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Outriders' next patch tackles one of the biggest issues with the game: the dreaded grind for legendaries. In a post on reddit , Outriders' community manager from publisher Square Enix 'thearcan' outlined a raft of changes coming to the looter shooter in a patch set for early next week. Chief among them is a significant change to legendary drops. Legendary drop rates, across the board, will increase by 100 percent with this update. That's a big enough change on its own, but along with this, legendary level brackets will be removed, which means all legendary items can drop at any level. This is significant because currently - and since Outriders came out - some items could only drop from enemies of certain levels or above. The example Square Enix gives is the Ugake Cowl could only drop from enemies of level 48 or higher. Crucially, a legendary anti-duplication system will be added to the game with the patch. This means if a character has an item in their inventory or stash … [Read more...] about Outriders’ next patch makes the grind for legendaries a lot easier

EA has increased the Battlefield 4 server capacity after a player spike following the Battlefield 2042 reveal . In a post on EA's website , community manager 'Straatford' said the company had noticed queue times in the US West region for the 2013 DICE-developed shooter were far longer than in other regions. In response, EA increased server capacity in this region, so players should expect less waiting to get into a game. "We were absolutely blown away by your excitement and reactions to the recent Battlefield 2042 reveal," Straatford said. "Since then, many of you have jumped back into Battlefield 4 to already get a taste of the return to all-out-warfare. We've been monitoring your experience and noticed queue times in the US West region were far longer than in other regions. Good news, we've increased server capacity for this region - you can expect less waiting, and more playing." A quick glance at Battlefield 4 concurrent player numbers over at SteamDB reveals a spike … [Read more...] about EA increases Battlefield 4 server capacity after Battlefield 2042 reveal sparks player spike

Biomutant has a new patch that makes significant improvements to the game. Developer Experiment 101 released the patch yesterday to the PC and PlayStation versions of the game. It's due out on Origin and Xbox soon. The headline additions are an increased level cap from 50 to 100 and the much-requested scrap action to the loot screen, which should reduce time spent cleaning up the inventory. It's also worth highlighting the patch cuts down on duplicates, adds lock-on for melee, a dynamic HUD, and tweaks new game plus. Digging into the detail, Experiment 101 has tweaked how the loot generation works to reduce duplicate items and improve variety. It's also added several new items that have higher stats than their lower rarity counterparts, which means an item found with a certain rarity can also be found later with a higher rarity and much improved stats. There are a number of changes to combat, too, with the aforementioned addition of optional lock-on targeting for melee, as … [Read more...] about Biomutant’s most significant patch yet increases level cap and adds scrap from loot screen, among many other changes

Steam hit Phasmophobia is, remarkably, developed by just one person. But the game has become such a big deal that help is finally on the way. The co-op ghost-hunting game is created by 25-year-old UK indie developer 'Dknighter', who took to Phasmophobia's Steam page to announce the expansion of studio Kinetic Games. "Over the past few years I have been developing Phasmophobia on my own however due to how much it has grown in both popularity and its future content plans it is now time to expand the team," Dknighter said. "I have now started the process of hiring an experienced artist and a programmer to work on Phasmophobia. They will both start working with me on future content very soon as well as improving and expanding on the current content." Phasmophobia has been so successful that 'Dknighter' decided to take more time in Early Access for bug fixes and content releases before a launch proper. Dknighter released the horror game onto Steam back in September, but despite … [Read more...] about Phasmophobia’s solo dev hires help as new update drops

What if Guilty Gear Strive was a Game Boy Advance game? It might look a bit like this. Modder FGCdraft created a Potato Low Spec mod for Arc System Works' wonderful anime fighting game to help people get it running on underpowered hardware, and in the process created a pixel art aesthetic I'm very much on board with. FGCdraft's video, below, shows off the potato mod in all its glory. The download instructions are in the video description. With Strive running in a retro 640x400 resolution, with 25 percent resolution scale and all graphics settings on low, FGCdraft further improved performance by making a number of key changes. First up, FGCdraft removed stage assets, then the eagle flying out of the window cutscene you see before any match, and then character portraits to use less memory. With all this enabled, 60 frames per second was achieved. It's clear Strive's stage assets are causing a bit of bother more generally. In an update pushed live yesterday, Arc System Works … [Read more...] about Guilty Gear Strive looks like a Game Boy Advance game with potato mod