Marvel Rivals players are on strike until the Strategist role is improved — and they may get their way according to a new blog post from the dev team.
“In the upcoming patch, we will enhance the damage capabilities of certain Strategists to elevate their threat levels, which in turn, will increase team composition possibilities,” the devs said.
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!
Guild Wars 2 released its Living World Season 2 score book if you want to literally play along with the soundtrack.
PlanetSide 2 is handing out free banners as a thank you to patient players during the recent mergers. Even the impatient ones, we suppose.
“The Gods have brought forth the Festival of Floralia to celebrate the Spring Season in SMITE 2,” Hi-Rez said. “Now until May 9, complete special event quests to earn an all new Ward Skin!”
Lynked has a big update for consoles coming May 22nd with a new biome and story chapters.
Patch 10.08 arrived for Valorant: “This patch brings some Agent balance updates for Brim, Astra, and Yoru, plus the long-awaited Gifting functionality to the Featured Store, and a slew of bug fixes.” Also the game celebrated its fifth anniversary with nostalgia-themed player cards and gifting.
Aion just wound down its latest season and is running a Garden of Growth event: “Just when you thought the harvest was safe, Garden Tentakluds and thieving Dukaki Swindlers returned to raid the Garden of Growth! Head into the Garden of Growth instance and defend the crops.”
Enlisted added WWII fighter jets with its most recent patch.
You can now purchase the full 45-track Embers Adrift score on Steam for 10 bucks.
“We know that many Terrarians greatly enjoy playing the Summoner class, but we also know that many players have felt that Summoner lags behind the other classes in regards to equipment and other aspects. One key missing piece has been the lack of weapon prefixes for Summoner weapons. In Terraria 1.4.5, we are finally addressing this with the addition of a suite of brand-new Summoner weapon prefixes,” the studio said.
Get a bit of Valheim lore with this latest story video:
FragPunk launched on console this past week and added a huge new update, “Chapter 2 of the game’s first season: Wild Dawn, which introduces a brand-new Lancer Dex, a new Team Deathmatch map and over 70 new Shard Cards:”
Marvel Rivals is cranking out a Hellfire Gala event and a new Thunderbolts* costume:
Apex Legends has a new prodigy to introduce:
Arena Breakout: Infinite activated its Ignition season:
The MMO industry pumps out more and more news every year – no site could possibly cover everything. That’s why we gather together all the extras every week in The MOP Up, our a weekly compilation of MMO info we don’t want lost in the cracks of time. Send us your news bits through our tips line!
