Month: April 2021

A number of tweaks and fixes are on the way to Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, which arrived on PlayStation 4 and 5 with several bugs last month. An upcoming patch is being worked on, details of which were shared by developer ZA/UM’s freelance ad agent Idiot Doom Spiral. That isn’t a typo, as the patch post remained in character while it detailed the incoming fixes.

“Maybe blame it on the Doomed Commercial Area, birthplace of doomed dreams, resting place for every venture. Blame it on an incursion of the apocalypse in a localized space, or whatever Tequila Sunset hits you with. Blame it on a call to Abigail,” Spiral explained. “Or just blame it on us. Because it is our fault, that’s true. We’re all just human beings dreaming big, and not always making those dreams come true like we hope. But we’re going to try anyway, and try again, until we get it right. And we will.”

Once Patch 1.3 arrives, you can expect the following tweaks and improvements:

• Tons of voice-over fixes
• Improved Kim pathfinding
• Fixed controller interaction during Seafort Dream
• Fixed controller interaction with The Pigs
• Fixed Sandcastle interaction
• Fixed car interaction
• Fixed instances where the tide never receded near the swings
• Fixes pawnshop healing interaction
• Fixed Thought Cabinet freezes
• Fixed save game bugs
• Fixes for cutscene locks and edge-case interactions with controllers
• And a little bit this and that, general house cleaning after stormy development

In case you missed out on the 2019 hit game which starred an amnesiac alcoholic detective trying to solve a strange murder, the Final Cut of Disco Elysium is the definitive version of the RPG that makes numerous improvements such as increased frame rates, new streamer-friendly features, and more than a million fully-voiced words in total.

Four new quests that flesh out the experience, known as “political vision quests,” adds even more longevity to Disco Elysium provided that you know how to meet the right prerequisites for this extra content.

Jeff Ross, the former game director of Days Gone, has revealed that the pitch for Days Gone 2 featured plans for a shared universe and cooperative play component.

Talking to God of War creator David Jaffe as part of a livestream on Jaffe’s YouTube channel, Ross discussed topics that arose in the wake of Bloomberg’s recent report about an unsuccessful Days Gone 2 pitch from developer Bend Studio. While Ross was unable to confirm if Days Gone 2 was indeed rejected due to a non-disclosure agreement, he did reveal a few details about the pitch he submitted to Sony for the sequel.

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“We wanted co-op from the beginning [in Days Gone 1], but obviously you have to make concessions for what you’re not going to be able to do,” explained Ross during the conversation, as reported by VGC.

When asked by Jaffe if the ideas for a co-op mode would have been implemented in a sequel, Ross said: “It’s one of the things that we had in our pitch, yeah. It was the idea of a shared universe with co-op play.”

Explaining the vision for the co-op, Ross described it as: ”[taking] this world that you’ve built, and all these assets and systems, and repurpose them for some sort of similarly themed multiplayer version of this universe. So [it] would be with guys like Deacon trying to survive, building up a clubhouse or a crew. I think it would be fun to be in that world cooperatively and see what horde battles could be like.”

While Ross’ openness about an unannounced game does make it feel as if Days Gone 2 is probably not going to happen, Ross reinforced that he cannot confirm the game’s situation. “I don’t think it’s publicly confirmed what the status of [Days Gone 2] is. I don’t want to be the guy who’s the official source for whatever that is.”

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Ross himself no longer works at Bend Studio, but notes that his departure “had nothing to do with the status of the sequel or anything else that the studio was doing.”

While discussing the Bloomberg report, Ross also stated that it was “never the reality” that Bend had lost autonomy and had become a support studio for Naughty Dog. Instead, he insisted that the link between the two studios was a collaboration.

That same report also suggests that a remake of 2013’s The Last of Us is in development. If true, that could well be intended to launch on the back of HBO’s anticipated The Last of Us show, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Activision has begun to tease the next season for Call of Duty: Mobile. Across a pair of tweets, the developer confirmed that a new pistol is coming to Call of Duty: Mobile in Season 3, while what looks like a new map is coming as well, based on the teaser.

CharlieIntel said the new pistol is the Renetti from Modern Warfare. The pistol is very powerful, as it can take down enemies with four body shots in Modern Warfare. It remains to be seen if it will be changed at all for CoD: Mobile, if it is indeed coming to the game.

As for the new map, you can check out the teaser image below and the flythrough video further down the page. It looks like a classic Call of Duty map, featuring interior and exterior lanes that can suit a number of different play styles.

Call of Duty: Mobile is currently in the midst of Season 2: Day of Reckoning, but based on these teasers, it appears Activision is going to mix things up and launch the new season relatively soon.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone are also currently in Season 2. The in-game timer suggests the season will end this month, and it could be a dramatic occasion for the game. The popular rumor is that Activision will blow up the map and re-launch the game with an ’80s theme based on Black Ops Cold War.

The winners of the 2021 BAFTA Awards have been announced, with Nomadland taking top honors at this year’s event.

Chloé Zhao’s drama emerged as the big winner at the 74th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, scooping up four awards in total, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Leading Actress for its star Frances McDormand. Zhao is only the second woman to get the Best Director accolade at the BAFTAs, following Kathryn Bigelow’s win in 2010 for The Hurt Locker.

The rest of the awards were more evenly distributed, with several titles picking up two awards, including Promising Young Woman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sound of Metal, Soul, and The Father — which saw Sir Anthony Hopkins become the oldest recipient of the Leading Actor BAFTA. He was nominated alongside Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, Tahar Rahim, Chadwick Boseman, and Adarsh Gourav.

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The full list of winners for the BAFTA Film Awards 2021 follows:

Best Film

• The Father
• The Mauritanian
• Nomadland – WINNER
• Promising Young Woman
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Director

• Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
• Shannon Murphy, Babyteeth
• Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
• Chloé Zhao, Nomadland – WINNER
• Jasmila Žbanić, Quo Vadis, Aida?
• Sarah Gavron, Rocks

Leading Actor

• Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Adarsh Gourav, The White Tiger
• Sir Anthony Hopkins, The Father – WINNER
• Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round
• Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian

Leading Actress

• Bukky Bakray, Rocks
• Radha Blank, The Forty-Year-Old Version
• Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
• Frances McDormand, Nomadland – WINNER
• Wunmi Mosaku, His House
• Alfre Woodard, Clemency

Supporting Actor

• Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER
• Barry Keoghan, Calm With Horses
• Alan Kim, Minari
• Leslie Odom Jr, One Night In Miami
• Clarke Peters, Da 5 Bloods
• Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Supporting Actress

• Niamh Algar, Calm With Horses
• Kosar Ali, Rocks
• Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Dominique Fishback, Judas and the Black Messiah
• Ashley Madekwe, County Lines
• Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari – WINNER

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Best Original Screenplay

• Another Round
• Mank
• Promising Young Woman – WINNER
• Rocks
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Dig
• The Father – WINNER
• The Mauritanian
• Nomadland
• The White Tiger

Best Original Score

• Mank
• Minari
• News of the World
• Promising Young Woman
• Soul – WINNER

Best Cinematography

• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Mank
• The Mauritanian
• News of the World
• Nomadland – WINNER

Best Costume Design

• Ammonite
• The Dig
• Emma
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
• Mank

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Best Editing

• The Father
• Nomadland
• Promising Young Woman
• Sound of Metal – WINNER
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Production Design

• The Dig
• The Father
• Mank – WINNER
• News of the World
• Rebecca

Best Hair and Makeup

• The Dig
• Hillbilly Elegy
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER
• Mank
• Pinocchio

Best Sound

• Greyhound
• News of the World
• Nomadland
• Soul
• Sound of Metal – WINNER

Best Special Visual Effects

• Greyhound
• The Midnight Sky
• Mulan
• The One and Only Ivan
• Tenet – WINNER

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Best Casting

• Calm With Horses
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Minari
• Promising Young Woman
• Rocks – WINNER

Outstanding British Film

• Calm With Horses
• The Dig
• The Father
• His House
• Limbo
• The Mauritanian
• Mogul Mowgli
• Promising Young Woman – WINNER
• Rocks
• Saint Maud

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer

• His House, Remi Weekes (Writer/Director) – WINNER
• Limbo, Ben Sharrock (Writer/Director), Irune Gurtubai (Producer)
• Moffie, Jack Sidey (Writer/Producer)
• Rocks, Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson (Writers)
• Saint Maud, Rose Glass (Writer/Director), Oliver Kassman (Producer)

Film not in the English Language

• Another Round – WINNER
• Dear Comrades!
• Les Misérables
• Minari
• Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Documentary

• Collective
• David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
• The Dissident
• My Octopus Teacher – WINNER
• The Social Dilemma

Best Animated Film

• Onward
• Soul – WINNER
• Wolfwalkers

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Best British Short Film

• Eyelash
• Lizard
• Lucky Break
• Miss Curvy
• The Present – WINNER

Best British Short Animation

• The Fire Next Time
• The Owl and the Pussycat – WINNER
• The Song of A Lost Boy

EE Rising Star (voted for by the public)

• Kingsley Ben-Adir
• Morfydd Clark
• Bukky Bakray – WINNER
• Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
• Conrad Khan

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Outriders encountered server issues in its first few days online and some of the attempts to correct the problem didn’t work initially. Now, another issue–inventory wipes–has been affecting some players, causing them to lose the gear they worked so hard to get. The development team is working to prevent this from happening and is also looking to restore the inventories for anyone who experienced a wipe.

In a series of posts on Twitter, the Outriders team said it had taken “additional preventative measures” on its servers to prevent future inventory wipes and that it’s seeing it happen less frequently. It also recommended force-closing your game and restarting it if you see something is missing, and said it’s looking to restore gear for anyone who lost it.

A Reddit thread provides more-detailed information on how gear will be restored. It will take place as a massive one-off restoration at a to-be-determined date, with valuable Epic and Legendary gear getting restored. Any gear you lost that was in a lower tier will probably not be restored, and the items might have slightly different stats.

“While we are trying our hardest to make things right, we unfortunately cannot make guarantees for the specifics of the above or the timeline of this, as we may run into technical difficulties that delay our work,” the development team added.

These setbacks certainly have, at times, limited players’ ability to enjoy the game, but Outriders has thus far received a positive response for its mix of looting and shooting that seems to understand what makes that formula successful. In GameSpot’s Outriders review, Phil Hornshaw praised its use of cover-shooting and fantasy-style powers along with its endgame activities.