Yearly Archives: 2018

Killing Floor 2 – Halloween Horrors: Monster Masquerade Update Launches Today

The largest update for Killing Floor 2 drops today for both PC and console – Halloween Horrors: Monster Masquerade. This free update has a new map in the form of the Monster Ball, Halloween makeovers for all zeds and bosses (new models, effects, sounds). New weapons, limited-time items, improved matchmaking are all hallmarks of this update. In addition, following the recent announcement that Tripwire Interactive will expand its role as a developer to include game publishing — and its partnership with ROAD REDEMPTION developer EQ-Games to bring the critically acclaimed action racer to consoles — today’s update also connects the worlds of Killing Floor 2 and ROAD REDEMPTION for the very first time.

Players who own both Killing Floor 2 and Road Redemption in their Steam library will gain access to an exclusive in-game crossover as well. The Road Redeemer is a weapon Killing Floor 2 players can wield, which is wrapped in barbed wire and is suited for the Berserker class. This bat is a favored weapon of the road warriors of Road Redemption, and speaking of Road Redemption, two new riders are joining the game from Killing Floor 2. Hans Volter and DJ Skully are crossing over, and the crossover will be available on console when Road Redemption hits consoles later in the year.

 

Features of Halloween Horrors: Monster Masquerade Update:

  • New Map: Monster Ball
  • Test your mettle in this brand-new map with limited-time event objectives and rewards.
  • New Looks Halloween Makeover
  • Celebrate Halloween with a full makeover for all enemies and bosses with new models, visual effects, and sound effects.
  • New Tunes
  • Lend us your ears for new main menu tracks, action tracks, and trader time tracks.
  • New Weapons
  • MKB42 – Commando
  • HZ Medic Assault Rifle/Grenade Launcher – Field Medic/Commando
  • FN-Fal – Sharpshooter / Commando
  • ROAD REDEMPTION Exclusive Weapon: The Road Redeemer
  • This chained bat for the Berserker class is available exclusively on Steam for players with ROAD REDEMPTION in their Steam library.

TERA – Reach Your Apex Giveaway

We have teamed up with En Masse Entertainment to give away some items for TERA in the “Reach Your Apex” Giveaway.

TERA - Reach Your Apex Giveaway

Redeem your key to get the following items in TERA:

1 – 30-day Duskwing Mount: Use this manual to learn how to summon Duskwing, a dragon mount with a Flight and Movement Speed of 290 that restores 1% of your max HP and MP every second. Learning this flying skill also grants you the passive skill Tenebris Rex, which provides a chance to increase your Crit Power by a factor of 1.5. While mounted, you may use the skill Dark Roar, which increases the damage you deal to monsters for a short time after you dismount. Using Dark Roar starts a 24-hour cooldown which may prevent the use of other mount skills.
1 – ALL YOUR TOWER ARE BELONG TO US permanent head accessory: Somebody set us up the bonnet.
1 – On Fire Effect potion: Fire engulfs you, increasing your Attack Speed by 5%, while reducing your HP by 75% and healing you receive by 85%. Your body burns brightly!
3 – Friendly Feat consumables: A spicy repast consisting of Freeholds Flame Salad, Traditional Bleakfields BBQ, and Bleak Wings. Increases restored HP by 9% for 15 minutes, maximum HP and MP by 5%, and Crit Resistance by 20. Affects you and up to 20 people within a 20m radius.
20 – Valkyon Health Potions: Potion supplied by the Valkyon Federation. Recovers 50% of your HP.

To redeem your key, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to https://account.enmasse.com and create a new En Masse account or log into an existing one.
  2. Click the “Redeem Code” button from the “Account Overview” page.
  3. Enter your code and hit “Submit”.
  4. Launch TERA and log in. If you haven’t installed TERA, download it here.
  5. Claim your items from your in-game Item Claim.

Restrictions: Keys are only redeemable through the North American version of TERA published by En Masse Entertainment.

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Graveyard Keeper Review

By Terris Harned (NWOrpheus)

With a name like Graveyard Keeper it would be understandable if images of some sort of gothic horror game popped into your head. What the folks over at Lazy Bear Games delivered however comes across more as Stardew Valley meets The Addams Family. And it’s glorious.

After a terrible accident, your character arrives in a strange land, by way of a mysterious red-eyed stranger who he meets in a mist filled limbo. He’s instructed to go and dig up a guy named Gerry. It just so happens that Gerry is nothing more than a talking skull with a penchant for booze. Gerry is just the first of a long list of zany characters you’ll meet in your (mis?)adventures in this strange land.


Quite the motley crew.

As I said, at its core, Graveyard Keeper has a lot of Stardew Valley in it, and mostly plays like any other Harvest Moon clone. You have an energy bar that you use to plant crops, chop trees, break down rocks and boulders, build structures and a variety of other tasks. Each task, in theory, promotes you towards being able to do other things, whether it’s buy more seeds to plant new crops (via selling crops for money) or get new tools. The core gameplay really is the plant, water, harvest, sell, buy seeds, repeat cycle.

In Graveyard Keeper though it goes one step beyond. Periodically you’ll receive deliveries of corpses from a surly communist donkey. As the Graveyard Keeper, it’s up to you to prepare these corpses for burial, carry them to the graveyard, bury them, and decorate the grave. As you decorate the graves, your graveyard gains a sort of prestige status. This will make the local Bishop happy. Making NPCs happy is one of the other core tenets of the game and will open up additional options for gameplay. Keeping the donkey happy, for example, will ensure he keeps you knee deep in fresh corpses. Not keeping him happy will result in… other things.


This jackass is full of shit.

NPCs also give you a variety of quests and tasks. Some may want you to grow crops, others will want pieces from corpses, and some might want you to bring them a forged stamp so that they can sell your meat as officially approved meat by the local government. I mean, he doesn’t even stop to ask what sort of meat you, a graveyard keeper, might be bringing him. He’s a solid guy, that tavern keeper.

Back to the bishop. Once you get your graveyard cleaned up, you also get promoted to Prior of the local church. This allows you a couple benefits. One is access to the study below the church. This is where you can study various objects you find in order to further your knowledge of the world around you. This knowledge allows you to advance the technology tree and unlock new techniques, new buildings, new tools, et cetera.

The other major benefit of unlocking the church is actually performing sermons. Each week on a particular day (the days have shapes rather than names) you can perform a service for the local townsfolk. This service gains you faith points, as well as a few coins. Depending on what type of service you perform, it might also garner you a buff of some sort.


George Michael would approve

I will say that Graveyard Keeper might not be for everyone. It requires a deep appreciation of gallows humor and the ability to enjoy the macabre, even when it borders on cringeworthy. The hamburgers you sell to the tavern keeper aren’t cow. To be honest, I’ve never been able to bring myself to eat one. Despite that I’ve been able to enjoy the game immensely.

The sounds in the game are well placed, and some of the graphics details are more than a little impressive. The footprints you leave as you walk down the road, and the way the leaves shift in the wind really pull you into the game, even though it’s a 2D top down view.


This is that Burning Man thing I’ve been hearing so much about?

If dark humor is your thing, and you’ve found enjoyment in Harvest Moon clones in the past, you’re almost certain to find enjoyment in Graveyard Keeper. It is a bit grindy, as are most HM clones, and it does feel like perhaps there could be a bit more content. There’s pretty strong hints that such will come as DLC, which is greatly disappointing, but all the same, for the 20 dollar price-point, Graveyard Keeper is a great game to spend 40-50 hours on.

Final Rating: Good (3.5/5)

Note: A game key was provided for review purposes.

Phantomgate: The Last Valkyrie

Phantomgate: The Last Valkyrie is a F2P adventure role-playing game taking on a distinctly Norse-mythology theme. Explore unique environments, solve tricky puzzles, and engage in fast-paced combat eventually going head to head against the Mad King Odin to save your mother!

Features:

Gacha!: Collect and upgrade from 100s of phantoms to aid you in battle.

Revealing Secrets: Travel to various locations such as beautiful forests and brisk tundras uncovering the stories and narratives hiding just beneath the surface.

To Be the Best: Craft the perfect team and showcase your strength against players from around the world.

Dead Frontier 2

Dead Frontier 2 is a F2P 3rd-person shooter heavily focusing on online multiplayer survival. Join a group of survivors and hang on to dear life or wreck havoc as a lone wolf player-killer. Available for Windows.

Features:

Voyage into the Dark: Take on horrifying monsters and scavenge materials from their guarded environments.

Hidden Intentions: Barter for supplies with other players or forcefully take them as necessary.

Stronger Every Day: Train a variety of useful skills, it may just save your life one day.

Fear the Wolves

Fear the Wolves is a competitive FPS battle royale game dropping 100 players in a dangerously radioactive post-apocalyptic Chernobyl. Fight the wildlife, escape the weather, and kill everyone in your way to become the last man standing. Available for Windows.

Features:

Vulture Boy: Scavenge the environment for life-saving supplies including guns, attachments, consumables, armors, and more.

Tightening Grip: Escape the unstoppable radiation into smaller and smaller areas.

Fight or Flight: Quickly determine on the fly whether an engagement is worth taking when mutants and other environmental dangers close in.

Re-Spite

Re-Spite is a F2P 2D-isometric MMORPG allowing players to reshape and influence the game world as they see fit. Discover your place in the ecosystem and thrive with unprecedented freedom! Available for Windows.

Features:

Guts and Glory: Become the hero and take on skillful quests provided by unique npcs.

Gambling Man: Play the market economy and generate great riches.

It’s a Me: Customize your character with a large selection of cosmetic options.