With today's patch, you will be able to sort your inventory. Just click and hold the inventory icon on your character screen. Cool, isn't it? In addition, the zombie mode has gotten some enhancements. You will now try to use magic spells to light your surroundings or open locked chests - if you don't have a torch/lamp/key in your inventory. And there's another QoL enhancement: a small check is now shown on the level number in the upper right if you've already completed the level before.
Ghostly greetings to all! Shadow of the Mad King begins today, and with it three whole fang-tastic weeks of trick-or-treating. New to Guild Wars 2? Forgotten how to navigate the labyrinth? We've got your spine...err...back! The guide below has everything you need to know.
Where to Go
First, check your in-game mail for a letter from Magister Tassi containing an Invitation to the Mad Realm. Use this item to travel back and forth between Tyria and the Mad King's Labyrinth. Lion's Arch is Tyria's Halloween celebration headquarters. Asura gate portals to Lion's Arch are available in major cities and can be used by any player who has purchased a Guild Wars 2 expansion or is at least level 35.
Players without access to Lion's Arch can travel to the Mad Realm from the Village of Shaemoor in Queensdale, the Village of Smokestead in the Plains of Ashford, Snowlord's Gate in the Wayfarer Foothills, the Village of Astorea in Caledon Forest, and Soren Draa in Metrica Province. These locations are outside each starting city's main gate. Run to the candy corn icon on your map and speak to a Lunatic Boatmaster guarding a haunted door, and they'll whisk you away to your choice of eerie activities.
Haunted doors will also appear in Kessex Hills and Gendarran Fields throughout the event. Interact with the doors to trick-or-treat!
What to Do
During Halloween, King Oswald Thorn's capricious spirit can manifest in Tyria—and Tyria's citizens can cross into Thorn's Mad Realm.
Lion's Arch
The city of Lion's Arch is transformed with scary decorations and a gloomy autumn glow! Every two hours, Mad King Thorn will gather his "subjects" (anyone within shouting distance) to play a game. Perform the emotes he commands you to—but only if he calls out, "Your Mad King says." If you do well, you'll receive keys to unlock the Mad King's Chest.
The Grand Piazza also features seasonal vendors and doors to Shadow of the Mad King activities.
The Mad Realm
Mad King's Labyrinth
Battle hordes of Halloween creatures, race your mounts, and trick-or-treat at haunted doors through the twists and turns of a macabre maze. It's a great way to gain experience for your characters and Trick-or-Treat Bags full of goodies, especially if you team up with other players to explore. Stay on your toes, though—powerful enemies like the Grand High Viscount of Candy Corn, the legendary Skeletal Lich, and the Labyrinthine Horror will make nougat of the unwary.
Mad King's Clock Tower
Hop to the top of a vicious timed jumping puzzle before the deadly miasma below makes its way to you.
Ascent to Madness
Face Mad King Thorn himself! This dungeon encounter is intended for players of all skill levels and can be entered from Lion's Arch.
Mad King's Raceway
Take your mounts out for a spin in time trials and races against other players. Springer, jackal, and roller beetle rentals are available if you need a steed.
Minigames
Speak to a Lunatic Boatmaster to participate in Reaper's Rumble or Lunatic Inquisition.
Rewards
Become the spookiest ghoul in the Labyrinth...or die trying. Hahaha-HA! (It's okay, you can just waypoint.) Shadow of the Mad King activities award Trick-or-Treat Bags containing a vast selection of Halloween goods. The primary currency is candy corn, which can be traded to special vendors for minis, armor skins, recipes, and more.
Many unique rewards are obtained by completing achievements. You'll find information on the Shadow of the Mad King achievements and their rewards in your Hero panel under the Daily and Festivals categories.
New Equipment Skins
Weapons heavy with rattling chains, clawed gloves emerging from the darkness—this year, we've got everything. Complete the annual Halloween Rituals achievement to obtain them.
Chained Chest (Tier 1)
Clawing Shadow Gloves Box (Tier 2)
Clear your way with a terrifyingly beautiful candlestick or become the headless gourmet chef of wild pumpkins. New exotic weapons can be found in the Courtly Weapon Chest or purchased with Candy Corn Cobs from Sparking Stone in Lion's Arch.
Nightmare Splitter Axe
Harvester's Grin Staff
Pale Light's Companion Torch
Candy Corn Exchange
What's Halloween without a candy corn extravaganza, right? Use your delicious treats to get new miniatures, traditional Halloween rewards, and more!
- Seasonal harvest: Farmland and Greenhouse will produce pumpkin in October. Pumpkin productions are doubled! - Seasonal recipes: Bakery will produce pumpkin pie (from pumpkin, flour, butter and milk) and drink factory will produce pumpkin spice latte (from pumpkin, refined sugar, coffee and milk) - Halloween Timed Exclusive (Oct. 15 - Nov. 5): New resource - Pumpkin. All power plants produce a certain amount of pumpkins. - Halloween Timed Exclusive Policy: Pumpkin Battery (FREE) - All buildings that consume battery use pumpkin instead - Halloween Timed Exclusive Policy: Pumpkin Steel (FREE) - All buildings that consume steel use pumpkin instead
You have to be on the latest version on Steam to participate in the event!
A harrowing wind starts blowing as Yog grows restless in his sleep, waking up to suffocate the world in his cloud of nightmares.
Yog demands one thing. A beautifully horrible place to spend the Yogtober together with his favorite worshippers.
Exiles, welcome to Yogtober. Our new building contest brought to you by us and your favorite deity, Yog. Your task is simple: create a building that best fits the category of your choosing. You can choose to participate in any one of the categories and create your own personal nightmare.
Judging will be based on creativity, originality, and how well they fit with the chosen category. Judges will be from the community managers, community support, and a select few Exiles volunteers.
The buildings do NOT have to be Yog themed, we just think he’s pretty neat.
So what are these categories?
Gothic: The romance in horror. Maybe a fascination with the dark, a sudden interest in the macabre. Pastel tones, black dye, the everbright grace of subtle white touches. Turn your home into your very own gothic canvas.
Haunted House: Creaking floorboards, something’s ticking on the window… Did you hear something? Huh, must be the wind. Watch out for the chain clanks you might hear in the night and never, I mean NEVER go into the room with the red door.
Necromancer’s Tower: The dark magics of the afterlife are calling to you. Answer them, but do it in a stylish way. Build a Necromancer’s Tower fitting for a dark sorcerer and imprison the earthly light inside so it is unreachable for the ones that need it.
Sacrificial Temple: Sorcery is here. And you know there is no sorcery without some blood magic. What do you need for blood? That’s right, a sacrifice! Make your very own sacrificial temple to lure curious cats and do your bloody deeds.
Cabin in the Woods: Never fails to scare off even the bravest exiles of them all. Isolated, in the middle of the woods, away from all living life… or is it? Only way to find out. Build a cabin in the woods and attract all kinds of cryptids so you can have a crazy party when Yog arrives.
Take your pick and start working on your cozy horror house!
There will be two winners for each category, one for unmodded and one for modded.
Feel free to share your creations on social media!
All entries must be submitted by October 31, 2022 11:59 PM EDT. We will not accept any entries after this date. Winners will be announced on November 14, 2022 2:00 PM EDT. Entries must be submitted through SurveyMonkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Yogtober
You will be rewarded a plenty with:
The 10 winners receive: The Age of Sorcery chapter 1 Battlepass OR choice of 1 DLC pack
The Battle Pass prize unlocks the full pass as if you bought it, but keep in mind you must still level up your pass to earn rewards!
Isle of Siptah is not eligible as a DLC pack prize. All other DLC packs, as seen in the DLC tab of the Bazaar, are fair game.
Plus choice of one of the following items:
Black Magic Starter Set
Gurnakhi Gear
Echoes of Acheron
Rotting Rhino
We will pick 2 winners for each category, totaling 10 winners. This means 5 for modded and 5 for unmodded.
You can join from any platform you want. Modded and unmodded entries will be judged separately in their own categories.
Your entry must include an image and/or video of your building.
If you include a video, please keep it under 5 minutes.
If you include pictures, please keep it under 15 images.
When you submit your building entry, you affirm that it is your own work. You may have help making it, but it can only be submitted once. Please do not submit an entry that you did not make.
Do not edit your images in any way, such as filters.
Only submit for one category.
Odds of winning will be determined by number of entries.
No purchase necessary
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Affidavit, Release and Data Collection: As a condition of being awarded any prize, winners will be required to execute and deliver to Sponsor’s a signed Affidavit of Eligibility, which includes an acceptance of these Official Rules, a release of liability and delivery information for prizes. Entrant is informed that the data collector is Funcom Oslo AS., and the data collected will be transferred to the United States of America. Upon request, Entrant will be provided with access to Entrant’s personal data. Entrant may withdraw their personal data upon request, however in such an event, Entrant will be disqualified as an entrant in the Contest prior to the fulfillment of prizes.
Prizes: Prize values based on purchase of 120 Crom Coins ($1). Offered prizes are valued at the following:
Chapter 1 Battlepass: $10.00
DLC pack: $9.99
Black Magic Starter Set: $11.38
Gurnakhi Set: $12.74
Echoes of Acheron: $6.72
Rotting Rhino: $8.96
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Did you know that functional home decor makes use of psychology? Have you ever noticed how a small room can sometimes look larger than it is? Or how a bigger space manages to appear cozy and comfortable.
It’s all thanks to the right decor tricks that make a space seem much different than it is, like the right use of light or the distance between most significant pieces of furniture.
In Party Maker, you’ll have an opportunity to experiment with all those decorating techniques and develop your own, unique style!
Our 11th free update focuses on some quality-of-life improvements following feedback from players.
An improved Jamesian Wallop - now find what's missing rather than what's appeared. Much more challenging.
Improved tutorials following feedback our players. They are a bit more specific now to be more useful.
We've locked medley mode to avoid confusion if someone plays that first. Unlocks after playing 20 games.
Once again, thanks to everyone who has bought and enjoyed our collection of gaming snacks so far. There are 4 more games that are about ready so its just a matter of trying to decide which ones to finish off and add. Choices, choices....
-Fix where Quest "Letter" not consumed Questitem -Fix issue where starter Armor increased "Light Armor" -Fix issue where PvP was disabled but player can attack each other (PvP now active in Cave and Wasteland -> Loot will drop on death) -Fix issue where Healing not worked on Target -Add Cloth Formula to Worktable -Add Sulfur Formula to Worktable -Reduced Day/Night time -Bats Skill nerfed so you will not miss that much again -Update some Tooltips -Update formulas on Worktables/Craftingstations -Update Harvestables in few Maps and changed name to make it more clear (T1, T2 and so on) -Updated requirements for Weapon ussage -Save Chat Button when switch Maps -Reduce grill time for Food -Improved Minimap -Fix Spawners. Monster, Items and Harvestables can no longer Spawn unreachable locations
Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition - Dev Konstantin
Hey Everyone,
We are glad to say that our 20th milestone update is finally here. Apologize for the delay with getting this live and the announcement, wanted to make sure all the major changes worked well.
This update improves all areas of the game, as well as completely changes the way players join battles with much stronger focus on CoOp. From the reworked main menu and matchmaking to new gameplay rules letting players play in CoOp skirmish and CoOp survival both with other players or AI companions.
This updates also completes the long term project that improves and streamlines every chapter of the campaign, making it easy and fun on lower difficulties, and always an impossible challenge on harder difficulties.
We also looked intro rebalancing a lot of stats for all of the 3 playable races to fix any balancing and other issues.
Let’s take a closer look at this Milestone 20th Update . To make it easier to process the changes we have combined a lot of the changes into general categories.
Redesigned the main menu GUI for battles
Battles menu now shows player portraits
Add Zombie portraits to the battle menu for survival mode
New approach to battles menu that combines Survival and Skirmish into one menu
New design of the battle window all the GUI for both CoOp and Survival
New way to play Survival with AI partner
Campaign re-design complete with all chapters polished and improved
Special focus on improving chapters 3, 5 and 6
Various improvements to the survival experience
Polish and balancing to skirmish AI to better work in CoOp 2vs2 team environment
Rebalancing of stats for humans, orcs and elves
Rebalanced and fixed aspects of the siege – sieges now are typically faster
We bring you enchanting news today: our newest game, Witches Brew, has just been released on Steam! Head on over to the Steam Page and get the game now!
Witches Brew is the story of Selene, a coven witch traveling from the big city in search of adventure!
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Gorgeous girls, an enchanting world full of magic and an amazing story all await you! Head on ahead to The Steam Page and get the game right now!
I know you’re not a witch yourself, but you still encountered such a magical opportunity. You’re talented.