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The Monday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG starts the week with three new sales/deals:

• The new Flash Deal is Urtuk: The Desolation, 38% off during the next 46 hours: https://www.gog.com/game/urtuk_the_desolation
• The new Weekly Sale comes with Czech and Slovak games up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/partner/Czech_And_Slovak_Games
• There's a Special Sale with Kalypso, featuring up to 80% discounts during the next 7 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/kalypso_sale
• And the Idea Factory Sale, with up to 70% discounts, will last another 4 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20211112_launch_promo_idea_factory

Steam has two new deals:

• The new daily deal is Cryofall, that has a demo and it's 65% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/829590/CryoFall/
• Banners of Ruin will be 35% off until November 21: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1075740/Banners_of_Ruin/

The Humble Store has a new Nacon publisher Sale, with up to 90% discounts during the next 4 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/nacon-publisher-sale/

Fanatical has three new sales:

• The new Star Deal is Viscera Cleanup Detail, 55% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/viscera-cleanup-detail-game
• Square Enix puts its games up to 90% off during the next 6 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/square-enix
• And the new BYO Nitro Bundle features 20 games to build your 1, 5 or 10 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-nitro-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Shin Megami Tensei V is already playable on PC via Nintendo Switch emulators
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/shin-megami-tensei-v-is-already-playable-on-pc-via-nintendo-switch-emulators/
Shin Megami Tensei V has just been released on Nintendo Switch and PC gamers can already play it via Nintendo Switch emulators. This is the second Nintendo Switch exclusive game that came out in November and is already playable on PC. A couple of days ago, we informed you about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond running on PC via yuzu.

Brutal Doom 64 Version 2.5 available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/brutal-doom-64-version-2-5-available-for-download/
Modder ‘swc132994’ has released an unofficial update to Sergeant_Mark_IV’s Brutal Doom 64 v2. Brutal Doom 64 Version 2.5 contains many bug fixes as well as added monsters from Onox792’s Project Nightmare among other additions.
Going into more details, version 2.5 adds new optional nightmare monster spawner and performance option. It also new player classes, as well as new difficulty modes. Not only that, but it revamps Classical mode by removing stamina and adding back the vanilla Doom 64 chainsaw.
>> You'll find it at ModDB.

This 19GB Skyrim 4K Mod overhauls all of the Creation Club textures
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-18gb-skyrim-4k-mod-overhauls-all-of-the-creation-club-textures/
Modder ‘HeartAttackMan’ has released a pretty cool HD Texture Pack for Skyrim Special Edition. This pack is 19GB in size and overhauls all the textures of Creation Club.
According to the modder, the maximum size for most textures is 4K. Additionally, textures that were already in 4K have been cleaned and saved with a lower compression.
In order to install this pack, you can either use a mod manager or drop the downloaded folders in your Data folder. HeartAttackMan also plans to create a version that is compatible with the Anniversary Edition.
>> This mod is available from Nexus Mods.

This mod rolls back Skyrim Anniversary Edition to Special Edition version 1.5.97
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-mod-rolls-back-skyrim-anniversary-edition-to-special-edition-version-1597/
A big drawback to the Skyrim Anniversary Edition being an upgrade to Skyrim Special Edition, instead of a completely separate version of the game, is that the new edition can break your mods. Even if you didn't buy Skyrim AE, you may still experience mod incompatibility due to Bethesda's update to the Special Edition.
While the 'modpocalypse' might not be as severe as expected due to Bethesda giving the creator of Skyrim Script Extender early access to the changes made by the AE, there are still plenty of reports of broken mods circulating. As a result, some players with heavily modded games simply want to roll back to Skyrim Special Edition version 1.5.97.
Now there's a mod that can do that for you. The Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Downgrade Patcher (should we shorten that to USSEDP?) will downgrade Skyrim from the AE version back to SE version 1.5.97. Then you can pretend the Anniversary Edition never happened, meaning your plugins, ENBs, and other mods should work just as they did last week.

Square's cult street racing RPG has been translated into English after 22 years
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/squares-cult-street-racing-rpg-has-been-translated-into-english-after-22-years/
Racing Lagoon is a 1999 game by Square that is hard to pigeonhole: inspired by Japan's problems with illegal street racing in the 1980s, it cast you as one such miscreant in a world where you alternate between racing, an RPG-style story, and relatively in-depth car customisation. It was released on PlayStation, never made it out of Japan, never got a sequel, and in the years since has acquired something of a cult status for certain Square fans.
So much so that one group, led by translator Hilltop, decided to translate the full game into English: and now they're done (thanks Kotaku). "The past six months have been an absolute pleasure, and I've been humbled by the amount of support this project has gotten," writes Hilltop. "Over twenty years later, it is finally time for the rest of the world to experience one of the most unique and memorable RPGs ever created. I want to extend my deepest thanks to the rest of the team and to everyone who kept the dream of this game's localization alive."
You can download the localisation patch here, which comes with instructions for how to apply it to your legally obtained Racing Lagoon .bin file.

Modders are fixing GTA Trilogy's rain already
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/modders-are-fixing-gta-trilogys-rain-already/
One of the many messed-up things players have noticed about Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition is the rain. It falls in thick, vision-obscuring white lines—unless it's over the water, in which case it suddenly vanishes. It's as if rain goes behind the ocean. Even if it weren't for that, those ropy strands don't do as much for the atmosphere as a rainy night did in the originals.
Modders are already working on improving the rain, beginning by making it more transparent. GTATrilogyMods has a fix on Patreon, with version 1.1 free to download though you'll need to subscribe for early access to version 1.2. On the GTA Forums iNSANE666 has mods for better rain in GTA 3, as well as busted, wasted, and menu screens, which will be arriving on Nexus Mods once its page for the trilogy goes live. In the meantime, you can download the lot as a zip file. And on Portuguese site mixmods, Jessica Natália has uploaded a mod that makes rain more transparent in all three games.
While it's quite spread out at the moment, the trilogy's modding scene is already hard at work on multiple projects. There's a full radio restoration aiming to bring back the removed songs, which has currently got as far as Vice City's Flash FM, a tweak to get rid of the white outlines around targeted pedestrians, and one that fixes Grove Street gang members having an outline of the number 7 on their jerseys when they're wearing number 3, 5, or 9.

GAMING NEWS

New gameplay footage surfaces for Halo Infinite’s single player campaign
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/new-gameplay-footage-surfaces-for-halo-infinites-single-player-campaign/
GameInformer has shared two new videos, showcasing new gameplay footage from Halo Infinite’s single-player campaign. In addition, IGN has shared a video showing 11 minutes of gameplay footage. As such, you can enjoy over 15 minutes of gameplay from the game’s single-player campaign.

Here is how you can enable In-Game Ray Tracing in Forza Horizon 5
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/here-is-how-you-can-enable-in-game-ray-tracing-in-forza-horizon-5/
As we’ve already reported, Forza Horizon 5 supports Ray Tracing Reflections in ForzaVista. However, it appears that PC gamers can enable/force these Ray Tracing effects when actually playing the game.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 rumored to be in development hell
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/beyond-good-evil-2-rumored-to-be-in-development-hell/
It’s been a while since our last look at Beyond Good & Evil 2, right? After all, the last time Ubisoft showed WIP gameplay footage from it was back in 2018. Since then, though, we really haven’t heard anything about this game. And, according to industry insider Tom Henderson, the game is currently in development hell.
>> Well, we all knew that already, right?

Teaser trailer released for sci-fi horror game, Gray
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/teaser-trailer-released-for-sci-fi-horror-game-gray/
4886 Studios has released a teaser trailer for its upcoming sci-fi horror game, Gray. Gray will be using Unreal Engine, will have a first-person perspective, and currently targets a 2022 release date.

DX12 can completely fix the performance issues of GTA The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dx12-can-completely-fix-the-performance-issues-of-gta-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition/
Yesterday, we informed you about some major performance issues in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition. From the looks of it, the culprit behind these performance issues was the DirectX 11 API. And while consoles players cannot fix them, PC gamers can force DX12 in order to resolve them.
>> There's even a video showing how to do it.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition source code leaked online
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy-the-definitive-edition-source-code-leaked-online/
The release of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has been a train wreck. At launch, the game underperformed on PC (and consoles). Thankfully, PC gamers could force DX12 in order to resolve these performance issues. Then, Rockstar took down Rockstar launcher and removed the game from its store. And earlier yesterday, it was reported that the entire source code for this trilogy has been leaked online.
>> This is the icing on the cake. Can the launch of these remasters get any worse?

Project Awakening is coming to PC, gets new amazing in-engine trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/project-awakening-is-coming-to-pc-new-amazing-in-engine-trailer-released/
During its latest conference, Cygames revealed that its upcoming game, Project Awakening, will be coming to PC. In addition, the team revealed a new in-engine trailer that you can find below.