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Mass Effect: Legendary Edition project director Mac Walters has confirmed that Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer could be added to the collection in the future if the demand is great enough.

In an interview with CNET, Walters said that he would never “say no” to Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer making a return after its omission in the Legendary Edition.

“I would never say no to that — we want to see what kind of reception the Legendary Edition gets and what the demand for the multiplayer is,” Walters said. “And then we’ll ask ourselves if we have the resources and time to bring it up to the quality level we and fans want.”

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In our interview with Walters prior to release, he mentioned that the decision to leave Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer out of the Legendary Edition came to to “knowing where to draw the line.”

“It obviously had a lot of challenges,” Walters explained. “Everything from what you do with crossplay, because that’s kind of an expectation now; what you do with people who are still playing multiplayer now — how do you honor that, how do you bring them in, can we somehow bridge that gap? And of course these aren’t insurmountable challenges, there are things that we can do to fix that problem and get multiplayer in there.

“But when you look at the amount of effort that it was going to take to do that, it was easily commensurate if not greater than uplifting all of Mass Effect 1, and I think our focus was on the single-player experience.”

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Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer was a co-op experience that allowed players to team up to take on Reapers, Cerberus, Geth, and Collector forces. Progress in the mode also earned that player rewards in the Galaxy at War system that influences the outcome of Mass Effect 3’s story.

FYI: Galaxy at War has been rebalanced in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition in light of multiplayer and the companion app being available.

For more on Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, check out every important choice and consequence you can make in the three games, where our review of the collection is, and our guide to all the possible romances in the space adventure.

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While cheating has been a huge problem in Call of Duty: Warzone, co-developer Raven Software has revealed that it has officially banned over 500,000 “malicious accounts” since the battle royale was released last year.

Raven shared the news on Twitter, confirming that its latest banwave of 30,000 accounts has brought the total of banned accounts to over half a million.

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This is another step in the efforts by the teams behind Call of Duty to curb this cheating epidemic. Last month, the team shared an update as to how it was planning on combating these cheaters, including issuing bans seven days a week, tackling the commercial market of cheat providers and resellers, and stopping cheaters from moving to alternate accounts.

Raven has also continued to fix exploits discovered in Warzone, including a map exploit in Verdansk ’84, one that had a Mini Gun spawning from Supply Boxes, and one that allowed players to use the Gas Mask indefinitely.

For more on Call of Duty: Warzone, check out where it ranks on our list of the 10 best battle royales, why Warzone’s map will never return to its original form, and more about Season 3’s Verdansk ’84.

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The Season of the Splicer has officially arrived in Destiny 2 (although the game is down for emergency maintenance), bringing with it a new slate of Seasonal Challenges. First introduced in the game’s last season, these challenges replace weekly bounties for Bright Dust and other rewards, giving you objectives to meet throughout the season. What’s nice about Seasonal Challenges, however, is that they persist all the way through the Season of the Splicer. While new challenges are released each week, you’ll have until the end of the season to complete them all–and earn big rewards of Bright Dust and experience points for your trouble.

Here’s a rundown of how the Seasonal Challenge system works and what challenges you’ll face each week throughout the season’s run. The Season of the Splicer is set to end on August 24.

How Seasonal Challenges Work

For most of its run, Destiny 2’s various activities vendors–Zavala, Shaxx, and the Drifter–carried weekly bounties that incentivized playing all three activities each week. Those bounties handed out Bright Dust if you participated in them, but if you didn’t, you missed out on earning Destiny 2’s premium in-game currency. Seasonal Challenges fix that; they’re challenges that are dolled out weekly, but which you can complete any time during the season.

You’ll find Seasonal Challenges on the Quests tab in the Director. Each week, a new slate of challenges is released, so you can pop in and see what their requirements are as you go. Completing challenges is a great way to earn experience points and power up your Seasonal Artifact, allowing you to raise your character’s level over the gear Power cap for the season. Many of the challenges also reward you with consumables and Bright Dust, which you can then spend in the Eververse Store on various cosmetic items.

Week 1

• Hello, World
  • Speak to the Splicer Servitor and complete Path of the Splicer I, then kill powerful Cabal enemies anywhere in the solar system. You get bonus progress if you defeat Cabal in the seasonal Override activity.
• Maximum Override
  • Complete 5 Override missions and deposit Data Spikes as a team. Bonus progress is awarded for wearing Season of the Splicer armor during the activity.
• Ethereal Splicer
  • Gather Ether from playing various activities, including Public Events, Strikes, Gambit, and the Crucible.
• Sidearm Splicer
  • Defeat opponents in Override with a sidearm, with bonus progress for precision blows.
• Icebound
  • Complete 10 bounties, and finish patrols, Public Events, and Lost Sectors on Europa.
• Challenger’s Aspirations
  • Complete three weekly Playlist challenges for Crucible, Gambit, or Strikes.
• Close Calibration
  • Calibrate close-range weapons on Europa (SMGs, swords, shotguns, and sidearms). You’ll get bonus progress for rapidly defeating enemies.
• Drifter’s Chosen
  • Earn 250 points in Gambit matches by banking motes, defeating blockers, and defeating enemy Guardians.
• Sacred Scorcher
  • Defeat enemy Guardians in the Team Scorched mode in the Crucible. Bonus progress is rewarded for fully charged detonations, which you can get by holding down the fire button for your Scorch cannon until it charges all the way before releasing it to fire.
• Vex Deletion Protocol
  • Defeat 5 Vex bosses in Strikes.

Seasonal

• Master Of All
  • Complete 75 seasonal challenges.

Amazon’s New World is set to have paid items that are “exclusively cosmetic in nature” at launch, and quality of life items and a battle pass-style program may come later.

Studio director Rich Lawrence took to Twitter to respond to questions from the community regarding New World’s Alpha patch notes that discuss the in-game storefront. He reassured fans that this store is to “create an outlet for players who find enough value in store items that they are happy to purchase them.”

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He promises the plan isn’t, and never will be, to “create a feeling that store items are necessary to enjoy the game.” All players, according to Lawrence, will be able to enjoy the full game experience without ever having to purchase anything.

When New World launches in August 2021, all store items will be “exclusively cosmetic in nature.” The current storefront in Alpha is simply a test, and none of the selections or their indicated costs are final. Alpha testers are encouraged to provide feedback on the items in the store to help determine whether or not they are added to the live game.

In the future, the team is planning on testing “quality of life items for mechanics like rested XP and fast travel, both obtainable in-game and purchasable in the store.” The release of these items will be determined by “how players progress in the months after launch.”

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The goal with all these items is “that they not offer an advantage that imbalances the game.”

Lawrence also revealed that the team is contemplating, but has not finalized, a “battle pass” style program that would “combine store items on a periodic basis.” This feature would be tested ahead of time to “ensure it provides strong value without disrupting gameplay for those not participating.”

Even further beyond that would be the “possibility of optional expansions, which would have a separate cost.”

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We recently got hands-on with the Amrine Excavation, one of New World’s six dungeon expeditions, and in 2020 we got to check out its massive 50v50 PvP war battles.

For more on Amazon Game Studios and New World, check out the report that details struggles, “bro culture,” mismanagement, and cancelled projects at the studio.

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