New characters from the steampunk world of the Machine Society are here!



Yoruichi is a melee strong attack character with the Hollow Killer ability. She comes with both the "Read Hollow Dodges" and "Poison Immunity" Innate Abilities built in at ★5. All of her attacks apart from her second strong attack have a chance to inflict Burn, which combines excellently her 20% Havoc, Frenzy, two-second Debilitator, and Guard Break skills. She is also a useful support character as her second strong attack is a Boost move that can be upgraded by unlocking her Enhancer skill.


Nemu is a ranged strong attack character with the Hollow Killer ability, and she comes with the "Freeze Immunity" Innate Ability built in at ★5. All of her attacks have a chance to inflict Paralysis. Combined with her Frenzy, Havoc, and five-second Debilitator skills, plus a charged third strong attack, this gives her the potential to deal significant damage against opponents who are unable to fight back. She can also unlock "Increased Status Ailment Chance Against Speed Attribute Hollows," which greatly increases her chance of inflicting Paralysis to Speed Attribute Hollows. Finally, she can also unlock the "(Team/Party) Technique Attribute Soul Reaper Strong Attack Damage +20%" skill that increases the strong attack damage for any Technique Attribute Soul Reapers in the same Team or Party as Nemu by 20%. (Please note that the "(Team/Party) Technique Attribute Soul Reaper Strong Attack Damage +20%" skill does not stack if you have more than one character with the same skill in a team or party.)

"Increased Status Ailment Chance Against Speed Attribute Hollows" and "(Team/Party) Technique Attribute Soul Reaper Strong Attack Damage +20%" will be the Nemu's Attainable Skills list at a later date.


Mashiro is a ranged strong attack character with the Arrancar Killer ability. All of her attacks have a chance to inflict Weaken, which combines excellently with her 20% Havoc, five-second Debilitator, and Reduced Strong Attack Cooldown -12% skills. She can also unlock Guard Break and the new Increased Mind Droplet Drop +17% skill, making her a very useful character for farming.

These new characters will be added to the Epic Raid Advantage character list of the Shrieker Awakened Epic Raid and as bonus characters for The Machine Society: The Key of Magic event.

The EXP and Coins in Kon's Bonanza will be doubled while The Machine Society Summons: Magic and Steam is available, so you will be able to easily power up any new characters you are lucky enough to pull.

Increased Mind Droplet Drop
This skill increases the number of Mind Droplets the character acquires during quests. This skill is triggered when the character is included in a team. The effect of this skill stacks if multiple characters with the same skill are included in a team in both single-player quests and Co-Op quests.

Please note that the effects of this skill do not pass on to the base character when a character with this skill is used as a link. The effects of this skill also do not trigger if a character with this skill is taken along on a quest as an ally.

● El Heraldo de México, an important Mexican national daily newspaper published in Mexico City, has featured an article about our game which you can also read online at this address.



● News about Mictlan has also been aired on Mexican national tv (watch the video here!)

● Moreover, the communications company Totalplay has recently transmitted a segment dedicated to our game, which you can watch here.
We are currently working along with them to prepare an in depth interview next week to reveal more of our future plans about Mictlan. Stay tuned!



● Finally, we want to thank our friends from Pólvora for the interview to Mictlan's creative director Guillermo Alarcon. You can read it here!


A big thank you to our beautiful Mexican community and our international team of talented Mexican and non-Mexican members for helping us grow and create the game of our dreams.

We hope Mictlan will be something more than just an amazing videogame.
We see this as an opportunity to value our culture, heritage and indigenous traditions.
We want Mictlan to be something that Mexican people are proud of!

Make sure to follow us on our social media channels for the latest news:

• Facebook
  
• Twitter
  
• Instagram
  
• Youtube
  
• Official website
  
• Register on Kickstarter

and don’t forget to add Mictlan: An Ancient Mythical Tale
to your Wishlist on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1411900/Mictlan_An_Ancient_Mythical_Tale/

Hello everyone and welcome to another weekly update!

This week we have some awesome community highlights. We have went through many awesome worlds and gadgets (including some games) that you have built inside of Neos, if you missed the stream, check out the recording and some extra highlights below!

Due to development focus shifting more to desktop things are a bit quieter in terms of major features. Among many smaller (but important) bugfixes, tweaks and additions, we have a greatly improved GLTF 2.0 support, which should now import properly with Blendshapes and their names. We have also done some smaller optimizations, including moving the mesh metadata generation to the asset variant system.



Many of you in the community might be noticing people running around with green nametags/question Marks above their head! These people are Mentors in our community, and if you have a question or need help while your new, contact one of these people and hopefully we can set you in the right direction!

Mentors are members of the community who don the role of the green to show or inform users old or new alike. It’s only been one week so far of on-boarding everyone and so far some of the reports have been coming in about some of their efforts! Thanks everyone! -Turk




The new designs for mentor, moderator and Neos Team badges

Over past weeks, we have also updated and expanded our usage Guidelines. If you haven't checked them out yet, please take a moment to review them here.


This Friday In our regular end of the month livestream we have taken a look at some of the community creations and worlds from January. We checked out some new gadgets and minigames, a fishing game world, beautiful hangout worlds, curving bullets shooter game and more! If you missed the stream you can watch the recording here:


Every felt thirsty in VR? Need a weapon to protect yourself? Grab it from a vending machine! GhostZ is well known for his various drinks, grenades, and his various modeling endeavors, but now we are at the point where he’s made them dispensable now! The only thing you need to know is to buy anything. it costs some KFC. So make sure you have some around to spend.



One of our Moderators H3B03 who’s been heavy at work in the discord answering users questions, assisting with LogiX, or keeping the peace has made a lovely recreation of a time machine from a certain movie! During his free time he’s been churning away at this bad boy make it look spiffy as can be.



Some of you might recognize this map! Yet, did little did we know Aegis added a secret “V A P O R W A V E” button to the map! It makes everything all trippy and wavey, as you hop on a bike and travel down the track. It’s an experience once should experience in VR.


https://twitter.com/Teh_Turk/status/1355991498664370183

Neos sometimes brings something special out of others, and this is one to note. Watching the video you can see that “Jaye” friend of SpexFox had some computer troubles recently. He sadly felt left out or unable to join in the fun and joy that is VR. Sooo, one of our newer users in the community KungFuMonkey helped out in this special moment! Thanks guys! You make Neos awesome :)



Assimp is an open source library capable of reading over 40 different 3D model files and the backbone of Neos' 3D model import support. Due to regressions causing some FBX animations to import incorrectly we have avoided upgrading the library to latest version for at least half a year, as it was in a good enough state.

With recent surge in interest in the GLTF 2.0 format and some issues with its import (primarily blendshapes either not importing at all or missing names) we were prompted to look at it again in detail and managed to find a cause in the library itself for the FBX animation import regression and fix it.

Thanks to this, we were able to upgrade to the latest version straight from the source, featuring over a 1000 commits to the library by its maintainers and contributors. This has significantly improved GLTF 2.0 support, making blendshapes import properly with full names, making it much easier to use this modern format in Neos.

There are many more improvements as well for other formats, including bugfixes for certain model files failing to import, or even outright crashing whole Neos. Thanks to the fix, we can keep updating the library from source more frequently now, bringing its latest improvements and additions to Neos.

Another 3D model related change involves Neos' own mesh asset format. Whenever meshes are loaded in Neos, various metadata is computed on the background threads as the model loads, particularly bounding box and bone metadata.

To conserve some CPU resources and speed up the upload process, we have moved this system to Neos' powerful asset variant systems. Thanks to this, the metadata is automatically fetched from cloud when available or computed locally if not and always cached. This way the overall CPU and memory load when loading meshes is decreased, freeing up resources for other tasks.

We plan to build more on top of this functionality in the future as well, computing different variants of the meshes - decimated versions for better performance (and LODs), pre-generated mesh collider data and more.

While the upcoming desktop mode is still heavily in design phase, the latest builds already have parts of it implemented. We have laid out the basic skeletons of some of the core systems, particularly for positioning user's head and hands and providing first and third person rendering and interactions.

The systems are very barebones as of now, but technically already allow a switch from VR to desktop rendering with mouse look and back. They're not in a state where they would be usable in practice, but they lay an important foundation for what's the come.



As we'll start "fattening" those mechanisms up and adding more, the desktop mode will become more usable over time. Once we have basic interactions implemented, we can start focusing on various stretch goals, like ability to pin inspectors and other windows to the UI and customize the layout.

An Input Binding system is also becoming big part of this work, as it'll help to abstract and simplify a lot of the systems, without having to hard-code a lot of the behavior into individual interaction systems.

If you'd like to keep with the latest developments, check out the #devlog channel on our official Discord! You can also check the latest design notes here:


Latest desktop mode design notes (click to enlarge)

Anyway that's all for this week! We can't wait to see you at the next one. Thank you for reading and thank you for supporting Neos! We've been hitting record numbers of users over past week and that's in big thanks to your passion and creativity that makes this platform such a fun place for many people to enjoy and make their home.


Also a mango

To kick off the new lunar year, World of Tanks Blitz will celebrate Lichun—the beginning of spring. Our battlefields will prove fruitful by providing resources, Collector vehicles, camos, and other rewards to hard-working and fearless commanders.

To participate in the event, you need a Tier III vehicle or higher.
Operation Lichun has two reward progressions, each consisting of 80 levels. The upper (silver) progression is available to regular Pass owners. In other words, all players. The lower (gold) progression is only available to Premium Pass holders. Increase the Level of your Pass to get rewards. To do so, complete missions and earn Coins: 10 Coins = 1 Level.

Although your Level increases automatically, you will need to collect your rewards manually. At the beginning of the Operation, 4 levels will be unlocked.

You can earn up to 30 Coins per day. Premium Pass owners enjoy access to an additional mission that provides an extra 10 Coins. With Premium Pass, you can earn 40 Coins a day and unlock 4 levels with rewards. Also, Premium Pass lets you instantly increase your Level using gold.

• CIS: from February 1, 8:00 (MSK) to February 28, 8:00 (MSK)
  
• Europe: from February 1, 13:00 (CET) to February 28, 13:00 (CET)
  
• North America: from February 1, 5:00 (PT) / 8:00 (ET) to February 28, 5:00 (PT) / 8:00 (ET)
  
• Asia: from February 1, 14:00 (UTC+8) to February 28, 14:00 (UTC+8)

There will be huge amounts of resources, themed camos and avatars, a profile background, certificates for XP bonuses for victories, and Collector tanks!
With Premium Pass, the T-28 Tier IV medium tank awaits you at Level 1. The accurate, rapid-firing gun, decent damage, and fast turret make it an ideal support vehicle.



And at Level 35, the Ox tank will be added to your Garage. Its sloped armor can withstand the fiercest moments of intense battles, while the good dynamics and nice maximum speed will carry you to victory, no matter the obstacle. The large pointed horns and massive ring will strike terror in your foes! That is the
Ox Tier VI medium tank.



More Details in the Game!

Good day, everyone.

This is a very short game, but I am very honored that so many people have played it.
Thank you so much!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jennie González and 西寧王澤口 for their help in translating this patch.
Thank you so much!


+ Fixed a bug where the fullscreen flag was not being saved.
+ Fixed typos in some text.
+ Fixed a bug where sound mute information set during the game was not reflected in the settings panel.
+ Change the values required for achievements..
　　Title: "Thanks for playing!"
　　　　Before: 60 minutes
　　　　After: 45 minutes

+ Added version notation to the title screen.
+ Added Nayu's personal clothes.
+ Added "Spanish (Spain)" as a language.
　　Translated by Jennie González (@zonzira)
+ Added "Chinese (Simplified)" as a language.
　　Translated by 西寧王澤口


Oh by the way, I'm making an offer to have Nayu and her friends perform in my next game...

Some small bug fixes

Bugfixes:
- open fields are no longer clickable
- quests should now update as usual
- when fast forwarding a replay, the last turn is now played correctly
- players should now switch to offline state as soon as they exit the game
- ai difficulty is now also shown in the replays

Commanders!

This month, we’re launching another series of special Loot Crates in MY.GAMES Market that offer you a chance to win some of the most coveted vehicles in the game.



These crates are:

• Asian-themed (with Type 99A2-140 and Battle Path access)
• Soviet-themed (with Object 490 and Battle Path access)
• NATO-themed (with Altay and Battle Path access)

The mechanics are very simple. Each crate allows you to win one of the listed items (or its value in Gold if you have it already). To learn more about what's in a chest simply click on it, this will launch a small pop up window to show you what’s inside. You will find everything from in-game currency packs to consumables and exclusive skins that can only be found in these chests!

Please note:

After opening the crate, you will immediately roll on one of the items that are inside this Loot Crate and will see what you receive before you have to actually pay anything. No more random chances – you immediately see what you get and what you don’t. You can then opt to purchase the item you rolled on for the Loot Crate’s price. Until you do so, you will be unable to buy any other Loot Crate of the same type.

You may only purchase 30 crates of each kind per day.



We hope that you will enjoy the offer and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!

We've soared!
We've triumphed!
We've hatched some eggs!
Now our dragons must rest.

Thank you to everyone who took to the skies in the arena this weekend!

It was amazing to see you all enjoying the game!

We'll see you all again in the next beta, stay tuned.

Hello everyone, today we a happy announce that Tradings Cards available in our game.
In honor of this we started discount -50%.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1101260/FURRY_GIRL_PUZZLE/?curator_clanid=33022637

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Emoticons


Backgrounds



and more +3

Trading Cards