In Hearthstone, the maniacs are once again on the hunt for new nonsense records. Instead of a turn that lasts 48 hours, they are now chasing new milestones.
The nonsense records in Hearthstone seem endless. We have already reported on the turn that lasted 43 hours. The developers are now starting with a very similar tactic: This time, however, they are not looking for the record for the longest turn, but are after the most forced card draws and the record for the highest damage totals. For this, they are relying on “Arcane Missiles” and have them hit “Acolyte of Pain”.
They buffed Prophet Velen with the “Velen’s Chosen” spell, causing the spell damage to rise extremely, then they cloned him with the faceless manipulator. On the other side, they repeatedly doubled the HP of an Acolyte of Pain until it reached nearly 800,000 health points. Then the priest protected himself with an ice block, and the “arcane missiles” were unleashed. Thanks to the buffed Prophet Velen, these now cause 2176 missiles, multiplied by 9, and the players hit these insane numbers. The Acolyte of Pain ensures that his owner may draw a card for every damage taken on the minion.
For anyone thinking: 2176 missiles only? Surely that could have been pushed even higher! They refrained from buffing Velen further because Hearthstone simply gives up at 2500 missiles per spell.
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In the fantasy MMORPG Guild Wars 2 players can now encounter an extraordinary NPC. ArenaNet has integrated a deceased player into the world.
Several months ago, the story of Alexandra, who died during childbirth, was shared in Guild Wars 2. In the game, she was known as “Hiralyn” and she particularly enjoyed picking up rabbits and wandering through GW2 with them, preferring a two-handed hammer as her main weapon.
Game designer Mike Zarodonj has since worked on giving Hiralyn a second home as a small side project in his spare time: She now waits in Cragstead. Not only has she gathered rabbits around her, but she also has a touching dialogue.
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In the Korean MMORPG Black Desert you can hunt whales. This is probably relaxing and beautiful, except when guilds are in conflict.
Asia MMO specialist Steparu has released a video showing him and his guild on a whale hunt. But this is not about PvP against players who spend a lot of money in Black Desert and are also known as “whales”, but rather about virtual marine mammals. Steparu describes the experience as relaxing and peaceful.
However, a day after the video was made, “peaceful” was over, as he says. Then another guild decided to monopolize the whale hunting and started hunting the whale hunters themselves.
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The game The Division by Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment has mainly impressed with its graphics through the gameplay material released so far. The post-apocalyptic shooter MMO had quite an unconventional start – as a prototype made of papier-mâché – as our colleagues from PC Games Hardware found out in a conversation with studio head David Polfeldt and Art Director Rodrigo Cortes.
5 Days to Build
In the beginning, it was just an idea. Then Ubisoft wanted to have an initial concept within 5 days… and thus, in this short period, a first setup of The Division was created. Although made of papier-mâché, it was relatively close to what we had already seen in trailers, at least in terms of the environment.
2 Playmobil figures represent players shooting at a car. The line of fire was represented by threads. Apparently, Ubisoft was so convinced that they said, “Sure, let’s do it!”.
From Sweden to the USA
Massive Entertainment is a Swedish studio based in Malmö. Testing weapons that should make The Division even more realistic was therefore not feasible. But fortunately, there is Red Storm, a U.S. subsidiary of Ubisoft, who promptly invited the guys from Sweden to North Carolina. And in the USA, gun laws apparently only exist on paper.
So, they shot at car doors on a training ground with various weapons. Why all this? The experiences flow directly into the development of The Division. A car exploding in GTA-style after 5 shots is therefore not a reality. Windows don’t shatter after a single bullet – pure reality.
We noticed that safety glass in vehicles doesn’t shatter as quickly under fire as one might think.
Physically Correct Weather
So far, trailers for The Division have always shown a somewhat wintry weather condition. The developers promise that snowflakes are not just simple textures; no, they realistically fall from the sky, accumulate on clothing, and melt when entering a heated room.
Our brain is extremely good at detecting any minor irregularity in the flow of its environment. The reason it rarely snows in games is probably that it is both very resource-intensive and difficult to implement. The snow has cost us quite a lot of nerves.
The guys at Massive Entertainment are putting in a lot of effort to make The Division one of the most realistic gaming experiences ever.
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In the survival MMO H1Z1 the new update is being installed right now. Therefore, the servers will be down from 12:00 PM on April 9th.
At 12:00 PM our time, the servers for H1Z1 are scheduled to go offline for a patch. During that time, H1Z1 will be unreachable. The servers are expected to come back online at 2:00 PM our time with the new build.
We have summarized the most important points from the patch notes for you in English. The patch brings among other things:
A larger number of zombies
The zombies are also more dangerous, dealing more damage and having a higher chance of causing bleeding wounds, but they now have more difficulty causing damage to vehicles
The torch now sets players, wildlife and zombies on fire, players burn for 5 seconds, wildlife and zombies for 20 seconds
A new shoe slot is being added – here, work boots can be worn. More types of shoes are planned
Handcuffs are newly coming to H1Z1, players can attempt to break free from them, with each attempt increasing the chance, the system will continue to expand with new restraints and also more ways to escape them
A new inventory slot for chest armor is being introduced, players will start with two makeshift armors. To craft them, players should look out for “Duct Tape”.
There is now a new stamina value, which decreases while sprinting. Players can replenish it by resting in a bed. A night’s sleep also provides a temporary HP and stamina bonus.
And a new “Death Screen” is coming, which summarizes a player’s achievements until their death in H1Z1
The MMO shooter Destiny hasn’t seen any new game content in 2015 yet, and patches are also taking their time. Nevertheless, a player has searched for, found, and compiled numerous highlights and highlights of Destiny in 2015 for a “Best of” video.
For his first video, where he summarized what happened in Destiny as a highlight reel, the YouTuber t0nin0t received much praise, so he set out to summarize the best of 2015. “But what could that possibly have been?“, critics will ask. After all, nothing has really happened so far. In early December, the last DLC “Darkness Lies in Wait” was released. January, February, March – aside from expenses, nothing happened, one could say.
But that wouldn’t be entirely correct. Quite a bit has indeed happened in Destiny. However, most of it came from the community, which provided the “special experiences” in Destiny.
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In the highlight video, it teems with small, special moments in the Crucible, where exceptional performances and nasty cheats are closely interspersed. Additionally, of course: A whole range of Crota kills, highlights such as the Iron Banner, or then something from Bungie: such as the weapon balance patch, which ensured that suddenly shotguns and pulse rifles were so popular. Or in mid-January when the hard mode of Crota opened, and many of the later highlights became possible, such as the intense solo kill by SC_Slayerage.
And of course in the video: A whole lot of quirks and bugs.
Here is again the first video that summarized 2014 and thus also the launch:
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For most of the moments that are only briefly touched on in the video, you will find detailed stories on our themed page about Destiny. Take a look, it’s a kind of “Best of Destiny 2015” as well.
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In the fantasy MMORPG World of Warcraft , hardcore players in the USA can rejoice: The game time token price is much cheaper than expected.
30 days of game time currently cost 22,000 Gold in the USA. That’s something to digest. It started with 30,000. Many assumed it would quickly rise to around 70,000 Gold, as Gold isn’t worth much, while 20€ for the token is a lot.
However, the opposite is the case. Apparently, many more people want to exchange their 20 US dollars for Gold than there are players willing to trade their Gold for 30 days of game time. Therefore, the price dropped massively on the first day. It is now at 22,000 Gold, which is definitely a price that “non-Gold sharks” can also afford and that can be raised “just like that”.
When the WoW token goes live in Europe is still unknown at the moment. It shouldn’t take too long. The first hardcore players are already jubilant: “I will never have to spend a Euro on WoW again.”
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Before a Free2Play MMO is released, the community is already speculating hotly about how it will be financed. There is also great fear of a Pay2Win title in the community regarding Skyforge. However, publisher My.com is now reassuring the players.
Everyone should have fun
With 5 points, the officials explain how the model of Skyforge is supposed to work. Thus, no one gets a direct advantage over other players when money is invested. Much more, only the own character development can be accelerated. Of course, players who invest money will reach the maximum level faster, but this does not disadvantage other players.
Players can invest money in Skyforge if they want to accelerate their character’s progress and get through the content faster. But never at the expense of others.
Will it be Pay2Win?
It is also promised that one does not have to farm unnecessarily long to advance their character without spending real money. More credits also means more prestige, which comes with faster level advancement. Although credits are also required, which can be purchased with real money, to participate in high-end activities, players who do not pay will still receive credits in sufficient amounts – according to the publisher.
Progress in the Atlas is limited by Sparks. These cannot be purchased and are only available through active gameplay.
We are curious to see how the payment model will ultimately affect the player experience. Previous accusations that Skyforge would become a Pay2Win title were intended to be nipped in the bud by the publisher. They threatened to ban members from forums and revoke their beta access if they made inappropriate Pay2Win accusations. They feared that it could harm the game. This particularly caused a major uproar in the western community. The community manager then retracted the threat and apologized for the statement that was not meant that way – he did not want to censor anyone. With the current news, they probably want to reassure the players a little. In our beta test of Skyforge, we have not yet been able to see any signs of Pay2Win.
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In the action MMORPG Neverwinter , a new module called Elemental Evil has been released. It raises the level cap to 70 and introduces a new class, the Oathbound Paladin.
Elemental Evil was released a bit late, initially only on PC. Later, the module is also expected to come to Xbox One, but Tyranny of Dragons is still waiting for its port.
Elemental Evil was again developed in close collaboration with Wizards of the Coast, the guardians of Dungeons & Dragons. With Minsc and the Miniature Space Giant Hamster Boo, two cult characters from Baldur’s Gate also join the free-to-play MMORPG.
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With the upcoming content update for WildStar, “INVASION: Nexus“, there will be a new raid instance for all characters at max level. The new zone is called “Initialization Core Y-83” and differs in several aspects from previous instances.
No Attunement, but 2 Difficulty Levels
Unlike usual, there is no need to complete a lengthy questline to gain access to the new raid area this time. However, there is a short introduction for those interested in the story. The brief questline in the “Corruption” area explains historical contexts and makes it clear why one should put out the life lights of the Primary Evolution Operator promptly. By the way, this is also the only boss to fight, experienced players should be able to manage it in about 30 minutes.
However, there is a special feature: The boss can be approached in two different difficulty levels to offer new content to as many players as possible. In the easier variant, one should expect similar resistance as with “Doomshade Ohmna” from the Genarchiv. However, those particularly brave or particularly bored can initiate the fight by activating the “organic flamethrower”, which raises the difficulty of the enemy to the level of the elemental pairs in the data zone.
New Loot
Of course, defeating the operator rewards with abundant loot, including new equipment pieces, brand new rune sets with unique bonuses, and lots of housing decorations that cannot be found anywhere else. Those who complete the encounter at the higher difficulty level can even look forward to a special reward – perhaps an exclusive mount?
Originally, this fight was planned for the Genarchiv, which would have overloaded the instance. Those who want to read the entire developer blog and convince themselves that the WildStar developers make just as bad puns as I do should read the full post here on wildstar-online.com. More about the space MMO can be found on our WildStar topic page.
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Reaching Diamond V in League of Legends is often easier said than done. This is impressively demonstrated by a statistic on Reddit.
Anyone who actively plays League of Legends knows how difficult it can be to climb to the top of the divisions. The Diamond rank is the third highest in the League of Legends ranking system. It is already home to the high-class semi-professional players. The path to get there is often rocky and challenging. It is necessary to play a lot of matches and invest a significant amount of time to make the career leap. The amount of blood, sweat, and clicks involved in such an endeavor is currently shown by a post on Reddit
The League of Legends player r3as0n recently managed to reach Diamond rank V. Always by his side was his beloved Razer Naga. Using a program called Razer Synapse, all activities with the mouse during a game were tracked and recorded in a statistic. The result is more than interesting: To fight his way up from Bronze to the Diamond division, r3as0n needed over 3 years and 3,439,140 clicks. Although this is not an extraordinary achievement, the statistic once again shows how much effort can go into achieving success.
Hopefully he doesn’t drop back down right away. It doesn’t take 3 years for that.
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In the MMO war simulation War Thunder a series of in-game events starts today, which will last a couple of weeks. The event is dedicated to World War II. Those who participate in the historical battles have a chance to earn various premium vehicles and trophies.
War Thunder, the biggest competitor of World of Tanks and World of Warplanes, pays homage with the event “Chronicles of World War II” to the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe.
The event also starts today, April 8, with the German invasion of Poland. It will last for 5 weeks and includes all key battles from September 1, 1939, to the final victory of the Allies in Berlin in May 1945. The plan for the next few days – specifically until April 14, when it moves to Smolensk – is already set.
Every day, different missions for Arcade, Realistic, and Simulator will be available, and you can participate with both ground and air vehicles. You can find these missions under “Events & Tournaments” in the subsection “WW2 Chronicles”.
Once you achieve 15 victories, you will receive a winner’s trophy with a chance for a premium vehicle. If you manage to reach 225 victories, you are guaranteed a premium vehicle, a unique badge, and a special title.
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If you haven’t played War Thunder yet, but would like to try it out, you can sign up for free on the official website warthunder.com and get started. The war game is free-to-play. Here is what the event schedule looks like for the coming days:
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All beta players of The Elder Scrolls Online who have not purchased the MMORPG now have the chance to enter the world of Tamriel again – and for free. Zenimax grants all former testers a brief access to the now Buy2Play title.
Play for 4 days – without buying ESO!
Players who have helped Zenimax improve ESO during the beta or just participated in events should check their inbox. Do you belong to that group? Then it’s best to check your emails, because from April 16 to April 20, at 4 PM each day, you can take a free peek into the world of Tamriel. Thanks to the “Welcome Back” weekend!
You can simply download the game and have full access to all content from the 6 major game updates, including improvements and fixes, and of course you are invited to explore everything else that Tamriel Unlimited has to offer.
If you decide to purchase the game, Tamriel Unlimited awaits you in the long run – an MMO that recently celebrated its first birthday and has gone through many changes during this time:
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The game that many have long awaited “Black Desert” has undergone several transformations over the years and throughout multiple beta phases. There is not much left of the original plans that were disclosed for the MMO. Especially the fans from the beginning feel betrayed and sold out by the developers, as many promises have been broken, and former high goals have completely been lost sight of.
Earlier: Peer pressure, different guilds, bad karma
The opponents in the game were tough, and one would need “easily 200 hours” to level from level 1 to 50. For guilds, there were different concepts: There were trade guilds, PvP-oriented combat guilds, and even religious guilds that could influence the weather or portals once they had gathered enough believers.
Playing solo would quickly overwhelm you with the strong creatures of the world, making group play eventually necessary. Friendly colleagues could lend a helping hand with some items, as trading among players was possible.
Those who “let loose” in PvP and especially prey on defenseless newcomers quickly accumulate karma. A high karma value led to losing some items from your inventory upon death, which other players could then pick up. This gave player skirmishes a very special thrill.
Today: Everyone can do everything, Solo RPG and no trading
Nowadays, Black Desert feels, as Ike from the fan site Black-Desert.com puts it, like a solo RPG in which there is the option to team up with a few friends. However, since you cannot effectively help your friends—there is, for example, no one-on-one trading anymore—it is only worthwhile in the rarest of cases. Gold is earned very quickly, which means you always have enough healing potions on hand.
The monsters are now so easy to defeat that you can get by without the extra sip from the mana potion. Leveling to the maximum level now only takes 1-2 days if you know roughly where to grind.
All housing plots are now instantiated, so there is hardly any opportunity to be something “special” in the game world. And that was one of the core promises, which has left players feeling more than just a little cheated.
Just before the start of the third season, Blizzard is deploying Patch 2.2.0 to the servers of Diablo 3. In addition to new Treasure Goblins, there are also many changes to the class sets. You have two more days to think about which set your season hero should wear.
What is changing?
There are not many major changes with the new patch. However, the world of Diablo 3 will become a bit more bearable. The blood shard cap will be increased by 10 shards for each Greater Rift level. If you successfully complete Greater Rift level 10, you’ll have space for 100 additional blood shards. Additionally, there are two new legendary potions and gems. While searching for legendaries, you’ll also certainly notice the new Treasure Goblins: Annoying Rascal, Count of Jelly, and Golden Baron. You can only encounter the new enemies in adventure mode.
Changes to Class Sets
To bring some momentum into the upper leaderboards, some class sets will be changed. Perhaps we will see more than just Barbarians and Demon Hunters at the top. You can find all changes to the armor sets in the German patch notes on battle.net. By the way, in addition to potions and gems, there is also something else you absolutely must collect: Legendaries that are only available in Season 3. You will need to wait 2 more days to find these, but then the treasure hunt can begin.
Season 2 has ended and the third season is on the horizon – how are you spending the time between seasons?
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EVE Online has a stable player base due to its very steep learning curve and eternal niche existence. CCP managed to increase the player count to around 500,000, and players have remained remarkably loyal to EVE Online after more than 10 years. However, a disturbingly low number of possible subscriptions has now emerged.
Only 140,000 Completed Subscriptions
The co-host of the Legacy of A Capsuleer podcast, ShadowandLight, claims to have heard from a little birdie that EVE only has 140,000 subscribers left. Whether this information is verified remains uncertain, as CCP has not published official player counts for EVE Online since 2012. The fear that many could abandon the sinking ship might be a reason for this.
Mathematically Impossible
The blog “The Nosy Gamer” has conducted some calculations. They looked at the annually held elections for the Council of Stellar Management (CSM), where every player can cast a vote and elect individuals to the CSM. This method allowed them to derive at least clear numbers until 2012 by comparing the number of votes cast to the player counts. If we extrapolate the votes from 2014, we arrive at 320,000 – 350,000 active accounts.
As mentioned in a report from the American magazine Massively, discussions with CCP in early 2013 suggested there were nearly 500,000 – which would imply a loss of about 150,000 subscribers over the past two years.
Could such mass battles soon become a thing of the past?
One Server, One Player Count
Another way to estimate the player numbers of EVE Online is the number of players currently online on the giant server Tranquility, displayed in the EVE Online launcher. Here, you can also compare the number of online players with those who have a subscription. An average of over 30,000 players is online. That would be an extremely high number if only 140,000 subscriptions existed.
It is clear that CCP has lost player numbers compared to 2010 – 2012, but it is by no means only 140,000 active subscriptions. However, an interesting consideration is that many EVE players own more than one account due to the game mechanics. Thus, it could be the case that while there are over 300,000 subscriptions, there are only 140,000 real people using them. This would mean about 2.3 accounts per player – a realistic number, even if non-EVE players shake their heads in disbelief.
Blizzard has not only recently struggled with the accusation of regularly engaging in “content recycling” in “World of Warcraft“. Especially during Cataclysm, many existing areas were only slightly modified, so at least the graphic designers saved a lot of work. When it was said at the time that the new expansion would lead to Draenor, the outcry was again great: Did players expect only a freshly painted version of the shattered world?
Fortunately, that did not turn out to be the case. The two worlds are still inseparably connected. The Imgur user “Gamerlen” has now created a rather nice gallery where you can clearly see the differences and similarities between the two worlds. How much love for detail Blizzard has once again put into the world is sometimes evident even just from reading the quest texts, which already gave small hints in the shattered world about what you can now see in Draenor.
The gallery is definitely worth a look – do you also know some places that you find particularly impressive within World of Warcraft?
In the MMO shooter Destiny , the mysterious vendor Xur appears every Friday. This also applies to April 10th. In the past, leakers and dataminers were able to accurately predict his inventory. Is there a prediction this time?
It was thought that Bungie had put a stop to predictions with a database patch and a manual change of Xur’s. But the “manual change” was probably only valid for one Xur, and even after the ban, people still knew which items Xur would bring. At least for the most part. On some Fridays, it seemed as if Bungie took the “original prediction” and made it even more attractive.
However, apart from a date, there are currently no further predictions or images about Xur’s inventory. Therefore, there is also no prediction for April 10th.
Xur is exciting again for the first time in months. The only things still in the air are rumors or things that were once said. For example, the Japanese leaker Megaman claimed to have seen all of Xur’s inventories until mid-May. And there are still weapons like The Last Word, Suros Regime, and Thunderlord. Whether these weapons will actually come is currently unclear.
With the upcoming expansion to Guild Wars 2, Heart of Thorns, one race is particularly in the spotlight: the Sylvari. But who are these plant-like beings? And where do they come from?
With the expansion, the dragon Mordremoth attempts to corrupt the Sylvari and turn them to his side. How exactly this unfolds and how it affects the game is currently not clear or publicly available.
It will definitely be interesting to see how ArenaNet handles the Sylvari in the future. The game seems to hint that one should no longer trust the Sylvari. Will the other races turn against them? And what does that mean for players with a Sylvari character? Will they receive “secret” missions to infiltrate the other races?
Hello everyone, I hope you all had a nice Wednesday and that you managed to visit your grandparents to earn some pocket money; had a nice celebration and didn’t take my April Fools’ joke too seriously.
Fortunately, opinions can also be changed, so today I’d like to revisit an older topic: Randoms. Until now, I have rather defended them (“Randoms” – A too quick judgment?). After all, they are just people who want to have a bit of fun. From now on, however, I take it all back and claim the opposite!
No plan about anything, but at least got this right
Without a doubt, my newly emerging anger comes from last week, in which I increased my playtime of “Heroes of the Storm” and consequently had to deal a bit more intensely with several randoms.
Currently, many different player types meet in HotS.
There are randoms that one barely remembers. They are silent, play rather solidly, and more or less, everyone gets what they want.
Then there are the truly friendly, good players who give you tips, and with whom you just plow through the battlefield.
And lastly, there are the spawn of all seven hells and the nether, who have already hammered the first “Noob” into the chat after the first blood or delivered a nearly friendly “OMG SUPPORT ME FAGGOT!”.
What I enjoy the most are people who bring their knowledge from other games and feel the need to apply it at all costs. They often get upset over a “Kill Steal”, even though all group members share the same experience. My personal favorite wanted to “report” me because I was “AFK standing around” as Abathur in the base. For anyone who doesn’t know Abathur: He always stands around in the base and supports other players with a very far-reaching spell without having to go to the front.
Are MOBA players aggressive or do MOBAs make you aggressive?
I really very rarely feel the urge to massively insult someone. You have to behave very badly or persistently try to ruin the game for others. This urge is actually only very strong in MOBAs. So where does that come from?
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Why do I find randoms in MOBAs so much worse than, say, in WoW, Evolve, or similar games? Could it be that it’s not the Moba community that is “generally” aggressive and insulting, but rather the nature of a MOBA itself promotes or awakens such behavior?
What do you think? Has a “random” ever really driven you to fury? Or do you remain calm and composed even in the face of the most absurd accusations? What was the strangest experience you had with randoms? Let me know in the comments!
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