Yearly Archives: 2018

Conquer Online Surging Pirates Expansion Giveaway

Pirate Class will finally have Epic Quest and Epic Weapons in April. The Surging Pirates Expansion will be updated on April 12th. To celebrate the release of new expansion, the Conquer Online (http://co.99.com/) team joins hands with OnRPG to provide wonderful gift packs for new players to challenge numerous martial artists in the world of Conquer!Conquer Online Event

Conquer Online is a free PVP MMORPG which features Free to Play, Skill to Win. In Conquer Online, you can choose from 9 awesome classes and become a martial arts master. While exploring the ancient oriental fantasy world, you also can make friends with other players all over the world, organize a guild, and even get married. Complete quests, challenge fierce monsters, enhance gear and finally you’ll become the conqueror of the world of fighters. Since launched, Conquer Online has attracted over 10 million players worldwide. Join and prove yourself on the world-class stage now!


Players will get a set of level 15 super +3 equipment (B) to start the new journey, there will also be gifts including EXP Balls, Dragon Balls and + stones to support a new player.

Overlord Pirate Pack:

EXP Ball (B) * 10; EXP Potion (B) * 10; 3-Day Mew Accessory Pack * 1; +3 Stone (B) * 7; +3 Steed (B) * 1; Dragon Ball (B) * 5; 30-Day Wild Camel Mount Armor; 30-Day Imperial Robe Garment; Pirate Treasure Box.

Novice Equipment Pack:

Open to get a set of level 15 Super +3 equipment (B) of your class.

Event Rules:

  1. Event Duration: April 12th to May 11th (PDT)
  2. One gift code per account per IP.
  3. Only for the new players who have successfully registered during the event.

How to Redeem Your Gift Code?

Step 1: Sign up for FREE on our Event Page (https://coevent.99.com/mediagiftpack/)

Step 2: Download the game and login to create a new character. Click START TO PLAY CO on the event page to download client.

Step 3: Come back to the Event Page (https://coevent.99.com/mediagiftpack/). Submit your character info and your gift code to claim your gift packs!

Step 4: Login to the game and claim your prizes from your in-game mailbox by clicking on the mailbox button on the top right corner of the game screen.

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Dead in Vinland Review

by Andrew Skelton (Outfoxed)

There’s something positively satisfying about survival games, even if I’m not the best at them.  Maybe it’s the thought that you know better than everyone else, so you’ll do much better. Perhaps it’s learning from prior mistakes to go further each subsequent attempt. Dead in Vinland, developed by CCCP and published by Playdius and Plug In Digital, gives you a chance to prove your survival skills.  A sequel to their previous title, Dead in Bermuda, Vinland expands on the original in several ways, such as more building options, an expanded map, and actual combat to overcome. Can it provide a true survival game experience?

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Every Viking’s An Island

Dead in Vinland puts you in control of four survivors from the outset.  This family escaped the wrath of the Viking Jarl who sought their demise, only to end up deserted on a strange island.  Almost immediately they’re accosted by the self-proclaimed lord of the isle, who demands tribute every week, or he’ll come and slaughter the lot of them like cattle.

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Sure, it’s a simple story, but it does work for this narrative.  The family comes to the island with very little, and has to scavenge the longboat they arrived on for sundry to keep them afloat until they can scrounge more from the land they’ve found themselves on.  The game’s tutorial does a good job of showing you the basics of survival in this regard. It shows you how to assign one of your survivors to the various tasks you can complete, such as crafting, exploration, or scavenging.  The tutorial also teaches additional important steps like managing food and water. There are some things the tutorial doesn’t cover in-depth, such as the complex relationship system, but it’s quite adequate for everything else.

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The Right Job for the Person

As expected from any survival game, Dead in Vinland has you managing the well-being of your survivors.  Each one has five primary stats that must be monitored: fatigue, hunger, sickness, injury, and depression.  If any of these attributes reach 100%, that character will die — if any of the four starting family die, it’s game over.  Fatigue raises just by performing actions, and can be lowered nightly through sleep, or taking a rest in the shelter during the day.  Hunger raises naturally at the end of the day. Sickness is raised by consuming raw foods meant to be cooked, amongst other things. Injuries are sustained through combat, and require medicine to heal.  Finally, depression increases by performing certain tasks. All of these attributes can also be raised or lowered depending on which (if any) random events you encounter through game play.

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Of course, you can’t just have everyone while away their days in the shelter either.  In order to succeed and survive, you need to build up your resources. You need to keep a constant eye on your water supply.  Characters who spend too long without water will die within days; funny how art imitates life in such subtle ways. The basics of the game then become managing your resources versus managing the needs of your survivors.  Yeah, it sounds like every other survival game out there, I recognize, but each of the survivors have their own relationships with the other characters at the camp, and given the events of the game, these relationships can change and evolve.  For example, even within the first couple of days, I could already see the cracks forming in the otherwise happy family.

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Construction Woes

When you start, your camp is pretty sparse.  You have a shelter, some water barrels, and an exploration camp.  There’s also your wrecked ship you can salvage, but that has limited gathers before it’s depleted.  The most important, immediate station you can use is the crafting station, which allows you to build over a dozen additional structures.  For example, you can build a lumber yard to increase your stockpile of wood, or a fishing hut in order to catch tasty sea meats. Building another station will require you to spend some of your resources, though, so this becomes yet another resource management section of the game.

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The camp stations also require upkeep to ensure they’re working efficiently (guess what, this also consumes resources!).  You need to keep your fire stoked at all times too, as its condition drops nightly, and whenever you convert non-potable water into drinking water.  There’s a reason why the game recommends you build a lumber yard first, after all. Thankfully, you’ll also eventually gain access to upgrade your buildings, making them more efficient or enabling multiple people to work on them at once.  That latter facet is where relationship strength really comes into play. Survivors with a higher bond work best together, and will receive more resources or progress working together than those with a lower bond.

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Twenty Questions

Every character in Dead in Vinland has their own strengths and weaknesses.  Everyone has skills spread out across twenty different options, broken down into four categories:  physical, mental, concentration, and endurance. Physical and mental skills contain what most would consider basic RPG stats such as Strength and Intelligence (respectively), while concentration focuses mostly on crafting skill and endurance on gathering skill.  Every task you set your survivors to is based on these skills, so setting the right person to the right job is very important. Thankfully, as characters perform tasks, they become more proficient in them, so if you’ve nothing else to send someone on, use them to build skills.  Keep in mind, your five primary stats do influence their success significantly, with fatigue affecting them all. Even your best hunter will find it hard to succeed when tired and hungry, for instance.

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Each character has somewhat random assortment of traits when they start, too, which can influence a lot about the character.  For instance, they may be better at handling animals, but as such, aren’t suited towards gardening. Characters level up by performing tasks, and each level gives them a choice of one of four skills, chosen at random.  This is where RNG can truly doom you, as I had a couple of occasions where the negative aspect of certain perks available really hindered how I was using the character, and I had no truly positive option to take. Still, that can be expected from a survival game, since it’s all about doing better each time.

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Ruining Their Day

One big difference Dead in Vinland has from its predecessor is a full-fledged combat system.  Up to three survivors can participate in each battle. From what I played, they seem to all fall into one of four archetypes:  tank, melee, ranged, support. If there are additional styles, blame my bad luck! Each unit has a certain amount of health. If that counter goes to 0, they’re removed from battle, and suffer serious wounds after combat.  Some units also have armor, which is removed before health. If a unit still has armor remaining at the end of the fight, they don’t suffer injuries.

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When combat initiates, enemies and allies will be in one of two rows: melee or ranged.  These aren’t concrete, however, as all units being in the same row, regardless of whether it’s front or back, automatically makes that row melee.  Units have up to four skills they can utilize, each costing a variety of action points. You can move rows at the cost of a single action point, or you can give up any remaining actions you have for the round to gain an additional point the next turn of combat.  Turn order is displayed on the top of the battle screen and is determined by a unit’s initiative. Higher initiative means you get to act before the enemy, so I definitely consider it an important combat stat to hopefully avoid injury.

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Final Thoughts: Good (3.5/5)

Dead in Vinland surprised me a bit.  I was expecting a robust survival game, for sure, but to have such a robust RPG experience tacked on to it was nothing short of impressive.  As with most of these games, RNG can be particularly brutal though. While it makes sense in the narrative of the story, getting additional survivors from a variety of areas jarred me initially (from Vikings to African poets to Tomoe Gozen, the game has all sorts).  I also highly recommend playing at least on normal, as the game’s easy mode seems to trivialize a lot of the strategy and content. Music and sound were adequate — combat’s Darkest Dungeon-esque sounds were particularly nice — but I definitely felt the characters could be a bit more expressive.  Sure, there’s a lot of emotion packed into this story, but only Eirik (the father) seemed properly capable of showcasing it at times. All in all, though, Dead in Vinland combines survival and role-playing into a very complex package, so fans of either may want to check it out.
Note: A game key was provided for review purposes.

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Banner Saga 3 Launch Date Announced

Banner Saga 3 officially has a launch date, and on that fated day, July 24th, 2018, PC, Mac, Playstation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch will all receive the final part of the Banner Saga trilogy. Fans who pre-order the PC version through Steam or through other digital retailers will receive the following as an in-game bonus:

  • Dredge Stoneguard Character – Rank 10 Hero called Kivi
  • Unique Combat Ability: Tank
  • Unique Dredge Item – Sculptor’s Tools
  • Exclusive Dredge Heraldry
  • Unique Heroic Title: “Shield Cleaver’
  • Exclusive Banner Saga 3 Overture Track – by Grammy-nominated and two-time BAFTA-winning composer Austin Wintory

The Standard Edition will be 24.99 on PC, and the Deluxe Edition will be priced at 29.99 and include the soundtrack in addition to a digital wallpaper, world map, and ‘Gold Wasp’ in-game title. The Banner Saga 3 Legendary Edition is priced at $39.99 and includes everything that comes in the Deluxe Edition as well as the exclusive ‘Shadow Walker’ Heroic Title, the ‘Petrie Clan Ring’ exclusive legendary item and digital novel ‘Gift of Hadrborg’. 505 Games will also be publishing a physical retail package, The Banner Saga Trilogy: Bonus Edition – for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 priced at $39.99.  The Bonus Edition will enable RPG fans to dive headlong into the entire Viking adventure and will include Banner Sagas 1, 2 and 3 plus a mini art book, poster, best of the soundtrack and in-game digital item.  It will be available at major game retailers on July 24th in the US and July 27th in Europe. A digital PC Bonus Edition featuring all three games will also be available.

Prepare to embark upon the final journey beyond the wall of Darkness to traverse into a world unlike anything encountered in the previous titles. Story secrets will be brought to light and character motives will be made clear finally. The end has come.

Banner Saga 3 will maintain the legacy created by the previous two games in the series. Even more exciting is the fact that in addition to PC we are bringing Banner Saga 3 to PlayStation 4, Microsoft’s XBox One and the Nintendo Switch simultaneously at launch. Stoic have created a trilogy that will stand the test of time as one of the best RPGs ever created and one that has resonated with fans from all over the world.  This is it! This is the end. If there was ever a time to experience the Banner Saga it is now.” Adds Versus Evil General Manager, Steve Escalante.

 

Space Rangers Legacy Available on iOS and Android

Space Rangers Legacy

It’s time to destroy the cybernetic fleet and save the Universe! Space Rangers Legacy, the legendary series has come to mobile and tablet, where it’s your job to help the Coalition oppose the cybernetic Dominators, who aim to conquer all galaxies – one-star system after another. While players explore the game, the star systems undergo changes of power, even the quest objectives might change or even perish in this sandbox-style game. Each playthrough promises to be unique as you meet new races, work on planetary research, and do battle with space pirates.

Compared to the earlier iPad-only version this release features multiple changes following the voice of community:

  • Fully re-done “Tutorial”
  • Enhanced graphics, additional SFX added;
  • Developed new expanded and user-friendly interface, adapted for modern mobile platforms;
  • Improved auto-attack
  • The game has been optimized and cleaned off multiple minor bugs

 

FPS Ballistic Overkill Joins Steam Free Weekend Today

Aquiris and Green Man Gaming are celebrating the Anniversary Update of Ballistic Overkill with a Free Weekend on Steam from the 12th to the 16th of April 2018. It introduces 2 new female characters, Wraith and Tank, and gives players the ability to equip multiple accessories at the same time, new weapon skins and off-season crates.

“We are very excited to be celebrating Ballistic Overkill’s first birthday and would like to take this opportunty to thank all our fans who have supported the game throughout” commented Sandro Manfredini, CEO of Aquiris. “We are very happy with how well the game has been received by the community and proud to be listed in Steam’s Silver tier recognizing the top games that left Early Access in 2017. The Steam Free Weekend and our 50% off promotion will hopefully introduce Ballistic Overkill to a new audience of fans helping to further support the game.”

 

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia Reveals New Politics & Intrigue System

The latest video from Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia shows off some of the new plots and tricks you can pull in a sea of politics and intrigue. Bribery, arranged marriages, gifts and when necessary – Assassination. It’s an uneasy political climate following Alfred the Great’s victory over the Viking invaders, and the various kings of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Danes are all looking for their opportunity. Ambition is rising and loyalty is at a premium.

Fight for Survival in Dead in Vinland, Out Now on PC and Mac

Survival Management Simulator, Dead in Vinand is officially out, published by Playdius and developed by CCCP, for both PC and Mac for 19.99 (with a launch discount of 10% on Steam, GOG and Origin until Thursday, April 19th). Focused on player choice, the game pulls from many genres, with survival management/RPG systems and elements. With three modes of difficulty, randomized elements, and over 150 map areas to explore, there are lots of things to see and do among the 70 non-linear quests to reach the end and find out the fate of your characters.

“We’re overjoyed to release at last our little baby after 2 years of intense development! We can’t wait to see how players will struggle to survive and see the end of this journey into Hell, and what strategies they will discover that even ourselves weren’t aware of,” said Matthieu Richez, CEO of CCCP and Lead Game Designer. “We’ll offer a good beer to the first player who reaches the end of the game in hard + true Viking mode… Good luck!

Key features of Dead in Vinland include:

  • Deep survival management simulation: Find and gather resources, secure supplies of food, manage the physical and mental health of your team, fight diseases and wounds, ration water supplies, and face terrible storms and droughts
  • Challenging and turn-based: Randomized elements make it so there is no perfect strategy. Take your time and adapt to the situation to make the best decisions! With turn-based gameplay you have the time to make the best decisions. You’ll have to adapt to any crisis the game throws your way
  • Three modes of difficulty: One for enjoying the story, another for a challenging story, and the third for an extremely difficult mode that even the developers can’t beat!
  • Manage your community of up to 14 playable characters: Each with their own strengths, flaws, and unique stories, influence how their relationships evolve with meaningful dialog choices, and expect possible romances and betrayals
  • Build your camp: Craft more than 130 upgrades for bonuses and expand your shelter with 18 activity stations, each with its own contributing mechanics
  • Live your own adventure: complete 70 non-linear quests to reach the end of the game and learn about what happened to your characters after the end depending on your choices
  • An island to explore: Featuring over 150 map areas with hundreds of objects to interact with as players can unveil the many secrets of the island and its beautiful, hand-painted landscapes
  • Full RPG system: Usable objects, skills to upgrade, characters to level-up, and randomly generated character traits every time they level up
  • Tactical turn-based combat system: Quick and deadly 3v3 battles with five unique playable character classes, each with its own set of fighting skills, and five passive classes