Before I get started, I wanted to announce that I have turned 29 on my birthday and I am one year away from getting to my 30th year. I couldn't go out to eat because I had a cold and felt so weak and crampy. But now, I am feeling better today, so I should no longer be incapacitated.
With that out of the way, let's dive right in.
First off, I'm gonna talk about the update for Rogue Company and Paladins. A couple of weeks ago, both games have ended support for the Switch version with their current updates. I feel sorry for Switch players that their journey on these games have officially ended. All because both of their Switch ports have technical challenges that prevented developers from continuing support on the platform and making their games the best it can be. But there has been some developments.
On the Rogue Company side of things, a 26th Rogue is coming and her name is Vivi. She is a musician who plays the guitar and thought she would still be in the music business and not just joining Jackal. What egregious thing is that she joins Jackal as her new task. This is a developing story that we are getting a 26th Rogue after a while. They did say that more new Rogues will be introduced without any delays now that the Nintendo Switch port is discontinued to benefit more flexbility and more frequency on how they deliver updates. Vivi's kit remains a mystery. She is coming out soon.
For Paladins, the Anniversary update is in full swing so far. It celebrated how far Paladins have gone for five years since launch with older maps from the past and a fourth ban slot on each team for Ranked. Midnight Masquerade introduced ranked crossplay and Switch is no longer a part of it since the Anniversary update dropped. They shown us a video containing clips of Champion releases in order. There is a small clip of Moji being ticked at something used as a teaser at the end. They haven't shown us teasers of what's next yet, but they should kick in soon. I have a feeling that teasers for the 59th Champion and the next Event Pass are about to kick in soon. We currently got 58 Champions and we are two away from hitting the 60th Champion milestone.
I heard a rumor that since Season 6 entails Pyre vs. Abyss, Paladins is getting a future Champion that has two personalities, one of the Pyre that heals and the other of the Abyss that deals damage, similar to Hel from SMITE. This somewhat applies to the story in Mortal Kombat 11. Though one of the balances I know is the one Kronika desired to be the one for the golden balance of Shinnok's darkness and Cetrion's light. No, that balance is intended to put the realms to endless war between good and evil. They deserved to be in peace.
Once again, I am very sorry for Switch players. But they can still play SMITE and Realm Royale. Both of them and their DLC are still available on the eShop while their in-game purchases on the Nintendo Switch are still available. SMITE's first Year 10 update introduced ranked crossplay and the Switch version is still performing well so far.
So is SMITE esports. One heck of phase out there. The Oni Warriors at their finest in Season X. They've been kicking other teams' butts and unscathed. They haven't gotten a single loss on the Road to Masters so far and I was so amazed by it. It's a perfect run on the road for them. The Warriors' undefeated adventure started after they dethroned the Season 9 World Champs, the Camelot Kings. They are literally the Kings after winning Worlds and they are literally dethroned by the Warriors at the Kickoff Tournament. Holy cow. But at the end, their undefeated adventure was broken at 15 by the Styx Ferrymen, who won Masters and this is to honor Charon, the Ferryman of Styx himself coming to SMITE as a cherry on top. They made them look like dead bugs, as Randy Cross said in NFL Quarterback Club. Stellar stuff.
The SMITE World Championship is returning to the Esports Arena located at Arlington, Texas in January. Tickets have been sold out quickly after a few days. The esports scene is taking a summer break and it will be back for the Summer Soul-stice and the Road to the SWC. But there has been some roster changes. Genetics left Kings to join the Warriors, Quig left the Eldritch Hounds to join the Kings and Awesomejake406 left the Warriors to join a new team. Where would he be now?
Next up, EVO 2023 is around the corner and the registration numbers have been revealed and are in full swing. Street Fighter 6 has over 7,000 entrants and I was blown away by that number. That's a lot of entrants since its released and it's gonna be played last. This year is gonna be a blockbuster. Even Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is one of the games to be played at the Sunday Arena Finals along with Tekken 7, KOF XV and Street Fighter 6 and I have a good feeling that they are going to have posters that say "Free MvC2!" there as a perfect opportunity. Now then, since Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is gonna be played at the Arena Finals, is Capcom gonna announce a compilation of all classic Marvel vs. Capcom games? I hope so.
EVO is upon us and this year is gonna be more hype than last year's. The only thing about this is that Crunchyroll is gonna be a part of it to throw out some anime stuff. The streaming schedule is not yet posted and I am gonna watch some Street Fighter 6 action. Last year didn't have the Jump Off, but I hope it comes back this year.
Now, we are down to my experience with playing classics with PS Plus Premium. There has been some devlopments so far. It has been a year since the PS Plus launched and I am enjoying every last of it. The Premium Tier is the only thing to offer PlayStation classics. I downloaded one the PS1 classics I heard about, which is Herc's Adventures. Nevercake mentioned that at the end of the SMITE Lore video about Hercules. The story entails Persephone and Hades teaming up to threaten Greece. Hercules, Atlanta and Jason are the only three heroes left to save Greece. Learning about their evil has given me the impression that Hades is Persephone's emperor, husband and her equal in evil, like when Sindel is Shao Kahn's empress, wife and his equal in evil. No wonder Outworld had to be rocked.
I wanted a classic game that was developed by a defunct video game company to be added since the new PS Plus launched and Herc's Adventures is one of the games to be added developed by a defunct game developer known as Lucasarts while the hub says Disney Interactive Studios, also a defunct video game company and Disney owning Lucasarts to put the Star Wars franchise under their umbrella makes more sense.
More classics are coming this month and there are first two games of the franchise released on the PS1 that was revived with its Peacock-exclusive TV show coming this month, Twisted Metal. It is a series known for its vehicle combat action and all out destruction. The first two games are coming this month to honor the Peacock-exclusive series. I never played the first one, but I played the second one back when I was younger back in 2004. I was ten years old on that time. 19 years into the present, boom, it is gonna be added to the PS Plus Preimum catalog this week, along with the first game. I saw them play it at Combo Breaker.
And now, we are down to one last topic. It's for the Xbox release of Skullgirls, everyone's favorite fighting game. This one is gonna be developing because I received word that the Xbox release of Skullgirls 2nd Encore and its Season 1 Pass is slated to release July 19th. After July 19th, the ongoing launch party will truly begin, the chances of the Season 1 Pass selling well will be increased and Marie and future patches will be submitted to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo; all three major console companies. It's on the same month when it came out on PS4. It is now available to pre-order. I know I don't have any interests in getting an Xbox, but players of the platform are gonna get their hands on 2nd Encore after eight years since its release on PS4. The biggest milestone is about to cross soon.
The Xbox port of 2nd Encore and the Season 1 Pass coming out July 19th is indeed hopeful, but the release date of the update for the Japanese PS4 version remains a mystery. It is also on the docket. It is proven to be important to me.
The topic regarding the Xbox version of Skullgirls is not the final one because I just finished working on my splash art for the Skullgirls X BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Palette Pack. It currently has the four characters in their BlazBlue palettes, one on each mainline of the franchise that are not in the game. I didn't put in characters in their Persona 4 Arena and Under Night In-Birth palettes, but I just want to put the ones in their BlazBlue palettes in the palette pack.
The platform logos on the bottom are on there to represent that the palette pack will be available on these platforms. The PlayStation logo introduced in 2008 makes more sense because 2nd Encore also works on PS5 through backwards compatibility. Same with the Xbox logo because the Xbox One is not the only Xbox console 2nd Encore is releasing on because it is also releasing on the Xbox Series natively. All four platform logos are on there to state that Steam, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch are the current platforms that have the 2nd Encore release along with the Season 1 Pass and Xbox will get it July 19th.
This splash art will be updated when a character that is eligible for a BlazBlue palette to be in the palette pack is announced, but the characters on this art must be smaller to fit more of them.
A small update for my online casual's Discord server splash art is pronounced. I made a decision to do away with the back of the art and threw in the Steam logo on the bottom to represent that my online casual will take place only on Steam, but at the moment because this is before crossplay is implemented.
This one takes place after crossplay is implemented and it's on that time when I can welcome console players to my online casual. But it won't be implemented and we can't request it real hard until the whole season is finished as BellaFeng4Eternity said. Don't worry, Nintendo Switch players will also be a part of it as you are seeing the Nintendo Switch logo because the update for the Nintendo Switch port of 2nd Encore came with the nearly full rewrite of the port's codebase to produce better performance, online multiplayer with more flexibility than before and contain eight-player lobbies so that it can meet up with the developers' standards, knowing Rogue Company and Paladins have discontinued support on the Switch ports of their games and I am very sorry to see that.
Phew, that was a lot that I had to talk about for this set. Xbox players, now is your time to preorder 2nd Encore ahead of its launch in July 19th. Signing out.
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