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- Weekly Recap #261 Oct. 19th – Black Desert, HeroWarz, Overwatch & More!
- Stronghold Kingdoms Global Conflict Pack Giveaway
- RuneScape Patch Notes #93
- Brawlhalla Legend Reveal: Barraza
- Sword Art Online: Lost Song NYCC 2015 Story Trailer
- Warframe – Update 18 NYCC Review
- Sword Coast Legends Launch Review
- Star Trek Online’s Design Your Ship Ends Thursday
- X-Mercs Launch Trailer
- Fedeen Games Announces Forsaken World Mobile: Babel Ascending
| Weekly Recap #261 Oct. 19th – Black Desert, HeroWarz, Overwatch & More! Posted: 19 Oct 2015 07:09 PM PDT A quick look and discussion for every major announcement and update during the week! This week we discussed updates from the following games: WildStar, HeroWarz, Black Desert, Tree of Savior, Elite Lord of Alliance, Devilian, Cabal II, Dragomon Hunter, Echo of Soul, Overwatch, Warframe, Dungeon Defenders II, Brawlhalla & Marvel Heroes 2015! The post Weekly Recap #261 Oct. 19th – Black Desert, HeroWarz, Overwatch & More! appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Stronghold Kingdoms Global Conflict Pack Giveaway Posted: 19 Oct 2015 03:53 PM PDT MMOHuts has partnered with Firefly Worlds to welcome new players into Stronghold Kingdoms with a key unlocking multiple resource packs and more! Join thousands of players online as you expand your medieval village and construct a mighty castle to protect it: farm peacefully, engage in political mind games, seek vengeance on your sworn enemies or lead your armies to glory across a map of medieval Europe. Rule as you desire and become a feudal Lord! Siege other players, battle AI opponents, research new weaponry, forge alliances in player Factions and fight for the eternal glory of your House. The Global Conflict Pack Includes:
Note: One account can only redeem one summer pack of any variety. To Redeem Your Key: The post Stronghold Kingdoms Global Conflict Pack Giveaway appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2015 02:48 PM PDT Mod Lee’s back for another week of RuneScape patch notes. The patch notes for October 19 are available here. The post RuneScape Patch Notes #93 appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Brawlhalla Legend Reveal: Barraza Posted: 19 Oct 2015 01:42 PM PDT Brawlhalla reveals Baraza, the latest legend to arrive in game – wielding axes and blasters. The post Brawlhalla Legend Reveal: Barraza appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Sword Art Online: Lost Song NYCC 2015 Story Trailer Posted: 19 Oct 2015 01:30 PM PDT A new story and a new guild come to Sword Art Online: Lost Song for PlayStation4 and PSVita. The post Sword Art Online: Lost Song NYCC 2015 Story Trailer appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Warframe – Update 18 NYCC Review Posted: 19 Oct 2015 01:20 PM PDT Guest contribution Digital Extremes, developers of Warframe, are working hard on update 18 and have been releasing some intentional leaks about the upcoming content. Update 18 will hit PC players before the end of the year, bringing new cinematic quests, new tiles set on the Moon, a new faction, and reworks to the login and chat systems. At NYCC 2015 developers announced two new Warframes that are going to be released. The first is an archer-themed Warframe (name unknown) which will bring some new mechanics to the table. For example, she can control the projectile’s trajectory, loot item from living enemies (in the Robin Hood style of robbing from the rich to give to the poor), and use a toxin generator in her arm. Her ultimate will use her bow, which uses similar mechanics like Mesa’s pistols and Ashes’ blades. The second Warframe to come out will be Wukong, which had been leaked a few weeks earlier. His kit is developed around the lore of Wukong, the Monkey King from eastern culture. This Warframe has a release date which is some day in November. All in all, Digital Extremes are working hard to bring new content and quality of life tweaks which will help new and veteran players. The post Warframe – Update 18 NYCC Review appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Sword Coast Legends Launch Review Posted: 19 Oct 2015 01:02 PM PDT Dungeons and Dragons: Sword Coast Legends had a bit of a setback and pushed the release date back to Oct. 20th, which may have upset some players who were in the Head Start/Early Access, but not me. I understand full well what it takes to make a game polished and good. Is it perfect yet? Not in my eyes, but it's still a blast to play, and the DM tools make for an amazing way to get your D&D group together and adventure, even hundreds of miles away in a more action-packed setting. In the Head Start you don't get access to the campaign or anything like that though; just Dungeon Crawl Mode and DM mode, which allows you to build modules (one shot adventures) for other players to download and play. Some require a DM to run them, most of the ones I have seen do not. I really wanted to peek at the story though, I did. And badly! But I did mess around a lot with Dungeon Crawl, deciding that I had a rough time going solo, so I coaxed/wheedled/demanded my editor, MissyS (who I deputized as a member of Bottom Tier) to play with me. After some time, we learned what it means to utilize teamwork.  Exhibit A: Teamwork. But what do I think, as someone who has played Dungeons and Dragons for well over a decade and a half? Love it. It's not perfect, but neither is tabletop gaming. There are still some kinks to work out, and there are without a doubt things that drive me insane with anger about it. But at the end of the day, it's a loving tribute to "Neverwinter Nights," one of the most famous PC games to be set in Faerun. To be fair though, quite a few successful D&D game has been set there (Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter, Baldur's Gate) so it's not a bad idea to use such a well-established world, rich with lore. The game is beautiful. The setting in the dungeons of all shades is foreboding, echoing creatures and monsters when they're nearby is intense; the lighting is mostly dim. The character dialogue is a little corny, but I expect that in a way, in a traditional D&D game. I have one major, intense, unavoidable gripe: WHY CAN WE NOT REST IN A CAMP? Seriously, WOTC? Come on guys. The way the game stands now in Dungeon Mode, you have to run back into a dungeon and die to get full health back. That infuriates me. You are in a "safe" camp as they say in the description. Why the hell can't I heal there without spending money on a healing potion/having a cleric around? The game is essentially a dungeon crawl, which is good and bad. Good in that it's a lot of fun to run amok through a dungeon with your friends, even if there's suddenly a Vampire that explodes your party without warning or provocation. I still find myself having a boatload of fun. But I'd like to see the DM mode have options to make forest areas, oceanside, whatever. Maybe that's coming, maybe it just isn't in the Headstart. But there are lots of dungeon options to run through which I thought was pretty cool. You can even set quest objectives and random rewards (weapon, armor, trinket) for the completing of those in Dungeon Crawl. They are pretty standard quests, gather x item, kill y amounts of enemies, defeat the boss. You can make the dungeons be multiple levels and as I said, you can drop a boss in it, and the bosses hurt. Be advised.  Collecting three metal scraps in a mine is harder than one would think. Even though it's a dungeon crawl, it has story, and the DM mode can create storylines, villages/towns to start things off in. I've already seen people start up Campaigns/Chronicles via Modules, labeling them as part 1, promising more in a telltale style fashion. You can make simple, Monty Hall Dungeons (Lots and lots and lots of loot) to help players get geared. You can warn people what the level requirement is, or you can surprise them before your forces demolish the hapless adventurers, like what happened to me and MissyS. There are so many interesting things you can do with DM mode, and it allows for DMs across the world to share their creations with other groups of players/friends which honestly fills me with delight. My D&D party is separated by a wide gap, and this could help us have fun like we used to without using third party programs. This could really let our DM flex his muscle. Sword Coast Legends offers a plethora of options to entertain or punish your friends and loved ones, and that's what D&D is really all about. But what makes this game pretty unique is the attention to detail. When you are playing a character like a Rogue, or Ranger, you can search/detect traps. A circle appears on the ground and you move slower. As a trap shows up in that range, you can disarm it, and generally players within it are pretty safe. If you get too close/make noise near enemies, they agro. Enemies hurt, a lot. Another negative (but it makes sense for this title) is that loot isn't shared. When bodies have gear, whoever gets to it first gets it. Sure, you can drop it, tell everyone what fell, but if you want to be that guy, you totally can. Gold is shared automatically though, which is good. It's a definite authentic feeling game.  All the fun (and frustration) of D&D character building is here. Unlike traditional D&D, you have skill trees for each character, with skills, passive and active costing different points depending on what rank it is of that ability (if it has ranks), the power of it, et cetera. I really like how many options each character type has, so you can play virtually however you want. I take some skills from Two Handed fighter, some from the Protection tree, some from the Great Weapon fighter tree, whatever I feel like I need really. I also like/hate the Point-Buy system the game uses. Point-Buy is a traditional character building tool for D&D, where each point you put in a stat costs a set amount of points, growing the higher you go. The character creation is incredibly accurate; you pick a race (subclass sometimes), class, you pick starting gear and a background for the character. The various backgrounds change your gold though; Noble gets more than anyone at 800g I believe. You can write an actual background in your character creation though which I absolutely love. It does however generate one based on choices you made in creation anyway. Roll For Initiative: Improved Initiative Score: Great (4/5) Honestly, I love this game. It's basically everything I've wanted in a Dungeons and Dragons game since Neverwinter Nights. In a lot of ways, I view it as a spiritual successor to the series, taking place in the same world, with many of the same important NPCs likely still alive and influencing the world. Are there things I hope I see in it? Yes. Lots of Drow, Beholders, perhaps Obuld Many-Arrows, the Orc Chief-turned Diety. You know what I hope I don't see? Drizzt. But that's not relevant to this review. I'm looking forward to seeing the community explode with scenarios at release, and there's one thing really ticking in my head about it. It has "Modules, as I said above. But with that in mind, is Wizards of the Coast going to release their own Modules/stories on Sword Coast Legends, and if so, will they be free? Will they give players a chance to use this game to publish their own created campaigns? There is a lot of potential to create/share terrific stories, and I've seen some real winners so far. Dungeons and Dragons: Sword Coast Legends is the real deal. 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| Star Trek Online’s Design Your Ship Ends Thursday Posted: 19 Oct 2015 12:40 PM PDT On September 24, Star Trek Online players were asked to assist with construction of a brand-new starship with the Design Your Ship contest. Players were able to vote for their favorite designs on Twitter, Facebook and the STO forums and the top contenders have competed against each other in a single-elimination voting tournament. Thousands upon thousands of votes came pouring in and now only two ship designs remain, Alpha and Omega. Final round voting begins today and ends this Thursday, October 24 at midnight (PST). Find out more information here! The post Star Trek Online’s Design Your Ship Ends Thursday appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2015 11:23 AM PDT Game Insight launches its first mobile MMO, X-Mercs, a sci-fi strategy title. The post X-Mercs Launch Trailer appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Fedeen Games Announces Forsaken World Mobile: Babel Ascending Posted: 19 Oct 2015 11:00 AM PDT The next few months just got a whole lot more exciting for fans of Forsaken World Mobile! Publisher Fedeen Games has announced the arrival of Babel Ascending, a feature-filled update that’s bursting with content. Chief among the new additions is the brand-new Babel dungeon. This imposing tower includes 100 action-packed floors ready to challenge players like never before. With loads of loot and legions of enemies, the legendary tower will put even the most skilled players to the test. Complementing the new trials in the Babel Tower dungeons are three new World Bosses as well. Players around the world are encouraged to team up and take down these gargantuan foes, reaping tons of rewards along the way. But it’s not all fire and blood for Forsaken World Mobile. Fedeen is happy to reveal that players will now be able to forge in-game marriages with the new wedding system. There’s always been plenty of swordplay and spell-slinging to be found, but now it’ll be balanced by romance – and perhaps even true love. More updates coming soon regarding Forsaken World Mobile: Babel Ascending, coming later this year. The post Fedeen Games Announces Forsaken World Mobile: Babel Ascending appeared first on MMOHuts. |
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