The new Emphasizer class will soon be available on the Korean servers of MU Legend. The video gives a look at the class to be discovered.
Good news for MU Legend fans: The new Emphasizer class is taking a step closer to “release” and will be playable starting from next week at least on the Korean servers.
So far, you have had the choice between the four classes Dark Lord, Whisperer, Blader, and War Mage. Each of these classes offers individual skills that fit various playstyles. The Emphasizer class brings fresh air into the character selection with its abilities.
Update 17.08. – First gameplay videos
In the meantime, the Emphasizer class has been tested more thoroughly, and players made their first gameplay recordings. In this update, we want to provide you with a closer insight into the new class in MU Legend through these gameplay videos.
On the YouTube channel of Steparu.com, there are already two cool videos about the Emphasizer:
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The new class of MU Legend is already on its way to the game. From August 10, it will be available on the Korean servers. When we will be able to play it on other servers and whether it will be available in the open beta of MU Legend in September is still unknown.
As the gaming website “2p” reports, the Emphasizer behaves like a succubus and can manipulate weapons and thoughts of the enemies. This allows smaller groups of enemies to be held and controlled.
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Even Hearthstone pros can’t get used to the new cards immediately. It’s especially funny when this happens during a livestream.
With the expansion Knights of the Frozen Throne, Hearthstone has received over 135 new cards. It can take a while for players to get accustomed to all the new combinations and remember the effects of the cards.
But small and big mistakes happen not only to us normal mortals; even Hearthstone pros can be tricked from time to time.
This happened to Johnnie Lee, better known as “Ratsmah” – one of the best arena players that America has to offer.
During his stream, he had a solid game and a nearly certain victory on the board – at least he thought so.
Ratsmah had two Bittertide Hydras on the board – powerful minions with stats of 8/8 that only cost 5 mana. However, they have a downside – every time they take damage, they deal 3 damage to their own hero. But what could a warlock do?
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Well – Deny. That was the card Ratsmah clearly didn’t have in mind. It deals 1 damage to each minion and is cast again when a minion dies. The spell triggers a total of 4 times, turning the “sure victory” into a bitter defeat.
Especially funny: The opponent plays a Flamewaker, which deals 3 damage to his own hero, which Ratsmah comments with an arrogant “Yes, hit yourself in the face, that will teach me”.
A clear case of “Instant Karma”, as casting Deny will clearly serve as a lesson for him.
Have you also had trouble with the new cards and forgotten effects that could lead to your downfall?
The tank action game Armored Warfare is expected to come to the Playstation 4 soon. It should be available by spring 2018.
Armored Warfare is a tank action game in the style of Wargaming’s World of Tanks. However, instead of steering iconic vehicles from World War II, you control modern military equipment such as the Leopard 2 or the British Challenger II. Additionally, Armored Warfare offers a fun coop PvE mode.
All this content will be available soon on the Playstation 4.
Armored Warfare – Tank fun in PvP and PvE on the PS4
You will need to be a little patient, as Armored Warfare will not arrive until early 2018 on the PS4. But then, nothing will stand in the way of great tank fun. The Playstation version will have the same content as the PC version, including:
10 tiers of modern tanks from around the world
Five vehicle classes: Main Battle Tanks, Light Tanks, Tank Destroyers, Reconnaissance Vehicles, and Self-Propelled Artillery
PvP game modes and PvE missions
PvPvE mode Global Operations, where you compete against the enemy team as well as AI opponents, and have respawns and consumables
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Do you have the sharpest outfit in World of Warcraft? In the Trial of Style, you can prove your transmog skills!
In recent months, World of Warcraft has introduced some pretty crazy micro-holidays. Since today (08/17/2017), “The Big Style Check” is live. All interested players can participate in the special scenario until 08/23.
The whole event takes place in the Terrace of the Magisters – but you can get there via the transmogrifier in Dalaran. Just talk to him and he will give you the option to participate in the scenario.
Here you will be teamed up with 5 other players and must put together a suitable set from your collection within nearly 2 minutes. Every time there is a different theme, such as “Summer Fashion”, “Heroes of Azeroth”, or “Freestyle”.
After that, always two players are teleported to the stage and can present their outfits. The rest of the group then votes on which of the two has the better outfit.
As rewards, there are “Marks of the Big Style Check”. These can be exchanged at the transmogrifier for various cosmetic sets and the “Fashionable Undershirt” for the duration of the event.
Cheating is, by the way, not possible. Before the presentation, the other players do not see your selection, as it is all covered by neutral, gray clothing.
Cortyn says: The rewards are not really great, but the fun definitely takes center stage at this event. It is a bit disappointing that Blizzard hasn’t designed completely new sets for the Big Style Check, but that would probably be too much work “just” for a micro-holiday. So it is simply a fun event where you can have a lot of fun.
Do you have what it takes to be a master in the “Trial of Style”?
We tested Fortnite (PS4, Xbox One, PC). Fortnite is the new action co-op game from Epic. Minecraft meets tower defense, dungeon keeper and The Walking Dead had a baby. Whether Fortnite has the chance to become a construction for eternity or if it is a wooden shack that the first storm tears apart, you can read here.
Fortnite has a strange development history. It was first teased in 2011. Back then, it was supposed to be a mix of tower defense and Minecraft. In 2011, it was thought: Fortnite will be a couch co-op for Xbox 360 with split-screen and multiplayer. People met and played this Fortnite together. Six years ago, ‘online gaming’ was not as dominant as it is today.
Then nothing was heard about the game for ages, and in the summer of 2017, Fortnite appeared as a pseudo-MMO for PS4, PC, and Xbox One. In a version for today’s time, it has the typical 2017 features of a multiplayer game with ‘always online, automatic matchmaking, a huge progression system, and a cash shop.’
The game is already surprisingly mature and playable, even though it is still in early access.
Fortnite is still ‘Minecraft meets tower defense’, but elements from mobile MMOs have been added: an oversized progression system ensures that everything in the game has a level and a quality level. This makes getting into Fortnite a bit complex.
While the ‘surroundings’, the meta-game of Fortnite, exudes the dry charm of an Excel spreadsheet, the actual gameplay is self-explanatory and immediately clear.
The gameplay of Fortnite: Walking Dead meets Dungeon Keeper
The actual missions of Fortnite are divided into two major phases: day and night.
The day phase
You are with three other players in an area, sometimes it’s a suburb, sometimes nature. There, you fulfill various main and side quests: sometimes you collect survivors, sometimes you protect a core from angry zombie hordes by building a fort around it.
During the day, you walk around with your pickaxe and an arsenal of weapons. The player team has three tasks:
They collect loot from chests or crates that are hidden, and resources by smashing things with their pickaxe.
The players complete side missions in the form of events while uncovering the quite large maps.
And they build a fort for the ‘night’, usually there is a special object that needs to be protected. As a player, you can erect walls, build stairs, lay floors and ceilings, and decorate the fort with traps. This starts getting surprisingly easy early on but can reach considerable depth later.
The night phase
In the combat phase or ‘night phase’, which you can usually initiate yourself, the fort is stormed by ‘Husks’. These are zombies like from a Pixar movie. Undead alien monsters that have draped themselves over human bodies like poorly fitting suits.
Here, Fortnite becomes a third-person shooter. The goal is to take out the husks and protect your fortress.
The arsenal of firearms ranges from laser pistols to sniper rifles and shotguns to rocket launchers. There are ninja swords and baseball bats for close combat. The individual heroes still have skills like double jump or shuriken throwing, or you can deploy a shooting robot bear or call in an airstrike. There’s a lot going on here.
Both phases are good in their own way
Both parts of the game are really fun. The tools for building the fort are easy to use and you get better and better at building a fortress as you progress from mission to mission. There are a lot of tricks and tips that give an experienced builder an edge. Therefore, it is important to assess: Where will the husks attack? Where do they have to go through? Which trap combination is the most effective here?
And there are so many kinds of traps: poison gas flows from the ceilings, husks are thrown back by springboards or thrown off cliffs. They receive electric shocks and are impaled from below like a fakir. I had this much fun with placing traps last in Dungeon Keeper.
The loot phase is also exciting. It is fun to search the houses and dwellings and complete a few side missions.
The reward and progression system
Where the actual gameplay shines, the progression system is surprisingly complex but overdone.
There are skill trees and research trees. Regular points flow into both, and skill nodes can be unlocked. However, the individual points usually have little effect on the gameplay experience. Per point, you improve by a few percentage points in an abstract statistic: traps then do 1% more damage. You get a little more health. Nothing that you really notice in the game from mission to mission.
Something else is ‘gadgets’ – bonus skills that you unlock like airstrike or group heal. They are indeed useful, but your choice is quite limited, and you can only take two with you.
Meta map game pretends complexity, effects seem only marginal
With other points, you receive free ‘map slots’ in which you can then place cards, such as survivors… and through these, you become a few percentage points stronger in a specific area: Also not really exciting.
This is all a relatively complex system that gives the impression that the player can make decisions. Ultimately, however, it is linear, and you rarely feel that you are significantly improving when you dive into this ‘card mini-game‘ of Fortnite.
It is indeed fun to dive into it, and you may feel clever if you have organized everything “perfectly” and put the “cards together and organized them correctly” – but it will have only minimal effects on the actual game.
Exp system forces specialization.
Additionally, every item, every survivor, and hero in the game is part of a ‘meta-game’ with experience points and quality tiers so that you can enhance each weapon, every trap, and every hero individually.
This invites you to specialize and preferably ‘build one maximally strong hero’ or focus on a great weapon instead of several good ones – which limits your breadth. In practice, you don’t have much choice between a pistol, sniper rifle, and MG, but always reach for the MG, because after all, you leveled it.
Smart players look to pull weapons with different ammunition types to avoid running out of ammo too quickly.
This ‘evolution’ system is relatively closely tied to purchasable loot boxes, the lamas – although some can be earned, it smells here of ‘pay for progress.’
The aesthetics and humor
Fortnite gets clear plus points for its aesthetics and many details.
It’s fun to smash classic cars or lowriders with hydraulics with the pickaxe, to find a bomb shelter in a house, or to scrape your way to the top of a skyscraper. Then comes a melody reminiscent of The Walking Dead and you just feel good in this strange world and rummage through bathtubs and find ammo there – for whatever reason?
The husks also contribute to this, which, although they look so terrible, are somehow endearing. The artillery husk that tears down forts from afar somehow looks like a middle-aged woman in a floral dress. And the baseball pitcher who bombards my fortress makes me smile every time. Why have so many baseball pitchers turned into husks and now throw their bones? What is going on with them?
My favorite is the ‘sentry gun’ of the explorer hero: it is a robot bear that apparently is programmed to think of itself as a bear and to shoot at everything that is not a bear with the friendly remark: “You are not a bear.”
The excellently dubbed reward llamas that happily comment on their own destruction are also really good.
Even the cutscenes that tell the story are full of charm and humor.
Such moments clearly set Fortnite apart from other games. Even if the monetization of the game seems difficult, the aesthetics say: ‘This game is made with a lot of love.’
The story and the mission flow
Fortnite has a linear plot that does not take place in specially crafted missions, but in the normal missions you always play.
The first zone Stonewood is basically a giant tutorial with a flat learning curve – only after 10, 12 hours is it worthwhile to build forts and the difficulty increases noticeably. Until then, you just knock down the husks.
You always have the choice between several cards with specific main objectives – you complete the story missions on these cards by fulfilling different mission objectives. The story missions can also sometimes consist of deliberately completing actual side missions.
After the mission, Fortnite celebrates its reward sequence.
This is how you quest from area to area. There are a total of four areas. However, they take relatively long – after nearly a month of regular playing, I am two-thirds through the second area. Progress becomes relatively slow from level 20 onwards.
In each of the areas, you gradually build up a home base that remains. You have to defend it multiple times against increasingly larger hordes of enemies. In the higher missions, you get the feeling of an unending onslaught, which depletes your resources, and then you just hope that the base really holds and that you have enough ammunition.
If you are left standing at the end with only melee weapons, hoping that the timer finally ticks to 0, while large demolishers stagger toward the last remnants of your base, then it’s no longer fun: then adrenaline is pumping.
Weaknesses in detail: Multiplayer
In Fortnite, you are in every mission with up to three other players, who can pursue different mission objectives. A mission lasts about twenty minutes.
The map has a ‘main objective’, but individual players can pursue other interests through story missions or side quests rather than just completing the main objective as quickly as possible.
Generally, this approach is difficult in a game with automatic matchmaking. This also leads to tensions in Fortnite.
One tries to build a fort, initiate the night phase as quickly as possible, defend the fort, and complete the mission: He shouts that others should help him
The next one is stuck on an elaborate side mission, builds a fort in a completely different location and calls for help there, because it’s actually a group mission – but the group gains nothing from helping him
The third only wants to loot and replenish resources because he wants to build more traps in his home base. He is fighting his way through
And the fourth might be AFK and only wants to earn points while the rest does the work
Fortnite is a great game when everyone pulls together in ‘co-op’. However, the game mechanics of Fortnite do not really ensure this. This leads to conflicts and frustration. Fortnite is best when you’re out with friends.
The honest fort builder is sometimes the fool
Also in the exact point accounting and in details, some things still seem poorly thought out. Although traps are great, if you need the same resources to produce ammunition, there will always be a bottleneck. Thus, the ‘cool’ traps are rarely built, and usually, only the cheap standard traps that are held together by spit and tape.
Also, it sometimes seems like you’re the honest fool when you build the foundations of the fort while the rest loots. Many only join once the fort is already built and settle into the ready-made nest.
This is reflected in the classes: while the constructor is responsible for the ‘foundation’ of group success, the explorer with ‘Oh, there it sparkles, I must go there’ is more for personal loot needs.
Fortnite conclusion in early access
Fortnite is still in early access. One wonders at first glance because the game is already so far advanced and the core gameplay is so wonderfully round and motivating.
But in detail, as you progress, you see that Fortnite still has some questions it needs to answer, especially in the progression system and the multiplayer aspect. Much of it is simply unfair and invites griefing.
If you can overlook the monetization, you will find a truly strong game in Fortnite, which will surely get better over time.
Despite all the annoyance over teammates and details, the basic idea of Fortnite is fantastic. The aesthetics are outstanding, and the gameplay is truly enjoyable. Fortnite is best with a group and friends; then you can have fun for hours. Then the wobble factor ‘Hopefully, I get decent teammates’ is turned off, and Fortnite is a clear recommendation.
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Also, one can befriend with the progression system. Many people derive satisfaction from extracting the optimum from such complex systems, even if it ultimately only leads to minimal progress.
The monetization system with a cash shop in a title for which you are currently supposed to pay 40€: Yes, it is difficult. However, you can painstakingly earn the in-game currency through daily missions and then have to practice self-control. Progress becomes slow but steady from a certain level.
Currently, Fortnite is still in early access for which you have to pay for access. In 2018, the game will become free to play.
The tank MMO World of Tanks finally gets a solo campaign called War Stories on PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. However, you won’t be reliving the well-known battles of World War II, but rather alternative historical scenarios.
World of Tanks has always been a pure PvP game where two teams of randomly mixed tanks face each other. There has never been a solo or coop mode like in the competitor Armored Warfare. Even the attempt to reenact historical battles had to be abandoned for balance reasons.
But now, solo and coop missions are set to arrive in World of Tanks.
World of Tanks – Tanks in London and East-West Showdown in Berlin
On August 22, 2017, the first three War Stories will arrive on the console versions of World of Tanks (PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One). Before the War Stories, there will be new tutorials that explain everything you need to know about tank controls. You should be able to play the campaigns alone or in coop with friends, and each campaign will include two episodes, with the story explained through comic strips. Scenarios from an alternative history – a “what if” scenario – will be featured.
In “Flashpoint Berlin,” the Third World War begins shortly after the Second World War. The Allies can’t understand why the Soviets have isolated Berlin with a blockade, thus violating the Potsdam Agreement. As a consequence, a fierce tank battle erupts between East and West in the ruins of Berlin.
In another mission, the Germans have somehow managed to transport large tank formations to England. The result is a massive tank battle on English soil, extending all the way to London.
The third solo/coop mission from War Stories revolves around the Cuban Missile Crisis. Unlike in reality, the conflict escalates completely, and the USA and the Soviet Union bombard each other with tanks and nuclear weapons.
Flashpoint Berlin will be the first campaign to appear as a War Story. The other two campaigns will follow later. Wargaming plans to deliver additional solo campaigns at a later date. Whether and when the War Stories will also be available on the PC version of World of Tanks is still unknown. So far, the War Stories are set to be exclusive to consoles according to Wargaming.
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Black Desert Online rewards players just for logging in. For a limited time, you will receive additional items just for briefly being in the game. Guild members benefit even more.
Black Desert Online wants as many players as possible to be online every day. And even if you don’t have much to do in the big sandbox MMO, you should at least briefly log in every day. Because Kakao Games not only provides you with the usual goodies for logging in. For a limited time, everyone gets more!
Black Desert Online – Events and Summer Rewards
In summer, there are special rewards for all players of Black Desert Online. The following extra goodies are available until the specified dates:
From 17.08.17 to 06.09.17, there are “Hot Attendance Rewards” after logging in. These include Black Stones, Memory Fragments, Cron Stones, and Shakatu Seals. With the seals, you can exchange for even more goodies at Shakatu.
From 17.08.17 to 31.12.17, there are “Guild Attendance Rewards”. However, these goodies are only available to guild members who are part of guilds with 31 or more members. The daily rewards include Black Stones, T-Bone Steaks, and XP Scrolls.
In addition to the rewards, there is also the second Rulupee World Travel Event, which runs from August 19 to September 3. Additionally, from August 16 to August 30, there is the event “Reach for Gold”. In it, you can loot golden daggers and backpacks as well as fish for golden pompanos.
On PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, there is a big problem in Overwatch – a lot of afk players roaming around in Lúcioball.
Currently, the Summer Games 2017 are taking place in Overwatch. They entice with a lot of cool rewards and the game mode Lúcioball, which for the first time also features a ranked mode.
But players on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are not really having fun in the “regular” Lúcioball – many players here are not participating in the match.
This leads to quite absurd encounters, like this one. The player Thebozofbilly joins a match with 5 other players – all of whom are afk. You can see what it looks like here.
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It almost has something eerie to watch the other five just run in circles or slide across the map in strange paths.
Normally, in Overwatch, you get kicked if you do not participate in any combat action for more than a minute. But that is precisely the problem in Lúcioball. Strictly speaking, there are no combat actions here, since the two teams cannot harm each other, but can only nudge and hit the ball.
For this reason, you are not kicked from a match for inactivity. And due to the automatic matchmaking, matches follow one after the other. The respective players are not even at the console, but are probably sleeping or working – while the XP is merrily flowing into their accounts. This ultimately results in many loot boxes with the rewards of the Summer Games.
This whole situation is certainly not desired. It is quite possible that there will be account penalties afterward. So we strongly advise against exploiting this bug.
At least on Reddit, this topic has gained significant attention. So it can be assumed that Blizzard is also aware of the problem.
Have you also experienced such matches? Or do you exploit this error yourself to grab loot boxes?
Many agents are raving about update 1.7 and the global events in The Division , but this may change soon.
Since August 15, update 1.7 has been live. It is the first update that is not accompanied by an overwhelming backlash. On the contrary: Many players are saying that they love this update, that they are actually positively surprised, and that Massive should be praised after all the hate.
While The Division 1.7 does have some bugs and delta error codes, these are by far not as severe as the sometimes disastrous updates of the past. A Reddit user writes, he is too busy enjoying update 1.7 to complain about the bugs.
Global events are supposed to stay permanently
The new positive mood among the agents has several reasons. The most frequently mentioned is the Global Event currently running, which adds a modifier to all PvE activities, causing headshot kills to trigger explosions that damage nearby enemies.
These “exploding heads” are well-received – their animation and the sound enhance the gaming experience and provide a welcome change. Several demands can already be found on Reddit with numerous upvotes for these global events to remain permanent. After having the same gaming experience for 1.5 years, players now want to keep the cool explosions.
However, there is a problem with the global events: An event only takes place once a month and lasts for a week. This means that for the rest of the weeks in the month, the gameplay is back to how it was before the event. An agent comments that he agrees 300% that the events should remain permanently. However, he will 100% leave The Division again once the event ends.
Finally new goals
Besides the exciting new gameplay, the most important reason for the good mood is: There are finally goals again. The gear score has not been raised in about a year. There has been hardly any “progress” since then. Players can only create new builds.
Although update 1.7 does not increase the gear score, it sets new goals for the agents to strive for:
Collect many Global Event credits to access secret gear sets: These sets are now the best armor pieces available, which can only be obtained through outbreak containers. To access the containers, players need Global Event credits. During the global event, many activities earn GE credits. This means players can engage in various missions and are constantly rewarded with the loot they desire. This motivates, creates variety, and incentivizes players to revisit content they have long forgotten. The hunt for secret gear sets and GE credits currently attracts many agents in The Division.
Global Event leaderboards: Some users find the new leaderboard motivating as it allows them to compete with other players. By the way, you can find the new masks through the leaderboards.
Commendations: There are loads of new goals through the “Commendations.” Those who wish to complete these have plenty to do. A new score reflects your progress, and with patches awarded for commendations, you can customize your agent.
Collect items from encrypted containers: Some agents also mention that they enjoy the encrypted containers. The cosmetic items can be earned – they do not have to be purchased. The boxes contain outfits that can be collected and completed.
All these changes have breathed new life into The Division, according to one user. He can finally enjoy the game again. Another user says he has never had so much fun in The Division as he does now. It has been the best update so far. After 1.5 years, we now have the best The Division there has ever been, say some users.
However, the mood can quickly change when the global event ends. Because once it does, many of the things that are currently well-received will disappear.
What is your opinion on update 1.7? Are you enjoying The Division again?
Imagine painting a picture of Diablo 3 for a Blizzard contest that gets stolen a few years later and used as a war memorial. This is what happened to this artist, whose image is now altered with Photoshop and depicted on a monument for Ukrainian soldiers.
A few years ago, artist Toby Lewin painted a Diablo 3 image for a Blizzard contest that was well received not only by the D3 community. The image depicts Tyrael, the Archangel of Justice in the Diablo lore.
Many people shared the image online or used it as wallpaper; it went viral. Posters, mousepads, stickers – Toby Lewin’s image is used everywhere. But now, the dissemination has taken a step further.
Ukrainian colors and a shield – Tyrael becomes a war memorial
On Tuesday, August 15th, a monument for Ukrainian soldiers was unveiled in a cemetery in Kyiv. According to the video description, the soldiers were part of an “anti-terrorist operation (ATO)” in eastern Ukraine.
“The image itself is often used in funny situations, but this one tops it all,” Lewin told Kotaku. “It’s funny that no one asks for permission, but it’s just as funny that the final image is never used. It’s always an awkward work-in-progress piece.”
Often, the image is seen stolen and circulating online without credit. It is noticeable that the “unfinished” image is often used rather than the finalized version.
Source Kotaku
As you can see in the comparison image, the work was not just “copied and pasted.” Someone worked their Photoshop skills and colored the wings in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Additionally, Tyrael now carries a shield.
A video of the unveiling of the monument can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKxmeRGJSAc
If you like Toby Lewin’s original Tyrael image, check out his ArtStation homepage. There you will find the cover image of this post and more cool pictures and videos from the artist. Here is the ArtStation website of Toby Lewin
Starting today, August 17, it is possible to rent servers for the PS4 in ARK Survival Evolved. Therefore, the update 1.33 was released on PlayStation 4. Xbox players will have to wait a bit longer for the server patch.
Xbox players will have to wait a bit longer for servers for their console. The certification process is still ongoing, and Studio Wildcard estimates that the rented servers will come to Xbox One in September.
We at Mein-MMO are participating in Gamescom 2017 and will appear live on stage for the first time. We want to talk about trending MMOs. However, to make sure we have the games you are interested in, we have prepared a survey.
In a few days, Gamescom 2017 starts in Cologne! This year, we at Mein-MMO are also there. With an increased team strength, we are ready and have even planned our own stage show.
Mein-MMO live at Gamescom
Leya, Jürgen, and our boss Dawid will be on stage in the Gamestar section of the Gamescom Camp on Tuesday, August 22, 2017, from 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM and will chat about various MMOs.
You can follow the whole action live on site or via live stream on the internet. Infos about the stream will follow, the program of GameStar at Gamescom Camp can be found at the provided link (our appointment is currently wrongly listed there for 3 PM).
5 MMOs you are most looking forward to – Decide what we will talk about!
But what is our live performance actually about? About MMOs, of course! We want to discuss five upcoming online games that interest you the most. Since we don’t want to just freely decide what might interest you, we have prepared a small survey.
Vote for the games that interest you the most and thus help determine our stage program at Gamescom 2017. You only have one vote, so think carefully about which game you like the most. Enjoy voting! We will see you then in Cologne at Gamescom 2017!
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From now on, you can find new offers in the PlayStation Store. There are substantial discounts on many PS4 games.
Today ended the Summer offers in the PlayStation Store, where numerous top games were available for over 60% off. If you missed this promotion but your PS4 needs some new content, there are now new offers with tasty price reductions on over 200 games!
Games under 20 Euros – The new offer in the PS Store
The “Games under 20 €” promotion runs until September 7, 2017, at 00:59 and includes a plethora of PS4 games offered for under 20 Euros. Here is a selection of them:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – 14.99 Euros (50% discount)
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – 12.99 Euros (78% discount)
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – 16.49 Euros (52% discount with PS Plus)
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection – 12.99 Euros (78% discount)
BioShock: The Collection – 19.99 Euros (60% discount)
Elite Dangerous – 16.99 Euros (32% discount)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Definitive Experience – 11.99 Euros (60% discount with PS Plus)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided – 12.99 Euros (81% discount)
If you’re big LEGO fans, you can now rejoice. A major discount campaign on many LEGO PS4 games has started, running until August 31. Here you can find, for example, the premium edition of LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham for 16.99 Euros or LEGO City Undercover for 35.99 Euros. LEGO games for Harry Potter, Marvel Super Heroes, Star Wars, and The Hobbit are also reduced.
By the way, the deal of the week is Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for 29.99 Euros. Here you can save 57%.
All discounted games can be found on the PlayStation Blog. On your PS4, you can find the offers by opening the PlayStation Store and selecting the “Offers” tab. Here, you can find the various promotions listed.
The first female collectible figure from Mega Construx is coming to Destiny 2.
For those who want to bring the Destiny universe into their living room, there are now plenty of options available. Various manufacturers keep releasing new action and collectible figures of all price ranges that make many Guardians’ hearts beat faster.
Mega Construx offers a wide range of Destiny products: They provide all sorts of customizable figures, weapons, and multi-part sets with vehicles and constructions. And yesterday they announced a world first: The first female Destiny action figure (see cover image)!
A Hunter from the Dead Orbit for your gaming corner
This Guardian comes with a stylish “Dead Orbit” outfit and an arsenal of weapons. The weapons and armor pieces can be removed and freely combined. An armor with the Queen’s symbols is also included for the Guardian, as you can see in this picture:
This Guardian is expected to be available from autumn.
McFarlane Toys also produces collectible figures for Destiny. Their brand manager Chris Council explained a few months ago why all their collectible figures are male. There is a simple reason for that: They sell better than female figures. Exceptions would be characters like Harley Quinn.
By releasing a female Guardian as an action figure, Mega Construx is taking a first, bold step in the realm of Destiny collectible figures.
Mega Construx is, by the way, the company responsible for the first major leaks for Destiny 2. For a short time, a set was publicly listed that mentioned an attack by the Cabal on the Tower. Lord Shaxx is supposed to be included as an action figure, wielding the sword Eraser. There has been material available for this set for some time:
For a few hours now, there are new rewards in Pokémon GO raids. The larger selection has been requested by many trainers.
When raids were activated in Pokémon GO, fans were excited about the new co-op feature where they can defeat powerful bosses together with other players. For defeating the raid monsters, there are rewards that previously consisted of Revives, Rare Candies, and TMs.
Since last night, there are additional rewards for completing a raid in Pokémon GO.
Now there are potions for raids!
On Reddit, trainers pointed out around 02:00 AM (August 17) that they are receiving new items as rewards for raids. Now there are potions, Super Potions, Hyper Potions, and also Max Potions as gifts after the boss battles.
This small change is already being celebrated by many trainers on social media. When raids were first introduced in the game, players questioned the reward system that provided them with Revives instead of potions. Since Revives only restore 50% of a Pokémon’s health, it was often a problem for raid-goers to fully heal their fighters.
Source: Reddit user CookEmUpK
Are Revives still available?
It is currently unclear how the potions are distributed. In trainers’ reports, it seems rather random whether potions, Super Potions, Hyper Potions, or Max Potions are given out. Furthermore, you don’t have to completely forego Revives. They can still be distributed.
So far, the feedback on the potion rewards has been positive. Trainers hope that Niantic has found the right balance between potions and Revives and that one of them won’t suddenly be distributed significantly more often. According to the first reports, this seems to be working. On Reddit, user lizbliz04 writes, “I got 4 Super Potions and 6 Hyper Potions in one raid, but no Revives. In the next raid, there were 10 Revives, but no potions.”
Priests, mages, shamans, and druids in WoW can rejoice. With Patch 7.3, they receive brand new spell animations!
With the Warlords of Draenor expansion, most character models of the playable races in World of Warcraft have been brought up to date. However, some things have been around since Classic that have never been touched – the spell animations of many classes.
With Patch 7.3, many classes receive new animations. This primarily affects spellcasters – namely mages, priests, shamans, and druids. Blizzard has now presented these changes in detail in a lengthy blog post.
For example, shamans stand upright and grounded (even orcs!), while priests float slightly above the ground in reverence of light or shadow. Mages appear “battle-ready” and druids are prepared to harness the forces of nature from their surroundings.
Some of these animations will also be used for the “idle” animation in combat – that is, whenever the character is in battle, but is not casting a spell.
This also brings many new animations for individual spells. For example, the Arcane Missiles from the mage get an update, and even the shadow priest has seen some minor tweaks.
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For those who have grown fond of the race-specific spell animations, there is no need to mourn. A handful of spells of each class still use the “old” animations of the races that players have grown so accustomed to.
Warlocks will receive their new animations at a later time. They simply were not ready for the release of Patch 7.3.
What do you think of the new spell animations? Do you feel they are well done and do you like them? Or does it no longer feel like “your” character and bothers you while playing?
In ARK Survival Evolved (PC, PS4, Xbox), console players have been waiting for a long time to rent servers for PS4 and Xbox One. Players on PlayStation 4 now have the option to do so. It will take a bit longer for Xbox One servers to be available for rent.
So far, consoles in ARK Survival Evolved could only use official servers from Studio Wildcard. Players on PS4 and Xbox One have long desired their own servers to rent. With rented servers, the game’s performance can be significantly improved, which ARK’s console players have been longing for.
Renting servers for PS4 is now possible – Xbox One will follow in a month
Studio Wildcard has partnered with Nitrado to offer console servers for ARK. Nitrado is a provider of game servers and application hosting that manages its system in its own cloud.
The release of the PS4 servers is planned for Wednesday, August 16, according to US Eastern Time. As the time difference is 6 hours, the service will likely arrive later that night from Wednesday to Thursday. Players from Germany will be able to use the PS4 servers on Thursday, August 17.
The certification process for Xbox One will likely take a bit longer. Studio Wildcard estimates that Xbox players will be able to use rented servers next month (September).
Are you excited about being able to now use rented servers on PS4 (and soon Xbox One) in ARK?
Another new map could soon arrive in Overwatch ! The scrapyard Junkertown already has a voice line!
Overwatch is currently testing patch 1.14 on the PTR – this mainly includes the new game modes Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch. Especially for the former, the new map Château Guillard has been developed, the home of Widowmaker when she was just the daughter of a noble family. However, clever players have discovered hints of a new map: Junkertown!
On Tumblr, the user aku no homu released a sound file that was hidden in the game client of patch 1.14 of Overwatch. Athena (the announcement voice) says, “Welcome to Junkertown!”
Junkertown is the home of Junkrat and is located in Australia. Not much is known about the place, except that it was largely devastated during the Omnic Crisis and is now a big scrapyard. People create everything they need to survive from the garbage. It is not surprising that one of the biggest pastimes is mech duels with self-built robots being fought in the streets.
The appearance of the announcement voice of Junkertown fuels the hopes of the fans. Many expect that Blizzard will not only reveal a new map at Gamescom but also a new cinematic – with Junkrat and Roadhog in the lead roles. At the same time, the Junkertown map will also be revealed.
It was similar at Gamescom 2016. Here, the cinematic “The Last Bastion” was released, closely followed by the then new map Eichenwalde, where the cinematic took place.
In just under a week, we will know more – as Gamescom takes place from August 22 to August 26 in Cologne.
Maintenance work is taking place today, August 17, at The Division. The servers are down for several hours. A bug is being fixed.
Since August 15, numerous agents have been active in Division version 1.7. Compared to previous update launches, which were always accompanied by error messages, connection drops, and severe bugs, this one has been relatively smooth.
On launch day, Massive had to carry out a short maintenance and then a few server restarts. Even today, Delta errors occasionally arise. Fortunately, the complaints and error reports on Reddit are manageable.
Today, Thursday, the regular maintenance is being carried out, which Massive uses to address a problem:
Today at 9:30 AM our time, the servers will be shut down. The estimated downtime is three hours. So you can dive back into the global event “Outbreak” around 12:30 PM.
What changes today? – Changelog
One change is mentioned:
A problem is being fixed where agents did not receive all global event credits that they should have earned for completing a mission. The issue occurred while the global event activity modifier was active.
In the last two days, we have already published several articles that will support you in your adventures in The Division 1.7:
During the late-night shopping at Saturn, you can get the PS4 Camera bundled with a 12-month PlayStation Plus Card for 79.99 Euros. Additionally, there is the Samsung Galaxy A5 on offer.
Every Wednesday, Saturn has new late-night offers available for a limited time. This time, the PS4 Camera bundled with the PlayStation Plus Card is the big highlight. If you’re interested in PlayStation VR, you will definitely need a PS4 Camera to go along with the VR headset.
Unfortunately, this is not always available in a bundle, so it can be worth checking out other bundle offers for the components. The late-night offer from Saturn is definitely worth a look. You get the camera along with 12 months of PlayStation Plus. All together, you get it for 79.99 Euros.
All late-night offers are valid while supplies last or until Thursday at 09:00 CEST.
FIFA 18 Ronaldo Edition with 20 Euro Discount
The FIFA 18 Ronaldo Edition is currently on offer. You can get it for 69.99 Euros when paying via PayPal. This saves you 20 Euros compared to the regular price. With this edition, you receive the following bonuses:
Play starting early with 3 days of early access from September 26
Up to 20 FIFA Ultimate Team Jumbo Premium Gold Packs (1 each week for 20 weeks)
Cristiano Ronaldo FUT loan player for 5 matches
8 Special Edition FUT kits designed by FIFA soundtrack artists
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