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- Weekly Recap #262 Oct. 26th – Guild Wars 2, Duelyst, SWTOR & More!
- ELOA Closed Beta Impressions
- Dirty Bomb Stoker Role-Call
- H1Z1 Invitational Recap
- Dirty Bomb Containment War Update Drops In
- Gunscape to Deliver a Horrifying Shock to Systems
- Wakfu Raiders Gets Spooky This Halloween Week
- Elsword’s 11 Day Halloween Extravaganza Starts Now
- 37Games Throws a Halloween Party
- Gloria Victis Begins UI Overhaul Tests
| Weekly Recap #262 Oct. 26th – Guild Wars 2, Duelyst, SWTOR & More! Posted: 26 Oct 2015 05:27 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: TERA, Otherland, Wildstar, Skyforge, PlanetSide 2, Landmark, H1Z1, Guild Wars 2, Black Desert, Star Wars the Old Republic, Neverwinter, Albion Online, Duelyst, Robocraft & Dragomon Hunter! The post Weekly Recap #262 Oct. 26th – Guild Wars 2, Duelyst, SWTOR & More! appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2015 03:27 PM PDT The last few years I have played a lot of MMO’s, and most of them were fun but overall the same generic themes kept popping up. Either they looked the same, or the gameplay was similar. The spark you get when playing something new and different just wasn’t there. But last week this changed, I got to try out the ELOA (Elite Lord of Alliance) beta and got this special feeling back again; the feeling of playing something completely new was there and every minute was enjoyable. But why? ELOA is a game that intrigued me not because of its story or graphics, but because of the gameplay. The story isn’t really that interesting, and so there’s no need to get into great detail. The world is in chaos and you are someone that can make a difference and thus here you are. The game actually looks really good, and the graphics are definitely another big plus of the game. But some of my favorite games of all time look like they’re from the early 2000s so this wasn’t enough to win me over. ELOA is going to be known for its extremely fun gameplay and way the game is played.  The world is colorful and vibrant. When making your character you are able to choose between five different classes. You can choose between the Blood Knight, Mage, Sniper, Psychic and Assassin Warrior. While this sounds impressive, at the core these archetypes are the same classes you’d expect from an Anime MMORPG. Each class has three different specialties – I myself went with the Mage because I just love standing back and calculating the right spells and elements to lay waste to swaths of foes. My specialization options included Ignition, Ice, and Nemesis elements. Basically fire, water and electrical based attacks that you unlock after set levels. Eloa clearly isn’t the first hack n’ slash 3D isometric game to hit the market in the past 2 years. But it still stands strong on its own. The gameplay feels different. I don’t necessarily know how to explain it, but to me the game felt as smooth as as polished MOBA. The various skills utilize fun combat mechanics that keep the game action intensive, combined with smooth movement controls and satisfying hack and slash combat. The specialization doesn’t feel tacked on either, making your decision meaningful. You’ll utilize different attacks and spells, with a different weapon, bringing your own brand of utility to the battle, which as a result makes everyone feel like a more unique snowflake. Besides the eight different skills for each specialty, you also have a normal basic attack to attack your enemies with. For me as a mage, the basic spell with each specialty gave me mana back over time, so I had to use them as a part of my rotation. But when I didn’t use the basic attack, my mana depleted quickly, and I had to chug a mana potion quite frequently to keep going.  Pets make for an interesting break in gameplay. Most of the enemies you will find when questing are paired in groups, so most any enemy you attack is going to pull a decent sized group your way. Thus AoE spells are the rule of the land. By combining the different spells and specialties together, I produced quality rotation of AoE spells to bring down clumped packs of foes in a flash. Fighting your way through the many packs of monsters was as fun as you can imagine in a hack and slash game. Quests flowed faster since I was constantly downing monsters in groups, and the forced grouping of foes added difficulty to the combat to keep me on my toes. Hours flashed by as I became engrossed in the simple yet engaging battles. In ELOA you can also have a pet; currently there are a lot of different pets that you can have, and some of them are better than others. After a few quests I was given an egg as a quest reward, though I later found rarer eggs as random drops. I choose to hatch an egg and ended up with a small wolf. As you’d expect, pets learn their own skills and have different strengths and weaknesses. Perhaps most valuable was the wolf doubled as a mount, greatly speeding up travel time to quest objectives. Taking queues from mobile RPGS, the pet system allows you to combine pets to make them stronger. There’s plenty of variety of pets to experiment with to see what compliments your character’s built the best!  Even generic quests usually result in a big enough mob train to keep things exciting. In ELOA you can also have different crafting jobs, but each character is limited to one and thus you will have to make sure that you really want to stick with the one job you have chosen, or else start from scratch. Another big gameplay feature is the Player versus Player modes. In a hack and slash game, fighting other people is usually a lot of fun. As you might expect, it plays a huge role in ELOA. Since each character has a lot of different spell combinations and specialties that you can play around with, PvP constantly feels fresh. There’s enough skill involved with character placement, and enough variety of viable skill builds, that PvP stays fresh even after multiple battles. You can play arena battles with up to five people against five others and sometimes it can be a bit of a chaotic thing. Conclusion: Great 4/5 ELOA is a simple hack and slash game that stands strong within its genre. The gameplay is extremely fun and having to try out the different specialties with each class is a nice touch to a game like this. Paired with beautiful graphics I can already say that this game is going to be a big success. If you can look through the bad translations and a few other minor beta glitches, then ELOA is everything that you might look for in an Anime MMORPG. The gameplay itself is addicting enough that I see myself coming back to play some more at official launch. The closed beta is a success and the open beta is coming, if you are a hack and slash fan and love team PvP, you should definitely check ELOA out when the servers open up again. The post ELOA Closed Beta Impressions appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:21 PM PDT Introducing Dirty Bomb‘s Stoker, described as a “gentleman with a passion for incineration.” The post Dirty Bomb Stoker Role-Call appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:17 PM PDT Daybreak presents an official H1Z1 Invitational Recap with the best of the competition highlights. The post H1Z1 Invitational Recap appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Dirty Bomb Containment War Update Drops In Posted: 26 Oct 2015 02:07 PM PDT Dirty Bomb, the free-to-play online shooter developed by Splash Damage® Ltd., will launch its biggest update yet, "Containment War", on Wednesday. The update provides a wealth of new content for players, including a Molotov-wielding Mercenary equipped to resupply allies with a deployable ammo station, the all-new Execution mode and maps and the eagerly anticipated Dome map for Objective and Stopwatch, as well as limited-edition Containment War Loadout Cards to be collected and an updated profile page to show off your stats. As an added bonus, players who get in on the Dirty Bomb action between Wednesday, Oct. 28 and Wednesday, Nov. 4 will permanently unlock recently released medic Phoenix for free. Execution Mode is introduced in the Containment War update and features two new maps, Overground and Market. In this single-life mode, players battle it out over twelve rounds with the objective of eliminating the enemy team or destroying a section of the massive 'Containment Shield' by planting a bomb. The new content also includes the colossal Dome map for Objective and Stopwatch mode, and the addition of an all new Mercenary, Stoker, giving Dirty Bomb players the choice from among 17 Mercs to build out their squad. Some of the most recently added Mercs include:
Additionally, this update brings limited-edition event Loadout Cards, which provide Containment War character and weapon skins. The event cards are available for the 30 days following the release of the update, and can be obtained in three ways: CW Equipment Cases give a 3% chance of scoring a Containment War Loadout Card, CW Elite Cases have a 10% chance, or purchase a bundle of 10 Elite Cases for a bonus CW Event Case that guarantees a Containment War Loadout Card. While the Containment War Update is the biggest since the Dirty Bomb Open Beta began, new features and gameplay improvements have continually been added this year based on feedback from the community, including load-out card purchasing up to Bronze with in-game currency, matchmaking improvements and private matches, surrender & restart functionality, a report-a-player feature, a new anti-cheat system and more.
-Neil Alphonso, lead designer on Dirty Bomb The post Dirty Bomb Containment War Update Drops In appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Gunscape to Deliver a Horrifying Shock to Systems Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:56 PM PDT Just in time for Halloween, Blowfish Studios has announced Gunscape fans will have the opportunity to create, play and share their very own terrifying sci-fi levels with Seismic, the first piece of post-launch DLC planned for the first-person shooter and world-building hybrid. Players who download the theme will be able to construct and explore their very own space stations gone awry, complete with highly-aggressive escaped test animals, rampaging robots and mutated abominations. Featuring a number of sci-fi horror themed props, such as mutilated bodies, egg pods, terminals and a morally questionable A.I., players will have all of the tools they need to craft their own stories about what caused a normal space station to turn into a pocket of hell in space. The theme will also come with an assortment of exclusive weapons, including a Suffocation Glove that will essentially force choke biological enemies the longer they remain in players’ crosshairs, an EMP Glove that can stun mechanical enemies, a Space Pistol that fires a plasma blast with a small explosion on impact and any sci-fi themed content wouldn’t be complete without a Laser Sword. Gunscape is currently in Early Access on the PC, with the full version set to release simultaneously in Q1 2016 for PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Wii U, whereupon it will become the first game to offer sharable user made content across all of those platforms. The Seismic DLC will release three months after Gunscape and cost $3.99 for the whole pack, with each individual piece in the set costing between 15 and 70 cents. The post Gunscape to Deliver a Horrifying Shock to Systems appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Wakfu Raiders Gets Spooky This Halloween Week Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:43 PM PDT New content is now available for the mobile RPG Wakfu Raiders! For the next few weeks, Wakfu Raiders will be going through a festive Halloween season where all the dungeons and game world will be decorated with Jack O' Lanterns and other spooky designs. Players will also get to win new exclusive Halloween weapons for clearing out dungeons. On top of that, new features are also added in this spooktacular version of Wakfu Raiders. The update will introduce a new difficulty level for Crypt mode, a new recruiting item called a Summoner's Key, and a revamped unit user interface. Wakfu Raiders fans can also check out the recently released Chapter 9 and the newly-revamped combo system. This new update adds richer flavor to the Wakfu Raiders role-playing gaming experience. The post Wakfu Raiders Gets Spooky This Halloween Week appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Elsword’s 11 Day Halloween Extravaganza Starts Now Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:27 PM PDT KOG Games, a leading developer and publisher of popular free-to-play action MMORPGs, today announces the start of their yearly and highly anticipated Halloween Dungeon and Event launch. Obnoxiously sexy costumes, the visceral art of how best to throw away candy corn and the newest iteration of the “I know what you screamed last paranormal the 13th” movie aren’t the only things to look forward to this Halloween. Elsword‘s latest and greatest of Halloween merriment shines like the harrowing eyes of some unknown horror just outside your window, or an eerily pale, wailing, long-haired child crawling down the hallway towards you on its elbows at breakneck speed. Ok… well, it’s not that bad, but hey! Here’s what you need to know about Elsword’s new Halloween Dungeon ‘Candy House in the Woods’:
Aside from being axed in the noggin’ by some slasher fiend on the scariest night of the year, one of the most stressful things about Halloween is finding a costume. However, Elsword has you covered. Get in-game, don your costumes and take a jaunt through the candy-coated spooktacular new Elsword Halloween Dungeon. The post Elsword’s 11 Day Halloween Extravaganza Starts Now appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| 37Games Throws a Halloween Party Posted: 26 Oct 2015 01:01 PM PDT Any plans for this coming Halloween? Getting too old to knock on the next door neighbor’s door? Tired of going to a party, getting wasted, and not remembering your Halloween? How about joining the 37Games Halloween Party, it will be much more memorable and a fun way to celebrate the festival! From Oct. 23th to Nov. 7th, 37Games will throw a Halloween Party. As you can expect, there will be many games and tons of rewards to give out. Event 1. Mr. Pumpkin Eats Candy Event 2. Treat or Trick? Be Careful! Event 3. Exchange Halloween Packs Do you dare to join the party? Players from around the world are waiting for you! Join 37Games Halloween Party today: http://events.37.com/en/halloween/?cid=55&scid=A1mc The post 37Games Throws a Halloween Party appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Gloria Victis Begins UI Overhaul Tests Posted: 26 Oct 2015 12:43 PM PDT Gloria Victis has entered the final straight with the massive UI overhaul. The intensive final tests have been started few days ago, so the players can expect implementation of reworked inventory and guilds system, alongside with the new NPC shops interface, within the very next few weeks. The update greatly increases the game's interface functionality while making it much more user-friendly, as it introduces numerous features requested by players, i.e. an ability to expand the inventory space with additional bags and backpacks, a buy-back tab and the assortment filters in NPC shops window or a mouse-mode toggle. A character's statistics tab also have been refreshed, becoming more intuitive, as well as the guilds management window – once the update have been applied, players will be able to comfortably create their fractions. With implementation of this update, due to the database structure changes there will come a long-time awaited full wipe of characters. This is a great chance to join the game, as everyone will have a fresh start and servers will become much more populated. Meanwhile Gloria Victis is reworking the buffs system – when it's done, we will be able to implement the alchemic recipes, the weather system's impact on the characters and the heroes system, which will reward the most active players from each nation. The next step of improving the user experience will be reworking the crafting system, implementing the inheriting of the final product's properties after the specific materials used by a crafter. The post Gloria Victis Begins UI Overhaul Tests appeared first on MMOHuts. |
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