Couchpotato's Random RPG News

What lies beyond the veil, scratching at our eyeballs but just out of vision, a terrifying nightmare we simply cannot see? Peer into clear dreams and the murky past in the Call of Cthulhu Launch Trailer, ahead of release on Tuesday, October 30. With music by Black Mirror, Utopia, and The Girl With All The Gifts composer Cristobal Tapia De Veer, the trailer is your last look into the void before release.

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“You enter a 10×10 room. There’s an orc here. It’s guarding a pie.” This scenario is how Colin McComb begins his answer to how writing for PC games differs from writing for tabletop. McComb is best known for his work on the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons, which led to his position as creative lead on a number of critically acclaimed CRPGs, like Torment: Tides of Numenera – a science fantasy RPG set on Earth around a billion years into the future.

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We round off our collection of new opponents for the upcoming ‘Beasts & Exploration’ DLC with the introduction of our largest enemy yet. It’s a giant beast, a creature that has lived throughout the ages and is at the very top of the food chain. Unleash the Kraken!

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Bethesda has released its first schedule for the Fallout 76 beta on PC next week. Times may be subject to change, but if all things stay the same, here's when we'll be able to play the Fallout 76 beta on PC:

Tuesday, October 30: 4 pm - 8 pm PT / 7 pm - 11 pm ET
Thursday, November 1: 11 am - 4 pm PT / 2 pm - 7 pm ET
Saturday, November 3: 2 pm - 6 pm PT / 5 pm - 9 pm ET
Sunday, November 4: 11 am - 6 pm PT / 2 pm to 9 pm ET

If times or dates change or more beta sessions are added, we'll be sure to update this schedule.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important features of any single player game. Getting it right is key to the experience: it has to be almost invisible, so players (sort of) forget that they are playing against a machine. It has to be clever and fast enough to be a worthy opponent, but not too much – humans are fallible, after all; and ultimately the player, as the hero of the story, is supposed to win. It has to make use of the game mechanics at hand, not just to be fun and varied but to show the player what can be done. This rings especially true in a game such as Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, where skill-based combat and epic large-scale battles are at the core of the experience.

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Hello Everyone,

Once again, we extend our sincere apologies to those affected by the most recent bugs which have shortened your playing time with our latest DLC. Now that the patch is out, you will be able to get the full experience for The Amorous Adventures of Bold Sir Hans Capon and free update Tournament.

We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the experience and quality of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Thank you for your support and check back here for regular updates and news.

Warhorse Studios

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The Appalachian Wasteland comes alive in the official live action trailer for Fallout 76 - available worldwide on November 14th.

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Kingmaker. Stream with James Jacobs, Mark Moreland, Arseniy Deriglazov and Leonid Tolochenko

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Shadows: Awakening – The Chromaton Chronicles leads you to the northern edge of Thole. There lies the mysterious Arcanum Laboratory – a long since abandoned place known for its ruthless and immoral magical experiments. One of those experiments conducted by the Tholean mages involved the baneful energy named Chromaton. It is believed that it has the power to bring inanimate metal to life, but the mages failed to consider the dangers in bringing the unrefined essence into contact with their own living flesh. Perhaps they succeeded, perhaps they failed miserably. The outcome has never been chronicled…until now.

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The Legendary Armory pack contains three mighty weapons and three mythic armor sets to steel your hero for the upcoming battles (available at level 3). Also included is a digital artbook showcasing a range of stunning illustrations and concept artworks from the world of Shadows: Awakening. As if this wasn't enough, you can also treat your ears to the digital soundtrack, featuring the game's atmospheric and compelling musical score.

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Overall, The Banner Saga 3 -- and the trilogy as a whole -- gives a nice playing experience. The storyline is a little bleak, as the world is in a bad place and there aren't any easy answers for survival, but the game offers an intriguing blend of role-playing elements and turn-based combat, and its 15-hour campaign can be played multiple times to see everything and try out different combat parties and strategies. So if you enjoy story-driven games and turn-based strategy, The Banner Saga 3 is definitely a title you should consider.

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After the successful launch of Vampyr where the game topped the charts in France, the UK, Germany and in many other countries, Dontnod’s game enjoyed tremendous success throughout the second quarter. With praise heaped on it for its production and script, Vampyr is a further confirmation, after MudRunner and The Surge in 2017, of the Group’s ability to create a major event with games that combine unprecedented concepts and high-potential universes.

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Starting from this hotfix, we are changing our development approach. We have got more than one thousand bugs exterminated by now in the 1.1 version of the game. All of those are waiting to be checked and released. To release the 1.1 version we have to refocus the team effort from making frequent hotfixes to working on this big patch. It would take a whole week at minimum to test every aspect of our complex game. That means we need to reduce the frequency of hotfixes and the amount of fixes they consist of during the next 1-2 weeks (although we will definitely attempt to address the most critical issues whether they arise).

Once the Release 1.1 version will be close to stable, we plan to make it available for everyone in special beta branch. We would welcome those players who are interested to check the new version before it released. The detailed instruction how to play the Release 1.1 beta will be available soon.

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Beamdog CEO Trent Oster and Community Manager Sarah Dawson shared the latest Infinity Engine and Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition news..

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It’s Grim Misadventure time up in here! It seems we’ve been at this for entirely too long as this marks our 150th update (the first one ever was on June 10th 2012)! Seems like a nice round number so let’s just stop here…

Ok, not really.

Last time, we took another look into the celestial sky and unveiled the most powerful constellations being introduced in the upcoming Forgotten Gods expansion.

Today, we return to a Shattered reality, a realm reflecting our own, and yet unlike it in many ways. This vast plane of existence contains equally vast wealth for you to claim, but also no shortage of dangers.

When we first previewed the Shattered Realm, we talked about the fundamentals. Today, we are ready to discuss some of the finer nuances that will make each of your Shattered Realm runs a bit more unusual.

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It’s news that doesn’t take a lot of guesswork to uncover, but Bethesda Softworks pretty much confirmed that The Elder Scrolls VI won’t be in this generation of consoles. In an interview with GameSpot at PAX Aus, ZeniMax Online Studios game director Matt Firor, who is working with Bethesda to produce the game, basically confirmed that it will be a few years off and that it will be a game for the next generation of game consoles.

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This one hurt; at the beginning of the prior month, we get a list through detailing all the games celebrating an upcoming milestone, whether it be five, ten or even 15 years since their launch – if anyone can remember that far back. The list came back for October with a noticeable game on there. That’s right, Fallout 3 is ten years old this month.

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Capcom has announced that Monster Hunter World has sold 10.9 million copies worldwide. This information comes from the official FAQ that can be found on the company’s Japanese website as well as the company’s latest fiscal report, and as it’s pointed out, about 70% of the total was sold abroad.

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During Gamescon Middle East running this past weekend, I got the chance to sit down with Doug Cockle, the voice behind one of gaming’s most well-known characters, Geralt from CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher franchise. Cockle was nominated for Game Award for Best Performance and won Golden Joystick Award Best Gaming Performance for his voice acting on the critically acclaimed The Witcher III: Wild Hunt. One of the many things people praised about the game at the time was how the characters’ voices always added emotion to the situation and rarely sounded dull. I got the chance to ask Cockle a number of questions about his work on The Witcher franchise, what other roles he wants to play in the future, as well as his film and television background.

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Ultima-inspired MMO Shroud of the Avatar goes free-to-play

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you said:

Ouch; 11 million copies ?

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Having won over 200 awards across three platforms, and selling far over two million copies, independently developed Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition is finally coming to Mac devices Q1 2019, developed in a partnership between Saint-Petersburg based Elverils, and the Apple Metal Engineering Team.

Featuring all the lauded content from the PC version of Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition, the Mac version is a bespoke port without compromising on content, or graphical fidelity. In fact, it comes with new features especially for Mac such as full MacBook TouchBar support for quick access to in-game actions, such as the journal or map.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition will be the first title on macOS to support HDR (on selected hardware, 10.14+ only). Also supported is iCloud, for easy backup between devices.

In the spirit of adventure, players will be able to enjoy cross play between Windows and macOS, so long as both players have the same version.

A range of controllers – including Apple MFI controllers – are also supported will full vibration support, so there’s no reason not to jump into one of gaming’s most cherished RPG adventures.

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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a tactical adventure game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

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3D artists give shape to the world we see and experience in a video game. But the devil is in the details, and sometimes what makes a game live and breathe are the small things: not the main characters and impressive buildings, but day-to-day objects such as tools, weapons, and clothes. Gameplay can be as immersive as can be to make you feel like a medieval warrior, but if you’re clothed in sweatpants and the world around you is made of cardboard, immersion jumps out of the window. Today, we talk with one of our 3D artists, Ülker Dikmen, who is one of the people responsible for making Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord not just beautiful, but also a believable world.

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While working on the Release 1.1 version we continue to pay close attention to the issues you keep posting to us (we can't miss the opportunity to say one more time how much we appreciate your help!). As we promised, in this hotfix we are addressing the most critical issues we have solution for by now. It's highly likely that we will have one or two more hotfixes before 1.1 version is ready to go live. The 1.1 version is scheduled for release between November 12th and 16th. We plan to have it available in Beta branch on the next week (we will soon post the detailed instructions on how to play the Release 1.1 Beta).

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During today’s stream Beamdog CEO Trent Oster and Producer Luke Rideout shared the latest studio news and updates on Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and the Infinity Engine games.

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Enter the world of Diablo Immortal, a new entry in the Diablo universe. Taking place between the events of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction and Diablo III, this mobile massively multiplayer online ARPG is a true Diablo hack-and-slash adventure, all in the palm of your hand/

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Enter the world of Diablo Immortal, a new entry in the Diablo universe. Featuring the fluid hack-and-slash action role playing game experience you know and love, this visually stunning mobile experience is a cut above the rest and puts the Eternal Conflict at your fingertips—anytime, anywhere.

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Few genres manage to evoke the same level of grandiose nostalgia as the MMORPG. Most were in the public eye for just a few short years, they made an impact, drew people into a genre who perhaps wouldn't have taken a second look at it before, then burned out as quickly as they appeared.

The genre is also a classic example of the ebb and flow of trends in the games industry. The incredible success of World of Warcraft inspired a generation of imitators (and innovators) before high profile failures such as APB: All Points Bulletin and Star Wars: The Old Republic made publishers think twice about investing in such complex and risky projects.

But for the fans, these were more than just projects. They were thriving communities where lifelong friendships were formed and passionate vocations found. It's therefore unsurprising that when an MMO's servers go dark, there's always a small cadre of enthusiasts who have the means and the desire to attempt a resurrection. But what is it really like to spend your free time working on someone else's game?

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Developer Livestream featuring Lead Producers, Ben Irving and Mike Gamble/

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In decisive moments during battle, lancers can use the special ultimate ability that comes with each javelin to turn the tide of battle and take down even the deadliest threats. Let’s take a look at these incredible maneuvers.

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Couchpotato said:

Fallout 76's Shallow Quests, Soulless Story, & Lifeless World

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In the Time of the Ancients, the Worldly Realm was ruled by a God of pure evil, who enslaved all humankind under his Dominion. But fear turned to anger as rebellion grew in the hearts of men - until the dawn of the Great Rising, when the fight for freedom began. After a glorious victory that cast aside the Fallen God, humans dictated a new order… a world where no sin can ever be forgiven and redemption was not an option.

Now, millennia later, the world trembles in fear as the Demonic Rhogar Legion returns from their dark realm, driven by a foul hunger for innocent spirits. Humanity, in a desperate last act, calls upon an unlikely defender - a convicted sinner, rejected by society and cast out of the light… a man known as Harkyn. Now, alongside his mentor, Kaslo, they must travel to the source of the Darkness… to face the Lords of the Fallen.

Plunge into a fast paced action RPG with a complex and satisfying melee combat system where weapons, armor and skills directly influence the enemy's speed and attacks… if all else fails, lay waste to your foes using forbidden magic power.

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As far as immersive simulations go, Arkane is right up there among the best practitioners of it. Dishonored is a fairly traditional immersive sim, which is to say that they’re about empowering players. They were clearly inspired by Thief and Deus Ex, which is really cool, and I think they do a great job with empowering players, so no beef there. Their introduction of the way they do magic is also really cool.

“Harvey Smith is over there, who was my lead designer on Deus Ex and the game director on Invisible War. Great pedigree. So it’s no big surprise the that they would make a game that’s closest in spirit and in play to what we do. I’ve got nothing but great things to say about the Dishonored series.”

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Couchpotato said:

Fallout 76 Single Player Impressions Videos

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joxer said:

Have to, sorry:

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Overkill’s The Walking Dead arrives on Steam for PC today

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CelticFrost said:

This isn't surprising….

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