Category: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

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Starbreeze will rework Payday 3’s progression and XP system after player backlash

If Starbreeze themselves were actually a Payday 3 heisting team I suspect they’d be verging on putting money back into the vault at this stage – retracing their steps with bulging duffel bags, while apologising to security guards not so much for the whole bank robbery thing as for smashing so many utilities on their way out. Shortly after announcing plans to make the four-player PvE shooter less online-dependent, the developers have announced that they’re also reworking Payday 3’s much-reviled progression system.

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Assassin’s Creed Mirage review: the most enjoyable Assassin’s Creed game for years

I’m close to being whatever the Assassin’s Creed equivalent of a Pokémon genwunner is. It’s not like I’m snobby about the newer, more action-oriented Creeds; I welcomed the shift brought in by Assassin’s Creed Origins, which shook the series up a bit, and I loved Cassandra kicking her way around Ancient Greece. Valhalla, although it had a relative dearth of things to parkour around, was a fun open-world RPG. Which I suppose is the point.

Assassin’s Creed hasn’t been a game about a group of assassins following a creed and striking from the shadows for a long time. Here I would say that Basim, protagonist of Assassin’s Creed Mirage kicks down the door and kills everyone in the room, except this new entry in the series is smaller, more focused, and once again concerned largely with stealth, and is all the better for it. So it’s more appropriate to say Basim snuck in through an open window and is choking everyone out one by one.

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Pick up HYTE’s wicked Revolt 3 SFF PC case with 700W 80+ Gold SFX PSU for just $112

When I was a computer science student, I developed a messaging app called HYPE with a few of my (more-talented) peers. It worked really well, and we even used it to talk during lectures, but of course we never released it out into the world and after leaving uni it was abandoned. Years later, I saw the brand called HYTE and my immediate reaction was “They stole our idea!”

Of course, my reading comprehension is poor, and HYTE – the iBuyPower PC case company – is unrelated to my unreleased, unannounced Linux-based chat app.

And so it falls to me to tell you that if you don’t have a knee-jerk reaction to four-letter words that look like acronyms but aren’t, and you like small PC cases, you might be interested in this US deal for the HYTE Revolt 3.

This critically-acclaimed Mini ITX PC case is down to $112 at Newegg or Ebay, a cut below its regular price of $200 and MSRP of $250. $112 is a bloody brilliant price for this case, especially as it comes with a pre-fitted 700W 80+ Gold SFX power supply.

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Grab AMD’s RX 7900 XTX flagship graphics card for $889 after a $110 discount

Want AMD’s fastest consumer graphics card for a good price? We’ve got just the deal for you – the RX 7900 XTX, after debuting at a tidy $999, is now down to $889.99 at Newegg. That’s a nice $110 discount that brings the card into new relevance, especially as the first two FSR 3 frame generation games arrive. If you’re not a Newegg fan, the card is also available at Amazon for $909.99.

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Let’s compare Modern Warfare 3 2023’s MP trailer with Modern Warfare 3 2011’s MP trailer

I’m tempted to leave it at the headline and direct you to the comments – it’s after five, you know, I’m usually in the bath by now – but I’m supposed to be some kind of “professional writer”, so I guess I’ll waffle for a few paragraphs. Activision have put up a trailer for nu-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3‘s multiplayer, ahead of a full live reveal at the Call of Duty: Next event on 5th October. I caught the news on a social feed somewhere, went hunting for the Youtube version and, much to my distress, managed to dig up the multiplayer premiere for the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, released in 2011 – almost 12 years ago.

Rather than just posting the correct video and going off to cry about my advancing seniority, I’m brazenly posting both so you can trace the evolution (or not) of this shootiest of first-person shooter franchises. It’s bizarre to think of any game series being this venerable, and changing so much while remaining the same.

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Stumble and dance through a bleak post-Soviet city in this excellent new first-person explorer

What are you doing later? Bit of a night out in a bleak post-Soviet city, maybe? Drink? Dance? Drugs? Pet giant rats? Chat with a back-alley cyborg tech? Catch a poetry reading? Have a blood pressure test? Contemplate your empty existence? Eat a kebab? All this and more awaits you with Neyasnoe, the new first-person explorer from the creators of It’s Winter. While It’s Winter had you so bored and lonely you might cook egg on toast only to flush it down the toilet, here you’re surrounded by life, and I’m not sure that’s much more comfort.

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Starfield’s adventures are hidden indoors, not in the stars

I’m a fan of the modern Bethesda RPG, having spent nearly 100 hours with Fallout 4 – which, for me, is a lot more time than I’m usually willing to give up. My fondest memories lie with Oblivion, because I think it captured exploration beautifully. I liked emerging from a big cave as a big nobody and striking out along a cobbled path, excited to go for a summer’s walk. Skyrim abandoned Oblivion’s warmth for your average fantasyland, but kept the great outdoors.

If I don’t have an objective in Starfield, I sort of freeze over and don’t really know where to turn. And even if I do, I perform a deep sigh and open up my menus and curl myself into a pinball, ready to get pinged around the innards of whatever can lies beyond the airlock in front of me. So far, Starfield’s adventuring forces me indoors and it’s a shame.

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