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![]() Spencer, an assassination attempt was put into place against Marcus. When he had a falling out with one of Umbrella's other founders, Oswell E. Marcus was a virologist and one of the founders of Umbrella, who helped develop the T-Virus and the Queen leech - a giant leech created by conducting experiments with the T-Virus with ringworms. RELATED: Resident Evil 7: Baker Family Encounters Are DynamicĪ man named James Marcus, who was able to control mutated leeches and had a Queen Leech residing in his body, was responsible for attacking Umbrella's train and the prisoner convoy transporting Billy. members do not survive and find out why Umbrella's train, the Ecliptic Express, was attacked and stopped. Umbrella researcher William Birken, along with their agent, Albert Wesker, were sent by Umbrella to cover up evidence that would incriminate Umbrella, ensure S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team's Rebecca Chambers, a rookie medic, found Billy on a stopped train belonging to Resident Evil's villainous corporation, Umbrella, while searching the premises for him. ![]() One of its prisoners, Billy Coen, had escaped. Bravo Team to investigate what was transpiring out there.Īfter their helicopter made an emergency landing due to mechanical issues, Bravo team discovered a prisoner convoy that had crashed on a nearby road. ![]() ![]() Finally, on July 23, 1998, Raccoon City Police Department sent in their S.T.A.R.S. Resident Evil Village is available now for Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, and Stadia.Resident Evil 0 begins during the spring of 1998, as citizens in Raccoon City begin to demand answers over various reports on the grapevine of unexplained murders happening in the heavily forested Arklay Mountains outside of the city. Next: Resident Evil Village Review: A Nightmare Reborn But it's clear that Capcom has no intention of leaving Ada out of the fight against the Umbrella Corporation anytime soon. While she appears alongside her longtime partner Leon Kennedy, or will she strike out on her own? Will her unused design get a second chance at life? No one can say yet. This all but guarantees that Ada Wong should make a return in a future title. The success of Village proves the Resident Evil franchise is not going away anytime soon. It's safe to assume, however, that it would be unfamiliar to long-time fans. It's impossible to know how Ada's gameplay would've made the change in POV. Resident Evil Village, like its predecessor, is played from the first-person perspective. Resident Evil 2, 4, and 6 all use a third-person, over-the-shoulder control scheme. In a similar vein, Ada's past appearances have all been in games with very different play styles. However, Resident Evil Village is a very dense game plot-wise, so the addition of another ongoing subplot may have made things too convoluted. The concept of her conducting her own investigation of the village is perfect, given her skills and characteristics. Ada is one of the more beloved characters in the Resident Evil franchise, with fans and critics alike praising her for her design and personality. The decision to cut her is logical if likely upsetting for longtime fans. It also says she was " cut due to a number of conflicting scenarios." Had she shown up in Village, it would mark her first mainline installment appearance without Leon Kennedy. Ada was supposed to be investigating the village when she rescues Ethan, according to the caption. Her new design would've taken influence from plague doctors, complete with the mask. Related: Resident Evil Timeline From RE1 To RE Village ExplainedĪs IGN reports, there is concept art for Ada in "The Tragedy of Ethan Winters Artwork" gallery. Her last in-game appearance (chronologically) was 2012's Resident Evil 6. ![]() Since then, she's become a recurring character and major ally of Leon's, often showing up to assist him during his adventures. She would later appear in person for Resident Evil 2, where she teams up with Leon Kennedy. A developer's comment on the artwork reveals she was cut due to plot reasons.Īda Wong was first introduced in the original Resident Evil, being mentioned in a letter. The artwork appears in the Trauma Pack DLC, available through the game's Deluxe, Collector's, and Complete editions. Behind-the-scenes artwork in Resident Evil Villagereveals that Ada Wong from the previous titles was set to appear. ![]() ![]() Both in the game and historically, he is captured while he and most of his crew are passed out below decks.
![]() ![]() This first update builds a foundation for Neighbor Sims acting on their own, and we may see more wild Sims stories as a result. 30, and Maxis will keep updating the system. Neighborhood Stories will be part of a free update on Nov. This comes with new Aspirations: Neighborhood Confidante, for those who like to lend a hand, and Villainous Valentine for those who prefer the juicy drama of a break-up. You can be a matchmaker and encourage like-minded people to get together, or you can break up relationships and swoop in on the newly-single Sim. This adds some fun opportunities to be a good neighbor - or to inflict chaos on everyone around you. The brief concept for what sort of approach a Sims 4 heroes and villains pack might look like follows form. A lot of this will also feed off the Sims 4 Star Wars game pack’s frame work. Tying in with the overall concept of a crime and justice idea, heroes and villains was also touted as an option. Neighbor Sims with a big problem on their mind will call you for input, or you can simply point a Neighbor towards a decision to encourage them to make it themselves. Sims 4 expansion concept: Heroes and villains. However, you still get to control how things develop. In the future, more Sims will be affected, and they’ll make more decisions without the player’s input. The feature will be focused on a few life changes for Sims in your character’s immediate vicinity, like colleagues or bar buddies. To start, Neighborhood Stories will be slightly limited. Neighborhood Stories is set to be released for The Sims 4 on Nov. They may choose a new career, have a baby, or divorce their spouse. When you’re not watching, neighbor Sims will live their own lives. This is similar to a popular feature from The Sims 3 called Story Progression. It’s a new feature called Neighborhood Stories, introducing gameplay moments that happen to Sims outside of the player’s control. On Tuesday, Maxis announced a big change that’s on the way in an upcoming update. ![]() ![]() It's worth trying out the voice commands to see if they work for you (and in the future their function may be improved - here's hoping!), and of course if you are working on a tablet without a convenient keyboard you may find them valuable. Often, I find it more efficient to use my keyboard to add punctuation/new lines as the text I am dictating is appearing on my document, instead of trying to use the voice commands, although you can edit the whole document when you have finished (see Step 10 - Editing Afterwards in Google Docs or in Word). or Google sometimes adds the punctuation, but then changes to words, so you can end up with sentences with words like ‘comma’ and ‘full stop’ instead of the punctuation. Google now provides tools so that you can use voice input for basic punctuation/formatting commands, although I find these are often not recognised …. Tip 2 – If you find your text is coming out looking really odd, check that your language choice (in the drop-down menu just above the microphone icon) hasn’t been changed accidentally. If you have just one repeated problem name, you may prefer to insert it as you go: type it in the first time, then copy it (Ctrl+C) and just ‘paste it in’ (Ctrl+V) whenever it occurs in the text as you are dictating. extra spaces or repeated misspelt names), you may be best to leave them for the editing stage (see Step 9 – Editing in Word). Tip 1 - If there are consistent errors in the text (e.g. You may find, though, that there are some words that Google consistently mis-hears, so you can either type those in when they come up, or adapt your voice to suit Google for instance, if I say ‘the’, pronounced as ‘thuh’, Google will type ‘that’, so I need to remember to say ‘thee’ for the. (as of course most of them are familiar to Google)! I don't know if Google adapts to individual voices over time (there doesn't seem to be a training ‘sentence’ as there is in Android voice to text), but on the whole it is surprisingly accurate, even with names of places etc. and sometimes you just have to type in the words you want, as some words/sounds are very similar to others. You may also need to repeat a phrase if Google doesn't catch it. You may need to pause sometimes to allow Google’s programming to catch up (and you can also correct errors you spot as they appear). Speak at a reasonable pace, and articulate clearly. Imagine you are speaking to an elderly relative with hearing problems. ![]() You need to speak clearly, even when you have selected your language/dialect for input. just as well, as the ‘save’ function didn't work here, so I had to start again and reload all my steps when I closed my browser by mistake). So while it (like every other program) is by no means perfect, it was well worth learning to use (and yes, I am using Google voice typing to make this Instructable, copying & pasting the text. When I needed to transcribe some family history letters blog and audio/ video files, I looked at other voice to text programs and apps, and realised that the Google program, besides being free, is being continuously developed. My brother suggested Google Docs voice typing… and I found I could dictate my message or email onto a Google document, then just copy and paste this into my email or comments box, blog etc. I could use the voice input on my smartphone, but if I wanted to use my computer, it was a problem. I had a bad problem with inflamed tendons in my right hand, so I even had trouble typing a quick email or Facebook/blog comment. It's a great help if you have a lot of typing to do, or even if you find it difficult to type e.g. They may, for example, use the same speech-to-text engine provided natively by the operating system the browser is running on.Google has a wonderful free tool that you can use to dictate text to a document, so that you don't have to ![]() Because I believe Web Captioner will be used mostly in environments where users have control over their browser choice (instead of a restricted enterprise environment, for example), and because Google Chrome is a modern browser with wide adoption, I’ve decided to focus my development efforts on making Web Captioner work great in Google Chrome.įurthermore, if other browsers eventually implement this API, there is no guarantee that the speech-to-text engine they use will be as accurate as the one Google Chrome uses. Google Chrome is the only browser that currently implements the Web Speech API. Web Captioner uses Google Chrome's implementation of the Web Speech API for quick, accurate speech recognition. Why does Web Captioner require Google Chrome? ![]() Currently only supports speech synthesis. Support for the Web Speech API among browsers is as follows: Web Speech API Specification, published by the Speech API Community Group, that outlines a possible way that browser vendors could eventually make speech recognition and speech synthesis available to in their browsers. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Despite the multiplayer bias, the game has a full story, it combines all the characters and maps on which the battle takes place. But something goes wrong, and the team of heroes breaks up. The task of Overwatch soldiers is to protect the Earth from conflicts and external threats. ![]() The player faces a choice between 21 characters who were part of the elite Overwatch unit. The story and settingĪnyway, the company Blizzard has approached the development of Overwatch with team-specific meticulousness to details and desire to create an elaborative game universe. The exception, perhaps, can only be a game about the three Vikings-The Lost Vikings, but this, too, was a long time ago. But the developers at Blizzard wanted something new: the company does not like to experiment with new settings, preferring to transfer existing characters to new genres, worlds, and situations. Despite these releases coming out years ago, they are still alive and actively updated. Overwatch is a multiplayer first-person shooter from the company that gave players the saga of Azeroth, Starcraft and the Diablo universe. Platform: PC | Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | macOS | Nintendo Switch To permanently get any other champion, the player has to buy the champion via in-game currency or buy the champions pack for real money.Ĭategories in common with Paladins: Action | Shooter Initially, the player has access to 5 of them at any time, and 4 more are in a two-week rotation. There are more than 38 heroes (or “champions” as they are called in the game) available in Paladins. Once a team gets 4 Objective Points, it wins the match. The hostile team can, however, steal the Payload to get Objective Point themselves. Now they must escort the Payload to the enemy’s base to get additional Objective Point. When a team successfully seizes the capture point, it gets 1 Objective Point, and the Payload spawns for them. Two teams are fighting for the capture point in the center of the map. The primary game mode in Paladins is the siege. The game is, according to developers, influenced by Team Fortress 2 and is an example of hero shooter subgenre: a type of multiplayer shooter in which you choose to play as one of the pre-made characters with unique abilities and weapons¬. Paladins (also known as Paladins: Champions of the Realm) is a free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter. Not only heroes but terrain, couriers, that deliver items for you and even match announcers, that can be voiced by heroes, professional casters of just memorable characters from other forms of media. Each hero has not only a unique set of abilities but is fully customizable, through getting items for heroes after matches of through the trade. DOTA 2 is still active, and receives updates weekly, reshaping metas and refreshing game balance, if by any chance some heroes became unreasonably strong. Players can pick out of the roster of 112 heroes and battle on the single map while taking advantage of field vision, resources and item build that can either make heroes stronger or disable the enemy. MOBA genre started with the DOTA, Defense of the Ancients, which can be efficiently described as 5 vs 5 top-down action strategy game, during which players are tasked to destroy the enemy core while protecting their own. What used to be an unofficial modded map for the Warcraft 3, ended up being the most budgeted cybersport discipline, gathering millions of people to watch annual international championships. With this options in hand, you can build your own story as Commander Shepard in saving the Milky Way Galaxy.Ĭategories in common with Mass Effect: Action | Role Playing Dialogue panel is simple yet efficient - you choose the style of your approach and build a reputation of a hero or a renegade. Also, you can level up your protagonist and his squad to gain better stats and new skills. Four different weapons - automatic rifle, shotgun, pistol and sniper rifle can be obtained through the game with better characteristics. In the process, it is revealed that another Spectre, Saron, has become rogue and escapes the planet to awoke Reapers and start a full-scale war with the galaxy.įor BioWare, third-person shooters with tactical elements is a very common genre. With flexible backstory and different classes you travel to Eden Prime with Captain Anderson and Nihlus Kryik, you and your team must discover the mystery behind the attack on the human colony. ![]() Mass Effect was the very start of the trilogy about Commander Shepard in his journey to save the universe from Reapers - an old civilisation that wants to kill every possible rational being in order to prevail any wars. ![]() ![]() “I’m not gonna call their names because I feel I’ve addressed it.” 2011 - Keri Seemingly Moves the Feud to the Red Carpet Then who was the song about? “It’s anybody that ever tried to take me down and didn’t want to see me succeed,” she explained. “I’m not jealous of anybody’s career,” she said at the time. Keri later said the song was “not about” Ciara or Beyoncé during an interview in 2009. “Go head tell these folks how long I been writing your songs, I been putting you on. The song also seemingly included some shady lyrics about Ciara, whom Keri wrote several songs for through the years. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Richard Young/Shutterstock People thought the qualities Keri mentioned in her song seemed to be about the “Hold Up” singer, and the line about moving it “to the left” appeared to be a nod at Bey’s “Irreplaceable.” Some fans credit the singer publicly shading Beyoncé for destroying her budding career, but that’s up for debate.įans first thought Keri had a problem with Beyoncé when she did a remix to her single “Turnin’ Me On” in which she says: “Your vision cloudy if you think that you da best, You can dance, she can sing, but need to move it to the left … She need to go have some babies, she need to sit down, she fake, them other chicks ain’t even worth talkin’ bout.” collab “Got Your Back.” However, the songstress then went MIA amid finding success. ![]() She then released her 2010 jam “Pretty Girl Rock” followed by her T.I. ![]() Keri first found widespread fame with her 2009 anthem “Knock You Down” with Kanye West. Squashing their beef? Keri Hilsonhas been feuding with Beyoncé (and Ciara) for over a decade, but what actually happened between them? Keep reading to see a timeline of their rocky relationship. ![]() ![]() Firstly, it’s available for both Mac and PC – double-ish the market potential, right off the bat. Pro tools have a little more variety on offer in terms of purchase options. There ends the discussion of Logic Pro’s pricing options. I’m sure I’ll return to that point a little later. You may have noticed that I only mentioned the Mac App Store? Yeah, Logic Pro isn’t available for Windows or Linux or anything. There doesn’t seem to be any discounts for education or anything, another unusual aspect for commercial, high-end DAWs. ![]() There were no discounts for individuals upgrading from the previous version, which is unusual in DAW version progression and pricing. How much is Logic Pro X? From the Mac App Store you can grab it for around $199. So that’s kind of cool, I guess? Pricing options Logic Pro One of its interesting claims to fame is that Ricky Martin’s Livin’ La Vida Loca was the first number one single to have been entirely recorded, edited, and mixed in Pro Tools. That first Pro Tools cost a whopping $6,000! It’s hailed as the first digital multitrack recording software, which makes it funny to think that something that originally cost so much led to something you can now get online for free! ![]() It became Sound Tools in 1989, and was renamed Pro Tools in 1991. The following year – 1985 – they were offering downloadable features for the software. Pro Tool first appeared as Sound Designer, created by two Berkeley graduates in 1984. Pro Tools is celebrating its 30th birthday this year, so happy birthday to you!
![]() ![]() Ridge Racer Unbounded had some interesting ideas, but it's not a great game. It also fails to explain many of its mechanics, and its multiplayer servers long ago shut down though the game continues to try to connect to them every time you load it up. I missed the blue skies when playing it, and it's altogether too brown and grey. ![]() Unfortunately, it's also too little Ridge Racer. I think Underpants Slam, Elements of Destruction, and Beautiful Katamari are the only games I have that have discontinued server. Its commitment to destruction is such that even small crashes - plowing through lampposts, road signs and low walls - only fills your energy meter faster. Ascend: Hand of Kul, Full House Poker (from what I remember) 1. It's a little bit FlatOut, a little bit Burnout, a little bit Split/Second. Touch specially-placed parts of the scenery - petrol trucks, bridge struts, that sort of thing - and they will similarly explode, altering the structure of tracks and offering you shortcuts. Touch any other vehicle when in boost mode, and it will flip and explode in Burnout fashion. Once that energy bar is maxed out, you can deploy it for a boost in speed, but also to turn your car into an indestructible wrecking ball. Hold down the drift button when taking a corner and you fill an energy bar. ![]() One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Ī take on Ridge Racer by the developers of FlatOut, Ridge Racer Unbounded ditched blue skies and smooth racing line for muddy browns and a driving system that rewarded you for destroying things.Īs per every Ridge Racer games, drifting is a core mechanic. We wish there were more games like this out there which give you the keys to the city and let your imagination run riot.Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. The ability to add some of the best vehicles in the game to your garage while messing around city building doesn’t say too much about the game’s structure, but there you go.įor achievement hunters and those who enjoy exploiting a game to its full potential Ridge Racer Unbounded is worthy of consideration. Not only do achievements unlock while track testing but XP is still awarded too. And the achievement for destroying my vehicle 100 times? That one came naturally.īefore uploading a city for others to try you have to complete an event against the AI just to prove that it isn’t impossible to finish. A long straight road filled with petrol tankers and a lorry as a chosen vehicle helped to unlock the achievement for fragging 200 police cars in next to no time at all. A short looping track took minutes to build but was enough to unlock the ones for fragging another racer on the finishing line, and after a few attempts also the one for finishing a race in the top three without causing any damage. A track full of drag strips and power-ups that fill the boost gauge bagged me the one for fragging (Unbounded’s term for ‘takedowns’) ten rivals in a race, and eventually 200 in total. My mind suddenly started swimming with track ideas to unlock some of the other achievements. This was first discovered while simply building a track covered with ramps and the achievement for catching a certain amount of air time rather surprisingly unlocked. Now here’s what has been keeping me hooked – achievements can be unlocked while testing tracks. Because of the camera and the ability to tilt objects without realising it, it’s quite hard to sometimes see if they are sitting flush. The only problem ever encountered here, aside the slightly hyperactive camera, is that if you place a ramp and it isn’t quite touching the road surface you’ll wreck your vehicle as soon it you touch it. There’s ramps, loop-the-loops, explosive petrol tankers, barriers and just about everything else you’d expect. The advanced editor is viewed from first person and lets you place items wherever you fancy. The only rule here is that a track must loop from start to finish. These tiles are segments of track from the main game, complete with roadside details and often things to smash into. The basic editor is the first port of call and involves little more than placing tiles of track onto a grid. It’s so intuitive that not even a tutorial is included. Unbounded’s city builder is such a joy to use that the number of hours I’ve spent on it easily goes into double figures. Usually when a game features the ability to make your own content I’ll have a quick fiddle for ten minutes or so (or at least until any achievements related to creating custom content unlock) and then never bother with it again. While the single player mode isn’t quite as lovely as we’d hoped – it’s a Ridge Racer game in name alone and thus lacking in identity because of it – the track building tools give it an unprecedented amount of hidden depth. With the developers of Flatout at the helm we always expected this Ridge Racer reboot to be something special. ![]() |
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