Obsidian's The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition is free to grab until tomorrow, December 26th
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If you're looking for a game to cuddle up with during the cold (or surprisingly warm) winter months, you'll be happy to hear that Obsidian's The Outer Worlds and all of its DLC are currently up for grabs. All you have to do is head on over to the Epic Games Store, snag yourself a copy, and you'll be set to make a complete mess out of outer space.
The small catch, as always, is that there is a fairly tight time limit. The giveaway will end at 4pm GMT on December 26th, so do make sure to add The Outer Worlds to your account before it goes back to its regular price. Once you've done that you'll be able to play it whenever you want and for however long you want.
Fallout 3 and all of its DLCs are free to grab until 4pm GMT on December 24th
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[Update]: More good news! Obsidian's The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition is free to grab until December 26th.
If you're a fan of RPGs and you've somehow managed to avoid giving Fallout 3 a try all these years, consider this your lucky day. As a part of the Epic Games Store's Christmas giveaway, Fallout 3 and all of its DLCs are currently free to grab!
Naturally, there is a small catch, and that is the limited time window in which you have to snag yourself a copy. In this case the giveaway will run out at 4pm GMT on December 24th, so do make sure to claim your copy before the giveaway goes away. And then, once you've added it to your account you'll be able to play it whenever you want and for however long you want.
Dota 2's Patch 7.35b has arrived to fix some of the freshly introduced balance mistakes
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[Update #2]: Dota 2's Patch 7.35d has reworked hero bans and brought in yet more balance changes.
[Update]: Dota 2's Patch 7.35c has arrived with much-needed nerfs to overplayed heroes and items.
With the recent Patch 7.35 Dota 2 has rebalanced a good chunk of its items and heroes, as well as added a variety of new items and neutral items for everyone to mess around with. Unsurprisingly, given the sheer scale of the changes, Patch 7.35 has also brought with it a whole host of balance problems!
So in order to smash some of these outliers back into place, Valve has now unleashed Patch 7.35b with another sizable batch of changes. The biggest one, and perhaps the most confusing, is the crippling nerf to Bloodstone - "Bloodpact no longer restores mana". Since only a couple of heroes ever bought Bloodstone, and since they did so mostly for the massive amounts of mana regeneration, I'm guessing the item is likely going to remain unused until it gets reworked yet again.
Project Zomboid's Update 42 will rework crafting and greatly expand Engineering/Electrical skills
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Despite its numerous advances over the years, some of Project Zomboid's systems and features are currently still in a placeholder state - they work, but only just. The best example of this is the entire Electrical skill as not only is there very little to do with it, but actually increasing your skill level is such a monumentally grindy task that most people probably haven't even explored what little content there is.
Thankfully, it looks like the upcoming Update 42 will be changing all of this for the better. First and foremost, the entire crafting system will be getting overhauled in an effort to make a unified and expansive system that will be able to work with anything from simple crafting stations to complex machines and appliances. This will also bring with it a rework of every single crafting skill as the new system will allow for more customizable recipes and a greater degree of complexity, both of which will be needed if you're planning to make a functioning post-apocalyptic society.
Vampire Survivors' Among Us crossover DLC has now arrived, and it's actually quite good!
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While Vampire Survivors has plenty of references to other games and media, the freshly released Emergency Meeting DLC is its very first actual crossover. So instead of simply having a bean-like character run around acting all 'sus' or whatever the youngins shout these days, the Emergency Meeting DLC has brought with it a whole host of characters and weapons directly based on Among Us.
In gameplay terms this means there's nine new characters to mess around with, fifteen new weapons of which seven are evolutions, as well as a thematic new stage to explore. There's also a brand new Adventure, a couple of new music tracks, and most importantly of all for Vampire Survivors veterans, a good chunk of new achievements to hunt down!
Nearly a decade later, The Witcher 3 is getting official modding tools
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In an announcement that came seemingly out of nowhere, CDPR has now revealed that they are working on a mod editor for The Witcher 3! The editor will be a reworked version of the REDengine 3 editor that was used to create the actual game, so skilled modders will be able to modify all of the existing content to their heart's content, as well as create entirely new quests and storylines!
While no exact release date has been announced just yet, The Witcher 3 editor will be heading over to PC at some point in 2024. And naturally, it'll be entirely free for everyone to mess around with!
Dota 2's recent Patch 7.35 has brought with it yet another gigantic batch of changes
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[Update #2]: Patch 7.35c has now launched with some much-needed nerfs to overplayed heroes and items.
[Update]: Dota 2's Patch 7.35b has arrived to fix some of the freshly introduced mistakes.
In an effort to prevent the meta from getting too entrenched, the Dota 2 team has now unleashed Patch 7.35. As you might expect, the update brings with it an absurd amount of balance changes to both items and heroes, a plethora of quality of life improvements, numerous new items and neutral items to toy around with, and since this is the holiday season we're talking about, some festive new cosmetics as well!
First and foremost, jungle creeps now offer less money, thus incentivizing a more active playstyle among core roles. Keeping with the theme, super creeps and mega creeps are now a fair bit stronger as well, so destroying an enemy team's base should be more than a simple inconvenience. And in order to give the dominant team a better chance to push, Roshan can now also drop a banner that greatly amplifies one lane's worth of creeps for 300 seconds.