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ECKVA Update 3: Technical Difficulties
ECKVA Network has been seeing a few more developments since the last update. At long last, I have the time to sit down and continue my coverage of the dodgy network. We still don’t know the identity of the mysterious broadcaster behind everything. And SHawkins remains very secretive for anyone’s benefit, let’s take a look at the major case notes before going further:
- SHawkins is the current uploader of the Youtube videos in the ECKVA channel and is a Person of Interest to ECKVA
- ECKVA Network has been out of commission for quite some time.
- Preaxin seems to be a sort of drug that either helps combat insomnia or is an anti-depressant. Hawkins also has been taking these pills while ECKVA was still active.
IMPORTANT SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
After ECKVA 4, things went quiet from both ends. SHawkins stopped updating for a little bit and there were no new uploads or semblance of activity until February 15. This time we see what looks like a normal ECKVA program (With a far from friendly face popping up). The broadcast is interrupted to bring an “Important Service Announcement”.
The transcript of the message shows some disturbing advice for this “Public Service Announcement”:
Normal ECKVA service has been interrupted to bring you an important service announcement. There will be a knock at the door. Do not open it. Stay inside today and watch TV. This is very important. This is very important. Keep looking at me. Keep looking at me. Keep- keep[cuts off]
The very first takeaway from this situation is the fact that Mr. Hawkins seems to be getting the transmissions remotely from a setup. However, this doesn’t seem important at first. Regardless of such, SHawkins pops back into the Twitter fray to reveal his plans to go and fix his setup.
Working all weekend. Going to the house as soon as I can.
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) February 16, 2017
planning on going to the house tomorrow
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) March 2, 2017
Every time I come here it seems something new is broken. pic.twitter.com/7yRuKwjWxH
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) March 2, 2017
Getting video on my phone while I'm here in case I find anything unexpected.
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) March 3, 2017
His Twitter Profile Picture soon updates to that of a very old and quite uncared house. Not only that but he also follows another Twitter for an Atlanta News Channel. This could imply that this is the workplace of SHawkins.
Fixing technical issues, ECKVA Responds immediately.
We see SHawkins reaching the very old house and he gives us a description of the place in ECKVA 6. There, he corrects the issue which is some faulty wiring in his setup.
However, it seems another transmission from ECKVA Network has been picked up after SHawkins left. And it seems like the broadcaster knew about the presence of SHawkins. Wondering if SHawkins is “Sorry for leaving” in their own words. [WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGE. WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK]
It doesn’t help the fact that the MarbleHornets (Or ECKVA) Twitter retweeted SHawkins’ video as well.
ECKVA6: https://t.co/7WxUGlCKSo
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) March 10, 2017
Meanwhile, some users on Twitter have a small talk with SHawkins himself. One was a less-than-successful question about how SHawkins inherited the house (With Hawkins responded that “He Drove”). However, another user speculated that this faulty wiring incident was not an accident but rather, an act of tampering. And Hawkins believes that this is the case as well.
That's been in the back of my head for a while
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) March 10, 2017
CONCLUSION: SHawkins is in Danger.
In case it wasn’t obvious enough, the ECKVA broadcaster seems to be an individual far from friendly. They have expressed increased interest in SHawkins and these broadcasts feel more and more directed towards Hawkins than anything.
At least now we know the origin behind most of the broadcasts. As SHawkins’ remote setup is the responsible for such. Who would’ve thought that the ECKVA signals could be picked up easily by a crude setup? It almost seems too convenient, don’t you think?
As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.
Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.
You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.
The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.
The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.
The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.
Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.
For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”
Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.
Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.
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