Dying is inevitable. Not just in the greater universal sense, but specifically in Crowfall, a game thatt features PvP battles where factions of players are trying to hold territory. The way death is handled is going to see a few adjustments come the game’s next milestone update 5.90. As it stands now when your HP total hits zero, you bleed out, awaiting to either be resurrected by an ally, slain by a final blow from an enemy, or killed by the bleed. Then, you turn into a Spirit Crow and immediately transport to the nearest Dragon Statue. Here, you’ve got two choices: Fly back to a Cairn that marks where you fell and resurrect there, recovering your inventory and taking a slight hit to equipment, or resurrect from directly at the statue, leaving your inventory at your Cairn and taking a greater hit to your equipment’s health. Regardless of which choice you make, you suffer a “death shroud” debuff that lasts three minutes. The changes coming in 5.90 take … [Read more...] about Crowfall outlines revisions to its death system ahead of update 5.90
Free to Play Cast: Atlas Reactor Closes, Valve Gets Sued, and City of Heroes Was Playable? Ep. 298
On this week’s show we discover that Valve is being sued by a casino, Atlas Reactor bites the dust right on time to make our predictions correct, and apparently City of Heroes was playable and we weren’t worthy. All that and more on this week’s Free to Play Cast! Discussion Timestamps: 02:49 City of Heroes If you have submissions for the show’s Weekly Bombs, have questions for the panel (nothing is off limits!), or just ideas for what you want covered you can now send them to [email protected] You can also be a guest in the show, just send us why you want to host, and what topic or game you would like to cover. Free-To-Play Cast is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about free to play multiplayer online games. Free-To-Play Cast takes on the week’s biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week! … [Read more...] about Free to Play Cast: Atlas Reactor Closes, Valve Gets Sued, and City of Heroes Was Playable? Ep. 298
Fractured Revealed Next Alpha Test for June
The Sandbox MMO Fractured dropped a big announcement this week – The second Alpha 1 test will be coming in June. The focus of their current prep work for this test is adding content to the systems, and they discuss this as well as some of the challenges in technology upgrades in the link below. One of the major features coming to the second Alpha 1 test is expanding the housing/building systems. In A1-T1, players could only claim a plot of land and build a house on it, the Fractured team is increasing what you can do with land. Players will be able to have Log & Stone houses of varying size, as well as storage, decorations, crafting, and other functionalities. Another important feature is the world itself. While Myr is massive, it is pretty empty and uninteresting right now, so one by one, they’re going over points of interest and adding unique art assets and creatures to them. Each will have specific characteristics, abilities, and loot. So while they’re working … [Read more...] about Fractured Revealed Next Alpha Test for June
LOTRO: Questing under golden leaves
While I think that four months was a good span of time for the initial release of LOTRO’s progression servers — what with 50 levels, a whole volume of the epic, and over a dozen zones — I don’t think the same is true for this period of Moria. It’s definitely less content to consume (fewer zones, only 10 levels), and less than a month into it, I had already blasted through the underground kingdom and come out the other side as a newly minted level 60 Minstrel. I’m not complaining too much, mind you. Unlike some of our kinship, who are loving every minute of being in Moria, I got my fill about a week and a half in and then was ready to egress. Even with the streamlining of quests and travel, the second half of Moria relies too much on confusing zones that are bothersome to navigate. So when I hit 60, I lost a lot of interest in doing regular questing in these areas, preferring to simply focus on the epic until I got out into Lothlorien, where I started … [Read more...] about LOTRO: Questing under golden leaves
Torchlight Frontiers Reveals New Railmaster Class, Check Out The Class Reveal Trailer
Perfect World Entertainment and Echtra Games have just unveiled a new hero class for the upcoming dungeon crawler Torchlight Frontiers. The Railmaster is a versatile class that charges full steam into combat armed with massive hammer and artillery train. “Now players can experience the power of the Railmaster for themselves, as they learn to swing a colossal hammer and strategically lay track for the artillery train that follows them through the Frontiers. Those who wield the power of the Railmaster can also customize each of the train’s platforms with different features to maximize firepower against oncoming enemies.” The new class is also the first time that players will get to play as a Railmaster in the Torchlight series. According to the devs, the class was heavily-inspired by Captain Jacobi, the Imperial Railmaster NPC in Torchlight 2. “Max Schaefer, co-founder of both Runic Games and Echtra Games, knew the Railmaster needed to become a playable character … [Read more...] about Torchlight Frontiers Reveals New Railmaster Class, Check Out The Class Reveal Trailer