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The Monday gaming news, part two:

Arc Raiders' next major update will present players with a 'new high-level challenge' with a frozen map and arcs which will 'challenge the ways you've learned to move'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/arc-raiders-next-major-update-will-present-players-with-a-new-high-level-challenge-with-a-frozen-map-and-arcs-which-will-challenge-the-ways-youve-learned-to-move/
Embark has finally released some solid information on Arc Raiders' next major update, Frozen Trails. We've got details on all the big and small features players can expect to see, including a snowy map, new arcs, new weapons, and more ways in which Embark wishes to improve "the core Arc Raiders experience".

Pocketpair 'not planning to spend a year making a massive update' for Palworld 1.1
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/pocketpair-not-planning-to-spend-a-year-making-a-massive-update-for-palworld-1-1/
Palworld went into full release in July after more than two years of early access, and it's going pretty well: A massive surge in concurrent players on Steam is slowly settling back down to Earth, but more than a month after that 1.0 launch it's still putting up numbers that haven't been seen since the early days of that early access rollout.
Work on the game continues and there's more to come, but Pocketpair's publishing and communications head John "Bucky" Buckley recently warned that players should maybe temper their expectations about what's next.

WoW's haunted: Players report that their disconnected friends' characters are starting to play the game on their own
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/wows-haunted-players-report-that-their-disconnected-friends-characters-are-starting-to-play-the-game-on-their-own/
Disconnects are an unpleasant fact of life in an MMO, and if you play WoW long enough you'll start to recognize the telltale signs indicating one of your adventurer colleagues has fallen afoul of a network hiccup: They might simply halt in place mid-combat. If they were moving when the connection dropped, their character might proceed to run directly into a wall, or get caught in a brief loop of stuttery motion until the server has enough and logs them out.
Since WoW: Midnight's 12.1 patch dropped, however, players have started reporting some uncanny behavior from their disconnected fellows (via Kotaku). Rather than the expected unresponsiveness, disconnected characters have seemingly started to move and fight on their own.

Here's a first for Call of Duty: The Modern Warfare 4 beta will have a campaign mission and Warzone stuff
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/call-of-duty/heres-a-first-for-call-of-duty-the-modern-warfare-4-beta-will-have-a-campaign-mission-and-warzone-stuff/
Few things in gaming are more routine than a Call of Duty multiplayer beta, but this year's is actually a bit different. The Modern Warfare 4 beta kicking off on August 21 (for pre-orders only) will include the usual smattering of multiplayer modes, and in a series first, it'll also include a chunk of the campaign.

This Solitaire game is so tiny it can load from a QR code, which is just what I need in the age of massive games and expensive storage
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/this-solitaire-game-is-so-tiny-it-can-load-from-a-qr-code-which-is-just-what-i-need-in-the-age-of-massive-games-and-expensive-storage/
At a time when game file sizes are growing ever larger and disk space is astonishingly expensive, I increasingly appreciate the value of a small game. And they don't come much smaller than TinySol, a solitaire game so diminutive that it can be loaded from a QR code.
TinySol is the creation of vintage computer enthusiasts Classic Bits, and was stumbled upon by YouTuber LGR Blerbs at the VCF Southwest convention in Texas. In what sounds like the beginning of a horror film, Blerbs was randomly handed TinySol at a booth on a 5.25-inch floppy disk.

Star Wars: The Old Republic hopes to recapture the 'classic' experience with difficulty options and a new way to start from scratch
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/star-wars-the-old-republic-hopes-to-recapture-the-classic-experience-with-difficulty-options-and-a-new-way-to-start-from-scratch/
I don't know if Stars Wars: The Old Republic is the best MMO around—or even the best Star Wars MMO around—but there's something to be said for keeping the party alive for nearly 15 years at this point, even as developer Broadsword took the reins from BioWare in 2023. If you miss those halcyon days when the game had just dropped, well, you might want to give the imminent 8.0 update a look.