OrbusVR’s most recent patch adds a new island, treasure maps, bracers, and long-term missions

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It was certainly an inevitable conclusion, but the playerbase of OrbusVR has successfully completed the required tasks for the Explore the Realm community event, successfully unlocking a new island that was added in last week's update among other features. This new Forsaken Isle is meant to be an endgame location for groups of three to 10 players. Enemies range from...

Dual Universe asks its playerbase for thoughts on where to focus development via upvotes

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Like what you see online? Then click that upvote button! Anyone who's watched a YouTube video since what feels like forever ago is familiar with the positive reinforcement that clicking a like or an upvote can bring. Dual Universe is going to leverage that learned behavior to determine what features to focus development on through a roadmap and feature...

The Stream Team: Conjurer class questing in FFXIV

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After poking back into FFXIV for its 10th anniversary, Massively OP's MJ yearned for more adventures on her Miqo'te, so she's nabbed Chris to join her for some. They'll be working on her conjurer class quest to move her along her White Mage path. Join us live at 2:00 p.m. for a return to... What: Final Fantasy XIV Who: Chris Neal...

PUBG brings back actor Jonathan Frakes for another lore video about the city of Paramo

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Yep, we're doing this again, talking about lore tidbits associated with the decidedly plotless battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. But once again, we've got Star Trek actor and Beyond Belief host Jonathan Frakes to entice us along with that Unsolved Mysteries-style theme song in the background for that extra nostalgic hit. The video once more bills itself as a found...

Crowfall’s October ACE Q&A livestream discusses expanded build options coming in update 6.2

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The month of October is all about update 6.2 for Crowfall, which will be all about deepening the build variety for players of the throne war PvP MMO. The game's ACE Q&A video for this month took a closer look at the changes that are due to arrive with the update on that front. The idea behind changing talents is...

Riot Games is shuttering its Sydney, Australia, office as it sunsets its Oceanic Pro League

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Activision-Blizzard isn't the only company shuttering overseas holdings this week, it seems: Riot Games is closing one down too, this time the company's Sydney, Australia, office. Riot's Malte Wagener and Tom Martell explain that League of Legends' esports Oceanic Pro League "has not met goals for the league" and that they "do not believe that the market" can...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: What gamers need to understand about MMO mages

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So the first two times I tackled this type of topic for the Perfect Ten column here on Massively OP, I had the advantage of every game having a Warrior or most games having a Rogue, usually using those exact names. Mages, though? There are lots of different names for these guys. Mages, wizard, sorcerers, thaumaturges, diviners, elementalists... the...
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World of Warcraft will still offer 100% drop rates for raid-dropped mounts in the Shadowlands pre-patch

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One of the big things that World of Warcraft players have been advised to get done before the launch of the Shadowlands pre-patch is to hunt down the mount drops from Jaina Proudmoore and N'Zoth at Mythic difficulty. Currently, the mounts drop two at a time and have a 100% drop rate, while the expansion launch will see the drop rate...

O’dyllita is live for Black Desert PC as console launches its first Succession classes

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The O'dyllita region is finally open for PC players of Black Desert today! Readers will recall that the high-level area was postponed back in 2019 and then resurfaced in March before MOP’s Desert Oasis columnist Carlo deep-dived it in June, calling it the best zone Pearl Abyss has ever built. And now it's live and ready for you to...
Don't let's fight.

Yes, Genshin Impact is blocking Hong Kong and Taiwan-related chat

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There are some words you can't say in Genshin Impact even when chatting with friends. These words are probably not of an enormous surprise to anyone familiar with the Chinese government, as the banned terms include Hong Kong, Tibet, and Taiwan. Others are a bit weirder, as some players are reporting "enemies" as an auto-blocked word as well. You can...