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Monday news, part two:

Crusader Kings 3 accidentally breaks same-sex concubine mods
https://www.pcgamer.com/crusader-kings-3-accidentally-breaks-same-sex-concubine-mods/
Crusader Kings 3 might let your dukes and queens engage in homosexual relationships, but marriage is reserved only for the straights. Fans have been able to queer up medieval Europe with mods, thankfully, but a recent update broke the loophole used to make more meaningful homosexual relationships in CK3 possible.

Warframe completely overhauls its contentious space combat
https://www.pcgamer.com/warframe-completely-overhauls-its-contentious-space-combat/
Warframe's ship-to-ship space combat is one of its most ambitious features, but when it launched back in 2019 it was clear it needed a lot of refining. (...)
Digital Extremes has spent the last year making improvements to the system, but today's update is easily the most comprehensive. Called Corpus Proxima and The New Railjack, this patch overhauls the entire Railjack experience to be more streamlined and friendly to solo players while also adding new missions, enemies, and more. It's big.

Watch Dogs: Legion's online co-op mode is now live on PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-dogs-legions-online-co-op-mode-is-now-live-on-pc/
Less than two weeks after a bug forced Ubisoft to delay it indefinitely, Watch Dogs: Legion's online co-op mode is now live. The new mode was added in title update 3.22, which clocks in at 14.4GB and also makes a number of global and PC-specific bug fixes.

Steam will not sell pickup artist game Super Seducer 3
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-will-not-sell-pickup-artist-game-super-seducer-3/
Valve has refused to sell Super Seducer 3 on Steam, where its listing has been removed. One of the game's developers, Richard La Ruina, posted the news to Twitter alongside screenshots of Valve's response to the game.

Whoops, Call of Duty: Warzone didn't mean to put that crossbow in the game
https://www.pcgamer.com/whoops-call-of-duty-warzone-didnt-mean-to-put-that-crossbow-in-the-game/
Yesterday, Activision added a new crossbow to Call Of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops – Cold War. Hours later, the publisher took it away. But while you could've blinked and missed it, Activision has promised to refund players who were pouring hours into unlocking the new weapon.

Jackbox 8 comes this fall, Word Spud 2 not confirmed
https://www.pcgamer.com/jackbox-8-comes-this-fall-word-spud-2-not-confirmed/
Jackbox Games have announced that The Jackbox Party Pack 8 is coming this fall, with the requisite five party games you'd expect from a Jackbox Party Pack. The developer has yet to announce which games will release in the pack, but the first announcement is to come "before the end of May (likely sooner)."

Hardcore tactics RPG The Last Spell adds a dash of horde mode to the mix
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardcore-tactics-rpg-the-last-spell-adds-a-dash-of-horde-mode-to-the-mix/
If you're a fan of tactics games broadly, or tactics RPGs specifically, I'd encourage you to take the hour or so to check out the demo of The Last Spell, an upcoming tactics roguelike RPG from developers CCCP. In The Last Spell, you control a squad of powerful heroes in order to protect a ruined city from monstrous hordes while its mages cast a spell to rid the world of the horrible magic afflicting everyone.

Nier: Automata is being review bombed on Steam by players who want it patched
https://www.pcgamer.com/nier-automata-is-being-review-bombed-on-steam-by-players-who-want-it-patched/
(...) There's a thread on its Steam forum calling for it to be review bombed "until Square Enix give a patch fixing this mess", and in the last three days it's received over 300 negative reviews. That's enough to drop Nier: Automata's Recent Reviews rating down from 'Very Positive' to 'Mostly Positive', but it'll take more than that before it drops to the negative.
>> I doubt SE will care.

Indie publisher Playism is closing its DRM-free store this month
https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-publisher-playism-is-closing-its-store-this-month/
Playism, a division of Active Gaming Media, has been bringing western indie games to Japan and localizing niche Japanese games for the west since 2011. It recently backed games like Fight Crab, Umurangi Generation, and Omori, and in the past brought English versions of games like Kero Blaster (a platformer from the creator of Cave Story), The Silver Case (an early visual novel by Suda 51), and the Touhou series to PC.
While many of Playism's games are available through Steam and GOG, it also maintained its own storefront with DRM-free versions of its games. Though Playism will continue as a publisher, it has announced it will cease selling games directly through its website on March 24.
>> At least it's only the store.

It's psychics versus monsters in action RPG Scarlet Nexus, coming in June
https://www.pcgamer.com/its-psychics-versus-monsters-in-action-rpg-scarlet-nexus-coming-in-june/
Bandai Namco has finally dropped a release date for action RPG Scarlet Nexus, arriving on Steam June 24th, 2021. First announced a while back, Scarlet Nexus didn't have that much detail around it until recently, and it's actually looking pretty intriguing. Players will experience the story from one of two perspectives, psychics Yuito or Kasane, who are fighting terrifying psychic monsters known as Others who "descend from the sky with a hunger for human brains."

The charity sloth pet for World of Warcraft is adorable
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-charity-sloth-pet-for-world-of-warcraft-is-adorable/
Listen up, folks: The new World of Warcraft pet is adorable. It's Daisy, the sloth, which is very small and cute and slow and in order to get around has to ride on your back.

Players demolish Trackmania's 'impossible' skip and fly over the finish line in reverse
https://www.pcgamer.com/players-demolish-trackmanias-impossible-skip-and-fly-over-the-finish-line-in-reverse/
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The track is called D07-Race, and one of the reasons for this skip being impossible is that, in certain older Trackmanias, it almost definitely is. But Trackmania Nations Forever and a resurgence of interest in racing on the track (which already had at least one famous time skip) saw certain players get interested in chasing the unicorn of this particular move: at first Drarker and then, building on their work, the player Hefest and then Rollin.

Fall Guys gets a Squads mode
https://www.pcgamer.com/fall-guys-gets-a-squads-mode/
Fall Guys Season 4 is out today, and with it a new Squads mode is being introduced, letting you carry your little bean friends who may not be quite as adept at the game as you.

Cyberpunk 2077 lead gameplay designer leaves CD Projekt Red
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-lead-gameplay-designer-leaves-cd-projekt-red/
Andrzej Zawadzki, a lead gameplay designer on Cyberpunk 2077, has announced that he will be leaving CD Projekt Red after nearly eight years with the studio.
Zawadzki announced his departure on Twitter, saying, "After almost 8 years, my time at CDPR has come to an end. It's time for the new adventure. To every person I've met on the way – thank you :) It was an honor and pleasure. See you around :)"