Twitch Prime Loot – April 2020

Ah, it is that time of the month again. No, not that one, I mean the one where the blood starts pouring out my eyes as I have to act semi-interested in some mobile phone guff and online hellholes. Another month means it is time to talk about Twitch Prime, filled with cosmetic tripe, and for the most part, the same idea as last month. Let’s jump straight in.

We’ll begin with something that ends on Sunday, April 5th and I’m so glad I never have to talk about it again. I’ve even started getting ads for it on YouTube, next it will infect my nightmares. Yes, I’m talking about Raid: Shadow Legends; and people wonder why I reject brand deals, with a set up like that, I don’t know why either. Yes, until Sunday you can pick up the six 6-star legendary ATK Artifacts & three XP Boosts that last 3-days each. If I understood or cared about half of that, I’d probably know how to react.

Next up, for players of the free-to-play online arena battler Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, you’ve got 13 drops ahead of you right up to the end of September. I know one thing that could go bang bang. This week it is a skin for Hanzo, two hero trial cards, and a skin trial card; the latter three lasting 7-days each. That offer ends on April 7th and will be replaced by another two hero trial cards and skin trial cards, again all for 7-days each. That second drop will end on the 21st of April when we get a repeat, but with different characters. To cut to the point, once a month you’ll get a permanent skin, the rest are trials.

Continuing with skins and decorative things I don’t understand when I’m typing them up, we have Warframe. You can still get the Ember Warframe, a Warframe slot, and Filigree prime decoration. However, you have until Tuesday, April 7th, to pick up the Static reactor prime sigil. Following that, players can pick up in-game boosters; last time that was a 7-day affinity booster and a 7-day credit booster. Yeah, I still have no idea.

As I’d said several times throughout the running of this promotion, it wasn’t entirely clear if you would still be able to pick up all the content if you started now. However, players of the only sport I could get behind, Rocket League, can pick up several cosmetic items to use in-game. There were a total of four packs you could pick up over several months; however, the first has been removed, and I assume the same will happen to the second sometime within the next month or so. The entire offer ends on June 26th.

Players of Grand Theft Auto Online and grand theft horse, otherwise known as Red Dead Online, can still pick up what has been on offer for months now. Players in GTA Online get a million in-game dollars to gamble in the casino, and Red Dead Online players get the moonshining property and a bag. Players of GTA Online also get free access to an in-game arcade and a bit more in-game money when they buy microtransactions.

Back to things ending quite soon, as PC players of League of Legends can pick up a mystery skin permanent. The first of three, we’re continuing the same random chance skin-thing from the last few months. This offer ends on Friday, April 10th. Along with that is the return of the mobile and PC League of Legends “auto-battler” spin-off, Teamfight Tactics, and it’s loot box-esque little legends egg. The Teamfight Tactics offer ends on Monday, April 20th.

World of Tanks players can still pick up the captured king tiger tank as well as the battle pass care package for March through early April. The care package includes, two 14-day rentals of the Skoda T27 and T 40 tanks, 1-day premium, a unique decal, six emblems, ten tokens for five times an XP boost on victory; five first aid kits, repair kits, and extinguishers, a metal, and some missions for all level 4 and up vehicles. This offer ends on Thursday, April 9th.

While we have the large MMOs out the way, we should say that anyone looking to play: Warface, World of Tanks, Warframe, World of Warships, and TERA can all pick up starter packs. For the most part, these are aimed at giving new players the best possible gear and loot to begin the games with. Each end at different times, though they will start to disappear in the middle of May.

Players can still pick up the Fallout 76 Winter bundle, the second of a total three bundles for the game that doesn’t know what it wants to be. Is it a Fallout themed MMO or battle royale? No one knows. It seems no one knows what Winter is either, as we’re already out of that, and I’ve no idea what some raider armor, a branding iron skin, and a yoga pose has to do with winter. Nevertheless, this bundle ends on Thursday, April 16th.

Speaking of battle royales and an American wasteland of despair, nothing says America like grossly appropriating someone else’s culture and calling it a day of celebration and stereotypes. Yes, with March behind us Americans across the country didn’t celebrate by shouting “Hughie” on the sidewalk painting the town green. Instead, Apex Legends players have and still can pick up the “lucky charmer” skin for Mirage; Crudely wrapped in green, you to can stand out and be shot slightly faster than those dressed in grey. You can still pick up the lucky charmer skin until Thursday, April 16th.

Continuing the Hannibal Lecter theme of skins, and using that joke again, players of the battle royale Ring of Elysium can pick up the third skin collection. Players will get three weapon skins, a set of prime exclusive equipment, and three supply boxes. This offer ends on Tuesday, April 21st.

Dauntless players can pick up the Rites of Spring weapon skin. Two large ice climbing axes cartoonishly overdesigned, you can pick up the weapon skin and some supplies to help in-game too. Players have until Thursday, April 30th to pick up this one.

Players of the free-to-play open-beta League of Legends spin-off card game, Legends of Runeterra, can also the prime capsule. The capsule promotion is running for three months and will include a champion wildcard, expedition token, a rare wildcard, and an epic wildcard. I have no idea what any of that means either, if that helps. This offer ends on Monday, April 27th.

If you want to play a free-to-play mobile game that looks like The Simpsons Tapped Out was the entire design document you will want to play, Mafia City. In all three drops available this month you can pick up 50 gold, five 10K cargo and cash, and two five-minute building and training speed-ups. The first offer ends on April 10th, the second lasts until April 24th, and the third through May 8th.

The last of the free-to-play mobile games, players of the MMO RPG Black Desert Mobile will have the ability to pick up some in-game loot. In the second of a total of six drops, players can pick up the Karlstein outfit chest and weapon chest, offer ending on April 14th. The third offer lasting through to the 28th offers players three epic accessory chests, and the fourth lasting through May 12th features 200 boss rush stamps and 200 ancient tablets. I don’t know why you’d want 200 stamps, unless licking the back of the queen’s head is that important to you.

Players of Borderlands 3 have a lot of loot to pick up if they haven’t already. With the previous two offers still available, players can also pick up the superstreamer shotgun and three golden keys. In conflicting notes, these Borderlands 3 offers will either end on the 14th of May or the 1st of June. One might assume similar to Rocket League’s offer, you’d need to redeem these before a specific date to get all the available drops.

I said it last month, I’ll say it again. Camouflage is meant to hide you. Luminescent green didn’t help last time and dressing like a banana the time before wasn’t much help either. This time, Rainbow Six Siege players can pick up the Mozzie Operator Skin. Yes, you can dress like a pizza mascot that runs a library and being called names for being stupid. Somehow I don’t believe you’d see the highest trained special forces unit getting ready, all in the name of breaching a house full of kidnappers holding the president’s daughter hostage, and just one of them is dressed like a pepperoni pizza. Offer ends April the 24th; if you want to be stupid.

Players of Destiny 2 can pick up the Prometheus lens bundle. Do you want to look like an idiot on camera while running? No, good because I somehow believe this isn’t that slightly bad Alien sequel from 2012. Players can pick up the Prometheus lens trace rifle, Eye of Osiris weapon ornament, Tyrant shell ghost, and fleet ska IX ship. The offer ends on the 22nd of April.

Sports! Players of the sports ball and gambling extraordinaire game, FIFA 20, can pick up the second Twitch Prime pack. This time players have a chance of getting an 81 OVR or better player and four rare gold player items; So it’s the same as the last one. This offer ends on the 27th of April.

Do you like jumping from wall to wall, ripping demons in half, and yet, secretly you are a unicorn furry? You will want to pick up the DOOMicorn Slayer Master collection (and probably DOOM Eternal). Yes, if you want to be the Pretty Pretty Princess‘ unicorn, you can be with this skin. It comes in two colors: purple pony and night-mare, with three new animations, upgradable magic meadow podium, and a new profile icon and title.

So, to the games! The ones that are meant to tide you over while you are stuck at home bored out of your mind after you used all those bottles of hand sanitizer when you woke up in the morning. I’ll say it now, none of them really excited me when I found out what they would be.

The first of which I think will excite a couple is Earthlock, a beautiful 3D take on a classic turn-based RPG of the 90s. Wrapped in fantasy, you’ll find the cartoon version of whatever Geralt would fight in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Not my first choice for personal preference, but if you’re looking to spend 20-30 hours of your time on an RPG, this could be a fresher experience than replaying Final Fantasy 7 ahead of the remake’s release.

Kathy Rain: A Detective Is Born is a point and click adventure set in the 90s. Yes, that means you’ll have to consume all the drugs in the universe to figure out how to get Mrs. Miggins’ cat out that tree. I’d have thought a ladder, but using an old man’s left testicle to swat a bee out the air does the job. I’m kidding, of course, that would be too simple. You play as the titular Kathy Rain, a rocker/biker “chic” and journalist who has to come to terms with her troubled past. Mystery cliches? Never heard of them!

Speaking of hell, otherwise known as the 1990s, Turok was an N64 exclusive (for a few months) and it shows. Imagine Doom (1993), but instead of being an angry man ripping demons in twine, you play as an angry man shooting dinosaurs in a Jurassic Park-like hell. Still looking like a 90s FPS, those who care a little too much about graphics won’t understand that gameplay is the focus of the game.

Etherborn is a game we knew about just before its announcement at E3 last year, as a puzzle platformer about gravity-shifting, it screams that I’d enjoy it. However, I just keep forgetting it is a game. I’ve yet to play it, but every time I see it I’ve forgotten about it moments later. It may very well be a standout of the five games in terms of gameplay, but it’s hardly memorable.

From puzzle-platforming to a first-person puzzle that released this year, given my game of the year was one of those, this one stands out to me. Lightmatter is a game about shifting light to solve puzzles, and that’s about it as far as I can tell, light is a good thing and shadow is a bad thing. It is about as complex as every superhero movie, comic book, and tv show since the dawn broke on Superman’s left cheek. It is the entire thing Star Wars is based upon, good and evil called by the light side (jedi) and the very literal name of “the dark side.”