Conan Exiles has been updated with a bunch of performance and gameplay improvements
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Conan Exiles is an open-world survival game currently in Early Access. It features plenty of exploration, crafting, angry twelve-year-olds that want to steal all of your stuff, cannibalistic gods that you can summon to feast upon the flesh of your enemies, and that sort of standard survival game stuff. Naturally, it also features a wide array of bugs and assorted performance issues, some of which were so severe that I couldn't even play the game until a week ago!
Thankfully, it does appear that Funcom is being quite consistent with the patching process. They fixed most of 'my' performance issues with a patch last week, and already they have released another update focused around performance, bugfixing, and gameplay balance. You can find all of the details over at Steam, but if you're just interested in the 'short version', here's all of the performance and balance changes:
World of Warcraft's patch 7.2 will add a "Sets" tab to the transmogrification system
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For those of you that haven't played World of Warcraft in quite a while, the transmogrification system allows you to replace the appearance of your weapons and armor with the appearance of items you've previously collected. While the system itself is perfectly fine, the list of armor pieces and weapons is nigh impossible to browse through on older characters given that they have pages upon pages of items that all have incredibly similar icons.
This little annoyance will thankfully be getting fixed with Patch 7.2 as Blizzard is planning to add a "Sets" tab to the transmogrification system. The idea is to allow players to quickly and easily scroll through all of the available sets for their class, see which items they have collected, and then simply take on that appearance with the click of a button. No more scrolling through pages of junk in order to hunt down all 8 parts of a set!
Chaos Dwarfs and the undead warriors of Khemri have arrived to Blood Bowl 2
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Blood Bowl 2, in the most basic terms, is an insane combination of American football and Warhammer brutality. Each match features about as many murders as it does touchdowns, mostly because half of the 'athletes' are Orks, Chaos abominations, or other such lovely inhabitants of the Warhammer universe. As it turns out, when you have two groups of highly aggressive and incredibly deadly creatures staring each other face to face, "playing ball" isn't really the first thing that comes to their mind!
Things are soon going to become even more interesting as Blood Bowl 2 has just added the Chaos Dwarfs and the Egyptian themed undead warriors of Khemri as playable faction. If you own the Team Pack bundle the two factions will be instantly unlocked for you, while everyone else will need to spend €7 per each new faction in order to see them spill blood on the field of... football?
Season 3 of Overwatch Competitive Play is ending on February 21st, Season 4 starts on February 28th
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If you're anywhere near the next skill tier in Overwatch you might want to do one last push as the end of Season 3 is drawing ever-closer. More specifically, Season 3 of Competitive Play will be concluding this February 21st at 4:00pm PST / February 22nd at 0:00 UTC. As for Season 4, it will launch after a week-long interlude on February 28th at 4:00pm PST / March 1st at 0:00 UTC.
Your rewards, much like how it worked in the past, will be based on the highest rating you've achieved this season, so don't be afraid to continue playing even if you've reached your goal for this month. And if you're wondering how much Competitive Points awaits you in the future, here's a brief breakdown of what each skill tier brings to the table:
EA's Origin Access service is now running a limited free trial with full access to all "Vault" games
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Origin Access is EA's subscription based service that provides early previews of new games, discounts on all purchases done via Origin, and most importantly, full access to a whole bunch of games found within the "Vault". The service is normally priced at $5 per month or $30 per year, but for a limited time you can give it a free try with the newly introduced seven-day trial. You can find everything you need to know about the free trial over at the official website.
As for the games themselves, you can find a full list of what's available over at Origin. But as the Vault has grown in size the list has become fairly unwieldy to read, so here's a slightly smaller list of what I consider the most interesting games in there:
NieR: Automata now has an extremely lengthy gameplay video showcasing the open world content
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For those of you that might not know, NieR: Automata is Platinum Games' upcoming action RPG set in a vast, open-world environment. It will be arriving on March 7th in North America and March 10th in Europe and Australia, though its still unknown whether the PC and PS4 versions will be launching simultaneously.
Now that we're on the same page, you'll find the most recent gameplay video right below. It features around 30 minutes of open world gameplay, tons of roaming around, and naturally, plenty of combat as well. There are absolutely no spoilers as far as I can figure out, so feel free to give the video a look even if you want to have a completely fresh experience. Anyway, here's the video:
GOG is running a sale on their most-wishlisted games, including the entire Witcher series
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If you're up for grabbing some high quality games you might want to check out GOG's "From Wishlists, With Love" sale. It features over 70 of the most-wishlisted games ever (as well as their DLC packs apparently), and it will run for the next five day, or until February 20th to be specific.
You can grab The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition, Darkest Dungeon, and Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition at a 50% discount, while classic games such as Psychonauts and Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura feature 90% and 75% discounts respectively. All of this is just the tip of the iceberg, however, so make sure to check out the sale for yourself - you might just find something of interest.