The War Within is the latest expansion for World of Warcraft and solo play has never been easier. Blizzard seems to have recognized this and has released a guide explaining how to approach the MMORPG World of Warcraft solo. MeinMMO has taken a closer look at the tips.
These are Blizzard’s tips: The developers have published a post in the official blog with tips for solo play. There are details about general WoW functions as well as new features from The War Within.
The guide apparently targets new players who are just starting with WoW. Blizzard recommends, for example:
the Isle of the Exiled for levels 1-10, followed by Dragonflight for levels 10-70 and then starting with The War Within
follower dungeons to level up and complete dungeon quests
professions to gain a little bonus experience
additionally, there are tips on how to leave chat channels or ignore players as well as links to guides and more.
Furthermore, Blizzard praises the Depths, the new short solo dungeons from The War Within, which you complete with an NPC companion. But how useful are these tips?
If you need a small advantage in The War Within – here’s how to find 2 free 34-slot bags:
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WoW schenkt euch zwei 34-Platz Taschen – Hier findet ihr sie
Blizzard’s Solo Guide – Good for Beginners, but Not Efficient
If you are completely new to WoW, Blizzard’s solo guide is quite useful. The tips are not aimed at choosing the fastest and most efficient way, but rather to introduce you to the game and its features.
Just the follower dungeons are excellent for this, as you get to know your class and can try out various roles without potentially being under pressure. Since World of Warcraft has become so complex now, that even MeinMMO’s demon Cortyn needs addons, such a “taking by the hand” is quite advisable.
However, if you want to level up solo as quickly as possible, the tips help very little. The best expansion for leveling is still Warlords of Draenor, as here you can complete bonus objectives for a lot of experience without much effort. Ideally, you mix WoD with Dragonflight to have some starter gear for The War Within in the end.
In The War Within, it is then easiest to exclusively complete dungeons. This way, you can level characters to level 80 within a few hours – but you miss out on the story if you don’t know it yet. However, we know that such tips are sensible: 67% of you see WoW as a solo game, only 10% prefer groups.
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The blonde witch Bibi Blocksberg has made many children’s hearts beat faster with her crazy spells. Together with her parents, she lives in Neustadt. But did you know that Bibi Blocksberg had a little brother?
Who was the little brother? In the first 7 audio play episodes of Bibi Blocksberg, the cheeky witch still had a little brother. His name was Boris Blocksberg, he was 8 years old, and he had black, curly hair. Unfortunately, the two often argued because Boris was jealous of Bibi’s witch powers.
But since episode 8, Boris has not appeared anymore. Even worse: The family has since denied his existence. In the episode called Babysitter, for example, Bibi wishes to have siblings. In the episode titled The Computer Witch, father Bernhard Blocksberg even says that the family consists of only 3 people.
In episode 9 of Bibi Blocksberg, it is even explained why Boris has disappeared. But officially, there are even two reasons why Boris can no longer live with his sister.
Boris does not appear even in the live-action movies and series:
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Bibi & Tina – The official to Season 1 on Amazon Prime
Bibi Blocksberg was supposed to be the star
What happened to him? Within the story, it is explained that Boris moved to his grandparents at the North Sea. The boy is said to have suffered from a cough. The fresh sea air would do him good. However, despite the move, Boris never came to visit, not even at Easter and Christmas.
The Kiddinx publishing house, which was responsible for the production of the audio plays, issued a statement in 2013 explaining why Boris Blocksberg had to disappear. The answer: So that Bibi Blocksberg remains the star.
The series “Bibi Blocksberg” started in 1980 under the name “Eene meene Hexerei” and was originally conceived as a family series that was supposed to tell the adventures of the Blocksbergs. After the first six episodes, due to the reaction of the listeners who preferred more adventures about the little witch Bibi, the concept was slightly changed. The series was clearly focused on the little witch, renamed “Bibi Blocksberg”, and the dramatically strong rival character of the brother was “written out”, as it is nicely put.
The creators of the series now realize how harsh the decision was back then. However, the success of the series has shown that they made the right choice.
There is another reason why Boris disappeared: Elfie Donnelly, the creator of Bibi Blocksberg, mentioned in an interview that the names Boris and Bibi were too similar. The series was meant to be about a strong girl, which is why the story was changed.
Could Boris return? The publisher emphasized that a return of Boris would be just as harsh as his disappearance. Several generations of children have grown up without Boris. They do not want to confuse the children by having Boris return.
Consequently, we assume that we will never see Boris Blocksberg again. The publisher also emphasized that he will never be mentioned again. Thus, the older fans who still remember Boris must mentally say goodbye to him.
Blizzard has been working on a survival game for years, which was abruptly canceled before its release after being acquired by Microsoft. In a forum, users have now shared images that supposedly show the game, and it strongly resembles what you know from the survival genre in recent years.
The studio didn’t reveal much about the game, but a tipsy journalist spilled some details. The game was said to have been called Odyssey and reminisce of Everwild or Fable, featuring a lot of magic.
Odyssey would have been Blizzard’s first new IP in 8 years. Last time, in 2016, Blizzard deviated from Warcraft, Diablo, etc. with Overwatch.
Here are the images: Images have been shared on Russian social media that allegedly show Odyssey (via neogaf.com). They display rudimentary gameplay snippets of a potential survival game.
In a selection wheel, various tools and weapons are visible, including a flute or a magic wand. The weapon design strongly resembles Warcraft, which could indicate a Blizzard origin.
The visuals are akin to what you know from the new survival hit Enshrouded or Aloft: A colorful comic style with plenty of green, mountains, and ruins. Additionally, classic survival elements like a crafting menu can be seen, as well as RPG content such as attributes and skill points.
A particular screenshot is especially exciting. Here, the character was killed by another player and lost a significant amount of loot as well as durability of their armor. There likely would have even been PvP.
So fliegt ihr auf einem Gleiter aus Gras durch die Welt von Aloft
Survival game was “almost finished” when Microsoft pulled the plug
“Would have been,” because the game was discontinued in January 2024. After Microsoft acquired Blizzard, Odyssey was no longer developed. Some developers have since been working on other projects, many are left with nothing.
That Blizzard cancels games they deem not good enough has been a philosophy of the studio since earlier times. Even when the games are close to release. Over the years, and later under Activision, this practice has softened, however.
Creative players continually find ways to become incredibly powerful in Baldur’s Gate 3. The foundation allows for complete freedom – this also includes dealing absurd amounts of damage. This is now demonstrated by a player who can deal up to 130 damage per shot.
How does this work with so much damage?
In Baldur’s Gate 3 you can stack damage from various sources – meaning the damage dice add up under certain circumstances
The player NnmnsP on Reddit has done something similar with his bow, only his character can deal that much damage by default.
This is how the damage is composed: Okay, from here it gets a bit detailed and nerdy. The different damage sources are specific. Let’s start with the base damage:
This results in a standard damage of 35 to 65. Now, however, NnmnsP also uses an arrow of undead slaying, which doubles the damage against undead – thus resulting in 70-130 damage. These arrows are available for every enemy type, so you can always benefit from the bonus.
Want more useful tips? This is how you cast multiple times per round:
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Baldur’s Gate 3: Cast two spells in one go
The damage almost kills all enemies – and it can get even harder
The stacked damage could even be increased further with some optimizations. If a rogue uses the bow, he could add an additional die with a sneak attack.
The user writes in the comments: With the Titan Bow there is even more to gain. This bow adds the strength bonus – especially in conjunction with a potion of cloud giant strength, this is a considerable sum. At some point, it becomes overkill, because for comparison:
One of Gortaschs guards in his boss room has 93 hit points in normal mode.
A steel guard has 206 hit points.
Gortasch himself has 275 hit points.
At the latest, a critical hit that doubles the dice would, in the very best case, be sufficient to kill just about everything in Act 3 with a single shot – even bosses.
These absurd damage numbers are nothing you really need for a run. The community of Baldur’s Gate 3 and generally of Dungeons & Dragons loves to find such combinations.
With Space Marine 2, a new co-op shooter is coming soon in the well-known and vast sci-fi universe of Warhammer 40,000 for PC, PS5, and Xbox. However, Warhammer is known for its ancient, branched, and constantly evolving lore. A potential player wonders how much he needs to know about it – and receives the perfect answer.
What you need to know about the story of Space Marine 2: On Reddit, a user asks: “I know nothing about Space Marines/Warhammer, is this game for me?” He fears that his lack of knowledge might hinder his enjoyment of the game.
While he has always had a casual interest in Warhammer, he has never delved into it deeper. In the very first comment, a player provides a succinct answer along with a summary. He argues that a lack of knowledge is not a problem and explains:
Here’s a bit of lore if you’re interested. You play as a Space Marine, a genetically modified super-soldier who serves the Imperium of Humanity and worships a god named the Emperor. Lieutenant Titus, whom you play as, is the main character of the campaign, one of those Space Marines – specifically, one from the chapter of the Ultramarines (think of the chapters as sub-factions of the Marines, each being different).
[Titus] has the task of reclaiming his rank as Captain after losing it in the events of the first game. Your enemies are Tyranids, a swarm of biological aliens that destroy all biomass in their path to consume it. […]
Your objective: shoot everything that isn’t human. A little extra: the lightly armored humans you see on the ground are the Imperial Guard/Astra Militarum, normal people with weapons on the front line.
The summary is very brief and quite sparse compared to the entire lore of Warhammer, but for explaining Space Marine 2, it’s more than sufficient. After all, it’s primarily about smashing lots of bugs with big weapons – like in Helldivers 2. And as a nice bonus, there’s a co-op mode.
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New trailer shows nearly 8 minutes of multiplayer gameplay from the bloody carnage in Space Marine 2
Warhammer is much more than just bred superhumans
This does not mean that the story in Space Marine 2 is absolutely unimportant. Even in the first part, there was high praise for the storytelling, and there are fans who want to check out part 2 just for the story.
Titus has now become a well-known figure and in Space Marine 2 is part of a Kill Team of the Deathwatch. For all the non-nerds, that’s just a cool title, but Warhammer fans might find such things quickly appetizing.
With a little knowledge of the world, you will find details or information throughout the game that players without knowledge will surely overlook. Whether that diminishes the fun of the game, you’ll have to decide for yourself. If you at least want the basics: Here we explain who the Emperor actually is.
The world of Warhammer 40k is not only made up of Space Marines and other superhumans with superpowers and power armor. There are plenty of aliens (or “Xenos”) with exciting backgrounds and normal humans.
The Imperium itself offers interesting variety to the Space Marines, such as the warrior priestesses of the Adepta Sororitas, the machine priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, or the Inquisition. And if you want to experience the very special crew of the free traders or Rogue Traders yourself, there’s even a game for that: The latest Warhammer game shows what 40k does really well – forgoing bred superhumans.
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Currently, you can test Season 6 and Vessel of Hatred on the official PTR of Diablo 4. Two experts have looked at the new features and provided their feedback on it. The game is intended to be harder, but the experts find it still too easy.
This is what you can test right now:
Until September 11, the PTR for Season 6 and Vessel of Hatred is ongoing, where you can test new content. Among other things, you will find new difficulty levels, a new level system, runes, and revamped items.
Blizzard has revised the endgame content and essentially swapped the function of Nightmare Dungeons and the Pit. The Pit is then used to unlock difficulty levels.
Monster levels are no longer displayed; your level always corresponds to the difficulty level you are playing on – just like the content and the open world itself.
What’s up with the harder levels? With the new difficulty levels, Blizzard aimed for players to be able to control their challenges and rewards. They noticed that many players enjoy increasing the levels of enemies with the “tormented” versions of the bosses and the “Desecrated Mind Cage” (via Blizzard).
After the initial difficulty levels come the Torment levels, which are ultimately supposed to determine the difficulty in the endgame. Monsters have the level of the difficulty level, and the higher the Torment level, the more your armor and resistance values are reduced. The highest level is Torment 4 – but experts say: Anyone can “crush” that with a strong build.
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Trailer for Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred provides insight into the story of the expansion
“You will just crush the game”
This is what the experts criticize: In a YouTube video, Diablo expert Raxxanterax states that the goal for the “Blasters” in Diablo 4 is to rise from Torment 2 to Torment 4. However, the grind is much easier than Blizzard has announced, says the expert.
He mentions that he essentially breezed through to Torment level 4 with bad gear and missing aspects and glyphs.
On Torment 4, Raxxanterax then faced the “tormented” version of the Beast in Ice and also Lilith, the toughest boss in the game. Although he managed to defeat the Beast in Ice, the battle took a long time, and he died a few times, reports the Diablo expert. He had no chance against Lilith. Even before, even OP builds failed against the tough boss.
In his opinion, unlocking the Torment levels is not representative of what the world of Torment level is like. But that is just right, believes Raxxanterax. He says: “You get the key to the castle and may enter, but that doesn’t mean you’re ready to clear it – at least you can try.”
With Vessel of Hatred, rune words and mercenaries come into the game, which additionally support you in combat. Raxx notes that he obviously missed that while testing, as well as good gear. He says:
But since I didn’t have so many things – low item level, little armor, no additional five ranks of aspects, no rune words, no mercenaries, no completion, no proper hardening – the list is endless. But once you have all that, I am 100% sure that the game’s Blasters will absolutely dominate Torment 4. You will just crush it.
Raxxanterax thinks that the journey to the Torment levels and especially the endgame should be harder. Torment 2 to Torment 4 are intended as a significant incentive, but anyone who invests an entire day and plays a strong build can reach Torment 4 on the first day – or at least quickly farm in Torment 2 or 3, says the Diablo expert. That would not be a big difference from the current world levels.
At the current time, however, it is unknown how difficult the new content, such as the coop dungeon, will be. The expert says: “Maybe they are so difficult that everything else is fine.”
Also, Diablo expert wudijo explains in his YouTube video that the progression to the higher Torment levels is too easy. He says it seems that the difficulty adjustments are not really difficult enough. wudijo hopes that there will be another Torment level, or that the gaps between levels will become larger. This would provide a more sustained progression, which he believes is currently lacking.
Experts praise the item system and the waypoints
Is there also praise for the changes? Both experts praise the new content, as well as changes to existing content, and list some aspects they find good:
Torment 1 is very accessible; according to Raxxanterax, any player can reach that level. He thinks it is good that this is the case, as you get strong items there and thus no one is prevented from obtaining “divine items” or enjoying the game. Even if you only play at that level, you can do and get everything.
The waypoints are more rewarding and a good option for leveling.
The adjustment of the Pit is better; you don’t spend 20 minutes anymore fighting the boss.
The group finder works well. However, Raxxanterax thinks it would be practical to save past searches to restart them directly.
The crafting system Hardening is better. However, the UI seems confusing, and one takes too long to find (used) recipes, says Raxxanterax.
He thinks the rune words make a difference in the game, but there is still room for improvement. The runes are too weak and need to be improved.
wudijo praises the new item system. He appreciates that there are no sacred items anymore and that legacy items drop less frequently. This ensures there is always something to do and farm.
In his video, Raxxanterax criticizes that there is still no cow level – “people want to kill cows.” With Vessel of Hatred, there are apparently new breadcrumbs on the long path to the goal. Because: Data miners have found some items in the game data that could fit.
In Season 6, new Uniques are coming for the five classes in Diablo 4. Find out what they are and what the unique items can do here at MeinMMO.
Season 6 starts on October 8 and shakes up Diablo 4 significantly. Among other things, you can expect the following changes:
a completely new progress system with level 60 as the max level. Paragon and character levels will then be separate.
The world levels are becoming difficulty levels. There will be four standard difficulty levels and four torment levels that represent the endgame. You unlock the levels through the dungeon.
Season 6 also reworks the endgame content. The dungeon will then be used to unlock difficulty levels and to level your glyphs. In nightmare dungeons, you’ll receive materials for the master working (completion).
Each class will also receive a new Paragon board, new skills, and new Uniques. The new Uniques known from the patch notes for the PTR for Season 6 are listed below with their effects. Currently, five new Uniques and three new Mythics are mentioned.
Update September 3: We have adjusted the Uniques that we have seen ourselves on the PTR regarding their affixes and aspects.
Since the season has not yet started and this is preliminary information, the items may still change. If that happens, we will update the article accordingly.
On October 8, the first expansion for Diablo 4 also starts and brings new companions into the game – the mercenaries:
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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred shows Mercenaries in gameplay trailer
Diablo 4: All Uniques from Season 6 at a glance
What new Uniques are coming? Below you will find the new Uniques that are specifically coming to the game for the individual classes in Season 6. We will also go over their affixes and aspects. Once we have information on the exact locations, you will find them in the list of all bosses and their drops in Diablo 4.
Ugly Bastard Helm – Head Protection (Barbarian)
X % resistance against all types of damage
X % cooldown reduction for Wrath of the Berserker
Lucky Hit Chance: Up to 40 % chance to deal +X fire damage
+Ranks on Fruitful Fury
Aspect: Explodes when you activate Wrath of the Berserker, dealing X fire damage to enemies. In Berserker mode, all attacks are converted to fire damage and deal X % increased fire damage.
Stone of Vehemen – Totem (Druid)
+X % damage against enemies afflicted by control effects
+X willpower
+X % critical hit damage
+X % chance for Stone Strike projectiles to be fired twice
+Ranks on “Stone Burst”
Aspect: While you channel “Stone Burst” and for 2 seconds after, you gain 15 % damage reduction. The last explosion of “Stone Burst” deals X % [x] more damage, which is additionally increased by X % [x] for each enlargement.
The Unmaker – Head Protection (Necromancer)
X % damage reduction while you have a barrier
X % resource generation
+Ranks on Soul Rend
+Ranks on Off-Balance
Aspect: The duration of Soul Rend increases by 0.5 seconds for every 30 essence spent, up to a maximum of 8 seconds. For every 30 essence received, Soul Rend deals X % of its damage per second to enemies within its range.
Pitfighter’s Gull – Ring (Amazon)
+X % shadow resistance
X % resistance against all types of damage
+X % critical strike chance
+X % damage on the next attack after entering stealth
X % cooldown reduction for smoke bomb
+Ranks on Soothing Darkness
Aspect: Casting smoke bomb increases your critical hit damage by X[x] for X seconds and creates a shadow cloud. While you are in the cloud, you gain stealth once per second.
Sidhe’s Bindings – Gloves (Sorceress)
+X % non-physical damage
+X % size for familiar
+X % chance for familiar to hit twice
+Ranks on familiar
Aspect: When you summon a familiar, a fire, cold, and lightning familiar appears instead. Increases the duration of the familiars you summon by X %.
What new Mythic Uniques are coming? In Season 6, there will be a total of three mythic Uniques added. These are items that any class can equip. You have the best chance at Mythics with the bosses Duriel and Andariel.
Heir of Perdition – Head Protection
+200 % damage against angels and demons
+20 % critical hit chance
+20 % lucky hit chance
+20 % movement speed
+2 to core skills
Aspect: Submit to hatred and receive the favor of the mother, which increases your dealt damage by 60 % [x]. Temporarily steal the favor of the mother from nearby allies by slaughtering enemies.
Shroud of False Death – Chest Protection
+1 to all passive skills
+111 to all attributes
+222 maximum life
+333 % damage on the next attack after entering stealth
+11.1 % resource generation
Aspect: If you have not attacked in the last 2 seconds, you gain stealth and +40 % [+] movement speed.
Shattered Vow – Polearm
+400 % damage against healthy enemies
+444 maximum life
+29.6 % attack speed in Berserker mode
+444.4 % damage over time
Lucky Hit: Up to +44.4 % chance to enter Berserker mode
Aspect: Execute enemies who are affected by more damage over time than they have remaining life.
Many trainers have built a team for the battle league over a long period of time, which can be shaken up by the new update. MeinMMO author Paul Kutzner is one of them.
I have been involved with Pokémon GO since its launch in 2016, catching, collecting, and training my Pokémon diligently, with shorter and longer breaks.
This changed in August 2023. I thought to myself, I’ll give the battle league another chance. And I do not regret it: Besides some hours of fun, there were many special candies and a few raid bosses as a reward for me.
But some of my monsters in the battle league could soon become devalued.
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Pokémon GO shows the new season ‘Dyna-Maximum’ in the trailer
Favorite attackers soon just decoration!?
What changes in the battle league? Due to the new update in the battle league, which brings some changes to the meta, a good part of my team could soon become useless.
While the update reduces the timer for switching monsters, many fast and charge attacks are also changed. This could lead to greater changes in the meta and devalue some Pokémon that I have built up in the last 12 months.
What does my team look like? So far, I am only building Pokémon for the Super League. This mode is cheaper than the Hyper League, and here Pokémon are played that would otherwise have no relevance. I find that quite attractive.
I avoid the Master League completely for these reasons as well.
This is what my team for the Super League looks like
When naming the Pokémon, I like to note the respective combination of IV values. This means that, for example, the Viscogon from the first image named “GL42” has the 42 best combination of IV values for the Super League (‘Great League’).
How do I build Pokémon? I like to be inspired by pvpoke.com when building my team. Here I check which Pokémon with which attack combination is recommended.
However, I do not rely completely on it, but like to try different attacks and primarily play the combination of Pokémon that suits me best.
Additionally, I do not only focus on Pokémon for the regular Super League, but also like to level up Pokémon for special cups like the Halloween or the Sun Cup.
Which of my Pokémon are affected? With the new data from pvpoke.com, the first Pokémon I have enjoyed playing, which have taken a significant hit with the update, can already be seen.
Crypto-Golbat is a Pokémon I enjoyed using as a starter in battles. With the new update, this Pokémon has dropped to rank 371 in the Super League.
Epitaff and Akkup, which I also liked to use, have also dropped significantly due to the update. While Epitaff was previously found within the top 10, it now sits at rank 144.
Akkup, the small Pokémon with the Bug and Electric types, is now also found in rank 130. This Pokémon has also been used frequently by the best trainers in the Super League.
Whether I will continue to have a lot of fun with these Pokémon in the future in the Super League remains to be seen. I have experienced many good times with these monsters in the battle league and will definitely shed a tear when they soon simply go under against other monsters.
How about you? Which Pokémon did you enjoy using in the battle league that will now be more difficult to play? Feel free to share your opinions in the comments. If you want to know which events are waiting for you in Pokémon GO in September 2024, feel free to check out the suitable overview.
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With The War Within, the tenth expansion has launched in World of Warcraft. MyMMO editor Benedict Grothaus has been playing since release and has been doing so more extensively than in years. The expansion improves many things, but one thing is still missing: long-term engagement.
World of Warcraft lost me quite a bit with the end of Dragonflight. I didn’t even touch the last season and took a break for months. What I’ve picked up about The War Within hasn’t fully engaged me:
Azeroth as a theme – meaning the “person,” not the planet itself
Xal’Atath as an antagonist, to whom I never had any connection – I wasn’t a priest during Legion and I’ve never been very interested in the Void
Now, The War Within hasn’t been out for two weeks, and I already have 8 characters at level 80, leveled all professions, and for the first time completed the Loremaster achievement for an expansion — this means I have completed all storylines in the side quests.
Nonetheless, I’m currently logging in every day and continuing to play, wanting to level at least one or two more characters before the raid launches. I’m even playing classes that I never cared about before because I’m having so much fun. I wasn’t even this excited during Legion. What’s better about WoW now compared to before?
The cinematic is, to be fair, quite cool:
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WoW: The War Within – Forces Within
Warbands are the best thing to happen to WoW
If I had to pinpoint my entire joy to one feature, it would be the Warbands. Actually, it’s not such an exciting change: All characters now share certain loot, and a few of them gather around the campfire at login.
However, there is a lot more behind the Warbands that is particularly interesting for me as a twink player. Every character at level 80 contributes 5% additional experience for the entire Warband (up to a maximum of +25%). This allows secondary characters to be leveled within a few hours.
Additionally, there’s the Warband bank. In this, I can store anything that isn’t soulbound. This means: If I find a really good item in the open world, it is often “bound to the Warband” in The War Within. Two-handed swords that my rogue collects can therefore simply be gifted to my warrior.
The best part is that the Warband functions across servers and factions. So if I decide – for whatever reason – that I want to play a Horde character somewhere else, they benefit from all the advantages my Alliance characters have earned.
Within a few hours, you’ve completed the entire story and are not even at maximum level yet. This had many advantages for me:
The story is no longer fragmented, as it was in Shadowlands. There are no boring fetch quests that later make me forget what the main plot was about.
The story in the areas could be enjoyed at a leisurely pace with my first 3 twinks, so I always had something new to discover while still making “progress”, nothing felt repetitive.
After the first playthrough, the campaign can even be easily skipped to catch up on the latest events.
Like with the Warbands, I initially thought that the change was too small to really have an effect. Now I know: The decision was exactly right to bring the story closer to the players and not lose them somewhere in the middle.
Even though I still don’t have enough and want to keep leveling, I’m not sure how long this will last. In the past, my biggest problem was that the endgame eventually felt like work.
The first raid will be released on September 11, and the Mythic dungeons will start. A week later, the Mythic raid and the first season for Mythic+ will come. From then on, the real grind begins for me as a raider.
That’s not a problem in itself. It only becomes annoying when you find yourself standing still, not progressing, or have already seen everything too many times. This especially happens when raids are too hard or seasons last too long. In particular, the “filler seasons” have often dampened the mood in the past.
Whether my concern will be confirmed, I will see in two or three weeks. However, The War Within is the first of three expansions in a trilogy and is intended to be, as far as I understand, somewhat shorter. This is likely very beneficial for the fun of playing – and apparently also planned that way: WoW wants to deliver more content than ever before and is making smaller expansions.
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Friends of the MMORPG genre, let us take a nostalgic trip back in time. Back to the year 2001 when the developer and publisher Funcom tried its hand at launching an online role-playing game for the first time.
The Norwegian company Funcom is now 31 years old and is an essential part of the MMO and MMORPG genre. Just think of Age of Conan, The Secret World, Conan Exiles, or the upcoming Dune: Awakening.
However, Norwegians had their first experiences with the MMO genre as early as 1995. Even before Meridian 59, Ultima Online, and EverQuest were released, work began behind closed doors on Anarchy Online, as a kind of research project. In fact, they were uncertain at the time whether this thing called the Internet would have a future.
Who writes here? Karsten Scholz is the MMORPG expert at MeinMMO. He has been dealing with the best genre in the world almost daily for 15 years. His first private contact came in 2005. Since then, he has accumulated several years of playtime in various online role-playing games and has played almost every relevant genre representative of the past two decades at least for a while.
Karsten therefore knows the launch of Anarchy Online only from reports. Perhaps that’s a good thing. The later release of Age of Conan left enough marks.
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Pioneers at Work
This should not be the only uncertainty factor. There was also uncertainty about how far to plan the content for Anarchy Online in advance. Many at Funcom did not believe that such a game could function as a service for more than a year. Fun Fact: You can still play Anarchy Online today, for example via Steam.
The universe of the sci-fi MMORPG was created by Ragnar Tørnquist, the clever mind behind The Longest Journey and The Secret World. In the coming years, the team grew to 70 developers who dove into the project without references or previous MMO experiences.
The official announcement only came at E3 in 2000. The US launch was planned for June 27, 2001. A public beta with a server stress test took place just two weeks earlier. About 100,000 interested participants were reportedly involved in the test at that time. Today it is clear that this was far too little time to properly prepare for the launch of the ambitious MMORPG.
The next MMO from Funcom will take you to the desert of Dune:
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gamescom 2024: Dune: Awakening makes fan hearts beat faster
A Launch Accident for the History Books
When the developers at Funcom flipped the switch on June 27, 2001, to let the first players onto the servers of Anarchy Online, the proverbial tree was on fire within moments. Under the pressure of about 35,000 subscribers, the entire infrastructure collapsed almost immediately.
Not only were the registration servers affected, players also could not create accounts. Those who somehow made it onto the servers experienced a slideshow or got kicked off the server. The launch was so bad that the developers appealed to the press to refrain from reviews for the time being. A press release was also sent out, stating among other things:
“There have been some significant issues in recent days that our customers have had to deal with. Due to the massive traffic, it was difficult to log in, and the game is unfortunately still unstable. We apologize for the inconveniences this has caused our customers, and we are working around the clock to fix things.”
Launch problems also occurred with many other MMORPG launches. However, most developers managed to fix the worst problems within the first days or at least weeks. In contrast, players of Anarchy Online had to wait half a year (!) until simply logging into the game was reliable. A disaster.
What is Anarchy Online? As a fallen colonist on the planet Rubi-Ka, you are on a quest for experience and credits. How you get those is up to you. You can take on missions, pursue professions, fight monsters in the wilderness, trade, participate in PvP, and battle through dungeons.
The last major content package was released in February 2009. After that, there were mainly smaller updates, events, temporarily running classic servers as well as an engine upgrade (currently in open beta). Nevertheless, MeinMMO reported only in March 2024, that Anarchy Online continues to enjoy some popularity. One reason for this: The complex equipment system that relies on implants.
Lesson Learned?
You have to give Funcom credit: Despite the launch debacle, they stayed in the game and turned Anarchy Online into a functioning MMORPG that is still live today. At the same time, however, Funcom must also be criticized for the problematic launches of Age of Conan and The Secret World later on.
Especially with AoC, the story repeated itself. In the list of the best MMORPGs of all time, I wrote about Age of Conan, which at least made it to 20th place:
“However, Funcom did not release a game but a construction site. With content gaps during the leveling phase that were as large as the list of bugs. Additionally, basic systems such as PvP and trades did not function properly. This was an alpha for which you had to buy a ticket and subscribe.”
It will be exciting to see if Funcom can deliver a smooth launch with Dune: Awakening next year. After all, countless players are supposed to roam again in a vast world in this survival MMO. Colleague Benedict Grothaus has already played it: The survival MMO offers exactly what I hoped for after Conan Exiles
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Since A Realm Reborn, the community of Final Fantasy XIV has been debating whether dungeons are too hard, too easy, or too boring. Initially, the dungeons of the new expansion Dawntrail also received rather negative feedback. Now, the director says players find them just right.
Why were the dungeons discussed? Every new expansion and (almost) every patch brings new dungeons that must be completed during the story quests. Since most of the new endgame content can only be tackled after finishing the respective DLC or update story, these dungeons also need to be doable.
This applies equally to hardcore raiders as well as casual players. Finding the right difficulty level here is not easy.
However, with the new expansion Dawntrail, the development team seems to have hit the mark.
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That’s exactly how it should be
How do players see it in Dawntrail? Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida spoke in a Famitsu interview about the difficulty level of the latest dungeons. At the beginning of the joint meeting with Hironobu Sakaguchi, the father of Final Fantasy, they talked about the dungeons.
Yoshida mentions here that there were initially some voices saying the new content was too hard for casual players. However, these concerns have calmed down significantly. At the same time, a lot of positive feedback has been coming in:
[..] in Japan, but also internationally, there was a lot of feedback like: That’s exactly how it should be. So I think we will continue like this for the time being.
What are players saying on reddit? In a post, the community discusses Yoshida’s statement. Overall, the commenters are happy with the current situation – as Naoki Yoshida also mentioned in the interview. Here are a few voices:
The Dawntrail dungeons are largely better than they’ve been in years. – KnifingGrimace via Reddit
Big agree. Personally, I think the only stinker is the 99 dungeon. – sekretguy777 via Reddit
The difficulty of casual content is good at the moment. – CaviarMeths via Reddit
The only thing I wish for is that there are more mechanics during the “wall-to-wall” pulls. It becomes extremely tiring to do the same thing in every dungeon between the bosses. – Defiant_Mercy via reddit
I wish they would let us change the colors of the AoE markers. Kaktorsenke is a nightmare if you are colorblind; the floor has the same color as the AoE markers in many places. – LilyHex via reddit
[…] I wish the dungeons weren’t designed as cinematic halls. I long for something more than a corridor that looks nice and is functionally identical to the 20 dungeons before and after it. Since we have variant dungeons, I wish for a similar design for all dungeons. – CaviarMeths via reddit
Player feedback will likely not fall on deaf ears. Naoki Yoshida listens to his community and communicates with the players as transparently as he can. For example, he spoke during gamescom 2024 regarding the controversial changes to a new class.
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The gaming industry believes that players are into items and loot in live service games like Destiny or GTA 5 and want to imitate their successes with their own games, but they are making a mistake. This is said by MeinMMO author Schuhmann:
What does the gaming industry think? The gaming industry follows a certain logic. This can be seen in the example of survival games:
First assumption: The survival genre is popular and there are many good representatives like Rust, ARK, DayZ.
Second assumption: But there is a lack of one big title with maximum accessibility that dominates the genre – as WoW does for MMORPGs or LoL does for MOBAs.
Conclusion: There is room for more in the survival games market. So we develop this one super accessible title and become rich.
GTA Online is an extremely successful and above all profitable game:
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Destiny and GTA make a lot of money – We want that too!
What does this mean for live service games? Since 2013/2014, with the console generation of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it has been possible for successful multiplayer games to appear in the console market that are permanently expanded and provided with content in the manner of an MMO. They are referred to as live service games.
Previously, such games were only possible on PC; these were games like WoW, Counter-Strike, or LoL.
Pioneers of this phenomenon of live service games on consoles were GTA 5 Online (2013) and Destiny (2014). Both are financially extremely successful projects.
It is estimated that GTA 5 has generated about 1.5 billion $:
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This is the consequence of this assumption: For many years, at least since 2016, studios that had developed single-player games until then have been trying to establish their own live service games under pressure from the publisher.
However, in recent years, it has become apparent that attempts to establish such games that are developed over the years repeatedly fail, and catastrophically at that. Many service games are not only unsuccessful but are so unsuccessful that they drive the studios behind them to ruin, which are then dissolved.
The list of victims is long: Redfall, Crucible, Lawbreakers, Marvel’s Avengers, Suicide Squad, only recently Concord.
Redfall is considered a huge flop.
Successful live service games thrive on loot
What are the games doing wrong? The studios apparently think that Destiny or GTA 5 were successful because they are developed further, grow, and are supplied with content.
This is true, but the actually important element is that it is possible in the games to build a virtual existence, collect items and goods, and thereby become more powerful – or at least something special to have things that not everyone has.
It is precisely this satisfying progress within a service game that is the decisive factor that binds players to a game.
You can see this in Destiny just from how obsessed players were in the early days of Xur and the possibility that the vendor might have the Gjallarhorn rocket launcher in stock, a legendary powerful weapon.
Players of Destiny were so addicted to loot, that they used the loot cave, where they had hardly any fun but just mindlessly fired in one direction, just to get loot as quickly as possible.
The Gjallarhorn was the motivation for many to log in on Fridays in Destiny.
Even in GTA 5, the most important question after an update is often what new possessions are coming into the game, what new cars there are, and where to buy them.
Live service games are not competing with Destiny – but with LoL and Valorant
This is the thinking error: When companies develop service games that are structured as PvP experiences and do not appear with such a satisfying equipment spiral, they do not compete with games like GTA5, Destiny, or Division – for which there is a high demand because players are running out of content and getting bored.
No, they compete with games like Valorant, LoL, Escape from Tarkov, or Fortnite, which are doing well and in which players do not build a real “virtual existence through better items,” but invest time in the games to learn them and get better or accumulate skins.
Other games do not even give players the opportunity to find strong items but are purely focused on microtransactions.
It is a completely different gaming experience whether you play a live service game with loot or one with PvP:
In games with loot and consistent progress, processes are often ritualized. You play to relax, often with half attention, comfortably chat with friends, switch off, and unwind. Luke Smith once described Destiny as “I shoot aliens in the face while talking to my friends about the Oscars.”
Live service games with rounds are tailored for PvP, you play them focused and with ambition. Communication in the team is important – there is not much relaxation here.
It doesn’t make sense to buy Bungie and then develop a game that has nothing to do with Destiny
It doesn’t make sense to buy Bungie, say we are making live service games, and then not to release a live service game like Destiny – but a live service game like Valorant or Overwatch.
Even Bungie itself is not working on a new game like Destiny, but on an extraction shooter that already looks as if there’s no market for it.
Games with loot systems perform well – games without die quickly
If you look at the live service games that have been released in recent years, you can see that the games that had a good loot system at least sparked some initial hype and found their player base, such as Anthem or The First Descendant. Even Wolcen, a not particularly outstanding Diablo clone, sparked considerable hype at release.
Sony’s statement: “We are now making live service games for the PS5” is a mistake. The majority of people do not want live service games – the majority of people want a specific form of live service game.
Since Detective Conan is just a small boy, he needs technical tools to solve his cases. MeinMMO has created a ranking of the coolest technical toys from the anime that Conan received from Professor Agasa.
Shinichi Kudo was regressed to the body of a first grader by a nerve toxin. Due to the shrinking process, only his body has become younger, but he has retained his mind. Therefore, the amateur detective can still solve the most complicated cases even in a child’s body.
You can see the latest trailer for the current movie here:
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However, in a child’s body, he has a disadvantage compared to adults. Additionally, as a first grader, he is not taken seriously when he solves his cases. Therefore, Professor Agasa supports him with technical tools that enable him to unravel any mystery. MeinMMO ranks the 5 coolest gadgets that Conan uses in everyday life.
The little detective has special sneakers that are equipped with a wheel on the edge. As soon as Conan turns it, electric shocks are directed to the nerves in his foot. This increases the muscle strength in his legs.
With the increased muscle power, Conan usually shoots an object around. For example, he stops criminals who are currently on the run. Since Shinichi was a gifted soccer player, he usually kicks soccer balls.
Place 4: Solar Skateboard
It also runs without sunlight – but not for long.
As a first grader, it is impossible to get a driver’s license. Therefore, Conan uses the solar skateboard for faster movement. With the skateboard, Conan can pursue criminals more effectively.
The disadvantage of the solar-powered skateboard is that it only works during the day. Without sunlight, it is only possible to ride for about 30 minutes.
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A player reports that his father has discovered Pokémon GO. But one day he was surprised by dozens of the same Pokémon. Unknowingly, he experienced a Community Day.
A player reports on Reddit that his father recently started playing Pokémon Go and has since been enthusiastically enjoying the game. But recently he explained to his child that the Pokémon Popplio appeared multiple times, not just once. Popplio is the English name for Robball.
So he asks his child, visibly surprised: “I just caught 3 in a row. Is it breeding season??”
Many players find this amusing and explain: His father must have experienced a Community Day live.
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On Community Day a Pokémon spawns particularly strongly
What does Community Day mean? Community Day is a special day that takes place once a month in Pokémon Go. For several hours, participants have various advantages, and the event always revolves around a specific Pokémon that appears particularly often.
What the player’s father experienced there is therefore not really surprising. After all, he experienced a Community Day live, where a Pokémon appears in large numbers. However, without knowing it, as his child writes. During the last Community Day, it was about the popular Pokémon Robbal, which the father then saw and caught by the dozens.
Google accidentally pays an employee a quarter of a million euros. However, the employee is desperately trying to return the money. A wild journey begins, which ends positively for the employee.
Who is it about? Sam Curry is an employee of the Google corporation. Here, he deals with finding and fixing security vulnerabilities. However, a few weeks ago, Google surprisingly transferred about 250,000 euros without explanation. Colleagues from Genbeta.com report this.
While others might have quietly swept this fact under the rug and spent the money, the engineer chose honesty and wanted to return the 250,000 euros to Google. However, Google completely ignored its own employee.
Our title image is a symbolic image and does not represent the Google employee.
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Employee finds a way to contact Google via Twitter
How did the situation develop? Sam Curry tries to contact Google through various channels to get an explanation for this unexpected income. However, when he received no response, he decided to take it a step further and posted a screenshot of the income on his Twitter account, tagging Google. Most companies respond quite quickly on Twitter/X, usually faster than through official support channels.
What happened to the money? Thanks to the viral nature of this news on his X account, he finally managed to get Google to listen to him and open a communication channel. From that moment on, he confirmed through his social network that he had managed to receive a refund of money that ultimately did not belong to him.
To this day, it is unclear why Google made a payment of 250,000 euros to the employee’s account. Since Google has not commented on the error, we can only speculate why the money ended up in the account. In the end, it was perhaps just a typo made by another employee.
More about the office: During the Corona pandemic, many companies were forced to switch to remote work and let their employees work from home. However, many companies now want their employees to return to the office. One employee is prohibited from working from home and must return to the office. But he does not just accept that: Employee is forced into the office by the boss – He gives in and soon has his moment of triumph
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A new expansion of World of Warcraft has launched, and along with it comes a redesign of your character. Not only is the transmog changed, but you also pull out the optically matching mount. Collectors will find many new mounts in Khaz Algar. We will introduce you to some that you can easily farm.
Some are guaranteed drops, others require a bit of farming effort, and yet others need a good dose of luck.
Swarmite Skyhunter
A creepy mount – but easy to obtain. Image source: wowhead
You don’t have to farm the Swarmite Skyhunter in the traditional sense; you receive it upon completing the achievement “Glyph Hunter from Khaz Algar”.
You unlock this achievement by finding all the glyphs while flying in the new areas of The War Within.
You can check your individual progress in the various “Glyph Hunter” achievements.
When you are near a glyph, a text message will appear in the chat, and you will receive a buff that describes the approximate direction of the glyph.
If that’s too much effort, you can also use addons like “HandyNotes: The War Within.” Then all glyphs will be displayed on the map, and you just have to collect them in order.
Once you have collected all the glyphs in the 4 new areas, you will immediately unlock the mount.
Siesbarg
Siesbarg makes a big impression and is quite large. Image source: wowhead
Siesbarg is obtained at the end of a quest line, which, however, requires a significant amount of farming work. Since you will collect a large part of the materials “on the side” from dungeons, the requirement is not as high as one might initially fear.
First, you must defeat the rare enemy Tha’ktath in Azj-Kahet. You can find him at the coordinates 63 / 66 on a rise. However, this mob has a rather high respawn time, so it may take hours before you actually see him. It is likely that you will just encounter him randomly at some point.
Once you have defeated him, you will likely receive “Vial of Tha’kath’s Blood” as a drop. This item starts the quest line, for which you subsequently need to farm several things:
First, 1,500 Nerubian Chitin
Then, 1,000 Nerubian Toxin
Lastly, 500 Blood of the Nerubians
The items drop from all Nerubians in the expansion, including enemies in dungeons and raids. Those who are not in a hurry can let this quest run “on the side.” Others should join a farming group, of which there are usually several in the group finder.
Once you have completed the last step of the quest, you will proudly possess Siesbarg – a rather impressive creature.
You can find 3 more mounts on the next page.
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Even without work experience, the incomplete short resume of Steve Jobs reveals what he was destined to become.
What did Steve Jobs’ resume look like at 18? It is quick to read, as Steve Jobs did not fill in all the fields at 18 in 1973. For one, the future Apple co-founder omitted his phone number, and for another, like most at that age, he had little to no work experience.
But what he did include already shows a clear vision of what he intended to do with his life.
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A Historical Document
Where does the document come from? It was unearthed and published on X by the renowned Bloomberg reporter Jon Erlichman. We’ve embedded his tweet for you here:
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What does the resume say? Aside from the impressive calligraphy of young Jobs, the list of skills he had already acquired stands out: computers and dealing with various types of computers. He also makes it clear which types of jobs he was interested in as a college student: Electronics technician or design engineer. Both seem fitting for the visionary who was to help make the smartphone as we know it today a reality with the iPhone.
Whose resume is the second one? It is quite the opposite of Steve Jobs’ everyday artwork; it is the resume of 18-year-old Bill Gates from 1974: typed on a machine, appearing complete at first glance and much more detailed. His already detailed focus on software programming also stands out.
A gamer purchases a new graphics card on Amazon, but he only receives a fake. This is only noticed when he tries to connect the GPU to his computer.Such scams are repeatedly used on Amazon to harm buyers and Amazon itself.
A graphics card is one of the most important components in a gaming PC. A gamer wanted to invest in a particularly powerful upgrade, but instead, he receives a fake product from Amazon. This is reported by a friend who shares his case.
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Gamer receives cooler without the graphics card’s circuit board
What did the gamer purchase? A gamer orders an RTX 4090 on Amazon. This graphics card is currently the fastest GPU available on the market. The gamer uses a regular Amazon offer to order the graphics card and does not buy through a third-party seller. Here he pays £1,600, which is approximately €1,900.
When he opens the package and wants to connect the graphics card, he finds that the graphics card has no PCIe connection to attach the GPU to the motherboard. A friend must clarify for him: He does not have a graphics card, but only the cooler of a GPU, which is a (used) component offered on eBay for around €100. He posts the image on reddit.com.
Previous buyer sends only the cooling instead of the graphics card back
What exactly happened? In this specific case of the user, we cannot say how the fake came to be. Nevertheless, gamers repeatedly report or show images that they receive only a cooler instead of a GPU. And typically, there is always a similar scheme behind this:
Often there is a fraudster who buys a graphics card, swaps the official cooler for a water cooling block, and then returns only the official cooler to Amazon.
The person in the Amazon warehouse who checks the return does not recognize at first glance that it is “only” the cooler, but not the entire graphics card.
The graphics card is then listed as “like new” again by Amazon because the counterfeit went unnoticed.
The open beta of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has started. MeinMMO shows you which weapons you should play.
What kind of tier list is this? Already in the beta of Black Ops 6, you have a range of weapons at your disposal. We have looked at which weapons are currently being played a lot and perform well.
The meta is currently particularly influenced by submachine guns, as they play ideally on the small maps in combination with the new Omni-Movement.
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CoD Black Ops 6 Tier List of the Best Weapons
S-Tier
C9
A-Tier
Jackal PDW
Tanto .22
XM4
AK-74
AMES 85
B-Tier
XMG
SWAT 5.56
DM-10
SVD
LR .62
Marine SP
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The Best Weapons for Long and Short Distances
Depending on whether you are looking for a weapon for long or short to medium distances, different weapons are available as ideal choices. We present you with 2 options for different distances.
C9 – Submachine Gun
What makes the weapon so strong: The C9 has a high fire rate and a good time-to-kill, making it particularly effective in short to medium-range fights. Since it received a buff just before the start of the open beta, while the previously meta weapon was nerfed, more and more players are now using the C9.
What makes the weapon so strong: The Jackal PDW is characterized by a good time-to-kill and high mobility. It is also relatively easy to control. Since the Jackal PDW was nerfed before the open beta started, it is not as strong as it was in the early access beta.
What makes the weapon so strong? The XM4 is a good choice if you want to play a fully automatic weapon at medium to long distances. The assault rifle has a well-controllable recoil, deals quite high damage, and has a solid fire rate. This makes the XM4 an all-rounder on the battlefield.
AK-74 – Assault Rifle
What makes the weapon so strong? With the AK-74, you choose a weapon that is especially marked by its high damage. While you are not as mobile with the assault rifle as with other weapons, and you have to give up a high fire rate, if you don’t move much or prefer a weapon with high firepower, this is your choice.
Are you looking for an outstanding shooter for the PS5? With the BioShock series, you get a brilliant shooter for just 10 euros.To this day, the series is considered one of the best ever.
The BioShock series is regarded as one of the best shooter franchises that you can play on PC or consoles:
BioShock 1 is considered one of the best shooters ever and has a metascore of 96 today, putting it on the same level as Half-Life 2 (also 96).
Part 2 is still regarded as the weakest game in the trilogy, yet it received a metascore of 88.
BioShock Infinite, part 3 and conclusion of the series, again received 95 out of 100 points. Part 3 differed from its predecessors because this time you got to fight high up in the air instead of in an underwater city.
With the BioShock Collection, you can currently get one of the most popular shooter series on the PS Store for just 10 euros. The offer is valid until September 14, 2024. You can get an initial impression of the series with the following video:
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BioShock Collection as a Remaster with Better Graphics for PS4
What is the Collection? Behind BioShock: Collection is the official remaster of the shooter series: The graphics and technology have been revamped, and the game now runs on consoles at 60 FPS with high-resolution graphics. There are no real new features or additional content, except for the developer documentary titled “Imagining BioShock,” which does not play a significant role in gameplay.
What’s included? The BioShock: Collection consists of all three well-known BioShock games, including all DLCs. The multiplayer mode from BioShock 2 has been completely removed in this version, but this should not be a loss for most players.
Is it worth it? If you have never played the series and are looking for a brilliant shooter series that will keep you occupied for countless hours, you should definitely give BioShock a chance. It is no wonder that fans have been waiting for a sequel for years.
If you have already played the series and want to experience the games with better technology, then purchasing it might also be worthwhile. However, you must be aware that you won’t get a new story or other new content. Unless, of course, you are keen on the developer’s diary.
The PS5 is now over 3 years old. But is it still worth buying a PS5 in 2024? MeinMMO discusses the pros and cons of the Sony console and explains what you should consider if you are thinking about a purchase: Is it still worth buying a PS5 in 2024?
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