Rising Up: Season 2 Roundup — Important Changes for Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, & Nash

With Season 2’s release, most players payed close attention to the buffs and nerfs their main character received; but with 92 pages of notes, it’s quite time-consuming to go through every single character. So, I’ll be making some short videos demonstrating some of the important changes to each character, to allow players to more rapidly brush up on their new mains and opponents.

The first four characters I’ve covered are Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, and Nash, simply for their storyline relevance. Coincidentally (or perhaps not so coincidentally?), they were four of the strongest characters in Season 1, and all four have many nerfs compared to later characters I’ll be covering. This is not a comprehensive list of all changes, simply the ones I deemed most significant to gameplay. I might have overseen the ramifications of certain minor changes, however, so if you feel I left out something important, feel free to leave feedback on the video for me and other viewers.

I’ll try and do one of these videos a day until I’ve covered the changes for all characters. Expect more upcoming Monday character tutorials too; keep an eye out on the ShoryukenTube YouTube channel for an Akuma bread and butter combo video as well, sometime very soon.

Guild Wars 2 – Tixx is coming to Tyria!

The holidays at Guild Wars 2 have historically been a period of a whole pile of fun and excitement for the community, with big updates, seasonal activities and changes to the world. In recent history, the holidays have seen even more than just holiday updates, with 2015’s Halloween paired with the launch of Heart of Thorns, 2015 Wintersday seeing the Fractal update and addition of Encryptions and liquid rewards, 2016 Lunar New Year seeing the addition of Central Tyria Gliding.

Star Citizen – Chris Roberts Clarifies Switch to Amazon’s Lumberyard

Chris Robert took to the Star Citizen forums to add a bit of clarification to last week’s announcement that the game had been switched over to Amazon’s Lumberyard engine for the duration of its development. He begins with the simple statement that Lumberyard and the Star Citizen engine up to last week’s announcedment are “both forks from exactly the SAME build of CryEngine”.

Escape from Tarkov – Developer’s 2016 Report

BattleState Games has released a brand new developer update video to show off progress made on Escape from Tarkov over the preceding year. The video sports nearly twenty minutes of game play and commentary by the head of BattleState Games, Nikita Buyanov who also gives background on the story itself and much more. Check it out!