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Supreme Leader Snoke on trading cards

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be the first time that we see Supreme Leader Snoke in his true form.

[ Warning: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.]

Over the last week, we've seen some better images of Supreme Leader Snoke and his contorted face, mainly in toy form. A new image from Topps' Star Wars trading card line has given us the best look yet. As seen in the image below, Supreme Leader Snoke has a nasty scar running down the middle of his face, sunken cheeks and a mean look.

This aligns with previous images we've seen from different toy sets, but what's most apparent about his face is just how human it looks. Back in May, Pablo Hidalgo of Lucasfilm's Story Group tweeted out a passage from the novelization of The Force Awakens. That passage defines Snoke as "humanoid, but not human." The description provided by Hidalgo certainly describes Snoke in the photo above. There's an evil glare to Snoke's look, but he still looks human, even if disfigured.

Snoke will play a bigger role in The Last Jedi than he did in The Force Awakens, but he won't be the main baddie this time around, either. In an interview with Empire Magazine, director Rian Johnson confirmed that Kylo Ren would still be at the center of the First Order's story. Johnson compared Snoke's involvement in the movie to that of Emperor Palpatine in the original Star Wars trilogy.

"He's a dark force: the scary thing behind the thing," Johnson said. "That was entirely how I approached Snoke. I wasn't interested in explaining where he came from or telling his history, except where it serves this story."

Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be released on Dec. 15.

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Star Wars trading card provides best look at Supreme Leader Snoke

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi will be the first time that we see Supreme Leader Snoke in his true form. [ Warning: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.] Over the last week, we've seen some better images of Supreme Leader Snoke and his contorted face, mainly in toy form.

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server issues

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, the stylish kung-fu action game that launched to high praise last week, is having major server issues. Players have found themselves unable to log on for days at a time since launch, a problem with the online multiplayer-focused title that developer Slocap is promising to fix.

Not long after the game launched, players attempting to try the multiplayer campaign found themselves unable to on both PlayStation 4 and Windows PC. In North America, they couldn't connect to servers; those in Oceania found that servers hadn't even been deployed when the game went live.

As concerns about the game's unstable online connection grew, Slocap responded on the game's website.

"We are aware that some players are facing big lag issues, preventing them from enjoying the online experience in Absolver," the development team wrote in a post one day after launch, on Aug. 30. "We apologize for the rocky start, the team is working night and day to improve this. We have a couple of major fixes in the works, which should be deployed next week and should improve these issues. Thank you for your patience!"

A patch went out on Sept. 1, which was set to improve "overall stability" and fix various other issues. But Sloclap admitted that it was continuing to stabilize the servers, which would take more time to be optimal.

Even with the patch, players continued to post on forums and tweet at the developer about their connection problems, which saw them being kicked out of laggy multiplayer matches, if they were able to get into any. To its credit, Sloclap has responded to many of these complaints, even the more impolite ones.

Hi! We're sorry to hear about any connection difficulty you're experiencing. We are aware of it and working hard to fix these issues.
- sloclap (@sloclap) September 4, 2017

Overall game stability is the top priority here, we apologize for the online issues you are encountering.
- sloclap (@sloclap) September 4, 2017

Another update is due out this Friday that should improve the situation, as well as minimize lag - and add some new gear, too. It sounds like players on places like Reddit are appreciative of the team's transparency about the prolonged online problems.

"I am glad they have been putting a lot of effort in to keep their game running," wrote one user regarding Sloclap's promises of upcoming stability fixes. "It is frustrating at times but we are lucky for the fact that so many people got this game in first place. They are being active and [a] little patience is needed but soon we can hope to forget these launch problems and enjoy our amazing fighting game."

For online multiplayer games looking to build up a long-lasting community, it's critical that said community can actually, well, get online. Absolver is still in its early days, and Steam Charts stats suggest that thousands of people are still playing the indie game, in spite of finicky connectivity. We'll see if Sloclap - an indie studio made its debut with Absolver - can turn things around sooner than later.

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Absolver developer asks for patience as it fixes server issues

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the stylish kung-fu action game that launched to high praise last week, is having major server issues. Players have found themselves unable to log on for days at a time since launch, a problem with the online multiplayer-focused title that developer Slocap is promising to fix.

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