Tag: Update

EGS: Kingdom Come: Deliverance Free Next Week


This week’s list of free Epic Game Store titles includes Carcassonne and Ticket To Ride, but gamers might be looking more forward to next week’s offering.

Starting February 13 and running through the 20, you’ll be able to get your hands on Kingdom Come: Deliverance at no cost. Kingdom Come launched in early 2018 from Warhorse Studios and publisher Deep Silver. A story-driven RPG that features an open world, challenging combat, and an authentic feeling medieval Bohemia. Kingdom Come currently holds a mostly positive rating on Steam where user reviews are allowed.

Also available alongside Kingdom Come will be Aztez. Aztez bills itself as a hybrid beat-em-up and turn-based strategy game. It originally launched in 2017 by Team Colorblind.

Source: Epic Game Store

Black Desert: Kunoichi Hits PS4, Awakening On Consoles


Pearl Abyss has a bunch of new content this week for Black Desert players on console.

Playstation gamers will be able to get their hands on the Kunoichi class. The Kunoichi is the mistress of blades and utilizes the Kunai shortsword as well as the following skills:

  • Flash Slash – Kunoichi disappears and unleashes powerful hits upon her enemies.
  • Kuno Stab – Using her elite reflexes, Kunoichi uses her Kunai to stab the vitals of her enemies, rendering them useless.
  • Ninjutsu: Shadow Explosion – The Kunoichi draws power from the shadows and unleashes an explosion in front of her, knocking back opponents.
  • Tragic Blade – The Kunoichi deceives her opponents to think that she is vulnerable, and during their next attack she picks the opportune moment to strike a killing blow.

Players on Xbox and Playstation who level the Kunoichi class to 56 can awaken the class. Awakening unlocks the Chakram weapon and new devastating combo attacks. Awakening unlocks the following skills:

  • Lethal Spin Spree – The Kunoichi grabs her Sah Chakram with both hands and spins, using centrifugal force to deliver devastating damage to enemies around her.
  • Chain Crash – The Kunoichi releases the Sah Chakram as it spins into her enemies hitting them multiple times.
  • Half Moon Slash – Swiftly moving side to side, the Kunoichi uses that momentum to deliver powerful hits and recover her WP.
  • Wheel of Wrath – Unleashing the rage pent up inside, Kunoichi unleashes a powerful upward strike then immediately brings her enemies back down to earth with a downward attack.

For more information, check out the official website.

Old School RuneScape Releases 80-Player Boss


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.

Source: Old School RuneScape

MapleStory 2 To Sunset 32 Bit Client This Month


Sorry folks.

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.”

The announcement can be found here.

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