City of Steam: Arkadia Launches its US and EU servers

In their official homepage, Mechanist Games announced that after a long wait, they will be releasing their US and EU servers on their famous game, City of Steam: Arkadia.

Here is the official announcement of the team behind City of Steam: Arkadia:

Hello all,
The long awaited European and US East Coast servers are almost ready! We are very pleased to announce the finalized dates of launching the new EU and East Coast servers for City of Steam: Arkadia, which is aimed for May 5th, 10AM CEST (EU) and May 4th, 9PM EDT (US East) , time to clear your weekend schedule!
A quick thanks to everyone who joined us since CoS re-launched back in December, 2013, your continuous support and feedback have fueled us with more energy to plough ahead, full steam! And our next stop is making the CoS community a more vibrant one.
While we’re preparing everything, to celebrate the operations expansion, we will partner with a group of profiled gaming sites to give away some free goodies. If you missed the chance to get yourself goggles, glasses and hats last time (re-release of CoS), don’t miss out on them again, this time the steampunk paraphernalia will appear in the new server pack again. As usual, all giveaway pages will be listed on our site once codes are up for all to get.

Oh yeah! If you are asking me of those free goodies, the developer is giving away a server starter package. The package includes:

• 5x Keys – To unlock chests in the dungeons;
• 10x Alloys – Alloys are consumed when smelting weapons;
• 50x Metals – This resource is required to upgrade equipment;
• 2x Level 1 Mod Box – This box contains a random level 1 Mod;
• 5x Mechanist Pyroflare – This canister fires a small burst of energy in the shape of a toiler’s face a few seconds after being lit;
• 10x Potent Health Quaff – It restores 5,000 Health over 10 seconds;
• 10x Potent Steam Quaff – It restores 100 Steam over 6 seconds;
• 1x Spiked Goggle – Cool cosmetic item;
• 1x Vented Goggle – Cool cosmetic item;
• 1x Drum Tophat – Cool cosmetic item;
• 1x Small Spiremark Bundle (500 Spiremarks) – Spiremarks can be used to expand backpack, purchase items, etc

Where to get this starter package? One partner of Mechanist Games in giving away this freebies is ragezone.com. If you want to get a server starter package, then I suggest that you click here.

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Play "Darkfall Unholy Wars" for Free Now!

To celebrate their one year anniversary, the team behind Darkfall Unholy Wars announced on their forums yesterday that players will now have the ability to play it for free.

The game is sold at 19.95 EURO so it makes it a good opportunity for new players to demo the game first before purchasing it.

The detailed announcement of the team concerning this matter can be seen below.

This week marks the one year anniversary for Darkfall Unholy Wars. To celebrate, we’ve organized an extended party weekend between May 1st and May 5th. During this time everyone’s invited to play Darkfall Unholy Wars for free and to participate in Anniversary activities – whether you’re a returning player or someone who has never tried it before. Details can be found below along with our Anniversary Video.
The Year in Review
It has been an exciting year, full of challenges to stay true to our vision for Darkfall Unholy Wars as a leading sandbox PvP MMOPRG featuring the most epic massive battles. After a few setbacks we’re back on track and committed on delivering features and content true to the vision:
Player and Clan Markets reinforced our player driven economy. The new Duel System was celebrated by the first of many Official Tournaments. The new Territory Control System has clans competing for political and strategic power.
Spanning 51 content patches over the past year we’ve given our players features, systems, and content to be excited about, including new roles and schools to experience, new dungeons to explore, new ships to maneuver, environmental enhancements to immerse themselves in the world and much more.
We are committed to following up with regular content patches featuring important additions, including the new Custom Role System, the Alignment System and Siege Engines.
Our latest patch
Keeping on course in our current patch we’ve implemented Armor Dyes and the new Mentor System:
The Mentor System is designed to help new players make it through the first few hours of Darkfall Unholy Wars by pairing them up with an experienced veteran. Mentors are rewarded through prowess points and the opportunity to recruit new talent ahead of the competition. The game benefits from the new blood.
Armor Dyes help create a distinguished look for your characters, and for clans to sport their own team colors in battles. There are 30 different colors to choose from. More will be added. For more details on armor dyes, click here.
We invite you to test the new content and to bring your friends using the three buddy keys that you are entitled to with your active subscription. Here are the details how.
Anniversary Celebration Details
In the next few days we have planned several fun activities for our community: Return or try out Darkfall Unholy Wars for free between May 1st and May 5th
To get you started, we will gift you with Double Prowess points during the whole event. Moreover, we have arranged a series of dynamic happenings that will start with a Treasure Hunt event and will continue with GM controlled monsters in various locations. And should you like to have a constant daily reminder of Darkfall Unholy Wars on your PC when you are not roaming the lands of Agon, we have prepared a bundle of artwork images that you can use as a desktop.
Last but not least, check out our anniversary video, produced in cooperation with our clans, which captures the essence of Darkfall Unholy Wars: massive battles and sieges between some of the best competitive gamers. The winning clan of the video contest will be announced on Friday, May 2. You can watch it here.

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Upcoming Zombie Survival MMO "Lifeless" Releases a New Trailer

Gamers all over the world feels that zombie survival MMO game is boring nowadays as their ain't any new thinga added to the zombie games. But don't compare "Lifeless" to those common zombie survival game. The developer quoted that they will be bringing a REAL zombie survival game.

For those who doesn't have a clue what "Lifeless is, it is a multiplayer FPS zombie survival game. In Lifeless, you have to do whatever’s necessary to survive in a vast and dangerous world, filled with challenging and intelligent zombies. Working with other players is a smart choice, though attacking other players has its place as well.

Lifeless offers an experience that no other zombie survival game has yet to offer. If you want to stay alive, you’ll need to think on your toes and make intelligent decisions; decisions which affect not just you, but everyone around you, players and NPCs.

If you want to see a glimpse of the game, you can check out the newly released trailer below. In the video, you will see a quick glimpses of quests, crafting, harvesting, achievements, the newly rebuild GUI and more. For more info, you can check out their official homepage here.

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Doom Warrior Enters Closed Beta Stage- Get Your Beta Key Now!

Doom Warrior, the game which offers a brutal arena combat MMORPG is now on its close beta stage and, the developer is giving away CLOSED BETA KEYS for their fans.

Just simply register for Closed Beta by going to their official website here and then clicking the "Sign Up for Beta" button.

Then, go to your email and wait for your Beta key and right after that, download their official game client here then register and account and input your closed beta key.

That's it! Pretty easy right?!

Now get going and register for Doom Warrior Closed Beta!

For more information about the game, you can check out the trailer video below later or you can go to their official homepage6 here to get the detailed information about the game.

Happy Gaming Web Junkies!

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HELLO HERO GUIDE: ITEM TYPES AND THEIR BENEFITS

Compiled List of Items types and benefits.

This page will show you the list of items and their benefits. Any constructive reply will be appreciated, as long as it's relevant. Feel free to point out missing or wrong information though.

ARMORS

Suits

Gives Health Points.

Useful for: Fragile Heroes, Healers, Non-provoke Tankers and as a part-time item.

Example: Amelia, Chichi, Fernando, Miya and etc.

​Gloves

Gives Dexerity. (More attacks and first attack)

Useful for: Heroes with high base Dexerity.

Example: Swordsmaidens, Marines, Veterans, Popstars, and etc.

​Helmets

Gives Focus. (Chance to attack weaker targets)

Useful for: Single-Target Dealers and Debuffers.

Example: Teddy Toby, Catty Ted, General Eric, Sad Tommy, and etc.

​Boots

Gives Evasion. (Chance to reduce damage by 60%)

Useful for: Provoke Tankers.

Example: Officer King, Assassin King, Miho, Wicked Jagar, and etc.

​Belts

Gives Critcal Strike. (Chance to deal double damage)

Useful for: Area-of-Effect Dealers and probably Single-Target Dealers.

Example: Isis, Apophis, Radon, Apollon, and etc.

Shields

Gives Counter. (Chance to fight back dealing attack damage without consuming a turn)

Useful for: Counter Heroes, High-damage Tankers, Ignore Damage Heroes and Ignore Debuff Heroes.

Example: Schaken, Asmodeus, Belphegor, Master Lee, Succubi, etc.

WEAPONS

Guns

Gives Focus. (Chance to attack weaker targets)

Useful for: Single-Target Dealers and Debuffers.

Example: Teddy Toby, Catty Ted, General Eric, Sad Tommy, etc.

​Bows

Gives Evasion. (Chance to reduce damage by 60%)

Useful for: Provoke Tankers.

Example: Officer King, Assassin King, Miho, Wicked Jagar, and etc.

​Shurikens, Whips, Sickles and Knuckles

Gives Counter. (Chance to fight back dealing attack damage without consuming a turn)

Useful for: Counter Heroes, High-damage Tankers, Ignore Damage Heroes and Ignore Debuff Heroes.

Example: Schaken, Asmodeus, Belphegor, Master Lee, Succubi, and etc.

Swords and Spears

Gives Dexerity. (More attacks and first attack)

Useful for: Heroes with high base Dexerity.

Example: Swordsmaidens, Marines, Veterans, Popstars, and etc.

Orbs, Canes, Scepters and Staffs

Gives Health Points.

Useful for: Fragile Heroes, Healers, Non-provoke Tankers and as a part-time item.

Example: Amelia, Chichi, Fernando, Miya and etc.

​Hammers, Axes and Maces

Gives Critcal Strike. (Chance to deal double damage)

Useful for: Area-of-Effect Dealers and probably Single-Target Dealers.

Example: Isis, Apophis, Radon, Apollon, and etc.

ACCESSORIES

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Pendants and Masks

Gives Dexerity. (More attacks and first attack)​

​Keys

Gives Health Points.

​Bracelets

Gives Counter. (Chance to fight back dealing attack damage without consuming a turn)

​Necklaces, Pocket Watches and Dolls

Gives Critical Strike. (Chance to deal double damage)

​Rings and Locker Keys

Gives Evasion. (Chance to reduce damage by 60%)

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NOTE: Accessories have their own slot​; to unlock that, you have to enhance your hero.

NOTE: You can actually put Accessories to the Armor slot but hear this out: NEVER DO IT. You will regret exchanging that useful armor for a minuscule stat.

ABOUT -DEXTERTITY

People may be confused since -Dex prolongs disables and lessens the attacks every wave, but it has some good drawbacks as well, particularly Immune heroes (Both damage and spell).

Officer King has the same dex as others, uses Provoke and after everyone blows up all their skills, normal hits proceed. Around 5-6 turns, King's 2 turns finish and his provoke expires, giving him the burden of having to cast it again.

Officer King has less dex than the others, uses Provoke and and it takes 10-11 turns for his Provoke to expire.

Heroes with Immune and Provoke (Officer King, Assassin King, Asmodeus, Lee, Robin, David) are the perfect examples who need this negative stat.

​ABOUT -HEALTH

Some people may throw it away since it makes heroes easier to kill and be focused by heroes, but it can also serve as a bait.

Asmodeus has (let's say) 200 health left but everyone else has 500+, Rina has just activated +Focus and what are you going to do? Activate the Immune shield and watch as how the enemy tries their hard just to kill Asmodeus.

Heroes with Immune Damage (Belphegor, Asmodeus, Lee, Kibi, Robin) are the must-havers of this negative stat. ​

​ABOUT -FOCUS

Who in their right minds would take this? AoE heroes of course!

Why worry about not being able to focus one enemy when you can focus all of them?

Heroes with AoE Damage (Sophia, Isis, Ted, Toby, Sally) may take this item as a part-timer.

ABOUT -CRIT AND -DAMAGE

Heroes whose job isn't to deal damage but any other important stuff (Healers and non-damage Tankers) could take this item.

COMMON HERO MISCONCEPTIONS (TO BE UPDATED)

BELPHEGOR, CRIT OR FOCUS?

A dilemma about Belphegor is that, "his AoE says Crit, but his Immune says Counter" so which will you take, you may take both, but their chances will be marginal/borderline unreliable.

His Burning Prison causes blind, and it prevents them from attacking Belphegor and reduce their total damage output, it makes Counter wasted.

But let's not forget about Skill Damage and Spell Immune, they can still attack Belphegor even after his AoE, so it really needs a consideration. You may think "Counter it is" because of that but Belphegor has naturally high Counter rate compared to other 6*.

Answer = CRIT/CRIT

​RINA, CRIT OR FOCUS?

She has the highes AD skill (Without Health Cost) that deals 240% damage; hurts, right? But wait, there's more: it can serve as a pseudo-debuff "Focus" (Known as target) to enemies, so Boldpus, prepare your anus.

Adding Crit/Crit to Rina can one-shot enemies but, unless you have another +Focus hero, it will lead you to ruin when Rina hits a Damage Immune enemy/Boldpus Tentacle.

Crit/Focus is an orthodox but it's only good in paper. It becomes downright unreliable and the low chances each are marginal/nearly useless.

Focus can help you pick on enemy with low HP and finish it, especially in dungeons. If the enemy has Purge (Lots of Scarecrows are in DG 72+) it can help you pick that Healer.

Answer = FOCUS/FOCUS

​BRIAN, DEX OR CRIT

Similar to Agnid, Brian has AoE skill and high innate Dex. Dex can help Brian in Bounty Hunt or if the enemy debuffed him but since he has already high dex, unless the enemy has higher dex, the additional dexterity would only be redundant to Brian (Unless you want him attacking 3 times in a row)

Brian's single target skill deals 2 per AD. If equipped with Crit, it can one-shot dem healers without the need of attacking 2-5 times and prolonging the battle.

SO FINISH THE ENEMY QUICKLY.

Answer = CRIT/CRIT

Credits: Special Thanks to Ardenaso for making this informative guide.

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