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The Elder Scrolls Online team has published a handy guide that takes some of the mystery out the Champion System, the overhauled progression system that comes along with Update 6. There is a section for each of the major parts of the Champion System: Points, Constellations, Passives and Enlightenment that will hopefully clear up some of the mystery surrounding the new system.
The Crowfall site has been updated with a bit of information about a pair of the game’s player character classes: The Templar and the Champion. In addition to those two, a third character class is revealed by showing its skill tree…and nothing else.
Earlier this week, it was revealed through datamining the latest PTR version of World of Warcraft that something called a Veteran Account would perhaps be introduced at a later time. Speculation ran rampant that this might mean that lapsed subscribers would be able to play their characters but with heavy restrictions, perhaps also leading to a F2P model of WoW. However, Community Manager Bashiok has explained its true meaning.
After nearly one hundred twenty hours, I finished my completionist run through Dragon Age: Inquisition today. As I sat staring at the credits and waiting for the short epilogue cinematic that would come after them, I was left with a curious sense of emptiness with a mental image of an empty calendar filled with endless days stretching out in front of me.
This week, Star Wars: the Old Republic put in a patch that had a fairly large number of tweaks to the game, mostly a lot of bugfixes and updates to various group activities such as changing which comms drop and rebalancing certain encounters. Sadly, however, much of these things were not the topic of many conversations about the game the past few weeks.
Like many of you I’m suffering from Kickstarter fatigue. I’m even starting to grow weary of writing about it. Even new IPs from well renowned developers fail to raise my pulse if they are seeking money from players first and plan on delivering a product second. Crowdfunding is definitely a viable financing option for developers, however, and a highly successful developer has gone back to the Kickstarter well.
Wargaming has announced that the much-anticipated Personal Missions for World of Tanks will roll out on Thursday, January 15th. Personal missions allow players to play solo and move between missions even if not complete unlike multiplayer missions. The first campaign reward is a female crew member.
World of Warcraft players ready to move on from the Highmaul raid will be happy to hear that Blackrock Foundry will open the first wing on February 3rd. Both Normal and Heroic levels will open that day, with Mythic a week later and Raid Finder on February 17th.
The Black Desert Online team made up of Daum & Pearl Abyss is ready to show off some of the game’s PvP features. In the latest video to be released, large scale PvP is spotlighted. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Longtime fans of Pillars of Eternity will be happy to hear that the release date has finally been announced for March 26, 2015. Up to today’s announcement, the team has been hard at work polishing the game and squashing as many bugs as possible according to a post on the game’s official site.