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- Overwatch – First Look & Gameplay
- Luna Online: Reborn Beta Key Giveaway
- World of Tanks Console – Environmental Accumulation Effect
- SMITE Skadi God Review
- One Tower
- RuneScape Behind the Scenes: The Heart of Gielinor
- Heroes of the Storm Preview: Dehaka, Shogun Artanis, & More
- Smite SPL 2016 Bellona Skin
- Rogue Stormers Launch Delayed to April 21
- Blazblue Chronophantasma EXTEND Steam Release First Look
| Overwatch – First Look & Gameplay Posted: 18 Mar 2016 04:59 PM PDT Overwatch – First Look & Gameplay Overwatch is a team-based multiplayer shooter from Blizzard Entertainment, representing a completely new IP from the developer. Set in an advanced future earth, an international task force known as the Overwatch has left a legacy in a world that still needs heroes. Currently the gameplay consists of 6v6 battles in two game modes. Overwatch features a wide array of unique heroes, ranging from a time-jumping adventurer, to an armored, rocket-hammer-wielding warrior, to a transcendent robot monk. Every hero plays differently, and mastering their abilities is the key to unlocking their potential. No two heroes are the same! This is a buy to play game developed by Blizzard Entertainment set to launch May 24th. Pre-purchases are now available which will grand you early access May 3rd – 4th with open beta May 5th – 9th. The post Overwatch – First Look & Gameplay appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Luna Online: Reborn Beta Key Giveaway Posted: 18 Mar 2016 04:07 PM PDT MMOHuts has partnered with Suba Games to celebrate the return of Luna Online: Reborn with a beta key giveaway! Luna Online: Reborn is an anime themed MMORPG set in the cute fantasy world of Blueland. The game is a remake of the popular Luna Online, now published by Suba Games. It provides adjustments to original content that remove any negative experience gamers reported about Luna Plus. Furthermore, we’ve added in new Realm Vs Realm & Real Time Ranking Systems that are certain to provide a new meaning to gaining dominance over Luna castle. Features: To Use Your Key In-Game:
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| World of Tanks Console – Environmental Accumulation Effect Posted: 18 Mar 2016 02:43 PM PDT Wargaming demonstrates the new Environmental Accumulation Effect for World of Tanks on consoles. The post World of Tanks Console – Environmental Accumulation Effect appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2016 01:55 PM PDT Smite's Season 3 has officially begun! Lots of fun stuff arrived in the 3.4 Patch, titled "Winter's Bite," but the big takeaway is a new Norse Goddess! Skadi, Goddess of Winter. Along with Kaldr, her trusty wolf, she's a unique and powerful new Hunter here to show that a Hunter doesn't need to jump around like a Mexican Jumping Bean to be viable in the meta. I'm not the greatest Hunter, but even I can plow through people with icy spears, an infuriating kit, and tons of damage; Skadi is packing heat, if you'll pardon the expression. She's rated as "Hard" Difficulty, but I don't really see it. She's easy to get used to, but I suppose the hard difficulty is in reference to the insanely tricky stuff you can pull off if you really play your keyboard like a piano. A few pros to Skadi:
Her kit is pretty simple from the outset. Her passive is "Kaldr, the Winter Wolf". When it's active using her "2" it's in Beast Form, has half of Skadi's AS, and 110% of her Move Speed. He has his own HP, and loses 1 HP per 5 minion hits, and 1 HP per 1 ability/attack from a God. When he runs out of HP, he retreats and takes on an Elemental Form, regenning 1 HP every 10 seconds. It's interesting to note that her Ultimate, "Winter's Grasp" restores Kaldr to full HP, so I tend to use him to catch someone out, and when he dies, set up for my Ultimate to give him another round. Think Bastet's cats coming back as zombie cats you can't kill the second time. Yea nightmare fuel. Her 1 is "Piercing Cold," a straight line spear throw. It does a considerable amount of damage [baseline damage +80% of her physical power], has a ridiculous slow of 3 seconds, but does have a 15 second cooldown. You can't really spam it with that high cooldown, and for most of the game likely wouldn't have enough mana to anyway. While Kaldr is in Beast Mode and her 1 is active on a God, he deals double damage, so make use of it! Her 2 is "Rune of the Hunt," and is the power that activates Kaldr. It can be used with 0 ranks, but ranking it up adds new powers to Kaldr. Rank 1 adds a dash attack, 3 lets him heal off kills, and 5 makes his attacks grant Move Speed to Skadi. It has no mana cost and a very low cooldown, meaning the only consideration to sending him in is if you want to risk losing his HP early. I also tend to use it on minions to really push if I have no threat in the area. It's fun to pit him against the end of the minion wave as a threat to anyone who might try and push on the mighty Skadi. Her 3, "Permafrost," could very well be an Ultimate on its own. For 5 seconds, a pool of ice lays on the ground. Skadi gains move speed while on it, but Gods who step on it hurdle in the direction they are moving, losing control. It also deals damage, and for every .5 seconds they are on it, the enemy takes damage. How can you make this last longer? ODIN. BACCHUS. BODY BLOCKING. Trap them in the ice and punish them, or make them drunk and slippery. Team comps built around control of the fight will synergize nicely with her. It's worth noting that fast players can use a jump skill to get out of this frozen hell asap, so against skilled opponents you might want to wait till they blow their escape skill before tripping them up. And finally, "Winter's Grasp." A Snowstorm surrounds Skadi and Kaldr, and enemies in range of it are rooted immediately. The storms last for five seconds; Kaldr is immune to damage for the duration and regains full hp. The radius of each circle is decent sized, and takes up the full lane when in close quarters and ven diagraming in coordination with your wolf. If Kaldr is already out and about, it can mean bad bad things for someone that happens to offend Skadi. Her kit practically exists for control and dominance, so building your team around that notion will grant a lot of power that can't be easily contained. One great item for her can be Transcendence, giving more mana to let her spam her abilities without having to leave lane/consume mana pots. As far as Relics go, Purification, Blink, and Sanctuary are my go-tos, or Sprint if I really want to get into the thick of it. If the enemy team isn't packing CC, I don't waste time with Purification and just go for aggressive relics. Crowd Control is key with Skadi. So Frostbound Hamer is probably my most used item. Midgardian Mail is great too late game if the enemy carry is getting out of hand, or an assassin won't leave you alone. Jotuun's, Ichaival, or if you're really trying to push, grab Odysseus' Bow instead. Asi and Qin's Sais are key for Life Steal and Attack Speed, but I would not forget the Hammer. Bulwark of Hope is probably my favorite defensive item on her, or Magi's Blessing if the enemy comp is built for wombo combos. Anything that helps me initiate instead of being initiated on is a solid purchase as Skadi excels at winning the fights she picks. What do I think of Skadi? Love her! I don't really like many of the Hunters in the game (I'm more a guardian player), but Skadi has some tricky moves, lots of synergy with a variety of Gods, and can do more than just Hunt. I've seen streams of her going into the jungle, and just absolutely wrecking whole teams. The Smite professional player and streamer "weak3n" had this to say: "Skadi is the strongest god in the game," and I'm not going to dispute that. With little knowledge of what I was doing, I could go into Arena, or Joust, or whatever map I want and just drop snowy assbeatings onto my foes. Skadi's got the moves, and definitely brings the pain. I see her being a huge force in the 3v3 Ranked scene, being able to duel any Hunter thanks to her CC and Kaldr. Be sure to join us tonight, March 18th, for a livestream with Skadi starting at 5pm PT. We’ll be giving out codes to unlock her and other new skins on Bottom Tier stream! Or enter our forum event for a chance to win codes in our raffle! The post SMITE Skadi God Review appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2016 01:08 PM PDT One Tower is a fantasy MOBA title by SkyReacher. Focusing on one-on-one battles instead of team battles, One Tower contains unique gameplay mechanics such as controlling minion waves, power pick ups and more. Features: More control: Why only control one hero? Players in One Tower can control how their minions fight during a match instead of letting them mindlessly walk down lanes in like other MOBAs. RTS style: Choose from different RTS unit types including melee, ranged, siege, air and more. Simplistic but balanced No more going through hundreds of item descriptions in an item shop to create the perfect build only to have your items nerfed in a game update. Quick to play: Matches last from six to fifteen minutes, perfect for casual gamers on a coffee break or gamers that are generally short on time.
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| RuneScape Behind the Scenes: The Heart of Gielinor Posted: 18 Mar 2016 12:43 PM PDT RuneScape goes behind the scenes this week to look at the Heart of Gielinor, the second God Wars Dungeon coming later in March. The post RuneScape Behind the Scenes: The Heart of Gielinor appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Heroes of the Storm Preview: Dehaka, Shogun Artanis, & More Posted: 18 Mar 2016 12:34 PM PDT Heroes of the Storm shows a development preview of Dehaka, Shogun Artanis, and more. The post Heroes of the Storm Preview: Dehaka, Shogun Artanis, & More appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Posted: 18 Mar 2016 12:23 PM PDT Smite previews the SPL 2016 Bellona Skin, part of the Season 3 Ticket. The post Smite SPL 2016 Bellona Skin appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Rogue Stormers Launch Delayed to April 21 Posted: 18 Mar 2016 12:06 PM PDT Black Forest Games, developers of the hit Giana Sisters series, announce today that they’re forced to keep the lunatics in their cages for a little bit longer. The Steam release of their run’n’gunning, twin stick shootin’, multiplayer game Rogue Stormers will be delayed to April 21st, 2016. “We’re using the extra time to make sure Rogue Stormers launches with maximum polish. Our Early Access players know exactly how much content there is in the game–and with the final release we’ve added even more,” said Adrian Goersch, Managing Director of Black Forest Games. “Releasing Rogue Stormers with sub-par game balance was simply not acceptable to us.” Early Access players will get a sneak-peek into the current, almost-final release during a special Easter Event. From Good Friday to Easter Monday (03/24 – 03/28), owners of Rogue Stormers on Steam will be able to access the exclusive preview. Players will need to activate it in the game’s properties in the Steam library (select “Preview – Easter Preview Event”). The post Rogue Stormers Launch Delayed to April 21 appeared first on MMOHuts. |
| Blazblue Chronophantasma EXTEND Steam Release First Look Posted: 18 Mar 2016 11:37 AM PDT Blazblue Chronophantasma EXTEND arrives on PC at last! Ragachak and ColtronXL dive in to see how it plays, and just what the heck the craziest title from ArcSys yet brings to the genre. Want more? Check out Ragachak’s full review. The post Blazblue Chronophantasma EXTEND Steam Release First Look appeared first on MMOHuts. |
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