Destiny 2’s New Exotic Bow Is Great Fun, Once You Know How To Use It

Each new season of Destiny 2 has been accompanied by the introduction of a new Exotic weapon, and in the case of the just-launched Season of the Chosen, that’s the bow Ticuu’s Divination. It’s a fantastic new addition to the game, and something you should check out even if previous bows haven’t been your thing. But the key to having a good time with Ticuu’s Divination and making the most of it requires you to understand how it works and how to best use it.

Upon drawing Ticuu’s Divination, you’ll notice that it highlights multiple enemies near the center of your screen with red diamonds. That’s the first component of the weapon’s intrinsic trait, Sacred Flame, which launches tracking projectiles at multiple targets when hipfiring. Any marked enemies will then explode when they die or if they’re hit by a second Sacred Flame explosion.

The Causality Arrows trait adds a further wrinkle to this, causing Sacred Flames to detonate immediately when you fire an arrow while aiming down sights. Landing a precision hit with the bow fully charged increases the power of the blast. So in the early going, it seems as if the best way is to ensure you’re mixing in both hipfire shots and ADS shots, marking targets to turn them into walking bombs and then detonating with precision ADS. Against weaker enemies that aren’t in groups, marking seems unnecessary as a single precision ADS shot should do the job, but you won’t be treated to a colorful explosion if you don’t mark them first.

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Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto Event Schedule, Masterwork Research, And More Details Revealed

The Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto event is set for next Saturday, February 20. Ahead of the big celebration, developer Niantic has now shared some more details on what players can expect, including the full event schedule and what rewards await if you can complete all of the event’s Special Research and new Masterwork Research tasks.

Event Schedule

As previously revealed, the Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto event runs for 12 hours, from 9 AM to 9 PM local time. Each hour, however, Niantic will rotate through different virtual locations based on areas of the Kanto region, which will determine which Pokemon appear in the wild.

There will be five different themed locations in total, with the final two hours of the event featuring Pokemon from all of the previous hourly blocks. The full schedule is as follows:

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Pandemic-Inspired Movie “The Bubble” Features Pedro Pascal, Karen Gillan, And Maria Bakalova

Comedy movie legend Judd Apatow is making a pandemic-inspired movie called The Bubble and it has added Pedro Pascal, Karen Gillan, and Maria Bakalova to its cast.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the three are set to star in the film, joining the previously announced cast that includes Fred Armisen, Keegan-Michael Key, David Duchovny, Peter Serafinowicz, and Leslie Mann.

Filming is expected to begin next week in London, on the film, which is described as a “meta-comedy” that follows a group of actors who get stuck in a pandemic bubble at a hotel as they try to finish a studio movie.

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Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Patch Notes (February 9) Include League Play, Zombies Changes

The latest patch for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has arrived, ushering in some important changes for the just-launched League Play event, while the Zombies mode gets more stability improvements, bug fixes, and more.

League Play kicked off this week and the new patch includes a series of fixes, one of which solves the issue that could cause classes to show up empty in some scenarios. The update also delivers some restrictions, one of which is that you cannot use any type of suppressor attachment, while a number of barrel attachments are also cut.

League Play is the new competitive-minded option for players looking to have a more serious and intense experience.

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Call Of Duty: Warzone — More Bans Just Came Down And More Are Coming

The developers of Call of Duty: Warzone continue to take aim at cheaters in the battle royale game. After banning 60,000 accounts just last week, developer Raven Software has now confirmed yet another ban wave–and the studio is prepared to drop the banhammer again.

“Stepping up anti-cheat efforts on all fronts,” the developer said. “More to come. Let’s keep Warzone clean!”

With many millions of players, the developers of Warzone face a very difficult and ongoing task of weeding out bad actors from the battle royale game. With a game of that size and scale, some portion of the audience will be jerks who try to ruin the experience for others, and this has been and continues to be the case.

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition: ME1 Vs Remaster Screenshot Comparison

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remasters BioWare’s original Mass Effect trilogy. In order to give you a better idea of just how much of a transformation we’re talking about, we’ve compiled several comparison screenshots.

As the original Mass Effect is getting the most out of the remaster in terms of updated character models and locations, we’ve only compiled screenshots from that game. That said, there are noticeable improvements for Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 in the Legendary Edition as well.

For the sake of convenience, all of the screenshots on the left side of the comparison are from the original trilogy (which were taken from the PC version of the game), while those on the right are from the Legendary Edition. We’ve listed the screenshots in order by which they appear.

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Bloodborne 60fps Patch Released By Hacker

Many can agree that Bloodborne is one of the best games of the previous console generation–perhaps even the best–but playing it at sub-30 frames per second can be a major adjustment if you’re used to dodging your way through Sekiro at 60fps. Now, the well-known hacker Lance McDonald has released his 60 FPS patch for Bloodborne on his Patreon, but you’ll need a jailbroken PS4 to try it out.

We’ve known about McDonald’s 60fps patch for a while now, since he first showed it last year, but this is the first time that it’s been publicly available. McDonald teamed up with Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry to do a technical breakdown of the 60fps patch, and the results are fascinating. McDonald’s YouTube channel is a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes materials for From Software’s games, including Bloodborne and the Souls series. The patch also gives you the option of lowering the rendering resolution of the game to 720p to get a more consistent frame rate.

McDonald’s hacking has revealed secrets in other games as well. For example, he showed that God of War’s antagonist is flipping the player off in one scene, and that P.T.’s Lisa was following behind you all along. If you were hoping to use a PS4 emulator to try out this patch, we’ve got bad news: There aren’t any legitimate PS4 emulators that can run games as of yet, but there are some fake ones out there that look legit, so watch out for that. For the rest of us, we can only hope that From Software brings a way to play Bloodborne at 60fps on the PS5 that doesn’t require hardware modification. Some first-party PS4 games have gotten PS5 updates that improve performance, but nothing like that has been announced for Bloodborne as of yet.

Jared Leto’s Justice League Snyder Cut Joker Fully Revealed

The first images of Jared Leto as the Joker in Zack Snyder’s Justice League have been revealed, and he’s looking much more like a classic interpretation of the character than the version seen in Suicide Squad.

The black and white images, first revealed by Vanity Fair, show a Joker with heavy white makeup, smudged eyes and lips, and greasy, long hair. The big difference, though, is that there’s not a single tattoo in sight. Yup, the much debated ‘Damaged’ forehead design is gone. The white coveralls and disguise if his arm and hand tattoos remain, though.

We’d already heard that Joker would have a “road-weary” look in Zack Snyder’s new cut of Justice League, and this version of the character is certainly that. We’d previously been granted a very blurry shot of Jared Let’s new look on Twitter, and back then we guessed that the white clothing may be a hospital gown or some kind of straight jacket/institution clothing. We can now see that it’s a surgical gown, and that there’s a mask hanging from his neck. Snyder told Vanity Fair that this is “probably” a remnant of his escape into the wild.

Snyder also revealed how Joker factors into the movie’s story, so if you’d like to remain in the dark for your viewing of the Snyder cut of Justice League, perhaps it’s best to turn away now. But if you’re up for spoilers, catch them in the next paragraph.

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Joker will appear in a new sequence set on a ruined Earth after Darkseid has invaded the planet. This is a vision experienced by Bruce Wayne as a warning of what will happen if the Justice League fails to stop Darkseid’s plans. Naturally, Batman’s iconic nemesis is alive and well in this terrible nightmare future.

“The cool thing about the scene is that it’s Joker talking directly to Batman about Batman,” Snyder told Vanity Fair. “It’s Joker analyzing Batman about who he is and what he is. That’s the thing I also felt like fans deserved from the DC Universe. That is to say, the Jared Leto Joker and the Ben Affleck Batman, they never really got together. It seemed uncool to me that we would make it all the way through this incarnation of Batman and Joker without seeing them come together.”

Batman and the Joker have never faced off in the current DCEU movies, but in Batman v Superman we saw that the two definitely have history. Snyder suggests that this appearance will address the death of Robin, who’s armour we saw in the Batcave, covered in the Joker’s taunting graffiti.

 

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