Everyone has a fighting chance
The latest developer blog has been posted on the Bless Online Steam page. In this edition, readers are treated to a much more detailed view of each class’s combat abilities. In addition, some of each one’s skills are shown in brief videos that were “taken in a development environment and therefore does not reflect the final version”. Check each of the five class videos after the jump.
Stormblood, FFXIV’s latest expansion, built upon much of the game’s core systems — in particular, many jobs and their roles were significantly changed. This feels particularly impactful in terms of utility buffs; Bard now applies passive crit damage, while Dragoon is even more essential than ever thanks to Dragon Sight. Even Monk gained something, with Brotherhood, a physical buff that feeds power back to the caster based on their critical hits.
PlayStation 4 and XBox One players are the new kids on the TERA block having just started in game in early April. However, En Masse Entertainment has a big month coming in May with new content being added each and every week. The first big update will be coming on May 4th with the first Item Pass Delivery and a new five-player dungeon for high-end players.
Did you happen to miss the GameSpace Game Show last Friday? Have no fear, the quick recap is here! On the last show, the GS2 team was met by the development studio Missing Worlds Media and the team behind City of Titans which included the Project Lead, Chris “Warcabbit” Hare, the Business Director, David “Terwyn” James, the Technical Director, Nate “Doctor Tyche” Downes and their Gameplay Design Specialist, Spiro “Tannim” Raxiotis.
If you’re a Rift Prime player who’s dying to try new things out before they hit the live Prime server, you’ll be pleased to hear that Trion is adding a public test server in the near future. According to the post on the Rift site, the plan is to release the Prime: Omega sometime today. The team will update “forums and socials when it spins up”.
The latest developer update for Grim Dawn has been published on the official site. This time, while acknowledging that the Forgotten Gods expansion is plugging along, the team shows off some nifty new things coming in the next free update (v1.0.6.0). Players will find a new Nemesis Tracker, a big shake up in the Crucible and the addition of Kra’vall the Ancient beneath the Ugdenbog.
Symmetra has had a hard time finding her niche in the metagame since the launch of Overwatch in 2016. Developers let the community know recently that she would be completely reworked in an upcoming build of the game. In a series of posts on the Overwatch forum, Geoff Goodman details some of the big changes coming to Symmetra.
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth has been in alpha / beta testing for the last several months with regular updates adding more and more content for players. Of course, with every testing opportunity, players are exposed to more of the gameplay details and the story behind the expansion, this time namely the ongoing battle between Horde and Alliance. However, without an NDA in place and data miners going at it hard with every alpha update, when is knowing everything simply TMI?
GameForge has updated the SoulWorker Online site with a brief notice that players can now start buying, selling or gifting in-game premium shop items on the Market. “Do you want to gift something to your SoulWorker friends or make a tidy profit from some clever trading?” the post asks. If so, you’ll definitely want to check out the long list of things that can now be traded or sold.
The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Steam page has been updated with a post to review recent anti-cheat measures and the results they have produced thus far. PUBG Corp has been working in concert with Chinese law enforcement agencies to enforce recent legislation that prohibits “developing and selling hacking/cheating programs”. On April 25th, fifteen suspects were arrested for using “malicious code, including Trojan horse software”.