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Monday news, part two:

Disc Room designer on its granular difficulty options: 'accessibility helps everyone'
https://www.pcgamer.com/disc-room-designer-on-its-granular-difficulty-options-accessibility-helps-everyone/
Disc Room is a bloody hard game, but designer JW Nijman and crew chose not to be rigid about the challenge, acknowledging that what's merely difficult for one person may be untenable for another. To that end, the sawcore disc-dodger features a variety of settings to tweak the challenge.

Apex Legends comes to Steam with the start of season 7 on November 4
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-comes-to-steam-with-the-start-of-season-7-on-november-4/
Electronic Arts' big shift to Steam will continue in November with the long-awaited launch of Apex Legends, which will take place with the kickoff of season 7 on November 4.

Genshin Impact changes its troublesome Resin system, but not everyone is happy about it
https://www.pcgamer.com/genshin-impact-resin-patch-changes/
Genshin Impact is a tremendously popular game, but there's one aspect of it that's unpopular among diehard players: The way it distributes Resin, an in-game resource that's used to enable end-game activities. We explained the problem in detail in Steven's story about Resin in Genshin Impact, but the short version is that if you want to do cool endgame stuff, you need a lot of Resin, and Genshin Impact metes it out sparingly.

The Brotherhood Of Steel is coming to Fallout 76
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-brotherhood-of-steel-is-coming-to-fallout-76/
After biding their time, the Brotherhood Of Steel is finally ready to make their presence known in multiplayer wasteland Fallout 76. Announced earlier today, the fan-favourite techno-zealots are set to trample their way through West Virginia in the Steel Dawn update later this year.

Valorant skin pricing: 'The type of content that we make isn't meant to be cheap'
https://www.pcgamer.com/valorant-skin-pricing-the-type-of-content-that-we-make-isnt-meant-to-be-cheap/
Valorant skins are expensive. Take, for instance, the Elderflame set, released in July, which costs roughly $100 for the full collection of five, and then even more to level them up with additional eye candy and effects by spending a separate currency. The more recent Nebula collection is a little cheaper, but not much: It'll set you back $70 if you want the whole thing. That's more than the launch-day cost of a new game from a major studio.
In a recent interview, Riot told us that Valorant's weapon skins aren't cheap, but also said that they're not supposed to be.
>> It's an easy way to see who has more money than brains.

Sekiro's free game of the year update drops this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/sekiros-free-game-of-the-year-update-drops-this-week/
Much-beloved ninja action game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice gets its big, free game of the year edition update this week. The update adds a boss-rush styled boss challenge mode, unlockable character skins, and player recordings. This free update comes about a year and a half after From Software's most recent creation released, and was first announced earlier this year. The Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice game of the year update will be free to all owners, and it will release on October 29th.

A PC version of G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is in development, says GameMill Entertainment
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-pc-version-of-gi-joe-operation-blackout-is-in-development-says-gamemill-entertainment/
Third-person shooter G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout released on Switch, Xbox, and PS4 this month, but there was no sign of a PC version and no mention of one in the trailers. Developer GameMill Entertainment has clarified on Twitter that a PC version is being developed, though they say, "We don't have a release date".

The Dungeon Experience is a fantasy theme park run by a mudcrab
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-dungeon-experience-is-a-fantasy-theme-park-run-by-a-mudcrab/
Here's the pitch for in-development indie game The Dungeon Experience: A level-one common crab like you probably killed five of in your first hour of Skyrim becomes an entrepreneur and builds an adventure holiday destination. It's a first-person guided tour through a dungeon where the NPCs are all played by out-of-work theme park actors and the only refreshment available is "crab juice". Things may not all be as they appear.

Among Us developers are trying to prevent a hack from disrupting games
https://www.pcgamer.com/among-us-developers-are-trying-to-prevent-a-hack-from-disrupting-games/
For several days now, players of Among Us have been regularly encountering a hack that fills lobbies with bots who spam the same message repeatedly, despawns everything leaving players in a black room, and finally disconnects them from the game. The messages have had various versions of similar text, typically telling players to subscribe to the hacker's YouTube channel "or else we will kill your device", followed by a link to either their Discord or Twitter, signing off "Trump 2020".
Developers Innersloth pushed out an emergency server update to deal with the issue and advised players to "Please play private games or with people that you trust!!!" People continued seeing the hack, now with messages like "You're mad I'm back" and "Paid by Putin from Russia". A second round of fixes followed, and the back-and-forth is likely to continue.

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an upcoming adventure game about just that
https://www.pcgamer.com/turnip-boy-commits-tax-evasion-is-an-adventure-game-about-just-that/
Every once in a while I think I'm definitely completely jaded and will not be surprised by whatever weird game idea someone thinks up next, but then someone like developers Snoozy Kazoo are like "I am making a game called Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion" and we just go ahead and restart the clock.

King Pins is a micro-RTS inspired by Age of Empires
https://www.pcgamer.com/king-pins-is-a-micro-rts-inspired-by-age-of-empires/
Game development collective Sokpop's latest is a $3 real-time strategy game with a neat concept: Boiling down the Age of Empires-style RTS to its absolute basics. The result is King Pins, a micro-RTS that forces you to quickly figure out a detailed economic strategy while reacting to your opponents' maneuvers. The object of a match is simple: Kill the enemy's king unit before they kill yours.

Crashed submariners fight cosmic horrors when Stirring Abyss releases this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/crashed-submariners-fight-cosmic-horrors-when-stirring-abyss-releases-this-week/
How about a cosmic horror tactical strategy game set at the bottom of the sea during the Cold War featuring crashed submariners desperate to get home while maintaining their humanity in the face of ever-growing evil from beyond space and time? Well, that's what Stirring Abyss is, and it's due to release on October 29th.

There's a bug in FIFA 21 making players bounce into the air
https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-a-bug-in-fifa-21-making-players-bounce-into-the-air/
There's a bug in FIFA 21 making players jump, but not in a normal athletic leap-in-the-air kind of way. Instead it sends them straight up like a character in a platformer, sometimes flying high into the air. As a commenter on Reddit put it, "I’m playing FIFA and this guy is playing Space Jam."

Vermintide 2 devs reveal Bardin's getting a new career, Victor a new gun
https://www.pcgamer.com/vermintide-2-devs-reveal-bardins-getting-a-new-career-victor-a-new-gun/
As part of the recent five-year anniversary event in Vermintide 2, the Fatshark development team spoke about what's coming up for the co-op hack-and-slasher during a Twitch livestream. Fatshark CEO Martin Wahlund and narrative director Mårten Stormdal discussed the forthcoming Chaos Wastes expansion as well as mentioning the next premium career they're adding will be for Bardin the dwarf, and although they say it's coming soon they didn't reveal what the career will be. (Engineer, maybe?)

Cyberpunk 2077 dev defends decisions to remove features
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-dev-defends-decisions-to-remove-features/
With less than a month to go until the long-anticipated release of Cyberpunk 2077, fans are busily anticipating what the finished game will really be like—and what won't be present. In light of conversations around content cut from the game during the development process, the game's senior level designer Miles Tost has made a statement, in which he explains that fans' heightened awareness about features that didn't make it into the final game can be put down to CD Projekt Red's openness around the development process. This began with a demo shown at E3 in 2018 that featured pre-alpha gameplay, which was always going to be a far cry from the game on release.

Due Process is brutal, gorgeous and hitting Early Access this week
https://www.pcgamer.com/due-process-is-brutal-gorgeous-and-hitting-early-access-this-week/
Due Process is a competitive FPS where lots of little bits feel familiar, but the experience is new. Developed by Giant Enemy Crab and published by Annapurna Interactive, the game has been in a beta phase for some time but, as of this week, enters Early Access on Steam.