Tag: Update

Black Desert Mobile Drops Field of Valor Update


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.

Not Massive: Blizzard Offers Instant Warcraft 3 Refunds


Insert your speculation on their motivation here.

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.

Humble Bundle Unveils January Game Picks


January’s Humble Choice games are now available for choosing. This month has twelve games to choose from, meaning even those of you with classic plans won’t be able to grab everything. Looking at the library however you might not want to.

The highlights of this month are certainly Shadow of War and Street Fighter V, with Graveyard Keeper and Two Point Hospital attracting quite a following of their own.

  • Middle Earth: Shadow of War
  • Graveyard Keeper
  • Two Point Hospital
  • Dirt Rally 2.0
  • Street Fighter V
  • Bad North Jotunn Edition
  • Trailmakers
  • Unrailed
  • Whispers of a Machine
  • Fightin Herds
  • Mages of Mystralia
  • Grip

In addition, Unparallel is available as a DRM free download.

Destiny 2 Suffers Rollback After Major Bug Wipes Inventories


Destiny 2’s update 2.7.1 was the source of a whole lot of problems yesterday after players logged in to find that some of their inventories and achievements had just been straight up wiped. The servers were quickly shut down so Bungie could investigate the cause and roll out a fix, however the extent and reach of the glitch meant that accounts would have to be rolled back to where they were at 8:30 a.m. PST.

The good news is that players will lost at most nearly two hours of progress assuming that they played from the moment the server came up through the moment it went offline. Not a huge loss for the grand majority.

Today, Update 2.7.1 introduced an issue that affected currencies and pursuits. We immediately brought the game offline to mitigate any loss of materials while we investigated. We have identified the issue and the good news is that we were able to deploy an update to the server and will not have to update the game client.

We have rolled all character data back to our most recent backup at 8:30 a.m. Pacific before the issue was introduced. This will restore any lost materials caused by the issue, but players will lose any progress they made if they played between 8:30 a.m and 10:20 a.m. when we brought the game down for maintenance. Any purchases made using Silver or Bright Dust during this window will need to be repurchased. Any Silver spent or purchased will be restored.

The server update is complete and we are beginning to bring the game back online now. Stay tuned to @Bungiehelp for updates.

Source: Bungie

Continent of the Ninth Seal Drops New Content Update


Webzen this week announced the latest update to Continent of the Ninth Seal which introduces the seventh continent and a swath of new content.

The main highlight of the update is the new continent Hernad where adventurers can find the dungeons Camp of Durahan, Forest of Blasted Spirits, and Faded Temple filled with Nefer’s forest just waiting to be killed for sweet loot. Along with the new dungeons comes new armor and weapons as well as rewards for those who pre-registered. Players will also find a mystery box which can be opened for gears every 24-48 hours.

An in-game event is being held to celebrate the update that gives away a weapon enhancement package with additional events offering bonus exp, dungeon rewards, and more.

For more details, check out the official website.

Torchlight Frontiers Changes Name: Is Now Torchlight 3


Max Schaefer has announced via Youtube today that Torchlight Frontiers will now be called Torchlight 3. Is that all? Nope.

Torchlight 3 will be ditching the free to play model and will no longer be an MMO. The good news is that the game will be available offline. Even better for you Steam enthusiasts, the game will be shifting its publishing platform from Arc to Steam with current testers to receive a key for further testing.

“Along with this name change comes a major shift in our design approach to Torchlight III. Torchlight III will be released as a premium title. For one box-price, you will own the game and be able to play the way that you want, online or off. Over the past year, we have gathered massive amounts of feedback from our Alpha testers. After reviewing this feedback, discussing with our internal teams, and receiving guidance from our publisher, we determined that this was the best course for the game. This shift helps bring Torchlight back to its roots and makes it the true sequel to Torchlight I & II that it was always meant to be.”

And among the larger updates, horizontal progression is being removed completely; all Frontier-specific levels, gear stats, and scaling has been removed as well. The real money cash shop is gone and players can choose online or offline characters at the creation stage.

Source: Torchlight

Mad World MMO Isn’t Dead, Actually


All around me are familiar faces…

Mad World is still alive and kicking, and this week the developers over at Jandi Soft broke a small stretch of silence to announce that release is still on schedule for 2020. The full post goes into all sorts of details on coming features including the renovation of chapter one, your companion character Dawn, pets, travel, facial expressions, and more!

“Lunar New Year-year of the rat-has come and we want to take this opportunity to shed some light on our current progress, giving you a sneak-peek of what we’ve been working on. We plan to post this sort of dev letter more often so stay around!”

More information as well as new years messages from the team can be found at the link below.

Source: Mad World

APB: Reloaded Details Roadmap For 2020


Much like this eight year old header image of All Points Bulletin, APB: Reloaded is working toward a better future.

The APB: Reloaded team put out its 2020 roadmap this week detailing the kind of updates players can expect in the coming eleven months. Chief among the updates is the upgrade to Unreal Engine 3.5 which has been in the works for quite some time. CEO Matt Scott has been maintaining a thread on the official forums logging where the team currently is at with the update, as well as what still needs to be fixed before the upgrade can go live.

Further updates include quality of life improvements and balancing the shotgun. For more details, check out the official website below.

Source: APB Reloaded

After Nine Years, Jagex Abandons Annual End of Things Event


There are two things guaranteed in January; Everyone will renege on their New Year’s pledges roughly half an hour after the ball drops and after 2011 Jagex will release the End of Things event in RuneScape. Except now they won’t.

Every January since 2011 Jagex has released the End of Things event in the Freminik region. The event has changed over the last nine years, but the crux of the event has stayed the same. Players battle it out with three big wolves; Hati, Sköll, and Fenrir. To the victor goes the spoils, specifically some cosmetic items and a burst of bonus experience in several skills. The event didn’t launch this week, nor are there plans to launch it at all, possibly forever.

In a Q&A stream, Jagex confirmed that the event just isn’t as popular as it was and they wanted to pursue other ideas than simply lazily rolling out unpopular content because it’s been on the same release list year over year. After the shallow release schedule that has been January, maybe players would have enjoyed something familiar with whet their whistle outside of weeks upon weeks of patch notes. The end of The End of Things event comes alongside Jagex ending the Winter Weekend events for similar reasons. Jagex’s big update for January, the Archaeology skill, has been delayed to an unknown date.

Mobility: Black Desert Lays Out Siege War and Asula’s Den


Black Desert Mobile has launched its latest update introducing Siege War and Asula’s Den to the handheld spinoff.

Siege War is a large scale battle for guilds fighting for control over two regions, Balenos and Serendia. Guilds must be at least level five and have at least ten players to compete through a bidding process, as well as own a node that is at least tier 2. The highest three bidding guilds will be able to compete for the big prize; owning the entire region and collecting its taxes for the duration of their control.

Asula’s Den meanwhile is a side scrolling mini-game which awards a gold box of precious items should you come out victorious. Asura’s Den is only available in manual control mode.

And finally players can sign up here to receive information about the upcoming sorceress class. Sign up for information and you’ll receive a code containing update rewards.

Source: Press Release