Old School RuneScape’s latest update drops today introducing The Nightmare of Ashihama, a new boss that can be taken down with groups of up to 80 players. The boss’s difficulty scales with each player added to the group, with only the best able to take it down solo. Jagex promises that every player in the group will get their hands on a reward for taking it down.
Executive producer of Old School RuneScape Rob Hendry commented on the update;
“As with all new content introductions in Old School, nothing gets released unless we have the backing of the community. Late last year we put the Nightmare to a player poll, and it passed with flying colours attracting more than 45,000 votes with 90% approving its addition. Empowering our community to have a say in the game’s content, through polls such as this, is hugely important to us as a development team and we can’t wait for players to team up and tackle the Nightmare today.”
Adventurers who take down The Nightmare have a chance at some unique gear. For more information, check out the official website below.
MMO Fallout has partnered with Mantisco for another giveaway and this time around it is beta keys for the upcoming title Hunter’s Arena: Legends. Now we are doing this a little early as the beta does not start until February 20, but you can grab your key now, insert it into Steam, and it will be ready to go when the beta is live.
Hunter’s Arena: Legends combines elements of MMORPGs and Battle Royale titles with 60 players coming together to fight to the last man standing in an arena with mechanics including leveling up, grabbing equipment, boss raids, dungeons, and more. It promises easy to learn, hard to master combat promoting all sorts of mind-bending strategy.
As always since this is a smaller giveaway I am locking it to one per user. Sorry folks, there’s just not many to hand out.
Instructions For Redemption:
Click on the giveaway
Copy your key
In Steam click Games >> Activate A Product On Steam >> Insert Your Code
Wait
Hunter’s Arena: Legends closed beta test runs from February 20 to February 23.
As the tech industry continues moving forward into the far flung future of 2020, you folks on last decade’s hardware are inevitably going to be left in the dust. Unfortunately for MapleStory 2 players that means anyone running on 32-bit is going to have a heaping helping of nothing come next week.
Nexon today announced that the 32 bit client for MapleStory 2 is going away, as in going away on February 12.
“Starting on February 12th, 2020, the 32-bit client for MapleStory 2 will be discontinued. Players will be defaulted to the 64-bit version of the game client. Moreover, the recommended specs of MapleStory 2 will be adjusted on all of our platforms. Due to Microsoft’s discontinuation of Windows 7 support, we recommend that players use Windows 10 when playing the game.”
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
-Mark Twain
“CliffyB is an out of touch fossil who needs to permanently retire.”
-Me
Cliff Bleszinski is back folks, and he’s ready to give us all some learnin’ with the efficiency and reliability of a two-fingered woodshop teacher. Grab something stronger than a beer, you’ll need it.
CliffyB is a guy who has had a bit of a history of being what you might call a callous BS artist, one ready and willing to burn some bridges with people he thinks he doesn’t need to rely on for income. He’s doing that again. This whole charade has been going on since at least 2008 when Cliffy announced that Gears of War would not be coming to PC due to the amount of piracy on the platform. Cliffy was lying of course, Gears wasn’t coming to PC because of an exclusive deal with Xbox. I don’t think anyone was gullible enough to believe his excuse. It wasn’t until 2015 when Cliffy was selling Lawbreakers that he finally came back and apologized to the PC group only to get a whole lot of the cold shoulder. Oh and he chose this time to snub Xbox players.
See here’s the thing about Cliffy’s statement and apology; they only talk to a very small group of people. You have a tiny portion of the gaming public who know who CliffyB is, a smaller portion who would buy a game based on his name alone, a smaller portion that care enough about his opinion to specifically not buy a game that they would have otherwise because of a personal snub from ten years ago, and an even smaller portion who would actually go and buy the game out of forgiveness if apologized to seven years down the line. Nowhere in that list is enough people to take a game from success to failure.
Just look at Ubisoft who have sold gangbusters on PC despite at one point claiming the platform had a 95% piracy rate.
But CliffyB’s back to tell us why Lawbreakers failed and I’m guessing this egotist isn’t going to really be accepting any blame. For those who don’t remember, Lawbreakers was an uninspired hero team shooter that launched in 2017 on PC and PS4, failed out the gate despite positive reviews, and shut down its servers in 2018. So what was the culprit? It was the wokeness.
“Instead of the story being “this game looks neat” it became “this is the game with the ‘woke bro’ trying to push his hackey politics on us with gender neutral bathrooms.” Instead of “these characters seem fun” it was “this is the studio with the CEO who refuses to make his female characters sexier.” Instead of “who am I going to choose” it became “white dude shoehorns diversity in his game and then smells his own smug farts in interviews” instead of just letting the product … speak for itself.”
Not really. Yea a dozen people were complaining about the gender neutral bathrooms, but do you really think that it was a big factor in why Lawbreakers failed? Shoving your political ideology into a game is going to lose more than zero sales, no matter what that ideology is. For a niche game that PR blunder could absolutely tank early sales of a game that wouldn’t have sold much anyway. It does not ruin a “billion dollar franchise” as Cliffy wanted it to be, just look at Life Is Strange which performed just fine. How about taking a gander at Overwatch and Apex Legends?
Lawbreakers presented itself to the public as a dull, uninspired game. The aesthetics were generic and boring, the characters are dull and forgettable, not to mention visually indistinguishable during gameplay, the game’s only gimmick wasn’t enough to sell it on, the casual audience that should have made the focus were tossed aside in favor of a tiny hardcore audience, it launched a month before Destiny 2, had no single player content, didn’t have basic multiplayer modes (team deathmatch) that most players flock to, had extremely weak and cringeworthy (#skilledAF) marketing, no visibility, a steep learning curve, useless tutorials, and virtually no way for a new player to learn the ropes while getting steamrolled by hardcore FPS players. Everything Cliffy says to explain his failure, as usual, is demonstrably wrong.
In short, Lawbreakers was screwed from the start on fundamental design flaws, just slightly more so from Cliffy being a rat. Why buy a new game when you already own Overwatch, is what I presume many of the few people aware of Lawbreakers’ existence said to themselves. Now being an out of touch narcissistic fossil, CliffyB spent the following months refusing to take measures to save the game and refusing to (publicly) acknowledge that the title was failing. Instead he went on the attack against the only people who had offered his game support since the only place Lawbreakers was showing positive results was in the review scores. The games press.
He told us to fuck off for not eating the propaganda that his game was doing fine despite public data showing exactly the opposite.
“They’re just looking for clicks, man,” Bleszinski says of the games press. “They’re just looking for ad revenue. We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing, and they’re welcome to print whatever they want – but as far as I’m concerned, they can fuck off. We’re going to keep making our game for our fans.”
A bold statement as Cliffy’s studio is burning to the ground around him.
It should be noted that Boss Key Studios did not continue to make games for their fans, of which they had next to none since Lawbreakers was in the low double digits of players. Their future would entail hastily cobbling together a shoddy prototype battle royale game in five months and shoving it out with both untextured buildings and a fully functioning cash shop in the hopes that maybe some whales would come around and keep them financially afloat. They didn’t, Radical Heights was a humongous flop and cemented in many minds that Boss Key was incapable of an original thought and solely existed to lazily jump on the bandwagon of whatever was popular at the time.
It’s also quite comical when you consider that Epic threw together Fortnite BR in two months and how much success that had.
I have bad news for you, Cliffy: Nobody outside of a few dozen gamers ever cared about your gender neutral bathrooms. I don’t even think most of MMO Fallout’s readers can remember a single other thing about what made Lawbreakers “woke” without looking it up. I certainly can’t. It was a passable game that couldn’t attract customers because of its dull, uninspired design from a company run by a narcissist who refused to accept its failings until it was far too late to turn back. Lawbreakers wasn’t sold as woke, Boss Key spent next to zero time promoting the game to the “woke” crowd or talking about its diversity.
The public wasn’t turned off because your characters were too ethnically diverse and weren’t sexy enough, Cliffy, they didn’t like the characters because you can’t tell them apart in a lineup. Your excuse also doesn’t hold up when Lawbreakers was full of the kind of macho dude-bro content that would push the woke crowd away regardless.
All you need to know about Lawbreakers is in this video:
So now it’s time to come to the big question of the day, and that is: What is CliffyB selling? What income generator is Mr. “I have an attractive wife and a Lambo” looking to push now that he’s throwing a group under the bus to grovel to another whose money he thinks he’s spurned? I presume it is related to Cliffy’s autobiography which should in all good graces be titled “Denial Isn’t Just The River I Drowned In.”
The Vertigo might be the most pathetic thing I have ever seen pop up on Steam.
I saw The Vertigo in my Steam release list when it showed up with the January 30 launch date. It costs $2 and I wouldn’t buy it as a joke since it is a battle royale game with no bots (presumably) and not a single person playing it. It would be a bigger waste of my money than Cyber Watch. Judging by the screenshots, it looks like The Vertigo was compiled over the course of a day since it uses untextured flat models, the default placeholder character models, and what I assume is a combination of placeholder blocks and asset store items.
I’ve seen low-effort trash but this is truly the lowest of low. Even worse is that SteamDB shows that this game was once categorized with in-app purchases. The Vertigo doesn’t look like it’s worth $2, and you’re going to ask for more from the nobody stupid enough to give you money? How dare you. I decided to look up the developer, Chango Games, and I’m honestly not sure if I’m being punked.
Head over to the Chango Games website and the first thing you’ll see is a teaser page for a game called Slash. I have no idea what Slashed is, but Chango Games is proud enough of it to label themselves “Creators of Slashed and Vertigo” at every opportunity. I know it’s available for pre-order at a $10 discount and they’ll send you a Steam key. Slashed isn’t on Steam, it doesn’t even have a database entry.
Also the website uses Dark Souls III trailers to advertise Slashed.
I should note at this point that the website absolutely takes you to a Paypal link that will allow you to pay Chango Games $20. I’m not stupid enough to see what happens if I paypal them the money. The more I view this website the more confident I am that someone spiked my sugarless Virgil’s root beer with LSD and I’m just muttering nonsense into this WordPress editor while spamming photos of my cat.
Chango Games also sells $1,000 t-shirts that say “$1,000 t-shirt” on them. At this point I’m 99.99% certain this is all an elaborate trolling operation. There is a gallery page that appears to be nothing more than compiled sets using pre-bought asset packs. I think I managed to find one or two of the asset packs used in the screenshots.
It’s 2a.m. and I’ve been trying to make sense of this “developer” for the last three hours, which very likely makes me exactly the kind of sucker they hoped to rope in with this weirdness. So congratulations, Chango Games is either a ridiculous troll group or a deeply incompetent developer. I’m not sure which is worse.
Black Desert Mobile’s latest update drops in the Field of Valor for a limited time.
The Field of Valor can be joined as a party of five and encompasses killing monsters for 30 minutes. In order to participate you will need to collect and spend tokens which can be gained from log-in rewards and rare drops from enemies and chests. Party members in Field of Valor share rewards so you don’t need to kill everything yourself in order to reap the benefits.
Joining the Field of Valor is the Shakatu’s Shop event. Players can make purchases at the shop to obtain random gear with the possibility of obtaining some of the most powerful items in the game. Shakatu’s Shop is also available for the next week.
Day of Dragons is in Early Access and barely qualifies as a game, but that hasn’t stopped developer Beawesome Games from teasing additional income generators in the form of paid DLC dragons.
Beawesome Games is taking some flak from their community regarding recent teasers for the “Blitz Striker Amphithere,” a paid DLC dragon set to release in Q3/Q4 2020 for the low low cost of $5.99. Despite raising over half a million dollars and being on the top selling list in December on Steam, Day of Dragons currently stands with three dragons all of which are placeholders in the form of bought premade assets from the Unreal store.
Some of the angry sentiment comes from Kickstarter backers who are upset that Beawesome is advertising paid DLC dragons when the dragons that people had already paid money for as part of the game’s Kickstarter campaign are nowhere in sight. Additionally, others are taking umbrage with Beawesome teasing paid DLC dragons when they have yet to finish a single dragon that was not bought from the Unreal engine store. Beawesome has claimed that there are over a dozen dragons in development or scheduled for development. There are seven Kickstarter-exclusive dragons.
All of that of course is meaningless since if you look at the latest developer list on the Day of Dragons Discord, you’ll see that they do not have a character rigger/animator or a visual FX artist on staff. For now backers will have to make do with what they were given. A glorified tech demo. One run by a man of dubious ethics.
Temtem developer Crema today fired not so much a warning shot as a warning kill by announcing the ban of nearly 900 accounts from the newly launched MMO. All accounts in question have been permanently banned with no chance of appeal, with Crema stating their 100% confidence that each account has been caught cheating or abusing exploits.
We just completed our first batch of banned users. Almost 900 players have been permanently banned from Temtem.
Bans are final, we won’t answer or review any ban appeal. We’ve made 100% sure that every banned user is either a cheater or has abused exploits intentionally.
The statement that Crema won’t be reviewing any ban appeals had some members of the community concerned to say the least, as one could cite hundreds of examples of developers messing up and issuing false bans that are later overturned.
The team spent all morning checking banned accounts and player accounts saying “they didn’t do anything illegal”. We re-checked over 100 accounts.
Crema has since walked back their comment on a no appeals policy. Players who are banned and believe that it was out of error can appeal their ban by contacting Crema’s support email.
We’ve decided to review ban appeals, even though every single one of the ones we checked are legit. Like you said, having a “no appeal” policy is not good.
So, you can contact us on support@cremagames.com
Put “Ban appeal” as the subject and include your ingame ID or username.
Warcraft 3 Reforged is the latest fiasco in Activision Blizzard’s ongoing saga titled “How To Show Contempt For And Lose Customers,” and it looks like someone at Blizzard wised up over the weekend and decided to go halfway to doing the right thing. According to users over at Reddit, Blizzard has activated instant refunds for Warcraft III: Reforged, with requests going through almost instantly (within a minute, which is basically instant in customer service terms).
Blizzard seems so enthusiastic about refunding Warcraft 3 that one user received a refund for their Warcraft 3 purchase when they actually contacted customer support to refund a World of Warcraft token they had purchased. Similar to Fallout 76 receiving a satirical website, someone has gone ahead and created a Warcraft 3 website roasting the game as well as Blizzard’s perceived anti-consumer sentiments.
Have you tried to refund your Warcraft 3 purchase? Let us know in the comments below.
Good news, everyone! The bad news is that you’re going to be taking on a LOT more Terminators with the second part of the main story quest. The good news is that you’re going to have a much easier time of it.
#1: Talk To Rasa Aldwin, Get A Compensator
You’ll need to talk to Rasa Aldwin to pick up the second story quest for the Terminator event. Starting the mission will unlock the Termination Compensator which deals 30% additional damage to a Terminator’s weak point. It rips through Terminators like butter. While you’re at Erewhon, I recommend upgrading your Mk14 Termination sniper rifle by going to the store and printing up a new one. Since you’ve likely gained some levels since you first obtained the sniper, this one will have higher stats and do more damage. Easy peasy.
Rasa will send you to hack an antenna because the Terminators are going hog wild and frankly life on Auroa was simpler when it was just the Sentinel army turning it into a militaristic dystopia. Head over to the location on the map and you’ll need to hack an antenna which picks up an electromagnetic signal coming from a nearby base. There’s some heavy Terminator activity and you’re going to need to find out what it is.
#2: Investigate The Electromagnetic Pattern
Head over to the marker on your map and get ready for a fight. You’ll come upon the Smuggler Coves base under attack by several Terminators which should be no problem to take down now that your superpowered sniper can rip through them like a fork through shredded pork. The Sentinel occupancy here isn’t that great and most of the soldiers will be dead by the time you get there, so your only opposition should be the couple of Terminators.
Investigate the disturbance and you’ll discover that the facility is none other than a T-800 production plant. They’re making more Terminators! Destroy the four cooling vents to force the airlock to open and head on inside.
#3: Terminators Everywhere And Not A Drop To Drink
You’ll face a slight variation of the T800 models down here. There are more of them in a tightly confined space but they are nowhere near as powerful as their fully kitted out brethren. You should have no problem taking them down with a full clip of the Mk14 sniper. Same rules apply; whittle down the blue health bar and then shoot them in the chest until they go boom.
Get to the control room and you’ll take on the big Terminator himself. Same rules apply but in a smaller room. Watch out for the Terminators that spawn during the fight.
#4: Escape And Talk To Rasa
Once you terminate the Terminator the building will begin its self destruct sequence. Escape past the large number of Terminators (don’t stop to fight them) and lock the facility behind you. Enjoy the fireworks.
Return to Erewhon and talk to Rasa and you’ll be officially done with the story mission. At this point you should be essentially done with the battle pass assuming you have completed the prior daily missions. If not you still have through February 6 to get those remaining daily missions completed. You can take part in the daily missions going forward for their various rewards.
MMO Fallout 