The next Transformers HasLab project from Hasbro is Victory Saber, an absolutely massive new figure that will come to production only if enough backers support it before its campaign end date on October 11 of this year.
Check out the prototype images of Victory Saber in the gallery below:
According to Hasbro, Victory Saber includes the following:
1-inch Brain of Courage Brainmaster figure
5-inch Autobot Saber figure
5-inch V-Star jet
5-inch Victory Leo figure
Sword of Justice accessory
If you're unfamiliar with Victory Saber, he's the supreme Autobot leader in the anime Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory, which differs from the Transformers lore you might be more familiar with. According to Hasbro, should this figure reach its backing goal, it will mark the "first time in 30 years" Japanese canon has been introduced "into the Transformers line."
The HasLab line has been used to great effect in the past to bring us the Mandalorian's Razor Crest and perhaps the coolest HasLab creation of all, the massive HasLab Unicron figure.
Marvel Studios is reportedly developing a Halloween special for Disney Plus, which may take inspiration from Werewolf by Night.
According to The Wrap, Marvel Studios has started searching for an actor to lead the cast of the Halloween special, which is said to be "centered on a werewolf character." The studio is believed to be looking for a "Latino male in his 30s," and it's noted that "individuals with knowledge" of the project suggested the character may be based on Werewolf by Night.
Werewolf by Night is the name adopted by two separate characters appearing across the pages of Marvel comics. The first, Jack Russell, debuted in a 1972 issue of Marvel Spotlight. The series ran for a total of 43 issues and one of those featured the first appearance of Moon Knight, who is now set to headline his own Disney+ show with Oscar Issac in the titular role.
The second incarnation of the character, Jake Gomez, a Native American with a cursed family, showed up last year in the third volume of Werewolf by Night. Gomez's recent appearance in Marvel comics may mean he's the one that fans may initially associate with the Werewolf by Night character, though it's unknown which version will star in the Halloween special.
The special is eyeing a production start in early 2022, so there's a lot of MCU to come before that. Marvel's What If…? recently marked the MCU's very first foray into animation. The nine-episode series will draw to close on October 6, with Hawkeye lined up as the next MCU show to hit Disney+ in November. Ms. Marvel is pencilled in for 2022 along with Moon Knight.
There's plenty coming on the big screen, too. Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is lined up to be the next Phase 4 movie, releasing in September, with Eternals in November, and Spider-Man: No Way Home in December. After that, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will premiere, serving as the first Marvel movie of 2022.
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Netflix's September 2021 is all about returning TV shows, including Sex Education's third season, Dear White People's fourth volume, and Lucifer's sixth and final season. This September you'll also see a few new films drop including Netflix's latest badass heroine film, Kate. There's also Worth, a biopic starring Michael Keaton about a lawyer lawyer justice for the September 11 victims.
Check out the trailer for Kate:
The first of September also brings with it some classic films to Netflix's library like all four Jaws films, School of Rock, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Mars Attacks!, the first three House Partys, and both of Eddie Murphy's The Nutty Professor movies.
September 2021 also marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the documentary Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror looks to tell this story from "al-Qaida's roots in the 1980s to America's forceful response, both at home and abroad."
Check out the slideshow gallery below for highlights of Netflix's September offerings following by the full list (U.S. Netflix only):
September 1
How to Be a Cowboy — NETFLIX SERIES
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
A Cinderella Story
Agatha Christie's Crooked House
Barbie Big City Big Dreams
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Chappie
Clear and Present Danger
Cliffhanger
Cold Mountain
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Dear John
Do the Right Thing
Freedom Writers
Green Lantern
House Party
House Party 2
House Party 3
The Interview
Kid-E-Cats: Season 2
Labyrinth
Letters to Juliet
Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)
Mars Attacks!
Marshall
Mystery Men
The Nutty Professor
The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
Once Upon a Time in America
Open Season 2
Rhyme & Reason
School of Rock
Tears of the Sun
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
September 2
Afterlife of the Party — NETFLIX FILM
Final Account
Q-Force — NETFLIX SERIES
September 3
Dive Club — NETFLIX FAMILY
Money Heist Part 5: Volume 1 — NETFLIX SERIES
Sharkdog — NETFLIX FAMILY
Worth — NETFLIX FILM
September 6
Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
September 7
Kid Cosmic: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Octonauts: Above & Beyond — NETFLIX FAMILY
On the Verge — NETFLIX SERIES
Untold: Breaking Point — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
September 8
The Circle: Season 3 — NETFLIX SERIES (NEW EPISODES WEEKLY)
Into the Night: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
JJ+E — NETFLIX FILM
September 9
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
The Women and the Murderer — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
September 10
Firedrake the Silver Dragon — NETFLIX FAMILY
Kate — NETFLIX FILM
Lucifer: The Final Season — NETFLIX SERIES
Metal Shop Masters — NETFLIX SERIES
Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series — NETFLIX FAMILY
Prey — NETFLIX FILM
Yowamushi Pedal
Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road
September 13
Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
September 14
A StoryBots Space Adventure — NETFLIX FAMILY
Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father: Season 5 — NETFLIX SERIES
The World's Most Amazing Vacation Rentals: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
You vs. Wild: Out Cold — NETFLIX FAMILY
September 15
Nailed It!: Season 6 — NETFLIX SERIES
Nightbooks — NETFLIX FILM
Saved by the Bell: Seasons 1-9
Schumacher — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Too Hot To Handle Latino — NETFLIX SERIES (NEW EPISODES WEEKLY)
September 16
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe — NETFLIX FAMILY
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3
Jaws: The Revenge
My Heroes Were Cowboys — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
September 17
Ankahi Kahaniya — NETFLIX FILM
Chicago Party Aunt — NETFLIX SERIES
The Father Who Moves Mountains — NETFLIX FILM
Sex Education: Season 3 — NETFLIX SERIES
Squid Game — NETFLIX SERIES
The Stronghold — NETFLIX FILM
September 19
Dark Skies
September 20
Grown Ups
September 21
Go! Go! Cory Carson: Chrissy Takes the Wheel — NETFLIX FAMILY
Love on the Spectrum: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
September 22
Confessions of an Invisible Girl — NETFLIX FILM
Dear White People: Volume 4 — NETFLIX SERIES
Intrusion — NETFLIX FILM
Jaguar — NETFLIX SERIES
Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
September 23
Je Suis Karl — NETFLIX FILM
September 24
Blood & Water: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
Ganglands (Braqueurs) — NETFLIX SERIES
Jailbirds New Orleans — NETFLIX SERIES
Midnight Mass — NETFLIX SERIES
My Little Pony: A New Generation — NETFLIX FAMILY
The Starling — NETFLIX FILM
Vendetta: Truth, Lies and The Mafia — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
September 28
Ada Twist, Scientist — NETFLIX FAMILY
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL
September 29
The Chestnut Man — NETFLIX SERIES
Friendzone — NETFLIX FILM
MeatEater: Season 10 Part 1 — NETFLIX SERIES
No One Gets Out Alive — NETFLIX FILM
Polly Pocket Season 3 Part 1
Sounds Like Love — NETFLIX FILM
September 30
Love 101: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
Luna Park — NETFLIX SERIES
The Phantom
Coming Soon
Baki Hanma — NETFLIX ANIME
Bangkok Breaking — NETFLIX SERIES
Crime Stories: India Detectives — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Kota Factory: Season 2 — NETFLIX SERIES
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
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Volition and Deep Silver have revealed new gameplay from Saints Row, and its shows that there’s still a little wild madness in the game, despite the more grounded nature of the reboot.
The new “Welcome to Santo Ileso” trailer, which you can watch below, is a seven-minute long introduction to the Saints Row reboot, with developer insights as well as a healthy showing of gameplay. While the overall vibe of the game appears to be closer to Watch Dogs 2, there’s definitely some of Saints Row’s more weird personality here. Enemies can be seen firing laser guns, and explosive helicopter battles and picking beef with huge, militarized international corporations is more akin to the Saints Row games of the past than the more serious-ish GTA games.
The city’s motto is also “Keep it strange”, which suggests that there will be weirdness, even if it’s not on the absurd levels of Saints Row 4 and its superpowers and alien invasions.
The trailer also offers a closer look at the main characters, as well as their adversaries. The Saints is a group of four friends headed up by The Boss, a customisable character controlled by the player. While The Boss has been shown to be a woman by default, the trailer does show a brief glimpse of character customisation options, and shows that a male protagonist can also be chosen, as well as a variety of body types.
The Boss is joined by Eli, an investor looking to make The Saints an enterprise rather than just a group of criminals. Nina is the group’s mechanic and getaway driver, and Kevin is a persistently shirtless wannabe chef. Volition emphasises that the group has “heart”, suggesting a sort of Fast & Furious family vibe for the reboot.
The Saints will butt heads with at least three different enemy factions, each of which has its own territory in Santo Ileso. Marshall is a huge international corporation that employs strategic assassins and high tech equipment – including laser weapons – and intends to secure areas and lock you down. Panteros, meanwhile, is a much more rough-and-ready gang that have bruiser-style troops and attack with melee and heavy weapons. The final group shown in the trailer are the Idols, a bunch of anarchists wearing deadmau5 style helmets that defeat their foes using overwhelming numbers and swarm tactics.
Team building is one of the first things you need to learn in Genshin Impact if you want to have a smooth experience. A great team can make the difference between failing and clearing domains, events, or the spiral abyss, so understanding how team building works will help you a great deal. This guide aims to help you understand the basics of team building from proper team composition to energy management, we got you covered!
Roles
Character roles are one of the determining factors in team building. In this section, we’re going to define the variety of roles characters fall into in Genshin Impact:
Main DPS
If you didn’t already know, DPS stands for “damage per second”. So it makes sense that in Genshin Impact, the main DPS character is primarily responsible for dealing damage while on the field. This character usually has great consistent damage output compared to the other characters on the team. Make sure to check out our Genshin Impact tier list to see which characters we highly recommend.
Examples of main DPS characters in Genshin Impact are:
Sub DPS is an interesting role and a very important one, too. Sub DPS characters do damage off-field. They have elemental skills or bursts that persist even if they aren’t the character currently being used. The rule of thumb is that the sub DPS character on your team must be a different element than the main DPS character as you want to utilize elemental reactions in combat as much as possible.
Examples of sub DPS characters in Genshin Impact are:
The support role is assigned to characters that provide utility to the party. Interestingly, some sub DPS characters can fall into a support role depending on how you use them, and vice versa. Support characters can be utilized in battle in a variety of ways and this includes healing, shielding, and even crowd control.
Examples of support characters in Genshin Impact are:
Generally, a team in Genshin Impact is composed of a main DPS character, one or two sub DPS characters, and one or two support characters. The number of sub DPS and support characters is interchangeable which means you can have two support characters and a sub DPS character or two sub DPS characters and a support character on the team. You should never have two main DPS characters on a team as this will hinder the overall damage output. Consider this team composition:
Mona
Eula
Fischl
Diona
This team composition features Eula in the main DPS role while Mona and Fischl act as sub DPS characters, leaving Diona to play the sole support role of the group.
Elemental Reactions
As mentioned above, you want your main and sub DPS characters to be of different elements to utilize elemental reactions as much as possible. Elemental reactions are free additional damage for the taking. Who doesn’t like free damage, right?
There are team compositions revolving around specific elemental reactions such as melt and vaporize. For details on how this works, please check out our elemental weakness chart which covers how elemental reactions work. An example of a team composition that focuses on vaporize would be a Hu Tao-Xingqiu team composition:
In this team composition, Hu Tao plays the main DPS role while Xingqiu plays the sub DPS role. Bennett and Zhongli support Hu Tao with their main utility, namely healing, with additional support via damage boost from Bennett and shielding from Zhongli.
Keeping elemental reactions in mind while team building improves your team’s overall damage output. However, there are a few teams that can survive without elemental reactions, such as a full Geo team or a double Anemo, double Geo team. Keep in mind, these team compositions are very specific. They’re not as flexible as teams with elemental reactions built in them but they’re still really good teams.
Elemental Resonance
Elemental Resonance is a passive buff that applies to the team. Having an elemental resonance in your team can be quite beneficial depending on the resonance. Let’s take this team composition for a ride once more:
Mona
Eula
Fischl
Diona
This team composition features Eula and Diona who both hold a cryo vision, meaning cryo resonance would be activated, giving everyone a +15% crit rate against frozen enemies or enemies affected by cryo. This elemental resonance gives Eula a huge boost as it improves her damage as a main DPS.
Energy Management
Energy cost is another important factor to consider with your team composition. You’d want to have your character’s elemental burst be available as much as possible, which means you should avoid putting characters with high energy cost elemental bursts together in a team. This is due to the fact that you’d spend more of your time gathering energy for that elemental burst rather than casting it, therefore diminishing your total DPS.
However, if you have a main DPS character with an elemental burst that has an energy cost of 70 or 80, it can be alleviated by using a battery. No, not that kind of battery. In Genshin Impact, a battery is a sub-category of the support role played by characters who produce a large number of energy particles using their elemental skills. Let’s take this team composition again as an example:
Mona
Eula
Fischl
Diona
Eula’s elemental burst has an energy cost of 80. She will need a battery so she can cast her elemental burst more frequently. That’s why Diona is there. She is a support character who can also act as a battery for Eula.
You usually want your battery to be the same element as the character you’re trying to battery because characters with a different element will give your team less energy than those who have the same element.
A Short Dive into Team Composition
To show you an example of how team building usually goes in Genshin Impact, I’ll explain the reasoning behind the Eula team comp I always use, as an example. My current team composition has gone through quite a bit of revision. The first iteration of my team looked something like this:
This composition did not work as there’s no one to battery Eula, a character with an elemental burst that has a high energy cost. Qiqi does not produce her own elemental particles which means we had to rely on Mona. However, this also didn’t work as Mona struggled to keep up with particle generation due to the elemental difference between her and Eula.
Beidou as a sub DPS character didn’t work as we couldn’t consistently apply superconduct (an elemental reaction) with her. She also had an elemental burst with an energy cost of 80, so without a battery, it meant that we couldn’t use her elemental burst as much. That’s how the latest version of our team came to be:
Mona (Sub DPS)
Eula (Main DPS)
Fischl (Sub DPS)
Diona (Support)
Fischl provides a much better electro application than Beidou, not only that, but her damage off-field is incomparable. Diona replacing Qiqi provides me with a support character that heals, shields, and acts as an efficient battery for Eula. Mona also provides a damage boost with her elemental burst and quite a bit of crowd control with the taunt on her elemental skill.
By assigning characters to roles that work well together and keeping energy management, elemental reactions, and elemental resonance in mind, it makes for a better team composition and an overall boost in damage. All this to say, team building can be a complicated process that takes time to figure out. But experimenting and finding a team composition that works is what makes team building fun. If you want to test your team building skills, we highly recommend going to the spiral abyss blindly and trying to clear it!
There are advanced strategies that go into team building in Genshin Impact that we didn’t get to cover in this guide. If you’d like another team building guide that dives into that, let us know in the comments!
Cedric Pabriga is a freelance writer for IGN. He spends most of his day listening to music or playing video games. He also writes short stories in his spare time. You can follow him on Twitter @IchikaRika.
