It seems the story of any big MMO is one where developers are always trying to keep up with players' antics, as many are happy to take advantage of broken systems to scam and frustrate others. New World's latest problem is one that combines lack of foresight, miscommunication, and good ol' fashioned automation.
New World's massive-scale PvP, war, is a mode where companies (clans) fight each other over territory. Naturally, most are willing to use every advantage they get to sabotage the other team, even if it means abusing helpful systems.
In this case, plenty of players are reporting that they got banned just ahead of a big battle. In some cases, half of an entire company has been banned in one go, making it much easier for the other team to win when they go up against much fewer opponents.
If you're looking forward to Riders Republic, and you missed the recent beta, you're going to get a chance to play the game one more time ahead of release. Ubisoft announced a one-day free trial for the online sports game.
The trial is available only on PC through the company's Ubisoft Connect (Uplay) app. It kicks off Tuesday, October 12 at 12am PT, 3am ET, 8am UK and goes offline on Wednesday at the same times. You can pre-load it starting now.
The Riders Republic trial includes access to all five of the game's careers, and all four of its multiplayer modes. The tutorial is disabled to get you into the action quickly, and you'll be able to jump into any of the activities solo or with others in PvP.
IO Interactive also confirms that alongside ongoing support for Hitman 3 and the development of Project 007, a new unannounced game is also in the works.
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Japanese magazine Weekly Famitsu has quizzed its readers once again about the video games they are looking forward to and this week the No.1 most wanted game by readers of Weekly Famitsu is the next mainline Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy XVI for Sony's PlayStation 5 system. The game is followed by the Nintendo Switch […]
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The latest UK physcial games charts are in and Metroid Dread has performed admirably. While it entered the boxed charts at No.3 (beaten by Far Cry 6 and FIFA 22) it is the fastest-selling Metroid game in the United Kingdom and sold three times that of Metroid: Samus Returns on the Nintendo 3DS platform. It […]
The biggest event in the Dota 2 esports calendar, The International 10, is getting into full swing. The tournament's group stage is done and the main event is due to kick off very soon, starting on October 12 and running until October 17. Now that the 16 teams have been set, and the seedings have been selected, we've got an idea of how the schedule for The International 10 is shaping up.
This year's International is taking place in Bucharest, Romania, and marks an exciting return for the MOBA game's community as the 2020 contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It now won't have a live audience, but Valve has outlined all the ways fans can tune in remotely, with some new and improved features introduced this year, such as a cheering tool to let your favourite teams know you're rooting for them from afar.
The 16 teams through to the main event are competing for the Aegis of Champions trophy, as well an eye-watering prize pool of over $40 million, which is the biggest in the history of esports.
Genshin Impact's next update is just around the corner. Mihoyo has laid out some helpful information to guide you through the new content, such as when maintenance will start and what events and banners you can expect to come your way in the first half of the update cycle.
Mihoyo explains in a post on its website that maintenance for the update will begin at the usual time of 6am UTC+8 on October 13, which translates to 3pm PST / 6pm EST / 11pm BST on October 12. Maintenance is estimated to take five hours, so the Genshin Impact 2.2 update release time should be around 8pm PST / 11pm EST on October 12, and 4am BST October 13.
It's worth keeping in mind that the estimate isn't set in stone, so times may vary. On the bright side, you're getting maintenance compensation to the tune of 300 Primogems, which is about 60 gems for each hour the servers are down. There isn't any change to payment if Mihoyo completes the update earlier, either.
Cities of the North is a modding project by Skyrim fan JPSteel2 that looks to give some of the fantasy game's minor cities a bit of an overhaul, and enhance their own strong visual identities. The latest addition to this project is a mod that reworks the forested, southern Skyrim hold city of Falkreath, with new building models, interiors, and more.
Even at a quick glance it's easy to see how much of a difference JPSteel2's Cities of the North - Falkreath mod makes to the southern hold's capital. While the base game's settlement has a look that's familiar from across Skyrim, with straw-roofed, timber dwellings scattered about - visually very similar to spots like Riverwood - the modded version gives it more its own distinct feel, with the addition of "new, unique model[s] for every building in Falkreath". The result is gorgeous - the city's structures and homes are turned from timber into stonework, with sloped, layered wooden roofs, gnarly beams that look like they've just been hewn from the forest all around, and embellishments with the hold's symbol of a deer.
It looks like the jarl's longhouse has been given a particularly impressive new look in the style of a medieval Scandinavian building of importance. It's stacked high with wood and stone and looks the part as the settlement's most imposing building - though still harmonious with its forest location.
Looking for the best New World weapons? Amazon's new MMO game eschews the usual class system and gives players the ability to wield any of the game's eleven weapons freely. As you use a weapon, you gain mastery points in it, which you use to unlock skills and buffs in either of the weapon's two talent trees. You can choose up to three weapon skills that become available to you when that weapon is equipped, and you have two weapon slots, which you can switch between easily during combat without messing around in menus.
Though you can switch weapons at any point, it pays to choose two to specialise in and invest points into - especially as the skills at the end of each weapon's talent trees are particularly powerful. Each weapon scales off a specific primary attribute, and some of them also scale off a second attribute. As you level and gain attribute points, it's important to assign points to suit your chosen loadout.
When deciding which weapons to pick, it's definitely beneficial if both your weapons scale with the same attributes, although there are ways to get around this - for example, amber gems convert a percentage of your weapon's damage to nature damage, which scales off Focus. This means if you want to build high Focus for your Life Staff, you can still benefit from that investment when it comes to dealing damage with your other weapon.
You know, I was pretty disappointed that this weekend's Battlefield 2042 beta didn't have wingsuits. It's been one of the main things I'm looking forward to, leaping from buildings and gliding at unsuspecting foes, so it was sad that we didn't get to try it out. However, as I played, I realised that some players didn't seem to need wingsuits to get themselves off of the ground: they simply needed to die in a janky vehicle accident instead.
How can you upgrade tools in New World? Tools and weapons in New World can come in various different qualities, as reflected by their tier. Technically in this game you don't upgrade your tools — in as much as you don't use a lower-tier item as a base for a higher-tier upgrade. But there are ways of ensuring you craft a higher-tier tool, and you can do that regardless of whether you have a lower-tier version in hand or not; so in effect this system works more or less like tool upgrades in other games, but with a step removed.
ScummVM celebrated its 20th birthday on Saturday, two decades of making old games easier to run on modern systems. The project started focused on LucasArts adventure games built in the SCUMM game engine and the first release only supported Monkey Island 2, and it has since grown to support over 300 games across other genres too. To celebrate that big birthday, a new update hit adding support for more game engines and many more games, including The Longest Journey, Grim Fandango, and Crusader: No Remorse.
Following an outcry from players during Back 4 Blood's early access period regarding the complete lack of solo progression options in the game, developer Turtle Rock Studios has commented that the developer is looking into 'ways to address the issue.' The comments came via the developer's official Twitter account over the weekend, following a post […]
My character awoke in the middle of a wide field in the dead of night. No light, save for the stars shining overhead, graced my presence. No glowing exclamation point urged me forward and no wild animals nipped at my heels. Book of Travels is an MMORPG, but not of the sort we're all familiar with. While I'm not entirely sold on it, I'm impressed by the art and the dedication to an idea that feels as foreign as it sounds. While much of it is built on recognizable frameworks, the end result is something that I simply haven't seen before. Book of Travels begins with you creating a character from a set of forms. These are archetypes, each with their pre-set looks. Your character doesn't have a filled-in backstory either. If you want one, you have to write it yourself. After settling on a form, you pick a name. Yes, pick. You don't appear to be able to create your own name from scratch and must randomly generate your first and last names separately, al...
The Fall Steam Next Fest has come and gone. I honestly nearly missed it, had it not been for our editor-in-chief pointing out. Upon discovering the treasure trove of simulator demos, I scrambled to download over a dozen of them on Steam, spending the course of two days sampling each one. Much like my experience with this year's summertime Next Fest, I'm walking away from this one with a rotund wishlist and childlike eagerness to see more demos crop up, because the selection here was nothing short of ace. I managed to find five standout simulators in this Fall lineup from the Steam Next Fest demos selection. While I can't say there's one that's completely superior to the other, I can say that they each stand out for unique reasons. Either way, they're all certainly worth checking out properly once they're fully released. Airport Renovator – A pilot's playground Flight simulator titles are a dime-a-dozen out there. But, Airp...
Atlus has released the latest daily demon video for Shin Megami Tensei V. The latest featured demon is the Femme Race demon Leanan Sidhe, check out the video and more details below the break. Here is some additional lore information behind Lanan Sidhe, courtesy of the Megami Tensei wiki: In Celtic folklore, the Irish leanan sídhe is a beautiful woman...
IO Interactive also confirms that alongside ongoing support for Hitman 3 and the development of Project 007, a new unannounced game is also in the works.
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You are probably aware of the fact at this point that we have an ongoing series of posts in which we ask whatever happened to a few different obscure MMO titles. These aren't necessarily bad games, and they usually still have their fans (or in a few sad cases, they had fans before the unceremonious shutdown), […]
Monster Evolution is a game about powering up a cute critter and turning it into an unstoppable killing machine. It's split into a number of different sections, and while it's simple enough there are some parts that are going to be tricky if you're not a hundred percent on what you should be doing. That's […]
Being a parent changes your outlook on the things you love. Gaming and other hobbies take a backseat, but sometimes you just need to adjust the circumstances instead of giving up what you love altogether.
With maps that advance and grow as you play through allowing you to place down more towers and change your tactics, Warstone TD from Battlecruiser Games is now available natively on Linux. The developer said that they're providing a Linux version now as "a lot people asked for it".
One feature that makes it quite interesting is how you place your towers. Initially you're not given a lot of stones to place defence down but more can appear as the level goes on and from defeating enemies, so eventually you get a lot more space to place your towers. There's also a class system to give you new abilities, plus the mission types are varied too that enables you to use other unit types. Quite a lot to like about this one and since release in 2018 it seems to have reviewed well from users on Steam.
7 basic units, with a further 15 available as upgrades!
Intriguing story with beautifully drawn artwork.
3 Vastly different Classes for you to choose from: Warlord, Sorcerer, and Treasurer. Over 70 different skills in all!
Diverse array of spells: Firewall, Lightning, Meteor Shower, Titan's Fist, Summon Elemental, Poisonous Cloud, Transmutation, and more! Only 4 spells can be brought into battle though, so choose wisely!
Multiple different game modes: Classic, Challenge, Survival, Maze, Hero Defense, Attack/Defend (Also used in PvP,) and Co-op missions.
Upgrade Defenders in the workshop! Multiple upgrades with several tiers for each defender. More upgrades become available as you build and improve your town.
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut has been confirmed by Clifftop Games and publisher Raw Fury to be releasing on October 26.
"Kathy Rain follows a burgeoning journalist as she investigates the mysterious death of her grandfather. Set during the age of laser discs and landlines in the 1990s, Kathy is armed only with her trusty motorcycle, a notepad, and her wits. Traveling all over her hometown of Conwell Springs, Kathy will uncover a local mystery that takes her on a tumultuous journey. What secrets are the people of this town hiding? Piece together the clues and follow the leads to discover the truth!"
To celebrate the release date announcement there's a new trailer featuring Arielle Siegel (the voice of Kathy) to talk about the features of this new version:
Not too long after the initial Early Access release that was back in August, GrapeOcean Technologies has released a Linux version of their party-based RPG Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness.
Inspired clearly by Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, the team are hoping to make their mark with challenging real time tactical combat with pause, deep lore and memorable companions, all set in a sprawling, unique fantasy world.
"As a small team, we wanted to create a unique world that had a different tone, but one filled with everything we've come to expect from a cRPG: an epic story, exploration, mystery and plenty of side quests," says David Zakal, Director and Founder of GrapeOcean Technologies.
A huge world map with 2 countries (Isilmerald and Northern Realm), dozens of districts, settlements, villages and towns.
5 playable races (Human, Dwarf, Elf, Feldegug and Rillow).
13 unique classes from 4 class archetypes (Priest, Outlaw, Warrior, and Wizard).
Over 300,000 words of hand-crafted dialogue.
Traditional real-time tactical combat with pause.
An abundance of spells to wield and crafting to undertake, all combined with deep character progression.
Character actions impact greed, which directly affects the world around you.
An original world filled with diverse characters, creatures and biomes.
Fully voice-acted lead characters.
Nice to see another game funded via Kickstarter keep to their plan with Linux support. Another one to tick off our big list of crowdfunded titles. It has only just started off life and the developer mentions their plan to keep it in Early Access until at least Q1 2022.
Heroic Games Launcher has a fresh update released and it comes with some mighty fine new features, all in the name of making your Epic Store library easier to manage on Linux. All still unofficial of course, since the store doesn't support Linux directly.
With HGL version 1.10.1 it can now install parts of games that offer a selective download, you can run games using an "alternative" executable, available DLC will be listed along with a toggle to bring them all or not and you can actually check the download / install size before installing games now.
For Linux (and macOS) the launcher can now use Wine bottles made with CodeWeavers' CrossOver, there's a new option to enable / disable Esync/Fsync along with various tech upgrades behind the scenes and a good few bug fixes too.
Hopefully one day Epic will decide to actually bring their store to Linux, until then Heroic seems to do the job quite nicely.
A big celebration to be had for the folks working on ScummVM, the project that bundles together various game engines to allow you to play many older games easily on modern platforms. 20 years is a huge milestone for such a project, and it's a very important piece of open source tech for game preservation.
The release notes for 2.5.0 are long and impressive with plenty of new games supported including: Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, Myst 3: Exile, Little Big Adventure, Red Comrades 1: Save the Galaxy, Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice, Transylvania, Crimson Crown, OO-Topos, Glulx interactive fiction games, Lure of the Temptress Konami release, Private Eye, Spanish Blue Force, Spanish Ringworld, Spanish Amazon: Guardians of Eden, AGS Games versions 2.5+, Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy, The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time, Crusader: No Remorse, L-ZONE and Spaceship Warlock.
Plenty more improvements came with this release including better support for Unicode, the UI can adapt to HiDPI screens, enhanced support for a lot of localized releases.
If you act quickly there's a sale in celebration going on GOG until 1PM UTC today.
Bleeding Edge Software is a mysterious and strange puzzle game that acts like an average decision based card game, until you end up with too many errors.
At first, when starting up Bleeding Edge Software, you think you are just going to be taking on the role of a programmer, making decisions to keep the different stats at the top of the screen balanced. … Read More
Today in this post I will be talking about an issue that a lot of Far Cry 6 players are currently facing while playing the game on their PC. A lot of players are getting a Low Amount Of Available VRAM pop-up messages or warning notifications while playing the Far Cry 6 game. So, here […]
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My character awoke in the middle of a wide field in the dead of night. No light, save for the stars shining overhead, graced my presence. No glowing exclamation point urged me forward and no wild animals nipped at my heels. Book of Travels is an MMORPG, but not of the sort we're all familiar with. While I'm not entirely sold on it, I'm impressed by the art and the dedication to an idea that feels as foreign as it sounds. While much of it is built on recognizable frameworks, the end result is something that I simply haven't seen before. Book of Travels begins with you creating a character from a set of forms. These are archetypes, each with their pre-set looks. Your character doesn't have a filled-in backstory either. If you want one, you have to write it yourself. After settling on a form, you pick a name. Yes, pick. You don't appear to be able to create your own name from scratch and must randomly generate your first and last names separately, al... 
The Fall Steam Next Fest has come and gone. I honestly nearly missed it, had it not been for our editor-in-chief pointing out. Upon discovering the treasure trove of simulator demos, I scrambled to download over a dozen of them on Steam, spending the course of two days sampling each one. Much like my experience with this year's summertime Next Fest, I'm walking away from this one with a rotund wishlist and childlike eagerness to see more demos crop up, because the selection here was nothing short of ace. I managed to find five standout simulators in this Fall lineup from the Steam Next Fest demos selection. While I can't say there's one that's completely superior to the other, I can say that they each stand out for unique reasons. Either way, they're all certainly worth checking out properly once they're fully released. Airport Renovator – A pilot's playground Flight simulator titles are a dime-a-dozen out there. But, Airp... 
