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Now that we know the release for the next expansion coming to Blizzard’s popular free-to-play game, the new cards are just becoming more and more exciting as they’re released to the public.
Here’s the ones that have been revealed this week:
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Blood Warriors
Spell, 3 mana cost.
Adds a copy of each damaged friendly Minion to your hand.
Mire Keeper
Minion, 3 Attack, 3 Health, 4 mana cost.
Choose One: Summons a 2/2 Slime OR Gain an empty Mana Crystal.
Ravaging Ghoul
Minion, 3 Attack, 3 Health, 3 mana cost.
Battlecry: Deal 1 damage to all other Minions.
Blood of the Ancient One
Minion, 9 Attack, 9 Health, 9 mana cost.
If you control two of these Minions at the end of your turn – merge into ‘The Ancient One’.
The Ancient One
Minion, 30 Attack, 30 Health, 9 mana cost.
Spreading Madness
Spell, 3 mana cost.
Deal 9 damage randomly split among ALL characters.
Cho’Gall
Legendary Minion, 7 Attack, 7 Health, 7 mana cost.
Battlecry: The next spell you cast will cost Health instead of Mana.
Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End
Legendary Minion, 7 Attack, 5 Health, 10 mana cost.
Battlecry: Cast a random spell for each spell you’ve already cast this game, with randomly chosen targets.
It’s been a couple of weeks since the Fallout 4 Automatron DLc dropped on all platforms and I’ve been feverishly adding automatrons to all my settlements since then.
“The mysterious Mechanist has unleashed a horde of evil robots into the Commonwealth, including the devious Robobrain. Hunt them down and harvest their parts to build and mod your own custom robot companions. Choose from hundreds of mods; mixing limbs, armor, abilities, and weapons like the all-new lightning chain gun. Even customize their paint schemes and choose their voices!”
Automatron is a four mission DLC that kicks off at level 15 for the sole survivor. Now only four missions seems rather small and I thought so too, until I played it on stream the night it released and realised I had been playing for over 7 hours and the sun was coming up. You can see my live stream below, and no worries, I didn’t finish the final fight on stream, not only for spoilers, but also cos I was half asleep at the time.
What I will say about the ending though is that it gives a really interesting moral decision, one that I’m glad I chose the decision I went with and has not only left me with a fun set of armour for my companions, but also a new settlement and a new set of random radio quests for that added experience and looting opportunity.
One thing I would reccomend to anyone just starting Automatron though, if you don’t have the robotics perk, max it out! The Hack ability for robots works on ALL enemy automatrons in the DLC and adds for some hilarious outcomes when attacked by the new raider gang that use the robots!
Speaking of them, this new raider group is called the Rust Devils. They use robot parts to make weapons and armour, and the armour is comparable with good tier Synth armour, only being out done by Legendary Synth pieces later on, so unless you have a full set of heavy combat armour like I did when i started the DLC, it’s a great way to get some extra protection from the bots you have to face.
Of course, everyone knows by now what the biggest draw of Automatron is and thats the ability to build and upgrade your own automatrons and put them to work in your settlements! You kick off getting this workstation when you finish the first mission of the DLC and also gain Ada as a companion. you can use the workstation to upgrade Ada with any of the items available to you based on your perks, Science, Armoury, etc just like other workbenches, but you can also find parts from dead automatrons you find in random encounters. The other fun thing is that you can also upgrade Codsworth and Curie if she’s still in her Miss Nanny body (not her synth body, oh sorry, SPOILERS!)
The new settlement, without giving away spoiles, is both amusing, but also a pain in the ass to use properly, of course, this weeks new DLC, Wastelander (out Tuesday 12th April) will cure some of those annoyances with the new settlement build options, but right now, it is pretty useless beyond giving some minuteman style radio quests. It does however make a good hiding spot for the sole survivor, especially when the new survival update comes along aswell.
I have utterly love playing Fallout 4 since the beginning (surprising, since I never got into Fallout 4 and I was never a fan of Skyrim), but something about it has just grabbed me and won’t let go and Automatron has just added tot he experience in spades. I love updating my provisioners to using sentrybots instead of humans (they are far more valuable than being pack Brahman anyway)
One gripe I would give though is the other new settlement item you can use, the Eyebot Pod, which, in functionality sounds really useful, however, is pretty useless. It works by giving the eyebot the command to search for crafting materials or ammo, however, especially when it comes tot he junk for crafting, the amount you find fromt eh two part mission it gives you are miniscule compared to the power (6) that the pod needs. Of course, some will say that it’s also useful for getting you back to places you previously cleared out for other loot aswell, plus it can be useful for finding rare ammo like Railway Spikes and Cannonballs. But even those really aren’t worth it to be honest, so frankly, after testing, I scrapped the one I built.
All in all this is a great DLC, certainly worth the season price cost (I’ve played full price games with shorter storylines than this…) but even after the DLC price increase,
looking at the other DLC’s and free updates that are on the way? totally worth it! A Solid 9 out of 10!
After a few years of war between hunters and vampiric creatures of the night, Square Enix have announced today that they are ceasing development on their game Nosgoth.
In a post published on the site by Oghamsmith, the news of the end was announced and while the game will remain online for a little while yet, the game will go offline on May 31st 2016 and the forum on June 14th 2016. The reason for closure was that the game just hadn’t grown large enough to make continued operations sustainable apparently, and the team thanked everyone in the community for their “feedback, support and dedication to the game during the closed and open beta phases” of the game.
In a linked FAQ about the end, the team say that they will offer refunds to anyone who had made a purchase in the game since March 1st 2016, and that all eligible refunds will be processed within the next 14 days. Definitive Pack sales on the Steam Store will be processed from the week commencing April 18th 2016. Runestones and Gold are also no longer purchasable although Gold can still be earned in-game through completed public matches.
There will be no more planned updates or league seasons for Nosgoth, although the Nosgoth Open Beta Cup Series will continue to run in April as usual. As for any future game in the Legacy of Kain franchise, the FAQ says that they will be judged “independently of Nosgoth and on the merits of the proposals alone.”
It’s a sad end to a game that was promising, and a lot of fun when I tried it at an Insomnia event a year and a half back.
If you want more information, visit the site post here or the FAQ here.
Hyper Light Drifter is the result of a successful Kickstarter campagin by Heart Machine games. The game has a gorgeous pixel art aesthetic seen from a top down view.
The game places you in the shoes of a nameless protagonist as you venture through a strange sci-fi world and battle enemies and bosses in a quest to find out the truth behind the events taking palce in the world.
Part Zelda, part Dark Souls, Hyper Light Drifter relies on fast paced and brutally tough combat. Players are armed with a sword and a handful of sidearms that can be found throughout the game and must battle their way through hordes of enemies by using careful dashing, timing and learning enemy patterns,
With a tough as nails combat system, interesting art style and a story thats left of to the player to discover, Hyper Light Drifter is certainly unique. But how is the game in reality? Does it live up to it’s hype or does it fall short?
People who pre-ordered Wolfenstein: The New Order have been blasting their way around Doom’s closed beta since March 31. Soon everyone will be able to join them: open beta falls April 15-18, no codes required.
For the duration, you’ll be able to play Team Deathmatch and Warpath (a moving king of the hill mode) on the Heatwave and Infernal maps.
Three DLC packs will follow launch on May 13 and, depending on how Bethesda handles matchmaking between owners and non-owners, their contents may not be well received. The first pack which goes live in summer includes:
… Three new maps
… One new weapon
… One new playable demon
… One new armour set
… One new piece of equipment
… New hack modules and taunts
… New customization colours and patterns
Each DLC pack will cost $14.99 (£11.99 [UK]), or you can get them all at a discount with the Season Pass for $39.99 (£29.99 [UK]).
