Monthly Archives: March 2015

CrossFire NA Celebrates 6th Anniversary with New Update

Smilegate West is proud to announce the six year anniversary of the North American launch of CrossFire. Since 2009, the popular free-to-play first person shooter has entertained hundreds of millions of players worldwide while consistently delivering monthly updates. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Smilegate West has announced their largest 2015 CrossFire update, the Anniversary Update. Players can expect new items, a new mode and new events throughout the month when the patch goes live on March 11th.

Included in the Anniversary Update is an arsenal of new weapons, including the AK47 – St. Patrick’s Day and the Barrett M82A1-Imperial Dragon. These unique takes on the fan favorite weapons deck out the iconic rifles in festive and imposing colors respectively. The classic and patriotic M4A1 – Liberty will also make a return as a potential reward. Both new and old players will be able to receive multiple 1d versions of the patriotic M4A1 if they participate in the Happy Birthday CrossFire event happening in the second half of the month.

Beginning March 19th until March 23rd, users that log into the game daily will receive a number of free items. In addition to the 1d M4A1 – Liberty, players will be able to unlock the 6 Year Anniversary Themed Sprays, Names Cards, weapons and even a birthday party hat for their character. Afterwards on March 26th, players can partake in the “Weapon Mastery Event”. This event requires players to attain kills using a specific weapon type every day for one week. For those skillful enough, completing each weapon type challenge rewards different prizes, including 7 day items and special crates that may contain permanent weapons.

Finally, the Anniversary Update includes the release of the Mutant Knight Mode. In this team based mode, players will assume the role of soldier or mutant, with each side growing stronger and gaining new abilities as the match goes on. Players are encouraged to participate in the weekly “Tuesday Knights” event every Tuesday from March 17th to April 7th. Users who play Bonus EXP and in-game currency will be rewarded for the event, while giving players the chance to earn a special weapons crate reward.

For the full event details and patch notes, visit http://crossfire.z8games.com/

Camelot Unchained Curves the CUBE

New post-PAX update from CityState Games today revealed progress on the newest edition to their structure construction system,CUBE, the only current 24/7 system available to backers of Camelot Unchained.

Camelot Unchained CUBE Alpha

After a near four hour stream today hosted by Lead Engineer Andrew Meggs, the first structure build with dynamically curved blocks was introduced into CUBE. This of course adds new dynamics to would be blue print designers in the game, and much more beautiful (and functional) structures for the game at launch.

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Also mentioned in the update was the recent stretch goal, “Hug the World,” has already been surpassed, bringing new artists into the fold to help ensure the environment will be polished to perfection at launch. Never satisfied, Mark Jacobs is taking the opportunity to push the next stretch goal, “Programmers, Where Are Thou Programmers?” If this goal is reached, MJ will up the bounty on hiring or recruiting two new senior programmers to the team. He’s wanted these senior level programmers hired for ages, and hopes this will finally tip the scales in his favor.

CamelotUnchainedForestArt

Also Builder tier backers will be happy to know that news will soon be on the way for special bonus rewards, akin to what the Founders were promised. Stay tuned for further details on this. Find the full update post on the official site, Camelot Unchained.

SMITE: Another COG in the Machine Patch Preview

SMITE Cog Scylla

During today’s SMITE stream, Hi-Rez revealed the patch notes for the next update to hit the game, code named “Another COG in the Machine.”

The patch will include several new skins: Ravenous Bakasura, Valkyrie Freya, COG Scylla, Madame Blade Serqet, and Hou Yi Golden/Legendary/Diamond, plus a Spring Ward Skin. The pricing for skins is also changing, as follows:

  • Tier 1 Skins: 100 Gems or 9500 Favor. Color Change or “Recolor” version of the base model.
  • Tier 2 Skins: 250 Gems. Minor model changes and upgrades. Uses the gods original theme and voice pack. Example: Valkyrie Freya
  • Tier 3 Skin: 400 Gems. New theme and model changes. May have minor special FX, minor animation changes, and often has a custom voice pack. Example: Blind Vengeance Nemesis.
  • Tier 4 Skin: 600 Gems. New theme, model changes, major animation changes, new special FX, and always has a custom voice pack. Example: HeBro He Bo, Elite Agent Apollo.
  • Tier 5 Skin: Special limited edition skins, like Archon Thanatos.

An assortment of other changes includes new colorblind modes and multiple fixes, changes, and balance updates. You can find the full patch notes here.

Don’t forget to also check out our awesome PAX East 2015 SMITE Giveaway!

 

SMITE XBox One PAX East Ultimate Giveaway

OnRPG has partnered with SMITE to offer our viewers a chance at claiming an Xbox One beta key, or Convention Tyr skin. One lucky participant will even walk away with an Ultimate God Pack, so enter for your chance to win!

SMITE is a 3D Action MOBA that differentiates itself from most of its kind by joining the camera view to your god’s third person view. All skills are skill shots (i.e. require aiming and can be dodged) and the ultimate goal of destroying your enemy’s base is made more difficult due to the ‘base’ being a giant powerful Titan that fights back!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entry Instructions:

  • Enter our official giveaway thread HERE.
  • Sign-up for an account to post on our forums.
  • Share your favorite screenshot of SMITE in the thread.
  • On Friday the 13th, we’ll select the winners. 3rd place winners receive a Convention Tyr Skin. 2nd place gets a Tyr skin and Xbox beta key. Grand prize winner gets both plus an Ultimate God Pack!