One of the big things incoming with Battlefield 2042’s new season is the all-new map “Haven” which will launch once Season 7: Turning Point starts this March 19. For those who want a head start on how the map will play, go read on for the Battlefield 2042 Season 7 new map “Haven” overview.
Battlefield 2042 Season 7 New Map “Haven” Overview and Points of Interest:
Here are the five capture points players will fight over on the map:
A: Gas Station
The gas station is heavily fortified, and claiming it secures additional fuel to try and seize control over the Guarani aquifer. The surrounding infrastructure will allow for vehicles to put their mark on the battle as well. Combined with the semi-destructible buildings, fortifications and rocky surroundings, it will offer you a lot of choice on how to assault or protect the area.
B: Crash Site
The crashed US transport in the heart of the battlefield serves as a grim reminder of the ongoing conflict. But it’s also a sign of how you can use your surroundings to strengthen your approach.
The rocky desert environment of the Crash Site is the perfect playground for battling squads, with the remaining buildings offering plenty of opportunities for cover. However, stay vigilant as these buildings are a prime target for vehicles to be torn down.
C: Town Center
In the midst of this desert warzone stands the once lively marketplace. Now eerily silent, the vibrant colors are muted by dust and smoke of the ongoing conflict. It might be a last reminder for the locals as to what they are fighting for. While offering plenty of cover, the buildings in this area are again ready for destruction. Best to stay alert, as a nearby tank might prove itself useful to clear the area.
D: Oasis
The Oasis could be considered the last location of respite in the Atacama Desert. As a capture point it’s not only vital because of the remaining water, but also because of its lithium pools that provide a vital resource for the winning faction. It makes the Oasis the lifeblood of El Alicanto, and the ultimate prize in this conflict.
E: Checkpoint
On the very edge of El Alicanto lies the last checkpoint. A reminder of what civilization in this area looked like not too long ago. The fortifications allow any controlling force to hold a significant entrance to the town and its resources. The barriers and large barricades between the outskirts of the town will require brawn and brains to overcome. Losing this area might mean losing the town and access to water.
According to DICE, Haven will continue the urban warfare players have been asking for. This new map focuses on infantry and vehicular warfare, and was made for 64-player combat. In terms of inspiration, DICE took ideas from Arica Harbor (Bad Company 2), Strike at Karkand (Battlefield 3), and Amiens (Battlefield 1).
For more on the map’s backstory, head on over here. Battlefield 2042 Season 7: Turning Point kicks off on March 19, and you can read up on the new weapons and other details here.
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03.14.2024 14:00:08 Far Cry debuted on March 23, 2004, meaning that next week, it will have been 20 years since Jack Carver first washed up on the shore of a tropical paradise teeming with hostile mercenaries.
Star Wars Battlefront Collection’s rocky launch is unsurprisingly being met with negative reactions, as PC players have flooded Steam’s discussion board, warning others to stay away and leaving some rather harsh reviews.
As reported earlier today, the highly acclaimed Star Wars Battlefront games have been re-released in an all-new collection bundle. With players having fond memories of the original releases, many went in with high expectations, though they quickly discovered that the games were plagued with many issues.
The most common, as we outlined in our Star Wars Battlefront Collection known issues piece, was the lack of servers that left many unable to play online. Beyond that, other bugs, some new, while some carried from the original releases, have also been plaguing players. Many have also noted the lack of modern-day features and general quality-of-life improvements, calling this re-release a lackluster port.
So, unsurprisingly, players have begun requesting refunds, not just on Steam but on other platforms as well. Even less surprising is that this has also prompted them to leave bad reviews of the game, with the collection now mostly negative with over 1400 reviews. Mind you, this is Steam, meaning they’re verified purchases, not just players review-bombing the title, as we’ve seen on Metacritic.
Over on the Battlefront subreddit, multiple discussions and threads have cropped up regarding refunding the game or how to process a refund on the platform where the game was bought.
What should have been a celebration of classics has quickly taken a turn for the worse. While most weren’t expecting any remake with these collections, there were expectations that this would be more than just a simple resolution bump, as, while fun, the original releases had their fair share of issues. That sadly wasn’t the case, and while the titles were good for their time, seeing them back with little to no other improvements already makes this collection feel rather dated. This criticism was also something that was brought up in our Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection review.
Hopefully, Aspry will see all of this feedback and work on a patch to resolve most of these issues. It’s heartbreaking to see such beloved titles handled in such a way.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection - Notice of End of Sales - Steam News
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03.14.2024 08:00:09 The full game of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection" will be discontinued in Japan on the following date: Friday, March 29, 2024 at 0:00 (JST).
Star Ocean The Second Story R Achieves Over 2,000 Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews On Steam
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03.13.2024 15:00:09 Square Enix, Tri-Ace and Gemdrops' role-playing game, Star Ocean The Second Story R has achieved over 2,000 "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews on Steam.
Despite the remarks made during the Activision Blizzard buyout court case, PlayStation seems to be quite happy about the deal they managed to negotiate with Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on their platform for the next 10 years.
Speaking in an interview with CNBC early today, PlayStation’s CEO Jim Ryan (who’s retiring this month) opened up a bit more on the Activision Blizzard acquisition, noting one of the reasons why this was so different compared to past buyouts was due to the size of the publisher. That, and Call of Duty, which is one of the biggest online games available today.
Despite the case not having the outcome they likely wanted, based on Ryan’s comments during the interview, the publisher is quite happy that they could still walk away with a deal.
“The reason that we felt this one was different from anything that had happened in the past was the sheer size and importance of the Call of Duty franchise. So, we were absolutely thrilled to be able to negotiate a deal with Microsoft to ensure that franchises remain available on PlayStation platforms for the next 10 years.
That was very important to us, and we’re very happy to have done that deal.”
While the specifics of the deal aren’t fully publicly known, we do know that it promises to bring Call of Duty to PlayStation for the next 10 years. This deal is likely similar to the one that Microsoft made with Nintendo, which promised the game would be available on Nintendo platforms and have content and feature parity. That means PlayStation platform likely won’t have any exclusivity once their former deal is up.
Modern Warfare 3 is the last Call of Duty that is expected to offer exclusive skins and features on PlayStation, with the deal set to expire this coming November.
The environmental adventure/sim "Clean the Sea!" is now available for PC via Steam
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03.13.2024 13:00:08 "The Ankara-based (Turkey) indie games developer Backpack Games are today very happy and excited to announce that their environmental adventure/sim "Clean the Sea!", is now available for PC via Steam." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
The first-person survival horror game "The 9th Charnel" is soon coming to PC via Steam
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03.13.2024 12:00:10 "The Rotterdam-based (the Netherlands) indie games publisher SOEDESC and Kolkata-based (India) indie games developer SAIKAT DEB CREATIONS, today announced with great joy and thrill that they have just joined forces for the upcoming release of their first-person psychological/survival horror game "The 9th Charnel" (the game is soon coming to PC via Steam)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Children of the Sun is coming to PC via Steam on April 9th, 2024
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03.13.2024 12:00:10 "The Austin-based (Texas, the US) indie games publisher Devolver Digital and indie games developer René Rother, are today very excited and glad to announce that their stylish third-person shooter Children of the Sun, is coming to PC via Steam on April 9th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
The vegetables-themed turn-based strategy game "Vegangsters" is coming to PC via Steam in 2024
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03.13.2024 03:00:10 "The Spain-based indie games developer Poison Pill Games are today very happy and proud to announce that their vegetables-themed turn-based strategy/deckbuilder/roguelike game "Vegangsters", is coming to PC via Steam in 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
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You can easily find any of our servers by using the "Server Status" tab. You can also find our servers at the bottom of our forums at: http://www.clan-tkc.com/phpBB or at GameTracker: http://www.gametracker.com/clan/thekillingcommitteeclan/. If you need any help finding our servers in-game, just come to our forums, post a topic and we'll try to help you out.
TKC servers are well run and every attempt is made to ensure a fun gaming environment. No racist or rude behavior is tolerated on any of our servers. TKC tries to have round the clock administration for it's servers but obviously sometimes a server will have no admin playing so if you witness any abuse for any game please attempt to report the offending players nickname, and if possible GUID here: "Server Vistors Complaint". Just give as many details as you can remember such as what the player was doing/saying. In addition cheating is not tolerated on our servers. We are protected by any of a number of different cheat tools at any given time including; VAC, steambans.com, pbbans.com, ggc-stream.com, metabans, pbscreens.com and punkbuster, depending on the game. If caught cheating your information will be submitted to the appropriate cheat tracker and you will be added to their database which will ban your Steam ID, PB GUID or EA GUID depending on the game and website.
When available we also offer ways for players, in-game, to contact admins to report bad behavior. These come in the form of game server plugins. Players will, if the server has the option available, have the option to report a player using, @report [player] [reason] or @admin [reason] to call an admin to the server. If an admin doesn't respond in a timely manner, please use the @report option so we can follow up on it later or use "Server Vistors Complaint" as mentioned above. If an admin is not available, we also try to give the players the opportunity to use @votekick [player] or @voteban [player] [reason]. This allows the guests to our server the ability to kick or temporarily ban a player who is breaking rules.
Profanity - Many of the games we play have very bad language, some don't, that should make a difference in how we enforce our rules. For that reason we are going to implement a new rule, which will seem strange at first, but there is reason behind it. Bad language will only be tolerated on Teamspeak channels for games where there is bad language in the game. In other words, since there is bad language in Bad Company 2, bad language will be acceptable in the Bad Company 2 Teamspeak channel and on the Bad Company 2 servers. On our Half-Life 2 DM Teamspeak channel and game server, bad language will not be allowed. Future games will also be handled in this manner. The reason, we do not want to exclude members with different beliefs. If I buy a game and one of the selling points for me was the fact that it did not have bad language, that should be respected. I do not want a father or grandfather having to explain bad language to their children or grandchildren because they heard profanity on a TKC Teamspeak channel they thought was free of such things.
How to deal with with Mic/Text spammers - No one wants to listen to a lot of unrelated chatter either on the game server, or Teamspeak. No one wants to see a lot of text spamming either. It's distracting to some, and in the case of Bad Company 2, causes lag problems when the text log gets too long. If someone is talking or typing too much, respectfully ask them to stop. If they continue, you may have to mute or kick them, and if they continue after that, a ban might be in order. When on Teamspeak, a certain amount of "visiting" is fine, but the gamers who want to communicate tactical information to others playing shouldn't have to constantly interrupt talk about the latest CPU, or talk of what's going on at school. If someone is talking too much and you don't feel like you want to address it, PM a clan leader and we can handle the situation.
Team Switching - In some games this is a big no-no and if you are admin for one of those games, ask the player to go back, if they don't and you have the ability, move them back manually. If you continue to have problems, kick/ban them. In other games, like Bad Company 2, team switching usually isn't as big a deal. Sometimes friends or clan members might want to play together, in that case, try to facilitate them and swap some people around. This will show you to be respectful of community and they will probably be very appreciative of your efforts. If there is a mass exodus of people from a bad team to a good team, you can mention in-game that people need to stop. If someone is ignoring you and continues to unbalance the teams, just kick them off the server. For a game like Half-Life 2, teams change after each round, so trying to put clan members together is just a waste of time, that is why team switching is considered bad.
Hacking/Cheating - This is the most overused excuse for kicking someone off of a server. Players are unjustly booted off servers all the time simply because they were too good. That is not fair. Do not base a decision on cheating on a single round, if it isn't really ridiculous score-wise, sometimes people just have great rounds. But if they continue to have an unbelievable K/D ratio, then you might need to ban them. Sometimes it might be necessary to ban someone just because they are killing the server. For me, this is the thing I hate to do the most. That person might be doing nothing wrong, other than being really good at a game. Try to put yourself in their shoes and only ban guys who are really obvious. I don't want to see anyone being banned for an aimbot because they went 29-0. I and many others have had a better score than that, it DOES happen. You have to consider how the person is playing the game. Are they playing as recon? Are they in the heli with a really good pilot? Sometimes, if you are unsure, it might be best to ask the opinion of a clan leader. Remember, visitors to our servers have the ability and a forum to complain about unjust behavior from our server admins. If someone complains about you, you want to know that you did everything by the book.
Soldier Names/Nicknames - We will not allow names that are offensive to anyone. I think we can all use our best judgement here, but if you are unsure, ask another admin what they think of the name and come to a consensus before taking action. Players using racist names should be perm banned immediately. It does no good talking to someone like that because they're only goal is to cause trouble.
Banter and Trash Talking - Now its okay to joke around, but if several players are going at it constantly on the mic or in chat just nicely ask them to stop. If it continues warn them again that if they don't stop they will be kicked, if for no other reason that mic/text spamming. If they ignore this warning then go ahead and kick them. A certain amount of this is fine as long as it's good natured, however sometimes this can lead to hard feelings so you have to use your best judgement of when something is going too far or things are starting to get out of hand.
Racist/intolerant behavior - This is a subject that we will show no mercy on. If someone is being a racist, and that means they are hating on blacks, whites, browns, yellows, whatever the case may be, they get perm banned. No warnings, no kicks, just ban them. We don't need that kind of intolerant behavior on our servers. I don't care if the person is joking, I don't care what his real intent was, if he's spewing hate speech, he's gone. This also applies to someone who is spewing hate speech against a group of people, like Muslims, Christians, agnostics, atheists whoever. We are a gaming clan. This is our hobby and it's supposed to be fun. Everyone who comes to a TKC server should be respected and able to play the game hassle free. Not everyone believes the same, and if someone can't get over it and comes to our server with an agenda that includes racist or intolerant speech, I expect you guys to bring the hammer down swiftly.
Metabans - We will use Metabans only for cheaters and will verify each ban using Cheat-O-Meter. This will ensure that we are not forcing our Metabans followers into banning players we have banned for breaking rules other than cheating. If we deem you are cheating and Cheat-O-Meter doesn't really indicate cheating and we can not find information about you or your clan tag, meaning there is no website or previous information on you as a player or clan that we can cross reference, we will ban you on our servers, but not Metabans. Clans must have a website that we can find and access to be considered legit, otherwise we will view your tags as hogwash and your suspect behavior will be deemed as cheating. Again, we will not add a ban that is not supported by Cheat-O-Meter to Metabans.
We want everyone to have the best time possible so do your best to maintain a good gaming atmosphere, then everyone can have a good time.
To join TKC you only have to read our "Code of Conduct" and then apply for membership by filling out an online application. After submitting your application you will become a "member candidate". You will be allowed to wear our tags but only as (tkc), all letters in lowercase. As you progress, as seen by our members, you will be advanced to (Tkc), then (TKc) and then finally (TKC). You will receive emails at each step with detailed instructions on what you need to do. To obtain your full membership and the right to wear the (TKC) tags, you will have to pass a vote by the TKC members. Only those members who have gotten to know you will vote. An 80% yes vote will be required for full admission. Please keep in mind that full membership takes 8 weeks.
For you to be accepted you will need to display good manners, sportsmanship, and the ability to follow our rules. This applies to all game server activitiy and forum participation. If you do not feel you can meet our requirements we respectfully ask that you not apply as we have many who want to join and we can not waste time on gamers who are not serious about membership.
So now you're a member of TKC congrats! It is important for you to note that membership in TKC is not a lifetime privilege. Only the clan founders Big Flem and Squidward have lifetime membership and can not be removed. Clan leaders expect it's members to participate in clan activites when they can, and to be an ACTIVE member in the clan. We consider active members to be members who regularly post on the forums, participate in clan activities when possible, and communicates and develops friendships inside the clan. We do NOT consider a member to be active if they only ever play on our servers and nothing more. The leaders of this clan work hard to organize events and if you can't support these activities, can't check and post on the forums at least once or twice a week, then you are not TKC material and eventually you will be kicked from the clan. If you do not think you can meet these requirements as a member of TKC, then please don't attempt to gain entry into the clan as you will only waste your time, and ours.
Beyond administration positions such as "Clan Leader", "Division Leader", etc, the answer is no. However we do have achievable military style ribbons and medals that can be won for various acts. You may see each members ribbon and medal "Display Case" by going to the "Members" tab and under each members profile clicking the "Awards" icon. Below is each award and how you obtain that award. Note that medals also have an associative ribbon:
Ribbons(Hover over information icon for description)
In the past TKC had too many admins on our servers and things got a little out of hand. We are not looking for any new admins, however if we feel you will make a good addition to that team we will ask you. Being a server admin is not fun and games. It requires you to WORK, and follow server administrator rules which are well defined once you become an admin. Our admins are forced to stop playing whatever game they might be playing, and work to secure and maintain server tranquility reguarly. If you are an admin that does not mean you will get to run willy nilly and ban, kick, and torture at will. Admins who do not follow our rules will be stripped of admin duties and power. In addition there are more requirements of admins such as, reguarly checking our server admins forum. Once you become an admin you will be given access to this forum and you must check and read it quite often. It is a way for admins to help one another by posting their thoughts on what is going on, who to watch closely, etc. Do not ask us constantly to be an admin, that is the surest way I know to never become an admin. Our leaders will identify the best candidates for admin duties if we think it necessary.
No. In order to have an official TKC server it must meet certain standards. In addition, we might not want a server for a particular game, and if you aren't an admin, then you shouldn't have admin authority on any server. Official TKC servers have to be setup as close to identical as possible. This means that the clan leaders must have all access to any of it's servers including the ability to restart that server, gain access via FTP and game panel. It means that the clan leaders can setup the server with it's normal settings and add the usual addons. In short, if you want to have your own server then that is fine, but don't try to name it "Boom Boom Room" or tie it in any way to TKC.
Clan TKC maintains several servers that are open to it's clan members and the public. In addition TKC has other expenses that require money. To pay the bills TKC relies on it's members and visitors to donate. Without these donations, TKC will cease to exist. Please consider donating money when you can. We do our best to use the money wisely, to invest in TKC, to invest in PC gaming.
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