It might not be a bad idea to get involved in character creation before purchasing the game. Numerous testers praised the customization options, and those who don’t want to spend the first three days after launch only focusing on the correct length of the nostrils should develop one or two character designs in advance.
The pre-made heroes can then be saved and used in both the next beta test and the release version. This leaves nothing standing in the way on release day – unless you want to change one or two details after all…
Competition “Beauty and the Beast”
For those who love to make a character as incredibly ugly as possible, they will be pleased about the contest by Daum. They have launched the “Beauty and the Beast” contest, where players are encouraged to make a character look as horrifically grotesque as possible. The 125 winners will receive access to CBT2 as well as a title and exclusive titles in the game. You can learn more about the contest on the official page.
In the upcoming MMO shooter The Division, a player revealed how large the beta will be and how much storage space it requires.
A user on reddit reportedly already has access to the next beta and has started the download via uPlay on PC. There is a screenshot showing the size of the beta download as 26.25 GB. The post on reddit has since been deleted.
26.25GB is not too far from the alpha in December, which was only for Xbox One.
The Division will start next week in a Closed Beta on Playstation 4, PC, and Xbox One. For Xbox One, it begins on January 28; for players on Playstation 4 and PC on January 29. The beta will then end on January 31; The Division is set to release on all three platforms on March 8.
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The upcoming shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division is making waves with a series of videos produced in the style of one of the new gritty TV series from the USA.
The backstory of The Division: A virus is released in New York. Civilization collapses. Looting, murder, and manslaughter occur. On the prison island Rikers Island, a gang breaks out and wants to push into the power vacuum left by the police and other law enforcers as the plague spread and they retreated from Manhattan. Another group grabs flamethrowers, burning down anyone they see: He might have the virus.
In this atmosphere, the “Division” is activated, a group of sleeper agents who are to intervene only when everything else goes wrong.
Those who have heard the story might think: You could also make a TV series in the style of “24” or “Homeland” out of this, whose requests have been raised.
Ubisoft approached the experts from Corridor Digital, known for achieving a visual standard with a relatively low budget that only big productions usually accomplish. Ubisoft provided a secret document with information on how to envision the world in which The Division takes place. And then they got to work. Other video experts like devinsupertramp and RocketJump created two other segments.
Here a story is to be told about how different agents experience their “activation”, meet each other, and form a team.
20 minutes of footage has surfaced in 4 trailers produced by the 3 different teams. Here they are at a glance:
The video shows a confrontation of the agents with a group of “Rikers”, the escaped convicts. This is the longest video. It was uploaded by Ubisoft.
http://youtu.be/nUWNBPVRjTw
In this video, appearing on the Corridor Digital channel, which also led the project, the “Cleaners” are the focus:
http://youtu.be/X40CTplhI9s
The video takes place a few days after the outbreak. Supplies are running low, especially medicine is in demand …
http://youtu.be/H0kaj-eqqsE
This one is clearly the humorous contribution: Two slackers are craving pizza. The girlfriend has put one in the oven. Then a looter knocks unsanctimoniously at the door.
http://youtu.be/NJeJe_AKuwg
Customers of Amazon Prime receive a few more exclusive scenes from the provider.
A few days ago, the beta of Laplace started, and now there is fresh information about the weapon and skill system!
Everyone can carry all weapons
It wasn’t long ago that the cute manga MMORPG Laplace started its beta test in Taiwan. Now there is new information and a fresh trailer. This showcases the 4 rather traditional classes: Warrior, Mage, Cleric, and Scout. You can best check how that behaves in combat situations for yourself:
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Although Laplace might seem a bit thin on the ground at first glance with only 4 classes, it can definitely score in the variety department. The four classes all come with a small set of basic skills, but can use any weapon in the game – there are no restrictions here.
If a Mage believes that fireballs are good, but a blade in the face is even better, then they simply charge into battle with sword and shield. While players are on the move with different weapons, they also gain additional power and unlock further abilities.
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In a few days, the Bundesliga will start its second half. The Virtual Bundesliga is also running with live events in FIFA 16 .
Football fans are eagerly looking forward to the moment when the ball finally rolls again and they can passionately cheer for their team. This year, you can also show what you can do on the pitch – at least on the virtual field.
EA Sports announced today that the “TAG Heuer Virtual Bundesliga” will kick off with live events in January. The first of a total of twelve events will start on 30.01. in Dresden – and everyone can participate.
How can I participate?
For the live events, you must register online in advance at www.virtuelle-bundesliga.de. If you tend to be spontaneous, there is also the option to compete for the last four starting places on-site in a knockout system.
In each tournament, 64 players compete for victory and a ticket to the big VBL final. This is expected to take place in May or June. Here, the 40 best FIFA 16 players will compete for the official German championship.
Where will the events take place?
So far, only the location and date of the first four events are officially known. They are:
30.01.2016 – Dresden, Media Markt Prager Straße 15 13.02.2016 – Frankfurt am Main, Media Markt Tituscorso 6 20.02.2016 – Bremen, Media Markt AG-Weser-Straße 3 27.02.2016 – Munich, Media Markt Einsteinstraße 130
All events are to be held at branches of the electronics retail chain Media Markt. Further dates will be announced in the coming weeks.
What else do I need to know?
At the live events, FIFA 16 will only be played on the Xbox One.
It is also possible to qualify as one of the top online participants at the end of each month for the final until March 2016. You can prove yourself on Xbox One, but also directly through the game menu on Playstation 4. Additionally, the 18 winners of the club rating will receive a ticket for the final, and three more places will be filled with wildcards.
The winner of the championship will take home a whopping 10,000 euros!
The TAG Heuer Virtual Bundesliga has been running since October 1, 2015 for Xbox One and Playstation 4.
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In the fantasy MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online, subscribers will receive deep crafting bags. A 64-bit client will arrive as early as March. TESO is doing very well, according to the director.
In the Buy2Play MMORPG TESO (PC, PS4, Xbox One), information is provided every two weeks in the stream show “ESO Live.” It usually lasts about an hour, with concentrated information. Last Friday, two of the most important developers were present: the game’s director, Matt Firor, and the PvP lead, Brian Wheeler. We summarize their statements.
The Elder Scrolls Online is doing very well – here are the plans for the future in PvE
Firor is a rare guest on ESO Live. The last time he was there was a year ago. He summarized 2015 as: “The year was super, super successful for us. The game is doing very well.”
The Champion Points cap will not be increased with the next update, the Thieves Guild. Later, it is planned to raise it by 51 points per update.
Some quests in the Thieves Guild will play into the law system.
Support for the 64-bit client is coming in the next update (it’s expected around March). This should solve a number of performance issues.
The DLC Dark Brotherhood (in the second quarter of 2016) will also bring an end to the veteran rank system, but no one will lose access to items they can currently carry.
There is a plan to introduce crafting bags. This is planned for the second quarter of 2016 and will be reserved for ESO+ subscribers. Essentially, it will provide “unlimited space for crafting materials.”
The possibility for players to purchase additional character slots may also come in the second quarter of 2016. The feature is planned, but it is still uncertain whether it will be ready by the “Dark Brotherhood.”
The barber will appear no earlier than the second half of 2016.
Nobody is currently revealing anything about the second half of the year or the planned DLCs because it is still too far in the future.
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In the second half of the show, Brian Wheeler was a guest. He is the head of all things related to PvP. He is often on ESO Live and didn’t really have much new information to share.
The main goal in PvP remains to reduce the load on the servers, to improve performance in Cyrodiil. The servers are currently checking too many player abilities and their effects. Solving this problem requires a lot of work on the code and will take longer.
At the moment, they are also working on “smaller PvP things,” basically on battlegrounds and similar. This takes time because they are considering a completely new concept – they want to avoid replicating what was done in the demo versions. Currently, they are still in the design phase.
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With a hot trailer, Blade & Soul kicks off with us and reveals how it will continue this year.
Endless Content
Today, on January 19th at 6:00 AM, the starting signal finally sounded for the western fans of the action MMORPG Blade & Soul. And while players are leveling their characters to the current maximum level of 45, the developers have also released a stylish trailer. This gives those undecided a first impression of the story and quickly shows them which sexy villain they must defeat: the mistress of dark chi, Jin Seo-Yeon.
But the developers allow themselves no rest and have also already revealed the rough plans for the rest of the year.
After hopefully successfully completing the launch, they want to release the “Tower of Mushin” soon, a solo dungeon where players will ascend the titular tower and face a small boss fight on each floor. Initially, there will be 8 different floors, but more are planned and will be added gradually to provide new content in the long run.
The Warlock is expected to arrive this year if the plans go accordingly.
Group players will also get even more in the long run (Free2Play!) as they plan to deliver some instances for 6 players, along with the corresponding hard modes for 4 players in the endgame area. Those who enjoy larger groups will join 23 friends throughout the year in the Naryu Labyrinth, where players can take different paths and make decisions that should alter the gameplay experience each time.
Much later in the year, there will even be a completely new continent, the “Silverfrost Mountains,” raising the level cap from 45 to 50 and possibly introducing the “Warlock” class. However, this is still a long way off. We will report as soon as further information becomes available.
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Although the Guardians in MMO shooter Destiny are known for diligently and purposefully revealing all the secrets and tricks of the game, there are still mysteries whose mechanics or conditions have not yet been explored. One of the last riddles in Destiny is the Scarab Heart.
In forums like reddit.com, there is still disagreement on how to obtain the coveted emblem. We summarize what is confirmed about the “Scarab Heart” and what is more of a rumor.
This is confirmed:
The emblem is only available in the “Trials of Osiris” mode. In the Tower, at the emblem collection, it can be found under “Crucible”, alongside other ToO and Iron Banner emblems.
The blue-black emblem only appears after completing a ToO match, when the rewards are given. It cannot “drop” during a match – at least, there are no reports of that.
You can only obtain the Scarab Heartif you have flawlessly filled your card with 9 wins and then continue playing and winning. No one has yet contested this surely not too easy condition.
Furthermore, there is unanimous reporting that it is a random drop, and this randomness occurs rather infrequently. A mechanic that must be fulfilled for the emblem to be guaranteed as a reward has not yet been discovered. It seems to be up to luck whether you receive the “Scarab Heart” after a victory with a filled card or not.
This is hotly debated:
There are “evidence videos” showing that the coveted status symbol drops after victories when carrying a card with 9 – 0, meaning no defeats were suffered. However, there are numerous reports that the emblem appeared despite a defeat on the card, mostly during the eleventh victory. Confirmations are scarce.
Moreover, there is discussion about whether the buffs from Brother Vance may be used or not. In the videos where the emblem drops, it is always assured that none were used. However, some Guardians in forums believe it to be irrelevant. Only 9 victories should shine on the card, the rest does not matter.
This is rather unrealistic:
There are also reports from players who firmly believe that the emblem appeared well before the 9th victory for them. Whether this is true or if there are just show-offs or lucky individuals cannot be definitively assessed. However, we find this version rather unrealistic.
In ancient Egypt, the scarab was a symbol of good luck representing “resurrection and life”. It was often associated with the course of the sun and was symbolically linked to the sun god Re. Thus, it had a strong solar aspect. The scarab is inspired by an animal: the sacred dung beetle. It is a dung-eater that rolls dung balls for the females to lay their eggs in. Whether this information is helpful for enlightenment seems … um … probably not.
Have you already obtained the Scarab Heart? What are your experiences with it?
The selective multiplayer RPG Shroud of the Avatar is expected to be released sooner rather than later, which is why some features will not make it into Episode 1.
Shroud of the Avatar is somewhat of a troubled child among RPGs. It was successfully funded in 2013 as a hybrid between single-player RPGs and MMORPGs via Kickstarter. The release was supposed to be at the end of 2014. Now, we are in early 2016 and SotA is still in the pre-alpha phase. No wonder players are getting nervous and the developers need to do something to push forward the release.
Too many features delay the launch
Shroud of the Avatar is a game that is being developed together with the fans. The developers maintain an open dialogue with the community. If a feature is poorly received, it will be changed. Additionally, many ideas are gathered and efforts are made to implement them. However, this leads to the problem of so-called “feature creep.”
There are so many cool features that the team wants to implement, causing the release of the game to be delayed further and further. Company founder Richard “Lord British” Garriott has recognized the problem and is now taking action. He plans to release the first episode of Shroud of the Avatar in the coming months. This means that it will happen sometime later this year.
SotA will be expanded gradually
To adhere to this timeline, some of the planned features will not make it into the first episode. Garriott explains that fans do not need to worry that these features will not be seen in the game at all. However, the focus now is on creating a polished product that can be released “soon.”
All elements that are set aside now will be integrated into the game after the release of SotA. However, he did not reveal which features these will be, leading to much speculation in the forum.
The date for the second Closed Beta of the sandbox MMORPG Black Desert is now known. It is set to start in mid-February.
Black Desert is currently the most interesting MMORPG for many, which is “upcoming soon.” We participated in the first closed beta phase here in December. After that, fans eagerly awaited the second Closed Beta – access could already be purchased through a kind of “founder packages.”
Now the date is known: On February 18, the second Closed Beta of Black Desert begins. This will be combined with character creation via an app. The character creation had already caused a stir in the first Closed Beta. We will deal with this offline character creation in a separate article.
When does the beta for the hardcore online shooter Escape from Tarkov start? When does the alpha begin?
The shooter MMORPG Escape from Tarkov addresses some issues found in other online shooters and MMORPGs.
First up, something that fans of the MMO are surely eager to know: The alpha launch date was set for February 2016, while the beta will start in the first quarter of 2016 – presumably at the end of March.We addressed signing up for the beta in this article.
However, there is more new information.
No Respawning!
In an online shooter, it is often the case that after dying, you respawn at certain points in the area. This will not be the case in Escape from Tarkov. If you die, you are dead.
But not forever, rather for the specific mission or raid you are in. This means that there will be no spawn camping, as there are no respawn points. Additionally, this should encourage players to be much more cautious during missions to avoid going down easily and leaving their team “in the lurch.” The equipment you carried when you died could be lost unless a team member picks it up.
Realistic Combat
Moreover, the developers announced that there are currently no female characters planned. You will only be able to play as male characters. Interestingly, the impact of a bullet is calculated physically. Depending on the gear you wear and the body part hit by the bullet, it can either pass through, get lodged, or even shatter. By using a medkit, you can stop bleeding. Severe bleeding can also have side effects such as weakness seizures or headaches.
Today marks the release of World of Tanks on PlayStation 4. We tell you what time WoT starts.
At 6:00 PM our time, today on January 19th, World of Tanks will launch on PlayStation 4. The date has been known for a while, the time was mentioned in a forum thread yesterday.
The PlayStation 4 version of World of Tanks will be the fourth “console version” after the PC and ports to Xbox 360 and Xbox One, with “Blitz” being a mobile spin-off that is quite different.
How does the PS4 version of World of Tanks compare to the PC version?
The console versions are considered to be more action-oriented than the PC version, and the graphics have also undergone significant changes, so console players will feel right at home.
A recent screenshot comparison by dualshockers showed that the PS4 version and the Xbox One version look quite identical. There are differences compared to the PC: while the PC version offers advantages with tank models even in the garage, the consoles have a lot to offer in the open field with 3D objects. The landscape has more objects, and there’s more decoration. Additionally, there is a “night” mode on the consoles. The journalist from dualshockers (a site focused on consoles) prefers the PS4 and Xbox One versions over the PC.
This is probably because World of Tanks is also supposed to run on older PCs (the game is immensely popular in the former Eastern Bloc), while the console version can focus on a specific configuration.
In FIFA 16: Ultimate Team, chemistry plays an extremely important role. Until now, one could only read: “In FIFA Ultimate Team, you need strong chemistry if you want to build the best possible team,” says EA Sports.
The widespread opinion among FIFA players is accordingly: The better the team chemistry, the stronger my team is. This is obvious and understandable. But unfortunately, that is not entirely true. We are looking at the exact numerical impact of chemistry on your Ultimate Team.
Team Chemistry and Player Chemistry
How much chemistry influences your players’ attributes has perhaps been the biggest secret in FIFA Ultimate Team. A team chemistry of 100 is good; anything below that is less good; everyone knows that by now. Essentially, this is true. However, it is not just the obvious team chemistry, which is displayed in the upper right during the lineup, that affects your players but especially the player chemistry. One must distinguish between:
1. Team Chemistry: is always visibly displayed in the upper right during the lineup. Team chemistry consists of all player chemistry values. It varies between 0 and the maximum value of 100.
Calculation: Team chemistry = Player chemistry 1 + Player chemistry 2 + … + Player chemistry 11
This formula allows for a total value of 110. However, theoretical values above 100 do not have a greater effect than the maximum value of 100.
2. Player Chemistry: you can check this when you “flip through” your active team with the right stick (in the web app this is done by scrolling). In the following image, the player chemistry values are displayed with blue bars below the player card. The maximum value is 10 per player.
Player chemistry consists of: position, connections with teammates (red, orange, green), manager bonus, and loyalty bonus. We will describe how it is calculated in detail later in this guide.
What is the relationship between Team Chemistry and Player Chemistry in the game?
Initially, it is important how the chemistry value is weighted in the game, that is, directly on the pitch. The average of all eleven player chemistry values is a remarkable 75%, with team chemistry contributing the remaining 25%. It is therefore significantly more important ‒ and this is indeed surprising ‒ to focus on strong player chemistry (ideally 10 per player) than to achieve team chemistry of 100.
How does this affect my players’ attributes?
The following equation shows how chemistry value is calculated for each individual player in the game: Chemistry = (Player chemistry x 0.75) + (Team chemistry x 0.25)
An example: A player with an individual chemistry of 10, playing in a team with 90 team chemistry, will perform better than a player with player chemistry 9 and team chemistry 100 (as: 9.75 > 9.25). In short: player chemistry has a triple weighting on your players’ attributes, while team chemistry has only a single weighting. Therefore, pay particular attention to the individual chemistry of your players!
How is Player Chemistry composed exactly?
Here, the equation is:
Player Chemistry = Position/Connections + Manager Bonus + Loyalty Bonus
This is significantly more complicated to calculate than the equation for team chemistry. We will try to present the variables as clearly as possible.
Positions and Connections
This value is the trickiest to determine. It depends on the position a player occupies and the teammates in his environment. It is important that the nationality, league, and club match as much as possible.
The following table shows the relationship of connections (Links) and positions:
The colors of the positions indicate how well the player is positioned: red means completely wrong, orange means that this position has little to do with his natural position, yellow indicates a decent relationship to the position, and green shows the natural positioning.
The following table illustrates all possible combinations:
In the first table, the L (Links) must also be highlighted: this value measures the intensity of the relationship of the player with his teammates.
3 means: same nationality and club, 2 = same club but different nationality, or: same nationality and league but different clubs. 1 = same league but different nationality and club, or: same nationality but different league. 0 = no match.
Depending on how the connections and the position are combined, the maximum value of player chemistry 10 can already be achieved here. In short: just make sure that your players play in their positions and that nationality and club match as much as possible; then it cannot go wrong.
Manager Bonus
If the league or nation of the manager matches with a player, the player chemistry value increases by 1. However, the bonus cannot be higher than 1, thus one match is completely sufficient.
Loyalty Bonus
If a player is drawn from a pack by oneself or has completed 10 matches with a player bought on the transfer market, there is a loyalty bonus added to the chemistry value of 1. This value cannot be increased.
What about Legends on Xbox?
Legends also need good chemistry. However, since they are not assigned to any league or club, they behave a bit differently. Here, player chemistry is calculated as follows from the relationships with teammates:
3 = Legend of the same nationality (green) 2 = Legend, but different nationality, or: no legend, but the same nationality (also green) 1 = Neither a legend nor the same nationality (orange) 0 = Legends cannot have red connections with other players.
In total, player chemistry can theoretically reach the value of 12, but anything above 10 has no stronger effect on individual chemistry than the maximum value of 10.
Phew, that’s it for now. All in all, the conclusion remains that chemistry in FIFA 16: Ultimate Team is anything but easy to decipher.
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Revelation claims the spot for the largest mount on the MMO market. See how many players can fit on it…
A guild meeting, even during the journey
NetEase is actually known for marketing Blizzard’s big games in China, but it also has some other “irons in the fire” and seems to be grabbing a rather unusual record this time. While in World of Warcraft, a maximum of three players can roam the colorful worlds on a mount, one can only laugh dryly about that in Revelation.
A staggering 50 players can fit on the gigantic mix of manta ray and whale. This allows for a major guild event to be held “on the fly”.
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The oversized, mobile contraption was the reward of an inter-server PvP tournament. Despite this record, it does not hide the fact that the game “Revelation” is doing relatively poorly – it complains about too few players, at least according to the Asia-focused site MMO-Culture. The operator is currently trying to breathe new life into the game and plans to offer an “open beta” for the update in the near future.
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In the upcoming MMO shooter “The Division”, the player’s base is their personal refuge. We take a look at the new home.
The base in The Division is a new concept. It is located west of the large Dark Zone in Manhattan, making it a fixed building. It is also the only area in The Division that is “personal,” where the player cannot meet any other players. Essentially, it is like the “own house,” the private starting point, to which no one else has access.
The base changes with the agent’s decisions, with the path they take. Therefore, it looks a bit different for each player and is a personal instance.
This article is based on this video from YouTuber Arekkz. He visited the developers in Malmö and was able to play The Division there. The information refers to the current “not yet fully completed” version, so things might still change:
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The base for banking, crafting, and quests in The Division
Your base gives you access to some features that would typically be found in other games in “cities” or “the tower”:
In the base, there is a “chest.” This is basically your vault or your bank. Here you can store items that you do not currently need but want to keep. This is also where the items you successfully extracted from the Dark Zone end up.
There are 3 vendors for weapons, equipment, and mods (those are the things that you can use to modify your equipment). At the moment, it seems that these vendors can only sell low-tier weapons – in the Dark Zone, there are vendors with a stronger selection.
In the base, there is also an NPC who provides a “status report.” When you talk to him (or click on an info board in the world), you receive an overview of missions to complete: from assignments for the three wings to bounties, to other tasks involving murder and mayhem in the service of civilization that are pending in The Division.
There is also a “restock chest.” There you can automatically replenish your supplies before leaving the base. It provides you with ammunition, med kits, and grenades. This way, you go out well-equipped every time. Such restock points can also be found in other locations.
The three wings – how to make base building nice in The Division
The wings start at 0% and “offline,” can be unlocked and expanded through missions. Overall, there are 10 upgrade levels per wing. You unlock these gradually by collecting and investing the resource “supplies” – which likely counts for each wing, so you need “green supplies” for the medical wing in your base in The Division.
When upgrading, the first upgrade is mandatory; it is essentially the foundation for everything else that you will build on. After that, you can choose from the remaining offerings on how you want to improve the wing. This will in turn unlock special skills and attributes for your agent.
The upgrades can be found in your base. For example, the “dog squad,” which was recently speculated about, is simply an upgrade that will then be displayed to you: There will be a dog standing there, with which you cannot do anything in your base, but it symbolizes certain advantages that will then be available to you “in the field.”
Now the developers have spoken up on Twitter again and answered some questions from impatient fans. The plan is still to resume the beta sometime this month, but that is not a promise. Depending on how quickly development progresses, this could also be pushed to early February. More precise information will be provided only once there is a fixed date.
Additionally, it was once again confirmed that there will be no new heroes until the launch. Overwatch is, at least regarding the number of 21 heroes, already complete for release.
What fans can definitely look forward to is a new reward system that was promised back in December. This was one of the biggest demands and has also been announced several times by the developers. What exactly the various cosmetic rewards will be remains to be seen.
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In the MMO shooter Destiny the new week starts on January 19th with a weekly Nightfall strike and a raid challenge.
Things should start happening in Destiny again. On Thursday evening or late Thursday night, Bungie plans to break its holiday radio silence and release information about what to expect in February. One shouldn’t expect a huge “Everything will be different” patch, as Bungie announced that 2016 would start with something smaller. But after a month of “completely no information”, that will still be a welcome change.
Regardless, the week in Destiny starts on Tuesday, not Thursday. And we look at what the new rotation brings.
Weekly Nightfall Strike is the SABER Strike
This week, the SABER Strike is the Nightfall. The beginning is regarded as one of the most difficult segments in the current Destiny.
The modifiers are:
Sidearms – Primary weapon damage is preferred
Grounded – Guardians take more damage in the air
Chaff – The radar is blocked
Trickle – Ability cooldowns are increased
This week, Dead Orbit wants Ghost Fragments, the New Monarchy wants Relic Iron, and the Future War Cult wants Ghost Fragments as well.
The Raid Challenge is Golgoroth
This week, Golgoroth is back. He is the raid challenge for the week starting January 19th. Outstanding raid 320 items are at stake if you can defeat the ogre in the intended way.
The players of SWTOR are complaining about the lack of group content. But is there actually something in the works?
No announcement – for now
Although the story of “Knights of the Fallen Empire” has been well received by fans of Star Wars: The Old Republic, the game is currently suffering from another deficiency: group content. For months, players have been pleading that BioWare’s MMORPG should finally do justice to the three letters MMO again. In the last producer’s livestream, this topic was addressed, and several questions from the community were answered.
The big goal planned for the remaining time of KotFE is to make the “old” group activities exciting and useful again, which has largely been achieved. This primarily included the hero missions, but new content included the star fortresses. Story and cutscenes remain the core aspect of the expansion, which is why unfortunately no new announcements can be made yet. However, discussions are ongoing internally that deal exactly with this topic.
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At least there is a small ray of hope for all raiders who enjoy the nightmare modes of the various operations. With the introduction of patch 4.1 (Chapter X – “Anarchy in Paradise”), the loot in the corresponding instances will be slightly improved. This means that each final boss will drop at least one item with item level 224, which should provide new incentives to defeat these bosses. The other adversaries will still have a chance to drop the coveted items, but only the final bosses provide a guaranteed reward.
The world boss “Shatterer” from Guild Wars 2 will learn some new tricks with the upcoming update and attracts veterans back with new rewards.
Shatter me, oh mighty Shatterer!
The big January update of GW2 brings not only flying to Old Tyria and removes numerous bugs and issues, but also gives a long-established world boss new strength. The Shatterer will finally live up to his name again and will be unleashed with new fury on the player base!
Over the last three years, the Shatterer, a dragon boss at the end of an event series, has significantly lost his impressiveness. Players have taken the time to discover numerous safe zones during the battle, where the dragon poses little threat because his attacks never target these areas.
This issue is now being addressed with full severity. The dragon’s attacks have been revised, enlarged, and improved, so there should no longer be any safe positions. To emphasize the dragon’s strength, a new Rage Bar has been implemented – numerous control effects (and some coordination) are now needed to prevent the dragon from executing his abilities. The numerous minions of the dragon, the Marked, have also received some upgrades and should blow out the life lights of the heroes significantly more often.
To compensate for this, the siege weapons have also been improved – one can now aim faster and keep allies on their feet with a whole rain of medkits.
The legendary weapons make it possible
One of the main reasons for the redesign of the fight is a bug that particularly affected players when acquiring their legendary weapon. As part of the quest line, it was necessary to be trapped in a crystal by the dragon to draw power for the weapon. Unfortunately, if the boss is blinded the entire time, he can never land a single hit with this ability.
In conjunction with these changes, there is also a new achievement category for the Shatterer, which contains 12 fresh achievements. The achievements are based on various mechanics, so participation in the fight is rewarded doubly. Those who complete the meta achievement can even look forward to a nice new back item.
The upcoming MMO shooter The Division will not have player trading. At least, not at launch.
As reported by Gamesradar, The Division will not have player trading, even though it was once planned. According to a Massive employee speaking to the online site, “priorities on various features” are the reason for this decision. That is one of the truths of game production: Some features make it, others do not.
However, the idea that players can exchange gear and weapons among themselves is not completely dead. This is something that some value a lot, according to Massive. Maybe it will come in the future.
