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Where Is Xur? Destiny 2 Location, Exotic Weapons, And Invitations Of The Nine Guide (April 5-9)
It’s the weekend, which means for Destiny 2 players, it’s time to party with Xur. That means accepting his Invitation of the Nine, and purchasing some Exotic weapons and armor from the Agent of the Nine to fill out your collection.
Head out to Titan to find Xur this week–he’s hanging out on The Rig. Head to the north end of the platform and check inside a low building near its edge to find him. This week, you can pick up D.A.R.C.I., a sniper rifle that offers a bunch of targeting perks. Its Personal Assistant gives you information about enemies when you aim at them through the gun’s scope, and using the perk gives you better target acquisition and extra precision damage.
While there was a dearth of Forsaken Exotics in Xur’s bag last week, this week is a little less disappointing. Hunters can grab the Gwisin Vest chest armor from Forsaken, which gives back Super energy for the kills you make with Spectral Blades in between activating the Super’s invisibility. For Titans, there’s the Antaeus Wards leg armor, another Forsaken Exotic. The boots let you reflect incoming projectiles when sliding, and using the reflection perk gives you Super energy. Warlocks aren’t as lucky–they’re stuck with Winter’s Guile from the Year One collection, which boosts your melee damage for every melee kill you rack up.
Here are all the Exotics Xur offers this week and what they’ll cost you:
- D.A.R.C.I. (Exotic sniper rifle) — 29 Legendary Shards
- Antaeus Wards (Exotic Titan leg armor) — 23 Legendary Shards
- Gwisin Vest (Exotic Hunter chest armor) — 23 Legendary Shards
- Winter’s Guile (Exotic Warlock gauntlets) — 23 Legendary Shards
You can also buy a Fated Engram, if you can afford it. Dropping 97 Legendary Shards on the item will grant you one Year One Exotic you don’t already have for that character. Xur also offers the Five of Swords challenge card for free, which allows you to add difficulty modifiers that increase your score in Nightfall runs.
Xur brings another Invitation of the Nine this week, a weekly bounty that gives you a Powerful gear drop, a bit of story about the Nine, and a new Lore entry. If you’ve been keeping up each week, this one will send you to Io to complete The Pyramidion strike. You’ll also need to kill Cabal, Taken, and Vex enemies.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/where-is-xur-destiny-2-location-exotic-weapons-and/1100-6466062/
Ruin: Fortnite Season 8’s Legendary Skin Revealed
We’re more than halfway through Season 8 of Fortnite now, which means players who have been keeping up with the game’s weekly challenges should be getting close to unlocking this season’s secret Legendary skin. In an uncharacteristic move, Epic Games has given fans an early glimpse at the outfit, and it looks very cool.
Battle Pass holders who manage to complete eight weeks’ worth of challenges in Season 8 will unlock the Ruin skin. Epic revealed the ominous-looking outfit on Twitter, and while it didn’t share any further details about the character or how it ties into the game’s lore, it will presumably have something to do with the impending Season 9.
Battle Pass Owners… Prepare for Ruin. The Week 8 Battle Pass Outfit has been revealed! Complete your Weekly Challenges now to unlock Ruin in Week 8. pic.twitter.com/5iokGrqbQp
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 5, 2019
The Ruin reveal follows shortly after the release of Week 6’s challenges. As usual, this batch of tasks runs the gamut from straightforward elimination challenges to some more involved objectives like visiting a wooden rabbit, stone pig, and metal llama, and finding the highest elevations on the island. You can find guides for these and all the other tricky missions from the season in our complete Season 8 challenges roundup.
Fortnite’s 8.20 content update arrived earlier this week. The highlight of the update was another new weapon: the Boom Bow. Unlike a typical bow, this one has shotgun shells on its arrow tips, which will explode on impact. Epic also brought back the popular Sniper Showdown limited-time mode and made a few other tweaks to the game, such as buffing peppers, one of the new scavenged items recently added to the game.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ruin-fortnite-season-8s-legendary-skin-revealed/1100-6466057/
Xbox Live Gold Is Getting A Price Hike In The UK
Xbox Live Gold subscribers will soon need to pay more for their membership, as Microsoft confirms it’s raising the price of its premium service across the UK. The new prices will take effect from May 8.
“To ensure gamers have consistent pricing for Xbox Live Gold across Europe we are making changes to UK pricing from May 8,” a Microsoft spokesperson told GameSpot. “Prices will rise by £1 a month for our monthly subscriptions, £3 for our quarterly subscriptions, and by £10 a year for an annual membership. This new pricing is aligned to the changes we made in [Europe] in 2016 as we strive to offer our members premium gaming and entertainment services at a fair price. We have notified members whose accounts are on recurring billing in the UK so they are aware well in advance.”
Taking the rise into account, the new cost for a month of Gold will be £7, while a quarterly subscription will set you back £18. A yearly subscription, which Microsoft says is its best-value option, will cost £50. The company did not state if its 6-month option, currently priced at £30, will see a price hike.
Xbox Live Gold pricing is now approximately in line with that of PS Plus in Europe. Other regions will seemingly not be affected by the changes.
Xbox Live Gold prices increased across some parts of Europe in 2016, but it’s been many years since the UK (or US) saw its prices rise. Since 2016, however, the British pound has suffered poorer exchange rates with many other countries’ currencies.
Aside from online multiplayer, Xbox Live Gold comes with an array of benefits, such as free monthly games. April’s free Xbox Games with Gold include The Technomancer, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005), and they’re available now.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-live-gold-is-getting-a-price-hike-in-the-uk/1100-6466055/
