Eliot Lefebvre

Connecticut

Senior Reporter at Massively Overpowered

A bleeding heart in a world full of lemon juice. Black lives matter. Writing stuff about video games, especially online ones. All stated opinions are my own.

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World of Warcraft previews its next major update, The Ghosts of K’aresh

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

With World of Warcraft having just deployed its most recent update, you might assume that the game is going to kick back and let everyone enjoy the patch for a bit… but no. It’s time to look forward to the next major update, The Ghosts of K’aresh, with a whole video as well as a news article detailing what’s coming in this continuation of The War Within’s campaign.
Marvel Rivals’ latest event patch adds bubblegum Venom and fixes hero abilities

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

The latest patch for Marvel Rivals contains what is either the best possible pitch for buying premium access to an event or the most underhanded possible move for doing so because you need premium access to get Venom’s Bubble Pop costume. Everyone can earn the Human Torch’s Future Foundation costume for free, but don’t you want Venom to be dressed up in a pink bubblegum suit? Doesn’t that immediately sound like the best thing? It’s insidious.
Throne and Liberty promises more performance improvements and more PvP expansion

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

The latest installment of Tico Talks for Throne and Liberty (in which Tico does, in fact, talk) is about a hodgepodge of topics, as always, and one of those topics is performance. And it’s not just whistling Dixie about improvements, either, as the game will be getting a patch on June 26th improving performance throughout the game on multiple different hardware setups.
Perfect Ten: 10 awesome reasons to go back to older MMORPGs

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

Because this site is staffed by us Olds, we tend to remember the history of this ridiculous genre pretty well. This is materially helped by the fact that we were there for pretty much all of it. I don’t need to go searching to see what people thought about Final Fantasy XI when it launched in the US; I can look back on being there on launch day and remembering people complaining about slow installations or server issues or what do you mean I have to camp in the freakin’ Dunes for days?
Bungie delays Marathon from its original September 23 release date

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

September 23rd might seem like it’s a long way away, but it gets closer one day at a time, and it was getting closer than the developers at Bungie would have liked. So it turns out that Marathon, the PvPvE extraction shooter that is supposedly based on the original FPS trilogy made by Bungie long ago, is being delayed from its September 23rd launch date to an unspecified time in the future.
SMITE 2’s latest patch brings Ganesha to the game’s battlefield to bring good fortune to allies

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

If you think that every deity in SMITE 2 is all about claiming credit, you haven’t seen what the newest deity Ganesha is all about. He’s a great dude. For example, his passive ability gives credits for kills to other nearby deities, and he just gets some extra gold as compensation. He also curses his opponents while buffing his allies’ damage, inflicts silence while buffing protection, and his ultimate imprisons enemies in a set of pillars to make them easier for fellow deities to take them out.
Star Wars The Old Republic fixes numerous dynamic encounter issues with its latest patch

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

Somehow, Star Wars The Old Republic has gotten another patch. All right, that is perhaps not actually a surprise; the game’s Dynamic Encounters are still encountering some issues here and there, and the latest patch is dedicated to fixing them. Most notably, several different boss enemies in Dynamic Encounters across multiple planets are getting the correct immunity buffs, along with numerous Encounters in various locales getting fixed progression, voice lines, or overall mechanics.
World of Warcraft’s anniversary realms are bringing Phase 5 to the servers on July 10

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

Has it really been so long since you got to gather Runecloth in the Plaguelands to turn into cities for reputation and progress toward unlocking the gates of Ahn’qiraj in World of Warcraft? No. No, it has not. It hasn’t been long at all, since WoW Classic did not exactly last bring players to that forgotten shore all that long ago. But the game’s anniversary servers are hitting that same event once more on July 10th, so you’d better get those Runecloth-gathering hands ready.
Wisdom of Nym: What if Final Fantasy XIV stops adding new jobs?

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

One of the constants that underpins the speculation that lots of players, including me, have about Final Fantasy XIV’s future expansions – beyond the assumption that there will be further expansions (which seems like a safe assumption) – is that said expansions will have new jobs in them. Today, I want to examine why that might not happen, ranging from the arguments for not adding new jobs to what advantages it would offer to the potential negative consequences.
Lionhearts is an upcoming strategy MMO that spun out of a popular Roblox game

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

Over six million people playing Roblox decided to take on the Lionhearts game within the title as a big large-scale strategy game set against the background of the Crusades. That was enough for developer Credenzio Studios to decide that they could take this show on the road and build a version of Lionhearts that exists as its own thing with graphics powered by Unreal 5 in a persistent strategy world mirroring Europe during the Crusades.