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Wednesday news, the third part:

Patch 6 of Baldur's Gate 3 opens a Pandora's box of glitches for some players, while a hotfix leaves modders scratching their heads: 'the .exe got completely reorganised again'
https://www.pcgamer.com/patch-6-of-baldurs-gate-3-opens-a-pandoras-box-of-glitches-for-some-players-while-a-hotfix-leaves-modders-scratching-their-heads-the-exe-got-completely-reorganised-again/
Patch 6 of Baldur's Gate 3 released last week. While it's brought a host of intended improvements to smooching, shop interfaces, and character animations, everything seems to be a smidge on fire—with players reporting bugs, crashes, and glitches like mimics coming out of the woodwork.
Larian's been quick to start hotfixing these issues—including a duo of crashes that would kill the game when interacting with vendors—but community-gathered lists of bugs on the game's subreddit, official forums, and a Google document all seem extensive.

Temtem: Swarm is a mashup of Pokémon and Vampire Survivors in which you blast cute critters by the hundred, if you're looking for a post-Palworld slaughterfest
https://www.pcgamer.com/temtem-swarm-is-a-mashup-of-pokemon-and-vampire-survivors-in-which-you-blast-cute-critters-by-the-hundred-if-youre-looking-for-a-post-palworld-slaughterfest/
It seems Palworld has triggered a reckoning for cute video game animals. Mere weeks after Pocketpair's survival sim saw stratospheric success by letting players murder and enslave legally distinct Pokémon knockoffs, the creators of creature-battling MMO Temtem have decided they've had enough of all that collecting and training nonsense. Instead, they'll let players unleash unbridled wrath on its adorable menagerie of creatures in the "bullet heaven" spinoff Temtem Swarm.

Sony engineers are being drafted into the Helldivers 2 server war effort, though Arrowhead's CEO says to 'get it later' if you're strapped for cash
https://www.pcgamer.com/sony-engineers-are-being-drafted-into-the-helldivers-2-server-war-effort-though-arrowheads-ceo-says-to-get-it-later-if-youre-strapped-for-cash/
Helldivers 2 is making milestones in the war against server load. While its latest patch was just to prepare for its unexpected playerbase, I can at least personally report that my quickplay and public games issues have been fixed—no more trawling the Discord for fellow soldiers to deploy with.
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To one player mourning an empty wallet in the face of players' rave reviews, Pilestedt replied: "If you have no cash, get it later. While we made a really fun game it's worth waiting until the servers can support the capacity … As a CEO I of course want the game to be as profitable as possible, but if you spent your last $ and got stuck in server queues I'd be [heartbroken]."
In a separate comment, he confirms that Sony has been sending engineers to help with the back-end. However: "It takes time away from our engineers to onboard new ones" says Pilestedt—which tracks. Online games are complex beasts, each holding their own unique server infrastructure with its own quirks.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's reveal trailer is finally here, release date set for June
https://www.pcgamer.com/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtrees-reveal-trailer-is-finally-here-release-date-set-for-june/
There are those among us who doubted, but friends, the prophesied day has come. Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC finally got its official reveal today, in the form of a three-minute YouTube presentation that went live just moments ago.

Tekken 8's unexpected introduction of paid cosmetics is splitting fans, while producer says players should 'update their thinking to the current environment of game development'
https://www.pcgamer.com/tekken-8s-unexpected-introduction-of-paid-cosmetics-is-splitting-fans-while-producer-says-players-should-update-their-thinking-to-the-current-environment-of-game-development/
After a few weeks of a quiet microtransaction-less existence, Bandai Namco has revealed that a cash shop is in the works for Tekken 8. It'll sell things like classic character costumes, avatar skins and single-use cosmetic items, and the whole thing has fans' opinions pretty split right now.

FSR 3 and XeSS now available in Starfield, bringing upscaling and frame gen boosts to all space farers
https://www.pcgamer.com/fsr-3-and-xess-now-available-in-starfield-bringing-upscaling-and-frame-gen-boosts-to-all-space-farers/
Bethesda's space RPG Starfield didn't have a stellar launch when it came to performance, with the mightiest of gaming rigs struggling to reach decent frame rates. The modding community got there first but eventually, Nvidia's DLSS 3 was added and now after several months of beta patches, Starfield also boasts AMD's FSR 3 and Intel's XeSS frame rate boosting technologies.