Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are part of the standard for binge-watchers. However, to watch series like The Walking Dead Season 8, Game of Thrones, or the new Babylon Berlin, Sky Ticket is required.
The cold season is a time when many enjoy watching movies and series. If you want to watch HBO series or shows like The Walking Dead Season 8, you can’t avoid Sky.
If you want to avoid a long-term contract with Sky, Sky Ticket Entertainment offers an alternative. It can be canceled monthly, providing full cost control. Currently, you can get the Sky Ticket for three months for a one-time fee of 4.99 euros. This corresponds to a savings of 83% compared to the regular subscription. Thus, you get December, January, and February for about five euros. From March 2018, the regular base price of 9.99 euros will be due if you do not cancel beforehand.
According to Sky, the offer is only valid “as long as it is available.” In any case, you can watch Babylon Berlin, The Walking Dead Seasons 1 to 8, The Deuce, Westworld, Grey’s Anatomy, and many more with Sky Ticket. You can use Sky Ticket through the browser on your PC or via the app on your smartphone, consoles, and directly on your Smart TV.
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In the Pokémon GO shop, you will find two new boxes and Super Incubators. Niantic has already adjusted the price of the large box.
For over a day, the global catch event has been running, rewarding trainers with Porenta spawns around the world. But only if the community catches 3 billion Pokémon together.
In line with the event, there are now new boxes in the shop that will supply you with many items. We present the new packages to you here.
Prices and Contents of the Special Box and the Hyperbox
The new packages in the shop give you the opportunity to stock up on Lucky Eggs, Premium Raid Passes, Lures, and Balls. This time there is a choice between two packages. Additionally, the popular Super Incubators are currently on sale for 200 coins.
Special Box – Contents
The special box is the cheaper box of the current offer. It costs 380 PokéCoins. Inside, you will find:
20x Great Ball
6x Lucky Egg
1x Premium Raid Pass
4x Lure Module
Hyperbox – Contents
The hyperbox costs more than double that of the special box. The price has been reduced from originally 1480 PokéCoins to 880 PokéCoins. You will find inside:
30x Ultra Ball
16x Lucky Egg
4x Premium Raid Pass
8x Lure Module
Did you purchase the hyperbox at the full price of 1480 PokéCoins? No problem, Niantic will make it right. NianticGeorge explains on Reddit that the initial price was incorrect and 880 coins are correct. Players who paid 1480 coins should contact Niantic. Here is the contact form on nianticlabs.com
How long will the boxes remain?
The official Pokémon GO account on Twitter confirmed that the offer boxes will remain in the shop until December 4, 2017.
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The contents of the new boxes clearly show that they are particularly beneficial for trainers who want to collect lots of experience points during the global catch event.
Event bonuses include double the amount of experience points and extended Lures. In combination with a Lucky Egg, you will therefore receive four times the amount of experience points. And the Lures now last for 6 hours instead of 30 minutes.
After initial difficulties, Raids now also give double experience points. These are good conditions to attract and catch many Pokémon to boost your trainer level.
How does the global catch event work? When do the bonuses come and how long will they last in Pokémon GO? You can find out everything about the event in our Catch Challenge Guide
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Class diversity is important in World of Warcraft. Or is it? This guild shows that you really only need one class – namely Druids!
Currently, Kil’jaeden is still the hardest boss in World of Warcraft in Legion. He is the final opponent in the great raid “Tomb of Sargeras”, which will soon be outdated, as Antorus, the Burning Throne, will open in a few days.
In general, raid leaders place great importance on having a healthy mix of all classes in a raid group. Various useful class skills can be well combined; for example, a Warlock portal can be helpful in some fights, and a solid mix of different AoE classes can also be beneficial.
The guild “Druids of the Beast” wants nothing to do with this diversity. As the name suggests, they only have one single class in their guild – Druids.
Druids in World of Warcraft have the significant advantage that they are the only class with four different specializations. They can take on the roles of tanks and healers in the raid as well as act as ranged and melee fighters.
This allowed players to ultimately defeat Kil’jaeden in heroic mode with an all-Druid group.
All other bosses of the raid had already been defeated in heroic by Druids of the Beast beforehand, even though they consider themselves a “casual guild”.
For the sake of fairness, it should be said that the Tomb of Sargeras has become increasingly easier in recent months due to new systems like the Netherlight Crucible and some nerfs to the raid itself.
Nevertheless, this is an impressive achievement, and the players of Druids of the Beast must be proud of their choice to play as Druids.
Skyforge, the futuristic MMORPG from My.com, is now available on Xbox One. If you want a cool starter pack there, you just need a bit of luck in our giveaway.
Skyforge is an online role-playing game with an action combat system set in a cool science-fiction world. There, your heroes are like immortal gods with superpowers and the last line of defense against all sorts of aliens that would like to plunder your world Aelion.
As deities, you have a ton of skills and can even change your class at any time. So if you are struggling as a melee Paladin, you can easily switch to the ranged class “Gunner” between fights or curse your enemies as a Witch.
Skyforge is already available on PC and PlayStation 4, and a version for Xbox One has also been released.
20 Gold Starter Packs for Skyforge on Xbox One worth a total of 1,600 Euros to win!
To help you get started in Skyforge on Xbox One, the developers sent us a bunch of codes that we would like to pass on to you. These are Gold starter packs.
Included are:
The Berserker class as unlock
The Gunner class as unlock
An exclusive glider mount
40,000 Argents
60 days of premium playtime
Such a pack is worth 80 Euros and can be redeemed in the Xbox Marketplace.
If you want to win a code, you just have to complete at least three of the actions from the embedded window here. However, each participant can win only one code. The deadline for submissions is December 4, 2017, at 12:00 PM. Winners will be randomly selected and notified via the email address provided in the giveaway box after the event ends. Good luck! Legal recourse is excluded!
The winners have been determined and the codes sent out. Thank you for your participation!
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The online shooter Destiny 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One) has a clearly identifiable huge problem in the endgame, but can Bungie solve this with the DLC Curse of Osiris in December?
Veterans of Destiny 1 have seen the central problem of Destiny 2 coming early: Due to the removal of random rolls on weapons you only need to obtain each item in Destiny 2 once. Because it only exists in exactly one version, the perks are fixed.
The central criticism of Destiny 2 is thus: The endgame is missing.
Bungie wanted to transform Destiny 2 into a “collecting game” but significantly reduced the collecting aspect.
160 weapons instead of 1800 variants – Destiny 2 cuts back as a collecting game
On reddit, a player calculated:
Vanilla Destiny 2 has 160 legendary weapons with fixed perks.
Vanilla Destiny 1 only had 60, but due to the random rolls, there were 1800 variants.
The removal of random rolls eliminates the collecting aspect of Destiny 2. Hardcore players quickly fill their inventory with all items and have no reason to continue playing. In Destiny 1, you could always exchange specific weapons for better versions of the same weapon. The inventory took ages to fill. Players had goals.
In Destiny 1, there was no real reason to collect optimal items. There was nothing in Destiny that required a “perfect weapon collection.” Players simply wanted it and played the same content for hundreds of hours. That was okay because the gunplay was so fantastic.
These contents are also available in Destiny 2, the gunplay is still fantastic, only the reason to replay the content is missing.
The silence of the developers
At Bungie, it has been known for a while that there would be problems here. They promised to develop “exciting ideas” to make duplicate items more interesting. However, these ideas have apparently never made their way into the game.
A discussion about this has been lacking from Bungie.
Instead, player dissatisfaction grew louder, and finally, at the end of October, the announcement came: “To find new systems and rewards to give the most engaged players something to do.”
But since then, Bungie has remained silent on that topic.
However, they warn fans not to expect the DLC to fix the endgame of Destiny 2 on its own. According to PC Gamer, this DLC has been in development for a long time and one cannot expect that player feedback on Destiny 2 will be fully addressed.
However, there is hope. PC Gamer speaks of an “update” that the live team of Destiny 2 is working on. This should include “some of the balance changes” that Bungie has hinted at.
This is the “Season” update, which is also supposed to bring numerous new items and restock the cash shop.
Interestingly, the savior of Destiny 2 seems to be Chris Barrett, the Game Director of House of Wolves and Rise of Iron. We thought until now that he could also be the Game Director of “Curse of Osiris”. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case. In the last stream, Dan Miller was revealed as the Game Director.
He has also been with Bungie for a long time, having been a mission designer for Halo 10 years ago, and is now apparently stepping into a leadership role for the first time.
Barrett has a different position.
Christopher Barrett
This could mean at best that Chris Barrett has moved to the live team and is working to fix Destiny 2. We prefer not to think about the worst-case scenario. That would anticipate a solution only later in 2018.
Curse of Osiris will not solve the endgame problem. However, there is a small chance that the accompanying free patch will address some of the issues.
When can we expect new information about the endgame?
It is crucial for Bungie to finally lay out solutions and a timeline. Tonight’s stream should not be expected to bring much news. Hopes rest on the stream about the gear next week or a straightforward announcement for the free update on a Thursday evening in “This week at Bungie.”
We at Mein MMO keep you updated. We will accompany tonight’s stream about “new ways to play” with a live ticker starting at 8 PM.
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The tank MMO World of Tanks might soon get a beautiful new engine. The developers have been working on an in-house development since 2014, which is set to replace the aging Bigworld engine.
Many free-to-play games like World of Tanks operate as “Game-as-a-Service.” This means that the game runs for a long time and is kept up to date. Instead of replacing it after a short time with a souped-up successor with new features, the same game continues on.
While this has the advantage of always having your familiar favorite game with the known community and keeping your progress, games also age, and eventually, they simply don’t look fresh anymore.
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In order for a game to still look good over the years, developers continually enhance the graphics. However, there are limits to this. Sooner or later, the underlying game engine, the foundation of every game, simply becomes too weak. You can’t just merrily add new graphic features to a game and expect everything to work.
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World of Tanks has reached such a point. The tank game from 2010 has already been graphically revised several times, but you can noticeably see its age. However, it may not be long now, as Wargaming claims to have been working on a new engine since 2014 to replace the Bigworld engine that was purchased back then.
Dynamic water, physics rendering, and dirt – The new WoT engine will be amazing!
In an interview with the website 80.lv, the developers at Wargaming presented their new engine. There were even pictures and videos to see. Tanks drive through beautiful landscapes in the film. The lighting effects are particularly impressive, as well as the physics engine, which makes objects collapse realistically.
In addition, there are spectacular explosions and dynamic water that splashes away as a bow wave in front of a moving tank or is displaced by the shock wave of the muzzle flash.
Further planned features of the engine include:
Physically Based Rendering (PBR)
Possibly HDR support
Global lighting effects like lens flares and god rays in post-processing
Textures are to be created from photographed and then converted surfaces
Trees will come into the game with “Speedtree” and have their own physics
Tanks will get dirty when driving through mud
The new graphics engine is already well advanced and is currently being tested on its own server. Therefore, it shouldn’t be long before the new graphics go live.
First gameplay scenes from the recently announced mobile MMO Blade & Soul Revolution have emerged from the Korean G-Star 2017 event. Will the game be a mobile MMO with complex combat gameplay?
Mobile MMOs like the enormously successful Lineage 2 Revolution are a blast to play, but thanks to the auto-play feature, it feels more like an MMO hero manager than a “real” MMORPG.
Things might be different with the recently announced Blade & Soul Revolution .
Lineage 2 Revolution meets Blade & Soul
Thanks to the powerful Unreal Engine 4, Blade & Soul Revolution looks extremely good on mobile displays. The graphics are on par with the PC version, and the colorful Kung Fu world of Blade & Soul is immediately recognizable.
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Like the successful mobile MMO Lineage 2 Revolution (L2R), Blade & Soul Revolution is developed by Netmarble. Therefore, the game has more in common with L2R than just the name. The entire interface looks extremely similar to Lineage 2 Revolution. The buttons for skills and attacks are basically the same.
Combo Combat System and Aerial Acrobatics
Additionally, you can clearly see in the videos from the G-Star 2017 event that Blade & Soul Revolution also includes auto-play and auto-quest features. However, the skills seem to function more complexly than in L2R. There appear to be combos, as is typical with the original Blade & Soul, which you trigger by connecting different skills.
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Another highlight of Blade & Soul on PC is the cool Kung Fu maneuvers of your heroes. They can – like in a Kung Fu movie – heroically sail through the air or dash around at lightning speed. It seems that Blade & Soul Revolution has its own skill menu that allows you to pull off particularly cool stunts.
Also cool: Unlike the isometric view of Lineage 2 Revolution, Blade & Soul Revolution offers a complete 3D view, in which you can freely rotate and zoom the camera.
4 Classes with Minimal Gender-Lock?
In the videos from G-Star 2017, you can also see which classes are currently planned. There are the races of Lyn, Gon, Yun, and Jin known from Blade & Soul. As for classes, they offer you Kung Fu Master, Elementalist, Berserker, and Blade Master.
Unlike Lineage 2 Revolution, not all classes are bound by gender-lock. There seems to be a choice of gender. Except for the Yun, who are always female.
In ARK Survival Evolved (PC, PS4, Xbox One), there was an outcry in the community as the players’ turrets are to be disabled on a large scale. The turrets cause significant problems on PvP servers. Additionally, the new expansion Aberration has been pushed to December.
Over the weekend, an uproar spread through the world of ARK Survival Evolved. In a blog post, Studio Wildcard announced that turrets will receive a nerf and be limited for players.
The turrets are currently a staple in the PvP mode of the dino MMO and are used in mass – this is where the difficulty lies.
Turrets significantly degrade performance in PvP
Performance has long been a major issue in ARK Survival Evolved. Players have been struggling with crashes and severe lags, especially on official servers. Recently, Studio Wildcard designed a tool that analyzes the servers and identifies performance issues.
The tool concluded that the mass of turrets accounts for a significant portion of the poor performance in ARK. PC servers are more affected by this than console servers since they have fewer limitations. Every single server suffers considerably from slowdowns due to the many turrets.
Among the 150 slowest servers, only 15 are PvE servers. The problem mainly occurs on PvP servers, where the situation is really bad. Therefore, the turrets will now receive a density nerf.
The turrets are a key part of the meta in PvP, where tribes compete against each other. Players were upset when they learned about the nerf to the turrets.
On December 5, all turrets exceeding the new density limit will be disabled
To tackle the problem, Studio Wildcard will introduce a density limit for the turrets. There will be a restriction on how many turrets can be placed within a certain radius.
With a new patch, players will be informed about what the new limit will be and whether they exceed it. By December 5, survivors will have time to adjust their use of turrets.
The following types of turrets are affected:
Plant Species X
Autoturrets
TEK turrets
All turrets that exceed the new density limit will be disabled on December 5. At the same time, turrets will receive a buff granting them 20% more damage.
After players protested, Studio Wildcard also announced that they will introduce a new turret. This turret is supposed to be generally 4x more effective than the previous turrets.
Release of the expansion Aberration postponed to December
Amid all the drama about the turrets over the weekend, an important announcement nearly got overlooked: The new DLC Aberration has been postponed to December 2017. Aberration was originally set to release in October 2017.
In Destiny 2, the Calus Challenge is live! Here you will find the solution on how to complete the raid challenge in the Throne Room.
The last challenge in the Leviathan raid is now known! On 21.11, the challenge against the final boss Calus went live, which you can now defeat in a special way.
The raid challenge is available in both normal mode and prestige mode.
Solution for the raid challenge in the Throne Room
One condition must be met for the challenge:
In each damage phase, you must activate all four platforms simultaneously while dealing damage to Calus.
This means that each platform must be occupied while you shoot at Calus. If you are only on one platform or activate the other platforms too late, the challenge will fail. This will be indicated with the message “Challenge failed” at the bottom left corner of the screen:
How do I best approach this challenge?
Play the encounter as you did before. Three Guardians stay in the dimension, three players return to the throne room (you can also play 4 in the dimension, 2 in the throne room). The players in the dimension shoot at the skulls, increase the buff, and also return to the throne room.
Normally, all 6 Guardians would now stand on one platform together, deal damage to Calus, and then jump from one platform to the next together. This time, do not proceed that way.
Instead:
Decide in advance who will jump to which platform.
Tip: 2 Guardians take the platform front right (Sun), 2 Guardians take front left (Cup), and one Guardian each stands on Dog and Axe. This ensures each platform is occupied, and since the front platforms are closer to Calus, you can avoid any damage drop-offs here. Now hit Calus with everything you have.
As all platforms have been activated after this phase, you must wait until the next damage phase to deal damage to Calus again.
So repeat the entire process until Calus is down. This should definitely be possible within three damage phases. However, there are also several reports from Guardians who managed to defeat Calus in two phases this way.
Nexxoss Gaming shows you the challenge in the video in German:
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The upcoming MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria aims to offer players many freedoms and opportunities. This includes becoming the ruler of a kingdom and influencing the lore.
The story of Chronicles of Elyria will differ from server to server.
For each server, the community can already participate significantly, well before the game’s release, in creating their own backstories for the countries and provinces of the game world. This lore will then be unique for each server. Therefore, it is already important for players to choose one of the servers on which they want to play.
Community chooses their king
A new video shows what this can look like. At the beginning, you will see the backstory of one of the servers that has been developed with the community. But the video has more to offer. Because one of the countries on the North American Luna server does not yet have a king. And this king is to be elected from the community.
The developers have come up with something special: the Kingdom Tokens. These can be purchased by players to support the development of the game and also to collect. Because whoever owns the most tokens will become the king. Now one might think that the person who buys the most Kingdom Tokens will automatically become the ruler. However, this is not the case. It is possible to give away the tokens.
Only those supported by many have a chance at the crown
This means that a community can buy tokens for a specific person they want to have as their king. It doesn’t matter who has the deepest wallet, but who receives the most support from the community. Additionally, you earn XP, the in-game currency of the game, with the purchase of tokens. This XP can then be used to modify your backer level. This way, you receive specific bonus items or starter sets that you add to your level using your collected XP.
A group of H1Z1 players were annoyed that they were taken out by an invisible developer who didn’t even know he had activated his superpower.
When game developers stream themselves and show proximity to the players, it is often something special for the community. However, when the developer runs around with “cheats” on the servers, it is special in a different way: annoying for those involved and funny for the viewers.
Invisible with the shotgun
Joshua Kriegshauser is the Technical Director at H1Z1 and often streams the battle royale game on Twitch. Recently, while playing and livestreaming with his friends, he apparently forgot to turn off his “superpower.”
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After he attacked a group of players, he realized something was not quite right.
When he saw the player group in the distance, the developer pursued them with his police car, jumped out of the car, and pumped the surprised players full of buckshot. But then he noticed that they seemed to ignore him and turn their backs on him.
Then the players suddenly called out over H1Z1’s voice chat: “Why are you cheating?” “A developer who cheats?!”
This left the developer surprised and a bit shocked, causing him to pause. He stopped shooting. Worried, he asked the player group if they couldn’t see him. Kriegshauser realized the problem “Oh my God! Am I still invisible?”
Quickly, he opened the game console and deactivated the developer ability that made him invisible to opponents. The group reacted with a mix of joy and anger. After the clip shown, a player emerged from behind the police car and gunned down the developer.
Kriegshauser commented, embarrassed, “Yes, you earned that kill.” and apologized again to the group.
After the match, he played a few more matches and waved to the players in the starting area. With that, he likely wanted to ensure they could really see him.
#FixFIFA is currently spreading like wildfire on Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube. The players want to collectively urge EA Sports to improve FIFA 18. What is behind it?
Recently, the user PuRe_SSROCK posted a detailed opinion piece in the Reddit forum, which he simply named #FixFIFA. Within a very short time, he received over 8000 upvotes and significant community support. This hashtag #FixFIFA is now rapidly spreading on social networks.
On the front page of the FIFA Reddit, there are currently (21.11.) 18 posts that also have the hashtag #FixFIFA in the title or directly refer to it. On Twitter, tweets with this hashtag are coming in every minute. YouTubers are already referencing it as well.
In other words, there is currently almost no other topic in the community. Together and united, they want to make a change – they want to urge EA Sports to improve FIFA 18.
What is #FixFIFA actually about?
SSROCK writes that he has played every FIFA since FIFA 04 and has experienced the highs and lows of this franchise. In his opinion, FIFA 18 was nearly perfect at release, but that changed drastically with the following patches.
Now he wants to achieve something similar to the community of Star Wars Battlefront 2. They protested together against the “loot box disaster” in Battlefront 2, so that the microtransactions were quickly removed by EA – at least temporarily. The community was able to make a change.
The #FixFIFA movement aims to unite the frustrated FIFA community in a similar way, so they can collectively advocate for a better FIFA 18.
Specifically, SSROCK is concerned about these points:
The packs in Ultimate Team mode are far too reliant on luck and have terrible drop rates. You can spend a few dollars and with a lot of luck get a Cristiano Ronaldo, or spend thousands of dollars and still never see a top player. Users with the best teams put enormous amounts of money into this mode, which is absurd for an annual installment. The focus should be less on microtransactions and more on gameplay.
EA Sports has changed the gameplay drastically since launch. Many players just wanted the long shots to be toned down a bit. However, bigger changes came: defending was completely overhauled, the gameplay feels slower, goalkeepers behave very differently, the game is no longer fun and is also not competitive. This FIFA 18 is not the FIFA 18 that was paid for in September.
The weekend league needs to be extended. Anyone who wants to succeed in this mode must complete 40 matches within a few days. That is “unhealthy”, many players cannot sustain that for months. Generally, the weekend league needs to be restructured.
EA only takes care of FUT. In particular, the “Pro Clubs” mode is neglected. It has so much unused potential. EA is accused of only focusing on FUT because this mode makes enormous amounts of money through microtransactions.
The leveling in the EASFC catalog is broken.
Penalty kicks need a fundamental overhaul. They are based on luck and are not skill-based at all.
Cheating on PC remains a problem.
Additionally, many complain about input delay, meaning that the players on the field only react with a delay.
Moreover, many users believe that the momentum in FIFA 18 is greater than ever before.
There are numerous other issues highlighted by other users.
Here is a video that falls under the hashtag FixFIFA:
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With WoW Classic many things are coming back to the game. We will tell you what we are particularly looking forward to!
At BlizzCon 2017, Blizzard finally fulfilled a long-cherished wish for fans of World of Warcraft. After years in which only private servers of the “Vanilla” version of the MMORPG were available, finally “Classic” servers for World of Warcraft were announced.
Although there is no fixed date for the launch of these servers yet, part of the community is excited and lost in nostalgic memories. We have listed some points that we are really looking forward to with “Classic”!
Duskwood – The best quest area of all
Anyone who played a character for the Alliance back in the “good old days” (preferably a human) was sent to the most atmospheric quest area that World of Warcraft has ever had around level 20. Duskwood (or translated the “Twilight Forest”) had a gloomy atmosphere that no other zone in current or past World of Warcraft has ever been able to achieve.
In contrast to the friendly forest of Elwynn, the Redridge Mountains, and even the not-so-bright Westfall, Duskwood was very dark. The sky could only be seen clearly in a few places through the treetops, and creepy eyes peered from the bushes at every corner.
The overall atmosphere was also reflected in the quests. There was the almost legendary questline about the undertaker’s wife. A hermit tries to resurrect his wife and inadvertently creates a monstrosity that subsequently terrorizes the whole forest as “Stitches”. This was a major elite opponent who not only looked incredibly disgusting (as an Alliance player, one had not seen this form of undead before), but was also strong. The worst part was probably that as a player you were “used” to create this creature.
Furthermore: Who doesn’t miss smashing innocent zombies at level 23 in the cemetery of Raven Hill, only to hear the growl of a skeleton and get killed by the creepy skeleton knight Mor’Ladim with just one hit? He was indeed many levels above the other enemies in the area and thus a real threat. Also, he patrolled the whole graveyard. A quick “mana break” quickly turned into a visit to the spirit healer.
The event Fanfare Call in Destiny 2 was supposed to significantly increase experience gains. However, players are reporting incorrect displayed EXP and cooldowns. Was the event broken?
Bungie wants to keep players engaged in Destiny 2 with regular events, ensuring they stay interested or at least return to the game more frequently. In recent days, an event in Destiny 2 that doubled experience gains was running, as long as you were playing with at least one clanmate.
This is useful in two ways:
You can bring another Guardian to the maximum level of 20 faster with a clanmate, or
You can more easily obtain Bright Engrams, which contain various cosmetic items.
Bungie plans to hold the event in the future, but under different conditions. Next time,clan membership will no longer be necessary.
Guardians are now reporting consistently that the amount of experience points gained does not match the display in the game. Is the entire event ineffective?
Displayed experience gains do not match external sources like the Destiny Item Manager or Destinytracker (it’s significantly lower than what the game suggests)
There seems to be a cooldown on EXP gains. Those farming public events or other activities for an extended period receive progressively fewer experience points, though this is not visualized in the game
The second aspect also applies to chests and planetary resources. If you collect too many in a short time, you eventually run out. It seems Bungie has applied this system to EXP as well.
A player has published a screenshot on Reddit showing the effect of 15,000 EXP on the progress bar. Buffs like the Fireteam Medallion, “Well Rested,” and the Fanfare Call were active:
As you can see, there’s almost no gain on the progress bar. Although 15,000 EXP is displayed, the bar hardly fills up.
Comparisons with EA’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 Lootbox Disaster are becoming louder
Why are experience gains displayed incorrectly in the game? Why are the bonuses of the Fanfare Call event seemingly marginal? Some Guardians suspect malice on the part of Bungie / Activision.
They accuse the responsible parties of wanting to force players to invest real money in Bright Engrams due to the low experience gains. Therefore, the Fanfare Call event was completely pointless if the XP gains have cooldowns.
Comparisons with the loot box disaster surrounding EA and Star Wars Battlefront 2 are becoming louder. The Bright Engram system is seen as a similar money grab.
EA made the principle of “loot boxes” a core element in Star Wars Battlefront 2 and after loud protests at least temporarily rolled back – disabling in-game purchases via real money.
Currently causing trouble – Loot boxes
Even though Bright Engrams primarily contain cosmetic items, players feel cheated. It’s not so much about the aspect that experience gains are subjected to an invisible cooldown, but that the game presents alternative facts that do not hold up to reality.
Even though this issue has been known for a few weeks now, Bungie has yet to comment on this problem, which further frustrates the player base. It remains to be seen whether the increasing discussions will change Bungie’s communication policy.
Have you noticed any irregularities in experience gains in the past few days as well?
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The loot box criticism surrounding the online shooter Star Wars Battlefront 2 has sparked another discussion: Do video games cost too little money?
KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Evan Wingren analyzes the controversy over loot boxes in Star Wars Battlefront 2. According to him, the negative reactions to the loot boxes and EA’s concession have resulted in a “somewhat higher chance that” Battlefront 2 will remain below the expected 13 million sales.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 was an ideal breeding ground for overreaction
In a statement, Wingren writes: The case here was an ideal breeding ground for overreaction because EA, Star Wars, Reddit, and certain “purist gaming journalists who dislike microtransactions” came together.
While Wingren believes that Electronic Arts did not handle the launch of Star Wars Battlefront 2 particularly elegantly, he cannot understand all the hate directed at loot boxes and microtransactions. According to him, games today do not cost too much, but conversely, too little money. Publishers should raise prices. He says this as someone who is a gamer himself.
Video games are a cheap form of entertainment
Wingren supports this thesis with some numbers. He describes the scenario as follows:
The acquisition costs of the online shooter Battlefront 2 amount to around 60 dollars
A player spends an additional 20 dollars per month on in-game purchases in Wingren’s example
Playing 2.5 hours per day for a whole year
This results in a entertainment value of 40 cents per hour for Star Wars Battlefront 2
In comparison:
it costs 60 to 65 cents an hour to watch pay TV
Renting a movie brings an entertainment value of 80 cents per hour
Seeing a movie in the cinema costs more than 3 dollars per hour
Better to skip the movie and play Battlefront 2!
According to Evan Wingren, this shows that playing video games is a cheap form of entertainment. He believes that game developers and publishers provide a low-cost form of entertainment and should generally raise prices.
The perspective of the press and the media shows a false perspective here. If someone enjoys playing and likes Star Wars, they would be much better off skipping the new Star Wars movie and instead buying the game. There would be more entertainment per dollar.
The English-speaking site PC Gamer notes: Looking back 30 years, one can see that the prices for a video game have changed little over this time. Back then, the game King’s Quest 4 from Sierra cost 45 dollars. Today, Star Wars Battlefront 2 costs 60 dollars. In comparison: 30 years ago, a movie ticket cost about 4 dollars. Today it costs almost 9.
What do you think? Do video games generally cost too little? Should base prices be raised or are microtransactions okay?
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Hearthstone is changing its game rules. Rogues will also get secrets. We will show you these and more cards here.
In a few weeks, Hearthstone will launch the next expansion. Kobolds and Catacombs brings numerous new cards, the first of which were revealed at BlizzCon 2017. Now Blizzard has started publishing more cards while announcing a small gameplay sensation: Rogues are getting secrets! Until now, these cards were exclusive to Paladins, Mages, and Hunters.
We will show you which highlights have already been revealed.
9 new Hearthstone cards from Kobolds and Catacombs
As a neutral minion, there is the Feral Gibberer, a 1/1 minion for 1 mana. The twist is that you get a copy of this minion in your hand every time it attacks an opposing hero. Together with the right buff cards, that should create great combinations, especially benefiting Paladins and Druids.
Rogues get secrets. One of them is Sudden Betrayal for 2 mana. When an opposing minion attacks the hero, it instead attacks a neighboring minion. Thus, in the best case, two enemy minions eliminate each other.
A second secret card for the Rogue is Cheat Death – also for 2 mana. When an allied minion dies, it instead returns to the Rogue’s hand and its mana cost is reduced by 2.
For Priests, there is an addition for Dragon decks. The Duskbreaker is a dragon for 4 mana, with stats of 3/3. Its Battlecry deals 3 damage to all other minions if the Priest holds another dragon in hand.
The legendary weapon for Shamans has also been revealed and will delight all RNG fans. The Runespear costs 8 mana and has stats of 3/3, but a special effect. After the hero attacks with this weapon, the Shaman discovers a spell. This is then cast on random targets.
Druids get a card with 3 options. Branching Paths costs 4 mana and allows the Druid to choose between:
“Draw a card”
“Give your minions +1 Attack”
“Gain 6 Armor”
The Druid may choose twice, allowing for effects to be activated twice. This gives the card particularly much flexibility and can be used in almost any situation.
For Paladins, there is the spell Level Up!, which for 5 mana grants all Silver Hand recruits +2/+2 and Taunt. A clear addition to the Paladin’s “Token” deck.
Hunters can look forward to a new Legendary. The minion Kathrena Winterwisp comes with weak stats of 6/6 for 8 mana but compensates with a Battlecry and a Deathrattle. Both effects say: Recruit a beast. (Recruiting summons a minion from the deck and places it immediately onto the battlefield.)
Warriors get a spell that evolves continuously when you hold the card in your hand and play weapons in the meantime. The spell starts as Lesser Mithril Spellstone for 7 mana and summons a 5/5 minion. After playing a weapon, the card becomes Mithril Spellstone and summons two 5/5 minions for 7 mana. After one more weapon, the Warrior finally receives the Greater Mithril Spellstone, which brings three 5/5 minions onto the battlefield for 7 mana. This sounds like a must-have card!
How do you like the new cards so far? Too powerful? Too weak? Or just right to make the game interesting?
The tank MMO Armored Warfare has launched on Steam and is also getting new content. Is this a chance for the troubled game to make a comeback?
Armored Warfare from My.com is a tank action game in the style of World of Tanks. However, unlike Wargaming’s flagship game, you play here with tanks from the post-World War II era. The selection of vehicles ranges from the 50s to modern ones like the M1A2, Challenger II, or Leopard II.
Unfortunately, My.com’s tank fun has not been very successful so far, and the player numbers are currently low.
Steam release should attract new players
Armored Warfare is now available on Steam. However, you will need to create a new account. You cannot transfer your old progress. But for many Armored Warfare players, that’s not so bad, as it allows them to start fresh and capture that initial excitement.
Moreover, this could bring a wave of new players to the game. Recently, it looked rather bleak when trying to find a match in PvP. There were simply too few players online. Many players have said that Armored Warfare is practically dead. With the Steam launch, some are hoping for a second chance for the tank MMO.
However, so far not many players are active on Steam, and the reviews have been rather “Mixed”.
Update “Art of War” brings China content
Along with the Steam launch comes the update “Art of War” featuring “China”. This includes a bunch of Chinese vehicles and maps from the Middle Kingdom.
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In Destiny 2, today, on November 21, is the Weekly Reset, the weekly reset. There are fresh activities, such as the Nightfall strike, the Iron Banner, or the raid challenge.
At 10 AM today, the Weekly Reset is happening. However, the most exciting Destiny event of the day will take place a few hours later: At 8 PM, Bungie will hold the second livestream for Curse of Osiris, which will be about the new activities of the expansion. This teaser trailer is meant to get you hyped. We will be covering the stream live.
The Flashpoint is Io. You get to master public events there.
For this time, the Raid Challenge features the final boss Calus. There is a “Throne Challenge.” Update: The challenge has been cracked – Here is the solution.
Cayde-6 has treasure maps for Io.
Ikora Rey has you mastering the meditations from the last week. These are Six, Sacrilege, and Cycle.
The offers for Black Friday have started in the PlayStation Store (PS Store)! These “Mega Weekend Offers” bring discounts on several current top games!
FIFA 18, GT Sport, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Call of Duty WW2 – these game hits have been released in the last two months. Despite their freshness, you can now purchase these and many other games at heavily reduced prices.
The reason: The Black Friday offers are live in the PlayStation Store. In the store, they are called “Mega Weekend Offers,” but Sony itself promotes them as “Black Friday Offers.”
These games are discounted in the PS Store for Black Friday
The offers started today, on November 21, exclusively for PS Plus members. Until November 23 at 1 AM, they remain PS Plus-exclusive and will then be available to all players. So with PS Plus, you have early access.
The Black Friday offers will end for everyone on November 28 at 1 AM. You have about a week to snag one or another bargain.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy – 19.99 Euros (50% off)
Call of Duty WWII – 59.49 Euros (15% off)
Battlefield 1 Revolution – 29.99 Euros (50% off)
The Evil Within 2 – 34.99 Euros (50% off)
Middle-earth: Shadow of War – 41.99 Euros (40% off)
Destiny 2 – Standard Edition – 45.49 Euros (35% off)
ARK Survival Evolved – 34.99 Euros (50% off)
Tekken 7 – 34.99 Euros (50% off)
You can access the offers in the PlayStation Store by selecting the “Offers” tab on the left side of the store and then clicking on “Mega Weekend Offers.” Now select “All Games,” where you will find an overview of the discounted games.
Here is the complete list of PS4 games that the PlayStation Blog lists:
Gran Turismo™ Sport
Gran Turismo™ Sport Digital Deluxe Edition
FIFA 18
Assassin’s Creed® Origins
Assassin’s Creed® Origins – DELUXE EDITION
Assassin’s Creed® Origins – GOLD EDITION
Need for Speed™ Payback
Need for Speed™ Payback – Deluxe Edition
Grand Theft Auto V
FIFA 18 ICON Edition
FIFA 18 Ronaldo Edition
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
NBA 2K18
NBA 2K18 Legend Edition
NBA 2K18 Legend Edition Gold
Call of Duty®: WWII
Call of Duty®: WWII – Digital Deluxe
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Deluxe Edition
Battlefield™ 1 Revolution
Battlefield™ 1 & Titanfall™ 2 Ultimate Bundle
Battlefield™ 1 Premium Pass
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole – Gold Edition
The Evil Within® 2
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands – Standard Edition
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands – Deluxe…
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands – Gold Edition
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Middle-earth: Shadow of War Gold Edition
F1™ 2017
Destiny 2
Destiny 2 – Digital Deluxe Edition
Destiny 2 – Game + Expansion Pass Bundle
Wolfenstein® II: The New Colossus™
Wolfenstein® II: The New Colossus™ Digital Deluxe Edition
Horizon Zero Dawn™
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Digital Deluxe Edition
Complete Your ARK Season Pass
ARK: Scorched Earth
ARK: Survival Evolved – Founder’s Edition
ARK: Survival Evolved Explorer’s Edition
ARK: Survival Evolved Season Pass
WWE 2K18
WWE 2K18 Digital Deluxe Edition
TEKKEN 7
TEKKEN 7 – Season Pass
TEKKEN 7 Deluxe Edition
Persona 5
Persona 5: Ultimate Edition
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
Tales of Berseria
NieR: Automata™
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 DELUXE EDITION
FINAL FANTASY® XV
FINAL FANTASY XV Digital Premium Edition
Nioh
Nioh Season Pass
Knack 2
UNCHARTED™ 4: A Thief’s End Digital Edition
Uncharted™: The Nathan Drake Collection
Bloodborne™
Bloodborne™ The Old Hunters
Bloodborne™: Game of the Year Edition
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Game of the Year Edition
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Expansion Pass
GWENT – 1600 Meteorite Powder
GWENT – 3200 Meteorite Powder
GWENT – 400 Meteorite Powder
GWENT – 4800 Meteorite Powder
GWENT – 7200 Meteorite Powder
GWENT – 800 Meteorite Powder
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Complete Edition
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Year 2 Gold Edition
Friday the 13th: The Game
Ratchet & Clank™
FOR HONOR™ DELUXE EDITION
FOR HONOR™ GOLD EDITION
FOR HONOR™ SEASON PASS
Sniper Elite 4
Sniper Elite 4 – Season Pass
Sniper Elite 4 Digital Deluxe Edition
Batman™: Arkham VR
PlayStation®VR Worlds
Gravity Rush™ Remastered
MLB® The Show™ 17
MLB® The Show™ 17 Digital Deluxe Edition
MLB® The Show™ 17 MVP Edition
Eagle Flight
Sports Bar VR
Star Trek™: Bridge Crew
The Brookhaven Experiment
Battlezone
I Expect You To Die
The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind Collector’s Edition
Carnival Games® VR
Werewolves Within
Keep in mind that not all of these games may be discounted in Germany. Additionally, some PS3 and Vita games are also available in the Black Friday offers.
A new patch (1.18) of Overwatch has landed on the PTR. We’re here to reveal what’s new besides the fantastic “Blizzard World” map.
Although Moira and the associated patch 1.17 have only been live on Overwatch’s servers for a few days, Blizzard is already rolling out the next patch for testing. All PC players of Overwatch can now download the PTR client with the preliminary version of Patch 1.18.
The highlight of the patch is the new map Blizzard World. In the future of Overwatch, the gaming studio still exists and has even built its own amusement park. Here, fans of all ages from various franchises can meet their idols and favorite rivals, order fast food at “Snaxxramas”, or experience a griffon flight to Duskwood on a roller coaster.
In terms of gameplay, Blizzard World is a hybrid map, meaning it’s a mix of capturing a control point and then escorting a payload.
Only bug fixes beside Blizzard World
Otherwise, patch 1.18 currently only contains a lot of bug fixes and minor user interface improvements.
Especially some graphical issues with the newest hero Moira have been improved. Previously, there were occasional glitches where her eyebrows would wander off her body in highlight intros.
More annoyingly, there was a bug with her Biotic Orb – it occasionally displayed with the wrong graphics, creating the optical effect as if Moira was using her healing spray.
There are currently no balance changes in this update. However, it is quite possible that the patch may evolve before its release in a few weeks.
