It’s been a good long while since I’ve played LOTRO (a month?) and even longer since I’ve been in any regular gaming pattern with it. I still think I’m feeling the burnout from Mordor a bit, although I know that it probably just comes down to getting out of a routine of playing and then letting it slip. I kind of would like to reverse that, especially as there seems to be some pretty great content ahead, so I put in a couple of sessions last week and got reacquainted with my long-suffering Lore-master. First things first — I needed to do some housekeeping. This meant cleaning out my bags and stashing cosmetics and housing items in the appropriate vaults and wardrobes. I guess SSG has added a ton of new wardrobe expansion slots, and since there was a sale and I had points to burn, I expanded my cosmetic wardrobe to 240 slots total. That was more than enough to store everything I had sitting around and then some. It felt good, really good, to have this all … [Read more...] about LOTRO’s maps are… not my favorite
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Cursed skeleton ships have been spotted on Sea of Thieves’ horizon
Soon enough you’ll have more to worry about in Sea of Thieves’ oceans than other players and bad-tempered kraken. Rumors have it that the skeletons have completed their seafaring courses and somehow procured a ship or two to bring the fight to you. The Cursed Sails content update is on its way to the multiplayer pirate simulator, bringing with it “terrifying skeleton ships,” attacks on world outposts, and a new time-limited campaign. To give players another useful tool for this upcoming battle, Rare is adding the new three-person Brigantine ship for a mid-sized group option. Before all that happens, Sea of Thieves has a few housekeeping issues to address. Patch 1.1.8 arrived on Thursday, bringing the Sunken Curse Bilge Rat adventure to an end, improving the game’s performance, and making the water inside of ships look and move better. Not that you want water to be inside your ship, mind you, but when you’re sinking to your death, at least … [Read more...] about Cursed skeleton ships have been spotted on Sea of Thieves’ horizon