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Bungie confirms that Year 1 gear will carry over into Destiny 2 Forsaken
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-confirms-that-year-1-gear-will-carry-over-into-destiny-2-forsaken/
Good news for avid Destiny players: Forsaken won't make all of your Year One legendary gear obsolete. During E3 2018, I got the chance to sit down with game director Steve Cotton, design lead Lars Bakken, and project lead Scott Taylor to talk about Forsaken and, more specifically, its new hybrid PvE and PvP mode called Gambit. We'll have our impressions of Gambit for you later in the week, but during that conversation we touched on something that will bring relief to hardcore players. Gear dropped in Forsaken won't necessarily outclass the gear you've already acquired.

 

GTA Online heists get double experience and in-game cash this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-online-heists-get-double-experience-and-in-game-cash-this-week/
Not to rag on Simeon too much up there in the strapline, but his GTA Online Contact missions are pretty guff. The prospect of netting double RP and GTA$ to carry out his string of tedious carjackings is neat, but, honestly, probably not enough to motivate me. I'd rather be robbing banks. Lucky for me, a selection of GTA Online's heists are also subject to the same offer.

 

Ruin your friendships again in Overcooked 2 this August
https://www.pcgamer.com/ruin-your-friendships-again-in-overcooked-2-this-august/
During Nintendo's E3 show, Overcooked 2, the sequel to one of our favorite co-op games, was announced. And don't worry, it may have been announced by Nintendo, but Team 17 have confirmed it's coming to PC. Expect to play it August 7.

 

Fallout 76 will have 'real-time' VATS
https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-will-have-real-time-vats/
The Vault-Tech Assisted Targeting System—VATS—has been a staple of Bethesda-brand post-nuclear combat since Fallout 3. It's evolved from game to game, but the basics remain the same: It dramatically slows time in the midst of combat, enabling players to target individual body parts without having to be actual sharpshooting masters. One of the big questions about Fallout 76 is how that time-slowing will work in its multiplayer environment—if it's going to be there at all.

 

Roll20 is getting a built-in character creator
https://www.pcgamer.com/roll20-is-getting-a-built-in-character-creator/
Popular online roleplaying platform Roll20 is adding a character creation app called The Charactermancer to its suite online roleplaying services. Currently in testing, the tool can currently only build level 1 Dungeons & Dragons characters using data from D&D’s free rules compendium and Roll20’s own virtual compendium. Roll20 is one of the most popular programs for playing tabletop roleplaying games online, probably one of the best ways to play them on your PC, and is used extensively on Twitch RPG shows that have remote players.

 

Anthem won't have player-to-player trading at launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/anthem-wont-have-player-to-player-trading-at-launch/
Fair play to Mark Darrah. Following Anthem's appearance at EA Play on Saturday, the game's executive producer has fielded hundreds of questions from those interested in BioWare's shared-world shooter.
I checked back in on Darrah's Twitter feed, and found this on the absence of player-to-player trading at launch interesting.

 

Cyberpunk 2077 has a 'cool' stat
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-has-a-cool-stat/
As you'd expect from an RPG, your character has stats that you'll increase throughout the game, leveling up characteristics including strength, constitution, intelligence, reflexes, and tech. Also: Cool.
There's a stat for cool.

 

Cyberpunk 2077 won't ship with multiplayer, but it's a possibility after launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-wont-ship-with-multiplayer-but-its-a-possibility-after-launch/
When asked by Eurogamer if Cyberpunk 2077 is "purely" a single-player game, quest designer Patrick Mills answered yes.
"We have multiplayer in R&D, but the game we're shipping to you, the game you're going to buy is the single-player experience," Mills explains to EG. "That's really what we're concentrating on now, the single-player RPG experience. That's what we want to nail down before we start looking at any of these other things."