The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's first DLC, entitled The Master Trials, is finally out, and it comes with a useful item known as the Travel Medallion, which allows you to create your own fast-travel point. This should come as good news for players who have been yearning for a quick and easy way to access a specific location that would be difficult to go back and forth from. While the game offers clues to help you find the Travel Medallion, you can head straight there if you're privy to where it's located.
The medallion is located in a treasure chest somewhere in Lomei Labyrinth Island. To find the chest more easily, use your Sheikah Sensor to track treasure chests and enable Magnesis to spot them.
Location: The chest is located in an underground cavern on Lomei Labyrinth Island. You'll need to jump down a shaft with an air current flowing upward through it. If you've completed the Tu Ka'loh Shrine, fast travel to it, and you'll find the shaft right in front of the shrine. The chest is along the southern wall of the cavern. The area is filled with Guardians both active and dormant, so be sure to pack Ancient Arrows or master the art of parrying before you enter.
To use the Travel Medallion, go to the location you'd like to set as your custom fast travel point, select the Medallion in your Key Items pouch, and choose "place."
Like other Dynasty Warriors-style collaborations, Fire Emblem Warriors features a roster of heroes drawn from different--and often unrelated--chapters in Fire Emblem's history. Today, Nintendo released a new trailer for the game that showcases some of the playable characters hailing from the series' first 3DS installment, Fire Emblem Awakening.
The new video focuses primarily on the Shepherds, the band of fighters led by Awakening's protagonist, Chrom. In the trailer, the group find themselves lost in an unfamiliar forest when they come across Rowan and Lianna, the original twin heroes of Fire Emblem Warriors. Along with the Ylissean prince, the trailer confirms that Frederick, Lissa, Robin, and Lucina all appear in the title. It also provides some hint as to how the characters will play; Lissa, for example, is seen wielding an axe, while Frederick can be spotted on horseback.
According to Koei Tecmo, Fire Emblem Warriors features more playable characters than the first installment of any Warriors collaboration. In addition to Awakening, the game's roster is taken primarily from Fire Emblem Fates and the DS remake of the first Fire Emblem title, Shadow Dragon. At E3 last month, Nintendo released a trailer that showcased several other heroes who will appear in the game: Marth, Xander, Ryoma, and Corrin. Like mainline Fire Emblem titles, Warriors employs the series' weapon triangle and features support conversations between characters.
For the uninitiated, Tingle was first introduced in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. His outfit offers light protection overall with a low defense rating overall; however, the set bonus gives Link an increase in speed during the night, which allows him greater mobility.
Similar to the other armor sets, each piece is scattered across the world. While the Sheikah Slate offers you hints you of special books to help find each piece, you can head to straight to them if you know where each piece is. Here are the known locations for each piece of Tingle's Outfit, along with images of map and in-field locations.
Tingle's Hood
Location: Exchange Ruins - In the center of the area on the ground next to a Korok Seed.
Tingle's Shirt
Location: Castle Town Prison - On the island west of the castle, right next to the main road, buried in the ground in the center.
Tingle's Tights
Location: Mabe Village Ruins - Under a dead Guardian on the south end of the town in a puddle of water.
Gears of War 4's next big update has been detailed, and you won't have to wait long at all to check it out. The July update launches for free today.
The major addition in this patch are two new maps. Those who played the original Gears of War will recognize Raven Down, which centers around a crashed helicopter and close-range combat. The other is a modified version of Reclaimed called Reclaimed Windflare. Whether playing on this map in Versus or Horde mode, you'll occasionally encounter Windflares--the extreme storms that were previously only seen in Gears 4's campaign. These impact visibility and cause lightning strikes that can prove deadly.
You can check out both of these maps in the trailer above. Reclaimed appears to be mostly intact, but the Windflares do look like a factor that could dramatically impact how matches play out.
Developer The Coalition has also previewed some of the content coming later in the month. This includes an unspecified new Horde event and a 24/7 playlist for Raven Down that will span multiple game modes. Additionally, a new Gear Pack will introduce Superstar Cole and Civilian Anya, the latter of which will be craftable later this month.
Besides the new maps, today's update makes some other changes, primarily in the form of balance updates and bug fixes. You can see the full list of these below.
Gears of War 4 July Update Patch Notes
Players shot at point-blank range in cover will no longer receive reduced damage
Players can no longer survive under the avalanche on Avalanche
Players can no longer capture the rings in KOTH on Avalanche from below the balconies
Fixed an exploit allowing players to keep weapons after a change in Arms Race
Fixed an issue where players could leave a Ranked Lobby just as they join one without being aware, resulting in a suspension
Updated Palace Guard dialogue to match their intended voice
Improved Oscar's dialogue tuning to match improvements for other characters in the Rise of the Horde update
Horde: Reduced effectiveness of spawn manipulation on Security
Horde: The Sniper's 'Called Shot' mark ability now works when using a turret
Horde: A Scout using Cloak will not break Cloak by roadie running in cover
Horde: Enemies killed by Explosive Headshots will no longer reset the Magic Bullet Multiplier
Improvements to the Lightning Weapon Skin set animation
Fixed display issues with YJeter's Lancer Skin
Added 21 new Country Emblems (available in Gear Packs and Craftable)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild's first DLC pack, called The Master Trials, is finally out. Among a series of new outfits and items, it also includes The Trial of the Sword, a difficult quest that tasks you to endure 45 enemy-filled rooms with only the equipment you find within. If you complete the trial, you gain the ability to to use the Master Sword's power at all times without the consequence of it powering down.
The Trial of the Sword can be found in the Korok Forest, which you can only get to by overcoming the Lost Woods. To get there Lost Woods' entrance, follow the path through Mishi Woods located northeast of Hyrule castle, just before the Death Mountain region.
It's important to know that you can only start the Trials of the Sword once you've acquired the Master Sword, so make sure to grab that first. For more on the process, check out our in-depth guide on how to find the Master Sword.
Regardless, once you have the Master Sword, simply return it to the pedestal located in the center of the Korok Forest to initiate the challenge.
Destiny 2's first videos showed the Tower, the social space in the original Destiny, being wrecked by the Cabal. That doesn't mean players are without any equivalent area in the upcoming sequel, and in fact, Destiny 2's social space sounds even better.
The Farm is a shared space for up to 26 players to occupy simultaneously where they can visit vendors, socialize, and even partake in some sports. As shown off in the video below from IGN, among the ways to pass the time at the Farm is by playing a game of soccer. Much like the Tower, you can find a soccer ball that can be moved around, only this time there is an actual soccer field with goals that register when a player has scored.
Destiny 2 narrative lead Ryan Ebenger notes the the Farm will evolve as you play through the game. This includes some characters coming or going and the overall population increasing. It's unclear if these characters serve any function; presumably you'll always be able to reach a postmaster or Cryptarch (represented by Tyra Karn), both of which are present at the Farm.
Small activities can be scattered around the Farm, though none of these are demonstrated in the video. We do, however, see that there are chickens wandering around. So that's something.
The Evil Within 2 is the much-anticipated next game from Bethesda and Resident Evil creator Shinji Makami. Now Bethesda is showing off some more of the survival-horror action from the upcoming sequel to 2014's The Evil Within.
The game was demoed at E3 2017, where Bethesda showed off three in-game locations to demonstrate "a sliver of the horror that awaits Sebastian." The plot revolves around Sebastian's fight to save the daughter he thought he lost three years ago. Check out some of the gameplay in the gifs below, and watch our interview with the game's creators on how they're using the "secrets of survival-horror" to create a truly scary experience.
The original Evil Within was lauded for its striking atmosphere, tense combat, and as our reviewer Shaun McInnis said in his review, "a slow, sustained, and deeply pervasive sense of dread that sets your mind racing at crunch of glass beneath your feet and every distant groan from an unseen enemy." In 2016, Bethesda hinted The Evil Within did well enough commercially to warrant a sequel.
Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two have been embroiled in controversy among Grand Theft Auto V players recently when they attempted to shut down a popular modding tool for the open-world title. While the two companies have since eased up on their initial crackdown, their strict modding policy has resulted in another upcoming mod being shut down.
The group behind the popular Grand Theft Auto modding tool OpenIV announced in a post on the GTA forums that it has had to cease work on its "Liberty City in GTA V" mod. The project would have allowed players to import the GTA IV setting, Liberty City, into the series' most recent title. However, the group explained that the project was in violation of Rockstar's modding policy and as a result had to be shut down. While the group didn't elaborate what the mod specifically violated, it may be due to the fact Rockstar's policy expressly forbids the "importation of other IP (including Rockstar IP) in the project."
OpenIV suffered a similar fate last month when Take-Two issued a cease and desist order against the modding tool. According to the company, the reason the tool was targeted was because it "enables recent malicious mods that allow harassment of players and interfere with the GTA Online experience for everybody." Soon after, however, Rockstar intervened on the mod's behalf and convinced Take-Two to back off on its decision, allowing development on OpenIV to continue with a focus on single-player mods. The publisher had previously suggested one of its main issues entailed mods that could impact GTA Online.
Take-Two's recent crackdown on mods has not been popular among fans. Following the initial shutdown of OpenIV, players flooded the GTA V's Steam page with a stream of negative reviews, tanking the game's review average, while a petition to save the tool garnered over 80,000 signatures. But while the Liberty City mod may be no more, the group behind the project has announced it intends to continue working on OpenIV "within the Rockstar modding policy."
Agents of Mayhem, the upcoming Saints Row spinoff from Deep Silver Volition, has received a new trailer featuring the theme from classic detective show Magnum, PI.
Before that, we learned that Saints Row favorite Johnny Gat is coming to Agents of Mayhem, which is set in the same universe as that saga. The character is highlighted in today's trailer alongside some bonus skins players can grab by preordering.
Agents of Mayhem shares many gameplay similarities with Saints Row: it's an open-world, third-person action game with a comedic, over-the-top story. Unlike Saints Row, however, you'll be able to explore the world with a team of three agents. You can read our most recent preview of the game here, or check out our chat with the developers at E3 2017 here.
It launches on August 15 (August 18 in Europe) for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Star Wars: Battlefront II's launch date is still a ways away, but its hero roster may have just leaked. A user on Reddit has mined the files for Battlefront II's closed alpha and found the game's current hero roster.
User uninspired_zebra found references in the files to a bunch of characters returning from Star Wars: Battlefront and new additions. Among the most significant new characters are General Grievous, Rey, and Kylo Ren.
The roster also includes several unsurprising returners like Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Darth Vader, and others. This list is likely incomplete and reflective of the game's early, alpha state; EA has previously announced that Finn and Phasma will come as free DLC later this year, but only Phasma is included in this roster.
The full list of characters that the user found is:
Boba Fett
Han Solo
Leia
Luke
Bossk
Chewbacca
Darth Vader
Emperor Palpatine
General Grievous
Iden
Kylo Ren
Lando Calrissian
Darth Maul
Captain Phasma
Rey
Yoda
Uninspired_zebra also found descriptions and abilities for all of these characters, which you can read about in the full post on Reddit. Some of these characters had already been confirmed by EA, but several, including Grievous, Lando, Yoda, and Phasma, hadn't been announced yet.
Those holding out hope that Cuphead, the beautiful platforming game headed to Xbox One and PC, will also be released for PS4 are out of luck. It's apparently never coming to Sony's console, according to one of the game's developers.
In response to a post on NeoGAF asking if Cuphead is a "100% lifetime PC/Microsoft exclusive," the dev wrote, "Yes, this Cuphead game is exclusive to Xbox and PC (with Steam and Win10 versions at launch and a GOG release likely shortly after)." He also confirmed that the developer, StudioMDHR, owns the Cuphead IP. A representative for the company subsequently reaffirmed all of this to Eurogamer, stating explicitly, "There will be no PS4 version."
Beyond the Xbox One and PC releases, StudioMDHR only intends to offer versions for Mac (at some point "down the road") and Linux ("beyond that"), barring anything disastrous happening to the company. Cuphead is StudioMDHR's first game.
Cuphead was first shown during Microsoft's E3 press conference back in 2014; it immediately caught people's attention thanks to its visual style, which resembles that of 1930s-era cartoons. The project has since expanded in scope, and at this year's E3, we finally got a release date: It's due out on September 29. It supports Xbox Play Anywhere, allowing you to buy a digital copy on PC or Xbox One and access it on both platforms.
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