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Also, each skill can be modified as you progress further in the game, allowing you to tailor characters to your particular play style. Gregory gives a specific example of this when talking about upgrading Cicero's teleportation skill, Zephyr. In this instance, Zephyr can go two ways: offensively or defensively. The offense-oriented modification blasts out hot air when Cicero re-appears and the defensive modificationblasts cold air to freeze enemies at Cicero’s original location, buying him valuable time to recover or cast other spells.

As the pause-for-tactics descriptor indicates, all aspects of Masquerada‘scombat can play out inreal time or the game can be paused to enter a tactical modeby hitting the spacebar for more contemplative and complex setups.You can of course usea mixture of the two if you wish. It's up to the player on how theydecide to enjoy the game. However, as mentioned earlier in the article POE currency trade , the game's combatis designed around leveraging each of the character's special abilities in concert with the others toachieve the greatest effect, so the tactical mode will probably benecessary for the more dangerous encounters.

A year seemslike a long way out to be this intrigued about a game, but I must admit, after getting some quality hands-on experiencecoupled with Gregory'sintricate and passionately detaileddescription of the mechanics, Masquerada: Songs and Shadows has turned out tobe one ofmy first most-anticipated games coming out next year.


Path of Exile: Forsaken Masters expansion is live – Destructoid

Customizable hideouts, revamped boss encounters, and more


Kiwigame developer Grinding Gear has released the latest expansion to its popular action-RPG Path of Exile, titled Forsaken Masters.

After updating your game to cheap POE currency version 1.2.0 you willat timescross paths with the seven Forsaken Masters. Each Master offers unique mission variations that they either need your help with, or want to train you to handle: Haku the Armourmaster may ask you to cleanse an ancestral area and recover a lost Karui spirit for him while Vorici, the Master Assassin, will train you inhis deadly art.