Games We Are Thankful For In 2020

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My normal taste in games leans towards arcade and action, but this year has been one where the extra focus to hone in on pinpoint-perfect reflexes just hasn't been as available as I'd like. Instead I've been taking it easy, using gaming as a way to relax and escape into a more manageable world. The game that I'm thankful for this year is SnowRunner, which doesn't have an enemy anywhere in the whole world but instead requires the player to use its tools to complete a huge series of jobs across hostile terrain. While sorting out the controls takes some effort, once learned there are a huge amount of tools available to tackle even the roughest wilderness. Mountain tracks carved by streams, muddy bogs, rivers frozen solid and snowdrifts that even the highest-traction tires can't get a grip on all stand in the way of delivering Cargo to Place. You can tackle the challenges with brute force, careful plotting of the optimal route or relying on the winch to basically drag the truck to the goal, but there's always a way if you're patient enough. Few events are timed and just about everything is optional if you decide that a particular job feels like a bit much. There's pressure in navigating the tougher areas, of course, but otherwise SnowRunner is a game of choosing a task and tackling it however you like, driving across the beauty of a wilderness that's just barely been touched by humans. It's challenging, sure, but also relaxing and satisfying, and I'm thankful there are games that let me unwind into a simpler, more-focused world.


Diona’s Elemental Burst, Signature Mix , tosses a special mixture that deals AoE Cryo damage and creates Drunken Mist . The Drunken Mist deals continuous AoE Cryo damage and regenerates the HP of the characters inside its rad


However, this is where the pity system has another effect. If a player "loses" the 50/50 and obtains a Standard Banner character, they are guaranteed to obtain the featured character next time they pull a five-star. This effect carries over across banners, so if you lose the 50/50 and don't get the character you want, you don't have to worry about losing the 50/50 again before you get the next win, even if the character banner changes o


For instance, Raiden is not just among the best DPS in the game right now, but she especially excels when in a hypercarry team with Bennett and Kazuha. This isn’t just because Bennett can boost Raiden’s damage with his kit, but rather allow the likes of Kazuha to take advantage of Bennett’s Pyro self-infusion to add fire to his Ultimate which, if hitting an Electro-affected target courtesy of Raiden, can help Kazuha’s hits reach 9-11k dam


Instead, players should focus on "general" guidelines for boosting CRIT and overall ATK. On top of trying to gun for weapons that boost CRIT, players should find a Circlet Artifact that as a CRIT stat and find Artifacts with the opposing CRIT sub-stat as a supplement (so CRIT Rate Circlet and CRIT DMG Artifacts and vice versa). Characters such as Rosaria and Hu Tao can also boots the Crit Rate of party members with their Tale

Choosing a game to be thankful for in 2020 can be tricky. Given the current state of the world and how many of us are looking for ways to keep occupied while cooped up, I feel like we should be thankful for virtually any good, engaging games. But the one that I was thankful for the most is a game that felt optimistic, warm, comforting and colorful. Even if said slg game Maps is about ferrying the souls of the dead towards the afterlife. I am, of course, referring to Thunder Lotus' Spiritfarer. Aside from being a possible GOTY contender in general, Spiritfarer hit a certain sweet spot for me, not only giving me the freedom to craft an insane ship filled with tons of activities and giving me an open world to explore, but also providing one of the year's best casts of characters. Azul, Gustav, Stanley...all of them were a blast to hang out with and I truly felt a bond between them as I learned more about their stories. It got to the point where I actually purchased the art book because I heard it had more info about them, and once I learned what not only went into their backstories, but how the world around them is all related to everyone and Stella in various ways, and the absolute tons of metaphorical layers that went into everything, I couldn't stop thinking about Spiritfarer for the longest time, about how what I thought were small bits suddenly had much more meaning. And all of this is just so refreshing. In a year where other games try to attempt drama by being continuously blunt, bleak and depressing by presenting horrible situation after horrible situation to the point where it almost cartoonishly feels like award bait and you stop caring about everyone in the plot, Spiritfarer decided to go hard in the opposite direction. Vibrant landscapes, cute animal characters who just want to hang out with you, a vast ocean filled with magical adventures...all of this means that when the emotional moments reveal themselves in a natural way and do hit, they hit hard. Spiritfarer never stops being comforting as a whole, but it deals with the themes of death and how everyone approaches them in such a beautiful, mature fashion. It's a brilliant bit of fantasy with the year's best writing and it's something we all need right now.