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Monday news, part two:

Diablo 4 will get a hotfix today to sort out a major issue: its hardest dungeon is too hard
https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-will-get-a-hotfix-today-to-sort-out-a-major-issue-its-hardest-dungeon-is-too-hard/
Earlier this week, Blizzard released the equivalent of a torture rack for Diablo 4's most masochistic players—The Abattoir of Zir (try saying that ten times really fast). It's meant to be an endgame activity designed for the hardest of the hardcore, a task you're "not really supposed to finish." Unfortunately, it hit a couple of speed bumps on the way out.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is getting an offline mode after all, but not until sometime after it's out
https://www.pcgamer.com/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-is-getting-an-offline-mode-after-all-but-not-until-sometime-after-its-out/
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is starting to look like maybe it might be better than it first appeared, but one big knock against it for me and an awful lot of others out there is its connectivity requirement: You have to be online to play, even if you want to play by yourself. If there's one thing we've learned from games like Payday 3, that can be a real headache when the servers can't keep up, or worse, go offline for good. And there's the simple principle of the thing too, which is what really chaps me. Why should I have to be online to play by myself?
Luckily, it appears that requirement will be going away sometime after launch. Following the release of the new Suicide Squad trailer at The Game Awards last night, a Rocksteady rep said on Discord that an offline mode is coming as a post-launch update.

The Finals is getting blasted on Steam for slowing the game down, except the developer says it didn't change speeds at all
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-finals-is-getting-blasted-on-steam-for-slowing-the-game-down-except-the-developer-says-it-didnt-change-speeds-at-all/
The Finals, the highly-destructible FPS from ex-Battlefield devs, surprise launched at The Game Awards last night. (...) The Finals is one of the most-played games on Steam right now, peaking at over 200,000 concurrent players on PC alone.
There is one hangup, though—a lot of people aren't happy that Embark slowed down player movement between open beta and launch. The pushback is strong enough that The Finals currently sits at "Mixed" on Steam with over 3,000 negative reviews, and a lot of them are about movement.
(...)
Except, Embark says it hasn't changed player speeds at all since open beta, and isn't quite sure why players think it has. They do have a few good guesses, though.

Dave the Diver is teaming up with our other favorite nautical adventure of 2023, Dredge, for a spooky free DLC
https://www.pcgamer.com/dave-the-diver-is-teaming-up-with-our-other-favorite-nautical-adventure-of-2023-dredge-for-a-spooky-free-dlc/
One of the smaller pleasant surprises at this year's Game Awards was the announcement of a free, Dredge-themed crossover DLC for Dave the Diver. The two fishing games will collide when the update launches on December 15.

There's a change buried in Baldur's Gate 3's latest patch that makes it easier than ever to recruit both of its mutually exclusive companions⁠—without breaking the game
https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-a-change-buried-in-baldurs-gate-3s-latest-patch-that-makes-it-easier-than-ever-to-recruit-both-of-its-mutually-exclusive-companionswithout-breaking-the-game/
Deep in Baldur's Gate 3's mammoth patch notes for its fifth main update is a whammy of a line: "Minthara will still appear in Moonrise Towers if she was knocked out in Act 1." That's right⁠, it's now easier than ever to recruit Baldur's Gate 3's "evil" companion without committing to an evil playthrough. Spoilers for Act 1 below.

That game where you farm with your mech finally has a release date
https://www.pcgamer.com/that-game-where-you-farm-with-your-mech-finally-has-a-release-date/
Something like two and a half years after I first saw the concept and thought "that looks neat" we're finally gonna get it. We're finally gonna get a game where you use a mech to plow a field grow and plant some seeds and water them and then harvest a big weird alien fruit.

No Man's Sky will rerun all this year's time-limited events in December
https://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-will-rerun-all-this-years-time-limited-events-this-december/
If you skipped out on No Man's Sky this year then now's your chance to jump back in and see all the goodness they rolled out, as developers Hello Games are taking the holiday season to replay all the expedition events and offer up their rewards. There's even a return of a 2021 expedition, complete with limited-edition golden starship to claim.

Final Fantasy 16 on PC shows signs of life, with producer Yoshi-P saying it will run best on an SSD
https://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-16-on-pc-shows-signs-of-life-with-producer-yoshi-p-saying-it-will-run-best-on-an-ssd/
We finally got our first word on Final Fantasy 16's promised PC port since its initial announcement in September. Speaking with Famitsu (spotted via Genki_JPN on Twitter), FF16 developers Hiroshi Takai, Takeo Kujiraoka, and Naoki Yoshida (affectionately called Yoshi-P by fans) briefly touched on the PC version in a long interview about the game.

Superb survival city-builder Against the Storm is finally finished and released
https://www.pcgamer.com/superb-survival-city-builder-against-the-storm-is-finally-finished-and-released/
One of the best city building games of recent years, Against the Storm, has come out of early access and into proper release. The survival city-builder beautifully blends roguelite and city-building mechanics into a series of well-balanced, bite-size city building experiences. Developers Eremite Games released the 1.0 update on December 8, adding an ironman challenge mode to cap off the game's launch features.

People are exceptionally thirsty about this free game where you flirt with the grim reaper on text chat
https://www.pcgamer.com/people-are-exceptionally-thirsty-about-this-free-game-where-you-flirt-with-the-grim-reaper-on-text-chat/
What's up visual novel and romance fans, I've got a game here for you about flirting with death. But not like in a "dangerous motorcycle tricks" or "disaster tourism" way, instead in like a very literal way where the Grim Reaper shows up to claim your soul and intead you flirt with him. It's free, to boot.