The Secret World has converted not only to a free-to-play model, but into a different game focusing on ease of access and a smaller scale more "co-op than MMO" feel.
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Free to Play Cast: Secret World Legends Embargo Drop, Gigantic, and PSO2! Ep 225
On this week's show the embargo on Secret World Legends falls and we all DIVE in to give you our opinions on everything but we still manage to BARELY squeak in some time to talk Gigantic and Phantasy Star Online 2! All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
01:58 SWL Embargo Drop
53:16 Gigantic
57:45 Phantasy Star Online 2 First Look Review
59:39 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
1:08:49 Questions and Answers of the Week
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Now for the question of the week. Well I would make a Moba with cars like Twisted Metal type of cars if you ever played Twisted Metal you know the craziness of it. I would make it were you had to defend 3 spots on the map and each spot has a building with people in it throwing bombs and stuff at your vehicles if you did not claim the spot and the first team to 500 points wins or something like that. There is so much you could do with it that it would be amazing. Could even do a 3 lane thing with the cars were you have both teams trying to take the others base over and the base has turrets around it defending it. I mean it would be so epic to see cars with lasers, missiles, razor blade disc, flamethrowers, acid guns, poison bombs, and etc. You can even make it a 3rd person view like Smite has but would super better with cars, trucks, semis, tanks, buggies, ice cream trucks, and etc. There would be so many things you could do to make a sick moba with these and boy do I have a lot more ideals for this moba :).
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A-bomb to people who don't get team play but play team based games. Guys, you can see what your teammates are doing, don't dash out of my aoe heal! And for the love of pancakes, why are you grabbing a heal at full heal when I'm down to thirty?! *sigh* C'est la vie.
Like in most case i was really fine with just going all in on my fist weapon. Decent damage and heals, i had no need for blood magic.
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