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The Tuesday news!

SALES & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

1. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
2. Expansion - Crusader Kings II: Holy Fury
3. HITMAN 2 - Standard Edition
4. ARK: Survival Evolved
5. Farming Simulator 19
6. Artifact
7. Football Manager 2019
8. HITMAN 2 - Gold Edition
9. ARK: Survival Evolved Season Pass
10. Total War: WARHAMMER II

SOFTWARE

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.2 is now available, optimized for Battlefield 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-edition-18-11-2-is-now-available-optimized-for-battlefield-5/
AMD has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, this driver adds support for Battlefield 5. Unfortunately, AMD did not provide any percentage improvements over the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.1 (which was also listed as a driver that was optimized for DICE’s shooter).
>> Available from here.

Capcom has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from Mega Man 11
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/capcom-has-removed-the-denuvo-anti-tamper-tech-from-mega-man-11/
Now that’s the spirit. When it was originally released, Mega Man 11 was protected by the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. However, earlier today CODEX was able to crack the game and as a result of that, Capcom has decided to completely remove Denuvo from its game.

MODS/EMULATORS

Reshade 4.0 is now available for download, features rewritten ReShade FX compiler from ground up
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/reshade-4-0-is-now-available-for-download-features-rewritten-reshade-fx-compiler-from-ground-up/
Crosire has released a brand new version of Reshade, Reshade 4.0. For Reshade 4.0, crosire rewrote ReShade FX compiler from the ground up to generate SSA code making it fully standalone, blazing fast, and featuring much better error recovery. What’s really cool here though is that this compiler paves the future for Vulkan support (so hopefully we’ll also get support for DX12?).
Moreover, Reshade 4.0 got a major UI overhaul and the default keyboard shortcut for opening the in-game overlay has changed to the “Home” key. It also features new separate FPS and frame time overlays, fixes LOD bias for textures with auto-generated mipmaps in D3D9, fixes mouse cursor being reset to the window corner on first call when input blocking is active and more.
>> You can download it from its website.

Half-Life Absolute Zero will recreate the pre-release versions of Half-Life, releases on February 12th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/half-life-absolute-zero-will-recreate-the-pre-release-versions-of-half-life-releases-on-february-12/
Modder ‘Cobalt-57’ has announced that Half-Life Absolute Zero will release on February 12th, 2019. In case you weren’t aware of, Half-Life: Absolute Zero is a mod dedicated to recreating the pre-release versions of Half-Life. The team aims to recreate the art-style and chapters featured off in Half-Life builds from early to mid 1998, featuring all the chapters, monsters and weapons that never made it into the final build.
In Half-Life Absolute Zero, players will now be able to experience Communications Center, the military camp in Surface Tension, and they will also get to fight cut enemies like the Human Sergeant, the Panthereye, Stukabat, along with cut weapons such as the Chumtoad.

New videos released for the fan-made Half-Life 3 game, Boreal Alyph
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-videos-released-for-the-fan-made-half-life-3-game-boreal-alyph/
Back in October, we shared the performance tech demo for the unofficial Half-Life 3, or Half-Life 2: Episode 3 if you prefer, game Project Borealist. However, Project Borealis isn’t the only game that aims to recreate this vaporware title. Boreal Alyph is also based on Marc Laidlaw short story “Epistle 3” and its development team has released some new videos from it.
In case you weren’t aware of, Epistle 3 is a synopsis of Half-Life 2: Episode 3, written by ex-Valve writer, Marc Laidlaw, and Boreal Alyph aims to capture Valve’s lost vision, and bring a fun, and satisfying end to the celebrated Half-Life series.

GAMING NEWS

F1 2018 receives official DX12 support, DX12 beta build available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/f1-2018-receives-official-dx12-support-dx12-beta-build-available-for-download/
Now here is a pleasant surprise. Codemasters has released a DX12 beta build for F1 2018. According to the developers, this new DX12 version changes the way some parts of the game engine work, and particularly the graphics code.

Fallout 76 now supports higher/unlocked framerates, physics no longer tied to framerate
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fallout-76-now-supports-higher-unlocked-framerates-physics-no-longer-tied-to-framerate/
As we’ve already reported, Bethesda released today the first post-launch update for Fallout 76. Now while the release notes did not mention anything about it, we can confirm that Bethesda has unlocked the framerate, meaning that PC gamers can get higher framerates than 60fps.

Latest Forza Horizon 4 patch implements multi-material color selection for cars & rims, fixes numerous issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/latest-forza-horizon-4-patch-implements-multi-material-color-selection-for-cars-rims-fixes-numerous-issues/
Playground Games has released a brand new update for its open-world racing game, Forza Horizon 4. According to the release notes, the November 20th update implements multi-material color selection for a number of cars and rims, adds in a number of new to Horizon rims and fixes various bugs and issues.

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden Official PC System Requirements
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/mutant-year-zero-road-to-eden-official-pc-system-requirements/
Funcom has revealed the official PC system requirements for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. According to the specs, PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i5-760 or an AMD Phenom II X4 965 with 6GB of RAM and an NVidia GeForce GTX 580 or an AMD Radeon HD 7870.