Happy 4th of July!

 Crazy to think this is someone's last day with all of their fingers!

New World Gear Reset: More Details?

 As we've talked about before on this blog there is an impending gear reset in New World, but we are still waiting on any sort of detail related to the gear reset.  This leaves the community guessing and looking for any obfuscated details in other updates.  While I was out the last week there was exciting news that I think speak to part of the gear reset.

 In a recent Forged in Aeternum video (specifically the 6:12 mark) the team announced they are planning to get rid of the ward and bane system.  Resilient was also mentioned in the answer which leads us to believe that will also get axed.

 Not only is this delivering on one of the top community-requested changes, but I firmly believe this is the first major piece of the gear reset puzzle.  I cannot fathom they would make this level of change outside of a major release and as Season 2 is just around the corner (7/6) it makes sense that we will see these major changes with Season 3.

 As the road map already showed "gear score increase" for Season 3 and it was indicated to include a new gear progression system it makes complete sense we will see ward/bane/resilient changes during Season 3.  While making this logical connection doesn't unearth specific details it does show us that the developers are looking to make big changes.

 In conclusion: buckle up buttercup; it's about to get bumpy!

New World On Sale (60% off!)

 New World is on sale for the Steam sale.  Go grab a copy for $15.99 (60% off)!

No Vehicles in Starfield Confirmed

 Sadly it has been confirmed there will be no land vehicles in Starfield.

 Starfield front man, Todd Howard, was answering a number of questions when asked if there would be any land vehicles for getting around on a planet’s surface. “There is not,” he said. “We do design it, we’ve seen this with our other games where we wanna design it where it feels good on foot, but we do have the boost pack, you have skills for the boost pack, so the boost pack almost acts like this vehicle, super fun, where you can fly through, and then the low gravity planets are really something special.”

Bummer, but he did add in:

“We have a lot of biomes – we do look at temperature, we look at the radiation, and we look at all of those things on a planet so that your suit and your protection… you can get certain ailments if you’re not ready, and certain weather things can come through with all of that.”

Corrupted Finished

 I finished my 3x major corrupted combat trophies in New World.  I bought materials for two of them and then farmed shards for the third. 100 shards multiplied by the time between re-spawns of Pit Lord Daehi is more time than I care to think about having been spent on this.  Fortunately Pit Lord Daehi is in a spot where you can get topaz gypsum done easily and at the same time get a bunch of orichalcum ore.

 Now onto the real expensive ones: ancient, angry earth, and human!