Thad Denny asked 1 week ago
Apex Legends is the phoenix that’s risen from the ashes of Titanfall, and what a beautiful phoenix it is. I’ve poured hundreds of hours into the game, and hundreds of dollars into merch. Hell, I even got a nose stud because of Wra
A videogame development cycle is a term used in the industry to broadly describe the life cycle of a videogame. For most games, this includes concept, design, launch, and post-launch. A problem within the industry, however, is the excessive crunch time some studios require on the lead up to launch. While some companies have tried to remedy this problem, the battle royale genre has reinforced the idea that a game essentially never “leaves” development. This is a bit of a mixed bag, as while it furnishes fans with an organic and ever-evolving experience akin to an MMORPG, with each season pass or redesign of a map, several employees are forced to meet specific deadlines that could result in excessive overt
But even the outliers have their own problems. Ana, an elderly woman in a sick-ass headscarf, gets a skin that makes her younger and sexier. Mei seems kind of portly, until you put on literally anything other than her default outfit and realize, huh, she’s actually just got a pretty conventionally acceptable hourglass figure and enormous tits. The only one I can give any props to, really, is Zarya. Despite the silly boob armor, she genuinely bucks conventional design trends with it comes to female characters, both in terms of personality and physicality. She’s more in line with the wild diversity present in the male characters, and I really do wish that diversity was represented in the female charact
Update 9.1 also adds the new map, Paramo, which features an active volcano and flowing lava across the landscape. It’s also partly procedurally generated, so the new PUBG map feels different every time you play. However, because of the ever-shifting nature of the map, it’s located in a separate matchmaking pool called Seasonal Match. Wins here will not count towards your sta
The world of Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends ** has been a playground of explosive competition for six full seasons, and the fun has just recently launched into a seventh. The wide array of archetypes that the game’s characters bring to the arena offer windows into what kind of a person (or robot) they would be if they were to exist outside of the Apex games, but what if their world were to collide with another? Specifically, the wide world of Pokémon
The Silence ability is certainly one that deserves more use by Revenant players online. It recharges fast, so there’s no reason not to use it whenever you see enemies, but it can also make for a fascinating way to block off your opponent’s paths. This is literal in the case of Pathfinder and Horizon , who thrive on the ability to escape the battlefield quickly and easily, but also counts for situational encount
When talking to professional gamers you’ll find that characters that allow for improved movement and mobility will always be favorable in their eyes. Wraith lets players engage and get aggressive with the enemy, but at the same time provides options for being able to retreat saf
Lifeline is still to this day arguably the best support Legend in all of Apex Legends , and her recent buffs only add to that case. She can now dual-revive via a new mechanic, which in the right hands can swing entire team fights if done accordingly. Lifeline can now also grab tons of extra loot as 20% of all supply bins will be blue. She’s fallen out of popularity simply because healing supports are never the most interesting or entertaining, but she still has a case for herself and thankfully hasn’t been nerfed into obscur
The pairing of Revenant and Hazard transformation Dusknoir should be enough to strike fear into the hearts of every Legend in the games. Revenant is the fearsome simulacrum with a sordid history with Loba , whose access to the Shadow World allows him to grant a protection over his team, making him a huge contender in battle. Dusknoir, in its Pokémon Soul Silver Pokédex entry ” is said to travel to worlds unknown. Some even believe that it takes lost spirits along with it. ” Death has no dominion over these two frightening combatants. There’s no telling the devastation they could bring to the fight should they combine their pow
PUBG console patch 9.1 adds frame rate priority mode to PS4 Pro and Xbox One X, allowing players on the more powerful systems to get up to 60fps gameplay. The screen resolution for the new mode will be limited to 10
The map also features helicopters that fly on an automated route across the map and into the highlands, which you can only reach via helicopter. The choppers also drop off care packages that you can break open if you happen to be on the ground when one falls. These can feature full-body camo, ghillie suits, and a camo backp
Other changes include the ability to remap keys to your controller and changes in bot ratios. Instead of quickly filling the match with bots, each session will now wait up to five minutes to try and fill to 100 players before making up any shortfall with b
A videogame development cycle is a term used in the industry to broadly describe the life cycle of a videogame. For most games, this includes concept, design, launch, and post-launch. A problem within the industry, however, is the excessive crunch time some studios require on the lead up to launch. While some companies have tried to remedy this problem, the battle royale genre has reinforced the idea that a game essentially never “leaves” development. This is a bit of a mixed bag, as while it furnishes fans with an organic and ever-evolving experience akin to an MMORPG, with each season pass or redesign of a map, several employees are forced to meet specific deadlines that could result in excessive overt
But even the outliers have their own problems. Ana, an elderly woman in a sick-ass headscarf, gets a skin that makes her younger and sexier. Mei seems kind of portly, until you put on literally anything other than her default outfit and realize, huh, she’s actually just got a pretty conventionally acceptable hourglass figure and enormous tits. The only one I can give any props to, really, is Zarya. Despite the silly boob armor, she genuinely bucks conventional design trends with it comes to female characters, both in terms of personality and physicality. She’s more in line with the wild diversity present in the male characters, and I really do wish that diversity was represented in the female charact
Update 9.1 also adds the new map, Paramo, which features an active volcano and flowing lava across the landscape. It’s also partly procedurally generated, so the new PUBG map feels different every time you play. However, because of the ever-shifting nature of the map, it’s located in a separate matchmaking pool called Seasonal Match. Wins here will not count towards your sta
The world of Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends ** has been a playground of explosive competition for six full seasons, and the fun has just recently launched into a seventh. The wide array of archetypes that the game’s characters bring to the arena offer windows into what kind of a person (or robot) they would be if they were to exist outside of the Apex games, but what if their world were to collide with another? Specifically, the wide world of Pokémon
The Silence ability is certainly one that deserves more use by Revenant players online. It recharges fast, so there’s no reason not to use it whenever you see enemies, but it can also make for a fascinating way to block off your opponent’s paths. This is literal in the case of Pathfinder and Horizon , who thrive on the ability to escape the battlefield quickly and easily, but also counts for situational encount
When talking to professional gamers you’ll find that characters that allow for improved movement and mobility will always be favorable in their eyes. Wraith lets players engage and get aggressive with the enemy, but at the same time provides options for being able to retreat saf
Lifeline is still to this day arguably the best support Legend in all of Apex Legends , and her recent buffs only add to that case. She can now dual-revive via a new mechanic, which in the right hands can swing entire team fights if done accordingly. Lifeline can now also grab tons of extra loot as 20% of all supply bins will be blue. She’s fallen out of popularity simply because healing supports are never the most interesting or entertaining, but she still has a case for herself and thankfully hasn’t been nerfed into obscur
The pairing of Revenant and Hazard transformation Dusknoir should be enough to strike fear into the hearts of every Legend in the games. Revenant is the fearsome simulacrum with a sordid history with Loba , whose access to the Shadow World allows him to grant a protection over his team, making him a huge contender in battle. Dusknoir, in its Pokémon Soul Silver Pokédex entry ” is said to travel to worlds unknown. Some even believe that it takes lost spirits along with it. ” Death has no dominion over these two frightening combatants. There’s no telling the devastation they could bring to the fight should they combine their pow
PUBG console patch 9.1 adds frame rate priority mode to PS4 Pro and Xbox One X, allowing players on the more powerful systems to get up to 60fps gameplay. The screen resolution for the new mode will be limited to 10
The map also features helicopters that fly on an automated route across the map and into the highlands, which you can only reach via helicopter. The choppers also drop off care packages that you can break open if you happen to be on the ground when one falls. These can feature full-body camo, ghillie suits, and a camo backp
Other changes include the ability to remap keys to your controller and changes in bot ratios. Instead of quickly filling the match with bots, each session will now wait up to five minutes to try and fill to 100 players before making up any shortfall with b