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June 22, 2016
The Bespin update for Star Wars Battlefront has been talked about quite a lot already but there's no need to talk about it anymore because it has finally been released.
The new expansion, which is part of the season pass for Star Wars Battlefront, includes 5 new maps, two new heroes, new weapons and new star cards. The new expansion also adds a game mode which has been suitably named Sabotage. A description for the Sabotage game mode has been provided below.
"The Empire are using Tibanna Gas Generators to power their tractor beams, preventing Rebel transports from escaping Cloud City. The Rebels must blow up the generators and defend their extraction point. The Empire must stop the Rebels and hunt them down."
Whilst the new Bespin expansion content has been added to season pass holders, there has been a new patch alongside the update that brings some changes to all players. Firstly, the new patch has increased the level cap from 60 to 70. Players can also unlock new
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June 07, 2016
A brand new update for Grand Theft Auto Online has been released by Rockstar and it adds a big range of new content.
The first addition to the new update, which has been named Further Adventures in Finance and Felony, is the executive suite. This can be purchased like apartments can and give players and their friends a place to prepare for their next assignment. The offices come with personal helipads, an office assistant and even an extra mini game to play whilst taking a break from all the hard work.
There are a number of new team-based missions that allow your organization to smuggle good throughout Los Santos. Your job is to move your product successfully without getting gunned down by the FIB, LSPD or even rival gang members. There are also missions which require you to defend your warehouses from rival gangs - as you can imagine, this will involve big shootouts, which are always fun.
There are a number of extra VIP challenges and jobs for CEOS too, which can be
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June 02, 2016
A new patch for Uncharted 4 has been released which addresses some changes to the multiplayer portion of the game.
Firstly a number of weapons have been balanced throughout the multiplayer game. The weapons balances include changes to mines, the Jackal, the Mettle M-30, the Aegis 9mm, the Spezzotia 12 Gauge and the MP34a.
For the mines, players can now only place down two at once. Before the latest update, players were allowed to place down three at once. The Jackal and the Mettle M-30 have had their fire rate increased to give them a bit of an improvement. On the other side of the fence the Aegis 9mm has had it's fire rate and effective damage range decreased. The Spezzotti 12 Gauge on the other hand has had it's headshot damage multiplier increased so it should now be easier to get those headshot kills with it. Finally, the MP34a has had its ammo capacity reduced to 90 from 120.
In other news, prices for some items have changed. For example, the One-User Booster chest
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March 14, 2016
A brand new update has launched for The Division and it features a range of changes to the game. The new 1.02 update has launched for Xbox One, PS and PlayStation 4 and in this article we'll be delving into some of the changes.
Most of the changes that affect gameplay have been listed below.
+ Named enemies will now drop better loot in Challenge mode than in Hard mode.
+ Added a cooldown period for the Static Turret stun attack in order to avoid a stunlock in PvP and PvE game modes.
+ Named NPCs will no longer respawn after being killed in the Open World. This will prevent situations where players were able to kill a same named NPC over and over again.
+ Modifications to the weapon talent: Trained.
+ It can now only be rolled on Shotgun, Marksman rifles and Pistols.
+ Its bonus has been reduced from 1%-5% to a constant 0.1%.
+ For the Midas SMGs, Trained Talent has been replaced with Responsive Talent which increases damage when getting -
March 02, 2016
Ever since it's release the ranking system in Rainbow Six Siege has needed some work. Finally the competitive FPS game from Ubisoft should be receiving a much needed update to how ranked works in Siege.
The new upcoming update should make it easier for the matchmaking system to find players of a similar skill level to yours. Players will be matched up with and against similar skilled players for the first time since the release of Rainbow Six Siege. In the past the ranking system attempted to match up players with a similar rank but for a long time the rank system would match up coppers and bronzes with silver, golds and sometimes even higher ranks.
Recently a patch was made to bring more balance to the ranks between each team but the upcoming update should now focus on a player's skill instead of their current ranking. The balancing will focus on attributes such as their recent performance and their number of hours in Rainbow Six Siege.
The upcoming patch for Rainbow
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March 01, 2016
Gears of War Ultimate Edition will soon be getting a rather hefty 5GB patch that will be mandatory for all players. As you can imagine with a patch of this size, a lot of things will be changing and there will be a number of new improvements.
The first thing mentioned for the new patch are the number of playlist changes being made. For example, the Execution game mode will soon offer more XP for players. The Coalition made a few statements about the patch changes, including the increase in XP for Execution. "Execution is a mode that can be highly rewarding, but also extremely punishing. To better reward players who take on the challenge of Execution, we've increased the XP gain in the mode significantly."
The Boomshot will also be improved in the new patch - hit detection problems that occurred in the past should now be fixed. Some basic improvements to hit detection on downed enemies has also been improved and hit detection for players taking cover in Clocktower has also
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January 20, 2016
A much needed patch for Ark: Survival Evolved is headed to the Xbox One and it will bring some important tweaks and fixes to the game. So far the entire patch notes for the new Xbox One update have not been revealed but the official Ark twitter posted a small teaser of the patch notes.
In the teaser, the following information was shared.
+ Includes all PC content up thru to PC version .233
+ Split screen multiplayer supported for online and local play
+ Frame rate improvements
+ Maximum number of players in non-dedicated servers increased to 8
+ Fixed a memory leak that would eventually cause the client to crash after some time
+ Fixed multi-colored DimorphodonIncluding split screen to Ark was a surprise, especially considering singleplayer frame rate is already struggling to perform well. However, the new update does improve the overall frame rate so maybe the new Xbox One patch will allow players to play Ark: Survival Evolved on the
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January 05, 2016
A new patch for Rainbow Six Siege has hit the online servers for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One and it will be making a number of pretty significant changes to the game. The new patch is numbered 1.2 and it is the second major patch since the release of Rainbow Six Siege.
Besides a variety of different bug fixes, some improvements have been made to the servers to ensure that hit detection is improved and lag is reduced. Here is a description from Ubisoft about the server improvements.
"With the goal of improving positioning and shooting replication, we had deployed a first update on PC in which the player position update rate is set to 60 times per second (vs. the previous 30). This change however has been done in an intermittent fashion and in certain regions only, as we were testing various configurations. We are now satisfied with its state so we are now deploying this update to all PC users. As soon as this feature has been validated with this more massive test on PC, we will
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November 24, 2015
A brand new patch for Black Ops 3 has been released and it fixes a number of bugs. Some of the fixes also address some exploits that players have been abusing on various multiplayer maps.
The new patch also adds lobby leaderboards and makes some balancing changes to different weapons and specialists. Below the highlights of the patch notes have been listed.
General
Leaderboards enabled in the Barracks.
Players are now awarded Cryptokeys in Arena and Public matches, after playing consecutive matches in the same playlist.
Team balancing in Arena and Public Matches has been improved to more consistently maintain even teams.
Fixed a UI error when entering Prestige in the Multiplayer Frontend menus.
Addressed a UI error in Fileshare when selecting an empty tab.
Addressed an issue where hosts were able to leave as soon as the game began.
Fixed an issue where white boxes were appearing for Custom Classes in Create-A-Class.
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October 23, 2015
Last year, Bungie released a Halloween patch that added Jack O' Lantern helmets into Destiny, and this year an even bigger Halloween themed patch has been released. The new patch adds masks, a fun errand based "quest" in the tower, and plenty of other great content.
The new update for Destiny has been called Festival of the Lost, and oh boy there's a lot to do in this festival. The first thing you may notice about Destiny in the latest update is that the Tower has had a bit of a spooky makeover. To fit in with the theme, all of the NPCs at the tower are also wearing Halloween themed masks. Players can get the chance to purchase and wear these masks themselves during the Halloween event, some of which are permanent.
Last year, the Halloween Jack O' Lantern helmets had a time limit on them and acted as a consumable. This meant that a year later it's incredibly rare to see any Jack O' Lantern helmets around, but if players get to keep their helmets this year, they may be seen