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Thursday news, the second part:

'We messed up!': An Apex Legends update broke the game and cost players hundreds of account levels and battle pass progression, but a fix is out
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/battle-royale/we-messed-up-an-apex-legends-update-broke-the-game-and-cost-players-hundreds-of-account-levels-and-battle-pass-progression-but-a-fix-is-out/
Apex Legends is going through a bit of a rough patch right now, as players have reported account resets after the latest update. While the issue has now been fixed, there are still a couple of problems hanging around. Respawn has just told people to "hang tight" and wait for more information. 

Former Dragon Age creative director says 'I just desperately don't want to overhype anything' in his new studio's first game
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/former-dragon-age-creative-director-says-i-just-desperately-dont-want-to-overhype-anything-in-his-new-studios-first-game/
After over a decade in leadership on the Dragon Age series at BioWare and a brief stint at Ubisoft, Mike Laidlaw co-founded Yellow Brick Games in 2020, and has been quietly working on his first project for four years. Yellow Brick finally revealed Eternal Strands yesterday, but just a couple weeks ago during an interview at the Game Developers Conference, Laidlaw told me that he really does not want to overhype anything—not due to a lack of confidence in the studio's first game, but in anticipation of what it will create next.

Content Warning patch adds a reporter mic, sound player, and 'party poppers'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/content-warning-patch-adds-a-reporter-mic-sound-player-and-party-poppers/
Just a day after promising they were working on it, the Content Warning team has released a patch that fixes a handful of bugs and adds three new items: reporter mics, party poppers, and a sound player.
>> And it’s no longer free.

Helldivers 2 dev nerfed everyone's favorite shotgun because it was 'hands down the best sniper rifle' in the game
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-dev-nerfed-everyones-favorite-shotgun-because-it-was-hands-down-the-best-sniper-rifle-in-the-game/
Nestled on page eight of Helldivers 2's free warbond is an unassuming gun—the SG-85 Slugger. I didn't pay much mind to the Slugger for a long time, or even bother unlocking it, because it's a variant of the Punisher, a shotgun I don't like. That changed when my friend informed me that the Slugger isn't really a shotgun—it's a shotgun-shaped rifle that fires slugs that can unalive anything in seconds. It's so good at killing that I feel like I'm cheating when I use it.
So I wasn't surprised when the Slugger got the biggest nerfs in yesterday's Helldivers 2 patch that also buffed sniper rifles, flame damage, and heavy armor.
>> And a user has found that the only way to destroy Automaton gunships is with a Hellbomb bomb.

The Elder Scrolls Online devs hired a modder from one of its most popular addons to fine-tune its housing tools: 'it was really cool to get James on the team'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/the-elder-scrolls-online-devs-hired-a-modder-from-one-of-its-most-popular-addons-to-fine-tune-its-housing-tools-it-was-really-cool-to-get-james-on-the-team/
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of talking with a few of the asset wizards behind The Elder Scrolls Online's player housing community. And they are, in a word, powerful. They've been creating everything from ice cream parlours, to pachinko machines, to just straight-up Howl's Moving Castle—all by clipping premade game assets into each other ("cobbling"). It's some wild stuff. That skull in the image above? That's not a fully-fledged in-game asset, that's a bunch of rocks shoved into each other.
I also spoke to Rich Lambert, the game's creative director who (among other things) revealed to me that the folks over at Zenimax actually scoped out and hired one of the game's housing modders to help work on those systems.

The Butler is one of Lethal Company's newest monsters, and this blob-fish-looking guy has an explosive personality
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/the-butler-is-one-of-lethal-companys-newest-monsters-and-this-blob-fish-looking-guy-has-an-explosive-personality/
The recent version 50 update for Lethal Company certainly has players divided, thanks to how grueling singleplayer games have become. But if we can agree on one thing, I think it would be that the new entity called the Butler is probably the best-dressed killer across the alien moons.