Everyone has a fighting chance
The SOE H1Z1 team was on hand much of Saturday to put the finishing touches on a small patch that will be deployed on Monday, January 19th. The patch will deal with some server stability issues as well as sorting servers by populations and getting rid of the ever-annoying floating arrows.
It appears that in very short order, Sony Online Entertainment’s H1Z1 has been hacked. According to a gif revealed on the MMORPG.com forums (thanks to Kiyoris), an aimbot / flying / speed hack is now present in the game.
A few more days before the Fall… a claim to splendor, one and all. A world of darkness does await, with little glories that won’t abate!
Fantasy MMO Echo of Soul is preparing to launch in Europe and North America this year, after a successful launch in Korea and a part of that process has involved working toward creating "the next MMO experience."
This week, Chinese publisher JoyGames announced the start of a closed beta for its ARPG/tower defense mode based on the popular manga, One Piece.
If anyone trash-talks Riot Games’ League of Legends or doubts the relevancy Blizzards decade-old MMO World of Warcraft, 2014’s numbers should easily shut them up.
The Life is Feudal team has revealed its roadmap for the year. The graphic is interesting and gives a visual representation of how far along in each area the team has progressed thus far. For instance, guilds and guild claims are 55% of the way to completion while ‘dug pits decay’ is only at 35%.
GameStatistics is a small French company that has been tracking French players’ satisfaction with MMO launches from 2012 through 2014. Players were asked about their overall satisfaction about both MMORPG and MMOFPS games and include SWTOR, Guild Wars 2, Neverwinter, Wakfu, PlanetSide 2, Defiance, Final Fantasy XIV, Elder Scrolls Online and WildStar.
Last night was a bit depressing. After HiveLeader’s excellent first impressions and livestream video, I was pretty excited for H1Z1. Even knowing how Early Access goes and how alpha builds get wiped and are pretty buggy messes, I’ll admit that the thought of a PVE sandbox zombie survival MMO has my interest piqued.
At the 2015 Smite World Championships, held from January 9th-12th of this month, I was able to get thirty or forty minutes on the playable beta version of Smite for the X-Box One. For those who do not know, Smite is Hi-Rez Studios recent entry into the MOBA genre, released in March, 2014. Smite is no standard entry into the genre dominated by Defense of the Ancients 2 and League of Legends, the devs over at Hi-Rez have made several very significant innovations.