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Grinding Gear has detailed the next content patch for their free-to-play ARPG, Path of Exiles. It contains words like, "Torment" and "Bloodlines," which is how you know the game isn't being plunged into a month-long peace-treaty. Instead, PvP is getting an overhaul, and new challenge leagues are being introduced.
A new video gives an overview of the Bloodlines Challenge:
In addition to Bloodlines, which synergises power between magic monsters, there is also a Torment Challenge. In it, your game will be haunted by loot-carrying spirits who can imbue nearby enemies with additional buffs.
Also on the cards are some big changes to the PvP game. "A major focus of this Content Update is to overhaul Path of Exile's PvP systems and introduce formal competitive events," writes Grinding Gear. "As we've learned from our successful racing scene, having prizes and news coverage of competitive play is critical. In addition to introducing seasons of tournaments, we've performed a lot of PvP-specific rebalancing that doesn't affect the regular game POE currency trade ."
You can see a full run-down of the patch, which is due out on 12 December, over at the game's official site.
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Update: Funcom issued a hotfix yesterday that includes a whole bunch of general bug fixes. Check out the details on Steam here.
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Funcom's latest Conan Exiles patch is now live, but it's apparently causing issues for some players.
All the tweaks and improvements for the latest patch—snappily entitled patch 102943/18618—have been detailed on Steam by community manager, Natascha.
"Are you ready for this wall of text? If not, well it’s your fault really," writes Natascha. "You asked for it and we delivered. You totally rallied to the cause as we saw the TestServer fill up quickly with hundreds of you playing. A real sight to behold!"
Though 900+ players helped stress test the numerous fixes and updates—which include clan hierarchy, better threat animations from wildlife, and detrimental status effect icons above enemy target health bars—some are now reporting the game has been unplayable since the patch went live.
"The game is TOTALLY UNPLAYABLE", says one commenter. "Thats unfair to setup such a big patches on weekend. Before this "glorious" patch i have bugs but I CAN PLAY THE GAME. At this moment all mechanics are broken. I've [sic] done. Thank you!"
"Fixed bugs?? tell that someone else than the players!!" says another. "u fixed NOTHING! all what u did is bring us more bugs and make this game unplayable!"
For the full patch list—which is very, very long—head on over to the Steam community page.
We gave Conan Exiles a 65 in our review, stating it is: "Broad in shoulder, wide in scope, rough around the edges. Nevertheless, an enjoyably meaty survival game."
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