MMORPG Intel

Battlefield's new mode in portal is insane, "Shell Shocked" 🔹4 defenders with pistols, claymores, and flame grenades 🔹28 attackers armed with defibs 🔹The horde of defib players can unlock speed boosts, smoke grenades, barricade walls 🔹Headshots are one-shot kills 🔹3 Sectors: Downtown Streets, Destroyed Offices, Tower Escape 🔹Defenders win by surviving all 3 sectors and extracting 🔹Attackers win by stopping a capture and flipping the point 🔹Sector C (Tower Escape) includes parkour puzzles and a flipped spawn, where the defib horde spawns above you #BF6 #Sponsored

EVERYTHING you need to know about The Legend of California (gathered by watching dev stream)⬇️ 🔹New game by Jeff Kaplan, former Director on Overwatch and World of Warcraft dev 🔹Characters are bound to servers, 1 per server 🔹100 players per server 🔹Random World Events - like an outpost coming under attack, you'll want to team up with the server to defend 🔹Other events like "Salvador roaming the roads", a specialty trader that gets broadcast to the world 🔹Projectiles all have Bullet-Drop, no Hitscan 🔹You carry 2 Primary weapons, 1 Secondary 🔹There's a Weapon Mods table, where each weapon can have 3 mods that highly customize how it works 🔹End game bow called the Recurve bow for example has the "stealth string" mod that increases damage 100% on unaware enemies 🔹You also carry your Tomahawk, a thrown melee weapon you have to retrieve 🔹Find blueprints for things like better weapons different tiers of bullets too 🔹Add custom pelts to your hat that give different bonuses 🔹Can customize how your character looks in a character creator 🔹Map is tiered by 4 difficulties which are different every seed 🔹House also has customization like different furniture looks 🔹Can make chests in your Ranch for Storage 🔹There's Mining, Woodcutting, Fishing, Hunting 🔹Resources are not finite, you can mine literally anywhere you want 🔹Different tiers of tools that get more effective and can break 🔹Mining hat illuminates in the mine ONLY 🔹Lumber mill station where you can chop logs, uses charcoal...you have a log sled you pull around to transport logs 🔹Cooking system that lets you buff things like swinging speed in mining 🔹Each food has an ability and you can spec it out with additional ingredients 🔹Use better wood with stove for longer use 🔹Comfort and wellbeing system that, can increase things like Gold Scavenging, Lucky Gathering, size of Fish Caught 🔹Blast Furnace station used for making steel (end game metal) 🔹Upgrades to stations....instead of needing 10 blast furnaces, you can add more "lanes" to it through upgrades 🔹No farming/ranching yet...animal breeding and stuff eventually 🔹Tame wild horses or buy tamed ones, also mules that can be used as a mount that's cheaper but worse 🔹There is a Leveling system for horses. They have different stats and traits. 🔹Horse can have a saddle bag, can also make a Stagecoach to travel faster, Stables to keep more 🔹There is Fall damage and you can kill your mount.... which means the mount times out for a while and it loses xp 🔹You can make gliders later on 🔹Tools do get damaged as you use them 🔹No lassos right now, would like to add those and a whip 🔹Quests you can get from job boards, including PVP quests 🔹Get contraband for doing PvP Quests, which is currency you use at the black market (sells really good stuff) 🔹When you die, you don't lose anything on you except for some cash...unless you're out in the lawless areas 🔹All you drop in Lawless Areas is anything you looted in that area. Contraband is always dropped. 🔹Character gets a facemask/bandana when you are in PvP area, and your items you pick up get flagged as lawless until you clear the area 🔹Hoping to add a lot of customization to the PvP experience, and add servers where people want full loot drops 🔹Very into letting people play how they want 🔹Trading Post - You have a trader you can list things for sale with - people can come buy those things you put up 🔹Can also trade directly between players and just give them stuff 🔹Enemy strongholds have a one time chest you can loot that is personal loot...each person gets to loot it. The small chests are first come first serve 🔹Will have FOV slider, default is 103 like OW 🔹Servers more like Rust aka official supported servers, but someday want custom servers 🔹No offline play 🔹Don't want to do things like dragons...demons, etc...its more grounded but not just chasing reality 🔹Will be an Alpha, then Beta, then Early Access 🔹NOT cowboy Rust - much more balanced between PvP and PvE 🔹No base raiding right now. would love to have base raiding in the future if they do well in EA and if players want it 🔹Core game is more like WoW Classic where no one is forced into PvP 🔹Fast Travel - every 30 minutes you can go to your ranch or your tent...each player has a tent, each co-op group or company has a ranch 🔹There is weather, rain snow wind, dust storms, sand storms 🔹Piano that can play the songs you find in the world 🔹Cosmetics are unlocked via personal challenges and can be customized too, they'll last through resets

Marathon is officially LIVE To celebrate we're launching a HUGE giveaway - 1 Collectors Edition - 10x plushies - 10x hats And I'll be choosing one person from the replies for another Collectors Edition Enter here: gleam.io/XvPWw/marathon…

Project DNA is a new MMO RPG set in a post-apocalyptic Earth ⬇️ 🔹AAA Korean Developer SUPERVOID 🔹Survivors pushed the boundaries of biotechnology, giving birth to humans with psychic powers 🔹Transplanted consciousness into ever-stronger bodies 🔹Fast-paced combat that rewards strategy and precision 🔹Evolution System which allows characters to grow and adapt in unique ways 🔹Living world with its own politics, economy, and society 🔹Appears to have 6 characters currently listed, each with their own Element: Rai ​(Lightning), Serena (Water), Nadia (Air), Calien (Fire), Mari (Earth), Vicki (Darkness​)

I AM GIVING AWAY 10 MARATHON DELUXE EDITIONS to celebrate the launch of Server Slam I will also be handpicking 1 additional winner that replies here on Twitter GOOD LUCK, you can enter here: gleam.io/zUfx1/marathon…

I WILL BE HEADING TO GDC IN MARCH If anyone wants to grab a drink, get some dinner with the crew, or any Devs wanna interview on their game, let me know!

Windrose is an open world survival adventure in the Age of Piracy 🔹You play as a captain who dares to challenge Blackbeard 🔹Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends 🔹Build, craft, survive and explore the open world 🔹Gather your crew and captain your ship in naval combat 🔹Boarding actions and seamless transitions between ship and shore 🔹Equip and customize your ship 🔹Procedurally generated biomes filled hand-crafted dungeons and quests 🔹Defeat bosses driven by real-world characters 🔹Playable solo offline or co-op up to four players 🔹Both self-hosted and dedicated servers available 🔹Progress is carried over between different worlds per character

Ashes of Creation creator Steven Sharif has been accused of orchestrating a $140 million fraud by one of their lead investors, Jason Caramanis, who also revealed: - Steven never invested a penny of his own into the project - Jason invested $12.5 million - Multiple AoC investors come from MLM companies - Robert Dawson put $80 million into the game - No criminal charges have been filed

Chappel Roan praises RuneScape’s music in a recent interview with @NylonMag “I don't know if you ever played RuneScape… it's from the early 2000s and has video game sounds down. It's really medieval synth sh*t. I’m a video game girl and I love synths and '80s weird sh*t”

‼️Marathon will have cross progression, and console players will be able to opt out of PC Matchmaking

Marathon's Game Director Joe Zielger responds to how they will handle cheating "We’ve implemented multiple safeguards and prepared to respond quickly to new threats — since anti-cheat is an ongoing battle."

"The key difference is Destiny makes you a superhero. In Marathon, you’re a survivor..." - Marathon Game Director Joe Ziegler

Oldschool Runescape's top 5 player overall, He Box Jonge, achieved 200 million sailing XP while: Renovating his home Averaging 4 hours of sleep per night Drank only water, no caffeine Took 8 straight weeks to get Being a 6'2 200 pound bodybuilder I need to grind harder

His full video on the situation: youtube.com/watch?v=miMemO…

"An MMORPG player who is happy and content with their current game and community is NOT giving hundreds or thousands of pounds to a project promising a new one, the people often supporting these projects are desperate for a community to belong in" Josh Strife Hayes on the recent Ashes of Creation drama

Here's the email received by the Ashes of Creation team at Intrepid

Ashes of Creation devs have apparently left a message to players in game "We truly did our best. Out of our control. You guys are incredible and keep on keeping on <3" via @SavvvoGames

Also 5 people spent $10K each on the highest tier which promised Launch Party weekend invitations/perks

⚠️Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter, which raised over $3M, states that backers would be refunded if the game didn't launch However as the game "launched" in Early Access in December many are assuming that no longer applies

Looks like the latest payroll was also not processed

‼️NEW: ASHES OF CREATION IS SHUTTING DOWN All employees have been laid off from developer Intrepid Studios, with Founder Steven Sharif also resigning