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Wednesday gaming news, part two:

Embark is finally cracking down on Arc Raiders' cheaters and duplication antics: 'Our commitment to anti-cheat initiatives remains a top priority'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/embark-is-finally-cracking-down-on-arc-raiders-cheaters-and-duplication-antics-our-commitment-to-anti-cheat-initiatives-remains-a-top-priority/
Arc Raiders has had its fair share of cheaters and game-breaking exploits, so much so that some players and big-name streamers have sworn it off. There are your usual wallhacks and whatnot, as well as exploits to spawn endless rubber duckies and equipment. Just recently, TheGamingMerchant put the duping exploits to the test, discovering just how bad it can be in high-end PvP.
But the time has finally come when we might start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Towards the end of May, Embark added Denuvo Anti-Cheat to "initially to a limited player pool" after finding success in The Finals. In the new update 1.33 patch notes, which brought the surprise Forgotten Relics event and Converging Paths project, Embark has confirmed it's ready to kick things up a notch.
>> They’re also testing a ban on free loadouts (link)

Mistfall Hunter's demo might finally convince me, a souls sicko, to give extraction games a proper go—even if it's more modern God of War than Nightreign
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/mistfall-hunters-demo-might-finally-convince-me-a-souls-sicko-to-give-extraction-games-a-proper-go-even-if-its-more-modern-god-of-war-than-nightreign/
Mistfall Hunter is a promising, if curious little creature of a game—with a playable demo for Steam's Next Fest available now, it seems to market itself as an extraction soulslike. Well, the Steam page says it's a "dark fantasy extraction ARPG," but it's clearly trying to capture soulslike vibes. There's a shrine maiden equivalent, combat is deliberate and positioning-based, its inspirations are on the sleeve, the forearm, and right up to the elbow.

An obscure new game-breaking Destiny bug lets you one-hit bosses, and I don't think Bungie's gonna let this one slide (Update: Bungie is letting it slide... for a little bit)
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/an-obscure-new-game-breaking-destiny-bug-lets-you-one-hit-bosses-and-i-dont-think-bungies-gonna-let-this-one-slide/
Destiny 2's live service ambitions have come to an end with its final update last week. And with it, Bungie added everything and the kitchen sink, from new catalysts for every Exotic weapon to broken perk combinations. With no new endgame to grind or necessarily protect the sanctity of balance, Bungie's set us free with some of the most broken—and fun—tools we've ever had.
Despite that, I don't think Bungie ever expected returning to the infamous 'Craftening' levels of bonkers builds. For those who weren't around then, this was a bug with the crafting system where you could pinch the perks of one gun onto another, including Exotics.
More specifically, players have found a new bug where you can have multiple of the same seasonal artifact mods active at the same time. It's really easy to do but, as always, so obscure that I'm baffled it was ever discovered:
Update (June 16): Bungie has decided to let the bug live until sometime next week. "Go ahead," the developer said. "Get out there, beat up on Atheon. Destroy some bosses. Do your thing."

Overwatch season 3 kicks off with the gift of Jetpack Cat nerfs after the Apache helicopter meta dominated the World Cup
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/overwatch-season-3-kicks-off-with-the-gift-of-jetpack-cat-nerfs-after-the-apache-helicopter-meta-dominated-the-world-cup/
It's finally over, we're free. Overwatch players no longer have to live in fear, cowering from the skies in anticipation of what is essentially an AH-64 Apache appearing overhead and gunning us all down, because Jetpack Cat has been nerfed yet again.
This comes as part of Overwatch season 3's patch notes, where Jetpack Cat has undergone some decent changes, including a reduction in the shield minor perk, a speed decrease, and crucially, a fuel regeneration penalty while carrying a target, which has been increased from 2x to 3x slower.

'World of Warcraft Camelot' is a mysterious new branch of the MMO that Blizzard fans are convinced is the first real evidence of a remixed WoW Classic
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-camelot-is-a-mysterious-new-branch-of-the-mmo-that-blizzard-fans-are-convinced-is-the-first-real-evidence-of-a-remixed-wow-classic/
A new version of World of Warcraft was just discovered and it's called "World of Warcraft Camelot". Instead of some kind of Arthurian spin-off, however, the dataminer who found it theorizes that it's just a codename for an enhanced version of World of Warcraft Classic.

Attention former 2000s youths: A second Beyblade-inspired roguelike has hit Steam Next Fest
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/attention-former-2000s-youths-a-second-beyblade-inspired-roguelike-has-hit-steam-next-fest/
Back in January, I wrote about From the Top, a roguelike designed for those of us who had experienced the unparalleled childhood thrill of detonating your older brother's Beyblade with an imported Japanese Driger V2 that your parents had given you earlier that day on Christmas morning of 2003. (Many such cases.) From the Top was a promising omen: a sign that a subgenre precision-targeted at a specific vintage of millennials might soon emerge.
Today, I am pleased to report that the dream of the burgeoning Beyblade-like space is alive and well in Slayblade, a top-battling roguelike with a demo in this month's Next Fest.

Don't Kill Them All make you keep orc calm so orc not smash resources—big smart, neat game, like demo much
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/dont-kill-them-all-make-you-keep-orc-calm-so-orc-not-smash-resources-big-smart-neat-game-like-demo-much/
It's a hard life, being an orc—you wake up, you smash puny creatures, you go to bed. But your warlord's mad at you. Why? Because you got a little too in the zone and broke all the things you were there to steal. That's a big problem, especially if you're trying to do things like agriculture or society—in the interest of smashing, obviously.
Don't Kill Them All makes this the main thrust—or club, whatever floats your boat. It's a delightfully clever little strategy game wherein you're having to conduct an easily-ragebaited band of marauding orcs so as not to raze everything that moves.