Month: December 2020

Frontier Games revealed the gameplay trailer for Elite Dangerous: Odyssey during The Game Awards. Odyssey is the next expansion for Elite Dangerous, the space exploration simulation game. In it, players assume the role of a starship owner and get to undertake both more sedate activities like mining and more hectic ones like combat.

The new expansion pack, expected to release sometime in 2021, allows exploration by foot on worlds for the first time. Players will also get specialized suits and gear options for ground operations, a feature that includes social hubs across the galaxy.

Frontier also promised new dimensions to combat and will cater to players with different preferred styles. There will be weapon and gear options for both flashy, head-on fights and stealthy approaches.

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey preorders are available now, and the expansion retails for £30 / $40 / €35. Get it on Steam, the Epic Games Store, or FrontierStore.net. Elite Dangerous is available on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

In GameSpot’s Elite: Dangerous review, Leif Johnson rated it 7/10. He praised the game for its beautiful, massive world and great combat mode, but thought that the learning curve was a bit steep. Johnson commented, “True to its name, Elite: Dangerous is an intimidating beast. It’s a slow game that demands feats of patience, and it’s the kind of experience that may leave you unwilling to call yourself anything but a rookie even after dozens of hours. Once you scale its peak, though, its chief attraction is that it lets you see and travel farther than many other games have dared to. It may lack a certain spark and its missions tend to slip into drudgery, but I keep finding myself coming back to blast off toward any star in the night sky and eventually reach it.”

As promised by Geoff Keighley ahead of the show, a new Among Us map was shown off during The Game Awards 2020. The 2018 mobile and PC game has had a huge year in 2020, and this new map shows that the game doesn’t intend to slow down anytime soon.

The map, coming in early 2021, is set aboard a floating airship and will be completely free. It gives you a choice of which room to start in among other new features, like ladders, new tasks, and more.

Among Us has been teasing this new map for a while. In September, developer Innersloth announced that it was canceling Among Us 2 in order to focus on the original, which had found success two years after it originally released. “All of the content we had planned for Among Us 2 will instead go into Among Us 1,” Innersloth wrote at the time of announcement.

Among Us has been so popular that even politicians are streaming it–Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez streamed the game for the first time in October, and it was such a success that she did it again a month later.

The next title from Hard Reset and Shadow Warrior 2 developer Flying Wild Hog is Evil West, a game that’ll turn you into a “Wild West superhero” fighting monsters with rifles, six-shooters, and Steampunk-esque technology. Flying Wild Hog announced the title at The Game Awards 2020 with a cinematic trailer that suggests you’ll be doing a lot of fighting.

You can check out the trailer below. It’s a bit thin on details but suggests you’ll be facing down a host of demon-looking creatures as you fight through Evil West’s frontier environments.

“In solo or co-op, fight with style in visceral, explosive combat against bloodthirsty monstrosities and become a Wild West Superhero,” Flying Wild Hog wrote on Twitter. We also know the game is headed to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in 2021.

We’ve got plenty more coverage from The Game Awards, so stay tuned to GameSpot for all the essential news coming out of the show.

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During The Game Awards 2020, a new trailer for Scarlet Nexus was revealed. The trailer showcases Scarlet Nexus’ story and characters while also providing snippets of the action game’s gameplay.

Coming in Summer 2021, Scarlet Nexus sees you play as a new recruit in an organization charged with protecting the world from supernatural monsters. You’re able to move objects with your mind as well as borrow the powers of your teammates to accentuate your abilities and attacks.

This translates into a gameplay experience that looks a lot like The Force Unleashed. You primarily bat enemies around with your sword, but you can rip pieces of the environment out of the ground and throw them at enemies, too. Time your attacks right and you can pull off more powerful combos, like splitting a heavy object into two pieces and pancaking an enemy between them.

Scarlet Nexus is scheduled to release for Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC.

For the second day in a row, Treyarch has updated Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The December 10 patch, which is out now, is headlined by the return of the Nuketown 24/7 playlist and improvements and progression updates for the Zombies mode.

Nuketown 24/7 is, at its name suggests, a playlist featuring one map and one map only: Nuketown ’84. It replaces Motherland Moshpit in the featured playlists hopper.

Elsewhere, the December 10 patch fixes a recoil issue with the M60 LMG, while it also improves alignment of the multizoon scope for rifles.

The December 10 update also makes some changes to Scorestreaks, one of which is that the RC-XD is now capable of destroying sentry turrets with one explosion instead of two. The Napalm Strike has been nerfed, with damage and damage radius figures reduced.

You can see the full patch notes below, as posted by Treyarch on its website.

December is a big month for Call of Duty, as the much-anticipated Season 1 update for Black Ops Cold War and Warzone is scheduled for launch on December 16, following a delay.

Black Ops Cold War December 10 Patch Notes

MULTIPLAYER

Playlists

• Nuketown 24/7
  • Replaced Motherland Moshpit with Nuketown 24/7 in Featured Playlists.

Weapons

• M60
  • Addressed a minor recoil issue with the M60 LMG.
  • Improved alignment of Multizoom scope for better accuracy.

Scorestreaks

• RC-XD
  • Now destroys Sentry Turrets with a single explosion (previously two).
• Cruise Missile
  • Addressed an issue with Cruise Missile voiceover not playing properly.
• Napalm Strike
  • Reduced radius by 16%.
  • Reduced inner damage by 10%.
  • Reduced outer damage by 12.5%.
• Artillery
  • Reduced outer damage by 20%.
  • Corrected an issue with explosion damage.
• Attack Helicopter
  • Increased cost from 4500 to 5000.
• VTOL Escort
  • Reduced cost from 8000 to 7000.
• Chopper Gunner
  • Increased cost from 6500 to 8000.
• General
  • Closed an exploit that could allow players to reset the Combat Bow and War Machine ammo.

ZOMBIES

Progression

• Addressed an issue that prevented the Hunter Mastery Calling Card from unlocking.

Die Maschine

• Stability
  • Added general stability fixes.
• General
  • Addressed an issue where an Ammo Mod attachment would appear on screen after using the Arsenal with a Wonder Weapon in the player’s possession.
  • Icons for Wunderfizz Perks are now grayed out if the player can’t afford them.

Dead Ops Arcade

• Added stability fix for the Room of Judgment event.

GLOBAL

Combat Record

• Updated Combat Record to represent currently available items.

UI

• Addressed an issue where Battle Pass UI could display before Season One begins.