The Tuesday gaming news:
SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS
Steam’s Top 10
(I’m partially responsible for that 10th spot of RE3, another 90% off title that I didn’t play back in the day. Anyway, click here for the Top 100)
There’s only Fanatical today, that has three new 24h Flash Deals:
SOFTWARE & DRIVERS
NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 595.97
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-595-97
HIGHLIGHTS
Game Ready
This new GeForce Game Ready Driver optimizes your experience in the latest titles featuring DLSS, ray tracing, path tracing, and NVIDIA Reflex, and ensures the best possible experience in your wider library of games and apps.
FIXED ISSUES
Fixed Gaming Bugs
- Halo Infinite: Texture corruption may occur on R595 drivers
- HITMAN World of Assassination: Game stability issues when NVIDIA Smooth Motion is enabled
- Game stability issues after enabling DLSS FG when Instant Replay is enabled
>> It’s a bit weird that it doesn’t say which titles benefit from the new DLSS optimization, but ok.
MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS
RE:Enhance Mod Version 2.0 Released for Resident Evil 1
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/reenhance-mod-version-2-0-released-for-resident-evil-1/
Modder ‘SonicB00M’ has released Version 2.0 of his RE:Enhance Mod for the first Resident Evil game. This is one of the best AI-powered upscaling mods for the classic RE game. So, make sure to download it if you plan to replay it.
For those who did not know, this mod enhances the pre-rendered backgrounds via AI tools. Moreover, the modder made thousands of manual edits to the backgrounds. The result is a game that can look crisper and more detailed than before.
Now, what’s interesting here is that this mod appears to offer better backgrounds than the Seamless HD Project. Or at least that’s what the modder claims. To prove his claims, SonicB00M had previously shared a couple of comparisons between SHDP and RE: Enhance. From what I can see, RE: Enhance does a better job at upscaling the pre-rendered backgrounds.
Version 2.0 reworks almost half of all backgrounds to significantly improve them. Some of these revisions go beyond typical upscaling. In the mid-90s, Capcom’s production processes were not yet as refined, and many backgrounds therefore suffered from a lack of detail and suboptimal lighting. RE-ENHANCE now breathes a bit more life into these problematic backgrounds and pushes the visual quality of Resident Evil 1 a little closer to its two sequels.
It’s also worth noting that the modder has reworked the textures of the character models. Furthermore, the inventory icons and documents have also been renewed and now closely match the design style of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3.
You can go ahead and download RE:Enhance Mod Version 2.0 for RE1 from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find some screenshots from it. These screenshots will give you a glimpse at the reworked textures.
The Witcher 3 modders are still discovering and restoring deleted scenes, including one that adds new texture to the game's best villain
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-witcher/the-witcher-3-modders-are-still-discovering-and-restoring-deleted-scenes-including-one-that-adds-new-texture-to-the-games-best-villain/
After about 200 hours in The Witcher 3 and its DLCs, I can't say I was left thinking "There should have been more", but as it turns out we did all play a somewhat slimmed down version of Geralt's adventures.
In addition to an enormous number of bug fixes, the Brothers in Arms mod by Nexus Mods user MerseyRockoff (as well as a long list of collaborators) aims to restore and rebuild as much cut or inaccessible content as humanly possible. For the most part, we're talking about relatively minor elements: books, journal entries, item descriptions, and especially lines of dialogue that could be found in the game files but were never properly implemented by CD Projekt Red (though they certainly add up!).
There are a few cases, however, of full cutscenes and even gameplay sequences that the mod slots back into the game—and YouTuber xLetalis has made a great video breaking down some pretty key omissions from the excellent Hearts of Stone expansion that players can now experience.
The big headliner here is a scene that was cut from the Von Everec Estate section of the DLC. As you might remember, during this part of the adventure Geralt is able to witness visions of the past that reveal villain Olgierd's descent into evil and the occult, and the deterioration of his relationship with his wife. As it turns out, there was originally an extra scene, now partly restored by the mod.
>> The article explains the restored scene, but I’ve decided to not share it to avoid spoilers. The article has the almost 10 minutes video.
GAMING NEWS
Here are over 4 hours from the canceled Highlander game
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-over-4-hours-from-the-canceled-highlander-game/
YouTube’s ‘Aeritha’ has shared a video, showcasing over 4 hours of gameplay from the canceled Highlander game that was announced in 2008, Highlander: The Game.
Highlander: The Game was a third-person action game that would be published by Square Enix for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. The game would feature a previously unknown Immortal, Owen MacLeod.
