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The upcoming Fallout 76 from Bethesda essentially sees the largely single-player RPG franchise  transform into something of an MMO. As is the case with multiplayer games, there are bound be times when you run into players who seem to have no other intention other than to harass or grief you by killing your characters over and over again.

Bethesda had previously stated that they are planning on introducing ways to deal with such situations, and a recent report from VG247 has revealed how exactly they will be addressing the problem. Speaking at a recent roundtable, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing Pete Hines reveals that players who “murder” other players (as in players who don’t consent to a fight) will be given huge debuffs for a couple of hours.

This debuff will reduce the amount of damage they do in PvP and PvE situations, and they will also lose whatever caps they have down to zero. It also seems that this debuff cannot be waited out by logging out of the game, meaning that players will have to remain in the game to run the timer out.

According to Hines, “For two hours in the game, you’re going to be spitting spitballs at enemies to remind you that you’re a murderer. Remember, we speak about murder as you killing someone who didn’t want to fight and wasn’t interested in engaging, not you fired at me, I fired at you, we both wanted to do this. It’s specifically to stop people doing this where it’s negative and one-sided. It’s meant to not be fun – you will do far less damage with anything you use for a period of time.”

It is an interesting tactic and we can’t wait to see if this might deter such players. Fallout 76 is currently set for a release for the 14th of November.

Bethesda Details How They Will Handle Griefers In Fallout 76 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

HP has come out with a compact inkjet printer called Tango that they are calling “the world’s first smart home printer.” Not only is it unique because HP also designed it to look like a book, but it comes with Alexa support built in. “Alexa, ask my printer to print my shopping list.”

The HP Tango comes with support for not only Amazon Echo, but also Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana. That means you can use any of those voice assistants to print. The printer is also connected to the cloud, which allows you to print to it from just about anywhere using the companion HP Smart App – even if you’re not home. It’s even “smart enough” to automatically order new ink for you using the company’s instant ink service.

The HP Tango Smart Home printer measures just 14.8″ x 8.1″ x 3.6″ and weighs 6.8 lbs. The base printer retails for $150, and for an additional $50 you can opt to get the HP Tango X which is designed to look like a book. The Tango X comes with a charcoal linen cover, with optional indigo linen, and cork lined with currant-colored fabric accessories coming soon.

Really, printer designs haven’t innovated much in the past decade. So good for HP for spicing things up a bit. We certainly appreciate how the HP Tango can easily blend in on a bookshelf or a desk. The fact that it’s pretty smart too is icing on the cake.

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The upcoming Fallout 76 from Bethesda essentially sees the largely single-player RPG franchise  transform into something of an MMO. As is the case with multiplayer games, there are bound be times when you run into players who seem to have no other intention other than to harass or grief you by killing your characters over and over again.

Bethesda had previously stated that they are planning on introducing ways to deal with such situations, and a recent report from VG247 has revealed how exactly they will be addressing the problem. Speaking at a recent roundtable, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing Pete Hines reveals that players who “murder” other players (as in players who don’t consent to a fight) will be given huge debuffs for a couple of hours.

This debuff will reduce the amount of damage they do in PvP and PvE situations, and they will also lose whatever caps they have down to zero. It also seems that this debuff cannot be waited out by logging out of the game, meaning that players will have to remain in the game to run the timer out.

According to Hines, “For two hours in the game, you’re going to be spitting spitballs at enemies to remind you that you’re a murderer. Remember, we speak about murder as you killing someone who didn’t want to fight and wasn’t interested in engaging, not you fired at me, I fired at you, we both wanted to do this. It’s specifically to stop people doing this where it’s negative and one-sided. It’s meant to not be fun – you will do far less damage with anything you use for a period of time.”

It is an interesting tactic and we can’t wait to see if this might deter such players. Fallout 76 is currently set for a release for the 14th of November.

Bethesda Details How They Will Handle Griefers In Fallout 76 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

The release of a damning report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week predicting unprecedented climate disaster within the next decade was no doubt a sobering reminder of the fragile state of our planet. But new forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA) for the future of global…

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