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Tuesday news, part two:

Apex Legends' next season will nerf Octane and remove low profile
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-next-season-will-nerf-octane-and-remove-low-profile/
Did you know that, thanks to something called "Low Profile", smaller heroes in Apex Legends take 5% more damage per hit? It's not a fact worth knowing for long, mind—because Respawn is planning to bin it with the game's next season, Legacy.

9,000-player games are right around the corner, and here's what one looks like
https://www.pcgamer.com/9000-player-games-are-right-around-the-corner-and-heres-what-one-looks-like/
Scavengers does the usual multiplayer thing pretty well. It's a unique spin on large scale competitive multiplayer, like battle royale meets a survival game meets Far Cry. For the rundown on what Scavengers is and why I think it could be a surprise multiplayer hit, check out my video preview.
But Scavengers also has an upcoming experimental multiplayer mode that I'm not even sure how to define. Developer Midwinter Entertainment is using Scavengers to play with multiplayer design at a scale like I've never seen. After my last preview round in the base game, I was invited to a weekend ScavLab test session, where over 1,700 live players joined the same game at once with thousands more virtual players waiting in the wings to see if we could burn it all down. Here's how it all went.

Resident Evil Village's upcoming PC demo has been mercifully extended
https://www.pcgamer.com/resident-evil-villages-upcoming-pc-demo-has-been-mercifully-extended/
Resident Evil Village is releasing its third and final demo this weekend, and Capcom is finally letting PC players get a slice of the spooky pie, with a mercifully larger window of time to play it.

Leaked EA documents lead to more FIFA loot box scrutiny
https://www.pcgamer.com/leaked-ea-documents-lead-to-more-fifa-loot-box-scrutiny/
The CBC says that leaked internal documents provided to it by a "gaming insider" show that Electronic Arts wants to "funnel" FIFA players into the game's Ultimate Team online mode, which enables them to spend more money through the purchase of loot boxes.

Capcom Arcade Stadium hits PC in May and will charge you to cheat
https://www.pcgamer.com/capcom-arcade-stadium-hits-pc-in-may-and-will-charge-you-to-cheat/
Capcom Arcade Stadium released for Nintendo Switch earlier this year, and as of May 25 it’ll be available on Steam. Just like the Switch version, it’ll release as a free container app with one game—1943: The Battle of Midway—and if you want more you’ll need to purchase packs for $15 each, or $40 for all three. It’s not a bad deal, and more packs are promised in the future.

Red Faction Guerrilla's lead tech designer reveals a smashing new destruction sandbox
https://www.pcgamer.com/red-faction-guerrillas-lead-tech-designer-reveals-a-smashing-new-destruction-sandbox/
One of the people behind Red Faction Guerrilla's endlessly delightful architectural carnage is bringing back his building-smashing expertise with the newly-announced Instruments of Destruction.
Announced earlier this week, Radiangames' latest is a vehicular destruction sim in the vein of games like Besiege. Build spectacular contraptions out of modular components, and then use them to absolutely ruin some poor fortified building.

Assemble a tiny pixelated army in Warpips
https://www.pcgamer.com/assemble-a-tiny-pixelated-army-in-warpips/
Warpips, a military tug-of-war strategy from Skirmish Mode Games, is hitting Early Access on Steam later this week.
The game comes from a handful of devs from Unknown Worlds, the studio behind Subnautica, and its sequel Below Zero. Warpips will feature short, snappy rounds of around 10-20 minutes, with Skirmish Mode Games promising "lots of replayability" with randomly generated battles.

Dodgeball brawler Knockout City will be on Game Pass at launch
https://www.pcgamer.com/dodgeball-brawler-knockout-city-will-be-on-game-pass-at-launch/
EA's arena ball-hucker Knockout City will be available on Xbox Game Pass and EA Play at launch, the publisher announced in a blog post this week.
Arriving on Origin, Steam, and the Epic Games Store on May 21st, the 3v3 dodgeball arena will also be available via Xbox Game Pass for PC, by way of that service's integration with EA Play. Combined with the cross-platform support already shown in the game's recent beta, it looks like EA wants to ensure there's a strong playerbase at launch.

Fortnite Crew is offering permanent access to Save The World next month
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-crew-is-offering-permanent-access-to-save-the-world-next-month/
Having long since been overtaken by its battle royale sibling, the original Fortnite: Save The World is now being given away as a small bonus in the Fortnite Crew subscription service's May offerings.