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Rocket League have overhauled their club feature for the first time since launch and its well overdue I reckon. Some nice, cool additions to the area, including badges to obtain as a club now - all obtained just by playing in your club name with teammates. A brand new stadium with new arena announcements was a nice surprise and well received. Key Club Updates: Club Career Stats will keep track of Club statistics earned over the course of the Club’s lifetime. Club Seasonal milestones will be tracked in the form of Club Medals, a new concept in Rocket League. Clubs accumulate Medals by making progress in three main categories: Goals, Saves, and Assists. Each one of these categories includes three Medal milestones in order of accomplishment: Prospect, Signature, and Premier. Reaching a milestone rewards a Club the associated Medal. This Medal is displayed in the Club profile, viewable in the Club menu and within Club matches (against any opponent, not just other Clubs). Medals will be shown publicly in the intro sequence of matches where all members of at least one team are in the same Club (these are called “Club matches”). If a Club receives the highest-tier Medal (Premier Medal) in all three stat categories, their Club profile icon will have a special look visible in intro sequences and the Club menu. While public Medals help Clubs show off their progress and prestige, they might deter Clubs who enjoy playing more non-competitively. Club Owners and Managers will be able to toggle public Medals on or off within the Club Customization menu, to prevent their Medals from being shown in Club match intro sequences. By default, Club Medals will be shown in the Club match intro sequence. Club Medals will always be viewable in the Club menu, regardless of toggle status. General Club Stats and Milestone Rules: Club milestones will reset every Season. This gives Clubs opportunities to improve Season over Season, as well as earn new Club Titles every Season. Once a Club earns a Medal, Club members will receive a notification that the Medal has been earned. The Medal will immediately be shown on the Club profile. Additionally, members will receive a notification when the Club earns a Club Title. Stats towards Medal milestones are only recorded during matches with more than one player on each team, including Club matches. There are three earnable Club Titles based on Club Medal progression. New Titles are available per Season, and linked to the tier of the Medal (Prospect, Signature, Premier). Link to full Patch Notes: Just a moment... WWW.ROCKETLEAGUE.COM What do you think? Personally, it feels a good Quality of Life update to prompt you to play more games with friends. Resets every season, so depends on how hard these medals are to collect.

it’d be so cool if Arkane or Eidos picked it up and made it their own...

I still can't believe that was Danny Dyer!

The medals are very hard to collect if you’re a casual gamer/don’t have a large Club. My brother and I have been playing a lot lately and are still yet to get any. We did however win a 2s tournament which I thought would give us something towards the club but it did not.

That might be the one

Are there any games where you can just drive around and not have to worry about missions, or police, or any thing else. Just explore cities and countrysides? Every now and again I play Microsoft Flight Sim, and just being able to explore is pretty cool. I was hoping there was something like that but driving.

Mafia 2 is actually a really good shout. Driving around, listening to the radio, and just soaking up the atmosphere is my favourite part of the Mafia series...and 2 does it best imo

Love it. One on the watch list for me soon then. I'd mainly be buying it for the PvE operations but I'm sure taking a look at PvP is worth a few tries at the very least.

@Sennex I appreciate Gran Turismo 7 isn't really an open world racing game - however, it can be quite therapeutic to drive around a few different tracks just in time trial mode (so essentially free play) and mastering the turns, braking points, etc. Elsewhere, you could arguably try Mafia 2? As plenty of time to do open world stuff. Just stick the limiter on and play in easy mode and cops aren't a concern.

Yeah...reminds of how clunky Project Zero came out as a release game on the 360 I believe and the horrible controls ruined it.

This poor guy got tortured but whoever did the Stan edit is legandary

You nailed it. The Phil Spencer honeymoon is long over. The ‘gamer-first’ image doesn’t hold up anymore when layoffs and closures follow every ‘success.

I actually think he's worse than Don Mattrick now - he only butchered one console, but Spencer is literally playing Russian roulette with every decision they make and as you say, shamefully bragging about the success in literally the next paragraph after statementing a commercial travesty. Phil was popular because he was seen as more of a gamer than a corporate, but now he's immensely unpopular and can't even be seen as a scapegoat because it's all his doing. Huge acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision that wont even pay themselves off in my lifetime and having to penny-pinch against the very developers they proport to support to keep game pass relevant is just a total shit show to behold. The problem is they want desperately one console generation where they get ahead of Sony and they just can't come close and now everyone, from developers to the consumers is suffering. Sony ain't doing much better as they will likely burn a billion on dead live service projects in a decade at the expense of many exclusives but Microsoft are the ones that are gutting their gaming division to save money through bad choices they have made. How they fuck up so hard after the 360 I will never know.

Another video game crash can't come soon enough IMO. These big publishers seem to think that gamers have an unlimited amount of money so they promise shareholders that profits will climb every year. Which obviously isn't possible as there are only a limited amount of players and money. This means that when profits don't go up they sack staff to save money. It's not even unbelievable that MS can sack staff and then Phil Spencer bangs on about how great they're doing as it's just the norm now. It's very believable that they did it.

Microsoft eh, raking in the profits and lying through their teeth. Closing the ESO studio, which had made them £2 billion is quite tge statement 👏

These types of articles are designed to stoke or play up to people's fears or prejudice and I suppose some amongst us are more easily manipulated than others 🤪

I’m not saying sales haven’t stopped. I’m saying it’s clickbait as the headline is Jag sales decline after woke ad then article goes on to explain the decline is a trend long before the ‘woke’ advert, dealers not having stock to sell and no new models to drive interest (though there are other factors too). If ‘clickbait’ offends, how about sensationalist then? Why is it a surprise that a company saying we’re going to stop selling these products then has poor sales of said product? Where’s a shocked pikachu when you need one. There’s something funny about your anecdotal evidence for the numbers of cars when I know precisely how many they are.

Yes, definitely the woke advert. Couldn’t possibly be they stopped building Jag’s 6 months ago so don’t have the product to sell. But I guess that doesn’t fit the anti-woke agenda or make clickbait headlines.

It's amazing how these companies who continue to make massive profits manage to persuade people that this behaviour is normal.

I loaded a save where I still needed to investigate a few areas off "map". I am sitting there and just letting my population build. I am back up to 7 teams now, but I want 10 because of the swarms and animal life. Once I have that, and I have a few more walls and towers built, I will start messing with the objectives. Currently I have 2 rings of towers and walls, with 106 guards, but I want at least double that. I also need more cars! Everything is researched that I can possible research, except a cure, and the Turning prevention.

28 years later. Went in with high hopes as loved the previous two first half pretty solid second half utter dog shit plus couldn't see the point of the Jimmy Saville wanna be at the end.

I think Asseto Corsa has some really good free roaming mods but it requires some investment, installing the mods etc... other suggestions: -Burnout paradise -TDU3 Solar Crown (mixed reviews) -Beam.ng drive (mods free roam?)

Forza Horizon 4 or 5 You can do stuff if you choose, missions, challenges etc but you can also just cruise around. Both are great games 🙂 4 is set in the UK and 5 is Mexico. Think they're on PS5 now as of quite recently

Me too :/. I saw this dino crisis like but...it didn't attract me at the moment

Releasing for consoles in August.

The game is due to officially launch later this year. It's pretty much all I'm playing at the moment after a break to play Stalker 2 and Oblivion. Latest patch has more improvements including a much needed rework of the audio.

I picked this up last weekend, and WOW is it good. The storytelling is actually really solid, and seriously creative. I need to do a deep dive on Creole mythology and cryptids. I don't want to give anything away, so this review will be short. The color and animation in the game turned me off at first, but it soon grew on me, the controls are really tight, but tend to loosen the faster you move. Which is a good thing as there are a lot of wall running sections, and running away from larger enemies and spirits. The enemies are creative but repetitive. Its okay for the most part because it makes sense that they would be. The main story, and the side stories were great, and really sad in most parts, which is also the point. All that said, the game was short, it took me about 10 hours to beat. That being said I think the $30 - $40 price tag works well for it. If they tried to sell it for $60+ it wouldn't be worth it at all. Or just get gamepass and play it for free

Premier League Winner, Nations League Champion, got married 5 days ago and now this. Absolute tragedy.