The Skyforge developers are giving players a heads up that class rebalancing will be forthcoming with the War’s Onset update. Saying that classes need to be “brough more in line with each other” and as a way to assess each class’s functionality within the overall game, the team has been collecting data from a variety of sources including popularity by activity, PvP victories, deaths, convenience, completion speed and more.

A few examples include:

• Assessment of why certain classes are more preferred to fulfill specific roles. The example given is how the Knight is the preferred Tank
• Alchemist & Lightbinder support classes will be overhauled by keeping some skills ‘as is’ and making others more effective

The above are a pair of examples of upcoming changes. We’ll keep you posted of more as they arrive.

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The Repopulation, built using the Hero Engine is said to stand a real possibility that there will be serious downtime as a result of Idea Fabrik’s financial issues. The development team has forewarned its community about possible outages as it searches for alternatives to the troubled engine, though it would necessitate “rebuilding the game from scratch code wise, though some things would convert over (art, data)”.

Unfortunately at the time when we started out here the only viable options were Hero, Bigworld, or Torque 3D, with the first of those two having restrictive license agreements, and the third being a good rendering engine that lacked in MMO specific features. We weren’t ever to fully be able to get out of the agreement.

The risk of downtime is very real at this point, though there is still also some reason for hope that this will resolve itself in a positive way. We have already begun some early work on the most likely contingency plan, so that we aren’t just sitting idly. But we are limited still in what we can do as a result of being in money preservation mode while this plays out, so currently it’s mostly prep work and experimentation.

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The latest Star Citizen Weekly Development Update has been posted to the game’s official site stating that 50,000 more ‘Citizens’ will soon be added to Alpha 2.0 to continue to assist the team to find bugs within the game and to, as the letter states, take part in “emergent gameplay” as evidenced on YouTube and Twitch.

https://youtu.be/EjDe0V7CTRs

As the alpha progresses, RSI is hard at work on server instability and is utilizing feedback from the player community to track down the issues causing the problem.

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Jagex Games Studio has announced that its Runescape trading card game called Chronicle: Runescape Legends has officially entered its closed beta phase of development for PC.

In the closed beta, players can choose from four iconic ‘Legends’ of RuneScape and use their crafted decks of cards to create adventures across five engaging chapters set in the world of Gielinor. A rival player across the board forges their own quests, before the battle-hardened characters take part in a duel for victory. Each Legend has its own characteristics and playing style, deepening the strategies and tactics players can use to secure success. The Chronicle closed beta also includes a detailed crafting system, starting with over 270 cards available to collect and sort into battle-winning decks.

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The DAUM EU Project Manager for Black Desert Online took to the game’s official forum to reveal some new information about forthcoming closed beta-test scheduled for mid-December.

In addition to the precise dates and times of the CBT, several screenshots were posted to show some graphical alterations made in response to alpha-test feedback. For instance, walking will be included in the closed beta and “darker nights” which you can see in the screenshot below.

In addition to this, several other tidbits of information were revealed:

• Level cap will in all probability be 50
• Additional graphic options will be added
• PvP level requirement being upped to 30 from 20
• Health potions’ cooldown has been increased
• Rebalancing of several classes is underway
• The world map UI has been heavily revamped
• New skins, haircolors, baldness, new beards options

Several issues that players brought up are not yet addressed in time for CBT1. These include vigor system, trading system, cash shop and summonable open world bosses.

Square Enix is sending out emails to players to remind them of the forthcoming closure of Final Fantasy XI on March 31, 2016 for both PlayStation 2 and XBox.

This email is being sent to the email addresses of all Square Enix accounts that possess a FINAL FANTASY XI service account.

As previously announced on Thursday, March 19, 2015, PlayStation(R)2 and Xbox 360(R) service for FINAL FANTASY XI will end on Thursday, March 31, 2016.

As such, PlayStation(R)2 and Xbox 360(R) service will not be available after March 31, 2016.

Automatic billing for active FINAL FANTASY XI accounts will persist through the cancellation of PlayStation(R)2 and Xbox 360(R) service. Those wishing to cancel their accounts are advised to do so manually.

Those currently enjoying FINAL FANTASY XI on their PlayStation(R)2 or Xbox 360(R) will be able to continue playing on the Windows(R) version.

Follow the procedures laid out in the below link to continue adventuring in the world of Vana’diel via Windows(R).

Installing PlayOnline/FINAL FANTASY XI for Windows(R)
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/download/media/install_win.html

Players may continue enjoying FINAL FANTASY XI with the same SQUARE ENIX Account, PlayOnline ID and PlayOnline password after installation.

ARK: Survival Evolved players are invited to participate in a Thanksgiving event in game that began on the 25th of November and would last until December 1st. Players can check out the Turkey Trials where they are challenged to hunt and find Super Turkeys that have been released throughout the game world.

By harvesting sufficient Super Turkey Wishbones from these bloodthirsty, genetically-modified creatures, players can craft their very own stylish “Chieftain” Hat, or choose to summon the ‘god-like’ DodoRex creature to do their bidding for a limited period of time. So, go forth Survivors, and hunt down those Turkeys!

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Recently, Neocore announced that The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing will be released for XBox One on Tuesday, December 1st.

This Gothic-Noir Action RPG series has gathered quite the fanbase on PC, so it’s a logical next step to bring young Van Helsing and his ghost companion, Lady Katarina to the console gamers as well.Experience Borgovia, the land filled with monsters and corrupted by weird science! Level up, defend and upgrade your lair, gather clues and loot, enjoy the witty, self-aware story, and most importantly: prepare to hunt with your trusty controller!

You can visit their developer blog for more information by clicking here.

A pleasant news for Guild Wars 2 players has been announced! Word is out that ArenaNet will be saying a warm thank you to its Guild Wars 2 player community by offering one item per day for free from the Gem Store. A new item will be revealed each day via Twitter that can then be claimed in-game.

We’re thankful for #GW2 players for being part of our journey–visit the gem store this weekend for thank-you gifts!

You can follow @GuildWars2 on Twitter to see which gifts are available beginning Friday, November 27th.

Nikita Online has recently announced that the worldwide launch of Sphere 3: Enchanted World will start on December 2nd. Players are to be able to take part in the PvP MMO that features non-target combat, massive battles, castle sieges, a rich story and more.

Having a strong emphasis on mass PvP, developers of “Sphere 3” paid special attention to performance: the “engine” of the game is optimized in such a way as to provide users with the most comfortable gameplay even the most action-packed game situations, even if computing power and internet connection speed leave much to be desired.

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