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I did expect the new ones to be OP, as they need to be so they are exciting to pick, but it didn't surprise me how invulnerable they are. Even Macca shared a clip of Susan's ultimate move and you can stay alive through virtually anything. I'm not noticing much difference to Mantis which is a good thing, I still think she is a very good pick as one healer. Starting to see not many Hulks already but Dr. Strange still is in there even with a small nerf to his ranged attack. Cloak and Dagger's ultimate could do with another buff on top of the small change made as its not overly great. Really only used to keep herself alive I find. They've updated Jeff nicely. His ultimate can wipe a team in a moment but the signs are clearer now and its slightly smaller so I'm pretty happy about that. We'll see if we get a mid-season patch. Possibly not but if Mr Fantastic takes bullets for days, I may even start giving him a go just to act as an annoyance to the opposition.

Here's the first changes for all the heroes: NERFS Doctor Strange (highest pick rate in the game) – Maelstrom of Madness and Gamma Maelstrom now have damage falloff starting at 5 meters and reduced to 70% at 8 meters. Hulk – Indestructible Guard gamma shield down from 250 to 200. Black Panther – Reduced health after refreshing Vibranium Marks from 40 to 30, and the upper limit from 120 to 75. Hawkeye – Reduced the spread angle between every two Blast Arrows, Reduced triggering distance of Archer’s Focus passive from 60 meters to 40 meters, reduced max addition damage from 80 to 70. Hela – Base health down from 275 to 250. Psylocke – Dance of the Butterfly ultimate will check for enemy barriers. Luna Snow – Increased interval for switching between healing and damage in Fate of Both Worlds from 0.1 seconds to 0.5 seconds. Mantis – Reduced Nature’s Favor passive movement boost from 2.5m/s to 1.5m/s. BUFFS Captain America – Shield restoration delay down from 3 seconds to 2 seconds, Liberty Rush cooldown down from 12 seconds to 10 seconds, base health increase from 650 to 675. Reduced energy cost for Freedom Charge ultimate from 3400 to 3100, health per second down from 110 to 100. Thor – Base health up from 500 to 525, added immunity to control effects during God of Thunder ultimate. Venom – Symbiotic Resilience bonus health ratio per lost health point up from 1 to 1.2, increased the base damage of Feast of the Abyss ultimate from 40 to 50. Black Widow – Increased the range of Edge Dancer from 3 meters to 5 meters, Reduced time for Fleet Foot to recover from 0 stamina from 12 seconds to 4 seconds, reduced the time for Electro-Plasma Explosion ultimate to reach max power from 1 seconds to 0.6 seconds. Magik – Increased Umbral Incursion damage while in Darkchild from 115 to 135 Moon Knight – Hand of Khonshu ultimate number of talons increased from 10 to 14, increased explosion radius of each talon from 4 meters to 5 meters. Namor – Adjusted throwing feel of Monster Spawn and Frozen Spawn to make them more accurate. The Punisher - Reduced the spread of Deliverance and Adjudication which will result in more damage. Scarlet Witch – Increased Chaos Control’s damage from 50/s to 60/s, Reduced the percentage of damage per second from 5% to 3%, increased Chthonian Burst’s projectile damage from 30 to 35. Storm – Increased Wind Blade projectile speed from 100m/s to 150m/s and left-click damage from 50 to 55, increased Bolt Rush damage from 70 to 80. After Omega Hurricane ultimate, bonus health increased to 450 from 350. After ultimate, health will diminish at 100 per second instead of instantly. Cloak and Dagger – Reduced Dagger Storm cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds, increased number of Eternal Bond ultimate dashes from 3 to 4. Rocket Raccoon – Increased healing of Repair Mode from 60/s to 70s. MIX OF NERFS AND BUFFS Winter Solider – Increased bonus health by Bionic Hook and Tainted Voltage from 30 to 40, increased Roterstern’s projectile damage from 70 to 75, reduced area damage from 70 to 65 and reduce damage decay from 65% at 40 meters to 650%, increased base health from 250 to 275. Wolverine – Increased base health from 300 to 350, reduced damage reduction ratio for Undying Animal from 50% to 40%. Jeff the Land Shark – It’s Jeff! Ultimate now a 10m radius, 5m high cylindrical spell field from 10m sphere, matches up with warning marker better. Increased Joyful Splash healing from 140/s to 150/s. What do we think about the first changes?

Sometimes I don't mind a game that isn't too heavy on interaction and more about the story. Some of the best games in the past aren't because of their controls or gameplay but more about how they've hooked people into the story. Hopefully there are still some good intuitive gameplay bits though, as one would hope having the chance to be Indy in a game should be pretty cool! I'm still going to hold out for a physical PS5 version for as long as I can.

Top 4 in the World automatically qualify. The other 4 are purely down to who the PDC thinks will do well (basically bring the crowds in and get the best atmosphere).

A few surprises in the Premier League this year. I don't know why they don't do two leagues system so they could have 16 players involved. The top 4 automatically qualify but as the other 4 spots are purely down to the PDC to decide, it feels a little off there isn't any other criteria to make it. Michael Smith had an awful year but it does seem strange not to see him in this. No Scottish player either for the first time in about 10 years with no Gary Anderson or Peter Wright.

He is ridiculous and fantastic for the sport and in general how he handles himself too. He tries things that usually used to be for exhibitions but it works on this stage because its how he's been brought up and not meaning it to be from a cocky point of view. Shame Bunting could only reach Semis due to the draw. For me he was the star shining just below Littler for this year's Worlds.

Littler has been made to work really hard this year, so much pressure on the lad and he's still fighting through which is great to see. Averaged 103 last night in his 4-3 over Joyce. Outside of Littler I think many would love to see Stephen Bunting to win it. He's become a fantastic at socials and has a naive positive innocence to him that is brilliant. Imagine the commentator saying 'Let's go Bunting Mental!' as he hits the winning darts. Would be great to see. He demolished his Last 16 opponent last night. Peter Wright did fantastic to beat reigning champ Humphries but I can't see him getting past Bunting tomorrow. Quarter Finals - Wednesday January 1 Afternoon Session (12.30pm) Chris Dobey (15) vs Gerwyn Price (10) Michael van Gerwen (3) vs Callan Rydz Evening Session (7pm) Peter Wright (17) vs Stephen Bunting (8) Luke Littler (4) vs Nathan Aspinall (12)

And for us all mate. Plus would reduce storage space dramatically! Quite a lot to do back end before we get it though and a few decisions to make on where we store FG in teh interwebz too.... Amen to that ❤️ It will cost us at some point though and I hope people want it enough to be here forever ❤️🖤

Current software restraints from webp being used unfortunately. However, there is a huge update to the software at Invision coming very soon and that will allow webp I believe - we will need to do some significant lift and shifting for that once it is ready.

From th emakers of It Takes Two, they're bringing another good looking co-op game to the market and once again only one person has to buy a copy for you to play it. Looks pretty cool and given It Takes Two got so many awards, this type of idea should really do well. Out 6th March 2025

Hard to say really what deals I've had. I'm sure many people that bought a ton of games when they were younger like me to play from Gamestation, alot were anywhere between £1 and £5 so loads have gone up in value. Luckily for me I bought them to play so haven't looked much into what has jumped up the most as I can't remember all the prices! I'd probably say the best deal I did was buy the Neo Geo CD about 16 years ago. I bought one, with most of the original box and 10 games for around £140 on eBay. The whole collection has gone across the board and are some of my most expensive games I own. I actually love the console. The controllers are fantastically made, like SNES but better. Super Sidekicks 2 is awesome and I've loved playing through it to win the World Cup. Lots of fighting games I have. I'll set it up next time people visit mine.

This sounds like you went vegetarian for a moment! 🤣 And I am crap with vegetables just as I am with digital sales! 😅

CDs are coming back out for me. The ease of Spotify and streaming music is great for certain scenarios but if I'm chilling at home in the shed, then a CD in the background is a far better option as its a choice to do something you want to do specifically rather than get a curated playlist continually retune your needs. ooo I'd love to see tapes make a comeback! Probably not worth the hassle unfortunately but would be ace to play on the odd occasion. As we love games, I'll obviously say all my old consoles and handheld devices are a great alternative for an evening of gaming. Makes you appreciate the gaming industry, especially when lately it feels like new good games are a thing of the past. Actually, to finish I'd also say one more thing...I got Hayley a Tamogochi for Christmas! 🤣 They were ace back in the day, just to pass abit of time. These days we use continuous never ending free games on our phone but this feels like a cool way to get off those things to help you back into the real world and not lose too much time into the those awful mobile games.

I really enjoyed the write ups above both @RenFengge and @Luseth. I think if I ever was a lover of BioWare or even played the Dragon Age games I would've looked at this for Christmas but I've never tried any of them. I think you'll find many haven't or at least for many years and the story is probably low on their wishlist for a Dragon Age game. It would be high for me, if I did play them so can definitely understand the scoring.

As we get older, we don't want to change. Easy to get stuck in a rut and not move with the times. Doesn't mean we should like what people do new, but games have to evolve and we must adapt sometimes to how new games move. As we haven't got the reflexes or the time we used to have (if you're moving 30+ and above here), then its pretty easy to see why the new games don't feel great. Quick movement on BO6 and smaller maps which means more gunfights. I still think its great we wreck as a team because thats they way to combat better individual players. I'll go on the old ones for Private games for good laughs with each other but they won't offer much more other than sweats that don't want to move on so therefore older games get even harder. My 2p.

Great trailer, and rightly deserves some praise. Hopefully they'll deliver. I'm sure they will as they won't deviate too far away from a game that is wildly received as one of the best of all time. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Oh no! It got great reviews online to the point that people were saying BBC saved Christmas! lol

I need to dig out the trilogy version. GTA6 will probably delayed again anyway.

@MrBiron and @techno played it quite abit i'm sure and did enjoy it so there must have been a decent playerbase out there. Got to be more than some of these new F2P games you see come out and are truly quite poor by design.