Author: Admin

Defiance Introduces Loot Karma For Patrons


Defiance 2013-04-10 21-41-09-94

 

The Neo Votanis began this week and runs through October 10th, but there is more to do than simply knocking about the Shrill and Neo Votanis Front. Trion Worlds is looking to reward Patrons with armfuls of loot courtesy of the new Paradise Karma system.

Paradise Karma is simple. Complete Major Arkfall events or purchase Synergy lockboxes from the Defiance store to raise your karma. The higher your karma, the better odds of earning a jackpot, up to 100% or until you receive a jackpot and the counter resets. In addition to this system, Trion Worlds has made Patron even more enticing by upping the following perks:

  • Arkforge Gain: 100% (up from 10%)
  • Experience Gain: 100% (up from 20%)
  • Skill Gain: 100% (up from 20%)
  • Reputation Gain: 25% (up from 20%)
  • Ark Salvage Gain: 25% (up from 20%)
  • Scrip Gain: 25% (up from 20%)
  • Score Gain: 25% (up from 10%)
  • Ammo/Spike/Stim/Grenade Gain: 50% (up from 20%)

(Source: Trion Worlds)

Neverwinter’s Gateway Is Going Away


c62500a0c046afdf915646342c274c1e1474029800

Neverwinter’s Gateway has always been a problem for Perfect World Entertainment. On its face, it is an amazingly useful tool where players can manage their inventories, buy and sell goods, level up skills, and play Sword Coast Adventures. It wasn’t available for the PS4 or Xbox, but those on PC managed to get quite a bit of use out of it. On the developer side, however, it was a nightmare. To put it short: Gateway was far too easy for bots to abuse.

Despite numerous attempts at curbing farmable resources, Perfect World Entertainment has been unable to keep the service useful while also preventing its use by bots. As a result, Gateway has shut down. Players who recently used the feature will receive a free companion.

(Source Neverwinter)

Storage Wars: Buying A Banned RuneScaper’s Bank


19runescapebankbidders

When players are banned from RuneScape, what happens to their bank accounts? Does the bank seize the items? Donate the food to some charity to help the children of all the town guards that players murder every day? Does the armor get smelted down and turned into building materials for new content? Or am I simply overthinking what is an otherwise meta concept?

At Runefest, Jagex unveiled Bank Bidders, an upcoming feature that will allow players to bid on a bank (go figure). Here’s the catch: Players have no idea what is in the account other than its age, what the account was banned for, and the current highest bid. That woodcutting bot might have very well been a legitimate player for twelve years and simply made the mistake of botting, his treasure trove might be yours to keep if the price is right.

It’s an interesting idea for a money sink, since no doubt most of the accounts banned will have very little value compared to what players might bid for them. We’ll have to see just what the more adventurous are willing to pony up when Bank Bidders goes live.

(Source: Runefest)

RuneScape Celebrates 250 Million Accounts


rf2016_dyanmic_weather

As Runefest draws to a close, Jagex has announced a new milestone for their popular MMORPG RuneScape. Since its release fifteen years ago, more than 250 million accounts have been created.

In its 15th anniversary year, this month RuneScape hit a new and massively impressive milestone with its 250 millionth account created. Over its lifetime, RuneScape has seen real-life player weddings, united families that are spread across the world, and been an escape for discovery seekers. The 250 millionth account joins the ever-growing band of adventurers in Gielinor, which means it must be time to expand the game world significantly…

At Runefest, Jagex revealed upcoming plans for content release over the next couple years including massive expansions to be released every three months.

RuneScape Expansions will deliver a new sense of discovery and exploration more frequently with each expansion as big as 2014’s Lost City of the Elves, arriving on a single day, four times a year. It’s like Christmas coming every three months and it begins in June 2017 as the city gates of Menaphos are finally opened.”

Big plans are in store for the world of Gielinor over the next year, from gameplay-affecting dynamic weather to the release of the second part of the eastern lands, raids in Old School and campaign mode coming to collectible card game Chronicle: RuneScape Legends.

(Source: Jagex Press Release)

[Video] RuneScape: Golden City of Menaphos Revealed


Jagex today released the latest trailer for upcoming content in RuneScape, offering the first glimpses at the city of Menaphos, a desert area that has been locked away for years. In the trailer, familiar hero Ozan discusses his feats around the world of Gielinor, stopping short at gaining entry to the city. Menaphos was first teased back in 2005 with the update releasing the neighboring city of Sophanem. As a response to rumors of plague, Menaphos was closed to outsiders.

According to the trailer, Jagex is aiming for a June 2017 release for Menaphos.

[Breaking] DigiHom Update: All Games Disappear From Store Front


ivzrfgm

Relations between Digital Homicide and Valve appear to have gone sour, with sparse details and speculation running rampant after all of Digital Homicide’s games were pulled from Steam one by one earlier today. The news comes on the heels of the revelation that James Romine, owner of indie game developer Digital Homicide, had subpoena’d Valve for the identities of 100 Steam users in pending litigation over negative comments regarding his games on Steam.

Tech Raptor has reportedly received a comment from Valve, confirming that the games were removed due to the developer’s hostility towards customers.

Valve has stopped doing business with Digital Homicide for being hostile to Steam customers.

MMO Fallout has reached out to Digital Homicide for comment.

Marvel Heroes Unveils Biggest System Update Ever


MarvelHeroes2015 2015-06-26 21-43-49-03

Marvel Heroes is gearing up to completely overhaul their titular ARPG, and everyone is invited to the party. As announced this week, over the span of several updates Gazillion Entertainment will be making major changes to how you level up and how you play in Marvel Heroes going forward. Long time players are well acquainted with the regular New 52 updates, bringing heroes up to date and tweaking them for the modern mechanics, but can you handle every character changing at once?

That’s right. Every single Hero in the game will be receiving a design update. All. At. Once.Naturally, we are spending more time on this project than most of our previous updates. In this post, we will be discussing three systems involved in this endeavor: Power Points, Talents, and Traits.

The most immediate change is going to be in powers. No longer will players have to level up to unlock powers and then stick points into those to make them viable. All powers will be viable as soon as they are unlocked, with power points being placed into your base stats. Items that affected powers previously will be updated to be just as useful as they were before. Secondly, all heroes will have five sets of talents. Talents exist in their own tree and can offer passive bonuses, mechanical changes, and even replace powers entirely.

Third, all heroes will now have one defensive and one offensive passive trait, themed after the character and unique to each person.

jpmmvus

Marvel Heroes is no stranger to massive annual updates, these types of updates are what transformed a mostly mediocre launch into the game that it is today.

(Source: Marvel Heroes)

James Romine Subpoenas Valve For Steam User Details


ss_5884a5bc03c163727ca5cb2e5953b68191546d58.1920x1080

Digital Homicide’s James Romine has filed a subpoena against Valve in Phoenix to discover the identities of what appears to be 100 anonymous users who had made statements about the company in the past. The documents were filed and the subpoena granted this week. The case has been assigned to Magistrate Judge Eileen Willett. Romine is representing himself and is demanding $18,000,000 with the nature of the suit being personal injury.

More information as it appears.

[Video] Black Desert Online Shows Off Sorceress Awakened


Black Desert Online is showing off the Sorceress Awakened, with a massive scythe obtained after reaching level 55. Check out the video above to see the Sorceress Awakened in action.

Neverwinter Celebrates 2 Million On PS4


Neverwinter_PS4_03

Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter is celebrating more than twelve million players across three consoles, with more than two million of those fighting on the Playstation 4. Of the 3.2 million characters created on PS4 so far, 32,000 have achieved the level cap in the past two months. Altogether, players have earned over 50 billion Astral Diamonds, 18 million mounts, and 11,000 guilds.

You can see all of the juicy statistics in a handy infographic below. In addition, Perfect World Entertainment is holding a series of events including double experience and glory, double enchants and Astral Diamonds, and a free static PS4 theme.

neverwinter-ps4-infographic