurzel, Blanas, Tengulist
Can you get Shiny Samurzel? Yes, during the Community Day, you will be able to catch the shiny version of Samurzel. You’ll also be able to obtain Shinys of Blanas and Tengulist.
How strong is Tengulist with Seed Bomb? Even with the Grass move Seed Bomb, Tengulist does not gain any advantages in raids. Its stats are too low and it is outperformed by the best Grass attackers like Gewaldro and Roserade.
Useful in PvP, less in raids
In PvP, Seed Bomb is somewhat useful. In the Great and Ultra League, it is a good fast move for Tengulist. However, Tengulist already has a decent fast move with Standpauke that differs only in typing, speed, and damage.
How do I get the move? To get Tengulist with Seed Bomb, you must evolve Blanas into Tengulist between 11 AM and 7 PM. You have plenty of time to teach it the exclusive fast move.
In addition to Community Day, there’s also the big Sinnoh event happening. Here you can secure lots of exciting Pokémon.
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In Destiny 2, the mood is currently low. Bungie wants to retire weapons. Many are outraged by this idea. But a Destiny legend, SC_Slayerage, explains in a video why this gives him hope for the next expansion.
This is the legend: SC_Slayerage was the first PvE player to make a name for himself in the original Destiny. With the clan “The Legend himself”, he was able to draw attention in the early days of the shooter. He was the one who managed to complete the raid “Crota’s End” solo as a Hunter in December 2014.
Slayerage has continuously gained attention with particularly cool actions and is regarded as a truly reasonable, smart head who knows what he is talking about in Destiny.
Slayerage has 155,570 followers on Twitch and 176,000 subscribers on YouTube. While he is not a huge content creator, he is someone whose voice is heard.
Trust Bungie to create cool new weapons
This is what he says about “weapon sunsetting”: In mid-May, Bungie announced that weapons in Destiny 2 will have an expiration date. After that, they can still be played but will not be able to reach the new maximum level. This angered many players with the sentiment: “Bungie is taking away the weapons we’ve worked so hard for.”
Slayerage says: “Calm down.” Players should think before they go on a rampage.
Ultimately, there are two alternatives:
You can keep playing with the same weapons as the last 24 months
or not
Slayerage prefers version 2. He asks: “Do you really want to play with the same weapons in Destiny for the next 4 years?”
He says that in the past, weapons have always been exchanged. People are now upset that they find out things have an expiration date, which they should have known was coming.
The Recluse, a top weapon in Destiny 2.
Those who want to play with “The Recluse” can continue to do so in many modes.
Additionally, players have been continuously complaining about some meta weapons like the sniper rifle “Revoker” or the grenade launcher “Mountaintop“. However, when Bungie finds a way to phase out the weapons, people scream in outrage. The alternative would then only be to nerf the weapons to the point that they become mere shadows of themselves.
Slayerage says: The time is ripe for something big and new
This is why it is positive: Slayerage says: Destiny 1 lasted for 3 years. Destiny 2 is also going to last for 3 years. If Activision were still involved, a Destiny 3 would likely be released in Fall 2020.
Thus, one can expect a “big expansion”. Though Slayerage is not certain that a huge expansion is coming, he believes it is likely:
There is so little trust that Bungie will eventually do something really cool. As if every piece of good content and good gear has only been an accident until now. People believe the weapon retirement is a termination of their fun insurance. That is such an unreasonable negative view of things. Do these people really think Bungie has no intention of ever exciting us again? Do people believe that recycling the Trials is the most creative feat the studio can achieve today?
Listen friends, the fact that Destiny has been in not-so-great shape for over a year is more of a reason to hope for something good than something bad. Bungie’s reputation as a studio is on the line. They know they can’t keep giving us more “Shadowkeep” years forever.
SC_Slayerage
Slayerage reads a long list of problems Destiny 2 actually has, but says: The weapon retirement is not on this list.
The weapon retirement is a “necessary evil” for an evolving game.
Honeymoons are coming back
This is how Slayerage sees the future: Slayerage believes that while the topic of “weapon retirement” is currently large, it will disappear when the hype around Season 12 and the Fall expansion grows.
Then the honeymoons would begin again, and we would all be excited to play Destiny 2. We would have “every reason in the world to believe in something like this again.”
Slayerage believes in honeymoons in Fall 2020.
This is behind it: Slayerage argues against the general sentiment in the Destiny community, which has been rather disappointed by the developments since early 2019.
He believes Bungie is now cleaning house with old stuff because they are convinced that new strong weapons and content are waiting for us. He expects a much larger expansion in Fall 2020 than Shadowkeep was in 2019.
We will probably know soon whether he is right with his assumption. The Fall expansion is traditionally introduced in early summer of a year, but only after the last content of the previous year has been released.
As soon as the next season, Season 11, goes live on the servers, Bungie is likely to soon reveal what we will play in Destiny 2 in Fall 2020.
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In Pokémon GO there are new promo codes that can secure you practical gifts. But you should redeem them quickly before they expire.
Update from 25.5. at 08:10 AM: Another promo code has appeared. This one gives you 50 Poké Balls.
Update from 24.5 at 10:38 AM: The second code for 10 Poké Balls had a tight time limit, which has now expired.
This is what Niantic is giving away: During the Community Days with Samurzel, Niantic is currently distributing promo codes. Here you can get items like Poké Balls or berries.
Redeem promo codes and receive gifts
These are the promo codes: Here you will find the current promo codes. However, you must redeem them quickly – some of the codes may be time-limited and may not work after a short time.
6W2QRHMM9W2R9 – 10 Poké Balls and 5 Himmih Berries
955563822873773 – 10 Poké Balls Expired
K8G9DFV4X7L3W – 50 Poké Balls (Probably valid until May 28)
How do I redeem the promo code? As an Android user, redeeming the code is quite easy. You can simply go to the in-game shop of Pokémon GO, type in the code, and collect your gifts.
You can see whether the code was successfully redeemed in your journal.
If you are using iOS, the process is a bit more complicated. To redeem the codes, you need to visit the Niantic website and log in with your account. Once you have done that, a field will appear where you can enter the promo code. The gift will then be credited to you in the game.
If you are only registered with a Trainer Club account in Pokémon GO, this option is also not easy to implement. You can only log in for the promo codes with a linked Facebook or Google account.
If you still want to collect the codes, you must first link your Pokémon Trainer Club account with one of the other providers. Once you have done that, you can log in with those accounts and redeem the code.
The gifts are ideal for the current Community Day. Currently, there is also a vote for the next Community Days – which Pokémon do you want to see in June and July?
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In GTA 5 Online you will encounter players who behave in a typical way and can be quite annoying. Here we show you 5 of the most annoying types of these players.
What is it about? When you play GTA Online, you will certainly encounter certain types of players. You meet them in Heists, PvP activities, or simply in open sessions.
And they all have one thing in common: They are extremely annoying.
In random order, MeinMMO editor Patrick Freese presents you with the people who annoy him the most in his over 600 hours of GTA Online.
1. Egoists in Heists – What is wrong with you?
What kind of players are these? In GTA Online, “Heists” are the co-op activities. So PvE that you are supposed to solve together with other players.
Even this description seems to cause confusion for some species of GTA Online players. This “together.” Because if you are brave enough to jump into a heist with random players, you have to brace yourself for a lot.
In Heists, teamwork is required – so get ready for it!
You repeatedly encounter players who do not listen to agreements and act as if they could win the heist alone. Tip: You can’t do it alone.
As soon as this particular type of GTA player dies, the consequence is already planned: They set the stubborn regulator to 10. Which in turn leads to 2 conclusions:
They intentionally die over and over again, wasting team lives so that the heist fails for all players and they waste their time.
They intentionally stop executing their assigned role in the heist, forcing other players to leave.
Advanced co-op egos silently leave the heist after the first attempt, ensuring that all the preparation time, which with loading screens easily takes around 10 minutes, was for nothing. Thanks to you once again for making heists so annoying.
2. Cargo Sale Destroyers – Don’t you have anything better to do?
The most lucrative methods involve gathering a product that is then sold in a sale mission for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. But some preparation time goes into it.
Now, there are two important points to consider:
The seller has invested a lot of time in producing his goods – he is rewarded with a large sum of money when he transports his goods across the map and delivers them.
If opposing players destroy these goods, they receive a whopping 2,000 GTA Dollars for it. TWO THOUSAND
And now there are really players who immediately set off when a player is selling cargo and destroy it. This is not uncommon. Why do you do this? Hopefully not for the pitiful 2,000 GTA Dollars.
Everyone needs money in GTA Online – don’t be a lousy egoist, help other players instead
I once asked a player, and he said: “Well, the game says that I should do that.” (Background: When a player is transporting cargo, GTA points this out and says that it should be destroyed)
But do you really have to do that? Think about what it really brings you. It must be incredibly boring to go through with such an action.
My tip: Do something else during that time and make a lot more money. It doesn’t ruin the mood for others and brings you more.
As a beginner, you have hardly any weapons in the online world. And if you have any, they are rather weak. You also have little to no armor. For experienced players, facing them is as challenging as swatting a fly. A fly that no longer has wings and cannot run because it is stuck on one of those insect traps.
Still, some players can’t help but demonstrate their dominance over and over again. Yes, they even camp players who are 200 levels below them and clearly show with their level “I’ve only learned the first steps in the online world. Help!” Over and over again, the newbs are gunned down by other players.
And I really wonder: Is that fun? Is it somehow challenging? Or can you just not beat anyone at your level in a 1v1 and now have to compensate for that with such behavior?
Then do it somehow without taking away the fun of the game from new players.
4. The Fail Racers – Just leave the good players alone
What kind of players are these? This very special species of GTA Online players compensates for their nonexistent skill by ruining the races for others.
Crashes in races are not uncommon – just like unfair drivers
An example: In the new open-wheel race, I start with my Formula 1 car in the midfield of the participants. Already in the first corner, I notice that there was a crash behind me. Two players collided.
Player A quickly seeks the way back onto the track and now tries to catch up and profit from the mistakes of others to win or at least finish in a worthwhile position.
Player B, on the other hand, comes up with the golden idea: “I’ll just drive in the opposite direction and ram every other player head-on who comes towards me. In doing so, I’ll try to deal as much damage as possible.” True to the motto: If I’m not having fun, why should anyone else?
If you encounter such a frustration zero, you can only hope that their skill is so low that they can’t even hit you.
My tip: If you messed up and are too bad to catch up, just leave the race and stop annoying the other drivers. Thanks.
5. Griefers with the Oppressor MK2 – You make me sick
What kind of players are these? Yes, what are these players actually? The ones who get an Oppressor MK2 (that’s a rocket-equipped flying motorcycle) and then have nothing better to do than fly aimlessly over the map with homing rockets and shoot at everything that moves.
You start to wonder what’s going on in the minds of these players.
It gets interesting when any general understanding of the game is simply absent with these winged bikers.
So I was driving with my armored Zhaba through Los Santos, and some knight on his turbine was chasing me. BAM, the first rocket hits. BAM, the second right after. But my tank didn’t explode. So the “Maverick for cash patients” slowly descended from the sky and kept shooting at me. 3, 4, 5, 6 rockets. Then a pause.
“OMG, hacker xd” our friend on the Oppressor exclaimed in the chat. “Report him. he god mode hacker. can’t kill this n00b lol”
That my Zhaba can easily withstand 14 rockets and would only explode on the 15th escape his mind in all his frustration that he wants to unload on the noob motorcycle.
I like the Zhaba – Griefers don’t like it
Have you encountered such “experts” in GTA Online, and which ones annoy you the most? Hopefully, they don’t annoy you during the daily objectives, as they currently bring in a big cash bonus of 1 million GTA Dollars.
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Niantic has the following candidates available for voting:
Squirtle
Weedle
Sandshrew
Gastly
When does the vote start and how can you participate on Twitter?
When does it start? Niantic announced the start of the voting for May 23 at 6:00 PM PDT. This corresponds to 03:00 AM German time on May 24. So it started Sunday morning.
How long does the vote last? The voting will remain active for 24 hours. So the voting ends at 03:00 AM on Monday. Until then, you can cast your votes.
How to participate? The voting takes place on Twitter. So you should create an account on Twitter for this purpose. By the way, don’t forget to follow our Twitter page. You can find MeinMMO on Twitter here.
You have a single vote that you can distribute. To distribute it, click on the corresponding Pokémon in the vote that you want to see during one of the community days in June or July 2020. So Squirtle, Weedle, Sandshrew or Gastly.
Once you have cast your vote, your job is done. The vote cannot be changed afterward. You will receive the results Monday morning when the survey is completed.
The Pokémon with the most votes will appear in the spotlight during the community day in June. The Pokémon with the second-most votes will appear during the community day in July.
Who should I vote for? If you are still undecided about which Pokémon to vote for, all four species are associated with a special move for the event.
Squirtle – Blastoise learns the fighting move Aura Sphere.
Weedle – Beedrill learns the ground move Drill Run.
Sandshrew – Sandslash or Alolan Sandslash learn the ghost move Dark Claw.
Gastly – Gengar learns the ghost move Shadow Punch.
If that still doesn’t help, we will show you the shiny variants of the participating Pokémon here.
Can the shiny variants help you in the vote?
We already asked you before the official vote how you want to vote. In doing so, you determined your 2 favorites for the community days.
Feel free to let us know in the comments which Pokémon you will vote for and what the reason is.
In Fortnite the Season 2 is likely ending with a live event. A countdown timer has now started, counting the hours and minutes until the live event begins. We at MeinMMO are bringing you up to date: How does Season 2 end? What can we expect for Season 3?
Then the countdown timer ends: The countdown is ticking down to Saturday, May 30, 2020, at 20:05 our time.
Since Season 3 is supposed to start on June 4, 2020, which is Thursday of the following week, the event will likely initiate the end of Season 2.
The timer is visible in the normal start menu of a Fortnite match.
Here you can see the countdown timer.
It will probably be a “Doomsday” event
What kind of live event will it be? The players of Fortnite have been speculating for weeks that a live event could end Season 2. These speculations have been fueled by findings from data miners.
The speculations about the event currently assume that a battle between the rival agent organizations Ghost and Shadow over The Agency will escalate, accompanied by the activation of a “doomsday device”.
How exactly this will unfold is not known at the moment. However, it may well be that the level 100 battle pass skin Midas will play an important role in the live event.
In Midas’ office, the countdown timer can also be seen counting down.
Midas could play an important role in the live event. The timer is counting down.
Will Fortnite put its new map underwater for Season 3?
What happens next? This is also speculation at the moment, but the rumor persists that Season 3 of Fortnite Chapter 2 will be themed “water.” Therefore, it is possible that the event will end in some sort of disaster, resulting in a new or at least significantly altered Fortnite map.
We will certainly learn more when the countdown timer in Fortnite ticks down to 0 on May 30, 2020, and the spectacle begins.
Whether all this will really happen and whether Epic will actually transform its flagship Fortnite into a water world will be revealed next Saturday evening. The live events in Fortnite have not yet disappointed and have always been a spectacle. So we can look forward to what Epic Games comes up with this time.
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What kind of feature is this? The latest feature of the mode, “Attach Player”, allows you to merge the game characters into a single one, and it looks really crazy.
This happens by stacking the characters on top of each other:
the first player in the lobby acts as the “base”, on which the others stack
the “base” hero can move on its own
heroes stacked on the “base” can only attack
stacked heroes move together with the “base” hero, who controls the monstrosity – they essentially take on its movement speed
So if you let, for example, a Bastion be carried by a fast hero like Genji or Tracer, you get a killing machine with sprint that can rain death and destruction on its opponents.
The fun doesn’t stop here. The feature allows you to stack more than just 2 characters. The YouTube user Andy B did what we all would probably have done in his place: He, in the name of science, merged the whole team:
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What happens in the video? In the video, you first see the normal setup of one of the teams, which consists of 3 healers and 3 tanks. It is the unpopular GOATS composition, which is designed for maximum defense and is considered boring in tournaments.
The characters are then merged into a Frankenstein monster by the new Workshop feature. The funny thing is, they are still controlled by individual players from the team.
This means that while the direction is determined by the carrier, the attacks and skills are still executed by 5 other players.
You can see in the video how a hammer-and-shield-wielding and shooting amalgam of death collides with another. Later, other heroes like Winston or Wrecking Ball join in.
If you feel like a round of murderous chaos in Overwatch, then use the code 9MGGG and get started.
More and more teasers are appearing, indicating features for the upcoming Season 4 in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and in Battle Royale Warzone. In the latest of these teasers, the developers “hack” their own blog post and hide information there.
What kind of teaser is this? In the latest “Rank Up” blog post from Activision dated May 22, there is as usual a brief teaser for a new bundle in the shop, but a strange transmission follows.
Right after the presentation of some of the new content coming, instead of the “Tip of the Week,” a “strictly secret message to all Armistice Operators” starts. In this message, some of the commanders apparently talk about current events in Verdansk (the map of Warzone) and what it all means.
When does Season 4 start? Season 4 is likely to start on June 3, 2020, right after the end of the current Season 3. However, there may be an extension due to the Corona crisis. We do not yet know a specific date.
Teaser hints at superweapons – Will the map be destroyed?
This is what the teaser says: The teaser deals with several locations in Verdansk. These apparently include various bunkers that have recently become accessible, as well as strange phones.
Through these phones, transmissions could be intercepted, according to which the terrorist organization Al-Qatala has information on hidden weapons in Verdansk. Al-Qatala is already known from the campaign.
It is warned that false information could be spread via videos or social media by sleeper agents.
The developers also talk about these secret prototypes.
However, it is important that Al-Qatala has apparently found an experimental superweapon and the prototype of a new submachine gun. It is now the operators’ task to ensure that neither falls into the wrong hands.
What could this mean? The prototype is apparently the new weapon blueprint from bunker 11 for the MP7 submachine gun, which has already been in the game since the mid-season update . Thus, the content of CoD aligns with the information from the teaser.
However, the experimental weapon could mean more. So far, players have found nuclear weapons in bunker 11. Perhaps this is the corresponding superweapon, but maybe something even more dangerous awaits there.
This button is located in bunker 11 – Will it become important?
It is possible that this teaser hints at a larger change in Warzone. Once the superweapon is used – by whoever – Verdansk could change completely. Perhaps it will even be partially destroyed, similar to what happened in Season 2 of Apex Legends.
The way the developers are presenting these teasers is a bit strange. The information is scattered, coming through various channels or, like here, as a “hack” in their own post. At the same time, the developers warn about misinformation on social media. However, it fits somehow with modern warfare, is certainly a cool idea, and builds excitement for the new content.
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Finding ghost, ground, and steel Pokémon for Sinnoh research in Pokémon GO is the task of many players. MeinMMO gives you tips on where to easily find these Pokémon types.
This is the problem: In Pokémon GO, the time-limited Sinnoh research for the Nostalgia Challenge 2020 is currently running. In this, you need to find certain Pokémon types like ghost, ground, or steel to solve the challenge. However, these types are rare in the wild.
Wild: The Sinnoh event includes increased spawns of Drifloon in the wild. This Pokémon can appear anytime and counts towards the task of finding a ghost Pokémon. At night, you will find ghost types even more likely.
Trainers also report that Sableye continues to spawn.
Research: In field research, the task “Land 3 Great Throws” has about a 33% chance of rewarding you with a Gastly.
PvP: You can encounter a Larvitar as a reward in the Pokémon GO PvP league. Sludge is a guaranteed reward in PvP League when you reach Rank 4.
Item: Additionally, Diglett and Onix can be summoned by activating a Magnet Lure Module.
Research: You can receive Onix as a reward for the field research “Land 3 Great Throws in a row.” You can earn Geodude as a reward for the field research “Fight against another Trainer.”
Raids: Lastly, in level 4 raids, you can expect the ground Pokémon Hippowdon.
Wild: In the wild, Shildon can appear. Generally, there are many solutions for the steel task that you can utilize.
PvP: In the Pokémon GO PvP League, you will encounter Beldum, Metagross, or Steelix.
Item: By using a Magnet Lure Module, you can attract several steel-type Pokémon.
Research: You can get Shildon as a reward for the field research “Hatch an Egg.”
Raids: In raids, you can expect several steel Pokémon:
Raid Level 1: Shinx
Raid Level 3: Steelix
Raid Level 4: Bronzong
Others: For the patient trainers among you, on Tuesday, May 26, there will be a Spotlight Hour with the steel Pokémon Bronzor. By this day at the latest, you should solve the steel task.
If you have a Meltan Box, you can also find the solution for the steel task with this Pokémon.
More options: If you are lucky and find Team Rocket, you might also find some Pokémon there. This heavily depends on chance, but can help with ground, rock, ghost, and electric Pokémon.
