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The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

God of War has reportedly surpassed 2 million sales on PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/god-of-war-has-reportedly-surpassed-2-million-sales-on-pc/
God of War appears to be the best-selling Sony game on the PC so far. The game came out on January 14th and according to SteamSpy, it has sold at least 2 million copies on PC.

The Epic Store's new free game is Windbound: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/windbound
Next week, the free game will be Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons.

Steam has a new daily deal: Startup Company is 55% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/606800/Startup_Company/.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This Dying Light 2 mod fixes the awkward physics and death animations
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/this-dying-light-2-mod-fixes-the-awkward-physics-and-death-animations/
The much-delayed Dying Light 2 launched a week ago, and considering how the game seemingly went through development hell and back again, it's turned out pretty well. But a game of this complexity and scale is always going to have some technical quirks. In the case of Dying Light 2, those are some rather shonky physics and animations which may involve, among other things, a decapitated soldier begging for their life.
The game also lacks some of the weighty physics swagger of the original game, as Redditor CorrectInfoBelow pointed out, such as zombies collapsing when you kneecap them, mindlessly flipping over waist-high barriers and generally fumbling around in a dynamic rather than pre-animated way.
Well, there is now a mod to fix those physics woes, courtesy of TheOneAndOnlyHitman. In the clearly worded and well presented video demonstrating the mod, we can see that various improvements to the physics system, such as zombies falling down when knocked into each other, collapsing into ragdolls when you smash their legs out from under them, and flying off with flaily abandon when gas tanks explode next to them.

GAMING NEWS

New stealth-oriented Assassin’s Creed game is reportedly in development
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/new-stealth-oriented-assassins-creed-game-is-reportedly-in-development/
It appears that a new Assassin’s Creed game will release before the next main AC game, Assassin’s Creed Infinity. Codenamed “Rift”, this AC game will rely heavily on stealth mechanics, won’t be an open-world, and will target a late 2022/2023 release date.
>> Ryuu96 made a thread about this rumor yesterday.

The Wolf Among Us 2 releases in 2023, gets a new in-engine trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-wolf-among-us-2-releases-in-2023-gets-a-new-in-engine-trailer/
Telltale Games has announced that The Wolf Among Us 2 will release in 2023. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has also released a new in-engine trailer that you can find below.
>> Ryuu96 also made a thread about this.

Atomic Heart will now release in Q4 2022, gets new gameplay trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/atomic-heart-will-now-release-in-q4-2022-gets-new-gameplay-trailer/
Mundfish has announced that Atomic Heart will release in the fourth quarter of 2022. Additionally, the team has released a brand new trailer that you can find below.

Bandai Namco announces KLONOA Phantasy Reverie Series, coming soon to PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/bandai-namco-announces-klonoa-phantasy-reverie-series-coming-soon-to-pc/
Following Square Enix’s announcement of CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION, Bandai Namco also announced KLONOA Phantasy Reverie Series. KLONOA Phantasy Reverie Series will be a timed-exclusive on Nintendo Switch, and will come soon on the PC.

Former Ubisoft dev says that Techland intentionally made AMD FSR look worse in Dying Light 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/former-ubisoft-dev-says-that-techland-intentionally-made-amd-fsr-look-worse-in-dying-light-2/
A few days ago, Reddit’s TheHybred (who is a former Ubisoft developer) said that Techland has intentionally made AMD FSR look worse in Dying Light 2. TheHybred shared the values for AMD FSR Ultra Quality, so we went ahead and tested them in order to find out whether these accusations were valid or not.
>> Probably lazyness?