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Goat Simulator Remastered announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC - Gematsu

Coffee Stain Publishing and developers Coffee Stain Studios, Coffee Stain North, and Deep Silver FISHLABS have announced Goat Simulator Remastered for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store). It will launch in 2024.

“Get ready to be transported back to 2014, where times were simpler and everyone just wanted to be a Goat,” said Coffee Stain Publishing producer Joel Rydholm in a press release. “Goat Simulator Remastered is launching during the 10th anniversary of the original game, and we’re so excited to celebrate by bringing back the inspiration behind both Goat Simulator 2 and Goat Simulator 3, giving fans an opportunity to re-experience beloved goat-fueled memories with glorious new graphics and improvements.”

Here is an overview of the game, via Coffee Stain Publishing:

About

Goat Simulator Remastered is the latest in goat simulation technology. Your favorite chaotic sandbox is back and more beautiful than ever, with updated graphics, every downloadable content, and more bugs that you can shake a goat at. WASD to rewrite history. Your goal? Chaos! Your muse? Pilgor the goat! If you’ve had your horns in the sand for the last 10 years, Goat Simulator is a game about causing as much destruction as you possibly can, as a goat. Headbutt, backflip and ragdoll your way around each level to earn points, and come up with creative ways to ruin an NPC’s day. Goat Simulator Remastered is the remaster no one asked for. It comes with everything you loved about the original game and more, with new and improved visuals, updated textures, shiny new lighting, and some brand-new foliage showing off the finest in advanced goat simulation technology. We’ve also completely reworked Mutators, allowing you to pick and choose whichever “goat” you desire from a handy in-game menu. You just have to catch them all first!

The remaster also includes every downloadable content from the PC version, and one of our favorites from the mobile version, including:

“GoatVille” – The Big Apple of Goat Simulator, as some would say…

“Goat City Bay” – The coastal jewel of northern GoatAsia.

“Goat MMO” – A fantasy adventure across lands unknown.

“Goat Z” – Can you survive the apocalypse?

“PAYDAY” – Gather your crew and prepare for a heist!

“Waste Of Space” – Explore the outer reaches of space and see what popular sci-fi references lie within…

“Buck to School” – From Goat Simulator Mobile, GoatVille high has a new jock in town.

There are also less exciting new things, like general optimization and bug fixing—but we promise we mainly fixed the boring ones.

Key Features

You can be a goat… again.

No really, that’s still the main selling point.

A brand spanking new mutator menu that lets you mix and match goats to your heart’s content—if your contentment means abominations.

As buggy as you remember—just because it’s a remaster doesn’t mean we haven’t left in an unhealthy dose of physics-based bugs because why not?

All downloadable content included—we could have sold them separately to you again, but if we’re honest this is already a cash-grab.

New and improved graphics, lighting, VFX and animations – as well as revamped foliage for the prettiest leaves you’ll see in a Goat Simulator game excluding Goat Simulator 3.

Disclaimer

Goat Simulator Remastered is a completely stupid game and has been a completely stupid game since we first invented goat simulation over 10 years ago. We’ve said it before, but you should absolutely be spending your money on something else, like a neat hat, a pile of bricks, or maybe pool your money together with your friends and buy a real goat.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer

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Dungeon affix in 8.3

(Reference: https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/47626-the-awakened-mythic-season-4-affix-in-visions-of-nzoth/)

Hello horde and alliance players! This is the second blog on what’s new in the World of Warcraft 8.3 patch. In my last blog I introduced the outdoor and some general information in the patch 8.3. Today I’m going to talk about the dungeon change in the new patch. Dungeon and raid are the PVE (player VS environment) game-play content in World of Warcraft since the game was developed. More than 80% of players spend time dungeons.

Original Affix: Since the Legion expansion, Blizzard introduced affix for use in mythic keystone dungeon. Affix is an extra element, which will affect players while they are fighting in dungeons. For example, tyrannical means that BOSS enemies will be specifically enhanced; explosive means that dungeons will spawn explosive balls when players are in combat with enemies. The only change on all original affix is to modify the damage of quaking affix. In earlier expansions quaking affix did a damage of 20% maximum health to everyone, but now in 8.3 it does 40% maximum health damage to every players other than you. In earlier expansion the quaking caused extra death because it could constantly hurt you even you are not in combat; and it could interrupt your eating action. But now everything has changed. Unless you stand in other’s quaking circle, you will not get hit. It’s a truly fix of this bad thing. Cheers!

Seasonal unique affix: Starting from 8.0 expansion every game season has a unique Affix. Cooperating with the awakening of N’Zoth, we have a cool name awakened for the affix. Under this affix, players will defeat 4 servants of N’Zoth which have been awakened from the void. Each servant has an obelisk on map, players need to interact with the obelisk to enter the realm of void. After defeat the servant, a ritual portal will spawn. Players can use this portal to cross back to the realm of lives again. Do you guys have any thought? Yes this is the ‘official’ shroud for us! In early expansions people relied on rogue’s shroud too much to skip pack of mobs they do not want to fight with, and that caused imbalance distribution on classes. Blizzard is trying to fix this imbalance by adding a new style of shroud. What a genius idea! (I love it. First time ever Blizzard do something good)

(Reference: https://www.mmo-champion.com/content/8852-Patch-8-3-PTR-Corrupted-Affix-Vulpera-Mount-DLC-703?page=2)

Voidweaver Mal'thir: This servant comes as a spider, just like its name weaver. Every servant of N’Zoth spawn with their unique minions, for voidweaver we will encounter small beetles. Those beetles will auto attack player who has the highest threat, normally the tank. So DPS players control your fingers after cross into the void realm! Those cute beetles will automatically explode after a period of time, for my own experience it’s every 8 to 10 seconds a beetle will explode, and cause massive damage to a obvious circle marked area around it plus a poisoned effect. Voidweaver itself is more like a mage. It will cast two spells: disease and curse. Both will cause damage for sure, but disease will slow down your movement by 70% and curse will slow down your casting speed by 50%.

(Credit to method dungeon tool in game addon)

Samh'rek, Beckoner of Chaos: I will rank this as the most annoying servant. The beckoner comes with 5 fleshfiend which will attack highest threat player. However, the fleshfiend will cast a non-interruptible bleeding effect on nearest player. That means no matter you have threat or not, DO NOT leave your tank. Tank players should pop your defensive to overcome the stacked bleeding damage and DPS players need to kill those fleshfiends as soon as possible. The beckoner itself also has an ability; it will cast a magic effect on random 3 players. After 2, 4 and 6 seconds those players and any other people standing in 5 yards will be feared for 2 seconds. Healers will have to decide here, dispel tank to avoid tank losing control or dispel yourselves to ensure healing others.

Tips: Personally, as a tank player I would recommend dispelling tanks. Tank will have to pop defensive to overcome the bleeding and keep facing to enemies to avoid hit on back. Damage from back of a tank player will create critical strike (double damage). Once a tank get feared healers may not be able to heal fast enough to save a tank’s life. But if fleshfiends are cleared and tank is in good condition, why not dispel DPS players to defeat the beckoner faster?

(Credit to method dungeon tool in game addon)

Blood of the Corruptor: This is literally like a jelly blob Lol. The blob spawns with 5 tentacles which will constantly cast mind flay on random players. DPS players need to kill tentacles fast to avoid taking too much damage from it. The core ability of this blob servant is defiled ground. After a period of time the blob will pollute a round area on the ground, walking on it will cause massive damage. So the correct way to defeat this blob is to kill tentacles fast before ground is fulling polluted. Of course tank players can pull the blob away to avoid the situation of no place to stand. But that is risky as well, healer has to stay with others to prevent death from damage of tentacles.

(Credit to method dungeon tool in game addon)

Urg'roth, Breaker of Heroes: Read its name you will know exactly what it does… This servant is a breaker of tanks! Urg’roth will rapidly cast spirit breaker (that hurts, trust me) with massive damage and give target a 100% more damage taken debuff on highest threat players. DPS players control your fingers! Sometimes tank player is not the first one who get into the void realm, so Urg’roth may hit players other than the tank if they keep doing damage with a pretty high level of threat. After cast the spirit breaker the servant will cast a massive ranged AOE (area of effect) damage. Jump out the circle and survive, don’t make trouble to your healer. Every servant comes with minions, breaker of heroes will summon malicious growth on ground. It looks like fungi, but way much larger. Those growth fungi will slow down nearby player by 70% and cause damage. Imagine Urg’roth is casting the AOE but you are stuck in between fungi; kill those fungi to clean a path for survival!

(Credit to method dungeon tool in game addon)

How to use the awakened obelisk: First step, design your route. An obelisk can enable a shortcut between two points and help you avoid enemies. Make sure to design a good route to use obelisks and skip those powerful enemies that you don’t want to fight. Next, get in the obelisk. Every obelisk has unique enemies, defeat them after team arrives at designated position. Final step, escape from the realm. A portal will appear on the cold dead body of servants to let you get out of the realm of void. Watch out for patrols when you get out. If the team wants to fight a pack of enemies right out of the portal, always let tank get out first.

  (Credit to method dungeon tool in game addon and route by Dratnos on raider.io weekly routes)

Do we have to defeat all obelisks? Yes for sure, even if you do not use an obelisk to skip enemies, enter it and defeat the servant. All the obelisks that you leave there will appear in the fight of final BOSS. That will increase the difficulty of the battle. Imagine you are fighting a tank killer BOSS and the Breaker of Heroes come out… Mommy I don’t want to play as a tank! However, in some dungeons you can leave the voidweaver servant because it will only do extra damage and that can be interrupted. Save DPS cooldown and pop it on servant in BOSS fight to nuke it down. Perfect!

In next blog I will talk about the new raid with you guys. Stay in touch!

About author:

I’ve been playing WoW for over 5 years as a paladin. I chose the paladin class because of the Seven Knightly Virtues in the real world, and because the Blizzard-made spells for this class follow the virtues. I like role playing like a “harbinger of justice”. World of Warcraft is a truly fantastic game — it's an exiting world that is so much more than just a game