WoW director says its most controversial new class specialization is OP because it had to be- ‘The community is naturally skeptical of things they don’t understand’-
Blizzard knew that its controversial new augmentation evokers—the first support class ever in World of Warcraft—were going to be overpowered. That choice was “deliberate,” the game’s director told us in a BlizzCon interview, although he added that “obviously they came out the gates too strong.”
Augmentation evokers dropped like a bomb into WoW last summer, exploding the meta with a bunch of controversial firsts. It was the first time the MMO had ever introduced a new specialization for an existing class. It was the first time that a class or a specialization was ever announced while an expansion was underway. It was arguably the first time that a game-changing new element had been introduced in the middle of a competitive season. It was the first support specialization…
Xenonauts 2 will invade our world this July-
Hotly-anticiapted tactics game Xenonauts 2 finally has a release date, and we’ll be able to play it on July 18th, 2023, seven years since it was confirmed and six years since the first demo. Developer Goldhawk Interactive and publisher Hooded Horse have announced that it’ll release into Early Access on Steam.
Xenonauts 2 a game in the vein of XCOM, but rather than the radical redesign of the original formula that was XCOM 2012 and its sequels it’s a hardcore reimagining of what the original XCOM series could have become. Xenonauts 2 is described by the developers as a further layer of rebirth: ” Xenonauts 2 is less a direct sequel and more a re-imagining of the original vision, featuring a modern engine, a new setting, and refined mechanics built for long-time fans and new s…