Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

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Well, now that it works again, I'll post what was supposed to be the Monday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Steam's Top 10

GOG starts the week with 5 Deals of the Day and 3 new sales:

• The Deals of the Day will last until Wednesday:
  • Blade Runner gets a 33% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/blade_runner
  • Songs of Conquest, still in development, is also 33% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/songs_of_conquest
  • Kenshi gets a 50% deal: https://www.gog.com/en/game/kenshi
  • Mary Skelter: Nightmares gets a 75% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/mary_skelter_nightmares
  • And the last one is Steel Division 2, 80% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/steel_division_2
• The new Weekly Sale brings a lot of shooter titles with up to 90% discounts during 7 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20220205_weekly_sale
• GSC World celebrates its 27th anniversary putting its games up to 75% off during 7 6 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2022_gsc_world
• And there's a Special Sale with isometric games with up to 89% discounts until December 12; https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2022_isometric_sale

Steam has two new deals:

• Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition will be 60% off until December 11: https://store.steampowered.com/app/640820/Pathfinder_Kingmaker__Enhanced_Plus_Edition/
• And Beholder 2 gets a 85% discount until Sunday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/761620/Beholder_2/

Humble has new deals for us:

• Humble Bundle features the new Premier VR bundle, with up to 7 games to get during the next 10 days https://www.humblebundle.com/games/premier-vr
• And at the Humble Store we find another three two deals:
  • Daedalic Entertainment puts its games up to 90% off during 3 days. There are keys for Steam and GOG: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/daedalic-publisher-sale/
  • And the Flip the Table Sale features up to 95% discounts during the next 3 days. There are keys for Steam, GOG and 1 for EGS: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/flip-the-table-sale/

Last, but not least, there's Fanatical:

• Deep Silver puts its games up to 90% off during 5 days: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/deep-silver
• And BundleFestive starts with three new bundles: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Complete Bundle (3 games, 66% discount), Epic Quest Bundle (4g, -94%) and BYO Play on the GO Bundle 3.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

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MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim gets a fully voiced DLC-sized mod, heavily inspired by the mechanics of Mass Effect and Dragon Age
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-gets-a-fully-voiced-dlc-sized-mod-heavily-inspired-by-the-mechanics-of-mass-effect-and-dragon-age/
Modder ‘TheBawb’ has released a fully voiced DLC-sized mod for Skyrim Special Edition that is heavily inspired by the mechanics of Mass Effect and Dragon Age, called Warden of the Coast.
In this mod, players will travel to an isolated island, earn the loyalty of your 9 companions, stop a daedric lord from returning to power, and close shut the jaws of Oblivion once more.

This Elden Ring Mod offers a dozen new invasions with new characters, weapons & challenges
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/elden-ring-mod-invasions-new-characters-weapons-challenges/
Modder ‘Clever’ released a new mod for Elden Ring that offers over a dozen new invasions, containing new characters, weapons, and challenges.
According to its description, in this mod, each target has one of Clever’s modded weapons. After killing them, players can loot and acquire these new weapons.
Players will obtain the kill orders from behind the Weeping Peninsula Isolated Merchant’s shack. Then, they’ll have to read each letter’s description for the invasion location. And after defeating all targets, they will travel to Farum Azula via the Four Belfries to face retribution in the infinite wave arena.

The fourth chapter of the Half Life: Blue Shift Remake for Black Mesa will release on December 10th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-fourth-chapter-of-the-half-life-blue-shift-remake-for-black-mesa-will-release-on-december-10th/
Back in June 2022, we shared some screenshots from the upcoming fourth chapter of the Half-Life: Blue Shift Remake Mod for Black Mesa, Black Mesa: Blue Shift. And today, we are happy to report that this new chapter will release on December 10th.
In Black Mesa: Blue Shift, players will relive the Black Mesa Incident as Gordon Freeman’s best friend, Barney Calhoun. This fan remake currently has the first three chapters of Blue Shift. These chapters are Living Quarters Outbound, Insecurity and Duty Calls.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered First-Person Mod available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/marvels-spider-man-remastered-first-person-mod-available-for-download/
In September 2022, we shared a video showcasing Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered in first-person mode. And today, we are happy to report that this FP Mod is available for download. However, there is a catch here.
Instead of releasing it for free to everyone, modder ‘jedijosh920’ has put this mod behind a Patreon-wall. As such, you’ll have to become one of their Patreon members in order to download it. And, I get it. It took them a lot of work to create and polish this mod. However, we are always against paid mods.
>> There's a video, in case you want to take a look at the mod.

Modders are adding Into the Spider-Verse animations and costumes into Spider-Man: Miles Morales
https://www.pcgamer.com/modders-are-adding-into-the-spider-verse-animations-and-costumes-into-spider-man-miles-morales/
With Marvel's Spider-Man: Mile Morales out on PC now, modders have gotten to work on it, and in a delightful trend some are taking inspiration from 2018 Miles-centric movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The depiction of Miles in that movie, as well as the beautifully stylish animation that's the center of Spider-Verse, have served as inspiration for two especially neat mods.
The first mod, Leap of Faith, puts in Miles' layered look from Spider-Verse into the game. While there's already a Spider-Verse style costume, the mod costume has the hoodie, jacket, shorts, and extremely vital Air Jordans over top of it. (...)
The second, called Faithful Animations, is an inspired and thorough mod that adds animations modeled directly after the movie to Miles' moveset. Alongside the already-unique animations made by Insomniac especially for Miles, and a few cut animations found in game files, these really add a lot of attitude and flavor to how Miles moves.

This modder has been exploring the Souls series' mysterious out-of-bounds cities
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-modder-has-been-exploring-the-souls-series-mysterious-out-of-bounds-cities/
FromSoftware's games have inspired a host of dataminers eager to reconstruct their secrets and cut content. YouTuber Crest has been dissecting the games for years, exploring the game in every possible way since Dark Souls' developer version leaked in 2014. Notably, Crest breaks out of bounds to bring new perspectives on the games' worlds, as well as close-up views of FromSoft's evocative background assets.
Most recently, Crest did a tour of the Boletarian town in Demon's Souls, a far-off walled city you can observe from the heights of World 1, the Boletarian Palace. Crest and fellow modder Thens created an enlarged version of the faraway town with added collision detection, allowing you to walk through and examine it up close through the use of their mod.

Here's a mod that promises to help Darktide run better on your low-end PC
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-a-mod-that-promises-to-help-darktide-run-better-on-your-low-end-pc/
Did you buy Darktide even though your PC can barely or not even make the system requirements? Are you the kind of person who likes to live dangerously even though I don't recommend buying and playing games your PC can't/shouldn't run? Perhaps you're just a doofus and forgot to check the specs and now you're past the refund period?
Or are you just some kind of enlightened gamer for whom merely concept, not graphics that resemble anything at all, is the key to true happiness?
Either way, modder yakuzadeso has you covered: Performance Boost for Potato PC, now on Nexusmods, will enable you to make Warhammer 40,000: Darktide look just... not great. But maybe it'll run great, and that's enough sometimes!

GAMING NEWS

First PC patch for The Callisto Protocol fixes shader compilation stutters but does not resolve all of the other optimization issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/first-pc-patch-the-callisto-protocol-fixes-shader-compilation-stutters/
Striking Distance Studios has just released the first PC patch for The Callisto Protocol. This first patch completely resolves the game’s shader compilation stutters.
The game will start compiling its shaders as soon as you launch it. Although there isn’t any on-screen indicator, all of its movies will feel choppy until it finishes the procedure.
>> Keep in mind that other sites state that the patch helps with the stutters, but isn't a complete fix.

Fortnite is the first game using Unreal Engine 5.1, supporting Nanite, Lumen & Virtual Shadow Maps
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/fortnite-is-the-first-game-using-unreal-engine-5-1-supporting-nanite-lumen-virtual-shadow-maps/
Epic Games has launched the fourth chapter of Fortnite, and has ported the game to Unreal Engine 5.1. As such, Fortnite is the first game powered by Unreal Engine 5.1 that supports Nanite, Lumen and Virtual Shadow Maps.

Frictional Games has announced Amnesia: The Bunker, coming to PC in March 2023
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/frictional-games-has-announced-amnesia-the-bunker-coming-to-pc-in-march-2023/
Frictional Games has announced the next part in its Amnesia series, Amnesia: The Bunker, which will come out on PC in March 2023. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team has also released a new trailer that you can find below.

Warframe now supports cross-play between PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warframe-now-supports-cross-play-between-pc-playstation-xbox-and-nintendo-switch/
Digital Extremes has launched Cross Platform Play support for Warframe, allowing PC gamers to play alongside their friends on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.