Guys the hype for RDNA2 is real

Yea it's gonna be one of those, gotta wait and see. AMD has a lot to prove. They caught up in Raster which is excellent but are they also gonna be competitive with Ray Tracing? With Drivers? What about DLSS? And more importantly, can they do it again once Nvidia comes back to TSMC?

Still exciting times none the less and this should be a wake up call for Nvidia. Especially if AIBs manage to come up with a liquid cooling version that can top the 3090 in Raster!

I managed to order a 3070, though not the model I was hoping for. I was hoping to get the FE, but I was stuck in captcha hell on scan.co.uk for 40 mins trying to get to checkout with the gpu in my basket, only to see error messages every time the webpage slowly finished loading, and then "out of stock".

I ordered an Asus Dual model in the end from Overclockers, though that was only after having trouble authenticating my card details for an hour, resulting in me needing to give my bank a call twice before I could make a payment

Another day, another round of news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Wasteland 3 has reached 1 million players
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/wasteland-3-has-reached-1-million-players/
inXile Entertainment has announced that Wasteland 3 has reached 1 million players. In order to celebrate this announcement, the team released a short live-action film it shot a few years ago.

Blair Witch and Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered are free to own on Epic Games Store
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/blair-witch-and-ghostbusters-the-video-game-remastered-are-free-to-own-on-epic-games-store/
Epic Games has announced that Blair Witch and Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered are currently free to own on Epic Games Store. From today and until November 5th, PC gamers can visit their EGS pages and acquire their free copies.
>> And next week the free game will be "Wargame: Red Dragon".

GOG sees the release of two new games:

• Transient launches with a 15% discount until November 4: https://www.gog.com/game/transient
• And Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition arrives with a 35% discount until the 5th of November: https://www.gog.com/game/yuppie_psycho_executive_edition

And Fanatical has launched the new Reaper Bundle 7, with 10 games at a 98% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/reaper-bundle-7

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 457.09 WHQL driver offers optimal performance in Watch Dogs Legion
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-457-09-whql-driver-offers-optimal-performance-in-watch-dogs-legion/
NVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 457.09 WHQL driver offers optimal performance in Watch Dogs Legion.
Furthermore, this driver provides optimal day-1 support for DiRT 5, Ghostrunner, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, and Xuan-Yuan Sword VII.
It’s also worth noting that this driver fixes a number of crashes. For instance, it resolves a crash to the desktop when starting a race in Forza Motorsport 7. It also fixes some crashes when launching when For Honor on GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards.
>> Available from here.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Crytek shuts down unofficial Crysis Remaster in Cryengine 5.6.6
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/crytek-shuts-down-unofficial-crysis-remaster-in-cryengine-5-6-6-crysis-enhanced-edition/
Back in September 2020, we informed you about an unofficial remaster of the original PC Crysis game in Cryengine 5.6.6. This remaster was promising to introduce a lot of new graphical features, and bring the original game to a brand new version of Cryengine. However, it appears that Crytek has shut down this project.
Spotted by Reddit’s balubalai, the creator of this mod has confirmed that Crytek has not approved this project (which basically means that it shut it down).
>> They can't stand that someone else could make a better remaster than them.

GAMING NEWS

Multiplayer action-RPG, The Ascent, is coming to the PC in 2021
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/multiplayer-action-rpg-the-ascent-coming-to-pc-in-2021/
Curve Digital announced today that multiplayer action-RPG The Ascent will launch on the PC in 2021. To celebrate this announcement, developer Neon Giant has put together a short video to showcase an update on development and illustrate a variety of features.

Far Cry 6 and Dirt 5 will support Ray Tracing Shadows & Variable Rate Shading
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/far-cry-6-dirt-5-ray-tracing-shadows-variable-rate-shading/
AMD has announced that Far Cry 6 and Dirt 5 will have real-time Ray Tracing effects via DirectX 12 Ultimate. Alongside these two games, AMD confirmed that Godfall, WoW: Shadowlands and The Riftbreaker will also have Ray Tracing effects.

Serious Sam 4 Update 1.05 released, brings Halloween content, improves animations, fixes bugs
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/serious-sam-4-update-1-05-released-brings-halloween-content-improves-animations-fixes-bugs/
Croteam has released a brand new “Halloween” update for Serious Sam 4. According to the release notes, this patch adds some new content related to Halloween. Moreover, it improves animations (during cut-scenes), performance and stability.

Action RPG, Xuan-Yuan Sword VII, is now available on Steam
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/action-rpg-xuan-yuan-sword-vii-is-now-available-on-steam/
Now here is a pleasant surprise. SOFTSTAR has just released its latest action RPG, Xuan-Yuan Sword VII, on Steam. In order to celebrate this release, the company has also shared a launch trailer for this game that you can find below.

Watch Dogs Legion October 30th Update promises to improve PC & RTX performance
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/watch-dogs-legion-october-30th-update-promises-to-improve-pc-rtx-performance/
Ubisoft has announced that Watch Dogs Legion will receive a brand new update tomorrow. According to the team, this patch will bring RTX and overall performance improvements on the PC.

Star Wars Squadrons Mandalorian Update fixes the high refresh rate/framerate issue
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/star-wars-squadrons-mandalorian-update-fixes-the-high-refresh-rate-framerate-issue/
Earlier this month, we informed you about a bug that prevented Star Wars Squadrons from running with high framerates on high refresh rate monitors. And today, we are happy to report that the Mandalorian Update has finally resolved this issue.

The news, part two:

Apex Legends blasts off to sunny Olympus in Season 7 launch trailer
https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-blasts-off-to-sunny-olympus-in-season-7-launch-trailer/
Farewell, World's Edge. Apex Legends shoots off into Season 7 next week, leaving the volcanic hotbed behind for a picturesque park in the clouds. A launch trailer for the new season takes us on a whirlwind tour of Olympus, gives the game's first vehicle a test drive, and shows off more of Season 7's time-travelling gun mom Horizon.

Age Of Empires 2's Anniversary Update brings battle royale to the historical RTS
https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-2s-anniversary-update-brings-battle-royale-to-the-historical-rts/
Age Of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is almost a year old—and to celebrate its first birthday, the strategy remaster is getting a whopping great Anniversary Update. Next month's massive update adds a fleet of new features and balances, topped off by an honest-to-god battle royale mode for the old-fashioned RTS.

Halo Infinite studio director Chris Lee has left the project
https://www.pcgamer.com/halo-infinite-studio-director-chris-lee-has-left-the-project/
Halo Infinite project director Chris Lee is no longer working on the game. Lee confirmed with Bloomberg that he has "stepped back from Infinite," and is now looking ahead to other opportunities.

Hunt ghosts to become ghosts in Sea Of Thieves' Fate Of The Damned update
https://www.pcgamer.com/hunt-ghosts-to-become-ghosts-in-sea-of-thieves-fate-of-the-damned-update/
It's all gotten rather scary on the Sea Of Thieves. Well, scarier than normal for a game already bursting with skeletons. This year's Fate Of The Damned event sets sail today, sending you scallywags off to solve the mystery of the missing Bilge Rat crews, with plenty of delightfully spooky goodies to grab should you succeed.

Get free Genshin Impact Mora and Primogems by inviting your friends to play
https://www.pcgamer.com/get-free-genshin-impact-mora-and-primogems-by-inviting-your-friends-to-play/
A new Genshin Impact in-game event called Adventurers, Assemble is giving players a month to snag some free in-game currency by inviting other adventurers to the game. From now until November 27, players who are at least Adventure Rank 15 can acquire and share an invitation code that, when used, will create an "Adventure Bond" with newcomers, and deliver both Mora and Primogems as they advance.

A new Anthem update teases major Javelin design changes
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-anthem-update-teases-major-javelin-design-changes/
Somehow, improbably, the Anthem train continues to grind slowly forward: Electronic Arts posted a new update today that digs into some of the work that's gone into redesigning the game's Javelins, the flying power suits that players strap themselves into before heading off onto their adventures outside Fort Tarsis.

CD Projekt boss says Cyberpunk 2077 crunch is 'not that bad—and never was'
https://www.pcgamer.com/cd-projekt-boss-says-cyberpunk-2077-crunch-is-not-bad-thatand-never-was/
In May 2019, CD Projekt promised a "more humane" approach to crunch on Cyberpunk 2077, saying it had embraced a "non-obligatory crunch policy" that, while not eliminating crunch, would at least curb some of its death-march excesses. CD Projekt Red co-CEO Marcin Iwiński recommitted to that approach a month later, saying, "We want to make sure that there will be no guilt when people will be leaving early if they need to, in case we ask some people to stay."

Cyberpunk 2077 is now delaying other games, too
https://www.pcgamer.com/path-of-exile-313-delay/
Cyberpunk 2077's delay to December 10 isn't just having an effect on fans anxious to play CD Projekt Red's open world RPG. The three-week delay is now rippling out and affecting other games.

Watch Dogs: Legion glitches see jeeps soar over London and NPCs with no skin
https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-dogs-legion-glitches-see-jeeps-soar-over-london-and-npcs-with-no-skin/
It's probably not the best sign when 'Ubisoft launch' has become gamer shorthand for "give it a week or two." Obviously some of the bugs and glitches of Watch Dogs: Legion should be viewed with a sense of proportion: these are incredibly complex products, and watching a motorbike randomly spin into the sky can be as amusing as it is annoying. It's unclear just how serious Legion's faults are though: there was a game-breaking-bug on Xbox, while the game's general PC performance currently leaves an enormous amount to be desired.

There was a Half-Life easter egg in Titanfall 2 all this time
https://www.pcgamer.com/there-was-a-half-life-easter-egg-in-titanfall-2-all-this-time/
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of Titanfall 2, still one of the most fun and fresh FPS campaigns of recent times. The highlight of that campaign, for me and many others, is a level called Effect and Cause. To ruin the surprise, it's an environment constructed around zipping back-and-forth between two timelines as you navigate through it.

I don't need patience, I'm not looking for a new card at the moment. But the lack of any ray tracing graph during the presentation is very telling by itself.

I admire your determination. I would have given up on the card a lot sooner.

I hope the Asus model doesn't disappoint.

Same here. Asus Dual just in case I don't get anything better the next two weeks.

Some third party AIB OC clocks for 3070 for comparison:



https://www.techpowerup.com/review/evga-geforce-rtx-3070-ftw3-ultra/38.html

With Cyberpunk being MIA and most here being let down..

I just got an email from Blizzard with them confirming the release date for Shadowlands! November 24th

Captain_Yuri said: Some third party AIB OC clocks for 3070 for comparison: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/evga-geforce-rtx-3070-ftw3-ultra/38.html

Nice looks like EVGA the winner here. Wonder why the average clock is much higher. Better thermals?