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Destiny 2's first Moments of Triumph kicks off with unique rewards
Warframe Getting New Open-World Expansion and Dynamic Update
'Pokémon GO' Community Day: How To Get Yourself A Shiny Blastoise

Destiny 2's first Moments of Triumph kicks off with unique rewards

Posted: 08 Jul 2018 06:10 AM PDT

For this year’s Bungie Day, the company announced Moments of Triumph have arrived for Destiny 2, giving players the chance to earn special rewards to mark the upcoming close of Destiny 2’s first year.

Moments of Triumph are returning from the original Destiny, and they are a series of in-game achievements that work as a retrospective on the past year in the game. For Destiny 2, these include a lot of milestones that many players will already have passed, such as completing the base campaign, and the Curse of Osiris and Warmind DLC campaigns. However, there are several achievements that won’t be completable until Destiny 2’s Solstice of Heroes event begins July 31.

Each individual ‘Triumph’ earns you points toward the next Moment of Triumph, which has an accompanying reward. These include an exclusive Legendary Ghost, a Legendary Sparrow, and a Moments of Triumph emblem reward for earning all 400 possible points in the event.

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There’s also the chance to earn the rights to wear a Moments of Triumph T-shirt, which will be available in the Bungie store for $24.99 USD during Solstice of Heroes once you’ve unlocked the reward. You’ll also have the option to add your Destiny 2 gamertag to the shirt for an extra $5.

You can start tracking your Moments of Triumph progress right now on Bungie’s official site (you'll have to link your Blizzard account, if you haven't already done so), which helpfully provides checklists for all the point-earning activities in the game. Several involve simply playing Destiny 2 the way you normally would, and many players will no doubt find that they’ve completed several Triumphs already. You’ll earn points for finishing the Calus Raid, reaching Vanguard Rank 50, by successfully making it through Tier 7 in an Escalation Protocol, and more.

Several Triumphs are still hidden, and they’ll be revealed once Solstice of Heroes kicks off. Moments of Triumph will serve as a way to finish out Destiny 2’s first year and get ready for Forsaken, which comes out September 4th. Check out the full Bungie blog post for additional details.

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Warframe Getting New Open-World Expansion and Dynamic Update

Posted: 08 Jul 2018 07:09 AM PDT

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Digital Extremes announced at TennoCon 2018 that its hit free-to-play title, Warframe, will be receiving another open-world expansion alongside a new dynamic update.

Called Fortuna, the new terrain features a sci-fi aesthetic, and brings with it a new faction and lore. Fortuna will expand the level of vertical gameplay and will allow Tenno to traverse the landscape on a hoverboard.

Key features, as detailed by the studio, include:

The Orb Vallis, The New Open World — Building on the success of Plains of Eidolon‘s earthen Landscape, The Orb Vallis is Digital Extremes’ massive new Landscape. Volatile, mercurial clouds of blue and orange loom over a sci-fi terrain populated with seascape flora, giant mushrooms, alien rock formations, rare creatures, and more.
Solaris United and Fortuna — The cyborg Faction Solaris United live in the Blade-Runner-esque Debt-Internment Colony, Fortuna. Similar to the gathering bazaars of Cetus in Plains of Eidolon, Fortuna is an underground hub city that serves as a factory to clean coolant rivers and doubles as a trading hub for the region.
New Combat Experiences — The Corpus occupiers, led by the profit-obsessed Nef Anyo, bring new technology and warriors to bear. Alongside new Corpus ground troop variants, monstrous new Spider Bot enemies of all shapes and sizes will challenge players to face their fears when they explore The Orb Vallis and face-off with the prophet of profit.
Ride a Hoverboard — Blaze across the wide open Venusian landscape by piloting the Bondi K-Drive. Call up this handy customizable hoverboard and quickly glide, jump, and trick across a variety of terrain.
Join the Conservation Movement — Switch your mindset from blast-happy mercenary to friendly savior. The strange, wonderful animals of the Vallis are going extinct. Explore the new world of Fortuna and apply your new skills to track, lure, and capture them for relocation.

Musically — The talented sound team at DE has engineered an alien-tech soundscape of eerie effects and ominous music that set the sonic tone for an incredibly rich experience, and they are joined by renowned sound composer Keith Power who has returned with an upbeat, hum-out-loud musical intro of Fortuna unlike anything you have heard before.

The update, Codename: Railjack, will allow up to four players to travel to space to explore and fight. You can find a list of key features below:

Fly Seamlessly into Space — All new to Warframe, Digital Extremes’ ‘Codename: Railjack’ gives Tenno a trans-planet warship to band together with other friendly Tenno and seamlessly transition from the open Fortuna landscape to space combat!
Coordinate Your Space Crew — Pilot the ship and over the whole battle, man a turret, manage the shields, make repairs, and work as a team to capture and conquer other hostile spacecraft.
Archwing Attack: Go on the offensive by dispatching Archwings for onboarding attacks. Take out enemy cannons and board enemy ships to confront and eliminate swarming soldiers. Take out their core reactors, eliminate their crew, and emerge victorious!

Players can also expect two new Warframes – Eidolon-themed Revenant and gory Garuda – in the near future.

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'Pokémon GO' Community Day: How To Get Yourself A Shiny Blastoise

Posted: 08 Jul 2018 07:39 AM PDT

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We essentially have a Community Day double feature in Pokémon GO this month. Yesterday, we had a three hour window for Articuno raids for a chance at the legendary being shiny, today we have the third and final Gen 1 starter as the centerpiece of actual Community Day, Squirtle.

As far as Community Day special features go, this is a pretty good one. Evolved Blastoises will learn Hydro Cannon as a special move today, which is a solid charge move, and the overall bonus for the three hour window (starting at 11 PT in the US) is 1/4 egg hatch distance, so you can hatch a bunch of eggs while you’re going around catching Squirtle everywhere in Pokémon GO today.

But as ever, the real prize of the day is trying to secure yourself not just a Blastoise with Hydro Cannon, but a shiny Blastoise with Hydro Cannon. If you’ve hunted down the last two starters, you could have yourself a full shiny of set of Charizard, Venusaur and Blastoise, which is definitely something to brag about.

The problem? Shiny Blastoise…sucks. Sorry, I don’t know how else to say it. Unlike Charizard, who is awesomely colored black and red, or Venusaur with his differently colored flower, shiny Blastoise (and Squirtle and Wartortle) are barely distinguishable from their non-shiny counterparts. They’re just a shade lighter blue, and their shell might be a tiny bit more green. But that’s it. The shiny version is in the image above, and yet if you had no idea, I wouldn’t blame you. Instead, you’re going to have to look for the sparkles around him, which will be the best clue.

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As for how to get one? It’s a numbers game, as per usual. He should be easier to find than shiny Articuno yesterday because he doesn’t need to be fought and caught in a raid, and you can instead just farm Squirtle all day long. Get those three hour lures running if you want to camp by a Pokestop. And Community Day is always the best time to use incense, given that more of the featured Pokémon will show up there as well.

The spawn rate for shinies during Community Day is somewhere between 3-5%, in other words, 1 in 20 or 1 in ~35 Squirtle catches should get you a shiny one you can evolve into a Blastoise. Obviously, sometimes you will just have totally garbage luck and you could catch 100 without seeing a shiny, but if you farm enough, hopefully you can snag one or two in three hours at least. I would not evolve your Blastoise until near the end so that you can use your highest IV shiny to do so. Oh and I almost forgot, this is also the day where you can get a Squirtle with sunglasses, which will actually evolve into a Blastoise with sunglasses, so see if you can go for the perfect duo of a shiny, sunglasses-wearing Blastoise.

Squirtle may not be the most exciting Pokémon out there in three generations of releases these days, but a shiny Blastoise to round out your set is a must-have regardless of his bad coloring. And with Hydro Cannon, Blastoise is a decent choice to take on some legendaries like Moltres (probably the next GO Fest raid reward) or Entei in the future.

Happy hunting, and I hope you have some decent luck and can secure yourself a shiny or three.

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