In FIFA 17 the TOTY week is on. To celebrate, there are gifts and special Squad Building Challenges.
Since January 9, the Team of the Year in FUT 17 is known. The first players, three strikers, are already in the sets and numerous fans are on the hunt for them. In addition to special TOTY pack offers, there are also daily gifts in the web and companion app.
Moreover, there are seven squad building challenges (SBCs) that you can complete throughout the entire TOTY week. Additionally, more SBCs will start during this week that must be completed in a shorter time. For example, last night, there was a special TOTY jersey to win:
Solution for Guaranteed 82+
We are looking at solutions for the seven TOTY SBCs that are still available for six days. Let’s start with “Guaranteed 82+”. The reward is an untradeable gold player with a rating over 82.
Requirements:
Player Quality: All Gold
Rare: At least 7 players
Team Chemistry: At least 30
A possible, cheap solution (keep in mind that many others are possible):
ST: Janko
ST: Deeney
LM: Zukanovic (CB)
CAM: Onazi
RM: Kramer (CDM)
CM: Lodi
CM: Lawal
CB: Dragovic
CB: Abraham
CB: Brooks
GK: Kraft
Solution for TDW (tradable)
As a reward, you get a guaranteed player from the TOTW that is currently active.
Requirements:
Team Overall Rating: At least 84
Team of the Week: At least 2 players
Team Chemistry: At least 30
A solution:
ST: Patricio (GK)
ST: Giovinco
LM: Brahimi
CAM: Sneijder
RM: Honda
CM: De Rossi
CM: Toulalan
CB: Mertesacker
CB: Fonte
CB: Trippier
GK: Ter Stegen
Solution for Guaranteed Premier League, Bundesliga, LaLiga Santander, Ligue 1, Calcio A
For these SBCs, you receive a set in which three players from the respective league are guaranteed to be included. The requirements are the same for these 5 SBCs.
Requirements:
Player Quality: Gold
Team Chemistry: At least 30
However, the formations for these SBCs vary. The SBCs are not too difficult, as team chemistry is easily achieved. Here are possible solutions.
MOBA LoL will get a new pick and ban system in ranked that allows teams to ban five champions instead of three.
Riot’s lead champion designer Andrei “Meddler” Van Roon recently announced that summoners will soon be able to ban more champions in ranked games. In normal games, the old pick and ban system will remain in place for now.
However, changes are also expected here in the future. Riot aims to create more diversity in the champion pool with the introduction of the new system. More bans provide summoners with more options for various champion picks.
LoL: New Pick and Ban System – Here’s How It Works
The biggest change in the new system will be that each team will now have five bans instead of three. This will change the pick/ban phase overall and it will go through four steps in the future.
Ban Phase 1: The first ban phase will go just like in the old system. Both teams have three bans available, and each team may alternate banning one champion.
Pick Phase 1: In the first pick phase, each team can choose three champs, starting with the blue team. Blue selects one champ first, then the red team chooses two champs. Blue team follows with two champs, and the red team finishes the first pick phase with the last pick. A total of six champions have now been chosen.
Ban Phase 2: In this phase, each team is given two additional bans. Each team alternates picking one champ that they do not want to see in the Rift. The red team starts the ban phase.
Pick Phase 2: In the last phase, a total of four champions will be chosen again. The red team starts with one champ. Blue may then choose two champions, and red gets the last champ.
Players will only have 30 seconds to choose or ban a champion with the new system. Currently, players have 60 seconds to think.
League of Legends has more than tripled its champion pool since the game’s launch. LoL started with 40 champions and has welcomed Camille as number 134. The number of champions to be banned, however, has remained the same.
Will some champs no longer appear in ranked games in the future?
Each individual summoner will have the opportunity to ban a champion in the future. Some may be pleased with this news as one can always throw out their counter. Or a champ that simply annoys them. The new system could also ensure that some champions may not be seen in ranked games in the future.
Champions like Yasuo already have a high ban rate and could completely disappear from the screen with more banning options – at least in ranked games. Even though the pick and ban times are reduced to 30 seconds, the new system will lead to a longer pick and ban phase.
In The Division, we take a look at the best builds that can be created since 1.5.
Updates 1.4 and 1.5 revamped the entire gameplay experience in The Division, aiming to bring fun back to the MMO shooter. Weapons, gear sets, and other areas were overhauled to diminish the dominance of certain character setups and to buff other items – offering agents more variety when creating their builds.
Even though this worked well in large parts, builds emerged in the last weeks and months that are superior to others. Leading the pack: AlphaBridge + FAMAS.
The Dominance of AlphaBridge
Just days after update 1.5, many agents noticed: AlphaBridge in combination with the assault rifle FAMAS, introduced with 1.5, is a hot ticket for the new meta – in PvE as well as PvP. Now we know: Yes, there is currently nothing that can contend with this dominance.
The talent of the AlphaBridge set allows you to use six different talents on one weapon – as long as the primary and secondary weapons belong to the same category. Various combinations have been tried out here, such as a deadly mix of AlphaBridge and Urban-MDR, but AlphaBridge and FAMAS reign supreme.
You can create this build with four pieces of the AlphaBridge set (mask, gloves, knee pads, holster), a specialized backpack, and ideally with Barret’s bulletproof vest. Take the superior LVOA-C as your primary weapon and the FAMAS as your secondary weapon, which brings the important talent “Uncomplicated,” increasing weapon damage by a whopping 15% when no precision and stability mods are equipped. Other strong weapon talents include Brutal, Responsive, Competent, Vicious, and Destructive.
The FAMAS assault rifle itself does not have outstanding stats, only its unique talent is interesting. With AlphaBridge, you can apply this to another, more powerful assault rifle. Now also invest in armor and firearms, choose good skills like the Med Kit, and you have an outstanding build.
D3-FNC – A Strong Build for PvE
This build around the D3-FNC set can currently hold its own against the AlphaBridge dominance in PvE. This set specializes in the Ballistic Shield and makes you not just a powerful tank, but also a true DPS machine.
4x Predator’s Mark and 2x High-End: Choose a strong assault rifle. You gain +8% assault rifle damage and if you hit an enemy 10 times without switching targets, you deal damage over time equal to 50% of the damage dealt.
3x Lone Star, 3x Banshee: Currently, light machine guns are top in addition to assault rifles. Over time, they deal a lot of damage and are also strong at range. Thanks to Lone Star, you gain +100% ammunition capacity and +8% LMG damage, and with Banshee, you get an additional +10% damage to targets out of cover.
3x Hunter’s Faith, 3x Banshee: Especially interesting for snipers: You gain +10% headshot damage and +10% damage to targets out of cover.
Finally, we present in the provided link a strong FireCrest build. This set was introduced with 1.3 and was useless for a long time. Now, good builds are possible with it.
Which build are you running through Manhattan?
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We introduce you to a Paladins gameplay video where you can learn more about its heroes, objectives, and the unique card system. What’s in the team shooter Paladins?
This should attract new players, and perhaps there are some console players among you who would like to try Paladins. In collaboration with YouTuber Refaser, here is a gameplay video that sheds light on the setup of the hero shooter. Here you can learn more about Paladins’ heroes, objectives, and its unique card system.
Paladins was produced by the Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios and is a “Free-2-Play” first-person shooter. Paladins has been in open beta on Steam since September 2016 and already attracted over 5 million players in the first week after its release. In this multiplayer game, two teams compete against each other, with each player controlling a champion with various abilities.
The sandbox MMORPG ArcheAge starts in 2017 with a strong message.
As turbulent as 2016 ended for ArcheAge, it begins strongly. In an “Ask the team” session, community manager Celestrata was asked about the APEX exploit on the “Fresh Start” servers. We reported on the APEX exploit.
Celestrata says: The exploit has been fixed, and the players were permanently banned. Everything they had obtained dishonestly was removed from the game.
The number of users who had used this exploit was said to be very small. We are only talking about a “handful of players.” The days of “exploit early, exploit often” are over. Players should understand: If they exploit, they will be permanently banned.
That’s why the queue was so long and that’s why there was no second “Fresh Start” server in Europe for ArcheAge
Otherwise, Trion Worlds talked a lot about the “Fresh Start” server and the schedule for introducing new things there. There was no second “Fresh Start” server in Europe because in the past such “additional” servers quickly became empty – like in Cluster 3. This time they wanted to manage the influx by increasing the capacity of the servers by 600%. That worked only moderately well.
Although the servers were physically capable of handling such an influx in ArcheAge, overcrowding in certain areas and the new housing zones additionally stressed the instances. In the last 3 weeks, the situation here has improved. It is not perfect yet.
With tickets and support tickets, they are somewhat behind, about a week. Trion Worlds is working on this.
For the future of ArcheAge, players are advised to take a look at Korea. They are currently discussing patch 3.1.
The colorful online role-playing game Revelation Online will soon launch its third closed beta. This will start in January, offer level-up to level 69 and a lot of new content. And there’s a new trailer!
As soon as the second closed beta of Revelation Online is over, the third one begins. Unlike CBT 2, the new beta will not only offer improved texts, but also new content. Some of this you will only see at the new maximum level. You can level up to 69 in the third beta. Additionally, there is a cute new trailer showing the Summoner class healing.
More Levels, More Content
The new content that you can play after the previous maximum level of 49 includes three new dungeons, extended old instances, three missions, a new map called “Fairy Carnival” and two new events. If you enjoy PvP, you can look forward to the game modes Death Match, Faction Wars, Area Wars, and arena battles in 3vs3 format.
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In Destiny, we introduce the “Destiny Item Manager” and its advantages over Bungie’s Companion App.
The Guardian of the world plays Destiny not only on the console: They always have their companion apps on the second screen at hand, which allow them to view their character, check progress, and manage their items. The official companion app from Bungie is the Companion App for iOS and Android. If you prefer to manage your Guardian on PC, you can use the features of this app directly on the Bungie website.
In addition to the official app, there are various alternatives from dedicated programmers in the community. Particularly well-known is the Destiny Item Manager. What advantages do these options offer?
What the Destiny Item Manager Can Do
The Destiny Item Manager (DIM) is an “Open Source” app for Google Chrome. According to the developers of this app, there are plans to release DIM for iOS, Android, and other browsers like Firefox, but currently, Chrome is the only way to use DIM.
It provides you with this main feature:
All items (weapons, armor, general items) can be quickly transferred from Guardian to Guardian or to the vault. If you want to transfer an item in Destiny from one Guardian to another, you need to log in with the first Guardian, fly to the Tower, place the item in the vault, log out the character, log in the other Guardian, fly back to the Tower, and retrieve the item from the vault.
With the Destiny Item Manager, you can do this in seconds, saving you time. You have all items displayed on the screen and can comfortably move them from Guardian to Guardian or to the vault. You simply click the item and drag it to the desired location.
There are (at most) four columns in the app: Your three Guardians and the vault. The rows contain the items, sorted by weapons, armor, and general items. You can see at a glance where your items are located.
Additional Features:
With one click, you can display the entire vendor inventory.
With a loadout builder, you can create loadouts.
Extensive search and filter options: For example, if Arc Burn is active in the Nightfall strike, you can see all weapons with Arc damage.
Features like “Max Light”: This automatically assigns the highest light-level items to the chosen Guardian.
By the way: You can set different languages – German is available.
App with Quality Display – the Great Advantage of DIM
Compared to Bungie’s companion app, the Destiny Item Manager has two major advantages:
Clarity: In the Bungie app (or on the Bungie website), you only see the inventory of one Guardian when you want to move items. In DIM, the inventories of all Guardians are listed side by side. This way, you have everything in view. Since the page is well-structured, you won’t lose track.
Display of Armor Quality: In the endgame, the “Tiers” in Destiny become interesting. These are a measure of intellect, strength, and discipline of your Guardians that you gain through armor pieces. The goal of many Guardians is to reach Tier 12. You can find information on this in the provided link. In DIM, you can see for each piece of armor in percentage how close the item is to the maximum attributes. In-game or on the Bungie site, this percentage is not displayed.
Disadvantages of the Destiny Item Manager:
You need Chrome. If you don’t have this browser, you have to download it specifically for this.
You must log in on the Bungie site to use DIM. If you only want to transfer items, you can do this directly on Bungie.net.
Do you use Destiny companion apps on PC or smartphone?
The Living Story of Guild Wars 2 is the major highlight of NCSoft’s online role-playing game. Especially Season 1, where the legendary thief Scarlet Briar kept players on their toes, is still remembered by many fans. Some players have compiled the events of Season 1 and the battle against Scarlet into a fan film over two hours long.
Newcomers to Guild Wars 2 may struggle to keep up with the living story. While the events of past seasons are now repeatable, there are often long and tedious grind segments between the cool highlights. Therefore, some players have summarized the most significant events of Season 1 of the Living Story in a fan film lasting 2:40 hours!
Reunion with Scarlet
Especially the first season of the story was outstanding as the high mistress Scarlet Briar was a wonderfully crazy final boss. The insane Sylvari inventor was somewhat reminiscent of the Joker from Batman, and players both hated and loved her equally.
https://youtu.be/hE2AdoreNmY
Unlike the boring, characterless dragon Elder Dragons that usually appear as main villains in Guild Wars 2, the humanoid Scarlet was much more tangible and cooler. Therefore, the fan film is worth watching just for Scarlet’s wicked shenanigans. The film is embedded here for you; enjoy watching.
Jürgen says: I remember well the first season of the Guild Wars story. It felt like an eternity before Scarlet even showed up for the first time, and each time I eagerly awaited further updates, wondering, “What kind of villainy does this insane Scarlet have planned next?” When she was ultimately confronted at the end of the season in the spectacular battle for Lion’s Arch, Guild Wars 2 was never the same again, as the vegetable dragon Mordremoth and his dragon companions could never hold a candle to her.
What is the fascination with survival MMOs? What exactly is it, and do we really need it?
The ongoing pre-alpha for Edengard, an announcement for Jurassic World Survivor, and the coverage surrounding Conan Exiles raises a question for me once again: Do we really need so much survival?
Just for fun, I typed “survival” into the search of the sales platform Steam and was rewarded with a staggering 2984 results. Some of the search results can be neglected. Personally, it wouldn’t be easy for me to play the “Train Simulator BR Standard Class 2MT Loco” add-on, but there’s hardly any talk of life-threatening survival.
But what are all these survival pixel masterpieces? Are we really always fighting for bare survival in search of warming fire and food? Steam offers us story gems like “Girl Amazon Survival.” Its description sparks our imagination: “Fight against bandits and zombies. Hunt animals, build the house.” Not necessarily a shining example of translation art “She woke up next to fallen with the plane.” I’ll save the €2.99 for this early access gem.
Maybe I should embark on unknown universes. Space Survival sounds interesting. Finally make a big step for mankind myself? Survive on alien planets? Why not? Unfortunately, Space Survival turns out to be a boring Asteroids clone after all.
For me, breath bars are the epitome of evil
How about diving? Subnautica is considered a fairly successful and acclaimed representative of the genre. Whether I enjoy the moist dream of every Franconian sport diver as much as some critics, I dare to doubt.
For me, breath bars are the epitome of evil. I have always hated them. An action that I would usually complete without any issues is complicated by time pressure. You jump into the nearest puddle to retrieve a treasure and inevitably see a breath bar indicating how much time is left until my character reaches the water corpse state. It makes searching for treasures less enjoyable for me. Cheers to meal! I guess that’s called negative reinforcement.
Speaking of meal, of course, this mechanic can be applied to various other resources, whether it be food or hydration, air or any other basic need of the character that can be represented in bar form. Is this already survival?
It still isn’t entirely clear to me what survival really means at its core. Personally, I initially considered it, in my admittedly superficial consideration, one of the least spectacular and uninspired game mechanics.
The compulsion to stay alive – Is it realistic?
A reason for me to ask some survival game players what personally attracts them to these games. If you take away all components like loot, crafting, exploration, construction, or combat that other games also offer without a “survival” sticker, what remains is the essence of the compulsion to stay alive, and the resulting sense of realism.
It seems to me that a survival game without artificially created scarcity of vital resources like air and food is often just a sandbox game.
So is it really the enforced reality that makes the difference? And isn’t reality precisely what makes us “escape” into the dream world of computer games?
Haven’t we been told this for years? Don’t we all want to hunt dragons, rescue maidens, build empires, and, to avoid overusing the fantasy cliché, wreak havoc as a gun-wielding cyborg in foreign galaxies? It’s not so easy in today’s society.
Is survival not too banal for fiction?
Fortunately, enough developers have taken our wishes into account and enabled this in digital worlds. Unrealistic with fire-breathing lizards, fictional universes, and without maiden scarcity. Why these fantastic playgrounds are now being forcibly pulled back into reality with the cheers of many players remains a mystery to me. Should I really have to worry about where the next bathroom is as a cyborg?
But that is, as I was informed, too short-sighted. Survival players also do not want just to wash digital underwear or pick berries. Having to survive alone on an island and deal with natives is, after all, also a dream world. Few people will likely get the chance to tame dinosaurs, and should something go terribly wrong, zombie apocalypses are not to be expected either.
Many survival games focus on exploring the game world. The task of survival provides only the drive and gives direction. Not rigid like so many quest lines in classic MMOs, where you’re sent from Pontius to Pilate. Quests that do not fit the played high-level hero character at all.
Quest design thus relies on intangible basic needs and gives the player comprehensible and relatable tasks. This makes it relatively easy for both players and developers.
This is commendable and perhaps also a sign of poverty at the same time. Commendable because players are tired of having to hit stones for orcs even at character level 99. Commendable because developers have recognized this dichotomy. But isn’t it a sign of poverty that developers have not managed to captivate us with more credible tasks and provide us with a sense, a drive, to explore their worlds other than the pure desire to survive?
The more I engage with the topic, the clearer it becomes to me that survival is not as revolutionarily new as we are led to believe on all fronts. It is often just a playground, a sandbox that has been given an additional drive to frolic in.
Survival drives us to discover the world, but also takes away the fun
What bothers me about many titles, however, is exactly this compulsion that is created to motivate me to explore the game world. In many MMOs, it’s up to me how I design my gaming experience, while in survival titles, a looming sword of Damocles always hangs over me. For me, this is not a gain.
I also dive for treasure chests without breath bars. The prerequisite is a fascinating and exciting world. Often the survival approach seems like a way to avoid effort. The quest design is omitted, for a story, it’s enough to have an initial scenario “She woke up next to fallen with the plane.” and the worlds in which you fight for your survival are often poorly detailed, if not downright boring.
No one is forcing me to play such games; however, the fascination with how many developers are currently jumping on the bandwagon remains. I sense an impending fiasco, as I ultimately do not believe that this mechanic can engage players long enough. And even if it does, I don’t think there will be enough players for all the announced titles. Titles may quickly cannibalize each other.
For me, the question of whether we really need so much survival remains unanswered. What do you think? Is it an enrichment for you? What excites you about it?
In WoW there is trouble with the patch notes for 7.1.5. They contained many errors.
Blizzard usually doesn’t have such issues. The US servers are about to see the release of patch 7.1.5 and the patch notes were full of errors and omissions. The community noticed this and they are wondering what happened.
Blizzard admitted somewhat sheepishly that the patch notes did not go well this time. They are now working as hard and quickly as possible to correct them.
Community Manager Josh Allen made the promise: “Normally, we don’t make promises, but I can 100% promise that this will not happen again.”
We generally don’t make promises but I can 100% promise this will not happen again.
In another tweet, it was stated that restructuring within the team was responsible for the poor patch notes. In the future, the patch notes would be much better.
The issues with the US “patch notes” will likely also be the reason why no patch notes are currently available in German. We will provide them as soon as they are translated.
The drama unfolded last night in the USA, while for us it was dead in the middle of the night. The patch notes now available should therefore be okay despite the chaos.
Heroes of the Storm now has over 60 heroes that you can soon play for free. However, this promotion is only valid for a short time!
Heroes of the Storm has received quite a few new heroes since its release. But most of them can only be played if you purchase them with real money or unlock them painstakingly with in-game currency. Otherwise, you are usually left with the free hero rotation, which offers you a handful of different characters each week.
Try All Heroes
This weekend, from January 13 to 16, all heroes are playable for free. This includes the new additions Ragnaros, King Varian Wrynn, and the latest hero Zul’jin. Although you cannot keep the heroes, your progress with them will, of course, remain intact.
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Later, when you have enough in-game currency or a big windfall, you can then specifically buy the hero that you particularly liked during the free trial phase. Also cool: Many different heroes should be available this weekend, not just a combination of the 10 current rotation characters.
What is the fastest motorcycle in GTA 5 Online? A fraction of a second determines victory or defeat.
In the online world of GTA 5, players can experience a lot. There are missions where you steal planes, bank raids that offer a lot of cash as a reward, and thrilling races with cars, planes, or motorcycles. Since the release of the Bikers Update, motorcycle races have become more popular because there were many new motorcycles to buy. Based on lap timeson the racetracks, we will show you which of these motorcycles is the fastest.
Hakuchou Drag vs. Nagasaki Shotaro
With the many motorcycle models currently available in GTA 5 Online, it’s hard to choose one. Players who find racing uninteresting and buy their motorcycle just for cruising typically value aesthetics more. Players who prefer racing appreciate the performance of the bike.
Recently, the new motorcycle Pegassi FCR 1000 was released, which can be visually customized nicely, but does not perform well in races. It is only in 17th place among the fastest motorcycles in GTA 5 Online.
GTA 5 Online: The fastest motorcycles are Hakuchou Drag and Shotaro
If you want to buy a motorcycle to win races, then entirely different models come into play. At the top of the ranking of the fastest motorcycles in GTA 5 Online, there are two bikes whose lap time differs by only a tenth of a second. The Hakuchou Drag and the Shotaro.
The YouTuber Broughy1322 regularly makes videos about the fastest vehicles in GTA 5 Online. To test the speed and race suitability of the vehicles, he drives about 40 to 50 laps on a test track with each car or motorcycle and compares these lap times with other vehicles. Leading the motorcycle ranking was the Drag variant of the Shitzu Hakuchou, which has now been overtaken by a new bike.
The Nagasaki Shotaro, which became famous for its Tron style, has beaten the Shitzu Hakuchou Drag in the duel for first place. However, this tenth of a second advantage costs you about 1.3 million GTA$.
At the beginning of the video, Broughy emphasizes that the shown lap time is not necessarily an argument for buying the motorcycle. Whether the minimal time difference of the Shotaro is worth the high price compared to the Hakuchou Drag is something you have to decide for yourself.
The Shotaro does not impress with its top speed. On straight roads, it is slower than the Hakuchou Drag and slower than other super motorcycles. The bike has better lap times because it handles turns better than the other motorcycles. In races where top speed matters, you are likely slower with the Tron bike than opponents who ride, for example, a Hakuchou Drag.
If you’re looking for a bike with a cool appearance and you like the Tron look of the Shotaro, then that is an argument for purchase. In terms of performance, it is not necessarily worth the extra cost of 1.3 million GTA$.
A new Overwatch event is being prepared. Initial voice lines hint at Valentine’s events.
Last year, Jeff Kaplan, the head of the development team behind Overwatch, announced that they are continuing to work on many seasonal events. In the data for patch 1.7, which is currently playable on the PTR and brings numerous balancing changes, new voice lines have already been noticed.
Data miners have already found some new lines in the files that could at least loosely relate to a Valentine’s event. The speakers here are primarily Mercy, Genji, and Hanzo. There are two new dialogues in which Genji and Mercy gift each other chocolate. As a native Swiss, Angela Ziegler knows, of course, that Swiss chocolate is the one true chocolate. Genji apparently knows this too, yet opts for different pralines, which Mercy seems to forgive him for – as her name suggests.
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The relationship between Genji and Mercy has long been desired by some members of the fan fiction community. Recently, there were hints in the Christmas comic, where Genji wrote a letter to Mercy. Generally, a strong bond between the two seems likely, as Mercy saved Genji’s life after he was severely wounded by his brother Hanzo.
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However, at the same time, a large fanbase may have its virtual heart broken if the hoped-for love between Pharah and Mercy (“Pharmercy”) never comes to fruition – the world can be so cruel.
Whether there will actually be an event for Valentine’s Day remains to be seen. There were also voice lines for New Year’s Day, without any use being found for them. These things may only be relevant for 2018, but are already included in the game data.
Cortyn says: Would anyone have liked it if Genji gifted his Mercy a box of Merci chocolates? No? Too bad.
The entire month of December looked rosy for the Poké app in terms of revenue. The week of December 26th was the highest-grossing week Pokémon GO has recorded since July. Trainers spent $22.1 million on Pokémon hunting that week.
Super Mario Run is another top title in Nintendo’s App Store, but it flattened out again in December. The app costs 10 dollars, while Pokémon GO is free-to-play. Perhaps long Christmas walks helped as trainers were on the hunt for the Christmas Pikachu at various stops.
The new Progen Itali GTB is now available in Benny’s Garage at GTA 5 Online with cool tuning options.
The latest GTA 5 Online DLC “Import/Export” is all about stylish cars. In new missions, you can steal, modify, and then sell cars for profit. With this update, there are some new cars and motorcycles that will be gradually released for players.
The FCR 1000 motorcycle was released last week and has many tuning options that allow you to customize the bike to your liking. The today released Progen Itali GTB also offers many visual tuning options. From the racing-style speedometer to the GT spoiler, you can freely customize the car.
Itali GTB Custom Tuning
From today, there is a new sports car in the online world of GTA 5. With the Progen Itali GTB, Rockstar has released a new super sports car that passionate tuners will particularly appreciate. At Benny’s Original Motor Works, there are many options available to customize the car to your own style. In addition to the usual performance upgrades such as engine tuning and turbo, you can also make significant visual changes.
How you want to style the car is, of course, up to you. Whether it’s a huge wing mounted as a spoiler on the rear, or a more subtle look that appears elegant, you decide. The Progen Itali GTB costs 1,189,000 GTA$ at Benny’s.
In the video by Almighty Gamer , you will see the various tuning options for the car. The selection ranges from 18 different front bumpers to various titanium exhaust systems, carbon and chrome hoods, and spoilers where you can choose from 14 options. You can also change items in the interior, for example, the seats or the speedometer display.
A new farming method is circulating on the internet for The Division. It is so effective that Massive will likely have to respond soon.
Since update 1.4, loot is raining down in The Division: Every enemy you encounter can drop relevant items. By earning experience points, you earn sealed containers, and at the end of each activity, there are hefty rewards – no one can really complain about lacking items.
Nevertheless, after updates 1.4 and 1.5, numerous farming methods were developed that promised: “This is how you can get an incredible amount of items in no time!” “Play this mission or that raid with this character setup, and you’ll be swimming in loot!” Whether such tricks are really necessary is up for each player to decide for themselves.
Some methods are not always intended by Massive: For example, Bullet King returned in December, but the developers quickly put it in its place with a fix. Now there’s a new farming glitch that likely requires intervention from Massive.
When experience points flow
This particular glitch involves a story mission, a turret, and a special character setup. We will not detail how to execute this glitch here.
The glitch causes the glitcher to simply restart the mission continuously, while experience points flow in abundantly. It sounds boring and monotonous – which it is – but it promises over 500 items per hour.
What does the community say?
Many agents are surprised on reddit: They expected just another video about the “new farming method” for Lincoln Tunnel. But this glitch is “next level cheese”.
Therefore, many also demand that Massive eliminate this glitch as soon as possible. So far, we have not received any statement from the developers, but if they do not schedule an unscheduled server maintenance, there is a chance to implement a fix as early as next Thursday.
Cloud Imperium Games state that they will take a hard stance against cheaters. This is a priority, as cheaters also spoil the fun for others in the upcoming MMO Star Citizen.
Cheaters have first appeared in Star Citizen with Patch 2.6 in the Alpha, enjoying unfair advantages in the shooter mode Star Marine.
The company states that it will not tolerate cheaters in any way. Cheats represent a breach of contract and they will take strong action here. Those who cheat will be banned and unable to play Star Citizen anymore. There will also be no refunds for the purchase price. However, they need really significant evidence showing that someone is indeed using cheats.
Video evidence needed
Therefore, Cloud Imperium demands that players provide video evidence when reporting a cheater in the future. However, this is facing some criticism. Not everyone has the capability to record videos or has the appropriate software running at all times to quickly press the corresponding button and record a video in case of doubt. Additionally, some video capturing software may negatively impact game performance.
Anti-cheat is still in its infancy at Star Citizen
The developers then spoke up and explained that they are currently in an early phase of anti-cheat efforts. The fact that they want video evidence now has several reasons. On one hand, it is easier to identify cheaters, and on the other hand, the videos help developers optimize the upcoming anti-cheat software. This way, they will be able to combat cheaters more effectively in the future.
And that is also a priority. The developers want to let the fans know that they are taking cheats and the development of effective anti-cheat software very seriously. However, they are still at the beginning.
The world quests in World of Warcraft are being reshuffled with the patch. Those looking for something nice should act fast today!
Tomorrow, the “great little” patch 7.1.5 is coming for World of Warcraft, bringing a lot of changes to balancing, game performance, and overall quality of life. However, such adjustments also have a few “downsides” that players should be prepared for.
In patch 7.1 (currently still on the live servers), there was an annoying bug where the emissary quests of the Kirin Tor could not be completed. Those who tried to complete 4 world quests for this faction on the “last day” of the emissary quest occasionally found that there were not enough missions to claim the emissary cache.
Blizzard temporarily fixed this bug by simply granting all players immediate completion of the emissary quest.
Due to the Kirin Tor in Dalaran, the quests are being reshuffled.
Since then, this bug has not recurred, but patch 7.1.5 aims to prevent such a problem from happening again. For this reason, all world quests will be regenerated with the deployment of the patch. So if you spot a world quest with a nice reward today and see that it is still active for several days, don’t let that mislead you.
In plain terms, here’s what will happen tomorrow: All world quests will be reshuffled. This means that currently active quests will completely disappear or will be provided with new rewards after the patch.
Only your set of emissary quests will remain (like the Dreamweavers), so you can continue to make progress there and ultimately claim the cache.
So: If you see a nice upgrade in rewards today, make sure to secure it quickly.
Final Fantasy XIV is one of the last subscription-based MMOs and popular among many players. But what are the strengths of Square Enix’s Final Fantasy MMORPG? What weaknesses plague the game? Is it still worth it? Our YouTube partner Refaser has compiled pros and cons in a video.
Final Fantasy XIV, along with its expansion Heavensward, continues to excite players despite the fact that you have to pay for Square Enix’s major Final Fantasy online role-playing game every month. However, the subscription remains a hurdle that many interested players have yet to overcome. Unlike a free-to-play game, you cannot leisurely play Final Fantasy XIV to the max level and then decide to spend money.
Is Final Fantasy 14 worth it?
To help you decide whether Final Fantasy 14 is worth its subscription, our YouTube partner Refaser has thoroughly tested the game. The result of his efforts is a compact video in which he explains the pros and cons of Final Fantasy 14.
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For example, Refaser enjoys the impressive graphics, the successful animations, and the epic story of Final Fantasy 14. However, he finds the combat system and the lengthy introductory phase less impressive. You can find these and other pros and cons in Refaser’s video, which is embedded here for you. Enjoy!
In Destiny the weekly reset takes place today, on January 10th. What tasks are available this week?
The “Weekly Reset” in Destiny is every Tuesday at 10 AM. Numerous activities are reset, allowing you to hunt for weekly rewards again.
However, only a few of them are relevant at endgame – especially when it comes to reaching light level 400. You reach 400 by:
Nightfall Strike
Strike Loot: With skeleton keys, you can open chests at the end of strikes, which can contain 400 gear. Strikes are always worth it.
Exotic Engrams
Crucible, Iron Banner, Trials of Osiris
Archon Forge: Only Ghost shells and artifacts
Wrath of the Machine (Heroic)
So let’s now see which strike is the Nightfall this time and what other challenges there are.
Nightfall on January 10th on PS4 and Xbox One
This week, the Nightfall Strike is The Wretched Eye.
The modifiers are:
Epic
Brawler: Damage dealt by Guardian melee attacks is increased.
Fresh Troops: Some enemy units have reinforcements.
Puzzle Game: Enemy shields are resistant to mismatched elemental damage.
Exposure: Guardian shields are fortified but regenerate slowly.
In the Heroic SIVA Crisis Strike playlist, the modifiers are Heroic, Voidburn, Small Arms, and Fresh Troops.
The “Iron Lord” artifacts this week
Tyra Karn is patiently waiting for you in the Iron Temple. She brings weekly “Iron Lord” artifacts that you should activate at the statues. If you possess all the artifacts, you’ll receive a trophy that has been bugged for a long time. This time she has the following artifacts available:
