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JEMC on 14 July 2023
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Friday news, part two:

Bungie wins $500,000 from ‘racist shitstain’ who harassed and threatened Destiny 2 community manager
https://www.pcgamer.com/bungie-wins-dollar500000-from-racist-shitstain-who-harassed-and-threatened-destiny-2-community-manager/
A Destiny 2 player who subjected a Bungie community manager to threats, harassment, and racist abuse has been ordered to pay the studio more than $489,000 in damages as a result of his behavior. The incident occurred after the community manager shared some art created by UhMaayyze, a Black Destiny 2 and creator, which the ruling says "incensed" defendant Jesse James Comer and led him to start "his campaign of racist, stochastic terrorism" against the CM and Bungie.
>> Shouldn't part of the money go to the community manager, not all to Bungie?

EA Sports FC 24 gets its first gameplay trailer and fans don’t like it any more than the jankass cover art
https://www.pcgamer.com/ea-sports-fc-24-gets-its-first-gameplay-trailer-and-fans-dont-like-it-any-more-than-the-jank-ass-cover-art/
After revealing the cover art for the upcoming EA Sports FC 24 earlier this week (which did not make a particularly good impression on PC Gamer's resident football fan Rich Stanton, who said it featured "the most jankass footballer faces you've ever seen"), Electronic Arts has now shared the first trailer for the game, and revealed that it will be out on September 29—or a whole week earlier, if you spring for the ultimate edition.

Diablo 4 players are clowning on its hardest boss using ungodly broken builds
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-players-are-clowning-on-its-hardest-boss-using-ungodly-broken-builds/
Uber Lilith. Now there's a scary combination of syllables. It's enough to send shivers down your spine. It's the colloquial name for Echo of Lilith, the amped-up version of Diablo 4's final boss that foolhardy players can take on if they feel up to the challenge. She can deal—and take—massive damage, making her a challenge that only the hardiest players can take on. It's a landmark. It's a milestone. It's a final, brutal test of your build. It's… comically easy? What?
As spotted by GamesRadar, overcoming Uber Lilith hasn't been quite as tough as it's cracked up to be for a player going by the name Struth Gaming. Using a Necromancer specced for Blood Orb use and the Blood Artisan's Cuirass, Struth managed to pretty much one-shot Uber Lilith in both of her phases, obliterating her first life bar with a lazy flick of the wrist and reducing her to a razor-thin sliver of HP when she popped back up for round two.

Diablo 4's worst type of dungeon is now griefing players via a bug
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4s-worst-type-of-dungeon-is-now-griefing-players-via-a-bug/
A nasty bug when entering Cellars is ruining Diablo 4's high-level Helltide events for some players.
Update: A Blizzard representative said, "The team is investigating these reports, but we do not have any specific details to share about it at this time."

Baldur's Gate 3 dev clarifies that only PS5 players will get a 3-day head start for pre-ordering, but PC players get a 34-day head start anyway so it's fine
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-dev-clarifies-that-only-ps5-players-will-get-a-3-day-head-start-for-pre-ordering-but-pc-players-get-a-34-day-head-start-so-its-fine/
Baldur's Gate 3 is making the rare, bold choice of moving up its release date by a full month to August 3, giving players about five weeks to crank through 100+ hours of D&D roleplaying before Starfield arrives. Larian has now clarified one confusing bit of information around the new release date, which is when players who pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edition will actually be able to get started. That version promised "72-hours Early Access to Act 1," but it turns out that's only for the PlayStation 5 version of the game, which releases on September 6.
"The PC Digital Deluxe Edition does not include a 72 hour head start, which would have essentially made the game’s release date July 31st," Larian said in a community update on Wednesday. Larian said that bumping up its release date "came with a few complexities that we didn't manage to communicate very well" and that "a 72 hour head start on PC wouldn't have been plausible."

Baldur's Gate 3 devs say don't bother playing Early Access now because your progress gets wiped in 3 weeks
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-early-access-saves-do-not-carry-over-full-game/
At this point, you might as well not bother starting Baldur's Gate 3 in early access, and that's according to its own developer. Progress in the early access version of the lengthy RPG will not carry over to launch on August 3, so at this point "a purchase of early access is essentially a pre-order," Larian Studios says. Players have been tackling Act 1 since its early access launch in 2020, but if you go make your dream character and start the story right now you'll be stuck redoing it all very soon.

Stray Gods has changed its release date to avoid Baldur’s Gate 3, which changed its release date to avoid Starfield
https://www.pcgamer.com/stray-gods-has-changed-its-release-date-to-avoid-baldurs-gate-3-which-changed-its-release-date-to-avoid-starfield/
Remember back in late 2020, when the looming behemoth of Cyberpunk 2077 caused a bunch of other game developers to change their release dates to avoid being steamrollered? It's happening again, sort of: Summerfall Studios, the developer of David Gaider's upcoming musical RPG Stray Gods, announced today that it's delaying the game slightly, from August 3 to August 10, so it doesn't get murdered by Baldur's Gate 3.

You'd better believe House Flipper 2 was the most played Steam Next Fest demo
https://www.pcgamer.com/youd-better-believe-house-flipper-2-was-the-most-played-steam-next-fest-demo/
What's the better hustle: flipping houses or making media about flipping houses? The dozens of house flipping TV shows suggest it could be the latter, as does House Flipper the game, which released on Steam in 2018 and has over 68,000 user reviews on the platform, largely positive. The sim sensation clearly isn't out of juice yet, either, because its upcoming sequel had the most-played demo in the recent Steam Next Fest.
To take first place in the Next Fest most-played demos list, the House Flipper 2 demo beat the demo for Lies of P, a more-wishlisted action RPG that more or less puts Pinocchio in Bloodborne, trippy puzzle game Viewfinder, and hundreds of others.

It’s not just you: Warzone 2 PC players are having serious performance issues after this week’s update
https://www.pcgamer.com/its-not-just-you-warzone-2-pc-players-are-having-serious-performance-issues-after-this-weeks-update/
If Call of Duty: Warzone has been feeling sluggish over the last few days, it’s probably not your PC’s fault. Players far and wide have been reporting serious drops in performance since the Season 4 Reloaded patch released yesterday, with many experiencing framerate drops between 20-30 fps on Warzone’s newest map, Vondel.

Making Call of Duty a Battle.net exclusive was apparently a 'resounding failure'
https://www.pcgamer.com/making-call-of-duty-a-battlenet-exclusive-was-a-resounding-failure-argues-microsoft/
Activision Blizzard stopped releasing new Call of Duty games on Steam in 2018, opting to make Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 exclusive to Blizzard's Battle.net platform on PC. That store exclusivity strategy ended just last year with Modern Warfare 2, and according to Microsoft's lawyers, the whole thing was a "resounding failure." That might be a slight exaggeration, though.
In a court document filed today (related to the recent hearing over Microsoft's pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard), Microsoft's legal team affirms the notion that Call of Duty's Battle.net exclusivity ended because it wasn't performing like Activision Blizzard had hoped—but what success would've meant is stated in terms of Battle.net's success, not CoD's, which leads me to quibble with it a bit.

WoW Classic troll obliterates max-level hardcore raiding team in 'legendary and degenerate' act that truly belongs in EVE Online
https://www.pcgamer.com/wow-classic-troll-obliterates-max-level-hardcore-raiding-team-in-legendary-and-degenerate-act-that-truly-belongs-in-eve-online/
A group of unfortunate World of Warcraft Classic players have fallen victim to a troll in a scheme that took a truly villainous level of dedication, planning, and sociopathy. The event has been dubbed The 5th Horseman incident, and the most horrible detail of all is that it took place in WoW Classic's Hardcore mode with a max-level raid team that got wiped. Their characters, and the unimaginable amount of time it must take to hit level 60 in WoW Classic Hardcore, are now lost, like tears in rain.
>> You can't be a good person and do this.

WoW's new specialisation deals damage by buffing everyone else, so of course it's getting booted from groups for 'low DPS'
https://www.pcgamer.com/wows-new-specialisation-deals-damage-by-buffing-everyone-else-so-of-course-its-getting-booted-from-groups-for-low-dps/
The Augmentation Evoker came to World of Warcraft with patch 10.1.5 last week, bringing a whole new type of DPS to the game. For the uninitiated, this new spec works by buffing party members to bump their damage numbers rather than melting faces itself. It's comparable to the Dancer from Final Fantasy 14 or the Bard from Dungeons & Dragons—basically, when an Augmentation Evoker's in the group, everyone does better.
So obviously they've been getting kicked out of groups for no reason. A reddit thread on the World of Warcraft subreddit emerged with a compilation of screenshots from the Wyrmrest Temple discord, community server for Evokers. Typing "!augdps" in the augmentation channel will have Carlygos, the server's friendly bot, drop an ever-evolving montage of people missing the point

44 years later, Atari's making a new Lunar Lander game
https://www.pcgamer.com/44-years-later-ataris-making-a-new-lunar-lander-game/
(...) Lunar Lander was Atari's first vector graphics game and came from a decade-old lineage of early sims all about, well, landing on the moon. That's the whole game: you have to manoeuvre a craft to land safely on inhospitable terrain before you run out of fuel.
Atari's tapped up the studio Dreams Uncorporated to develop the successor to this, and the game's going to be called Lunar Lander: Beyond and will, per the press release, add "simulation and a deep narrative to the recipe along with precision gravity flier mechanics."

Starfield's studio design director pleads for people to stop asking questions because 'only Todd Howard is authorised to talk'
https://www.pcgamer.com/starfields-studio-design-director-pleads-for-people-to-stop-asking-questions-because-only-todd-howard-is-authorised-to-talk/
Emil Pagliarulo, Studio Design Director at Bethesda Studios, a man who has been with the company for over 21 years, had to take to Twitter yesterday to say that he cannot, under any circumstances, spill the space beans on Starfield. This comes after relentless online questioning that, in the run up to the game's release, has clearly reached fever pitch.

And these are the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:

+GOG

+Steam

Uf! I'm no longer used to the GOG and Steam weekend deals. At least I'm done for this week.

Until next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.



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