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Monday news, part two:

Romance Of The Three Kingdoms 14 marches onto PC in February
https://www.pcgamer.com/romance-of-the-three-kingdoms-14-marches-onto-pc-in-february/
Romance Of The Three Kingdoms 14—the latest in Tecmo Koei's long-running historical strategy series—now has a release date on PC. Aspiring generals can begin their conquest of ancient China on February 28, and it might be just the thing for players who got a taste for this particular slice of history with the recent Total War: Three Kingdoms.

Ambitious sci-fi MMO Seed will launch a 'narrative prequel' alpha next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/ambitious-sci-fi-mmo-seed-will-launch-a-narrative-prequel-alpha-next-year/
It's been more than a year since we last looked at Seed, "a hugely ambitious in-development MMO that echoes EVE Online, Rimworld and The Sims." Work has been continuing, though, and developer Klang has now announced that closed alpha testing will begin next year in a "narrative prequel" called Seed Pioneers.

20,000 toxic CS:GO players banned in six weeks by FACEIT and Google's new chat AI
https://www.pcgamer.com/20000-toxic-csgo-players-banned-in-six-weeks-by-faceit-and-googles-new-chat-ai/
A new AI built to combat toxicity in online gaming has banned 20,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players within its first six weeks, solely by analyzing messages in the game's text chat.

Epic sues former Fortnite tester who leaked Chapter 2 secrets
https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-sues-former-fortnite-tester-who-leaked-chapter-2-secrets/
Epic Games is suing a former Fortnite user experience tester for leaking details of Fortnite Chapter 2, claiming the leak spoiled "the suspense that Epic had been working to generate and build for months".

WWE 2K20 team will try to patch the sim's most ridiculous flaws within two weeks
https://www.pcgamer.com/wwe-2k20-devs-will-try-to-patch-its-ridiculous-flaws-within-two-weeks/
WWE 2K20 is ridiculous. From wrestlers with no faces to players getting stuck inside ring ropes, every bout is plagued by a new, silly, potentially game-ruining bug. Publisher 2K knows it: in a tweet last night, the game's official Twitter account said it was "listening closely to the feedback" and was preparing an initial patch to release within two weeks.

Apex Legends' big Charge Rifle nerf is now live
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-big-charge-rifle-nerf-is-now-live/
The nerf Respawn promised for Apex Legends' powerful Charge Rifle is now live, slowing the weapon's fire rate and dampening its long-distance firepower. It follows a smaller tweak last week, which reduced its magazine capacity by one shot.

More Diablo 4 information leaked via art book
https://www.pcgamer.com/more-diablo-4-information-leaked-via-art-book/
The Art of Diablo coffee-table book, due out on November 3—the day after Blizzcon—has already been responsible for leaking the existence of Diablo 4 after an ad for it in German magazine Game Star described it containing artwork from "Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, and Diablo 4." Now it seems to have been responsible for another leak, as Twitter user @WeakAuras has posted a seemingly legit page from the book.

Media Molecule's Dreams could come to PC along with the games made in it, co-founder says
https://www.pcgamer.com/media-molecules-dreams-and-the-games-made-in-it-could-come-to-pc-co-founder-says/
Media Molecule wants to bring its PS4-exclusive game creation suite Dreams to PC eventually—and let players export games made in Dreams to platforms other than PS4, studio co-founder Kareem Ettouney has said.

Carrion, the promising 'reverse horror' game, gets free demo on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/carrion-the-promising-reverse-horror-game-gets-free-demo-on-steam/
James liked what he saw of Carrion, the upcoming "reverse horror" that casts you as tentacled monster, when he played it during this year's E3, naming it among the show's hidden gems. Now it's your chance to go hands-on: developer Phobia Game Studio has released a half-hour demo that you can grab on Steam. The demo will only linger until November 2, so act fast.

The Drifter is a pulpy point-and-click from the developers of Crawl
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-drifter-is-a-pulpy-point-and-click-from-the-developers-of-crawl/
The team behind competitive hack-and-slash Crawl, one of the best local multiplayer games on PC, have announced The Drifter, a pulpy pixel art point-and-click starring a murdered man who's brought back to life.

Destiny 2's new PvP mode adds 'super charged supers' and makes every weapon lethal
https://www.pcgamer.com/destiny-2s-new-pvp-mode-adds-super-charged-supers-and-makes-every-weapon-lethal/
Destiny 2's new Momentum Control PvP mode, which launches on Tuesday, will add instant respawns, increase all weapon damage and supercharge your supers, turning you into a "1,000-pound gorilla". Not literally, obviously, although that would really shake up the meta.

ESPN say they've got a document revealing Overwatch 2
https://www.pcgamer.com/espn-say-theyve-got-a-document-revealing-overwatch-2/
ESPN say they've obtained a BlizzCon training document that spills the beans on Overwatch 2, and have a source to back it up. According to their info, Overwatch 2 will have a significant PvE element, with a narrative and missions that include "a four-player story experience set in Rio de Janeiro". This mode will also feature "Hero talents and in-game items".

Sinking Simulator, the relaxing game about wreaking needless destruction on ships, is now on Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/sinking-simulator-the-relaxing-game-about-wreaking-needless-destruction-on-ships-is-now-on-steam/
I don't know who else needs to hear this, but there's a game on Steam all about destroying giant ships. It's called Sinking Simulator, and it's actually the second iteration of the game – an earlier version hit Greenlight several years ago and Tyler even briefly wrote about it. That said, this appears to be the first time Sinking Simulator has been playable on Steam, though it's been on Gamejolt and indieDB for a while.

Bethesda working on hotfixes for broken Fallout 76 subscription features
https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesda-working-on-hotfixes-for-broken-fallout-76-subscription-features/
Fallout 76's new subscription service, Fallout 1st, hasn't been received well for the most part. The pricey $12 per month ($100 per year) subscription offers, among other things, an unlimited scrap storage box and private servers. But in addition to widespread complaints about the service in general, some subscribers have been reporting technical problems as well. Namely, that the private servers aren't exactly private and that their scrap supplies have been disappearing from their shiny new premium boxes.
In a statement sent to Polygon, Bethesda says it's addressing both issues. Currently, private servers are joinable by anyone on the friends list of the server owner, even if they haven't been invited. As you can imagine, this is a big issue: anyone who has played Fallout 76 has no doubt added players (perhaps many of them) to their friends list who aren't really friends but just strangers they may have played with briefly. Starting your private game and being joined by a bunch of randoms you don't really even know isn't exactly the definition of private.
>> What were they expecting, that it would work? C'mon, it's Bethesda and Fallout 76! That there would be big problems was all but guaranteed.

Class warfare has come to Fallout 76
https://www.pcgamer.com/class-warfare-has-come-to-fallout-76/
Like the vaults themselves, Fallout 76 has become a curious social experiment. Since launch, the initially egalitarian West Virginian wasteland has slowly been splitting its community with microtransactions and premium conveniences, which reached their zenith last week with the launch of Fallout 1st, a premium membership subscription. Now some players seem to be gearing up for a class war.

EVE Online: Invasion Chapter 2 is coming in November
https://www.pcgamer.com/eve-online-invasion-chapter-2-is-coming-in-november/
The second chapter of EVE Online's Invasion expansion is coming next month. Pilots have had their hands full recently with multiple invasions and a communications blackout, and it looks like they won't have much time to rest before the next crisis.