Everyone has a fighting chance
Phoenix Labs is proceeding full steam ahead for the Dauntless open beta scheduled for May 24th. As part of the preparation, the team has released a huge new patch called Seeking the Horizon. It includes a pair of new islands, daily challenges, the reputation system, quality of life improvements, performance enhancements, tweaks to most systems and bug fixes.
It’s hard to believe, but it has been a full year since the Ashes of Creation KickStarter campaign, and what a year it’s been. In a new letter sent out to the Ashes community, the team celebrates growth and reports that the project is proceeding on schedule and “making remarkable progress”.
This week’s MMOFTW covers Bless’ new combat videos, including a first look at the healing Paladin, World of Warcraft’s new PVP toggle plans, Maplestory 2’s beta, Conan Exiles’ launch servers, and ESO’s Psijic Order skils! Watch and learn!
Rust players who step out of line in The Compound, a new “safe-zone” location packed with scientists, will be sorry when they are taken down by special turrets that shoot first and…never ask questions. The zealous nature of the turrets offers players a truly safe place to interact with others to trade, form parties and to get access to special vending machines that dispense clothes, tools, building supplies, traps and more.
KOG Games is ready to party in celebration of the Elsword seventh anniversary. Drabaki will be heading back into the game but will only be available in the Drabaki dungeon through May 15th. Players can also register for the North american 1v1 tournament today and take part in the action from May 9th to May 17th.
The latest Sea of Thieves Inn-Side story has been published that takes a bit of time to discuss the 2-player Sloop, a small ship that can be piloted by two players or even one for those who are inclined to take on the game alone. Being in a smaller ship, however, doesn’t protect pirates from the attacks of larger ships so players will need to slightly more cautious…or they can throw caution to the wind and go up against all comers.
The Fractured MMO team will be on hand for a special live stream developer Q&A today at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern. Developers will be fielding questions from viewers and showing off more footage from the game that only recently released its first gameplay trailer.
The Bless Online team has a nice send off as you head into the weekend. They’ve released a new gameplay trailer that shows off the Paladin and how it will work in concert with other character classes during battle. It’s a lovely video that you definitely won’t want to miss. Happy Friday!
The Warcraft movie met with mixed reactions worldwide when it was released in 2016, but that doesn’t mean some of the props used by the actors aren’t simply droolworthy for diehard WoW and WC fans. Legendary will be auctioning off several items including the Stormwind job board, Alliance Knight Armor, Garona’s dagger and more.
In Guild Wars 2, we have had two expansions released with accompanying living world content. While opinions may differ on whether Heart of Thorns satiated the player base that clamored for more content, I’m here to make the argument that the content in the jungles of Maguuma made some substantial missteps that were eventually made right by release of the Path of Fire expansion.