Weekly Gaming Update by Pinoy Gamer!
Dota 2 Subscription
- Dota 2 unveiled a new monthly subscription service
- According to Valve Dota Plus is an evolution of the Battle Pass
- HareHere the key features of the Dota Plus
- Hero Progression Breakdown
- Hero Leveling
- every game with a hero now earns you XP towards that hero's level progress
- As your hero level advances, you'll unlock new tiers of hero level badges.
- Each level grants Reward Shards, and each tier grants new Hero Chat Wheel responses.
- Hero Specific Challenges
- Once you've selected your hero, you can choose from that hero's active challenges.
- A set of challenges can be refreshed every two weeks.
- Complete a challenge with one, two, or three stars in a victory in order to apply the XP reward towards your level progress.
- Hero Relics
- Each hero has gained a reliquary with slots for 14 Relics—10 Common and 4 Rare—that track a variety of battleground achievements.
- You can unlock Relics for any hero by using Reward Shards, and when you unlock multiple Relics, they all track simultaneously.
- Once unlocked, Relics update and display your statistical milestones as you play, with a breakdown of progress in each match available on the post-game screen
- Hero Chat Wheel,
- Take control of your hero's voice with the new Hero Chat Wheel
- which lets you choose phrases your hero can say in allied or all chat
- Each hero's initial phrases unlock after your first game as that hero
- with more phrases available as you increase your hero badge tier.
- Weekly Reward
- Each week presents the opportunity to earn 1,000 extra shards for your rewards stash
- just win three games before the weekly timer refreshes
- Plus Rewards
- In addition to relics, you can use your shards to choose rewards from a stock of new Plus-exclusive items
- as well as select legacy item sets for some of the most popular heroes
- Hero Leveling
- Plus Assistant
- The most controversial among the subscription as its basically giving you an in game coach
- Plus Assistant offers real-time item and ability suggestions—generated from data gathered across millions of recent games at each skill bracket—to keep you up-to-date on the latest trends.
- Whether you need advice on which hero best fits a draft, or aren't sure what to build after securing that coveted Blink Dagger, Plus Assistant is in your corner.
- Item Suggestions
- Ability Suggestions
- Hero Suggestions
- Death Summary
- Lane Strategy
- Post Game Analytics
- Global Rank Trends
- Real-Time Comparative Analytics
- Spectator Win Probability Graph
- Plus Perks
- Battle Cup for Free Entry to Weekly Battle Cups
- Access to Current Seasonal Terrain
- 20,000+ FREE SHARDS FOR FIRST TIME COMPLETION OF WELCOME QUESTS
- Hero Progression Breakdown
- Dota 2 plus will cost 3.99 usd per month with discounts if you purchase yearly subscriptions
Twitch
- Twitch Prime subscribers are now getting free PC games every month
- The free games with prime started this March 15
- Here are the lineup for Free games this march
- Superhot
- Shadow Tactics
- Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation
- Oxenfree
- Mr. Shifty
- And here are the free games for April
- Tales from the Borderlands
- SteamWorld Dig 2
- Kingsway
- Tokyo 42
- Dubwars
- That’s 10 games in the next two months, all for FREE and yours to keep forever
- For League of Legends buffs are coming for Talon and Zed’s Ultimate abilities
- According to the last PBE Cycle
- This is included in the previously mentioned Kha'Zix, Kayn, and LeBlanc damage boost that we covered
- The buff for Talon’s bonus AD will now 200 damage to his ultimate which is previously 160 after building 200D from buying weapons
- Talon's passive, Blade's End, is also being tweaked to scale harder into late-game
- Rather than starting at 75 damage and ending at 175 at level 11, it will now start at 75 damage and scale up to 245 damage at level 18
- Zed's buff includes his base attack speed slightly going up
- While ultimate, Death Mark, will now begin at 25 percent of Zed's damage and scale up to 55 rather than starting out at 20 percent and scaling to 45
- Again this are PBE updates so they are still subject to change
Hanzo Scatter Rework
- For our Overwatch news
- Hanzo's Scatter Arrow rework is on schedule for an April PTR release
- Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan said on the Overwatch forum
- Blizzard will soon begin work on Overwatch sniper Hanzo's "animation, visual effects, and sound work"
- Kaplan and the Overwatch team have addressed an intention to change the ability, It's not exactly clear what will get re-worked
- although it's confirmed that it won't be a barrier-piercing arrow because according to Overwatch’s Principal Designer Geoff Goodman it was "fun," but felt way too frustrating to play against
Tekken 7 Noctis
- Noctis Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy 15 is coming to Tekken 7 next Tuesday, March 20, publisher Bandai Namco confirmed
- Tekken 7’s third round of downloadable content will include Noctis and a variety of outfits
- Noctis can will have at least five additional outfit options: Casual Outfit, Royal Raiment, Choco-Mog Style, Fighting King’s Raiment and Kingly Raiment
- The DLC also includes a new stage, Hammerhead, based on the service station owned by Cid and Cindy in Final Fantasy 15.
- The addition of Noctis was announced back in November at the Tekken World Tour finals.
- Pricing for Noctis wasn’t announced, though it’s expected to be in line with Geese, who costs $7.99
- Tekken 7 is available for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One.
