This Week In PC Gaming (December 21 through December 28)
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This Week In PC Gaming is an easy way to catch up with all of the news that you might have missed this week, organized in such a way that you can get a brief overview on all of the stories and from there you can jump to the ones you're interested in. And if you are interested you can also find out what happened the previous week by going here.
This week started off on a really high note given the amount of new releases and announcements that came around Christmas and while the past few days of food-induced coma were rather non eventful there's still plenty of interesting games and announcements to talk about.
Freedom Planet 2 Has Been Announced
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[Update]: After many years and many delays, Freedom Planet 2 will finally be launching on September 13th, 2022.
If you don't know anything about it think of Freedom Planet as a modern Sonic game but actually done with love and passion. It is a fast paced action platformer with colorful graphics, tons of humor and plenty of challenges for you to conquer. While I don't see it mentioned online very often it still acquired quite the cult following since its 2014 release.
And now we have an official announcement for Freedom Planet 2 along with a trailer showcasing the story and the new big bad. Take a look:
Upcoming Brutal Doom Update Is Adding A 32 Map-Long Campaign, A New Melee System, Performance Improvements And More
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I've talked about the upcoming Brutal Doom update about a week ago but despite being impressed with the increased brutality an performance improvements I wasn't aware of how much stuff was really coming with this update.
Brutal Doom v20b, despite it meek sounding name, brings with it a huge campaign spanning 32 maps, a rework and rebalance of the melee system, improvements to gib physics, destructible bodies, performance improvements and more. You can find the trailer and a quick overview right below:
Witcher 3 HD Texture Mod Does Wonders For The Graphics
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With the post-Christmas lull in full effect and nothing of importance happening I opted to use a bit of my time and see what mods to grab for a new playthrough of The Witcher 3.
And as luck would have it the most popular HD texture mod, The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project by Halk Hogan PL, recently got a major update that makes the open world of the Witcher 3 even prettier so I felt I should showcase it to you if you don't frequent modding sites yourself.
Steam Sale Recommendations (December 26-27)
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Now that all of the recent Steam issues have been properly fixed we can once more focus on what's really important, buying more games than we could ever have enough free time to play!
Or if you're interested in only grabbing a couple of good ones at a big discount then take a look at my recommended list for today's Steam sale, you might find something that interests you:
Rise Of The Tomb Raider Is Coming To PC In January
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Which makes me wonder why they even bothered with all of the shifty misdirection surrounding Rise of the Tomb Raider's PC version if they're just going to release it only two months after the Xbox versions.
Either way, according to the recently opened Steam store page the release for Rise of the Tomb Raider is set for January though no specific date or system requirements were given.
Upcoming Planetside 2 Update Will Add Base Building, Resource Harvesting, Better Balance And A Lot More
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I've put in about 100-150 hours in to Planetside 2 since its release but throughout my playtime all I could feel is that SOE, the guys behind the game, had almost no idea what exactly they wanted to do with it. And so, despite loving the game, I ended up quitting because all I've seen were nerfs and terrible design decisions such as putting up 10 meter tall walls around every base so each fight took place in the same two corridors.
Thankfully, after SOE separated from Sony and created Daybreak Games there was quite a big reshuffling of staff and a lot of the old Planetside 2 bigwigs got swapped out with fresh faces who instantly got to work on fixing the issues years of negligence have caused.
Given what their recent test realm patch contains it seems they are far more in tune with the community than the old team ever was and for the first time in over year I'm excited for Planetside 2 again.