Hello, and welcome back to my blog. This week I will be talking about some tips and tricks in this new game that I am playing called Trove. I mentioned this game in last weeks blog and you can get it for free on Steam (a seller of many games). Trove is a game based on numbers, like the amount of damage you do, or the perks your items give you, and to raise those numbers, you have to get to higher levels. I will be talking about how to raise those levels and to get the currency of your choice.
1) One way of raising your character level is to just run around and kill everything you see and to kill everything in the dungeons you go into to get more experience. Also aim for more of the bigger dungeons because they contain 2 small bosses and a big boss to give massive experience points.
2) One easy way to get a decent amount of Glim (type of resource) in a decent amount of time is to get on your mount and spend some time running over plants and other things that you can run break like that. You will get 1 Glim for every plant. I do recommend getting a faster mount to be more efficient.
3)Another way to get Glim or Flux is to go mining. This is something anybody can do, you just have to find a random cave and run into it and start mining all the ores you can see. The most common and easy to sell is Shapestone, which I usually sell 200 Shapestone for 500 flux, but you can also sell it for Glim. I do recommend crafting a lot of bombs and running with a group of willing friends.
4) Once you get to mastery rank 10, you can access the player marketplace (applies to #3) and use it to trade your items. If you have a lot of Flux or Glim for whatever reason, you can buy allies to increase your mastery level by 10 points at a time (100 points to level it up). You absolutely have to put on the "Hide Collected" filter to make sure that you buy something that you don't already have, because you can turn those into mastery points.
That is all for this week, have fun raising those levels and Happy Thanksgiving, until next time.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Top 3 Free Games
Hello, and welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about three free games that you have most likely not heard of. This is based on my opinion and my opinion alone, put your list in the comments if you would like.
1) Trove: This game consists of a very open world and graphics that you can relate to Minecraft's pixel-like style. I recently started to play this game and so far I am really enjoying its vast crafting system and item drops. It is also really fun to just run around doing whatever you want to do. I would recommend this game to a group of friends because it is much more fun to play with friends than just by yourself.
2) Vainglory: This is a mobile app made by 'Super Evil Megacorp'. It is a MOBA, which means that it is a player versus player arena with turrets and minions and a jungle. The best part of this game to me is how easy it is to learn the game and get good at it. unlike some other MOBAs that require months of work just to figure out how to do the basics. I also really like the good people in the community and the hard-working developers that make sure that everything is fair. Games take up to 20 minutes, and that is very rare. I would recommend that you do have a team of people that you like to play with, because some character combinations can be hard to work with.
3) Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: This is a card game that is both on computer and on your mobile device. This game takes place in the World of Warcraft themed area, where most of the cards have to do with other games the creators (Blizzard) have made. This game does consume a lot of time and energy from making your perfect deck to researching the best card combos to figuring out what is your best move to make. This game does have a pretty steep learning curve that might take a while and a lot of patience to master. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes to do things slowly and methodically. This is not really a game you can play with friends, but I still do enjoy it.
That is all for this week, thanks for reading and I hope you have a great week!
1) Trove: This game consists of a very open world and graphics that you can relate to Minecraft's pixel-like style. I recently started to play this game and so far I am really enjoying its vast crafting system and item drops. It is also really fun to just run around doing whatever you want to do. I would recommend this game to a group of friends because it is much more fun to play with friends than just by yourself.
2) Vainglory: This is a mobile app made by 'Super Evil Megacorp'. It is a MOBA, which means that it is a player versus player arena with turrets and minions and a jungle. The best part of this game to me is how easy it is to learn the game and get good at it. unlike some other MOBAs that require months of work just to figure out how to do the basics. I also really like the good people in the community and the hard-working developers that make sure that everything is fair. Games take up to 20 minutes, and that is very rare. I would recommend that you do have a team of people that you like to play with, because some character combinations can be hard to work with.
3) Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: This is a card game that is both on computer and on your mobile device. This game takes place in the World of Warcraft themed area, where most of the cards have to do with other games the creators (Blizzard) have made. This game does consume a lot of time and energy from making your perfect deck to researching the best card combos to figuring out what is your best move to make. This game does have a pretty steep learning curve that might take a while and a lot of patience to master. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes to do things slowly and methodically. This is not really a game you can play with friends, but I still do enjoy it.
That is all for this week, thanks for reading and I hope you have a great week!
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Assassins Creed: Syndicate Review
Hello and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be doing a game review on Assassins Creed: Syndicate. I personally really do like the game and think it was worth the money. There are a few bugs and glitches here and there, and only one serious one I found after many hours of playing, that glitch happens when you are trying to get an enemy into a carriage, but they all of a sudden disappear. The one way I found to solve this is by aiming something at them and they will magically reappear. The game over all is very well done, the only problems I have is that the most time I spent playing was running or driving to missions and objectives. This is a result from the massive world. They tried to speed up those times by adding horse-driven cars and trains, which were fast, but it still took a while to get to places. The story is also very strong and made me question if I was really doing the right thing after being tricked into doing the wrong thing twice. I think the double-character system worked out great except that they were very much alike and I would like to have had them have a very different style and each have a completely different set of skills rather than just three or four skills that make them any different from each other. I really enjoyed taking down the final boss, mainly because he was so full of himself and pushed us off as some nobodies who could do no harm to his "well-oiled machine" and it felt good when I finally had him getting upset because I defeated one of his henchman. I think it was worth the time and the money the game took up and was very interesting when it came to the story outside of the simulation with the weird ancient computer lady and her story. Over all I would recommend this game if you don't mind being pulled off track by an enemy caravan or a thief and likes open worlds. That is all for this week, hope you have a good day/night. Thank you for reading and goodbye!
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Expanding
Hello and welcome back, this week will be a ll about expanding the areas in which I blog. I have decided to start talking about new things, but will stay as close to gaming as possible. These new topics will include top 5's, stories and maybe some game reviews. This week I would like to talk about the top 3 games that are coming up that I am excited for.
1. Tom Clancy's: The Division has been on my mind ever since the premiere at E3 2013. This game, after several release date delays is finally coming out in May of 2016. This game will take place in a post-apocalyptic New York and you will be playing as agents for the government to control and survive in the epidemic plagued world with your friends. The game is set somewhere in the future where drones are optimized for battle and where you have many gadgets and tech to take down enemies. There are two zones to the game, the social zone, where there is no player versus player combat, and the dark zone, where there is no protection, but it is filled with loot that you will need to grow and survive. You can go in with a team, or by yourself, but the loot you find in the dark zone will be lost if you die, but you can get your gear out by calling in a helicopter. This is a risky move because every other player on the server will be able to see that you are trying to extract loot and will try to come and take it from you before the 90 second timer is done to extract you and the loot. You could also leave manually, but you would have to travel to the border first. This game is run on an exp basis and you will level up and unlock new things as you keep playing. I am very excited to play this game with friends and have a lot of fun
2. Star Wars: Battlefront (3) is another game that I am exited for. I did play the open beta and it was amazing. There was long-ranged open battlefields and confined tunnels that was only wide enough for one person to run through. There were only 2 game modes available during the beta, walker assault, where the rebels try to take down two walkers before they destroy the power generators on the planet Hoth, as the imperials try to defend them until they get there. The second game mode was a capture the flag style battle which was placed on a tiny map with little cover and places to hide. The main objective was t capture more supply pods than the other team. There are far too many more game modes in the main game to list, but there are a lot of them and I am very excited to play them all.
3.Horizon: Zero Dawn is a game set in the future where our world was struck by an unknown darkness and humanity was no longer the dominant species, but were replaced by machines that resembled animals. You are a female warrior of a tribe of people trying to survive in these harsh conditions. The story is still very mysterious and unclear, but I will try my best to try and explain all I know. So, there are many tribes that have all migrated to one area, some were weak and small, and others were powerful and might, and your tribe was said to be the first to get there and take up arms against the mechanical beasts that roam the land. The tribesman do not seem to have advanced weaponry, like guns or bombs, but use modified arrows that would electrify the target or explode on impact, or are just regular. This is an open world game that is coming out sometime in 2016, but the whole game is very mysterious and is going to be a blast exploring and figuring out what has happened to this world and solving the mysteries of the machines and so much more. Well, that's all for this week and comment what games you are excited for. See you next week and thanks for reading.
1. Tom Clancy's: The Division has been on my mind ever since the premiere at E3 2013. This game, after several release date delays is finally coming out in May of 2016. This game will take place in a post-apocalyptic New York and you will be playing as agents for the government to control and survive in the epidemic plagued world with your friends. The game is set somewhere in the future where drones are optimized for battle and where you have many gadgets and tech to take down enemies. There are two zones to the game, the social zone, where there is no player versus player combat, and the dark zone, where there is no protection, but it is filled with loot that you will need to grow and survive. You can go in with a team, or by yourself, but the loot you find in the dark zone will be lost if you die, but you can get your gear out by calling in a helicopter. This is a risky move because every other player on the server will be able to see that you are trying to extract loot and will try to come and take it from you before the 90 second timer is done to extract you and the loot. You could also leave manually, but you would have to travel to the border first. This game is run on an exp basis and you will level up and unlock new things as you keep playing. I am very excited to play this game with friends and have a lot of fun
2. Star Wars: Battlefront (3) is another game that I am exited for. I did play the open beta and it was amazing. There was long-ranged open battlefields and confined tunnels that was only wide enough for one person to run through. There were only 2 game modes available during the beta, walker assault, where the rebels try to take down two walkers before they destroy the power generators on the planet Hoth, as the imperials try to defend them until they get there. The second game mode was a capture the flag style battle which was placed on a tiny map with little cover and places to hide. The main objective was t capture more supply pods than the other team. There are far too many more game modes in the main game to list, but there are a lot of them and I am very excited to play them all.
3.Horizon: Zero Dawn is a game set in the future where our world was struck by an unknown darkness and humanity was no longer the dominant species, but were replaced by machines that resembled animals. You are a female warrior of a tribe of people trying to survive in these harsh conditions. The story is still very mysterious and unclear, but I will try my best to try and explain all I know. So, there are many tribes that have all migrated to one area, some were weak and small, and others were powerful and might, and your tribe was said to be the first to get there and take up arms against the mechanical beasts that roam the land. The tribesman do not seem to have advanced weaponry, like guns or bombs, but use modified arrows that would electrify the target or explode on impact, or are just regular. This is an open world game that is coming out sometime in 2016, but the whole game is very mysterious and is going to be a blast exploring and figuring out what has happened to this world and solving the mysteries of the machines and so much more. Well, that's all for this week and comment what games you are excited for. See you next week and thanks for reading.
Monday, November 2, 2015
The Maps That I Like to Play On
Welcome back to my blog, this week I will be talking about all of the maps I like to play on. The first map is mirage. The reason that I like this map is probably because of all of the spots that I can hide in and the narrow tunnels. I like narrow tunnels because they give me an advantage on the CT side, because they can only come from certain paths and there are not very much.
The second map I like to play on is inferno. This is my favorite map because of all the places you can jump and go under and sneak around. I love to hide somewhere absolutely ridiculous and see of the enemy team can find me before I find them. I usually die as soon as they get near me, but it is still worth the effort. I also like that it is so short ranged and the only place for me to instantly die by a sniper is through the middle of the map.
The third map that I like to play on is overpass. This map I am very new to, but I still like the exploration and finding new ways to hide and new places to watch. I like how open the areas are except for the tunnels getting into the areas and that there are so many ways to go to get to where you want to go. I also like how much is going on in the background outside of the map that makes it feel really alive.
The fourth map I like to play on is cobblestone. I am also very new to this map and have no idea what the call outs are, but it is fun having good people help me out. I also like how mysterious it is being set in an old castle with knights armor. It is also very fun when I get lost trying to find my way to the objective and my teammates have to come and find me to keep me from getting killed.
The final map that I like to play on is Dust 2. The main reason I like this map is because I know it so well and I can probably draw a map just from memory. The other reason is I like to try to come up with new crazy strategies that people would never think of even trying. The next reason is because of how many places you can snipe from on both sides. That concludes this weeks blog, try to find things you like about the maps you play and put them in the comments. Thanks for reading and see you next week.
The second map I like to play on is inferno. This is my favorite map because of all the places you can jump and go under and sneak around. I love to hide somewhere absolutely ridiculous and see of the enemy team can find me before I find them. I usually die as soon as they get near me, but it is still worth the effort. I also like that it is so short ranged and the only place for me to instantly die by a sniper is through the middle of the map.
The third map that I like to play on is overpass. This map I am very new to, but I still like the exploration and finding new ways to hide and new places to watch. I like how open the areas are except for the tunnels getting into the areas and that there are so many ways to go to get to where you want to go. I also like how much is going on in the background outside of the map that makes it feel really alive.
The fourth map I like to play on is cobblestone. I am also very new to this map and have no idea what the call outs are, but it is fun having good people help me out. I also like how mysterious it is being set in an old castle with knights armor. It is also very fun when I get lost trying to find my way to the objective and my teammates have to come and find me to keep me from getting killed.
The final map that I like to play on is Dust 2. The main reason I like this map is because I know it so well and I can probably draw a map just from memory. The other reason is I like to try to come up with new crazy strategies that people would never think of even trying. The next reason is because of how many places you can snipe from on both sides. That concludes this weeks blog, try to find things you like about the maps you play and put them in the comments. Thanks for reading and see you next week.