Friday news, part two:
Destiny 2's new exotic mission is the best Bungie has made in years, but some solo players are furious about having to speak to each other
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/destiny-2s-new-exotic-mission-is-the-best-bungie-has-made-in-years-but-some-solo-players-are-furious-about-having-to-speak-to-other-each-other/
A new mission appeared this week in Destiny 2's The Final Shape expansion. Dual Destiny is an exotic quest hidden in the expansion's new destination, The Pale Heart. It requires a bit of legwork to unlock, but your reward for completing it is the new exotic class item—a randomly rolled drop that combines the effects of two existing exotic armour pieces.
A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team: 'For a while it seemed like miracles were possible, and with them redemption'
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/game-development/for-a-while-it-seemed-like-miracles-were-possible-and-with-them-redemption-a-follow-up-to-the-legendary-disco-elysium-might-have-been-ready-to-play-within-the-next-yearzaums-devs-loved-it-management-canceled-it-and-laid-off-the-team/
When members of artist collective turned game developer Studio ZA/UM thanked Marx and Engels in their 2019 Game Awards acceptance speech for the RPG triumph Disco Elysium, I felt like I was looking at the future, the ecstatic debut of my new favorite developer, but that isn't how things panned out. Disco Elysium has been #1 on our yearly Top 100 games list four years in a row, but for much of that time, ZA/UM has been engulfed in an existential crisis.
Cities: Skylines 2 kills off its (virtual) landlords to save players from the cruelty of soaring rent prices
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/city-builder/cities-skylines-2-kills-off-its-virtual-landlords-to-save-players-from-soaring-rent-prices-the-existence-of-which-is-news-to-them/
Cities: Skylines 2 has—or rather, had—a rent problem. As evidenced by even the briefest of searches on the game's subreddit, players kept bumping into the same systemic nightmare time and time again: The rent is too damn high.
(… much later…)
The icons flooding player's cities have become so irritating, in fact, that City: Skylines 2 developer Colossal Order has had to step in with two hilariously contradictory measures that should, hopefully, solve the problem of rent prices. In a videogame, unfortunately; I don't think Colossal Order has the kind of sway to sort things out in the flesh world.
"First of all, we removed the virtual landlord," it says in a blog post, "so a building's upkeep is now paid equally by all renters." This entire mechanic appears to be news to just about everyone: "Wait, the who now? There was a landlord? Renters weren't paying equally? Did we know about this?" Responds one baffled player, in much the same way I did when I moved into my first apartment. It's a harsh and cruel world.
Don't get too excited, though, because the second solution is just as hard on the tenants—forcing them to complain less through the sheer power of code: "even if [renters] currently don't have enough money in their balance to pay rent, they won't complain and will instead spend less money on resource consumption."
>> Can a game be more realistic?
After 6 years, Blizzard is finally bringing back the rarest Mercy skin in Overwatch, and there's a new version too
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/after-6-years-blizzard-is-finally-bringing-back-the-rarest-mercy-skin-in-overwatch-and-theres-a-new-version-too/
After six years, Blizzard is bringing back one of the most popular Overwatch skins to date. The coveted Pink Mercy skin will return, along with a new rose gold variant, on June 25 as part of another campaign to raise money for breast cancer research with the BCRF.
Metal Gear Solid Delta's producer is up for the challenge of reviving one of gaming's greatest series, and wants fans along for the ride: 'Please keep watching, and keep us honest'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/metal-gear-solid-deltas-producer-is-up-for-the-challenge-of-reviving-one-of-gamings-greatest-series-and-wants-fans-along-for-the-ride-please-keep-watching-and-keep-us-honest/
(… 9 paragraphs from the beginning of the article…)
Okamura then moves on to Delta, and gives a very good rationale for Konami's approach to the remake, which can be summed-up as extremely faithful to the source.
Minecraft 1.21, the Tricky Trials update, is out now
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/minecraft-121-the-tricky-trials-update-is-out-now/
Just as it did the last few years, June's bringing more to Minecraft in the form of the Tricky Trials update. Released today, Minecraft 1.21 combines the features doled out in recent preview snapshots, adding new blocks, new bad guys, and new bludgeoning implements.
Monster Hunter Wilds director aims to push hardware 'to the max' to bring the world to life: 'Any Monster Hunter game where I'm director is always going to be focusing on the ecosystem'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/monster-hunter-wilds-director-aims-to-push-hardware-to-the-max-to-bring-the-world-to-life-any-monster-hunter-game-where-im-director-is-always-going-to-be-focusing-on-the-ecosystem/
Long before he was the director of Monster Hunter Wilds, Yuya Tokuda was a Monster Hunter fan. (...)
"To be honest, it was always clear in my mind that was the direction I wanted to take it," he told me. "Any Monster Hunter game where I'm director is always going to be focusing on the ecosystem element. As the hardware generations we're working on get more and more powerful, I want to use the specs of the hardware to the max in order to depict as convincing a living, breathing world as I possibly can."
Terraria creator has a new 'no questions asked' refund policy: 'Personally defeat me in PvP'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/terraria-creator-has-a-new-no-questions-asked-refund-policy-personally-defeat-me-in-pvp/
Andrew Spinks is the creator of Terraria and CEO of Re-Logic, and 13 years after the game's initial release he's come up with a new refund policy for the ludicrously cheap game. "Personally defeat" Terraria's creator in PvP, and you can have your money back. Oh, and "no questions asked."
Jackbox players rejoice: A free 'Megapicker' is coming soon that can launch the specific Party Pack game you want to play
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/jackbox-players-rejoice-a-free-megapicker-is-coming-soon-that-can-launch-the-specific-party-pack-game-you-want-to-play/
It's been a while since my friends and I have played much Jackbox, in part because we've entirely lost track of which Party Pack games are where. And how could we not? Jackbox Games has made ten of the damn things. I can barely differentiate between Fibbage and Quiplash in my head, let alone remember whether Tee K.O. was in Party Pack 2 or 3. Thankfully, we'll soon have a solution with The Jackbox Megapicker.
Senior Riot devs say the League of Legends playerbase is getting older, with fewer newbies jumping in: 'Candidly, it's not the same situation it was 10 years ago'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/moba/senior-riot-devs-say-the-league-of-legends-playerbase-is-getting-older-with-fewer-newbies-jumping-in-candidly-its-not-the-same-situation-it-was-10-years-ago/
I've definitely always thought of League of Legends as a young person's game: Between the fast twitch esports focus, meta Kpop tie-ins, and overtures to streaming and influencer culture, I was all too happy to act my age and hang up my Jayce: The Defender of Tomorrow hammer a full ten years ago.
But it turns out those who kept playing League also kept getting older, because time works the same whether or not you're into MOBAs, Kpop, or slamming your head against ranked queue. "I think it's certainly true that our audience is aging up," Game director Pu Liu said in a recent Q&A around the Summer Game Fest, though he noted that "it's not inherently a bad thing."
The studio that made one of the first MMOs just announced a new one after 27 years
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/persist-online-announcement/
Fantasy MMO Tibia launched all the way back in 1997, and like contemporaries Ultima Online, EverQuest, and Runescape, the dang thing is still going. There was just something special about that era of MMORPGs; they don't die.
Now, nearly 30 years later, Tibia developer CipSoft finally has a new MMO to announce: A zombie apocalypse RPG called Persist Online.
And here are the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:
+GOG
- There are only three 70 hours long Deals of the Day, with the first one being Songs of Conquest with a 25% discount: https://www.gog.com/en/game/songs_of_conquest
- Stillborn Slayer is going to be 50% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/stillborn_slayer
- And the third one is Chernobylite, with a 60% deal: https://www.gog.com/en/game/chernobylite
+Steam
- Dead Space is going to be 70% off until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1693980/Dead_Space/
- Ghost Watchers, still in Early Access, will have a 20% discount until June 20: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1850740/Ghost_Watchers/
- Sifu will be 50% off until the 20th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2138710/Sifu/
- GTFO will be free to try during the weekend and 50% off until the 27th of June: https://store.steampowered.com/app/493520/GTFO/
- Tchia also has a 50% discount until the 27th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1496590/Tchia/
- Deep Rock Galactic gets a 67% deal until June 27: https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic/
- Publisher 505 Games puts its titles up to 90% off until Thursday 27: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/505Games/sale/505gamessummer
- Publisher Team17 also puts its games on sale with up to 90% discounts during the 27th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/team17publishersale24
That’s all folks. Until next time, I wish you a happy and gaming weekend.
Please excuse my bad English.
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