Diablo 4’s toning down monsters’ power to slow, stun, chill and otherwise cramp your style-
This week’s Diablo 4 patch will tone down the ability of monsters to control players, nerfing a variety of crowd control effects across the entire game. The variety of cold-enchanted elites with exceptionally quick attacks will no longer pop you with the cold enchant every single hit, Cold Spiders will chill you less, Cold Goatmen will drop ice pillars slower, and chilling winds will overlap its nasty walls less often. That’s in addition to a variety of slows and stuns getting shorter durations or more easily avoided animations.
Generally speaking, it’s part of reducing how often the monsters can break your stride. “These changes are aimed at the player having less time being Crowd Controlled and receiving more recovery time after being crowd controlled, especially at higher World Tiers,” said Blizzard’s developers.
It’s part of a clear trend towards more player power in the wake of poor reception to patches earlier this year. Those are the ones that had some here at PC …
‘Personality-driven’ influencer esports league revealed, immediately implodes over NFT controversy-
Just a few days after being announced by ubiquitous YouTube presence Mr. Beast, the high-profile “Creator League” esports series has collapsed in a swirl of confusion and anger about its use of blockchain technology and accusations that the whole thing was in fact an NFT launch.
Creator League struck me as a little odd right from the start. It was formally revealed by Mr. Beast, one of the biggest names on YouTube, but he’s not actually involved with the project. Several of the influencers who are (or were) taking part are not meaningfully involved in gaming: Bella Poarch, for instance, is a singer and social media celebrity, CDawgVA is a voice actor, podcaster, and variety streamer, and VinnieHacker is a Tiktok star. Yes, they occasionally stream games, but it’s hardly their bread and butter.
Apparently that was an intentional choice: Those influencers and others would provide “personality-driven content,” Creator League organizer eFuse said, while Hecz and Scump of Opt…