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Total War: Warhammer 2 has been announced a couple of weeks ago with a rather fancy cinematic trailer. In the video the three currently revealed factions (High Elves, Dark Elves, and Lizardmen) are all fighting to control the Great Vortex, but if you're not a long-time fan of the Warhammer universe chances are you have absolutely no idea why a bunch of blue wind is worth risking the lives of an entire civilization.
If you would like to find out, and also see what the developers are planning to do with the Great Vortex in terms of gameplay, you'll find the recently posted developer diary right below. Its a fairly short video, totaling only at 3 minutes, so I would definitely recommend you give it a look and hopefully start exploring the fascinating world of Warhammer. But enough rambling from me, here's the video:
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The recent Uprising Update brought with it a whole bunch of great content, but unfortunately also a couple of bugs and issues. Up until a couple of days ago Mei's primary attack and ultimate applied no slow, meaning it was incredibly easy to escape her clutches, even if you were walled off from the entirety of your team. On a similar note, Genji's ultimate became a lot messier after the update as it started randomly slowing down mid-swing, which as you might imagine is not exactly ideal in the middle of a fight.
Mei's bug has thankfully already been fixed, and according to a recent developer post it appears that Genji's sword will be getting the same treatment in the near future as well. As it turns out, it wasn't a bug that made Genji's sword swings slower, but rather a bug fix that prevented players with high latency from swinging more often. In reality this latency threshold was so low that the vast majority of players benefited from the bug, which is why the suddenly slower sword felt so weird and inconsistent. But worry not, the developers will be buffing Genji's swing speed so that everyone will be able to do 7 full swings, regardless of latency! Here's the official explanation:
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If you're like me and you completely skipped over the first two Saints Row games in favor of Saints Row 3 and 4, you now have a chance to see what exactly you missed. What I mean by this is that Saints Row 2 is free for a limited time on both GOG and Steam. I'm not exactly certain how long the promotion is going to last, so make sure to grab your copy as soon as possible, even if you don't plan to install it any time soon.
Before you do that it is important to mention that Saints Row 2 is not as ridiculously over-the-top as Saints Row 3 and 4, so if you're looking to beat people up with a giant inflatable dildo I'm afraid you're going to end up being disappointed. Here's one of the trailers to hopefully give you an idea of what sort of game Saints Row 2 really is:
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After being available on Linux for a couple of months now, Total War: Warhammer has finally made its way to Mac as well. As with pretty much every game on Steam, if you own Total War: Warhammer you will have free access to both the Linux and Mac versions alongside the PC one. In other words, you don't have to buy an extra copy for each platform!
Much like the Linux version, the Mac port of Total War: Warhammer has not been made by Creative Assembly themselves, but rather by Feral Interactive. You might know them from the Mac and Linux ports of XCOM 2, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Hitman, Mad Max, and the list goes on. Their ports have pretty much always been rock solid, and while I haven't tested the Mac version myself I have no doubts that its going to be perfectly playable, especially when you consider how long they took to actually create it.
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The most recent Uprising Update has added a whole bunch of new content to toy around with, but unfortunately a couple of devastating bugs as well. Genji's sword swings can occasionally become much slower which makes chaining kills nearly impossible, while Mei's primary fire and ultimate arrived without the ability to actually slow down enemies, which as you can imagine made Mei pretty much useless.
While Genji still remains bugged, as you'll see in this incredibly frustrating clip, Mei has thankfully been fixed and is now once more capable of performing her job! As for the rest of the update, since the patch notes are fairly small here they are in full:
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Dawn of War 3 is set to arrive this April 27th, bringing with it a massive battle between the Space Marines, Orks, and Eldar. And if you still have no idea which faction you want to pledge allegiance to, you might want to check out the recently posted intro cutscenes.
They aren't terribly exciting or rich in storytelling, but they should at least give you an idea of why each faction is willing to throw hordes upon hordes of their finest warriors straight into the grinder. Well, except for the Orks anyway, they're here to do exactly that! Here are the videos:
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[Update]: After remastering many classic RPGs, Beamdog has now launched a dungeon crawler of their own - Mythforce.
If you ever wanted to get into oldschool PC RPGs and see why fans constantly rave about them, you're in luck as Beamdog has just recently released a remastered version of arguably the very best one - Planescape: Torment. The Enhanced Edition brings with it support for modern resolutions, numerous quality of life changes and bug fixes, a bunch of new dialogue written by Chris Avellone himself, better music quality, and the list goes on. Long story short, its the same RPG you might remember from your childhood, just slightly spruced up.
You can check out what the Enhanced Edition looks like through the recently posted launch trailer which I'll embed right below. The video unfortunately doesn't feature as much actual gameplay as you would expect, but it should still give you a good idea of what you're getting into. Have a look:
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If you've ever played competitive Overwatch I'm sure you'll agree that there is nothing more disheartening than entering a losing streak. Not only does it affect your morale and make you play slightly worse, but it also means that each subsequent loss will be chopping an ever-greater part of your precious rating. If you're particularly tilted and continue playing well past your prime you can even lose 1000 rating in a single sitting, purely due to how fast the losses (and gains) ramp up.
Thankfully, this is no longer the case. As a part of the recent Uprising Update the Overwatch devs have greatly reduced the gains and losses for streaks, essentially making sure that you climb or fall down the ladder at a steady pace without any sort of luck elements to potentially mess you up. There is still going to be a streak bonus as the system has to separate smurfs somehow, but it will kick in much later and be much less severe.
If you're interested in all of the details here's Principal Designer Scott Mercer's post explaining what exactly they changed and why:
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On April 1st SEGA decided to be a bit cheeky and release a teaser website for the PC version of Bayonetta. There was no announcement, no information, and no explanation on whether this is all an elaborate April Fools' joke or something serious. The only thing SEGA showed was a countdown timer with nine days remaining, something I assumed would herald an announcement for the PC port's release date.
Well, there sure was an announcement, but I can't say I expected SEGA to just straight up release Bayonetta on Steam without so much as a peep. But the good news doesn't end there, however, as apparently the PC port of Bayonetta is pretty damn good, as evident by its currently overwhelmingly positive rating on Steam.
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Planet Coaster may have been officially released back in November, but the developers sure don't seem to taking that as a sign to stop putting out rather sizable updates. Back in December it was the Winter Update which brought with it a new location alongside customized rides, as well as a ridiculous amount of festive props, and this time around it is the much more grounded, yet still equally as interesting Spring Update.
The Spring Update brings with it a bunch of new rides to mess around with (including go-carts!), criminals and vandals, security guards and CCTV cameras, a variety of quality of life improvements, numerous bug fixes, and the list goes on for quite a while. If you're interested in all of the details you can find the full patch notes over at the official website, but before you do I would recommend grabbing a cup of coffee as you're going to be stuck in there for a while.