Since the launch of Season 5, Call of Duty: Warzone has been riddled with several graphical glitches and bugs. Everything from bizarre player and gun textures, to the map barely loading in at all. Not to mention the rampant hackers with aimbots and clipping abilities. Still, the Warzone community carries on and trudges through another week before any hotfixes are released. In this video Richie goes over 5 glitchy moments of the week.
In our first clip from Krushed Muffins, we see what Verdansk looks like with about 50% of the map loaded in. Instead of getting booted, Muffinz is able to not only proceed, but land on the train with his squad- and even pick up a weapon. Unfortunately the gun he finds has a weird glitched scope that doesn’t allow him to see who or what he’s shooting at. Next up is a clip from Reddit user leggoMUHeggo36. He finds an enemy player and takes a shot using his RPG. While it looks like he made contact, the enemy in question suddenly disappears! Leggo doesn’t get awarded a kill, and the enemy is never seen again.
At number 3, we have iComshot’s clip of a strange new…operator? After being hunted down, iComshot sees his opponent face to face and discovers a graphical mess of a glitch. This is a common glitch for players and weapons, and normally makes the game unplayable, but somehow, this enemy still came out on top. Number 2 comes to us from Urbanpod on Reddit. After deploying from the Warzone plane, Urban lands without a weapon. Even stranger is when he suddenly gets sent to the gulag for seemingly no reason at all! Our final spot on the list goes to Heade from Youtube. After facing off against a hacking team, Heade’s squad wins by the skin of their teeth with a hail Mary C4 explosive. The team takes the victory and the lobby afterwards is excited to say the least.
Best Buy’s new anniversary sale has kicked off, and this one goes all weekend. From now until Sunday, August 16, you can snag a number of great deals on games for the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One as well as Switch accessories, iPads, and MacBook Pros. Many of the deals come with free shipping and can arrive as early as next week.
A number of multiplatform games are also discounted, including Borderlands 3 for $15, Control for $32, and the recently released Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath Kollection for $40. Control is an excellent game to jump into right now, especially with the upcoming Alan Wake expansion on the horizon. The Aftermath Collection is a great deal as well, as it includes Mortal Kombat 11, all of its DLC fighters, and the new Aftermath expansion, which adds on to the base game’s story.
If you’ve wanted to snag yourself an iPad or MacBook Pro, you can save a good chunk of change on both. Of course, these are only a few of the deals available this weekend, so be sure to check out Best Buy for the full anniversary sale.
These PowerA wired Nintendo Switch controllers are an excellent budget option for anyone who’s looking for another controller. The controllers feature soft rubber grips and a 10-foot removable USB cable, so you can sit back and relax anywhere in your gaming area.
Best Buy has a number of Nintendo Switch cases on sale this weekend. PowerA’s Poke Ball and Pikachu cases feature hard outer shells and soft inner padding, while RDS Industries’ Zelda case has a faux-leather exterior.
If you’re looking for a Nintendo Switch case with a little more heft and compartment space, then this Pikachu commuter case is perfect. Not only can it carry your Switch or Switch Lite, but it also has room for 14 game cards and a number of accessories, thanks to its multiple storage pockets, Velcro straps, and front compartment.
The iPad Air is the second most powerful model of iPad, and right now, you can snag yourself Apple’s excellent tablet for $100 off. Best Buy is discounting the 256GB iPad Air models, which come in Space Gray, Gold, and Silver variants.
Apple’s MacBook Pro laptops are great portable notebooks that can also handle some heavy workloads, including video and audio production. Right now, Best Buy has some excellent deals on a number of MacBook Pro models, saving you up to $300. Each discounted MacBook Pro is also the latest model, which features a touch bar.
If you’re looking for a laptop to use for school or work, then this 17.3-inch HP notebook has you covered. It boasts a 10th-gen i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD. That means it’s more than capable of handling your studies, workdays, or even your entertainment when you need to relax.
Monster Energy has launched a promotion to tie in with Halo Infinite, despite the game’s delay into a to-be-determined date in 2021. By collecting limited-edition Halo Infinite cans, you can get Double XP points to use sometime next year.
The special-edition Halo-themed cans will be available through December 31, 2020, which probably made more sense when the game was expected to be out by then. At any rate, you can stock up on Double XP points now, as well as use an exclusive Snapchat filter. Collecting all three Snapchat codes each month will get you an exclusive weapon. The announcement says you can redeem them at Monster-Halo.com, but the site isn’t live yet as of the time of writing.
Your receipts will also give you entry into a grand prize drawing. Ten entrants will win a trip for two to Paris, France plus $1000 cash to spend there. That would presumably be scheduled for sometime after France lifts travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Another 200 winners will get an Xbox Series X.
343 Industries said the delay was necessary to give the team “adequate time to deliver a Halo game experience that meets our vision.” No new date has been announced. Microsoft paired the announcement with word that the Xbox Series X will launch in November, touting the “thousands of games to play, spanning four generations” that will be available to play.
Destiny 2‘s summer event, the Solstice of Heroes, is underway, bringing Guardians a quest to unlock a set of armor that’s a celebration of everything they’ve accomplished in the last year. You’ll need to grind through a bunch of different activities to earn the armor–and some of the game’s hardest to upgrade it fully. That makes this a good opportunity to visit Xur and grab some new Exotics to help you get through. Here’s where you can find him and what he’s selling until August 18.
Head to Titan to find Xur this week, on The Rig. For his weapon, Xur is offering Graviton Lance. Hunters can pick up the Ophidia Spathe chest armor; for Titans, there’s the Mk. 44 Stand Asides leg armor; and for Warlocks, Xur has the Skull of Dire Ahamkara helmet.
Xur Location
Spawn in at the transmit zone on The Rig and head east, to your left around the building, so you can find a way through to the far side of the area. Once you get out from under the overhangs, turn left to look for the edge of the platform, and a low, dark building you can slip inside. You’ll find Xur there, hanging out in the shadows.
Head up to the northern edge of The Rig to find the building where Xur is hiding.
Xur Exotic Items
This week, Xur offers Graviton Lance, a pulse rifle that’s long been a solid Crucible option thanks to its high-powered burst and added deadly effects. If you’re not a fan of his other options, Xur also sells an Exotic engram that will decrypt into an Exotic you don’t already own. He also has the Five of Swords challenge card, which lets you enable modifiers for Nightfall Strikes.
Exotic Engram — 97 legendary shards
Graviton Lance — 29 legendary shards
Ophidia Spathe — 23 legendary shards
Mk. 44 Stand Asides — 23 legendary shards
Skull of Dire Ahamkara — 23 legendary shards
Five of Swords — free
Graviton Lance (Pulse Rifle)
In both PvE and the Crucible, Graviton Lance is a powerful pulse rifle that can clean up groups of enemies thanks to its Cosmology perk.
Graviton Lance is one of those Exotic weapons that’s been around in Destiny 2 since the beginning, and it’s still a pretty reliable and popular gun in various circumstances. First, the second shot of its three-shot burst does serious extra damage, which gives you a really good reason to make sure you’re lining up your headshots. Second, enemies killed by Graviton Lance explode and send out Void projectiles that can kill others–a bonus that, coupled with its range, makes this a pretty great weapon in the Crucible or in PvE.
Ophidia Spathe (Hunter)
Ophidia Spathe gives you an extra throwing knife. That’s it. That’s the Exotic.
It’s simple, really: If you like chucking knives at people, Ophidia Spathe is for you. Thanks to recent buffs in Hunter throwing knives, this Exotic is a lot more viable, since you can score a one-hit kill with the new weighted knife. It’s also a useful piece of a Blade Barrage build, allowing you to keep the Playing With Fire perk going for longer, which speeds the cooldown of your dodge and your melee ability. Its stats are pretty great as well, so if you don’t have Ophidia Spathe already, you might want to snag this one.
Stats:
Mobility: 8
Resilience: 9
Recovery: 17
Discipline: 11
Intellect: 2
Strength: 18
Total: 65
Mk. 44 Stand Asides (Titan)
Like running through gunfire to smack somebody with your shoulder and instantly vaporize them? Mk. 44 Stand Asides will make you even more annoyingly tough to kill.
Titans who rely on shoulder charge get a big boost from the Mk. 44 Stand Asides. You get an overshield whenever you’re sprinting at full health, so you’re even tougher to kill when you’re barreling down on some poor unsuspecting Guardian in the Crucible. You also get melee energy back after you hit something with your shoulder charge ability, allowing you to crush more puny Hunters and Warlocks more often.
Stats:
Mobility: 9
Resilience: 3
Recovery: 21
Discipline: 12
Intellect: 6
Strength: 13
Total: 64
Skull of Dire Ahamkara (Warlock)
It got nerfed a while back, but the Skull of Dire Ahamkara is still a pretty great Exotic for Nova Bomb-loving Warlocks.
Bungie might have nerfed it a while back, but the Skull of Dire Ahamkara helmet is still a very useful Exotic for Warlocks who like Nova Bombs. First, it makes you tougher to kill while executing the Super, which is great in the Crucible when you’re trying to blast several opponents at once. Second, earning kills with Nova Bomb gives you Super energy back–which means more Nova Bombs more often. You won’t get a full Super charge after one use like you used to, but Skull of Dire Ahamkara still can help you drop bombs.
Stats:
Mobility: 14
Resilience: 3
Recovery: 15
Discipline: 13
Intellect: 6
Strength: 9
Total: 60
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Since starting with EA Access on Xbox One, the subscription service has adopted new names according to the platform you’re playing on. With the service now heading to Steam, EA is consolidating everything under one new brand: EA Play.
EA and Origin Access will now simply be EA Play, irrespective of whether you’re subscribed on Xbox One, PS4, Steam, or through Origin directly. Similarly, Origins Access Premier will now be known as EA Play Pro–both EA Play and EA Play Pro will be available on both Origin and Steam.
Despite the name change, the fundamentals of each service are the same. EA Play will give you access to a vault of games that is updated periodically, often with EA’s own titles months after their initial release. You’ll also have access to new games ahead of launch, with time-limited trial periods that allow you to retain any progress should you purchase the game at a discounted price. EA Play will still be $5 a month, or $30 a year.
EA Play Pro will adopt the benefits of Origin Access Premier, which allows subscribers to play new titles without any time limits from launch. It’s easy to think of EA Play Pro as EA’s own take on Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, for around the same price. EA Play Pro will be $15 a month, or $100 a year.
EA Play is a brand the publisher started establishing with its events around E3. This year’s stream was called EA Play Live and showcased some of the titles EA is launching throughout the rest of the year. EA says that it will stick with this naming for future events. The name change will be effective from August 18.
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Season 6 of Apex Legends is on its way, and with it come some new changes to the map. According to Apex’s Design Director Jason McCord, these changes are meant to “inject some ‘newness'” into the map and will create more viable play options in the lava fields, create better options for navigating rough chokepoints, and introduce a whole new map mechanic.
The first notable change is the addition of the Launch Site, a new drop point that’s now occupying a previously empty lava field. The Launch Site is another of Hammond Industries’ concoctions, and features four different control rooms said to have a ton of loot, and a new passage so you can rotate through this part of the map like never before. This new area will also serve to provide a variety of traversal options, as it’s near both the Dome and the Sorting Factory.
Apex vets will remember the Drill Site. Well, it’s being replaced by Countdown, another large Hammond facility whose purpose remains unknown. At its center is a pit that boasts some pretty stellar loot, but beware: if you aren’t in control of this area before delving below, you may be in for a bad time. Countdown is built to be a pretty formidable fortress that even includes three user-operated blast walls that can be used to fortify the approach from Skyhook, Lava Train, and Train Yard. These walls are a new mechanic for the map that allow for new ways to attack and defend and can be found at Launch Site, Countdown, and Staging.
Another big change to go with these walls is that the train has not only been stopped, it’s been dismantled. Now, players will be able to find pieces of it spread around the train tracks on World’s End. This will provide more cover in previously empty tunnels, and should give players more options for navigating tricky chokepoints. Two new geysers have also been added, so getting around has never been easier. You can check out all these new changes for free on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
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When Avatar: The Last Airbender returned to Netflix, it made a huge splash with people who grew up with the show rewatching and reminiscing about just how fantastic it was, and welcomed an entirely new audience of people just now discovering the show’s brilliance. While Aang and the gang’s adventures sadly came to an end, Avatar’s sequel, The Legend of Korra Seasons 1-4 are now available on Netflix and CBS All Access.
The US Army esports team has returned to Twitch after voluntarily leaving the platform last month. The stream is still ongoing, but it opened with a long period of time in which a lone streamer sat on camera while viewers in chat spammed messages like “WARCRIMES.”
The chat flooded with messages about white phosphorus, the defunding of the USPS, US war crimes, and more as Chris “Goryn” Jones sat on camera awkwardly. He did answer some of the more straightforward questions, like who his favorite Twitch streamer is, between long, uncomfortable pauses. He eventually started playing World of Warcraft for around 1,500 viewers.
“Everybody has the ability to their own opinions,” Jones said while browsing through chat messages. The stream started under the “just chatting” section on Twitch before he hopped onto the MMO.
The US Army’s presence on Twitch became the subject of controversy in July after it joined the platform as part of an outreach and recruitment initiative. The US Army and the US Navy have banned viewers who ask or talk about war crimes, which is potentially a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech. Twitch stepped in and stopped the US Army from promoting the fake giveaways that would give viewers’ information to military recruiters.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted down a measure that would have prevented the Army and other branches of the military from recruiting on platforms like Twitch on July 30. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed the amendment but 103 Democrats, who currently have the majority in the House of Representatives, joined Republicans in voting it down.
Publisher Activision has announced that Call of Duty Mobile‘s Season 9 starts on Saturday, August 15. Titled Conquest, the new season introduces a fresh battle pass, an added game mode, and more.
The headlining feature of Season 9: Conquest is the extra Battle Royale areas. The in-game Battle Royale map has been updated to include four new locations for players to loot weapons and battle enemies in. This includes Campground, Dormitory, Outpost, and Radar Base, all of which house the new Armor Plate item that repairs damaged armor so that you can stay in the fight a little bit longer. In addition to the updated Battle Royale map, Multiplayer has been refreshed with the brand-new close-quarters map Shipment 1944.
Activision shared a roadmap of Season 9’s content, which outlines what’s now live and what’s to come.
A lot is coming to Call of Duty Mobile this month.
Elsewhere in Season 9, players can further customize weapons with the addition of Gunsmith, a feature seen in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Just as expected, Gunsmith lets players personalize their favorites guns with over 50 new attachments, 20 new reticles, and 60 weapon levels. Battle Royale also supports Gunsmith.
And of course, Season 9 comes with a new battle pass with free and premium tiers that features new characters, weapon skins, weapon charms, a new scorestreak, a new weapon, and more. Victor Reznov from the Black Ops series and World at War can be unlocked via the premium tier while the new Kilo Bolt-Action Rifle can be obtained by reaching tier 21 on the free battle pass.
Coming later this month is a new game mode and marquee event. The 10v10 Featured Playlist increases the player count and includes Domination and Team Deathmatch on Crossfire, Meltdown, Shipment, and Takeoff. Meanwhile, the Finest Hour marquee event lets players assemble an army to conquer cities on a virtual map. Those who succeed in their takeovers will earn characters and weapons for each city seized.
Season 9: Conquest also packages various user interface updates, weapon balances, and gameplay optimizations. Activision has yet to outline these changes.
