Games Patch Releases

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from filefront.com ................ Blizzard has released the final client patch for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. As with previous expansions, the last patch contains all of the updates to prepare for the new expansion.

Speaking of the new expansions, we now know that Cataclysm will launch on December 7 . That means you now have less that two months to get yourself ready for the return of Deathwing to Azeroth.

If you can’t stand waiting for the Blizzard downloader to finish the patch, you should grab it from us instead. After all, it’s 4.71 GB!


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While it’s downloading, check out these patch notes.

Patch Notes:

Cataclysm Systems Patch

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm will be in stores on December 7, 2010 and the time has come to prep for the official launch by implementing its first major patch. Players can experience many major game and user interface systems updates in the first official patch for the upcoming third expansion, patch 4.0.1.

General

* Cataclysm Launcher Update

o The new Cataclysm Launcher allows you to stream game data while you play. This will reduce the time you spend downloading, installing, and patching World of Warcraft. We’d like to get your feedback on the toolset and gameplay experience. Please head to the forums here for additional information: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...Id=26726066731

* Reforging

o Players can now visit special Reforging NPCs in capital cities located near Enchanting trainers. 40% of any one secondary stat on an item can be allocated to add a new secondary stat to the item. The stat being added cannot already exist on the item. An item cannot have more than one reforged stat at a time, though the Reforging of an item can be undone and changed.

Dungeons & Raids

* Flexible Raid Lock System

o Icecrown Citadel and Ruby Sanctum now use the new Flexible Raid Lock system. This system provides the opportunity for a character to defeat each raid zone’s encounters once a week. A character may now complete the encounters during the week with different raids of either 10 or 25 players.
o Learn more about this feature by visiting our official forums here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...26324753&sid=1

* Icecrown Citadel

o The Chill of the Throne effect has been removed.

Currency

* PvE Currency Changes

o All Emblems of Frost and Emblems of Triumph have been converted to new Justice Points.
o Any dungeon or raid which awarded these emblems will reward Justice Points instead. Anything below Emblems of Triumph, including badges from The Burning Crusade dungeon and raid content, have been converted into gold and sent to players via the in-game mail system.
o Any bosses players defeat that are level-appropriate to them award Justice Points.
o All items that previously cost emblems or badges of any type now cost Justice Points.
o Higher-tier Valor Points will be awarded to players who kill dungeon and raid bosses in the latest tier of PvE content after the launch of Cataclysm.

* PvP Currency Changes

o All Arena Points, Honor Points, Battleground Marks of Honor, Stone Keeper’s Shards, Venture Coins, and Spirit Shards have been converted into new Honor Points.
o Honor Points will be awarded instead of these currencies, with the exception of Arena Points.
o Higher-tier Conquest Points will be awarded to players competing in each of the latest Arena or Rated Battleground seasons after the launch of Cataclysm.

* For more information on the changes to the currencies and conversion rates for each type, please visit our Cataclysm forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...Id=26850245012

Classes: General

* Many class talents, spells, and abilities have been overhauled, added, or removed.
* All spell and ability tooltips will now display damage averages rather than minimum and maximum damage potential. This feature is on by default but can be changed via the Display settings under User Interface options.
* Ammo has been removed from the game.
* The character levels at which classes gain new spells and abilities have changed.
* Many item and class stats have been changed or removed.
* Mastery rating has been added as a new stat which provides unique benefits for characters based on class and talent specialization. Mastery rating does not currently exist on items in the game, however, Reforging can be used to add Mastery rating as a secondary stat to existing items.
* Rage has been normalized.
* Spells and abilities no longer have multiple ranks and now scale with character level.
* Talent trees have been altered. All player talent specializations have been reset, allowing for free re-specialization.

o Each specialization has been reduced to a 31-point talent tree.
o Players will now get a total of 41 talent points to spend.
o Players will be asked to choose a specialization at level 10. Doing so will result in the unlocking of a spell or ability unique to that specialization, as well as one or more passive bonuses.
o Once a talent specialization has been chosen, players may only place points in the primary tree until at least 31 points have been spent there.
o The initial announcement regarding these talent tree changes can be found on our Cataclysm forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...26290449&sid=1

Death Knights

* A dedicated tanking tree (Blood) has been implemented.
* The effects of Blood Presence and Frost Presence have been exchanged.
* The way in which runes recharge has changed.

Druids

* A new Eclipse mechanic has been added for druids.

Hunters

* Five pets can now be stored with the hunter at all times. Any one of these five pets can be summoned via the Call Pet ability.
* Focus has replaced mana as a new resource.
* Hunters now start with a pet at level 1.
* The Stable will now store 20 pets. If a pet is moved into the Stable, its talents are wiped.

Mages

* There is now a new spell fly-out UI feature for mage portals. Clicking on the Teleport or Portal buttons will expand the list of choices available.

Paladins

* Paladins now have a new resource bar.

Warlocks

* There is now a new spell fly-out UI feature for warlock pets. Clicking on this single button will open up the list of available pets to summon.
* Soul Shards have been removed from the game as items. Instead, they now exist as a resource system necessary for using, or altering the mechanics of certain spells.

Items

* Resilience no longer reduces the chance a player will be critically hit by an opponent.
* Durability: cloth, leather, and mail now have as many points of durability as plate, making the repair cost on death much closer to equal for all classes.

Professions

* The glyph system has been updated to now feature three different types of glyphs. Many class glyphs have been added, altered, or moved to different glyph types.

User Interface

* Spell Alerts have been added to notify players when procs on select spells and abilities occur. A visual notification will display around the character and the activated ability will be highlighted on the action bar.
* The Guild Interface has been redesigned to incorporate additional functionality, including new sorting and organizational options.
* The Arena Teams pane has been improved.
* The Character pane has been redesigned. Character stats can now be shown or hidden via the Show All Details/Hide All Details button on the bottom left. When shown, all character stats will be visible in a window to the right of the pane. Stat sections can be reorganized by clicking and dragging them up or down the pane.
* The Professions panes now have more filtering and search functionality, as well as buttons to easily link recipes in the chat frame.
* A Professions screen has been added to the Spellbook to better display the details of a character’s primary and secondary professions.
* Many of the yellow System Messages that would display in the chat frame when leveling up have been removed.
* New text animations now alert players as they level up, also providing information on when new talents, spells and abilities are available.
* Professions and Class Trainers windows have been altered to more clearly display available and upcoming purchases.
* New Raid frames are now available. They can also be used in place of the standard 5-player party interface via the User Interface options.
* The Spellbook interface has been improved for greater ease-of-use and visual appeal.
* For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/bo...&forumId=11114

Graphics

* Improved water and lava rendering system (Video Options – Liquid Detail on the Graphics Panel)
* Dynamic Sunshafts effect (Video Options – Sunshafts on the Graphics Panel)
* Multi-monitor support (Video Options – Monitor on the Graphics Panel)
* OpenGL Hardware Cursor support for Windows (Video Options – Hardware Cursor on the Advanced Panel)
* Experimental support for DX11 (enabled by passing ‘-d3d11’ on the command line or adding SET gxApi “d3d11″ to the Config.WTF file)

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from filefront.com ......... Over on the Official Medal of Honor Blog , there’s a new post that will make PC gamers happy.

Apparently Danger Close is taking the feedback from the PC beta to heart, announcing that they are currently working on a second patch for the recently released shooter. The post says, in part,

A second PC patch is on the way for Medal of Honor’s multiplayer. We have been working on the feedback from the forums that you posted during the PC beta.

Good news indeed, and always awesome to see a developer taking the concerns submitted by players to heart. Here’s a list of the changes that will be released in the upcoming patch:

GENERAL

* Fixed the scenario when joining a friend on a password protected server caused a hang
* Ribbons and medals appear on unranked servers
* Jumping and shooting at the same time now affects the ability to be accurate with the weapons
* Added aiming spot in binoculars in hardcore mode
* Holding your breath and moving forward no longer takes you out of scope
* Modifications in weapon behaviour *see weapon tweaks below
* Increased the points needed to win a Domination/TDM game
o Increased TDM score from 1200 to 1400 points
o Increased Sector Control score from 1800 to 2600 points
* Decreased accuracy while shooting from the hip
* Cut points from score chain rewards in half
* Addressed the sniper rifle damage to bring the sniper rifle more in line with the other kits
* Increased the amount of recoil and spread *see weapon tweaks below
* Changed immortal time to 1.9 from 1.6 seconds after spawn to prevent the scenario of spawning in the open only to be shot on spawn in

WEAPONS

* Assault Rifles
o Increased recoil
o Deviation
+ Increased deviation when not zooming
+ Deviation bug fixed (increased while shooting)
o Lowered close range damage
o Jumping deviation increased
* Carbines
o Increased recoil
o Deviation
+ Increased deviation when not zooming
+ Deviation increses faster than assault rifles
+ Deviation bug fixed (increased while shooting)
o Jumping deviation increased
* Sniper rifles
o Headshot does the most damage
o Less damage from bolt action
+ 2 shots to kill on body from long range
+ 1 shot on body from short range
# Normal: 8m
# Ammo 2: 10m
# Range: 9.6m
o Increased recoil on semi-automatic
* Soldier
o Damage by hit point
+ Head
# Headshots as before
+ Body
# Body shots as before
+ Arms and legs
# 20% less damage