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Wildstar State of the Game

Carbine Studios has released the latest State of the Game address for Wildstar. After hitting some hurdles with population and having to drop their monthly update plan, Mike Donatelli posted a list of updates that are currently in the works for the next update. Players can look forward to new zones, new lore, and other content updates in addition to the tackling of long standing bugs in need of squashing.

Two new chapters of content, including solo, five-player, and 20-man events.
Fully voiced NPCs in new zones.
Option to skip the tutorial on alts.
Various improvements to low level zones.
Combat balances.
Bug fixes and long-demanded tweaks to UI, mechanics, and more.

(Source: Wildstar)

MMOrning Shots: Signs From Above

Today’s MMOrning Shot comes to us from Line of Defense, where there appears to be a war going on in the stars. A star war, if you catch my drift. What I’m saying is that those clouds look like a Star Destroyer in battle with a rebel ship, which is either unintentional, a well placed easter egg, or the product of my overactive imagination.

Imagine all the MMOrning Shots every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Not Massive: Dragon Age Origins Free On Origin

Dragon Age: Inquisition comes out soon, and what better way to get integrated into the series than to play the game that started it all? Dragon Age: Origins has enough content to keep you situated until long past Inquisition’s release next month, and you can grab it for free on Origin right now. The free version is the standard edition.

(Source: Origin)

ArcheAge Hackers Strike Back: Arena

Hackers are playing a large role in ArcheAge, like it or not. Presently, and until XL Games figures out a way to fix the numerous glaring holes in their system, they are taking over many aspects of the game. Armies of bots make their way around the game’s world, farming gathering locations and mobs for drops and gold. Other bots teleport around the map, running trade routes instantly to farm large quantities of gold and picking up plots of land as soon as they become available in order to sell to players for gold to sell to other players for cash.

The exploit that is our topic today is being used by regular players. User Sorcerer posted the above screenshot from an arena game which lasted just ten seconds before one team managed to destroy the other team’s crystal. The exploiter in question, Shylo according to the poster, destroyed the crystal in a single shot. The incident took place on the Kyrios server. Scott Hartsman responded earlier today to a Reddit post, noting that while Trion Worlds is limited in their detection tools, the company is working on tools to weed out exploits.

Unlike in the case where its our own game, where we can (and do) add new instrumentation/logging/detection daily until problems get stomped with prejudice, we’re limited here in only being able to act on what the game throws off as outputs to us. We can’t add new ones. That said, this one is the next biggest priority. New theory being worked on right now, will holler if it pans out and we can act on it with confidence.

(Source: ArcheAge)

The Old Republic Expansion Drops Talent Trees

Bioware is looking to shake up The Old Republic with update 3.0, introducing the new discipline system. The discipline system will replace the skill trees, removing the idea of receiving skill points to buy powers as you level up. Instead, players will choose between three disciplines per advanced class, receiving passive and active abilities automatically as they level up rather than purchasing at skill vendors.

The goal of disciplines is to offer a level of freedom that was not available with skill trees, allowing players to level up without worrying about gimping their characters and allowing Bioware to increase the level cap without the extensive time required to balance the newly introduced skill points.

Discipline launches on December 9th alongside the Shadow of Revan expansion.

(Source: Dev blog)

MMOrning Shots: Because Face

Today’s MMOrning Shot comes to us from ArcheAge, and answers the question asked by every single one of the six people who asked me, what does my ArcheAge character look like under that helmet in my Twitter profile? Now you know.

Check out MMOrning Shots every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

ArcheAge Teleport Hackers Caught On Video

Need a good reason to avoid ArcheAge for the time being? Here is one, the game is filled with hackers. Not the kind of hackers that steal your account, the kind that are able to teleport throughout the game, grabbing up land as soon as it becomes available and running trade routes immediately to bring in massive amounts of gold. Bots have dominated ArcheAge since launch, and every day continue to flood the economy with gold farmed through hacks, land automatically purchased through hacks, and trader rewards achieved through hacks. You can see in the above video that there is even a bot to report people for killing other bots.

RuneScape October Updates Detailed

Jagex has unveiled the October update list for RuneScape. As part of the regular weekly updates, players will be able to enjoy the much anticipated ironman modes, a new mini-game, and extra tweaks to existing content. The month will spin off with a Halloween themed event and quest, and players will be able to view the Runefest stream on October 11th.

Ironman mode: no trade, no cooperative minigames, no treasure hunter, no lootshare, no gifts. Can you make it through RuneScape completely on your own? Go even further with hardcore ironman mode, featuring permanent death.
Smarter familiars: Combat familiars will join in a fight immediately, along with multiple other updates to the Summoning system.
Drop tables: Ghosts and beasts will see their drop table reworked for better loot.
Halloween event: Help the grim reaper himself deal with otherworldly issues.
Divination mini-game: Guthix’s hidden rune cache.
Treasure Hunter and Solomon Store updates: New cash shop promotions.
Runefest: Jagex’s convention, taking place on October 11th.

(Source: RuneScape)

RuneScape VIP Q&A Highlights

Jagex recently conducted a question and answer session with the VIP members (people who purchased the premiere club membership this year), and if you aren’t a member you can’t access the forums. The list is massive, so instead of reproducing the Q&A 1:1 and likely crashing this website, I’ve decided to consolidate the answers into an easily digestible list.

If you don’t play RuneScape, many of these answers will mean nothing to you. You can read the Q&A in its entirety at the Tip.It forums.

In the works:
- Bosses similar to Vorago.
- Skillcape rework, redesigns will be polled.
- Clue Scroll rework from February poll.
- New God War event, no ETA.
- New resource dungeon -Elf City Batch 2.
- Invention skill will be player polled.
- Transferring pets to pet interface.
Low priority, but in the works:
- Search function in quest list.
Technically possible, not in the works:
- Bank organization presets.
- Color-blind mode.
Technically impossible:
- Accessing certain interfaces while in combat.
Not currently in development:
- Recolor Drygore equipment.
- Updating Trouble Brewing.
- No ETA on non-holiday quest.
- Floor 61 of Daemonheim.
- City of Menaphos.
- Church of You.
- Penguin series quest.
- Elf quests.
- Skiller boss.
Not being considered:
- Altering Arraxxor drop list.
- Buff Hydrix jewelry.
- Bank booster bundles.

ArcheAge Update Targets Chat Spam

Today’s update to ArcheAge goes up in under an hour, followed by three to five hours of downtime. Version 1.2 build 4.11 introduces a few convenience changes to the game: The Kraken can only be damaged by siege weapons, trial chat can now only be used by participants in a trial, healer weapons are now rewarded in quests, and warehouse expansion has had its cap increased. To fight bots, Trion is introducing a level restriction for chat channels:

Chatting in the Faction, Shout, Trade, Need Party, and Nation chat channels is now restricted to characters that are level 15 and higher.

No, this update will not stop chat spam. The goal, and what this update will accomplish, is to put a stop to the seemingly never ending cycle of spam accounts creating a level one character, typing once in chat, and then deleting said character in order to bypass the ignore list. Of course, a chat filter would also be nice.

(Source: Trion Worlds)

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