2023-08-12 19:01:15

Titan Quest was originally released in 2006, with an expansion the following year. Due to its publisher’s financial worries, the license changed hands in 2014, leading to an Anniversary release in 2016, containing the game and its expansion, and bringing various quality of life improvements. Then new expansions in 2017, 2019 and 2021, showing both the publisher’s desire to take advantage of this purchase but also an interest from players for ever more content in this universe.

And if it was necessary until now to be satisfied with extensions to a game which is no longer quite up to date, a real sequel is now announced. However, this is only an appetizer plunging back into the world of Greek mythology from the first opus and we will have to wait to discover more to form a real opinion on this new title, the development of which has been entrusted to a new studio, Grimlore Games, which only has Spellforce 3 under its belt.

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2023-07-21 14:21:00

To encourage players to venture into the open world of Albion Online, the studio Sandbox Interactive imagines a tracking system in several stages allowing to reach a boss and the promise of pilot rares.

Albion Online immerses its players in a vast open world and studio teams Sandbox Interactive seek to encourage players to spread out more across the different regions of this world – to bring the whole game world to life, not just cities or massive battle zones, but also to better distribute players around the world and avoid lags in crowded areas. For a long time, the studio has therefore multiplied the incentives to venture everywhere in the world of small group games and imagines a new feature that aims for this objective: tracking.

Track a rare creature

In concrete terms, thanks to a tracking kit (which can be crafted via craftsmanship), players will be able to identify “tracks”, traces left on the ground that players can try to follow. These tracks will consist of several stages that you will have to reach in a limited time, until you find the target of the hunt.

Most often, it will be a rare creature (a boss) that trackers will then have to deal with – the developer clarifies that tracking is a small group activity and if there are too many trackers approaching the target, the creature will flee and the hunt will have to be resumed. Similarly, tracking is a “personal” activity, so players need not fear being joined by hostile players who might attack them in PvP

Acronym of the English expression “Player versus Player”, meaning “player once morest player” that is to say when the player fights once morest other players. See also: PvE, PvM, RvR

“>PvP (some players are put off by the risks of PvP in an open world, and are therefore reluctant to venture outside the marked paths of the game universe).

Successfully defeating tracked creatures willget loot. Eventually, the rewards will be varied, but initially, they will obviously be linked to the new “shapeshifting” system of the MMORPG

Acronym of the English expression “Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games”, meaning “massively multiplayer online role-playing games”. MMORPGs follow the same principles as MMOGs (see this term), including a concept of “role play”. In an MMORPG, the player is supposed to embody a character with a personality and play the role of the character in the virtual world. See also: MMOG, MMOFPS, UMMORPG

“> MMORPG. As we know, the studio recently sketched out the new mechanism of shapeshifting sticks that allow a character to change shape temporarily, to adopt the appearance of a monster and be endowed with its skills and abilities.

We understand that tracking should therefore encourage players to further explore the game universe in small groups, offer new challenges to players who love exploration and content PvE

Acronym of the English expression “Player versus Environment”, meaning “player once morest environment”, that is to say when the player fights once morest the environment controlled by the server (combat once morest monsters, solving quests, exploring dungeons, etc.). See also: PvM, PvP

“> Open PvE, but also fleshing out the shapeshifting system – the developer promises to continue on this path with future Albion Online updates.

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2023-06-29 16:01:00

For once, the Larian studio is advancing the PC release date of Baldur’s Gate 3 by almost a month, now set for August 3. The PS5 launch has been pushed back a week to September 6.

In the gaming industry, release date postponements are aplenty. It is less common for a launch date to be brought forward. This is nevertheless what the studio announces Running by press release: the release of Baldur’s Gate 3 will not take place on August 31 as initially announced, but almost a month earlier, starting on August 3. At the same time, the launch on PS5 which was also scheduled for August 31 will be pushed back a short week and is now set for September 6. For the record, no launch date on Xbox Series is announced at this point, but Larian has not concluded any exclusivity with Sony. The developer explained that he was facing technical difficulties on the console of Microsoft. In the long term, a launch on Xbox is therefore not excluded.

And as if to anticipate possible questions regarding the quality of the port on Sony’s console following the postponement, the developer specifies “achieving 60 FPS on PlayStation 5 “, a performance deemed “remarkable given the breadth and depth of Baldurs Gate 3 ».

The developer also points out that when it is released, Baldur’s Gate 3 will offer “seven playable protagonists, each with their own story, personality, desires and goals”. The player will have access to 11 character races and 31 ethnicities with several types of morphologies, for 12 classes and 46 subclasses, allowing to use 600 spells and actions which can be improved according to the progression – for comparison, Larian recalls that Divinity: Original Sin 2 only offered 10 schools of magic, for 255 spells. And to better take the measure of the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3, the developer praises in particular the “two million words” which make up the script of the game or the 170 hours of cutscenes which punctuate the narrative framework of the title. So many elements that will be revealed concretely in the final version of the game, from the beginning of August on PC, then in September on PS5.

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