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Star Citizen Discusses Community Concerns About Delayed FPS Module and More

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Star Citizen, the epic space game with over $80 million raised in crowdfunding, started this July off to a rocky start.

First came the announcement, via a community letter from Chris Roberts, that the FPS Module (also known as Star Marine) would be delayed due to various technical issues. With no ETA on the development time for Star Marine, this has ended up with many people calling the delay “indefinite,” although a development team is still working on the module.

Second came the departure of two key team members: first, senior producer Travis Day, who left to work at Blizzard, and then executive producer Alex Mayberry, who joined the team in mid-May 2014.

This collection of news was an obvious hit to morale for Star Citizen backers and supporters. Cloud Imperium Games has now stepped forward with a lengthy series of posts addressing concerns about the delays, turnover, and other outstanding issues in the community. Among the reassurances in the posts, CIG states that the Star Marine delay is only a matter of weeks, rather than months; that sales drops are expected; and that turnover is common but not a sign of doom. You can read the full discussion on all these points here.

Conquer Online 3.0 to Launch Kingdom War in September

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Since the announcement about Conquer online 2.0 transitioning to 3.0, the subject of the major changes has provoked much discussion among players. After a two-year design and refit, drastic overall changes will happen. Kingdom War, Tempest Wings, Perfection System and The Soul of Ancient Hero will be updated in CO 3.0 one after another.

Kingdom War
The Kingdom War finally hits CO land after a long wait. With the CO Kingdom War breaking out soon, a new type of Union appears! Unions can only be founded by the leader of guilds. The greatest union on one server will obtain the power to become the monarch of the server and the server will become an independent kingdom.

The Emperor and Courtiers
In a kingdom, a stable Officials System is indispensable. Only one individual can become the Emperor of the kingdom and courtiers will be picked as the hands of the Emperor. The Emperor will wield the supreme power on the server: governing relations in his own kingdom and between kingdoms, appointing courtiers, and declaring wars. In addition, the Emperor has the right to draw from the treasury and to take concubines. Courtiers of various ranks will be in lofty positions, having won His Majesty’s highest favor. While ordinary players will participate in bloody wars among the multinational people, fighting for their hard won kingdom.

Imperial Harem
The Guild Chariot is a brand new feature in the world of Conquer. When fighters are under cover of a Guild Chariot, they can’t be attacked until the Guild Chariot is destroyed. The core of a Guild Chariot designing idea is to protect the low and moderate players.

Fighters under cover of a Guild Chariot

Tempest Wings
Don a pair of Tempest Wings, showing off your mastery of the CO world. Hover in the mystery land with the aid of wings which can also lift your attributes. In addition to Miraculous Gourd, Magical Bottle, Heaven Fan and Star Tower, Tempest Wings is the fifth and also the last Talisman in the world of Conquer.

Perfection System
A good set of equipment brings bonus damage, defense power, HP and other attributes, putting heroes at an advantage during battles. This system renders players’ weapons stronger and more powerful. Forging equipment in “Perfection System” is a path to achieving greater strength.

The Soul of Ancient Hero
The Souls of Ancient Heroes are helpers to fight alongside you. Guan Yu, The Monkey King, Zhuge Liang, Prince of Persia and other Souls of Ancient Heroes will fight alongside players. Players can collect as many Souls of Ancient Hero as they can. Five Souls of Ancient Heroes can be summoned at the same time to fight with players. Unlike teammates, The Souls of Ancient Heroes are not only a player’s own servants, but also offers the ability to transform into a Soul of Ancient Hero.

The Soul of Ancient Hero
Presently, the Co team is on the way to upgrade the in-game graphics and better the experience of gameplay. Train yourself and embrace the opening of the Realm!

Stay tuned for more coverage of Conquer Online 3.0 expansion. For more information about the new line, check out the Official website of CO 3.0.

4Story M: Flying Dragon Arrows Official Launch

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Zemi Interactive, Inc., Korea’s leading MMORPG developer and service provider of a famous free to play MMO “4Story” and “Travia2” has announced today that it will launch its first ever mobile game called 4Story M: Flying Dragon Arrows.

After years confined to MMORPG pc games, Zemi interactive is finally launching the mobile version of its games. Flying Dragon Arrows, as you can see in the sub title, it will be focusing on both the flying arrows and the dragon riding actions.

The motto of 4STORY M: FLYING DRAGON ARROWS was based on the old Cabal Shooter style action game called Blood Bros. The game tries to convey the old school game into modern 3D action archer game. This is why you have the dodge function in the game. The players will need to jump from left to right while shooting down the players’ opponents. Sometimes the players may have to focus their shooting powers on the Boss Monsters only while avoiding the minions or they won’t have enough time to complete the game.

Upgrade up to +7 using in-game money only, upgrade till the top using Odin, our premium currency. For each chapter, you will need a whole set of gears to upgrade starting from scratch. Of course, your item will have greater powers compared to the last chapter’s item. But so will the dominions and boss monsters.

There will also be some costumes for the players to customize and Dragons to hatch starting at level 3. Once the dragon hatches, click on the PvP button and ride on your dragon to combat the opponents on a one on one aerial combat. The players will have three turns each to shoot down the continuously moving opponents. After your 3 turns, it will be the players’ turn to avoid the flying arrows.

4STORY M: FLYING DRAGON ARROWS FEATURES:

DRAGON RIDERS

  • The sky is the limit
  • Reach level 3 and get your own dragon
  • It’s time you take your dragon out from your dungeon and into the sky for a magnificent aerial combat between Dragon Riders
  • Take three turns each and shoot down your opponent

RUSH YOUR HERO INTO EXTRA MISSIONS FROM THE DARK AND DIFFICULT

  • In between mission will give you extra missions.
  • These missions will give you extra loots and items to prepare you for the next stage.

LOTTERY!

  • At the end of each mission, there will be lottery chances.
  • With 6 chances, you will get the chance to earn yourself some good equipment, game money or arrows (ticket to enter the game).

ACHIEVEMENT SYSTEMS

  • Rush your hero through the daily quest or achievement system to gain valuable Odins.
  • Odin is a premium currency for you to use to power up your Hero.

DODGE GAME!

  • Dodge the flying arrows. Hone your dodging skills. It’s not Dodge Ball! * It’s Dodge Game!
  • Use your skills while dodging your enemies!

INNOVATIVE SKILL-AIMING CONTROLS

  • Pull, hold and shoot! Just like a real arrow, feel the pulling sensation with innovative skill-aiming controls.

UPGRADE YOUR GEARS FOR MAXIMUM DAMAGE

  • Tune your long bow!
  • Something to collect and grow to the finest value.

HEAVENLY HEROES OF FLYING DRAGON ARROWS DETOUR

  • Travel around the virtual world of 4STORY M: FLYING DRAGON ARROWS and feel the magnificence in various stages.

SPECIAL JUST FOR YOU

  • Complete your style via specially manufactured costumes.

4STORY M: FLYING DRAGON ARROWS brings role playing games, long bow action style hunt and real time Dragon War strategy PvP together in intense defense style battles. 4STORY M: FLYING DRAGON ARROWS is free to download; get it today and rush into battle!

Path of Exile: The Awakening Launches Today

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Grinding Gear Games announced that Path of Exile: The Awakening will go live today at 12:00 p.m. PDT. The biggest and most far-reaching expansion of the game to date, Path of Exile: The Awakening takes the player on a dark journey as they descend into the depths of nightmare. Great secrets about the world of Wraeclast will be discovered and even greater battles will be fought.

“The Awakening will be a game-changer,” says MMORPG, while MMOHuts goes so far as to proclaim The Awakening to be “the most bat shit crazy expansion ever to shake up the island of exiles.” “Oh, yes,” adds MassivelyOP. “Act IV will be the hard act to follow.”

“That’s the thing they continue to do with Path of Exile, in particular The Awakening,” says GameSpot. “It’s ‘how many different ways can we make players happy?'”

Since the game’s release in October 2013, Path of Exile has exploded into more than just a community of 11.2 million players worldwide, it has become a massive RPG phenomenon… and it is about to get even bigger! Path of Exile: The Awakening is more than just Path of Exile’s fourth act – it improves and expands upon every aspect of the game. With a crazy new twist on the iconic Passive Skill Tree and numerous systems changes, this expansion has been internally dubbed Path of Exile Version 2.0.0. The Awakening completely changes the Path of Exile experience and includes new items, monsters, maps, skills, and many quality of life improvements suggested by the Path of Exile community.

Gamers can get an in-depth look at Path of Exile: The Awakening next week during the MLB All-Star break when World Champion San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence and Lexi Cozombolides play the game live on the Let’sGetLexi Twitch broadcast!

Path of Exile: The Awakening Features:

  • Act IV Is Here! Act IV continues Path of Exile’s storyline. The time has finally come to venture into the center of corruption itself and drive a blade through its black heart.
  • Explore Beyond Highgate: For the first time since launch, The Awakening introduces completely new areas, monsters and end-game maps to expand the world of Wraeclast.
  • Defeat Legendary Bosses: Experience climactic boss encounters with characters from Wraeclast’s past such as Shavronne, Doedre, Malachai and many more.
  • Powerful New Skill Gems: With new classes of skills such as elemental Golems that fight by your side, warcries and several new support gems, players are able to create new clever and intricate builds.
  • Socketable Passive Tree: Collect and craft Jewels that can be socketed into the Passive Tree to drastically change the tree itself.
  • Masses of New Gear: Find more than 110 new Unique Items and discover an entirely new set of equipment, the Maraketh Weapons.
  • User Experience Improvements: Extensive user interface improvements, added more customization options and implemented many community-suggested changes.

ARK: Survival Evolved First Impressions: Can You Survive Amongst Dinosaurs?

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By Mohammad Abubakr

 

 

Ever since the rise of DayZ, we have seen an influx of survival games on PC. With games like Rust and H1Z1, it is now prime time for fans of survival games. Published and developed by Studio Wildcard (along with Instinct Games, Efecto Studios and Virtual Basement), ARK: Survival Evolved is a survival game taking place on an island called ARK. The game is still in its very early stages with the full release planned for June 2016 but there is already a lot of content available for players. With the gained popularity through word of mouth and popular twitch streamers, it is no surprise to see ARK: Survival Evolved selling over a million copies in less than a month, securing its spot at the top of Steam’s top sellers list. Read on for my first impressions on ARK: Survival Evolved.

 

On an island called ARK, you play as a stranded man or woman (coming soon) that starts out with nothing but their undergarments. You must hunt, harvest resources, fight, and do anything you have to in order to survive. The game can be played on a local server or online with each server storing separate survivors for each player. This means that you cannot carry over your character or items, and you are forced to stick to one server. There is functionality to import survivors but this is not officially supported for now. In the beta stages of the game, you can only change the proportions of your survivor but you cannot change the features such as hair and eyes. It is likely that additional customization options will become available as the game nears release.

 

Once you have created your survivor, you’re thrown into the game without any guide or objectives; the way you survive is up to you. You can choose to begin hunting right away, gather berries, break down trees, or simply explore. There are so many options available to players in ARK that it can be quite overwhelming at first. I personally began by gathering some berries for food and breaking down trees to build tools.

 

While you do have complete freedom when it comes to how you want to play, you cannot just craft everything from the beginning. Just having the resources is not enough for crafting, you must also have learned the crafting recipe. As you play the game, you gain experience points through almost all tasks such as gathering and fighting. After gaining sufficient experience and leveling up, players are able to increase their survivor’s stats such as health, increased weight limit, and stamina. Alongside these stats, you gain Engram points that can be used to unlock crafting recipes.

 

Ark: Survival Evolved Beta Impressions

There are many items available for crafting.

Having to unlock crafting recipes can be good or bad depending on who you ask. I don’t mind the leveling system too much as it somewhat guides new players rather than overwhelming them with hundreds of craftables from the get go. It can be a bit annoying being forced to level up again to unlock recipes when changing servers or after server wipes, but it is not a big deal. I’m sure we’ll see more servers with this limit removed as the game evolves and more mods get added.

So far, what we have seen are features you would expect to find in all survival games. You can explore, craft, and play at your own pace. However, dinosaurs are not something you expect to find in all survival games. Every time I run into a new dinosaur or prehistoric creature, I sit there and stare for a while. It might just be my love for dinosaurs, but the addition of dinosaurs is amazing for ARK. You can either hunt these dinosaurs or even tame them as your own. That’s right, you can tame dinosaurs! Once tamed, dinosaurs can act as your security, or mounts for battle or just to get around faster.

The taming process is quite straight forward. You simply knock out your target and feed it while it is unconscious. As the creature eats your food, it’s taming bar fills up. You must feed herbivores berries and carnivores meat. Depending on the type of creature, it can either be easy or very hard to tame. I suggest starting out by taming a small dodo bird for practice, they also make great pets. There are many types of dinosaurs and creatures available in the game with many more on the way. You can find big dinosaurs, small dinosaurs, fast dinosaurs, slow dinosaurs, and even airborne dinosaurs.

 

Ark: Survival Evolved Beta Impressions

Dinosaurs are a great way to get around the map.

When I first started playing ARK, I was wandering around for a long time and always getting lost or killed. As you play the game more, you begin to learn the ins and outs of the island called ARK. While the creatures and resources can change, the layout of the island remains the same. There is no simple in game map system but you can craft GPS devices or compasses. You must survive and find your way around using landmarks. I recommend building your base near some recognizable area such as the beach side or high mountain. I can’t count the number of times I have gotten lost and had to restart or suicide for a respawn. The map can take quite some time to get used to.

This learning curve can be lowered by joining a Tribe (guild). I was lucky enough to find a nice group of people on an official server that showed me around, gave me some starter gear, and a place to stay. While your experience may vary, I found the community to be quite nice during my time spent playing ARK. I highly recommend playing this game with a group, whether they be random people or friends.

So far everything has been great but the game wouldn’t be in beta if there weren’t some problems. There is already a lot of content offered in ARK, but the game is not very optimized. Even on my relatively high end system, I was not able to max out the game and still achieve playable frame rates. I resorted to tweaking the game’s settings which greatly improved the game’s performance at the cost of visual appeal. I would choose higher frame rates over visuals any day; it is no fun playing a game at 20 frames per second.

The developers are hard at work and release a new patch every couple of days. They are now focused on optimizing the game in hopes of making it run better on all systems. While the game does look great at high settings, there is no reason that it should require high end PCs to play, even at low settings (Note: My definition of play means having a good frame rate). I hope to see improved performance and other bug fixes in the near future. My friend was unable to even start up the game but thanks to Steam’s refund feature, there is no reason for you to not try out the game.

 

Ark: Survival Evolved Beta Impressions

Just looking at dinosaurs can keep me entertained.

Conclusion: So Far So Good
In conclusion, ARK in its early stages is looking very very promising. I do not usually play these kinds of survival games (closest games I’ve played for over a hundred hours are Minecraft and Terraria), but I had a blast during my time spent on ARK. There is already 100s of hours of content available for players with much more on the way. With a game like ARK, the developers do not need to add much content. Your creativity alone can keep you playing for a long time. However, the developers are still hard at work to pump out all the tools your creativity needs to build a story all your own. I am personally looking forward to further optimizations so that when I try out the game once again down the road, with some friends once the game runs for them, I can play it with smooth frame rates AND great visuals.

There is a large following behind this game, including many mods already available on the Steam workshop. With so many invested in it, the game’s success is almost ensured. As long as the developers continue on the same path and do not push too many drastic changes, the future is looking bright for ARK: Survival Evolved. I highly recommend trying out this game even during the beta stages but if you have a weaker machine, I would wait for some more optimizations before jumping in to experience the game in its full glory.