Everyone has a fighting chance
The Blade & Soul team took to the airwaves earlier this week to preview the next update. Theater of Mystery will be launching into the game on December 5th and devs showed off the Earthen Realm dungeon and reminded players they will be tasked with “unmasking the deadly secrets of the Dreamsong Theater” and much more.
The Ship of Heroes team has pushed out a new video to reveal the Restorative Nanites Powerset. The Powerset is a healing and buffing series of abilities that are appropriate for primary support characters or as a secondary powerset for Devastators.
According to a new post on the CCP site, the company has put the brakes on alpha testing for its competitive 6v6 shooter Project Nova. The game was first announced at EVE Vegas as the “spiritual successor to DUST 514”. Since then, the game has been through a “number of player research sessions with external partners, tirelessly playtested the game internally and brought community stalwarts in to help us evaluate the project”. Devs feel that PN does not live up to CCP’s vision at the moment.
Magneto, the final piece of the Brotherhood of Mutants puzzle, arrived yesterday for players who had enough five-star characters to get him. While things are still quite early, my first impressions are super positive.
When I look at this year’s game snafus, most recently the growing pains that Fallout 76 is experiencing, I’m reminded of a simpler time when online games were young and the lure of using playtests as marketing tools was nearly non-existent. There was a time, as many of you probably remember when a beta test was actually a test and not a way to drive sales or generate hype for a game through the use of influencers.
A new video has been posted by YouTuber Izkimar that showcases both the Hawkeye and “Scuffed” Summoner classes taking part in PvP arena matches. In the first part, the Hawkeye dominates a team of three, not simultaneously, but over the course of three 1v1 battles. IN the second, the Scuffed Summoner takes on a team of three and wins as well!
The Twitter for Elder Scrolls: Blades, the mobile game based on the popular franchise, has announced that the game will be delayed until “early 2019” for both iOS and Android devices. However, players can still sign up for early access. The game was originally planned for a 2018 release and no reason has been cited for the delay.
EA and BioWare have announced that the first closed alpha test for Anthem will take place on December 8th and December 9th. The event is designed for players to help developers “adjust things like matchmaking” and that players need to be aware that changes, such as server load, may occur “on the fly”. As a result the alpha event is “more limited than what we want to share in the pre-launch demos”.
In a future update, Sylvanas will be getting a significant update. According to the Heroes of the Storm Twitter, “With improved team fighting capabilities, a higher skill-cap, and a whole new set of powerful and engaging talents, the Banshee Queen is back and better than ever!”
The latest BioWare studio update has been published. Penned by Casey Hudson, the letter talks about how hard the team is working to get Anthem ready to ship on February 22nd and about Hudson’s own time spent in game during a recent “Play From Home” session. He writes of the signature things he finds in Anthem that are expected for a BioWare title, but also speaks about superheroic gameplay that makes him want to come back just for the “feel” of it.