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Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey To Come With A New, More Personalized Combat System

With the new Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Ubisoft promises enormous freedom to let us do things the way we want. The video games developing company has announced some exciting news on Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, this time revolving around the game’s combat system and the enormous versatility it would offer to the player.

“You have a base combat system and, from there, everything we put on top has the mission of facilitating your advantage over the rest of the enemies,” explained Jonathan Dumont, the creative director of the game, in an interview with the Gamespot video games news portal.

“We also wanted there to be some choice on the part of the player, so we were trying to have some freedom at the core of everything we’ve added, but in this case, having to create your own style of play, your own class and thinking about how great it would be to mix the different skills. But we also wanted to allow the players to decide whether they wanted to specialize, for example, in only four things if that was enough for them,” Dumont added.

The new combat system in Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey to fit every gamer’s style

“We were looking for a more personalized approach rather than supporting a particular way of playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, or unlocking things in a certain order,” the creative director said.

“Investing points where you want, but distributing them where you also want to create your own style. Because the Assassin’s Creed saga has been on the market for ten years, and we all play it differently. Some people want to play it stealthily, while others want more combat, so we want to make sure the style of play is right for you, and that the game allows you to enjoy the title as you wish,” Jonathan Dumont, the Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey creative director concluded.

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey will launch on October 5th, 2018.

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New Fortnite Mode “Getaway” And “High Stakes” Event Might Change The Game

Fortnite is one of the most popular games of the moment with millions of players. Epic Games is frequently bringing new updates and improvements to Fortnite: Battle Royale, but the new one includes a new event called High Stakes, coming with its outfits and masks, as well as a new Limited Time Mode, “Getaway,” about which Epic Games revealed more yesterday in a live stream on Twitch directly from PAX West.

Epic Games presented new modes, new skins, and the cool Grappler Gun in the new Getaway mode in Fortnite

As I’ve mentioned, Epic Games streamed the news about the next big update for Fortnite yesterday. Luckily, you can watch a replay of the segment, below.

In short, the new event in Fortnite involves multiple teams of four players each which fight to find the four safes scattered around the island in supply drops. When you get them and collect the precious items inside them, you and the rest of your team must reach extraction point without dying.

On the other hand, the new Grapple Gun does precisely what you think it does. You shoot it to a wall, and you’ll be pulled towards it fast. So, the new Getaway mode in Fortnite, with the new skins and the cool Grapple Gun, might indeed change the game significantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfANch3qvOM

Next big update in Fortnite will also come out with a new event called High Stakes

Besides the new Getaway mode in Fortnite, Epic Games will also add a new event called High Stakes. This one will add a new outfit and four masks to Fortnite: Battle Royale.

You can see below how the new High Stakes event in Fortnite will look like.

In other news, a set of new “Flower Power” outfits have been added to the item store in Fortnite on September 1st.

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Clash Royale League: Live Competition Is a Better Competition?

We’ve all heard about the previous Clash Royale competitions, but what do we know about the fall season of the Clash Royale League? We know that it’s much more professional and that even the broadcast is different.

There won’t be any individual players who suddenly came into the tops, but there will be teams. The thing is that Supercell even changed how the teams are choosing players.

This has become a tradition in esports – an organization makes their exploration and they look for the best player. There’s nothing changed in the case of the Clash Royale League, maybe except of a process that’s more clear.

An official event happened

March 2018 was the beginning of the Clash Royale League Challenge and it has one pretty defined goal: to find the best players in the world. Few hundreds were invited to a Combine, where an official event happened, just like in the NFL.  Here is where they got the best chance to see players in action. There were six days in which 25 million people entered the challenge. The goal was to get 20 wins before getting three loses. If you did this, you could advance. The catch was that, as you advanced, you had to deal with better players. There were 113 countries, and only 7000 players got to the next stage.

The whole idea of this event was for players to interact with the representatives from the esports teams to show them their unique skills. They wanted to give the teams the opportunity to choose their players from a live competition scene, not just the online one. Can you imagine the pressure from the live competition? It may be harsh, but it’s a good way to make sure they’ll get into the organization.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 GME 2018 Presentation Deemed As Boring

The employees of a major retailer, GameStop, were given a presentation of the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2. It was during the latest GME 2018 (ended on August 30th) when the GameStop employees got the chance to watch a 20-minute presentation of Red Dead Redemption 2, the next second title of the franchise owned by Rockstar Games.

Following this presentation, the employees shared their opinions on Reddit and the least we can say is that they are not happy with the title.

The 20-minute Red Dead Redemption 2 presentation deemed as bored

“Nice game, but most of the time, we saw a riding simulator. Very difficult to stay awake. The shooting scenes looked decent, but the bank robbery was slow. The game will be great and will sell like crazy, but this demo was very boring. Don’t get me wrong, I still think the game will be fantastic, just that the presentation was a bit boring to watch,” said one of those who watched the 20-minute Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer.

Others went even further by renaming the Rockstar’s game as Equestrian Simulator 2k19 and stated that the demo was painful to watch and boring.

While these words are cause for concern, other opinions on the Red Dead Redemption 2 demo reassure us a little

“To put things into context, everyone was exhausted from the past week, and that was the last thing they showed us,” another participant explained. “I dozed off for a minute, but the game is beautiful. The world looks so meticulously built, and the demo was a flawless example of the gameplay mechanics, the open world and the physics that the game can offer. I didn’t play the first episode and didn’t feel any excitement when I announced this sequel, but I left the presentation wanting to play it,” he added.

One thing is certain, the buzz surrounding the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 is far from finished, and new previews and presentations are expected in the forthcoming days.

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Cory Barlog, Creator of God Of War, Discussed a Concept of a New Superman Game

Another excellent news comes from PAX West 2018 in Seattle where a statement by Cory Barlog, creator of God of War, hints at a Superman game. Barlog also talked about how the game would be like.

Barlog gave a series of ideas about a project on a new Superman game, meaning that the game is still in its theoretical phase and nothing should be taken as granted. He suggested that the new Superman game would feature a young Clark Kent who, while in school, he is getting aware of his superhero side

“I really love the Smallville TV show, and I really love the idea of playing with this concept of character [….] you have to go to school, but you’re also discovering that you’re the best American hero with your powers and it’s a kind of uncomfortable age that you have to balance,” said Cory Barlog, the creator of God of War.

Cory Barlog, the creator of God of War, hinted to a psychological Superman game

His next set of ideas involves branching out paths, where it would be impossible for Superman to save everyone, no matter what the player would do. Superman could even hear the characters’ pleas for help everywhere, and he’d tear between trying to save everyone, but it would still fall short.

“I think the best thing you can do with a Superman game is to explore the psychology of what it would be like to be a person who is slowly beginning to realize that he can’t save everyone. As the game progresses, as the player does this kind of good deed […] everyone starts asking for help and this is where it all really begins,” Barlog added.

Also, according to Cory Barlog, the creator of God of War, the gamers would realize, as Superman, “that the method of brute force punching, the idea of just flying and constantly trying to save people individually, is not working.” So, the players “have to discover a different way because the ultimate goal, psychologically, is to maintain some kind of sanity, is to try to save everyone, which is a great idealistic concept,” Cory Barlog concluded.

We know that’s just a concept but it would be great to see this Superman game live, especially if it comes from the same team that created God of War.

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