Mass Effect: Andromeda New Patch to Fix Facial Animations

Posted By: GamerDating - April 05, 2017

In the new patch (1.05) for Mass Effect: Andromeda, EA have focused on fixes to address the main complaints. While they've introduced standard balance changes to single player and multiplayer, and fixed some of the save game issues the main fix is here. We’ve also improved lip-sync and facial acting during some conversations, and have implemented a much-requested change that allows players to skip the autopilot sequences in

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Facebook Authentication Bug!

Posted By: GamerDating - March 28, 2017

We are aware there's a bug with our Facebook users who are attempting to authenticate at the moment, we're working on the problem and will have it resolved soon, in the meantime Standard login is still available for everyone to use. If you need any further assistance reach out to us at support.

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StarCraft: Remastered - Brood War is Back Baby!

Posted By: Alexander Brown - March 28, 2017

StarCraft® Remastered has been announced, complete with video, landing page and oooh the memories came flooding back. Brood War has a special place in the hearts of the founders at GamerDating. In fact I (Alex) can remember playing hours and hours of Starcraft. It even progressed my real world knowledge as I learnt about hubs, switches and crossover cables just so I could use the Spawn installation and play some multiplayer LAN w

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Cemu 1.7.4 Emulation of Breath of The Wild

Posted By: GamerDating - March 22, 2017

Nintendo's Zelda: Breath of the Wild hit the stores and has been rated as one of the top games this year, if not this decade. Earning a rank of 97/100 on Metacritic and taking its top spot the world is all looking at Breath of the Wild. Breath of the Wild came out alongside The Nintendo Switch and also released for the Wii U and only two weeks ago, the two developer masters behind the Wii U Emulator; CEMU released a video of Breath of the

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Battlefield 1 They Shall Not Pass Update

Posted By: GamerDating - March 14, 2017

Dice will be rolling out their first digital expansion. With this expansion it is a required download for all Battlefield 1 owners, if you do not own the expansion options will be greyed out and you will only be able to spectate the new maps. Finally they are introducing the The French forces, one of the most notable and iconic forces in World War 1. The Introduction of the French forces will bring close quarter maps, bunkers and large scale v

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Steam Reviews Do Not Count Gifts or Free Games

Posted By: GamerDating - March 10, 2017

Steam is constantly changing and, like us, adapting to the users requests and feedback. The latest update to Steam is how they are changing how review scores are calculated removing free games (promotions), gifts and free weekend reviews from the overall calculated score.  This was after feedback that friends gifted the game, with no interest in the type of genre, would review the game with a joke, or unfair judgement which would tank

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Mass Effect: Andromeda, EA Access, Singleplayer influenced by Multiplayer and MP Maps for Free.

Posted By: GamerDating - March 07, 2017

Mass Effect: Andromeda is offering both gated access to the single player and unrestricted access to the multiplayer for the upcoming EA Access. The EA/Origin Access trial for Andromeda will become available on March 16 for Xbox One and PC. No version of EA Access is available on PlayStation 4. The game is set to come out on March 21. @Xartain you can play it all in sp if you want, but it is gated (you can't cont s

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Released

Posted By: GamerDating - March 03, 2017

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a confirmed as a Nintendo Switch launch title and it is finally available, it is here, today on the 3rd March 2017! This next instalment of The Legend of Zelda series is the eighteenth main title that Nintendo has released, and is avialable both on Wii U and Nintendo Switch.  In this Zelda games you are introduced to one huge, beautiful open world. Step into a world of discovery, exp

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Stardew Valley 1-year Anniversary

Posted By: GamerDating - February 28, 2017

Last weekend marked the 1 year anniversary of the release of Stardew Valley and Eric Barone, solo developer of Stardew Valley shared his thoughts and achievements and how his life changed from working alone, quietly, to a sudden mr meeseks of the world.  Considering that I had spent the previous 4-5 years in my own little bubble, working alone, doing essentially the same thing every day… and now suddenly to be thrust into the lim

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Titanfall 2 - Live Fire Release and Double XP

Posted By: GamerDating - February 24, 2017

Titanfall 2 kicked off it's latest free DLC, introducing new specific Live Fire maps, introducing playlists, some fixes and new style matchmaking. Live Fire is a new 6v6 pilot only mode (no Titans) have under a minute to wipe out the enemy, with no respawns, perhaps born from the gifs and images where we see crazy skilled players wipe out the enemy team in one smooth blink of an eye.  "It’s fast, frantic, and

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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands Open Beta

Posted By: GamerDating - February 20, 2017

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands have announced that the Open Beta will take place from 23/02 12PM to 27/02 12PM. You can now pre-load the game. Ghost Recon Wildlands Open Beta is an openworld CO-OP adventure similar to the Far Cry and Assassins Creed open world game-plays. A large world with multiple missions across the zones which unlock and progress your character. In Wildlands you are pitted against the Cartel as elite Ghos

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Will Chu Be My Valentine? - Free communication for all!

Posted By: GamerDating - February 14, 2017

We love Valentines Day, and of course we do, we are gaming cupids.. or something like that. Love is in the air for gamers around the world, but for all you who remain single, we got your back. We're giving you 3 days free communication at GamerDating to find your special player 2, arrange a game date, and to have a beautiful future gaming together. We don't want you single, we want you to play co-op and to do so we

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A Gaming Valentine's Day

Posted By: Emily Toye - February 14, 2017

Valentine’s Day is here. You’ll know this because if you walk into any supermarket, card shop or restaurant they’ll have broken out the cute teddy bears holding love hearts, red roses and anything and everything made out of chocolate. It’s a day for couples to spoil each other, or to treat it as any other day of being in a loving relationship. We all celebrate Valentine’s Day differently, and any way should be amazin

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South Park: The Fractured But Whole Delayed Again

Posted By: GamerDating - February 10, 2017

South Park: The Fractured But Whole has been delayed to Ubisoft's next fiscal year. Placing release between April 2017 to March 2018. Originally pitted for release in December last year, it was delayed in September for release in the first quarter. In Ubisoft's earnings report, it was confirmed it's release is now 'scheduled for fiscal 2017-18'. The first delay back in September was accredited to the quality:

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Rainbow Six Siege - Season 2 Updates

Posted By: GamerDating - February 06, 2017

Ubisoft's tactical shooter boasted 10 million players and shared their playerbase increase of over 50% since the launch last year. Constant improvements, season 1 releases, introduction of ranked, maps, new operators and dedicated servers for custom competitive games added a sheen to the entire game. Ubisoft are not slowing down their drive for Rainbow Six Siege, as the weekend just gone saw a Free Weekend go by where PC, XBox and PS4 co

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The Last Moments of Asheron's Call

Posted By: GamerDating - February 01, 2017

Seventeen-year-old MMORPG Asheron’s Call had its plug pulled and the servers shut down for good. 17 years of characters, gameplay and the associated friendships, families, and relationships that were born from it came to a saddening end.  As one of the originals to the MMO world, Asheron's Call has influenced a world of gamers many who have met, married had children and still continued to play. PC Gamer took to the serve

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Too Much Salt is Bad for You - Relationship Advice from Emily Toye

Posted By: Emily Toye - January 30, 2017

If you’re part of the gaming community, you’ll probably be familiar with the idea of ‘being salty’. For those who are unsure of the term, it is a way to describe someone who is upset or angry about something. In the case of video games, someone might be salty that they lost a match of CS:GO or died to a boss in Dark Souls. Getting angry at a video game and being salty can be a common occurrence in many video games and

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Overwatch Introduce CTF - Capture The Rooster

Posted By: GamerDating - January 25, 2017

Overwatch has updated with a Chinese New Year seasonal event and for the next three weeks, they have added over 100 commemorative cosmetic items, new firework effects on Lijiang Tower, and the new game mode - Capture The Rooster, a play on the name for Capture the Flag.  With the Chinese New Year event you can see some of the awesome new skins below: Alternatively check out the video below announcing the welcome to the Year of the

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Gabe Newell's AMA Round-Up

Posted By: GamerDating - January 18, 2017

Gabe Newell nicknamed Gaben, is master and founder of Valve Corporation. We all know him and we all love the products he gave, Steam, Half-Life, Portal, L4D and DoTA2. Throughout the years Gaben has retained an odd legendary status, becoming a meme with the popularity of Steam and has his own fan made website where he offers sales in the guise of a saint. Gaben, the voice of valve, came to Reddit and offered to do an AMA after a

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Grandpa Plays Asheron's Call For 17 Years And Now Its Closing

Posted By: GamerDating - January 11, 2017

On November 2, 1999, Microsoft and Turbine launched Asheron’s Call, a massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game that stood amongst the giants of the time, EverQuest and Ultima Online. Now 17 years later, on January 31, Asheron’s Call and its sequel are coming to an end. The January 31 closure of Asheron’s Call was announced via the games’ forum: It is with a heavy heart that we must announce the e

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Fort Triumph Review

Posted By: Ryan - December 16, 2020

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Rarely do I enjoy physics-based gameplay so much.

As 4X, tactics games go, Fort Triumph is a largely enjoyable entry to the genre. Before going into the meat of the review, I want to state something straight away: this is NOT the game for you if you’re interested in a serious, expansive game in the same vein as the XCOM series. If you’re interested in a more light-hearted, but still challenging, take on the genre, this might just be something you want to pick up.

Fort Triumph Gameplay is certainly a treat

From such simple beginnings…

Visually, Fort Triumph is a treat. Lush, almost cartoony visuals are full of vivid colours and everything, for the most part, is easy to distinguish at a glance. The four main character classes are visually distinct from each other and retain enough traits when spread across the various factions that I rarely struggled to tell what abilities an enemy was likely to have at a glance based on previous experience or my knowledge of what my heroes could do.

Both the overworld map, itself full of points of interest, and the tactical map of the quests are easily understood for the most part (importantly it is VERY easy to tell where cover is, the direction of physics abilities and the areas affected by area-of-effect abilities) and cutscenes are presented as easy-to-read text with character portraits indicating the speaker. Unfortunately, the bright art style can contribute to some confusion. Key information, like which enemy unit is currently highlighted or which square is selected for an attack or movement action, can be lost among the visual clash between bright models, animations and gameplay indicators. On more than a few occasions I found myself selecting the wrong target because I didn’t have exactly the right camera angle to tell what I had selected.

You will randomly be treated to close up murder.

Where the visuals aim for a fantasy comic/cartoon feel, the audio is much more traditional fare: rousing action music and evocative weapon/movement sounds. Nothing really stands out as truly impressive, save for perhaps the unsettling spider movement noise, but nothing was a low point either. The music was good, if not particularly memorable.

The same could also be said for the UI and UX of the game. Obviously, there is little room for innovation within both the UI and UX of this style of game and Fort Triumph uses those who went before to great effect. The left-hand side of the screen shows your units, their health and their remaining Action Points (most abilties cost at least one Action Point), the bottom shows the abilities of the currently selected unit and the right-hand side shows the enemies visible to your heroes.

You can click on a unit card to select it and you can hover over enemy cards to see where that particular enemy is, something that is very useful when combined with the fact that the game shows the ‘to hit’ chance of each enemy when an offensive ability is selected, as well as any effects currently active on the units present on the map. Rather, it WOULD be useful if the red highlight the game applies to the unit whose card you are hovering over were easier to see. As hostile units have a red outline when they are behind cover, or otherwise obscured from the camera, the effect used to show the unit tied to that card is too subtle to easily see and I frequently gave up using it mid-quest and manually selected each enemy in turn to find the one I wanted. I also felt that the controls for selecting and using abilities could have been redesigned: a left-click selects an ability, but a right-click activates it. I found myself right-clicking to cancel an ability too often in the opening hours of the game and accidentally consuming the ability. This is, perhaps, entirely down to how my own brain works though, so your mileage may vary.

Fort Triumph steam gameplay showing the mid game

It looks like there is a lot going on here, but it’s easy to pick up on what’s really important.

Not that this really hinders the gameplay in any meaningful way. That is, largely, tried and true 4X, tactics gameplay. A couple of viewers who caught the streams live as I played through the main campaign for this review remarked that it reminded them of the Heroes of Might and Magic series and  a small amount of research revealed that there are similarities. Broadly speaking, the game is split into two distinct portions: the overworld and the quests. The overworld features a large-ish map full of random encounters, decisions to make for rewards and resources, and is played out in a turn-based fashion.

Each ‘turn’ is termed a day and at the start of every week your home base(s) are refilled with new heroes to hire to fill out your adventuring parties (you can have up to three parties of five heroes each). The start of each week also sees the hostile units on the map get stronger. When the player turn is complete, the AI then has a turn in which is claims resources and its own armies/groups move (sometimes absorbing the static units on the map and thus growing stronger). If one of your parties encounters a static unit, one of the enemy’s armies/groups or assaults an opponent’s base, the game switches over to the tactical system described previously.

Fort Triumph xcom fantasy with bodily physics

You’ll find a lot of things like this scattered around the overworld.

The main thing setting the tactical segments of the game apart from other games in the genre are the physics-based effects. Explosives can still destroy walls but more importantly, terrain objects can be manipulated to move cover or, in a more enjoyable manner, flatten enemies. If more tactical considerations are your concern, you can push certain pieces of the environment into enemies to stun them and cause damage, as well as pushing them backwards. It is very possible to chain stun in this way by cannoning enemies into each other/the environment and each class has a way of interacting with the map to unleash physics-based carnage/hilarity. It’s always worth remembering that whatever you can do, the AI can do as well so you should ALWAYS be prepared for one of your units to be stunned at the wrong moment.

This never gets old.

It is also worth noting that you can change the colour palette and name of your characters at any point and that they gain experience for taking part in quests. At certain levels, three abilities are randomly generated (mostly from the class but occasionally those from another class will appear and allow you to make flexible character builds) from which you can choose one, and each ability has a couple of upgrades to unlock when levelling. This results in a flexible character advancement system that means you can make the characters you want to use, rather than be forced into a specific class build. The various buildings available in your home base(s) also unlock passive abilities, but these, somewhat annoyingly, reset between each of the game’s three Acts.

Fort Triumph Character sheet

Whilst you can see your hero’s various ability scores here, you can (more importantly) customise their appearance.

All of the above is framed by a narrative worthy of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. This is a game that doesn’t take itself seriously and is full of humorous conversations, oddball characters and moments of reflection that I believe many people would benefit from. The story itself is nothing spectacular, although I would rate it as above average, but its delivery is wonderful and is built around the randomly generated characters in a mostly seamless manner (I remember only one instance of an incorrect pronoun being used). The characters, both player and non-player, are well-written and I genuinely enjoyed every line of dialogue. If the main campaign isn’t your thing, however, you can create skirmishes (both with local co-op and without) to explore the overworld maps and the tactical side of things at your pace without having to follow a narrative. If you choose to do this, you can play as any of the game’s four factions (each of which has access to unique passive abilities), instead of being locked into playing as human characters.

Fort Triumph offering sage advice to help you with your gamedates...  I think?

It’s important to now how to skulk properly.

Aside from the issues explained above, I found little else that affected my enjoyment of the game. It’s reasonably well-polished (the AI made questionable decisions a few times during my playthrough) and I found nothing that seemed to be a bug other than (occasionally) excessively long enemy turns whilst the AI decided what actions to take. There was certainly nothing that put me off returning to Fort Triumph after the 15 or so hours it took beat the main campaign (on Normal difficulty) and I can easily see myself playing many, many hours of the Skirmish mode against bots. At £19.49 on Steam (at the time of writing), I would whole-heartedly say that there is value for money here. Technically the game is endless, but even on the merits of the campaign alone I would say that the variety of difficulty levels, sheer number of ability options and enjoyable writing make the price point perfect.

Where are you going?!

Ultimately, of course, it’s up to you as the reader to make your decision but if you’re looking a fun, light-hearted tactics game with an enjoyable story and enough variety in its factions and enemy types to overlook the annoying soft reset of progression between Acts and the sometimes unclear visual presentation of the gameplay, you will not go wrong by buying Fort Triumph.

In the language of the internet: YEET! But strategically.

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