I wonder, if we'll still be able to use Darkness while disconnected from the Traveller during Red War? Theoretically we should. But game mechanics wise? Who knows. If the studio was at full power I'd anticipate a comment on us using Darkness whilst Lightless. But, well...

Whip Ghaul's ass with Strand!

They're from different studios, but some of the same people worked on both. And there's clearly a signature shared between them.

I hope they don't do it. But how likely is it that at least one destination in TESVI has building and crafting like the Settlement system produced in Bethesda games since Skyrim.

The camera keeps bouncing to enemies at the backline, and it gets fixated on a specific enemy. It makes it very difficult to control who I attack or defend from.

I really enjoy this directional combat, it's a lot of fun. But both the lock-on and unlocked states of combat are hard to manage with the camera fighting against me.

I tried lowering the controller sensitivity on the off chance I had any slight stick drift that was causing it. But it had no effect.

When the edges of the screen fades darker for absolutely no reason, I really don't like it. And I want to turn it off. It just bugs me that it's there. I can tolerate Motion Blur better than this thing.

"Some strange phenomena have been happening all across the globe. Several Assassin groups have been reporting sightings of Desmond Miles, thought dead for several years. For a few months, these sightings remained unconfirmed and mere say so. Until two bodies of Desmond Miles wash up in the River Thames together. The London Assassin's manage to obtain these bodies and confirm they are both Miles. But how? As several more sightings of Desmond Miles are reported across the world, the Assassins plug an agent into an Animus running off these body's DNA. By retracing Desmond's steps they hope to figure out what is happening, how, and why. But first, the agent is confronted by a digital entity that calls itself The Reader. The Reader explains that it is Miles, and apologises for what it must do. It traps the agent inside the Dark Animus, to slow the Assassins down. Whatever it is up to, it doesn't want them knowing.

The game takes place in the Dark Animus as the agent replays the actions of these multiple Desmond Miles. They hope to not only find out what's happening, but to also find a way out and report to the Assassins on the outside.

What is happening is this; The Reader has accessed an Isu vault that contains the means to manufacture Humans. These means were how the Humans were made. And The Reader has produced several Desmond Miles clones in order to chase down and access several vaults that Abstergo have control of. It seems Abstergo's been messing around with these vaults and disconnected them from the Isu Nexus greatly reducing the processing power that The Reader requires to continue simulating outcomes for the future. And The Reader wants to keep this to itself, because if anybody with the wrong motives find out there's a machine that can build Humans, that would be bad.

Once the agent manages to learn these facts and escape the Animus, they and the Assassins gather to help these several Desmonds by getting the Templars out of these vaults."

 

This concept includes the modern day, the Dark Animus, and even sees a return of Desmond Miles. All together I believe could prove to be a major revitalisation for the narrative of AC.

It's a natural evolution to the hidden blade. Making the flavoured tool for killing also assist in all the climbing they do. But it only appears in Istanbul in AC Revelations. Ezio suggests he'll take it back to Rome. And it's never seen again.

An "Allies" Skill Tree

So, when you're in the skill page, instead of pushing up to select a skill tree and zoom into it, you instead pull down and the camera points down to a circular skill tree called "Allies".

This circular tree has three start points, each connected to one of the three major skill groups, Mage, Warrior, and Thief.

• Starting from the Warrior side, you can invest into perks that improve your horseback riding and horse related combat.
  • Would include perks that improve your horse's resilience and attacks
  • Would include perks that improve your attacks on horseback
  • Would include perks that improve your horse's stamina and speed
• Starting from the Mage side, you can invest into perks that improve your pet's abilities.
  • Would include perks that enable you to summon a tiny dragon pet and improves it
  • Would include perks that improve your other pet's abilities, and allow you to have one other pet beside your tiny dragon
• Starting from the Thief side, you can invest into perks that improve your companion's abilities.
  • Would include perks that improve your companion's stealth, combat, or magic
  • Would include perks that change your companion's behaviour or priorities in combat

These skills can of course lead into eachother from all sides of the tree, like a big circle. And XP for this tree is gained when in combat with a pet or companion or horse.

I came here to discuss this concept instead of making it myself, because right now I don't have the computing power to produce it. Because I'm a console main, sorry. So I want to try to spread inspiration instead.

The Sky City flies above the battlefield, making room for new towers beneath it, while firing Mega Ballista projectiles down at passing Bloons.

• The Mega Ballista strips Bloons it damages of any Regrow and Camo properties, permanently.

• Any and all Towers within the Sky City's radius can pop all Bloon types while receiving more Popping Power, Attack Speed, Range, Pierce, Projectile Speed, and extra Cash Per Pop.

• The Sky City maintains any Income absorbed by nearby Banana Farms.

 

• Gains War Cry ability that improves the bonuses it applies to Towers within it's radius, while spreading the bonuses temporarily to all Towers on screen.

• Also gains Maneuver ability to change position on the map.

Everybody is practically flying in BO7 and the hyperactive button smashing I witness around every corner gives me a headache. All the sliding, wall jumping, spam crouching and relying on reaction time rather than intel has not been my style. I hope MW4 is slower.

It doesn't feel good because it's like I'm made of glass and I'm throwing myself against a concrete wall.

Some of the best zombies maps Treyarch have produced have had EWWs. But is this the first time Treyarch have produced an entire game without any, at all?

I was really hoping for some. I'm very disappointed.

Purely because of the Creation Club, and the concept of microtransactions in singleplayer games. I don't want Bethesda to produce VI with the idea that Creation Club will be available with it's microDLCs. I really hope they build the full game, expansions and all. And introduce Creation Club after the fact. Creation Club should be a part of it. But as the final thought, and never a parallel development. Do you understand what I mean? I don't think I'm wording my concerns well.