A side-scrolling shooter with a monster hunting gameplay, you must search and hunt down dreadful sea monsters and explore the post-apocalyptic underwater world of Earth Atlantis. Unlock multiple ships with special weapons and abilities for your journey and become a legendary hunter.
Blog: Making a tabletop-style party game for consoles
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Awkward is a brand new party game from Snap Finger Click. The aim of the game is to answer divisive, uncomfortable and sometimes controversial questions while another player tries to guess what you think. The questions start out gently, asking if you prefer hot dogs or hamburgers, or if you spend your weekends staying in or going out. But as you progress, the questions get increasingly more difficult:
“Would you have a night of passion with your best friend for $1m?”
“What outrages you the most, sexism or ageism?”
“Do you think you’re the smartest of all your friends?”
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Snap Finger Click is mostly made up of former developers of the now defunct Relentless Software who made the BAFTA-award winning Buzz! quiz series. Prior to Awkward, we released two party games: Act it Out!, and It’s Quiz Time. Making games that people can play together is our passion, but with Awkward, we also wanted to try something new, something not done on console before, and something that appeals to a big audience.
Act it Out! and It’s Quiz Time are both E-rated games, suitable for all ages. It was hard work securing those ratings as the smallest reference can push the rating up. Most party games tend to be T-rated and we noticed a problem with this: a game suitable for teenagers excludes families with younger kids, but also can be a turn-off to older adult groups looking for something more risqué. This can make it hard to find an audience as it floats between two age groups. And finding an audience is already a challenge for an indie studio! So having already made games for the family-friendly market, we spotted another gap at the other end of the spectrum: party games made for adults. While there are many successful adult tabletop party games such as Cards Against Humanity and Secret Hitler, no such games existed on console. Our goal with Awkward was to make an M-rated title, standing out against other party games as being for a solely grown-up audience.
In all our years making party games, there are a few things we’ve learned along the way. Two of the biggest constraints you have to consider are the number of controllers and the number of players required. With console, the only guarantee is that there’s one controller. Relying on players having multiple controllers narrows the potential audience you can reach. Similarly, the more players you require to start a game, the less chance there’ll be enough people in the household to play. Every party game we’ve ever worked on has always shown the 2-player game to be the most popular way to play, even if it was designed to work with more players in its main mode. From the beginning, we decided that Awkward had to be playable with just one controller and it had to work well as a 2-player game. To achieve this, we designed the core gameplay starting from a group of two players, and built outwards from there. We found posing a question to two people at a time with a simple button press input worked well, and we were easily able to add extra players by dividing players up into teams of two. Since the game is designed to cause debate, we found even large groups are happy to wait their turn as they can join the conversation with each question asked.
Something that sets party games apart from other genres is the need to be evergreen – the game must be replayable in short bursts to keep players coming back time and again. It was vital to make Awkward enjoyable in bite-sized chunks with an addictive quality. Each game of Awkward is fairly short at around 10-15 minutes, depending on how long players spend debating between questions. We played around with this quite a bit, but ultimately decided this was a great length for a game since it’s easy to get into, but gives the players a ‘just one more go’ mentality. When were testing it, we found ourselves playing for hours because we just wanted one more game. Had we made the games last longer, it could be off-putting to play again. Awkward comes with 5,000 handwritten questions which is far more than most players will be able to get through. Even if they did, the wonderful thing about Awkward is that it changes with every play according to the group playing it. If you play enough to see the same question, it may be posed to someone else this time, prompting a different experience and a different debate. As well as learning more about your friends and family, Awkward lets you compare yourself to the rest of the world with every question revealing how other players have answered. It’s really fascinating to see how your views measure up worldwide and often produces some surprising results.
A staple of all Snap Finger Click games is the Live Show feature. We think it’s important to cater for broadcasters, and party games lend themselves particularly well to interactive streaming features. Our focus is specifically on supporting Twitch, YouTube and Mixer. We introduced Live Show with our first title – Act it Out! – where the host acts out secret phrases on camera while the viewers type their guess into the chat. The game is able to read the text and detects when someone has typed the right answer. We also included Live Show in It’s Quiz Time, letting the viewers take on the host with a series of multiple choice questions, again detecting viewers’ answers from the text in the chat. The Live Show mode in Awkward is our best yet, perfectly suited to the social nature of broadcasting. The host answers the questions while the viewers try to guess what the host has said. The game maintains a leaderboard of the best-performing players, highlighting the viewers that know the host the best. It’s a great way for a broadcaster to get to know their followers better and we believe it’s a truly awesome and innovative features that makes Awkward stand apart from its rivals in the party genre.
It’s been just over two weeks since Awkward released, and seeing people having fun with the game has been a real joy. Every play of Awkward is delightfully unique, and we love to hear the personal stories behind the answers people choose. With the addition of Live Show, we get to experience games a lot more than usual, and we’ve seen everything from smaller, intimate streams, to 30,000 people playing with Sodapoppin on Twitch. We’ve also had so many people contacting us with their suggestions to spice up the game with their own house rules such as Strip Awkward, or Awkward: The Drinking Game. One of the most magical things about making party titles is that half the game is something you can’t control – how the players interact with each other in the living room – and that’s different for every group and every play. Awkward was certainly a risk for us in a departure from our previously family-friendly titles, but it’s a risk that’s paid off. At Snap Finger Click, we continue to innovate in the party genre and we’re looking forward to sharing our next game with the world!
Key Takeaways:
• Look for a gap in the market within the genre of games you’re making.
• Take inspiration from successful titles in other similar industries, such as board and card games.
• When making a multiplayer game, the more controllers you require, the smaller your potential audience.
• Groups of two are the most popular way to play multiplayer games.
• Embrace streaming – it’s a great way to promote your game to a wider audience.
At XRDC, learn how (and why) to effectively simulate stress in VR!
Back in 2016, longtime BioWare dev Jonathan Perry (who, as cinematics director, worked on the interactive cinematics of games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age) started his own VR studio Ractive.
This October, he’s coming to XRDC in San Francisco to share what he’s learned about simulating affecting, stressful situations in VR.
His presentation, appropriately titled “Performance Under Pressure: Simulating Stress in VR Training,” is a promising part of XRDC’s cutting-edge Education & Training track of talks.
You’ll want to make time for this if you’re at all curious about the power of VR experiences to transport people into new places and scenarios, as the Ractive CEO will showcase how VR training is being used to train folks for complex and dangerous tasks in a safe space.
According to Perry, by simulating stressful environments and distractions, VR training can help inoculate users against the effects stress and adrenaline have on performance and decision making when performing under pressure in the real world. His XRDC talk will explore cutting-edge research on stress in training and dig into a variety of techniques for adding stress to simulated VR scenarios as a way to improve skill retention and performance. Don’t skip it!
XRDC is happening October 29th and 30th in San Francisco at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. Now that registration is open, you’ll want to look over XRDC passes and prices and register early to get the best deal!
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Build Your Own Jurassic Park in Jurassic World Evolution on Xbox One
Jurassic World Evolution launched this week for Xbox One and in this post I’d like to give you a helping hand taking care of your dinosaurs.
Back in “Jurassic Park,” way back in 1993, Ray Arnold said that Jurassic Park had all the complications of a theme park and a zoo, and that’s the challenge you face when you first start developing your islands. Of course, Jurassic World is no ordinary zoo, and the creatures you’ll bioengineer and (try to) contain on the Las Cinco Muertes islands are deadlier and more challenging than any modern animal.
The first task is to keep the dinosaurs healthy, and top of the list is their hunger and thirst. If you don’t satisfy those basic needs then the dinosaur will eventually lose consciousness and die. Luckily these two needs are relatively easy to meet by making sure that the dinosaur can access suitable feeders and pools of water. It’s a good idea to drop a feeder in an area your guests can see so they’ll have a better chance to see your amazing dinosaurs up close.
Diseases can also affect health, and each island introduces new diseases that can spread like wildfire among your dino population. Different dinosaur species are susceptible or immune to different diseases, and cures for each disease need to be researched before your ranger teams can medicate any sick dinosaurs. Dead dinosaurs can be a potent source of disease, so clearing their bodies is essential for the health and wellbeing of your living creatures. Dinosaurs can also be poisoned through acts of sabotage, and antidotes must be researched. Get a head start on this job in case a disgruntled employee sabotages your park.
Beyond basic health, the comfort of the dinosaur is a more complicated challenge that balances various requirements in their environmental or social needs. Each species has differing environmental concerns. Some prefer open grassland while others prefer the cover of forest to keep them safe. As well as the composition of the environment, how much space is available (either grassland or forest) is an important factor; remember very large dinosaurs like our sauropods – including the fearsome T. rex – require large expanses of land to be comfortable.
Tailoring an enclosure for a single species is relatively straightforward while mixing species becomes harder but can be rewarding, allowing you to get ‘more bang for your buck’ and give your guests access to lots of dinosaurs in a single paddock. Some dinosaurs – especially herbivores like the Parasaurolophus – prefer to live in large herds and tolerate mixing well. As well as others of their own kind, many dinosaurs require the company of other species.
But dinosaurs that do not live near their ideal social group numbers will soon become agitated and may fight or attempt to escape. Of course, some dinosaurs are loners or prefer small social groups. It’s up to you to experiment with paddock composition, but I recommend keeping the carnivores away from the herbivores.
Oh, and remember – dinosaurs hate storms.
Maintaining the dinosaurs comfort is key to building a successful park. Jurassic World Evolution is a complex but accessible systemic game with dinosaurs that think, feel and react to the world you build around them. Nature can’t be contained indefinitely, and as Dr. Ian Malcolm says: ‘life finds a way’.
I hope you’ll find your own way to tame the chaos of Jurassic World, and maybe achieve something we’ve never seen in the “Jurassic Park” movies – a park that works!
Video: Go Postal With 11 Minutes Of Air Mail Gameplay On Switch
When it comes to games about planes and flight simulation, Nintendo Switch is fast becoming the most populous airspace in video games, and the platform is getting another aerial adventure in the form of the upcoming Air Mail.
Placing you in the shoes of Scoop, the youngest pilot to join the Domeekan Island Fliers, your postal delivery duties get thrown to the wind like flimsy letters when the Kingdom of Domeeka erupts into conflict. With 25 missions to complete and all manner of locations to explore in your plane, this award-winning little odyssey looks right up Switch’s alley. Check out some footage of it in action below.
Let us know what you make of Air Mail in the comments below…
With Nintendo Switch fast accumulating all manner of new multiplayer experiences – including the global phenomenon that is Fortnite – it seems fitting the plucky hybrid machine would add another competitive string to its bow. Enter Paladins, a hero shooter that does an impressive of job of bringing the full experience to a new platform with a surprisingly small number of concessions.
At first glance/play, Paladins does look and feel an awful lot like Overwatch. Both games launched four months apart in 2016 and on paper the two do share plenty of DNA: both feature a roster of ‘heroes’ with unique weapons and abilities, both feature objective-based matches and both place a heavy emphasis on teamwork. But that’s where most of the similarities end, with Paladins adding a little more strategy to the mix to help set itself apart from the pack, but we’ll get to that in a bit.
There are 36 Champions to choose from, which are divided into four specific classes – Damage (those with mid-range health pools but large damage output), Flank (low health, but high mobility and high damage potential), Frontline (high health with a focus on shielding and brute strength) and Support (low damage output but essential for healing teammates). While they all fall into the familiar sniper, assault, tank and healer templates, there’s still plenty of crossover that makes many of its roster considerably more dynamic in battle.
The mech-toting goblin that is Ruckus is considered a Frontline with his heavy reserves of health and on-board shielding, but his double Gatling guns and rockets make him just as effective as a Damage character (especially when using his dash ability). Then there’s Grover, the axe-wielding tree from Smite (developer Hi-Rez Studios’ MOBA). He’s a Support by trade, but his axe has surprisingly low damage drop-off at range, making him an ideal Flank if needs be. Not every Champion is so dynamic in their application, but there’s a generous amount of scope for those looking to ‘main’ a specific character.
To complement your chosen warrior, and to mix things up further, Paladins also uses a card-based loadout system. Each Champion comes with a default loadout consisting of five normal cards and one talent card, with each one providing a specific buff or enhancement in battle. You can build your own loadouts as well, applying a set number of points to increase the potency of each effect. For instance, the blunderbuss-toting dwarf Barik (a Frontline beast by day) is built around the use of turrets, so you can use cards that heal his turrets when Barik is near, or reduce the cooldown between each deployment.
Talent cards are chosen at the start of each match and are periodically unlocked as you level up each Champion. These are geared towards a particular playstyle and give you glimpse into just how versatile some of them can be. Androxus, for instance, can use his Flank-based abilities in a multitude of ways. You could use the Godslayer card to increase his damage against enemies with 40% health or lower, or instead opt to increase the output of his Reversal ability when absorbing and redistributing enemy fire back at its source. It’s here you start to realise this is way beyond the simple point and shoot mechanics of Call of Duty and the like.
There are also items you can purchase before the start of each match to further buff your abilities. These only last for one match at a time, but add an extra dimension to play once you start actively learning what each one does. It’s a lot to take in for new players, so you can easily turn on auto-purchase which will select an extra buff based on your character and loadout. These are purchased with in-game credits, so you won’t have to worry about being penalised for not pumping in real-world cash. There is a premium Battle Pass you can buy, but this just drops cosmetic items such as profile avatars and skins and won’t affect how you play (unless fashion is your number one priority).
Game modes are pretty slim, but then again this is the same for Overwatch, so it’s not really a criticism. TDM (Team Deathmatch) is the best way to try out Champions for the first time, with its simple first to 40 kills setup offering a quick and clean way to see where your skills and persuasion lies. Onslaught adds more of an objective-based spin, tasking you with battling for control over a central area. The longer you spend in the area, the more you score, with kills also adding to your team’s total. It’s a great place to step up from TDM and start applying your abilities as a team rather than a lone wolf.
If TDM is Paladins’ hors-d’oeuvre and Onslaught its starter, Siege is the main course and dessert piled onto the same delicious plate. Two teams of five race to the middle of a large map, with the aim of controlling a central point then moving a payload towards their enemy’s base. These larger maps also offer some of the best level design, with shortcuts that favour the ambush potential of Flank characters and elevated positions perfect for Damage Champions looking to cut through a poorly grouped enemy team.
So here comes the big one – just how well does it run? Those aforementioned ‘concessions’ are certainly present and will stand out to most to those that have played Paladins on PC or other consoles, but even then they’re hardly game-breaking. There’s the occasional bit of slowdown during a match, but it’s a rarity, with the promised 60fps holding true for the most part. There’s a slight delay moving between screens when you’re navigating menus, with the online store suffering the worst – just trying to move between tabs can be a real chore.
Matchmaking for the most part is pretty stable, although frustration does arise when the game automatically kicks you from a lobby if one or more players fail to select a Champion before the pre-game timer runs out. Swapping them out for another player (or automatically assigning them a Champion) would be a far more productive process, and one that wouldn’t penalise those who are simply waiting to join a new match.
Again, it can’t be overstated just how well Paladins runs on Switch. Whether you’re a twitchy Damage player looking to snipe an objective from afar or a Support trying to heal multiple teammates during an unfolding battle, everything from hit detection to AOE all work just as well as they do on consoles and PC. It’s a really impressive feat from Hi-Rez Studios and proof that Nintendo Switch is far more powerful and versatile than we give it credit for. And with cross-platform play due to be patched in by the end of June, Switch’s Paladins community won’t be an isolated one either.
The lack of voice chat support is a problem, though, and one that can only be remedied by joining a Discord channel (such as the official Paladins one) and jumping into a party. Considering all other versions of the game support such a feature, as well as the fact Epic Games proved such a component can function on Switch without the need for the official companion app, there’s no excuse for its absence. We’re really hoping Hi-Rez is working on patching it in ASAP.
As it stands, you can only access Paladins via the £25 Founders Pack. It’s a big asking price when you consider the game will be free-to-play later in the summer, so those of you looking to avoid spending big might want to wait. However, considering it unlocks all 36 Champions as well as additional skins and a special mount, it’s an attractive early way in for those wanting to play ranked (where you need to have at least 14 Champions unlocked and have a level 15 account, with the former taking a lot longer to grind than the latter).
Conclusion
While locking the game behind a £25 Founders Pack might be a little cheeky for a game that’s actually free-to-play, the game itself is an easy sell. As exciting, tense and rewarding as Overwatch, Paladins: Champions of the Realm brings the cross-platform hero shooter to a new platform without sacrificing the moreish gameplay tenants that’s made it such a hit with both gamers and pros. There’s a definitive learning curve for those looking to play competitively, but it’s nonetheless one of the console’s best new multiplayer additions.
Underhollow changes; * When defeated, heroes now drop the 3 highest net worth items they are carrying. The remaining items are converted and dropped as gold for their sale cost. * Significantly increased the amount of experience awarded for player eliminations. * Fixed invisible Roshan killing players. * Adjusted difficulty of a few combat encounters. * Added an initial stock time to dynamite of 60s. * Fixed heart being purchasable via its recipe. * Added localization.
This week at Bungie, we welcome back the Factions.
Everyone is back from E3, and we’re heads down, working hard on Forsaken. Several thousand players already got to play Gambit, and we’re extremely excited for more to play it, both at GuardianCon and when Forsaken releases on September 4.
Meanwhile, the Iron Banner rages on. You have the rest of the week to rank up with Lord Saladin and earn the Season 3 ornaments for your gear. Make sure you turn in everything before the reset on June 26 at 10 a.m., or you will have to wait until the next Iron Banner to claim your rewards. Your tokens and ornament progress will carry over.
What Is Dead Orbit May Never Die
As one event winds down, the next one ramps up. Faction Rallies is starting up again. Dead Orbit dominated the first event of Season 3. We will see if they defend their position at the top, or if New Monarchy or Future War Cult step up to take their spot. Faction Rallies will be available Tuesday, June 26, at 10 a.m. PDT through the following weekly reset.
In a previous TWAB, we told you that Winner’s Offering weapons would be added to the event reward pool after the first event. That was incorrect for Season 3, which will operate differently than past seasons. During this season, the factions will continue to feature their original Winner’s Offerings for all three events.
If you didn’t make it to Rank 50 with your faction of choice during the first event, you can pick up where you left off by pledging to them again. Or you can opt to start up with new blood, but remember that your pledge is account wide. Choose carefully.
Wear It like Armor
Last month, we did a tuning pass on Exotic armor in Update 1.2.1. We’ve been working on more changes to more gear and wanted to give you a peek at which armor pieces we have plans for next. Here is Sandbox Designer Victor Anderson with the details.
Victor: We’re bringing another set of changes to Exotic armor with Update 1.2.3. As we continue to iterate on Exotic armor, we hope that you will also continue to provide feedback. You’ve heard the goals from the last TWAB, where we introduced the changes, so let’s get right into them.
Like the Update 1.2.1 changes, anything written below is in addition to any existing benefits that the Exotic already provides, unless it’s explicitly mentioned otherwise.
Hunter
Lucky Raspberry
Increased chance to fully recharge your Arcbolt Grenade on Arcbolt Grenade hits.
Guarantees a recharge on getting a full chain that hits four targets.
While just about everybody could appreciate the theoretically infinite grenades Lucky Raspberry could generate, its purely random nature made many people shy away from it. With this change, your input will now affect the outcome, so plan your throws accordingly.
St0mp-EE5
Increased benefits when using Strafe Jump and Triple Jump.
The usage rate of St0mp-EE5 in the Crucible was fairly good, but since it mostly affected High Jump, people were somewhat pigeonholed if they wanted to change up their air game, so the other double jump variants were tweaked to have more impact.
Young Ahamkara’s Spine
Removed marking functionality.
Improved the Tripmine Grenade’s blast radius and throw speed, and made it so your Tripmine Grenades are harder to destroy.
Solar ability hits now grant some Tripmine Grenade energy.
The marking functionality, while useful in some circumstances such as in the Crucible, did not have much merit in PvE, so we removed it to head in a better direction. Now, your Tripmine Grenades are punchier, and you can get access to them faster.
Titan
ACD/0 Feedback Fence
Now grants Fury Conductor stacks on melee hits instead of kills.
Fury Conductors now grants stacking melee damage resistance.
These changes were mostly aimed at making Fury Conductors better in PvE encounters. While the Feedback Fence could protect you from hordes of Thrall by keeping them staggered, it just wasn’t that much use against something like a Hive Knight wielding a sword. The changes also make this Exotic better in the Crucible, but the solution of just shooting opponents still works.
Doomfang Pauldrons
Void melee kills now grant more Super energy.
Shield Throw hits will now extend the duration of your Super.
Titans have a lot of Exotics that help with punching things. To differentiate this one from the rest of the herd, we’ve increased the impact this Exotic has on your Super and on how you use it.
Dunemarchers
Reduced the time to activate Linear Actuators while you are sprinting to 1.5 seconds (down from 5 seconds).
Increased the damage of the chain lightning effect (+70% in PvP, 440% in PvE).
While the lightning effect of Dunemarchers was novel, the time needed to start it up and its fairly low impact led to many players simply seeing these as “the sprint pants.” So, we’ve made the lightning much more deadly and frequent.
Warlock
Crown of Tempests
Collapsed the total number of stacks of Conduction Tines to 3 (with the same total effect), and each stack of Conduction Tines lowers the upkeep cost of Stormtrance.
Nezarec’s Sin and this Exotic were quite similar, so we pushed harder on this Exotic for Stormcallers who want to invest heavily in ability use. Warlocks also don’t have many Exotics that modify their Supers, and not receiving the full benefit of Conduction Tines during Stormtrance was a little disheartening, so we added a benefit during the Super’s duration to alleviate that.
Karnstein Armlets
Removed melee hit effects (resilience/mobility/target highlighting).
Melee kills now instantly heal you, then grant continuous healing for 8 seconds.
In this iteration of Karnstein Armlets, we’ve simplified the Exotic to be about death and healing. Previously, the effect was split between hits and kills, providing inconsistent experiences. While the effect is much more basic now, it should be more reliable and more effective in most situations.
Starfire Protocol
Empowering Rift weapon damage hits now grant Fusion Grenade energy (20%).
Much as with the Lunafaction Boots, we felt like giving a bonus to players who decide to go on the offense with Empowering Rift, rather than playing it safe with Healing Rift.
The Old Gods
There are some relics of a different time still being hosted on our servers. Next week, we’re retiring a few legacy services from the Halo era and consolidating others. Resident Archivist Roger Wolfson will explain what’s changing and how it may affect you.
Roger: We’re doing some (once a decade) spring cleaning on the halo.bungie.net site. First off, it’s time to retire those old, read-only forums. If you have some archived threads bookmarked that you like to revisit for nostalgia purposes, please take some screenshots before we say goodbye to those forums.
Do you remember Bungie Pro Video? We said back in 2008 that we’d keep your renders available to download for a couple months. Ten years later, we’re getting around to cleaning them up, so grab anything you want to keep around in the next week. Finally, the “details” views of old Halo matches will be trimmed down to just the line-item scores; your career pages will still have your overall medals chest, but individual games won’t.
These changes go into effect on June 28 at 10 a.m. PDT. If you need to save anything, get it done before then.
Watchers on the Wall
The Destiny Player Support team keeps watch over the health of the live game. They were quick to respond to a few issues that rose up this week. The full details are in their report below.
Fighting Lion and the Iron Ornament Bundle
Destiny Player Support investigated an issue impacting players who purchased the Iron Ornament Bundle on Tuesday, June 19, in which the included ornament “Lupus Visage” did not properly unlock on Fighting Lion after it was activated.
We have identified all impacted accounts, and this issue will be resolved for all affected players in an upcoming hotfix. To prevent further impact until a hotfix is deployed, this bundle has been pulled from the Eververse Trading Co. storefront.
In the meantime, players who have successfully equipped this ornament will not be impacted as long as they do not unequip the ornament or dismantle the specific Fighting Lion that the ornament has been applied to.
For players who encounter this issue before the hotfix is released, here’s what you should expect when this hotfix is available:
The Lupus Visage ornament will already be unlocked, and you can find it by directly inspecting Fighting Lion from your vault, collection, or character inventory.
For affected players who do not yet own Fighting Lion, the Lupus Visage ornament will not appear in your modifications inventory, postmaster, or vault. It will appear when previewing Fighting Lion once it has been obtained in game.
As with all Exotic weapon ornaments, once owned, it can be applied and removed on the Fighting Lion freely without cost to materials or currency.
Battle.net Maintenance for European Players
On June 20, between 02:00 CEST and 07:00 CEST, our partners at Blizzard Europe conducted scheduled global authentication maintenance. During this maintenance, European players were unable to login to Destiny 2 on Battle.net.
For notices regarding scheduled maintenances before they occur, players should follow @BungieHelp on Twitter or monitor our support feed on help.Bungie.net. For issues related to Blizzard services, players should reach out to Blizzard Support.
Sweet Summer Child
It’s summertime, which means big blockbuster movies. We’ve got our own movies to show off, pulled straight from the Creations page. So grab your drink and snack of choice, and find a seat. It’s show time.
Movie of the Week: Foreshadowing
Honorable Mention: Unusual Reward
Before we go, here are the top scores for last week’s Nightfall, Will of the Thousands.
I don’t know about you, but I’m excited about the armor changes. I plan on running a lot of Lucky Raspberry in PvE. Let us know what you’re looking forward to, and give us any feedback you have on the upcoming changes.
We’ll be back next week with some more info on Update 1.2.3. See you in Iron Banner.
