On this page: Where to find Tar Pits in Valheim How to gather Tar in Valheim How to craft with Tar in Valheim Where to find Tar Pits in Valheim Tar Pits are exclusively found in the Plains biome, which is the fifth and (currently) final biome you should expect to explore in the latest Early Access iteration of the game. However, before you hare off into one of the most dangerous parts of the map, it’s worth noting that Tar Pits won’t spawn in any area you’d already uncovered prior to updating the game with Hearth & Home....

Below we’ve put together a breakdown of Cypher’s abilities and dropped some tips in to help you get more out of them. How to play Cypher Trapwire [C] (200 Credits) Places a tripwire which’ll hamstring and reveal enemies that wander through them. If the enemy doesn’t destroy the tripwire, after a few seconds they’ll be dazed for a short period of time. The tripwire can only be placed on suitable surfaces and it’s colour will change from red to blue if you’re good to pop it somewhere....

Simply purchasing the Battle Pass and figuring out how it works can be a confusing experience. To help you out, we’ve put together a guide which’ll take you through everything you need to know. Valorant Battle Pass - Contracts explained Valorant’s Battle Pass revolves around earning EXP, completing Contracts, and getting sweet, sweet cosmetic rewards for doing so. Key Points Here’s a quick breakdown of the essentials: All XP you earn in Valorant goes towards your Battle Pass, as well as your Agent contracts....

According to the patch notes, Raze’s ultimate was just supposed to have its equip time increased, and the visual effects on the ability decreased, to make it slightly easier for enemy players to avoid getting burst. However, here we have Cloud 9 player, Relyks, demonstrating how this patch has managed to do the exact opposite. He fires his ult once and misses his target, then magically has a second one appear in his hands, allowing him to blow up that unlucky Cypher who, rightfully, assumed the danger was gone: To see this content please enable targeting cookies....

That’s according to the Steam Deck Twitter account, from which Valve also announced that they’re clarifying what these availability estimates actually are. So far these have been given purely as Q2 2022, Q3 2022 and so on, but the Deck’s Steam store page will now list the actual months in that quarter – including your personal delivery estimate, if you’ve already got a reservation waiting. This change won’t affect when the handhelds are ready, it just saves a Google search for anyone less familiar with the business-speak of quarterly codes....

Although there were a few initial teething troubles with registration, Valve sorted that out and opened the competition for anyone living in the US, UK, Canada, and the EU. You need to have bought something on Steam in the past year, too. Sorry, everyone else. You’ll have to be watching The Game Awards on Steam to be eligible for the giveaway, and it’s worth reading through the competition’s rules if you want to be in for a chance....

This particular model is still quite close to the final Steam Deck, save for its circular trackpads, blue face buttons and two-tone hand grip design, but the SteamOS version it’s running looks much less like the eventual UI. It’s still familiar, though, sharing the pixelly startup animation and carousel layout of Steam’s Big Picture Mode on regular desktop PCs. Griffais’ sneak peek doesn’t actually show Half-Life 2 running, beyond a few seconds of intense G-Man glaring in the intro, but it might not have looked all that impressive; the prototype is packing an older APU, named Picasso, with “about half the GPU power” of the finished article’s Aerith APU....

Pick a class for your potato and your starting weapon then off you go into a small arena, your weapons automatically aiming and attacking as you dodge the waves of spawning enemies. Grab XP and coins from their guts then, between waves, you can pick new perks and purchase new weapons and items. Soon, your spud has gone from meekly poking with a stick to roaming around with a shotgun, cactus club, flamethrower, rocket launcher, pistol, and magic wand, wearing a dead hedgehog on its head and jabbed full of syringes as it spews murder....

For this week’s Mystery Steam Reviews both myself and Matthew had to choose three games that are set on the moon, or have a level on the moon, or just go to the moon. While I don’t think I need to explain it any further, I will say that there are a surprising lack of video games that go to the moon… If you’re new around these parts, you can see a full breakdown of the rules in the Mystery Steam Reviews Rule Bible™ below....

“Besieged by creatures of chaos and ancient enemies of the gods, you are the newest custodian of the primordial purgatory, tasked with slaying Odin’s ancient rivals and bringing order to Valheim,” say the creators. Before you go stomping around attacking and dethroning gods though, I suspect—as evidenced by the shot up top—that you’ll begin your adventure with chopping down trees. Sure enough, spot a bit of lumber cutting in Valheim’s new trailer below....

Like the RPS 100: Reader Edition we ran last year, these reader-voted genre lists will exist separately to the ones compiled by the RPS editorial team. Our lists tend to focus on the games we’d recommend people play today, but these reader-voted lists are intended to take a broader, more historical view of all the great gaming classics, so to speak. And since February will see the return of one of PC gaming’s great strategy stalwarts, Company Of Heroes, later this month, we thought it fitting to make strategy games the first one....

Warner Bros. have told Tech Radar that they will in fact only be talking about Back 4 Blood. That’s right, only just talking about the spiritual successor to that series so many folks have been dying for another one of for years. Just that. Several of the folks around these parts are looking forward to the co-op zombie shoot ’em up as well, enough to be one of RPS’s most anticipated action games of 2021....

Warpips seems to fit my needs. It’s a tug-of-war strategy game that’s just entered early access, in which you build a squad, spawn units, and push towards an enemy’s base without much direct control over your units themselves. I’ve played it for half an hour and had a good time, and you can see it in action in a trailer below. That trailer sold me on it instantly. That it’s £10/$12/€12 helped....

Warzone 2.0 won’t be replacing the original, at least for the time being, which is a welcome surprise given the tendency of F2P titles to frequently see old content overwritten in order to make way for whatever’s coming next. This hints that 2.0 is likely to have a quite different feel than its predecessor, thanks to being built on the same new architecture developed to support MW2. There’ll be new content, systems, and progress milestones to get to grips with — along with a brand-new map, Al Mazrah, capital of the fictional Western Asian nation of the Republic of Adal....

Normally, you’ll get one guaranteed Juggernaut suit in Warzone if you complete a special easter egg which involves having a gander at paintings and inputting codes in the map’s subway system. Well, the thrifty fella over on YouTube channel Cable711 found a simple way to duplicate the suit by collecting it alongside a scorestreak, then relying on some timing related magic. To perform the exploit, you need to activate the Juggernaut while you’re picking up a killstreak at the same time....

First, here’s a cinematic trailer directed by Alberto Mielgo (who won three Emmy awards for writing, designing, and directing ‘The Witness’ in Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots anthology): That’s the broad idea: everyone around you could be an ally. After one awful Watch Dogs protagonist and one fun one, Legion skips to having hundreds, with every NPC out and about in the word potentially an operative, if you can recruit them....

If you didn’t watch our coverage of The PC Gaming Show 2020, let me tell you how this is going to work. So, we’ll be going live 20 minutes before the show kicks off to speculate on whether or not EA will announce a new Saboteur or WCW Mayhem. Then, the two of us will shut our traps while the show is actually happening. After EA finishes up their (probably) hourish-long presentation with a 15 minute demo of Mass Effect Andromeda 2, The Vidbuds will be back on-screen to go through the entirety of the show....

Gamescom: Opening Night Live will start at 7pm UK time (11am Pacific) then run until 9pm (1pm Pacific). A pre-show will start 30 minutes beforehand, dunno if it’ll be worth watching though. We do already know some of the games on show. Expect a Saints Row reboot, Far Cry 6, Call Of Duty: Vanguard, Sifu, Lego Star Trek: The Skywalker Saga, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, Genshin Impact, and Death Stranding: Director’s Cut....

Perhaps I’m being a bit harsh on the earlier Blues – the WD Blue SN550 actually made it into our best SSDs for gaming rankings, and laid the groundwork for this new model with higher read/write speeds than you might expect from an affordable SSD. Still, the SN570 asserts even greater ambition, claiming maximum sequential read and write speeds of 3500MB/s and 3000MB/s respectively on the 1TB model. The 1TB SN550?...

“From indie pop band OFK comes the story of how four friends came together to release their debut EP without throwing their phones at walls in frustration,” reads the Steam page. “An interactive making-of-the-band series about dreaming, dating, and paying rent in Los Angeles.” Paying rent in LA seems more like a horror game to me, but the devs say it’s a “making-of-the-band” story, where you’ll help these pals make their way in the music scene....