This week in games: For Honor gets dedicated servers, Destiny 2 PC beta dates revealed - bennetttommand

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We did it—we ready-made it through July, the most uninteresting month of the year. I hope you all enjoyed your vacation.

Things are ramping choke for the free fall though, as this workweek Dying Light announces ten new pieces of DLC (three years after release), Wolfenstein II sends a quarterback to space, Bungie announces the Destiny 2 beta dates, For Honor gets (surprise!) votive servers, Mighty Nary. 9 continues to disappoint, and Middle Earth: Fantas of War turns Shelob from a creepy spider into Milla Jovovich.

This is gaming news for July 24 to 28.

Still not dead

Dying Incandescent free waaay backbone at the beginning of 2015. A conventional singleplayer game, you mightiness've expected it to get a few pieces of DLC or perhaps an expansion—and indeed it did, in February of 2016.

But Dying Light is still going almost tierce eld ulterior, with Techland announcing an additive 10 pieces of free DLC within the next 12 months. Apparently 500,000 populate are still acting Dying Insignificant hebdomadally, which is a shockingly high telephone number, and as such the team is adding several virgin enemies, encounters, and more. Again, free.

All-Land

I wasn't too thrilled with our most recent Wolfenstein II show for a variety of reasons. But it's still peradventur my most anticipated game this year, and the newly announced DLC sounds (if possible) even more interesting.

Why? Because Wolfenstein's finally moving away from good ol' B.J. Blazkowicz and trying on a trio of new characters in his stead, each of which sounds interesting. The first stars a football field general fighting in quad, the second an "ex-OSS factor and assassin" named Jessica Valiant who infiltrates Nazi compounds in Golden State, and the third the "renowned hero Captain Gerald Wilkins" fighting Nazis in Alaska.

Hopefully we still get an Old Blood-style expansion as well.

Wolfenstein II

Prepare for your luck

Anxiously awaiting the Destiny 2 beta after our E3 impressions ? Or possibly rightful overjealous that PS4 players got their hands happening it first? Bungie announced the official PC genus Beta dates this week, as well as the system of rules requirements. You give the sack catch those finished here, but the short of it: August 28 for those who preorder, August 29 for everyone other, and it's currently scheduled to run done Noble 31.

Doom 5

Doomfist, the in style Overwatch bomber, has been live on the PTR for the past few weeks, meaning there's a good chance you've already tested him tabu. If you've yet to slip into his oversized clenched fist though, like a sho's your chance—Blizzard added him to the standard lineup on Thursday.

Speed freak

Car customization in a Need for Speed game? I'm shocked. Appalled. The trailer below does seemingly indicate you'll Be chopping parts off your car and replacing them with other, very exchangeable parts though. What will those racing games think of next?

Retcon

I knew Mediate Globe: Shadow of State of war was taking some liberties with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings canon—I mean, this is the sequel to a game that (SPOILER) somehow invented a imitate of The Extraordinary Ring that I can only assume is known as "The Other One Ring."

But transforming Shelob from a bulbous spider into a pale-smooth-skinned lady who looks oddly similar to Milla Jovovich? Truly eccentric.

Honorable conclusion

Commemorate entirely the discussion around For Laurel's launch where Ubisoft secure IT definitely didn't postulate dedicated servers and actually a P2P setup was better? Oops. This week, game director Damien Kieken announced Ubisoft is… implementing dedicated servers. And it's for all the reasons people wanted them before For Honor even released.

"Soh in essence, since we launched the game, we've faced unweathered online challenges. We saw that we had connectivity and constancy problems, mostly on 4v4 modes, so it's single of the things we've looked at and worked on very much since the game launched. And during that swear out, we decided to do an depth psychology of the whole online infrastructure we own and compare it to other existing ones. And in the end, based on all the data we gathered…we decided to do the move and to migrate to a dedicated server applied science, for many, many different reasons."

Good on them for finally doing it, only incredibly bizarre for him to refer to "new" online challenges as if this whole saga didn't play out exactly like the community predicted pre-loss.

Pac-Mania

Twitch continues to be the planetary's oddest TV channel, swirling along from its Bob Betsy Ross and Mr. Rogers marathons to something a bit more lame-centric. Specifically, Starcade, a game show from the early 1980s that's basically exactly what it sounds equal—people acting arcade games. (Via PC Gamer )

Non-so-mighty

The Powerful No. 9 debacle in the end came to a just close this hebdomad atomic number 3 Kickstarter backers were in conclusion sent the enclosed copy they'd been promised for pledging leastwise $60. Sort-of.

What they in reality received was a flat-packed piece of composition board from which they could assemble their own box, nonnegative a independent (uninspired looking) manual that doesn't really fit inside the box. No game inside. A disaster to the end.

Maybe someone should check the going rate for New Mexico landfills these days.

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Hayden writes about games for PCWorld and doubles as the resident Zork fancier.

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