Summary: Chris, Bill and Layanor pick up the slack for the ever present Harry, who's resting his voice. With Celeste and Allona joining us for a special Guild Wars 2 segment, we discuss the (NOT)suprising news that ESO is going buy to play and APB Reloaded's foray into console country. Audio Version: What we did in game: Layanor lotro 52% binding of Issac rebirth papers please forced minecraft guild wars 2 tried pvp secret world, did a ton of new years event Elite dangerous learned how to drive, kinda hello kitty online Bill Elite Dangerous WoW LOTRO New mouse - G700S http://gaming.logitech.com/assets/47824/g700s-gaming-mouse-images.png Chris WoW Elite Dangerous LOTRO Minecraft Guild Wars 2 iTunes Give us a 5 star review and we’ll mention you on the show! Patreon patreon.com/mmoreporter News: Guild Wars 2 expansion announced at PAX South: Heart of Thorns The Heart of Maguuma Three distinct biomes: underground (root), ground-level (core), canopy (littered with ruined pact fleet airships) New challenges! Solo, group, guild (the R word wasn’t used at all, so anticipate it being open world (speculation)) New creatures! Bugs! New open world bosses! New civilizations! We saw at least the Hylek (frog people) and the Mursaat Mastery System Earn mastery points by completing objectives in the jungle (to earn skills exclusive to the Heart of Maguuma areas) Works similar to collections and will be retroactive Account-based horizontal progression Spend mastery points on each character that is level 80 (akin to current wuvwuv points) Specializations One new specialization per profession Examples given were Ranger becoming a druid, or necro using greatsword Speculative based on the trailer: engineers using flying turrets and hammer, mesmer with shield offhand New Profession: Revenant Heavy profession Ritualist-esque - channels power from the mists, from great legends from the past: Jalis Ironhammer, Mallyx are two examples Guild Halls Area for your guild to meet and socialize Most likely highly customizable but we didn’t get a LOT of detail about this particular feature sPvP: Stronghold Mode Steal Supply, Hire Troops, Maintain your keeps, and kill the lord to win WuvWuv: New Borderlands Multileveled with a lot new siege various buffs are added as you hold on to shrines near your keep Pre-cursor “crafting” finally 2 yrs later we have a final valid product that takes throughout the world to earn a precursor of your choice including new precursors for new legendary weapons that will be introduced with HoT ESO goes Subscription Free http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2015/01/21/your-guide-to-eso-plus-premium-membership Trailer “supercut” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLdYM70QNdo Reddit AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/2tfb48/welcome_to_the_eso_tamriel_unlimited_aua/?limit=1500 APB Reloaded on XBox One and PS4 http://forums.gamersfirst.com/topic/373985-apb-reloaded-on-ps4-and-xbox-one-q-a/ Deep Silver will be publishing a council version of APB reloaded to PS4 and Xbox The game has been in development since early 2014. When the game is released, the PC version will have a update to include all of the new things they added. This version of the game will also be stripping out most of the pre 2008 coding. The Console teams, and the PC teams are both working on it simultaneously. PC gamers would crush console gamers, so the game will not be cross platform. You may be able to possibly log in to either version with one account. When they released the game on pc, they bought ads on some "YouTubers" channels, and realized quickly that over 70% of the audience that came across did not have powerful enough PCs to play the game. They all had consoles!. The Console version will be more "easy" to get in to,
