Dying Light developer Techland has shown off a new game in its zombie series that began life as a DLC for Dying Light 2 Stay Human.
Announced during Gamescom Opening Night Live, Dying Light: The Beast is a solo or four-player co-op experience pitched as a "tight" 18-hour ride through a fresh area of the franchise's world.
Dying Light protagonist Kyle Crane, once again voiced by Roger Craig Smith, returns here, a decade on. In-game, Crane has been in captivity, and experimented on. The upsid
Dying Light developer Techland has shown off a new game in its zombie series that began life as a DLC for Dying Light 2 Stay Human.
Announced during Gamescom Opening Night Live, Dying Light: The Beast is a solo or four-player co-op experience pitched as a "tight" 18-hour ride through a fresh area of the franchise's world.
Dying Light protagonist Kyle Crane, once again voiced by Roger Craig Smith, returns here, a decade on. In-game, Crane has been in captivity, and experimented on. The upside? You have zombie DNA powers to unleash that beast on enemies.
There are evidently a lot of people who are eager to jump into the free-to-play survival shooter Once Human, even in spite of the game’s technical problems. That’s according to NetEase’s latest PR, which counts over 10 million downloads worldwide and some chart-topping success on Steam. In addition to the number of downloads (not active […]
There are evidently a lot of people who are eager to jump into the free-to-play survival shooter Once Human, even in spite of the game’s technical problems. That’s according to NetEase’s latest PR, which counts over 10 million downloads worldwide and some chart-topping success on Steam. In addition to the number of downloads (not active […]
Once Human offers a decent degree of weapon customization by providing players with different attachments to go with their gear mods. If you're rocking an assault rifle and want to pour more bullets down range before reloading, you can combine certain mods with the Extended Rifle Mag to maximize your DPS uptime.
Once Human offers a decent degree of weapon customization by providing players with different attachments to go with their gear mods. If you're rocking an assault rifle and want to pour more bullets down range before reloading, you can combine certain mods with the Extended Rifle Mag to maximize your DPS uptime.
Crafting weapons and armor isn't enough to maximize your gains in Once Human. If you want to make the most out of all the systems the game has to offer, then making and using Brewing Barrels should be on your list of priorities.
Crafting weapons and armor isn't enough to maximize your gains in Once Human. If you want to make the most out of all the systems the game has to offer, then making and using Brewing Barrels should be on your list of priorities.
Once Human's maintenance is now complete, and the F2P open-world shooter is back online with a plethora of QoL improvements and optimisations, including a desperately-needed revision to vehicle handling.Whilst players received a bundle of Stardust and health-related items to make up for the downtime, Once Human's long-promised controller and Steam Deck support is still nowhere to be seen (although, confusingly, the "controller" in-game item remains in place).In terms of Memetics, you can now pi
Once Human's maintenance is now complete, and the F2P open-world shooter is back online with a plethora of QoL improvements and optimisations, including a desperately-needed revision to vehicle handling.
Whilst players received a bundle of Stardust and health-related items to make up for the downtime, Once Human's long-promised controller and Steam Deck support is still nowhere to be seen (although, confusingly, the "controller" in-game item remains in place).
In terms of Memetics, you can now pick up memetic specialisation memory fragments in the wild and trade them between players. All memetic fragments will be destroyed at the end of the season – which is in a couple of weeks time – and cannot be sent to Eternaland, so be mindful of that.
Once Human has a built-in survival guide to clarify many of its varied, and sometimes confusing, mechanics. But even after reading the entry on fishing, new players might still feel unenlightened. It seems simple enough, but once you get your hands on a fishing pole, you might find that the question remains: how do you actually fish in Once Human?
Fishing in Once Human
Get yourself a fishing pole
Screenshot by Destructoid
This is the simplest step, as you’ll probably already have the m
Once Human has a built-in survival guide to clarify many of its varied, and sometimes confusing, mechanics. But even after reading the entry on fishing, new players might still feel unenlightened. It seems simple enough, but once you get your hands on a fishing pole, you might find that the question remains: how do you actually fish in Once Human?
Fishing in Once Human
Get yourself a fishing pole
This is the simplest step, as you’ll probably already have the mats required. Go to the Supplies Workbench, where you can craft your own fishing rod almost right away. You just need 20 Logs and 10 Copper Ingots.
If you’ve made it to Meyer’s Market, the second zone in Once Human, you can also buy bait. There are docks on the south side of the settlement, where a lady named Margerie sells Bait for 50 Energy Links, as well as Formula: Bait so you can learn how to make your own at the Supplies Workbench for 3 Rubber.
During fishing events, Margerie also sells other types of bait, and you’ll find vendors with different stock as you progress further into the world. Upgrading your Cradle will also unlock better bait recipes and fishing poles.
How to catch fish
Drag your newly crafted fishing pole to the hotbar, then find yourself a body of water big enough to house fish. Hit the hotkey to equip your fishing pole and press R to open the bait menu. Every fish you hook, whether it’s successfully caught or escapes, uses one Bait, so make sure you have plenty.
Bait selected, hold down the left mouse button. Just clicking the mouse button will give you an error message that you “cannot fish here.” Some players (not me) will believe the message and run around to different water holes, trying to fish and growing increasingly frustrated. So, hold down LMB.
A green circle indicates where you’ll cast your line; it turns red if you’re over a non-fishable area. Move the circle to an ideal location and release LMB to start fishing.
Once you cast your line, two new indicators appear on the screen. The one in the bottom center represents the fishhook’s location on the water’s surface. Once it bobs downward and the icon turns blue, click and hold LMB to begin reeling in your fish. You only have five seconds to click, or the fish will get away.
The indicator on the right side of the screen shows two gauges: Escaped vs. Hooked and Break vs. Slack. You want the Escaped/Hooked bar to fill up; the Break/Slack bar will ideally remain in the middle. If this second bar empties, the fish escapes.
To successfully reel in a fish, rotate the camera in the direction opposite to the way the fish is swimming. Then hit F to take it off the line.
What to do with caught fish
Fish decays over time, like other perishable foods in Once Human. At the beginning of the game, you’ll have a basic recipe to grill it up on the Stove, but it will still go bad in 24 hours. To preserve it, you can dry it out with Salt on the Meat Drier or keep it cool in the Refrigerator once you’ve unlocked those facilities.
Other uses for fish include:
Put one in a Fish Tank (Cradle > Building > Display Facilities)
Use special catches as currency at certain vendors like Margerie
Once Human's maintenance is now complete, and the F2P open-world shooter is back online with a plethora of QoL improvements and optimisations, including a desperately-needed revision to vehicle handling.Whilst players received a bundle of Stardust and health-related items to make up for the downtime, Once Human's long-promised controller and Steam Deck support is still nowhere to be seen (although, confusingly, the "controller" in-game item remains in place).In terms of Memetics, you can now pi
Once Human's maintenance is now complete, and the F2P open-world shooter is back online with a plethora of QoL improvements and optimisations, including a desperately-needed revision to vehicle handling.
Whilst players received a bundle of Stardust and health-related items to make up for the downtime, Once Human's long-promised controller and Steam Deck support is still nowhere to be seen (although, confusingly, the "controller" in-game item remains in place).
In terms of Memetics, you can now pick up memetic specialisation memory fragments in the wild and trade them between players. All memetic fragments will be destroyed at the end of the season – which is in a couple of weeks time – and cannot be sent to Eternaland, so be mindful of that.
The Site
I did my complaining about WordPress early this month, so I can move on to something more upbeat for this section. I got at least a bit of recognition this month from CCP as they included the blog in the Community Beat post published on July 5th. (The title says “July 7” which just says to me an American wrote the title and screwed up the Euro date pattern. Swift? I blame all things on CCP Swift now.)
Woo hoo! I guess I have to set aside my usual “CCP only cares about Twitch streame
I did my complaining about WordPress early this month, so I can move on to something more upbeat for this section. I got at least a bit of recognition this month from CCP as they included the blog in the Community Beat post published on July 5th. (The title says “July 7” which just says to me an American wrote the title and screwed up the Euro date pattern. Swift? I blame all things on CCP Swift now.)
Woo hoo! I guess I have to set aside my usual “CCP only cares about Twitch streamers and the rare site they let into the community program” gripe for a while. I mean, it is still true, but I can’t gripe about it for a few weeks now.
Hey, they didn’t just link to this blog, they also took a moment to link out to my other blog, EVE Online Pictures. So it was a twofer! That site saw an immediate boost in view!
From zero to 30 in just an hour!
I mean, maybe that wasn’t a huge boost, but when the average is zero, anything is an improvement. (It looked like one person showed up and used infinite scroll to look at pictures until they got bored and moved on.)
And what prompted them to notice my work? Was it my ongoing writing about life in New Eden? Was it my monthly look at destruction from the MER? Was it my criticism of their economic policy and their plans for null sec? Was it my years of CSM election coverage? Was it my posts about the Alliance Tournament? Was it all the historical posts about wars in null sec? Was it because I was bitching again about the in-game map?
Nope! It was due to me repeating the story Asher Elias told at the fireside a while back about Ser Fukalite’s ship spinning medal… a medal which I am pretty sure was handed out by the community team.
So the lesson here is clear enough that I can put it in meme form.
You know what to do
You can close the loop if you just write about what the people who write the community outreach post are up to. Look for more of that for sure!
The Metaverse was still trying to be a thing, but even after pouring billions into Facebook Horizon Worlds, Zuck’s metaverse vision still lacked legs, both literally and metaphorically.
And it looked like Blizz was going to give people a mount every six months so long as they subscribed to the six month renewal plan.
CCP, after saying they would change the 1 million skill point starter pack, just kept on selling it so long as there was sufficient demand. But at least it was limited to one per account.
There was a site put up by eBay about game return on investment. Unsurprisingly, it indicated that used games are a deal in that regard, so you should go buy some on eBay.
SuperData Research was listing out the Top Subscription MMOs while not defining what they really meant by the term.
Anarchy Online introduced a PLEX-like currency, GRACE.
The community manager for LOTRO was busy telling raiders and PvMP players that they weren’t getting any new content because they added up to less than 10% of the player population.
In EverQuest, on the Fippy Darkpaw Time Locked Progression server, the vote to unlock the Underfoot expansion failed, making it the second expansion ever to get voted down, the first being Gates of Discord nearly two years before.
With that I was wondering what other MMOs might go for the retro nostalgia server thing. Not WoW, I was sure of that at the time. Since then though…
I was also on about housing in MMOs, what has really worked for me and what has fallen flat and why. This included some projection as to what garrisons might end up being in WoW.
I was, as usual, asking silly questions like why does Tetris gets faster. Okay, it was an analogy, but it was still silly.
Oh, and then there was the horse. Remember the $10 horse? I did a poll about it and everything. Boy, that seems like small potatoes these days. I mean, that was a cash shop game selling a horse for $10. Now WoW and EQ2 will sell you mounts that cost much more.
Gary Gannon announced that GAX Online was going to close in August, bringing to an end that experiment in gamer community building.
In World of Warcraft the instance group hit Violet Hold and Gundrak, but couldn’t get the team together for Halls of Stone, so went back and did some Burning Crusade heroics just for kicks.
Then the instance group took a run at Onyxia. The old school Onyxia. She’s since been remade.
My daughter somehow got to Dalaran at level 16… without having the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.
And even as we were doing all that, we were starting to mull over what we should do once we were level 80 with no new expansion in sight. It only took us a year to try another game. At about that time, my hunter alt hit level 80.
I also dredged up the old Alamo Teechs U 2 Play Druid post from the WoW forums. Philosophical question: Would Alamo have posted that if RealID had forced him to use his real name?
And, finally, my daughter was trying to get me to help her make WoW videos to post on YouTube.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Billy Mitchell got the first perfect score in Pac-Man, though his record has since been expunged due to accusations about cheating.
Forty Five Years Ago
The Sony Walkman was introduced and portable music has not been the same since. A pair of classmates of mine had a father went to Japan on business regularly and who brought them each one of the brand new devices back from one of his trips. Those were the first two I ever saw. Blue and gray cases and headphones with bright orange foam padding for the ears.
starcraft cartooned carbot deviant art
[Why Deviant Art?]
ttc-collective-agreement-2020
[I have some posts about that!]
gamer blogs
[pretty sure I’ve had my card revoked]
neg vs enad
[gen vs dane?]
zmud on windows 11?
[Haven’t gone there yet… maybe?]
Game Time by ManicTime
On the one hand, I did play a few more titles than usual this past month.
EVE Online – 48.14%
No Man’s Sky – 24.11%
WoW Classic – 14.81%
Valheim – 6.04%
EverQuest – 4.01%
Unnamed Beta – 1.50%
Once Human – 1.31%
Palia – 0.04%
World of Warcraft – 0.04%
On the other, nearly 75% of that time was the first two titles, though No Man’s Sky was a surprise dark horse candidate. But I cover that below. It could have been a Once Human month. I played that for an evening… and then was distracted elsewhere. Meanwhile, I think I logged into WoW and Palia to claim a gift or a Twitch drop or something. It was quick.
EVE Online
New Eden was at the top of the chart this month, thanks to several factors. First, there was a new group formed in the Imperium to go out and pick fights in the middle of PanFam space, so that got me undocked. Then there was the Keepstar bout in Catch. That might turn into something next month, but in July it was mostly move ops. I was recorded on 16 different fleets according to the participation dashboard, but at least 6 of those were just getting in to move ships from point A to point B.
A lot of my time in game was probably attributable to me logging in and doing the AIR daily goals for 12 days across seven characters, 5 Omega and 2 Alpha, to test that out. Well, if the goal was to get entice me to log in more, op success.
EverQuest
Really, I am still subscribed, but all I am doing in the Overseer thing every day… and I have almost gotten all the achievements for that. So I might be done here sooner rather than later. My 25th anniversary spirit is waining.
No Man’s Sky
Kind of a surprise entry this month… or any month. It came out in 2016, I played it for a short bit in 2017, and then haven’t really thought about it much since then, save for noting updates coming out every so often. Then there was all the Stars Reach talk this past month, with pillars and being on Steam, and I started thinking about procedurally generated exploratory space games… and hey, here we are! More to come on this too.
Once Human
I came very close to making Once Human a thing, mostly because I had picked it in our Game Critic Fantasy League, so I had a vested interest, and because I left Twitch tuned into Mind1 and he went and played it so I ended up with some Twitch Drops for it. So I tried it for a bit. It has its own interesting flavor. But then all the Stars Reach stuff made me think about No Man’s Sky and I went there instead.
Pokemon Go
Level: 46 (+1, level, 10% of the way to 47, 0 of 4 tasks complete)
Pokedex status: 838 (+8) caught, 847 (+7) seen
Vivillon Evolutions obtained: 16 of 18
Pokemon I want: Two specific Scatterbugs; Sandstorm and Sun
Current buddy: Annihilape
Valheim
I think I finally hit the wall here in the Ashlands. But that is fine. We got some good times out of this third run at the game. It is my most played title on Steam. I can feel good about moving on.
WoW Classic
I am feeling kind of the way I did with Burning Crusade Classic, that I have started to prove that my negative feelings for Cataclysm back in the day were not wholly unwarranted. And we have six more months to go on this. Our group still has a dungeons to run. But logging in to level up alts and that sort of thing… not really feeling it for that.
Coming Up
Blaugust. Next month is Blaugust so you can expect a Blaugust kick off post tomorrow to celebrate the first day of the event, with a run down of participants, probably with a bit of history and some reasons to join in. Or maybe not. I don’t know.
Then I have to figure out how to fill out the month… which is one of those things that is always daunting on the first day, and then when I get to the last day I realize I have a half a dozen more unfinished drafts in the drafts folder and didn’t even start on some things I felt I should have.
There might be a war of sorts in EVE Online. We’ll see if the other side shows up I suppose.
Other than that, nothing is going on in August… wait, I am being told that there might actually be a release or two in August.
Yes, we’re getting the Janthir Wilds expansion for Guild Wars 2, which will bring with it player housing. A very big deal there.
I think we’re getting a big update in EverQuest 2.
Oh, and Visionary Realms is said to be doing a pre-alpha beta test of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen in anticipation of early access in December… I think I have that right. But you won’t hear about it here as this event is has been reported to require that participants not share, communicate, or deliberately imply information about their pre-alpha experience or involvement. Public information on their website, however, is fair game and we’ll get to the plan for early access, oh you can just bet.
And I suppose I would be remiss if I did not mention The War Within for WoW. Big new expansion. Kind of a thing here in the game’s 20th year.
Check out the latest trailer for Once Human to see gameplay and bosses from this post-apocalyptic open-world survival game. Once Human is available now on PC.
Check out the latest trailer for Once Human to see gameplay and bosses from this post-apocalyptic open-world survival game. Once Human is available now on PC.
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Společnost Techland oznámila (prostřednictvím serveru Gamerant), že hra Dying Light 2 Stay Human se 22. února dočká nové edice. Reloaded Edition vyjde společně s aktualizací Firearms Update a bude obsahovat základní hru, DLC Bloody Ties a všechny dosud vydané aktualizace.
Aktualizace Firearms Update přidává do zombie titulu s otevřeným světem vůbec první zbraně a zároveň přináší vizuální vylepšení obličejů zombie, skyboxů a listí. Sólo a kooperativní hráči se také mohou těšit na nový obsah, zatí
Společnost Techland oznámila (prostřednictvím serveru Gamerant), že hra Dying Light 2 Stay Human se 22. února dočká nové edice. Reloaded Edition vyjde společně s aktualizací Firearms Update a bude obsahovat základní hru, DLC Bloody Ties a všechny dosud vydané aktualizace.
Aktualizace Firearms Update přidává do zombie titulu s otevřeným světem vůbec první zbraně a zároveň přináší vizuální vylepšení obličejů zombie, skyboxů a listí. Sólo a kooperativní hráči se také mohou těšit na nový obsah, zatímco fanoušci první hry mohou očekávat několik „překvapení“. Ředitel franšízy Tymon Smektala ji považuje za dosud největší aktualizaci, v důsledku čehož byly odloženy režimy Nightmare Mode a Tower Raids.
Zůstaňte naladěni na další podrobnosti o hře Dying Light 2 Stay Human – Reloaded Edition, až bude uvedena na trh. Základní hra je k dispozici pro Xbox One, Xbox řady X/S, PS4, PS5 a PC, přičemž dlouho odkládaná verze pro Nintendo Switch zřejmě vyjde ještě letos. Na naši recenzi se podívejte zde.