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Hey everyone! I just got my hands on the official abilities, skills, screenshots, and lore for LoL’s newest pirate champion, Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter. Read up!

Lore:

For those who brave the harsh seas of Runeterra, attaining one’s own ship and crew is the pinnacle of success. Sarah Fortune, a well-respected (some would say legendary) bounty hunter from Bilgewater, was able to achieve this feat just after her sixteenth birthday, etching out her name as the go-to gal for resolving special troubles. No bounty was too difficult or too dangerous for her feminine charm and her renowned use of her twin pistols, “Shock and Awe”. Her success gave her the means to legitimately purchase her own ship… with a little flirtatious haggling, of course. Things weren’t always so fortunate for Miss Fortune, though. When she was young, trade ships began to dot the horizon of her quiet home along the northern shores of Blue Flame Island’s largest chunk. Trade routes brought piracy, and the inhabitants soon found themselves caught in a frenzy of pillage.

One day, young Sarah returned home to hear gunshots and screaming. Her front door was smashed open; inside, she saw her mother lying in a pool of blood. A sudden blow to her head made her collapse next to her slain mother. The last thing she could remember were her attacker’s red eyes, as his face was blocked by a rogue’s bandana. Miss Fortune has a strong distrust for pirates and she finds herself constantly bickering with the infamous Gangplank (the only captain to resist her charms) over the direction of Bilgewater politics. Her two goals: to unite the people of Bilgewater, making them into a strong and independent society, and to find the pirate who killed her mother. To that end, she has entered the League of Legends as a champion, trading her skills for the wealth and influence that will help her accomplish both.

“More men have voluntarily surrendered to the care of Miss Fortune than any other bounty hunter.”
-Grinnick Torip, Bilgewater Bonds

Abilities:

Double Up: Miss Fortune fires a single bullet at an enemy target, dealing that enemy and another target behind the first.

Impure Shots: Miss Fortune passively increases damage dealt to a target with each strike. This ability can be activated to increase Miss Fortune’s attack speed and cause her attacks to lower healing received by the target.

Make It Rain: Miss Fortune unleashes a flurry of bullets at a location, dealing waves of damage to opponents and slowing them.

Bullet Time (Ultimate): Miss Fortune unleashes a flurry of bullets at a location, dealing waves of damage to opponents and slowing them.

Strut (Passive): Miss Fortune gains an additional 25 movement speed after falling out of combat for 7 or more seconds, increasing each second up to 80 maximum bonus speed.

UPDATE: Read the official info on Miss Fortune HERE!

I have managed to hunt down more juicy info on our little pirate friend Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter, including her skills, abilities, and a screenshot of her. Hopefully my source ( http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/blogs/lllae86lll/league-legends-new-champion-leaked-miss-fortune-916/ ) is true about all this, but it seems legit.

Skills

(Passive) Strut
Miss Fortune gains an additional 25 movement speed after falling out of combat for 7 or more seconds, increasing each second up to 80 maximum bonus speed.

(Q) Double Up
Miss Fortune fires a shot at an enemy target, dealing X (+75% of her attack damage) as physical damage and 120% of that damage to another enemy target behind the firs

(W) Impure Shots
Passive: Increases Miss Fortune’s damage on her target by X (+AP ratio) with each attack, cumulatively stacking up to 4 times.
Active: Miss Fortune’s attack speed is increased by Y% for 6 seconds and causes her attacks to lower healing received by the target by 50%.

(E) Make It Rain
Miss Fortune fires hundreds of bullets into the air which rain down at a location after 0.5 seconds, dealing X (+AP ratio) magic damage over 2 seconds and slowing enemies hit by Y% for 1.5 seconds.

(R) Bullet Time
Miss Fortune channels a barrage of bullets into a cone in front of her for 2 seconds, dealing X plus the higher value between (AP ratio) or Y magic damage per bullet, hitting up to 8 times to each target.

Steam is the most popular electronic platform for distributing games. It was created by Valve (Team Fortress, Half-life, Counter Strike) and has expanded to sell thousands of games by hundreds of different publishers, including indie developers. Steam is based off downloading a core, then purchasing and downloading games separately that can only be used while logged into Steam with an account that has bought the game. The Steam core has a built in voice chat, instant messenger, server browser, clan/group system, a store browser, an in-game overlay, and a store browser.

Instant Messenger/Voice chat

The built in instant messenger works fine. It messages people whether they are in game or not, but it will not leave offline messages. The voice chat, on the other hand, is quiet,low quality, and call-based instead of room based, minus clan/group chat rooms (though you can have group conversations and IM conversations). I really dislike it. Even worse, it’s built in to a lot of games, so, though you can set it t push to talk as well as mute yourself, I dislike being obligated into voice when I play with a clan that uses another voice chat software

Game Selection and Sales

The selection on Steam is amazing. All top games (minus those by Blizzard) are on Steam, and usually have sales if you preorder them. Indie games are everywhere and are under constant sales (for example, I just bought a $10 game for $2 because of a sale), and are of very high quality. During Christmas there was a huge sale, most games had a sale on them at least once Christmas week. Steam offers 4 packs of some games that let you and 3 friends save a ton of money, permitting one person buys the game and sends out the other copies. There are also packs of games sold on Steam occasionally that usually save you at least 25%, usually more like 75%.

Almost every month Steam lets all gamers try a game for free for a weekend, and during that time it’s usually on sale. The last few games that had this were Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

There are also many free demos of games, trials of MMOs, free mods, and a few free to play games available.

Community

The community on Steam, though better than Xbox, is worse and more apt to cursing random people out than in most PC communities. The modders and game developers on Steam keep it alive and kicking though, with helpful forum posts and game mods compatible with Steam games. The indie devs actually reply to most support mosts you make!

There are built in achievements if the developer so wishes to include them, as well as leaderboards. Competitions are very easy to come by and usually the best of the best are on Steam.

Overlay

The overlay built into Steam is activated using shift+tab, one of the oddest combinations ever. I accidentally hit the combination every so often when checking stats while running/walking in game. Yes, I bet I can change it, but I shouldn’t have to.

The overlay itself has almost every function steam has out of game (voice chat, instant messenger, store, server browser, friends list and statuses). It’s handy, until it randomly pops up and annoys you. Oh well.

Overall Quality

Overall, Steam is the best for buying new games because of their cheap prices, but there are better options out there for instant messengers and voice chat. It’s handy to see who is playing what games and having the ability to invite them to play, but Steam is bulky and likes to glitch up every so often, especially when it’s updating or downloading games. It’s a shame Steam has such a monopoly on electronic distribution, but maybe I’ll find more luck with Impulse or the future Xfire.

You can get Steam at http://store.steampowered.com/

The League of legends team has released a sneak peek on theie next champion Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter. LoL now has a new pirate, just in time for Talk Like a Pirate Day! Read about Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter below. (I took the info off LoL’s official boards).

With the recent increase in ninja population at the Institute of War, there has been some PR backlash amongst pirate enthusiasts. For those like myself, who proudly sail under the Black Flag, Riot Games has asked me to inform you that you have not been forgotten! Every scurvy dog has his day, and very soon, you shall have yours!

To appease these constituents, we have our latest pirate champion coming up! Her name is Miss Fortune, the Bounty Hunter, and she’s got everything a lady buccaneer should offer. I mean, just check out the pair on her! Those are some seriously huge, enormous, titanic pistols she’s got there! That’s right, pistols. What did you think I was talking about? So start getting excited! Miss Fortune will be sailing into your port, soon!

NOTE: New leaked info on Miss Fortune has been posted HERE!

Step Mania is an Open Source PC version of the popular rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution ( or DDR ) in which you use the directional buttons on the keyboard (or a USB dance pad that Step Mania supports) to push the arrows in the correct order and timing.

Step Mania does a very good job porting the game. Songs must be downloaded from the internet from sites like http://otakusdream.com/ and http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Download_Songs. They are all user-made using the in-game tools. Song creators have the same options to make songs as the people who make real DDR songs, but user made ones are often of higher quality. Many Step Mania songs are only offered to higher skill levels (just Google it, there are people that are absolutely crazy with their keyboards), but there are still enough songs for newbies to get a hang of the game with and for pad play.

Step Mania is skinable, supports videos in songs, lyrics in songs, easter eggs in songs (they make the directional keys show up in funny ways on screen, or sometimes not at all), a song unlock mode, custom characters that dance to the songs while you play, local multiplayer play, game options including difficulty settings if the song allows it, special settings like unlimited play, slot-machine mode (the game can be used to run an actual DDR arcade system), and online multiplayer play with people who have the same songs as you (note you must have Step Mania version 4 to play online, which is in beta at the time of writing this post).

I really love this game. It has such low system requirements I play it on my higher-end netbook whenever I am bored in the car. The only problem is that the keys are small, so I change up down left right to WASD and it works fine. I get no lag that would effect gameplay, and, as long as the song is in beat, the game is always registering the keys correctly.

The game is so small you can have it and a few songs just to play once in a while on your computer without any hassle at all, and since it’s free there is no reason not to try it! You can get the Mac, Linux, and Windows versions at http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Downloads