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Team Liquid’s Professional Coach has Passed Away

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eSports are seeing another huge loss as the official Team Liquid account announced the death of Dennis Hawelka. Otherwise known as “INTERNETHULK”, Dennis was a coach for Overwatch and League of Legends.

A few hours ago, the eSports competitive organization Team Liquid gave an unpleasant surprise to fans of the scene. With a tweet that announced the passing of the competitive coach Dennis “INTERNETHULK” Hawelka. A professional gamer from Germany who was known for his performance in Overwatch last year.

Hawelka was known for his incredible performance as a member of Team EnVyUs. However, after his contract with the competitive team expired, the man turned himself into a professional coach. Leading him to seek alliance with Team Liquid and training the future Overwatch team.

His role as a coach lead Team Liquid into a very fearsome position during 4 separate tournaments. The best of them being the team’s participation during Overwatch Contenders: Season Zero. Where Team Liquid gained the second place in the North American Division.

Sadly, the coach with a promising future has passed away today. And even though his CoD has been disclosed as of yet. Team Liquid disclosed that he was in Santa Monica, California, preparing the people who were going to participate in the next edition of the League of Legends Championship Series.

“We are in touch with his family, and are supporting of them in every way we can while we all try to grasp the loss.” Said Steve Arhancet and Victor Goosens in the Twitter image posted by Team Liquid. “Even though we are still waiting for all the details, we wanted to share this information as we all are part of the community Dennis loved so dearly.”

Certainly, this is a great loss for the eSports scene, and here at GeekReply we offer our condolences to Dennis’ family and peers. Times must be rough, but the very least we can all do is to keep moving forward for his sake. Rest in peace, Dennis Hawelka.

I always wanted to be a journalist who listens. The Voice of the Unspoken and someone heavily involved in the gaming community. From playing as a leader of a competitive multi-branch team to organizing tournaments for the competitive scene to being involved in a lot of gaming communities. I want to keep moving forward as a journalist.

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Larian Reveals Baldur’s Gate 3’s Mildest Multiclass Builds

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Since the excellent Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out in the wild for a while, interesting data can be gleaned, such as how players choose to play an innovative new RPG from home. Stats from developer Larian Studios and posted on the PlayStation Blog show that most people want to play as a stealthy archer like in Skyrim when given nearly limitless options.

According to a fascinating graph, Rogue/Ranger is the most popular multiclass build, with over 175,000 players using it to snipe unsuspecting enemies from range. The next two builds reveal similarly. 150,000 played Barbarian/Fighter because they loved pummeling things, and 109,00 played Barbarian/Paladin, which lets players talk to their victims before beatings.

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More sense emerges as you descend. If the Paladin/Warlock/Sorcerer/Bard has high Charisma, any combination can be interesting. Charisma helps these classes cast spells and abilities and interact with NPCs outside of combat.

Playing a single class through Baldur’s Gate 3 feels great, which is what most players do. A pure Fighter or Wizard becomes so powerful by game’s end that we don’t blame you for not mixing things up!

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Play as a Tiefling Oathbreaker Paladin, Dark Urge Origin (which you must resist), or Bard for real moral dilemmas. You could also play pseudo-Aragorn again.

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Techland Shows Durable Dying Light 2 Content Roadmap

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Techland is continuing to release Dying Light 2 content as part of its long-term support. This is surprising since the meaty Good Night, Good Luck update was released a few months ago. It’s nice to know what’s coming, but no timeline was given.

IGN-exclusive roadmap trailers reveal more co-op missions, board quests, a tower raid, and replayable GRE anomalies. Executions and finishers may be added to the April Gut Feeling update, which overhauled melee mechanics. Graphical options, weapon repair, gear, and mod dismantling are always welcome.

Knives, polearms, and more enemy variants are coming, including a Nightmare difficulty. Changes to NG+ include firearms. Players can finally dress to their hearts’ content with new cosmetic options.

Has Techland’s Dying Light 2 support lured you back? Would you rather focus on something new?

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Epic to Globalize V-Buck Price Hike

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Epic Games expanded the Fortnite V-Buck “pricing alignment” after laying off almost 900 employees, citing “inflation and currency fluctuations”. Fortnite’s premium currency will rise in international markets, including the largest.

Epic Games will raise the price of V-Bucks and real money content packs in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eurozone countries, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, and the US (including all US Dollar storefronts) on October 27.

Raising the price of this fictitious currency was successful when the company trialed it in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, so it was decided to announce it worldwide now. These USD increases range from $1 (1000 V-Bucks, previous $7.99) to $10 (13,500 V-Bucks, previous $79.99).

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How do you view Epic’s timing and pricing increase?

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