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A post to the Bethesda.net
Forums outlines the changes in a multiplayer balance patch that went live
today in DOOM, id Software's new shooter. They also explain the reasoning
for the update and give details on the next game patch, which they expect by the
end of the month: We hope you’ve been enjoying your time playing DOOM!
It’s been less than a month since launch, but the team at id Software has been
hard at work preparing to deploy DOOM’s next game update, which will arrive
later this month.
In the meantime, today we are releasing a multiplayer improvement update for
DOOM. This includes rebalancing of some multiplayer weapons based on your
feedback: the Chaingun, Rocket Launcher, and Combat Shotgun. This update will
also reduce the wait time between matches to 60 seconds. Last but not least,
Clan Arena and Freeze Tag will now require the winning team to complete 5 rounds
in order to win the match. The multiplayer improvement update will begin today
at 10:30 ET —this is a server-side update, and will not require a download,
though it will require a server outage, which we anticipate will be about an
hour. As always, we appreciate your feedback and we hope you’ll continue to let
us know your thoughts.
For DOOM’s next game update, we will be releasing the patch notes later this
month, which will include several improvements and features. We thought it was
important to share some of those improvements with you now:
- Added Photo Mode for taking in-game screenshots
- Added Classic DOOM weapon placement/view model
option (1st person view option)
- Added new Snapmap features (including skybox
windows) and AI pathing and logic fixes.
- Fixed various bugs including players accidentally
triggering Dev Mode and Trophy/Achievement bugs (IDKFA, Every Nook and
Cranny).
These are just a few of the improvements and fixes coming later this month,
but we wanted to provide an update as soon as we could. Thank you all for your
continued support. We greatly appreciate you taking the time to provide your
feedback. We hope you’re enjoying your time in-game and we can’t wait to share
more with you soon.
World of Tanks website announces the launch of a Tank Football 2016 event, a
return of their association football/soccer-themed competition bound to put a
rocket league in your pocket.
This trailer offers a
look at how this works, though the intro seems a little drawn out since we've
already spilled the beans on the mode. Here's word: It’s time for
kick-off in World of Tanks. The special Tank Football 2016 event is now live, so
lace up those boots and take to the battlefield in 3-vs-3 matches. Putting its
own twist on the beautiful game, two teams race around the pitch to be the first
to score three goals in a seven minute match.
Tank Football 2016 is scheduled to run for around a month. During the event, all
players will be credited the unique T-62a Sport (T-62a S) with a free Garage
slot. To join the event, all you have to do is select your T-62a S and click the
Battle! button.
“You may think Tank Football 2016 is a reincarnation of what we had a couple of
years ago,” said Anton Pankov, World of Tanks Global Publishing Producer.
“However, the game has gone through a lot of changes since then. Tank Football
2016 sticks to the classic 3-vs-3 format, but the new game physics give you a
lot more control to pull off great moves. With a new overtime mechanic
implemented, games are now even more exciting because there’s no chance of a
draw. Every match will have a winner.”
Continue here to read the full story.
Here's the E3 2016 trailer
for Call of Cthulhu, Cyanide Studios' upcoming adaptation of the
pen-and-paper game based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The theme of the clip
is: "insanity is the only path for truth," which probably makes perfect sense if
you are insane. Here's more: Cyanide Studio brings to life a disturbing
world that players will have to explore and investigate while Cthulhu, the Great
Dreamer, prepares its awakening. Today's E3 Trailer offers but a glimpse at all
that awaits you.
In Call of Cthulhu, players will control Edward Pierce, a former veteran and
private investigator in 1920s Boston. Pierce will be investigating the tragic
and mysterious death of Sarah Hawkins and her family in Darkwater Island. The
game's E3 Trailer showcases this disturbing Island and the eerie Hawkins Family
Mansion, and gives a glimpse at how the intensity of the investigation will
slowly start chipping away at your Sanity.
A tweet
from Titanfall offers a teaser trailer from a longer video they plan to
release on Sunday from Titanfall 2, the upcoming multiplayer, mech
shooter sequel. There's not much to see: the clip is 12 seconds, but half of
that is logos. Thanks
VG247.
Following
the release of the Paragon
Essentials Edition with paid access, Epic Games now reveals August 16th is when
to expect open beta testing to begin for Paragon, Epic's first-person MOBA. They
also unveil Khaimera will be the next character to join the game, saying he's "a
dual axe wielding melee fighter and Paragon’s first duelist, a Hero that excels
at isolating targets and disrupting team fights with close-up encounters." They
offer this trailer
showing him off, and say he will join early access on June 21st. Finally, Epic
announces a bunch of planned changes for the game, including an all-new draft
mode. The
Paragon blog has all the details. Continue here to read the full story.
Funcom announces September 13th is when they plan to open Early Access to
Conan Exiles, Funcom's barbaric MMORPG. The game's
Steam page is now
online, and
offers a post pointing to a
reddit
AMA with Joel Bylos discussing the project. They also offer a
new trailer showing
off pre-alpha footage from the game.
This post has Funcom's perspective on the news: "We’re very excited (and a
bit nervous) about launching our first Early Access title," said Funcom CEO Rui
Casais. "The team wants to give the players the best possible experience, and
while we are used to working on a game for several years before letting players
in, this time around we will let players in just nine months after development
started! [...]" Continue here to read the full story.
Capcom Unity announces details on plans to patch Street Fighter V,
revealing plans for more major updates for the fighting game sequel. This covers
plans for in-game currency changes and content update, including a major story
expansion coming this month that adds three to four hours of content to the
game. Here's word on that: The SFV Story Expansion is a 3~4 hour
experience titled “A Shadow Falls” and will be released at the end of this month
as free DLC to all SFV players. The 5 chapter story takes place between Street
Fighter IV and Street Fighter III and bridges the events that happen in between
the two stories. This is the first time in franchise history that fans will be
able to play through this type of cinematic experience in a Street Fighter game.
The Street Fighter V Cinematic Story Expansion, “A Shadow Falls,” depicts the
ultimate battle between the evil Shadaloo organization and the heroic World
Warriors who rise up against them. Seven “Black Moons” are deployed by Shadaloo,
granting M. Bison unimaginable power and enveloping the earth in total darkness.
Seeing the moons mysteriously appear in the sky, Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li embark on
an epic journey around the world to retrieve fragment pieces that are the key to
stopping the “Black Moons” before it’s too late. Along the way, they encounter
the rest of the World Warriors, each of whom have their own agendas and
motivations in mind. The final battle between good and evil begins now… who will
RISE UP?
The next related piece of awesome news: all six DLC characters are fully
playable in the story mode. That’s right, in addition to Alex, Guile, and Ibuki,
that means that Balrog, Urien, and Juri are also playable! The official release
of these characters will not be until later in the year, which means everyone
will get to play them in advance through this mode. For the DLC characters that
haven’t been released at the time the story comes out, those characters
shouldn’t be considered final or tournament ready, as they still need to be
properly polished and balanced. So, think of this as a free preview of the
characters and enjoy playing with them before they get officially released in
the other competitive game modes.
Finally, you’ll be able to earn Fight Money from completing the story mode as
well! A higher difficulty becomes unlocked after clearing the normal mode, which
you can also earn extra Fight Money from:
Normal Mode= 30,000 FM
Extra Mode*= 50,000 FM
TOTAL= 80,000 FM
*Extra Mode (higher difficulty) unlocks after you complete Normal mode
Here's another trailer
from Total War: WARHAMMER, showing off more of the fantasy-themed
strategy game. This focuses on end-game content, and they kick things off with a
warning that this could potentially spoil things for some players. Here's word
on The Everchosen vs. The Everwatcher trailer: "Featuring two very powerful
Chaos armies, this climactic late-game battle highlights the awesome power of
Sarthorael the Everwatcher. Massive in size and with devastating melee attacks
thanks to his magical staff, he also wields the devastating Lore of Metal,
making him more than a match for even the most powerful Legendary Lords." Continue here to read the full story.
Here's the E3 trailer
from The Technomancer, the upcoming science fiction RPG. The game requires you
to get your ass to Mars, and the clip shows off the setting, calling it a
"barren wasteland," in spite of the fact that it seems heavily populated by exotic space creatures, humans, and Tracer's sister. Here's
word: The Technomancer, the sci-fi RPG set on Mars, releases on June 28
for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Today we're showcasing the game's E3
Trailer, driven by the Frijid Pink's legendary cover of the rock classic "House
of the Rising Sun". Delve into the chaotic world of Mars, a planet that is torn
by war and political conflict.
Mars is a barren wasteland that is home to the forgotten children of Earth. On
the surface, warring corporations fight wars from their massive domed cities for
one resource: water. Underground, hidden between the crags or in unexplored
valleys, you will face factions struggling for their own profit, or mutants
permanently changed by the sun's radiation and hated by the rest of humankind.
Continue here to read the full story.
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Battles of Norghan -- Steam Greenlight. "Battles of Norghan is a truly
unique fantasy turn-based strategy game with RPG and team managing elements.
Imagine a football manager game with fantasy world creatures such as orcs,
drakes and minotaurs and turn-based strategy battles instead of football
matches. There's also spells to learn and use and equipment to buy along
with training your team. This game has a lot of depth and replayability."
Here's a trailer.
My doctor's appointment went fine yesterday, though I have no answers yet. As I
touched on already, the medical profession is not really geared towards assuming
the patient knows what's wrong, so I'm a little vindicated that after an examination
he decided he wanted to draw blood to do a Lyme titer, which is what I wanted
them to do in the first place. I'm feeling almost 100% better now, and I don't
know what that means in terms of the likelihood that I am actually, ill, but
considering the consequence of ignoring Lyme, I feel happy to have gotten
tested. I should have results by Monday at the latest.
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