The ability to communicate with your team through voice chat is an important feature for PvP shooters, especially since stopping to type a message in the chatbox will almost always get you killed during a firefight. Unfortunately, the said feature is still missing from Crucible more than a month after it launched on Steam. The good news is that voice [...]
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Maintaining game balance is a never-ending task for PvP game developers, especially competitive ones like Valorant. Riot Games, however, has a different approach when it comes to rolling out balance changes. The studio says that they don't rely solely on metrics and data but also consider how the players feel about a particular Agent. “Game balance is something that every [...]
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Citadel Studios will temporarily be disabling the militia faction system in Legends of Aria at the end of the current season for undisclosed reasons and will instead be shifting their PvP development efforts to Chaos Zones and the new Arena Leagues. The militia merchant, however, will still be available in Belhaven for those with leftover militia talent points to spend. [...]
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Amazon Game Studios has just dropped more information about war hammers in New World in a new Twitter thread. Last week, we got a glimpse of some of the war hammers available in the upcoming 17th century survival MMORPG. This time around, we take a closer look at the pros and cons of wielding these massive harbingers of destruction. According [...]
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Echtra Games has announced the official release date of Act 3 of their recently-released Torchlight game, Torchlight 3. Act 3, called Echonok, will feature the new Mt. Echonok zone along with new story content, new environments, and new dungeons where Novastraia’s defenders will get to face off against new enemies and bosses that drop new Echonok-themed loot. “Players exploring Echonok [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #251 June 29, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #251 - June 29, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending June 29, 2020. This is episode 251 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games covered this week were: [...]
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The Dragon Quest golems are returning to Final Fantasy XIV with the return of the Dragon Quest crossover event. The event will run from July 2nd through July 27th and, like previous iterations, will task players with taking on several FATEs featuring the iconic golems. “Typically forged of stone and clay, the magical monstrosities known as golems once served myriad [...]
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Delayed launches and updates have become more common these past few months as video game developers adjusted to the remote working conditions because of the pandemic. Normally, this wouldn’t be a big problem unless you’re working on a strict development schedule like Grinding Gear Games. Apparently, the one week delay in rolling out the Path of Exile Harvest expansion has [...]
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Nexon has just opened global pre-registrations for their upcoming PC and mobile MMORPG, V4. The UE4-powered game features full cross-play support between PC and mobile devices, 6 playable classes, a massive 300-player raid, PvP, and an in-depth customization system. There’s still no word of an official launch date but there’s no harm in signing-up especially since you’ll be getting an [...]
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A new co-op survival ARPG called Gatewalkers has just popped up on Steam from Polish indie developer A Square Softworks. The game features procedural-generated maps, four-player co-op, an equipment-based open class system, crafting, and team-based survival gameplay. “As a Gatewalker, one of the chosen few, you can go through the Gate and explore the worlds that lay on the other [...]
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