Welcome back, today we have a news video for you, I've curated a few interesting stories
that you may have missed , we have quite a few stories today so I'll save you all the
usual preamble and let's just get straight into it.
World Of Warcraft I know most of you guys don't come to my channel
for WoW stuff but I'm not going to lie, after not having had a steady mmo to sink my life
into for a while now, I'm actually surprised by how much I welcome this news.
Blizzard just held a twitch stream where they talked about the upcoming expansion, shadowlands
and what their current plans are.
I'm not going to bore you with all the details because it was a long one, but the big news
here before we do a standalone video on this, is that Shadowlands is entering beta NEXT
WEEK.
And they have confirmed, regardless of circumstances in the world, they are absolutely adamant
they will launch the expansion this fall.
So basically between late september and late december, we will have the new Wow expansion.
I'm not a big wow player anymore but I always really do enjoy those first couple months
of a new expansion, leveling to cap, doing the new mythics, mythic plus, the treadmill
to get best in slot pre raid gear and then getting those first few mythic raid bosses
down.
I'm looking forward to this one and the news it will be released 100% this year, that's
definitely welcome.
Black Desert Online Black Desert online just reiterated on their
2020 and beyond roadmap, I'll probably put a standalone video out on this over the next
couple days but a lot of it is info you'll already be aware of if you've followed the
game or my channel.
The biggest thing here is that their new class, the Hashashin, will be launching real soon.
With a twist.
So what is the hashashin, he is a sandstorm wielding, Shamshir touting assassin who also
gains additional buffs from being in the desert.
So usually how classes release in black desert is as follows.
It comes out in korea on pc, then it comes out eveywhere else over the next few months
on pc, then it makes its way to console, eventually...At some point, if they are lucky.
However, this time around, the order goes like this.
It releases in Korea...Then it releases on console as a timed exclusive, so playstation
4 and xbox one versions will get this class on July 22nd.
The release date for PC is not listed as of yet but I'd imagine it can't be more than
a week or two after this, either way it's an odd choice and as an entitled member of
the pc master race I have to pretend to be affronted but to be honest I don't mind giving
console players a bit of love every now and then just to let them know they matter.
Rebirth Online Now this is just a PSA that this exists and
not in any way that it will be worth playing or anything.
I just saw it exists and thought some of you might appreciate the heads up if you're bored.
Rebirth Online is a South Korean mmo coming to steam on July 31st.
Now I know literally nothing about this game but looking at it, it would appear they have
released a mobile version already called Rebirth M. I can't tell you whether this is a mobile
game on pc with slightly modified controls or a new game that was built for PC explictly
and any news coverage I've seen of the game has stated the same such as this MassivelyOP
article.
There's your typical features, battle, craft, explore and combine different equipment to
create your own style of play.
I'll probably check this out but definitely low expectations going into it.
Sony Short story here but quite a big one, Sony,
are currently considering purchase of the company Leyou Technology Holdings ltd, which
as a sentence won't mean much to you until you clarify Leyou own Digital Extremes, the
company which develops Warframe.
Add onto this that Leyou are also the company that are producing the Lord of The Rings MMO
which is being also being worked on by amazon....This is some news, there's a lot of speculating
you could do on this topic and what this means for the future of both Warframe and the very
early in development lord of the rings game but I'll save that for when we have a confirmed
purchase.
Dual Universe In case you missed my video yesterday, maybe
you can go check it out if this at all interests you but cliff notes, Dual Universe, a first
person, sandbox , voxel based, player driven universe sim, is launching into beta on August
27th.
This is one of the crowdfunded or at least partially crowdfunded games that have been
on the horizon for a while and they're doing beta a little strangely with a subscription
model or a pack purchase, I'll spare you the details and you can just check out that video
if you like.
The news here is that on August 27th when beta launches, they are removing the strict
NDA - Non disclosure agreement and so anyone who wishes to do so can stream the game, make
videos, talk about the game in depth and we'll get to finally see how it is coming along
and if the game has any kind of future.
Fingers crossed, I'll definitely be covering it as soon as I can.
Pagan Online It seems like only yesterday Pagan Online
was showing up in my youtube feed from some of my fellow content creators, I personally
never bothered giving it a shot as it looked like a less polished version of all the other
ARPGs we've seen over the years but I did keep a mental note of it to check it out later
in life and see if it ever made it over the hill....Well it hasn't, they are closing it
down and I did have to resist the childish urge to edit the title at the top of the screen
from saying Pagan Offline.
The game servers will close as of August 4th.
They're actually doing a solid here though, instead of just shutting the servers down
and walking away, they're turning on offline solo play so you can at least play the game
on your own if you were that way inclined as the game previously required an always
online connection...Although looking at the steam charts player data if you played Pagan
Online you were actually still playing the game on your own anyways.
RIP Pagan Online.
Legends of Aria I'll throw this one in there too, Legends
of Aria, the previously titled Shards Online, a mostly crowdfunded, Ultima Online inspired
sandbox mmorpg, has just launched fully.
They've ascended from the depths of early access where most small studio games remain
forever and are now classing the game as a full released product with a full released
product of polish or content.
Or at least that's the idea right?
I haven't played Legends of Aria in a long time, I said I'd come back and check the game
out again if it ever had a resurgence in population as to me, population is almost the number
1 factor in what makes sandbox games fun.
Unfortunately while the full launch has seen a bump in players from their average of 90
on steam to a current monthly peak of 158 players, it isn't there yet.
Of course there are more players than this who play on the stand alone client, but this
definitely still falls short of where I'd want to see it before giving it another shot.
If you're that way inclined though, they've had a bunch of updates recently and it is
now a full launched game, so maybe it will be a fully polished experience.
Mortal Online 2 Last and certaintly not least in my eyes since
this is one of the few MMOs on the horizon I'm excited for as a full loot sandbox pvp
lover, Mortal Online 2.
I follow this one closely and they've just released their roadmap for the next 2 months
as well as founders packs to get access to the current closed alpha.
The reason this to me is exciting is that if you look at the roadmap, that's a whole
bunch of work and actual chunks of the game being added in a very small amount of time
relatively...Which means that maybe the estimate of having an early access but fully foundationally
complete mortal online 2 launch before the end of 2020 is actually realistic if they
can hit these goals.
We'll have to check back in at the end of august and see if they've managed to hit these
goals and give it a test sometime soon.
And that's it for this one, I'll definitely have missed out a million stories , these
are just the ones that were on my radar and decided to include.
If you see something out there you want to hear me opinion on, a topic you want me to
make a video on, a game you want me to check out, definitely hit me up on discord, tweet
at me or leave a comment on any of the videos and I'll check it out and perhaps you'll see
it on the channel at some point.
Can never have enough content ideas.
For this one though, we're done, we out, thanks for watching, stay safe.
Peace!