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Dishonored 2 is a hotly anticipated game, thats for sure. A handful of gamers have been able to play it a day early, including myself. I am sad to say however, that the PC version of the game has excessively bad performance issues. While I could detail them all in text, video speaks louder than words.
Titanfall 2 may have been out for a while now, but it takes a while to get an accurate impression of a game that has such a huge multiplayer component. Fortuantely for you, instead of writing a 50,000 word review, I’ve decided to make it a video instead. So you can watch giant robots punch shit AND get educated about the game!
After a seemingly never ending, Blizzard finally revealed Sombra yesterday at Blizzcon as she hacked into the Overwatch lookback trailer. A fast, medium range offense hero, Sombra comes equipped with a machine pistol, teleporter and the ability to hack enemies and health packs on the map. She can prevent enemies from using abilities, take out shields and turrets and teleport to her translocator as it flies through the air.
She seems to be everything we’ve been speculating about and more, making the wait well worth it.
In addition to Sombra, Blizzard is also bringing 1v1 elimination and a 3v3 arcade mode to the game. The game just continues to grow, and it seems like Blizzard is going to reward us for playing these new modes with loot boxes. Since we all love loot, it seems this will get players to play the new modes right out of the gate.
Diablo is celebrating its 20th Anniversary and Blizzard is sharing more details on the festivities.
Darkening of Tristram Event
Originally was just going to be original music tracks added; but now Blizzard is adding all 16 dungeons, all 4 bosses.
The audio is tinny, the movement is jerky so we’re trying to get back to 1997 with the style of this event.
Recreated old monsters, but new AI.
Retro UI will be there, and D3 combat but D1 looks.
Event will be triggered by a pentagram by the Old Ruins.
Lots of easter eggs.
Rewards and Loot: Portraits based on original health and mana, Butcher Pet, Transmog is a Soulstone in your Skull! Also gives you an legendary gem for your helm.
Butcher’s Cleaver and Wirt’s Leg for your transmog as well. You can finally dual wield Wirt’s Legs
Bosses: Fighting D1-style Butcher
Patch 2.4.3 will have the anniversary event but also new Items.
Every January the Darkening of Tristram will be back.
Diablo Armory
You’ll be able to save “Loadouts” – 2017 future patch. 5 loadouts per character – passives, gear, Cube powers, talents, gems.
Instant equip loadout with 1 button.
Gem unsocketing cost will be gone, including legendary gems.
This is for PC and console.
Necromancer
Reimagining the Necromancer from D2.
Went through brainstorming phase with an art team – started with ideas like “the King of the Dead,” then the fearsome hunter who wears the trophies of the dead.
Also thought of the Cryptkeeper
This lead to the Commander of the Dead – somewhat like a Rockstar with Legions of (dead) fans.
They thought this was a good way to update the Necromancer for Diablo 3.
Also got to introduce a female necromancer for the first time.
Themes of Classic, Aristocratic, Reanimation or “Bone Saint”, Blood, Bone – the production process included ideas about armor with all of these.
Classic armor set matches the D2 Necromancer, they wanted to get that right.
Necromancer gameplay basics: Pet and Ranged Magic class, darkly themed, “darkest class ever” – they are commanders of the dead!
Includes army of skeletons, dead things, mostly dead things, magic.
Magic includes blood, bone, reanimation and curses – a personal wish you case on your enemies.
Difference from the Witch Doctor: themes are different – WD is more light hearted, more about creepy crawlies, etc. Think of the exploding chicken!
Compared to the necromancer – much darker themes, more blood and bone than disease. They are deadly series, not light hearted.
Big difference in pets – pets in WD are passive, Necromancer are more Active Passive (i.e. like monk mantras.) Short term active benefit even though your pets also exist passively.
Activating the Seal commands pets to attack targets and you have a damage buff. Much easier to lead them around as well.
Resource differences – WD has mana, Necromancer has essence. Essence doesn’t regen over time, it requires action.
Necromancer has two resources! The other is corpses. Corpses power some of your skills.
Corpse explosion will be back. Up to 10 at a time per click
Bone Spear is back.
Decrepify is a way to keep monsters grouped together. This is a curse.
Pychic Blood is a life/essence steal.
Blood Rush is a teleport type skill
Blood Golem – a very gross pet. Also with an active passive type function.
Army of the Dead – 100+ skeletons RUSH onto an enemy.
“Rise of the Necromancer Pack” is 2 character slots, 2 stash tabs, cosmetics, pets, and the Necromancer!
This is coming in 2017!
The Darkening of Tristram will be in January with the Rise of the Necromancer Pack to follow.
No Man’s Sky didn’t live up to expectations, that much most people agree with. No matter whose fault it was, the game was hyped to hell and back and would have had a difficult time living up to it all in the end. However, earlier today it seemed that Hello Games themselves were regretting No Man’s Sky, tweeting out “No Man’s Sky was a mistake.”
This obviously led to the tweet getting retweeted all over Twitter and a lot of confused, curious and other replies and questions to the account and Hello Games’ Sean Murray. It was Murray who pointed out what some had already guessed – someone had hacked the Twitter account and was posting claiming to be Hello Games.
Server hacked. We’re binging Mr Robot Episodes as quickly as we can looking for answers. Ep05 is a cracker
The interesting bit comes when you realise that the e-mail server had also apparantly been hacked into and e-mail replies being sent out to journalists’ enquiries containing some really odd information. Polygon got one from someone claiming to be Murray saying that not only had he made the tweet, but that Hello Games had “not been coping well” since the game’s release. There is some speculation that the hacker is a disgruntled employee or someone related to Hello Games who was using compromised accounts to access the e-mail server and send the messages, with both Forbes and mashable reporting that Murray has confirmed such to them.
It’s not quite the tweet many were waiting for from the Hello Games Twitter, but at least it livened things up a bit. There could possibly even be more to this than we currently know about. Who knows? Maybe in the next few days someone will step forward to claim responsibility that will surprise us…
… Or maybe it’ll turn out to be the work of a dissatisfied consumer. Who knows?
