How a great idea to merge Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Warzone, and Modern Warfare lead to confusing purchases, overpowered guns, and challenges that didn’t please either audience.Apex Legends Season 8 is bringing a slew of changes, including a shiny new gun called the 30-30 Repeater. It’s a lever-action rifle designed to fill the hole players were feeling in the heavy weapon set.
Starting out, the 30-30 will have six shots. Obtaining higher level magazines will increase its shot count, starting at eight with a level one magazine, ten with a level two magazine, and 12 with a level three magazine. The gun also has a charge bar that will change location depending on what kind of sight you have equipped. As you’d expect, the more you charge the 30-30, the more damage it deals, with its hits scaling accordingly if you only complete the charge midway. Full-charge headshots do 100 damage, and full-charge body shots do 57 damage. Meanwhile no-charge spamming body shots do 42 damage, and no-charge headshots do 74 damage.
If you’re looking to add the 30-30 into your regular arsenal, you will need to learn how to time using charged shots versus spamming regular ones. The 30-30 falls in between the G7 and Longbow guns in terms of play. The G7’s fire rate is faster, but its shots do less damage, while the Longbow shoots more slowly but also does more damage. The 30-30 falls smack dab in between with its lower damage spam fire and its higher damage charge-shot, and is perfect for mid-to-long range combat.
When Jac Schaeffer sat down to begin writing WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ first Disney+ TV show, she already had plenty of experience in the universe. As a co-writer of Captain Marvel and the writer of the upcoming Black Widow, she’s firmly entrenched in the MCU. It was, however, her first outing as a TV writer, which highlighted some interesting differences in the process.
“It’s very lonely to write a feature by yourself,” Schaeffer told GameSpot. “It’s fun because, you know, if you’re the only one working on it through to the end, then you get all the credit. And that’s really nice. And you can sort of pat yourself on the shoulder for your discoveries.”
With WandaVision, though, she worked with a team of writers to help craft the episodes, which only made for a better experience. “When you do it in a group, all of the victories are that much more exciting and the failures are kind of cushioned a little bit. Because you’re in it together,” Schaeffer explained.
Having successfully revived the king of monsters in 2016’s Shin Godzilla, director Hideaki Anno is now ready to reveal the greatest of Japan’s television heroes, Ultraman. Our first look comes in the brand-new trailer for Shin Ultraman.
The trailer doesn’t actually say much, but it gives us our first look at the hero. Shin Ultraman comes from writer Hideaki Anno and director Shinji Higuchi. The pair worked together on 2016’s Shin Godzilla. and even in just 36 seconds this trailer seems to suggest that Shin Ultraman will have a lot in common with that film.
Like Shin Godzilla, the film goes with a very classic take on the character. We only see Ultraman in the final moments, but we get a clear look at him. Where Netflix’s 2019 Ultraman anime significantly updated and streamlined the look of the character, this version looks a lot like it did in the original 1966 television show. Even the monsters look classic enough–meaning unabashedly cheesy–that it’s hard not to laugh at them as they lumber through the forest.
The Razer Viper is one of the best gaming mouse options out there, and the company has just released its latest iteration of the mouse, which features the fastest polling rate of any available on the market. The Razer Viper 8K sends data at eight times the speed of its standard model, reducing latency and improving input delay. The Viper 8K also replaces the standard model at the $80 price point. It’s available right now through Amazon and Best Buy.
The 8,000KHz polling rate is the big difference for the Razer Viper 8K, which is otherwise very similar to the standard Razer Viper. It also features a 20K DPI optical sensor, on-board memory for custom settings, and Razer’s flexible Speedflex cable.
The Razer Viper 8K does feel significantly smoother than my mouse of choice, the Razer DeathAdder V2 Pro. I haven’t noticed too much difference in my K/D ratio, but I have had a great time using it, thanks to that 8,000Hz polling rate. It’s not quite as dramatic as going from a 60Hz monitor to a 144Hz one in terms of in-game performance, but it does feel like a similar jump in smoothness that will only get better if it comes to Razer’s other mouse shapes–the Viper doesn’t boast my preferred ergonomics, but if this technology came to the DeathAdder, I could see myself switching back to a wired option.
IGN can exclusively reveal the first three figures in this Star Wars: The Black Series – Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary collection, which feature retro-flavored takes on Obi-Wan Kenobi, Greedo and a Jawa. Check out all three in the slideshow gallery below:
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Unlike Hasbro’s earlier Star Wars: Retro Collection line, these Black Series figures aren’t meant to be 1:1 reproductions of the original Kenner figures. They feature the larger and more detailed sculpts of the Black Series line, but the paint decos and soft goods elements like Obi-Wan’s vinyl cloak are clear throwbacks to the Kenner era. The packaging will also call back to the original Kenner releases.
Hasbro confirmed there will be more than just these three figures in the 50th Anniversary line, with future releases potentially focusing on movies other than A New Hope. Hasbro will hold a Fan First Friday livestream on January 29 showing off these figures and other upcoming releases in the Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary promotion.
All three figures are priced at $19.99 and will be sold exclusively through Amazon. You can pre-order the figures at the links below.
If you’ve ever wondered how the heroes and villains of The Mandalorian might look when given the full Kenner treatment, Hasbro also has you covered. The company recently teased a series of The Mandalorian: Retro Collection figures, which feature nostalgic renditions of characters like Din Djarin and Cara Dune as if they had actually existed in the ’70s.
There are other Hasbro Star Wars releases to look forward to in 2021, including a life-size Darksaber prop and a long overdue Bo-Katan Black Series figure.
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