Splitgate Launches Season 1 - Patch Notes - 9/4

Splitgate reveals their "Arena Pass" alongside major content updates!

Splitgate: Arena Warfare - Season 1 Trailer

Online

- Redesigned Matchmaking and Ranking System

- We have moved to an ELO ranking system which will more accurately match players based on skill

- Players will play 10 placement matches to determine their initial rank and rank XP is earned through wins, losses, and performance in game

- Rank Tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Champion

Arena Pass

- Introducing the Season 1 Arena Pass, which adds a totally new progression system to unlock exclusive skins, characters, emotes, emblems and more. Premium Arena Pass is available for purchase in-game of at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144685/Splitgate_Arena_Warfare__Arena_Pass

XP

- New Daily and Weekly Challenges: Complete new challenges everyday to gain XP

- Daily Play Streaks: Get a 5% XP boost for each consecutive day played. (Maximum 25% Boost)

- Friends XP Boost: Get a 5% XP boost for each friend in your party

- Custom Game XP: Added ability to earn XP in custom games (capped at 2500)

Customizations

- Emotes: Dance, taunt and express yourself all over your enemies. Unlockable through the Arena Pass and through SAW Packs. (Default key is B)

- New Unlockable Customizations added to SAW Packs and redeemable with Arena Alloy

Maps

- New Map: Abyss is a new close-quarters map called set in an ancient temple

- All Maps have been revamped and re-imagined for Season 1

- Major Performance improvements on all mapsGame Modes

- Changed Time Limit for all games to 10 min. Adjusted scoring accordingly (DOM: 600. KOTH: 200)

- Changed Ranked Game Modes to start with Pistols only (removed AR)

- Fast Capping has been added to Domination. The more players on the hill, the faster you capture it

- Teabag Confirmed added back to Social

- Fixed bug where Flag could be captured twice in CTF

- Fixed bug where Flag could be taken through Portal sometimes

- Fixed bug where Flag could be stuck in the ceiling

- Flag is now reset faster when going out of bounds

- Fixed bug where Flag/Oddball couldn’t be picked up sometimes

Race

- Added Race Mode: Collect disco balls as fast as possible using portals on each map. Compete against yourself, your friends, and the global leaderboards. Races are a fantastic way to learn portals.

Gameplay

- Significant performance improvements across the board for a smoother experience

- Improvements to AI movement and combat techniques

- Melee improvements (less trades, less aggressive rotation lock on, improvements near portals, better detection, etc.)

- Spawning algorithm improvements

- Fixed a bug where you could shoot yourself through your own portal while traveling through it

- Fixed a bug where enemy portals wouldn’t stop flashing and playing sound when enemy died within range of it

Weapons

- New Weapon: The BFB. Pick up this high velocity melee weapon on select maps and charge at the enemies.

- Added Portal Launcher fire animations

- Fixed bug where dropped pickups sometimes wouldn’t spawn

- Improved plasma rifle’s responsiveness

- Fixed recoil bug when unequipping weapons

- Improved projectile hit detection

- Fixed Battle Rifle firing exploit when switching weapons

Balancing

- Reworked Assault Rifle: more accurate, less ammo

- Slight accuracy buff to the SMG

- Removed random spread and damage dropoff from Battle Rifle

- Assault Rifle reduced to 30 shots per magazine

- Pistol magazine increased to 12 shots

- Plasma Rifle respawn time increased to 90 seconds

- SMG respawn time decreased to 60 seconds

- Railgun respawn time increased to 150 seconds

UI

- Brand New Main Menu Design and Experience

- In Game HUD Revamp: Visual improvements and layout changes

- General UI/UX Overhaul

- Radar Functionality changed to show moving (non-crouching) enemies instead of firing enemies

- Added Custom Crosshairs. Change the style and the color of your weapon crosshairs to help you perform at your full potential.

- Added Medal Icons for multi-kills, killstreaks, assist, etc.

- Killer’s name and health remaining at time of killing you is now shown upon death

- Banner displaying victim’s name is now shown when getting a kill

- Subtitles for in game announcements, videos, etc.

- Simplified hit indicators when using a custom crosshair

Localization

- Added Native In-Game Support for 10 Languages including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

- Added Subtitles for in-game announcer (toggleable in UI settings)

Sound

- New Main Theme Music: Original track from Grammy Award-winning composer Christopher Tin in collaboration with DJ tyDi and Alex Williamson.

Tutorial

- Created an in-depth in-game tutorial to better teach new players key mechanics

Spectator

- Fixed rotation bug when spectating a player going through a portal

Misc

- Anti-Cheat Improvements: We are constantly monitoring and improving the way we handle cheaters

- NVIDIA Highlights integration, letting GeForce users automatically capture their best multi-kills and headshots in game

- Fixed bug where lineup platform would become visible in game

- Fixed bug where in-game players were visible behind post-game scene

- Portal quality setting added that lets you change your portal rendering resolution or turn off their rendering all together.

- Disabled open mic by default

- Other bug fixes and improvements

Multiplayer officially confirmed for Cyber Punk 2077

Multiplayer officially confirmed for #Cyberpunk2077 CD Projekt Red stated that multiplayer is in active development & will only be released once the single player campaign is fully played. "Until now, the only thing we said about multi was that it was in R&D. As we’re getting closer to launching ‘single player’ Cyberpunk 2077 in Apr. 2020, we’d like to confirm that multiplayer's in the works!" "The plan for now is to deliver Cyberpunk 2077 in April, then follow up with DLCs (free!) and single player content, and — once we’re done — invite you for some multiplayer action."
This is great news! Multiplayer will be great in Night City!

Twitch and Subway Team Up for SUBtember

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Twitch has marked an organization with eatery establishment Subway during the current year's SUBtember, the spilling stage declared today.

SUBtember will keep running from Sept. 3 to 24. Twitch will offer a 50-percent rebate on new level one memberships made on an internet browser or the stage's work area application. SUBtember was presented in 2017 and enables watchers to demonstrate more help for their preferred streamers.

This doesn't imply that the streamers get half of the membership's worth, however. Twitch will give the full an incentive to them simply like it's done in past versions of SUBtember.


You must be signed in to your Twitch record to buy in to your preferred streamers. There's no restriction on the occasions a client can buy in utilizing the SUBtember markdown. Endorsers frequently access the majority of the streamer's visit acts out, promotion free review, and a supporter identification that gets redesigned the more you bolster that streamer.

Tram will blessing memberships in different channels, making its very own Twitch channel to welcome streamers, and giving out 10 percent more bits when a client cheers at least 10.

SUBtember isn't accessible for Twitch versatile, in any case. Following one month, the membership will recharge at the typical cost.

A year ago, one of the most renowned streamers, Michael "cover" Grzesiek, had an association with Twitch that offered $1 memberships for SUBtember. It's indistinct in the event that he or any other individual will have a comparative advancement this year.

Elder Scrolls Online is Free to Play until September 3rd!

You can encounter Elder Scrolls Online for nothing from this point until September third.

Senior Scrolls Online Free To Play Until Sept second

On the off chance that you've been needing to evaluate Elder Scrolls Online now you can as there is a free play occasion happening at the present time. You can encounter the experiences of Tamriel from August 27th until September third. In the event that you've joined a free play occasion previously, you can get the last known point of interest. New records will get 500 crowns also. The free play occasion is accessible on all stages, PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4.

You will approach four classes, 23 distinct zones and the stunning primary story questline which I profoundly suggest you looking at. There are a lot of activities and see. You can likewise make a trip to the region of Morrowind, home to the Dark Elves. In case you're interested about Elsweyr, you can likewise partaken in the preface mission, which kicks of The Season of the Dragon.

On the off chance that you choose you need to proceed with your undertakings after September second, you can likewise get the Elder Scrolls Online based game for just $9.99. There are likewise some extraordinary arrangements for Elsweyr versions, you can get the Digital Collector's Edition which incorporates the base game, Morrowind Chapter, Summerset and Elsweyr for $47.99. There is up to 40% off the various releases throughout the Summer Sale on all stages.

Youtube Benefiting from Twitch cutting off payments to eSports Teams

Twitch has made slices to its program in which the organization pays esports groups to stream on the Amazon-possessed video stage. The installment decreases are pushing more groups to post clasps of their Twitch livestreams to YouTube so as to compensate for the lost income and facilitate their dependence on the game-driven gushing administration.

Inside the previous year, Twitch has been pruning its installment program for esports groups, as per media and amusement officials in the gaming class. The stage keeps on paying some esports groups in return for spilling a predetermined number of hours on Twitch every month. In any case, at times, it has either diminished the measure of cash that it pays groups or eliminated groups of the installment program, the executives said. It is misty what number of groups Twitch had been paying as a component of the program, the particular terms and measures of those installments and what number of groups have been influenced by the changes. Twitch declined to remark on the moves past an announcement.

"Twitch has been the go-to goal for Esports content for quite a long time. We've been at the front line of the business' development and achievement, and we will keep on putting resources into Esports and focused gaming as a segment of our general substance methodology," said a Twitch representative in a messaged articulation.

Twitch seems to have rolled out these improvements so as to concentrate the installment program on top aggressive esports groups, as per the executives. A few groups that Twitch had been paying had included mainstream yet non-focused gaming makers to their groups to help satisfy their substance responsibilities, as per Louis Timchak III, vp of offers at Bent Pixels, an ability the executives organization that works with computerized video makers, including esports groups.

The installments from Twitch were a best three income stream for some esports groups, and the decreases have pushed the influenced groups to differentiate past the stage, said Menashe Kestenbaum, CEO of Enthusiast Gaming, an advanced media organization that works in gaming content.

Twitch's installment changes come when many gaming makers and esports groups have been hoping to differentiate past the stage. Prior this month, Twitch's most famous streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins declared that he was leaving the stage for Microsoft's opponent stage, Mixer. That particular model likely has a ton to do with the cash Microsoft was eager to pay Blevins for making the move. Yet, it likewise featured the expanded challenge that Twitch right now faces. YouTube stays a noteworthy stage for gaming recordings, while Facebook and Mixer have additionally been attempting to infringe on Twitch's turf.

Be that as it may, the disappointment of YouTube's independent gaming application and Twitch's moderately little group of spectators of 15 million day by day watchers recommend that the market for gaming recordings isn't a champ take-all challenge however a multiplayer game.

Esports groups might broaden past Twitch, yet they are not leaving Twitch. Rather, they are progressively receiving YouTube as an approach to expand their Twitch streams, particularly when supporters are included.

"Twitch is as yet the predominant one for spilling [live videos]. YouTube is as yet the overwhelming one for recorded [videos]," said Kestenbaum.

Singular makers and esports groups regularly stream live on Twitch for quite a long time at once. That can collect an enormous group of spectators over the range of the stream, however live watchers may block in and out and miss portions of the stream exhibiting a support. So makers and groups cut shorter feature clasps of the more drawn out streams and post those clasps to YouTube, which has 2 billion month to month watchers, where they can contact a more extensive crowd than on Twitch.

Cutting feature recordings of Twitch streams and presenting them on YouTube is certifiably not another training. Austin Long, vp of gaming organizations and methodology at gaming-centered computerized media organization Omnia Media, saw it around two years back when the profile of Twitch makers and esports groups had developed to the point of justifying them having independent YouTube channels.

Be that as it may, as advertisers put more in esports, the act of altering Twitch streams into clasps for YouTube has turned out to be increasingly common among esports groups. "When considering customary social influencer courses of action in different verticals, most contracts incorporate cross-presenting crosswise over channels on get however much scale as could reasonably be expected out of marked substance. Esports are the same," said Sarah Schneebaum, people group chief at MRY.

Posting the feature clasps of the Twitch streams to YouTube can assist advertisers with rationalizing their sponsorships of Twitch makers and esports groups, given that gaming and esports stay rising classifications for some advertisers. Notwithstanding giving gradual watchers, YouTube offers more top to bottom investigation than Twitch, which does not give essential examination like statistic breakdowns of watchers, said Timchak. "Brands need the examination and the information so as to legitimize their speculation," said Mason Bates, account executive of substance and sponsorship at Mindshare.

Despite the fact that Twitch does not offer point by point examination, the experiences it provides can ensure the feature cuts exhibit the best segments of a stream. Twitch enables makers and groups to perceive how viewership and remarks inclined throughout a stream, and bits of knowledge into viewership and commitment pinnacles can advise which clasps are pulled for the feature cuts, said Bates.

Twitch makers and groups are presenting these feature recordings on YouTube for two or three reasons that go past the size of YouTube's crowd. YouTube's adaptation program empowers makers to get extra income from these recordings, and YouTube offers a superior stage for getting sees for these non-live recordings. While makers and groups can transfer non-live recordings to Twitch, the stage does not work superbly of featuring these on-request recordings and viewership endures thus, as per media administrators. For one famous Twitch maker that Bent Pixels deals with, the maker's on-request recordings on Twitch get, by and large, somewhere in the range of 2,000 and 5,000 perspectives, though on YouTube they normal somewhere in the range of 300,000 and 500,000 perspectives, as indicated by Timchak.

"It's difficult to get found in case you're making great substance on Twitch on the grounds that except if it's live, nobody sees it," said Long.

World of Warcraft Classic Rundown Info

World of Warcraft has changed a great deal since it was at first discharged 15 years prior, and as much as players have appreciated seeing the world shaken to its center by the Cataclysm or picking sides in the Battle for Azeroth, it's not entirely obvious the straightforward delights of its unique manifestation. Snow squall is releasing you back in time with World of Warcraft Classic, a re-arrival of the first game with just minor usefulness changes. Here's everything you have to know to bounce back in to an easier Azeroth, which is currently accessible.

Discharge Date, Server Launch Time 

WoW Classic is authoritatively set to dispatch on August 27 worldwide, however that means a somewhat prior August 26 dispatch in the Americas and parts of Europe to keep lined up with the neighborhood dispatch times in all locales. As noted beneath, that time has now passed, and the game is formally live the world over.

6 PM ET (North America) on August 26

3 PM PT (North America) on August 26

11 PM BST (Europe) on August 26

8 AM AEST (Australia) on August 27

"Server Down" Errors And Long Queues 

As was not out of the ordinary, dispatch was carried with it a tremendous flood of intrigue. In that capacity, WoW Classic players are experiencing long server lines and, at times, mistakes about servers being down. Snow squall said it was envisioning extreme interest and conceivable long hang tight occasions for signing up when the servers go live. You might need to consider making or moving your characters to a low populace server in case you're anxious to hop in and don't have any desire to pause.

Explicitly in the European area, Blizzard has cautioned players about an issue right currently identified with making buys through Battle.net. As noted beneath, WoW Classic access is attached to WoW memberships, and this issue could see you add game time to your record however not have the option to utilize that time immediately. This will show itself as a mistake saying "dynamic game time is required to play" WoW Classic. Snow squall says it might take as long as 24 hours for your bought game time to enlist, so you'll conceivably should be persistent before you can get in.

What's The Same, What's Different 

WoW Classic intends to be a bona fide amusement of the first vanilla World of Warcraft, as of the 1.12 fix. That brings the game up to its state as of August 22, 2006, just before the Burning Crusade extension.

The Classic configuration guarantees exemplary attacks like Molten Core and Onyxia, the great ability structure, and the world as it remained as of that time during the game's life expectancy. It sports the first game's battle mechanics, character models, and aptitude trees. That likewise implies that the game will do not have some accommodation highlights like strike discoverer. The studio even issued a "Not a Bug" rundown to explain that a few frameworks being hailed as bugs by players were really filling in as planned.

Be that as it may, the game hasn't remained altogether immaculate. Tempest needed the game to mirror the first WoW, however it implemented some little personal satisfaction refreshes.

"Anything that would influence ongoing interaction we need to ensure that we convey something that is genuine," WoW Classic lead engineer Brian Birmingham told GameSpot. "Where we feel like personal satisfaction enhancements are alright are things like, selecting to finish a name in-game mail. That is not a center piece of the ongoing interaction experience of leveling, and questing, and attempting to investigate the world."

How Subscriptions Work 

In case you're as of now an endorser of World of Warcraft, you're as of now a supporter of WoW Classic too. One membership qualifies you for the two games. The equivalent goes the other bearing, indeed. On the off chance that you pursue a WoW membership for WoW Classic, you'll get section to standard World of Warcraft too.

Step by step instructions to Download

World of Warcraft Classic is its very own customer separate from your standard World of Warcraft establishment, however it very well may be dubious to discover. It doesn't have its own tab on the Battle.net launcher. Rather, it very well may be found inside the World of Warcraft tab. You'll discover WoW Classic in the Version drop-down menu simply over the Install catch.

World of Warcraft Classic Launch Hits Over One Million Viewers On Twitch

World of Warcraft's Classic version is out now, and it's helping WoW to have an enormous day on well known game-gushing site Twitch.

World of Warcraft is by a long shot the most prevalent game on Twitch for its dispatch day of August 26, and the arrival of WoW Classic without a doubt assumed a noteworthy job in that. The game beat 1 million watchers on Twitch today, which is on various occasions greater than every single other game. Not long after servers went live, it arrived at 1.1 million streams, while the following nearest game- - Grand Theft Auto V- - had less than 150,000.

Twitch's open details demonstrate that even later at night, at 10 PM ET, World of Warcraft had 593,000 watchers, which ws well in front of the No. 2 game, Fortnite, which has 120,000 watchers. It's not amazing that the dispatch of an eagerly awaited game would prompt an enormous flood in watchers, and it will enthusiasm to check whether World of Warcraft can keep on remaining prominent in the days and weeks ahead. From the get-go Tuesday, it keeps on having about six fold the number of watchers as the following greatest game.

On Mixer, it's an alternate story. Fortnite remains the most prominent game by watchers, behind the Music class and Fortnite.

The drawback to WoW Classic's prominence is that players are confronting protracted server lines, despite the fact that Blizzard included an extra four servers in front of dispatch.

WoW Classic, as its name proposes, is a re-arrival of the first MMO from 2004 with some usefulness changes. It's free for existing endorsers of WoW. For additional information, look at my overview of all that you have to know about WoW Classic.