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The Friday news. Yay!

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Fanatical has two new deals:

• The Star Deal is Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition, 59% off during 46 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/horizon-zero-dawn-complete-edition
• And CI Games puts its game up to 88% off during the next 7 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/ci-games

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Cyberpunk 2077 Mod improves graphics by increasing decoration LODs
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/cyberpunk-2077-mod-improves-graphics-by-increasing-decoration-lods/
SOSUINEPSIXUYU has released a pretty cool mod for Cyberpunk 2077, aiming to improve its graphics by increasing the decoration LODs. By doing so, gamers will enjoy higher quality models for food, tools, cables, vending machines, forks, spoons, plates, furniture, trash, any container, and music instruments.
Since this mod adjusts the LOD of various objects, it comes with a performance hit. So yeah, keep this in mind before downloading and using this mod.

Flip the script on Elden Ring's toughest foes by playing as Sekiro's final boss
https://www.pcgamer.com/flip-the-script-on-elden-rings-toughest-foes-by-playing-as-sekiros-final-boss/
The Venn diagram of weebs and FromSoft fans is more or less a circle, and modder Hotbite over on the Elden Ring Nexus has just made their dreams come true. Hotbite has successfully implemented the moveset of Sekiro's infamously tough final boss, Sword Saint Isshin, in a playable form in Elden Ring.
Wolf might have been FromSoftware's coolest protagonist, but even he looks like a chump compared to Isshin, another classic FromSoft "tragic boss guy who's way cooler than you'll ever be." Isshin was the heroic, almost mythic champion of Ashina, a charismatic warrior-king who managed to cling to life long enough to see the decline and fall of his kingdom.
In three of Sekiro's four endings you face off against the souped-up "Sword Saint" Isshin, returned to his prime with dark magic, and that version of the boss forms the basis of Hotbite's project. By equipping the Nagakiba, heavy crossbow, and pike in Hotbite's specified order with the mod installed, your character adopts the Isshin moveset, reminiscent of how the two-weapon "power stancing" of the base game works.

The 'lost' Warcraft adventure game can now be played the way it was meant to be
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-lost-warcraft-adventure-game-can-now-be-played-the-way-it-was-meant-to-be/
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans was a point-and-click adventure game cancelled by Blizzard in 1998, and how time flies. The game was lost for most of its history, only existing in a few old screenshots and videos that floated around the internet, but in 2016 the full game suddenly appeared as a download. It was playable, near-complete including cinematics and voice acting, and the individual who leaked it said: "This is my gift for all Blizzard fans, old and new."
To which Blizzard's lawyers responded "This is my DMCA for all hosts of Warcraft Adventures, old and new." The game is thus Out There Somewhere, in the way that nothing can ever be truly scrubbed from the internet, but don't go around bragging if you do find it.
The reason you might want to is that modder DerSilver83 has spent the last six years, on and off, fixing one of the biggest problems with the build, and one pretty important for an adventure game (first spotted by IndieRetroNews). The original leak of Warcraft Adventures was playable start to finish and included nearly all cutscenes, but the latter in particular suffered from de-synced audio and missing sound effects.
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DerSilver83 has now released The Warcraft Adventure Cutscenes Remaster project, a standalone mod containing all the game's cutscenes (i.e. you'll need to track down the game yourself), including the 2 that were not present in the original leak, all completely remastered.

GAMING NEWS

Here is how you can enable Ray Tracing Shadows, Ambient Occlusion & Reflections in Stray
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/here-is-how-you-can-enable-ray-tracing-shadows-ambient-occlusion-reflections-in-stray/
Now here is something really interesting. Stray, the latest cat adventure game, appears to have numerous Ray Tracing effects that are disabled by default. However, PC gamers can actually force these RT effects by simply enabling DX12 support.

Last edited by JEMC - on 05 August 2022