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If you’re a PS4 owner who likes playing games online, you’re probably familiar with PlayStation Plus, Sony’s premium membership that grants access to not online multiplayer but also free monthly games and exclusive discounts. PS Plus sells for $60 a year and doesn’t often waver from that price point outside of major sales like Prime Day and Black Friday–but if you’re looking to renew or extend your subscription at a discount, you can currently find a 12-month membership for just $45 at Newegg.

To snag the discount, add the PS Plus membership to your cart and apply promo code EMCUTTW35 during checkout. You’ll see $15 slashed off the price, dropping your cost to $45. Once you check out, you’ll receive the PS Plus code via email to redeem in the PlayStation Store.

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The nice thing about PS Plus memberships is that they stack, so even if you’ve got some time left on your current membership, you can extend your subscription at a discount when you find deals like this one.

Right now, you can claim October’s free PS4 games if you have a current PlayStation Plus membership. This month, you can claim The Last of Us Remastered, which is the perfect opportunity to either replay or experience this acclaimed adventure for the first time as we get closer to The Last of Us Part 2‘s release in February. You can also grab sports game MLB The Show 19 for free anytime in October.

Check out more of the best PS4 deals for October 2019, including PSN’s current Games of a Generation sale, which has Red Dead Redemption 2 for $36, Battlefield V for $24, Monster Hunter World for $20, and more.

Borderlands 3 is continuing to update frequently, both with performance improvements and character balance. Today Gearbox is planning a one-two punch of both, pairing a patch and a hot fix across all platforms by 3 PM PT.

The patch focuses largely on performance and stability, while the hot fix makes some adjustments to FL4K and Moze and rebalances some enemy encounters. Both are coming at roughly the same time, though, so you’ll feel the effects of everything at once. FL4K got mostly buffs with adjustments to their Rakk Attack and Barbaric Yawp abilities, and a slight nerf to their Leave No Trace ability. Moze gets a nerf to her Means of Destruction ability to avoid infinite grenades builds.

“Our goal is to make sure all three Action Skills for each Vault Hunter are viable, but we have noticed some skills have been outperforming others,” Gearbox says in the patch notes. “To encourage more build diversity, we made some adjustments to FL4K and Moze this week.”

Other changes adjust the balance of three key boss fights: Gigamind, Katagawa Ball, and Billy the Anointed. In each case, they’ve been made a little weaker and easier to handle. You can see the full patch notes below.

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Borderlands 3 Patch / Hot Fix Notes (Oct 3)

Stability

• Addressed a reported issue where an infinite loop could occur when hitting the Guardian Rank experience ceiling

General Fixes and Improvements

• The Hollow Point Guardian Rank skill no longer damages allies
• Hollow Point Guardian Rank skill has been re-enabled
• Addressed a reported issue where some players were unable to unlock the Ultimate Vault Hunter achievement on Xbox
• Addressed a reported issue where mouse functionality may have been lost when hot joining a friend’s session on PC
• Addressed a reported issue where some players’ inventory would not be saved in their bank

Vault Hunter Adjustments

FL4K

Rakk Attack! is great for constant damage output, especially when paired with Anointed gear. The base skill still seems to be lacking, so Rakk Attack! now has a guaranteed status effect on any enemy that it damages. Leave No Trace was returning much more ammo than intended, and we have added a re-trigger delay to keep its ammo return within expectation. Barbaric Yawp has an increased bonus, as we didn’t feel that the amount of investment had an equal payoff. In addition, we felt that FL4K’s pets were demanding too much attention, which was interfering with players trying to stand still for any length of time, so we disabled the ability for them to move you around.

• Rakk Attack! status effect chance as been increased to 100%.
• Leave No Trace now has a re-trigger delay of 2 seconds
• Barbaric Yawp stat bonus increased by 100%
• Pets no longer push around player characters
• “Touch Pet” prompt is now a lower priority and should no longer interfere with looting or vending machines

Moze

Infinite Grenades is not an intentional build for Moze—even if it is hilarious. To lower the power (and spam) of this build, a re-trigger delay has been added to the grenade portion of Means of Destruction.

• Means of Destruction now has a re-trigger delay of 2 seconds

Miscellaneous Changes

• Adjusted the balance of Gigamind, Katagawa Ball, and Billy the Anointed

These three boss fights had concerns with their health and shields that made their combat loops more difficult than we intended. Gigamind had a little too much health, so that was reduced slightly. Katagawa Ball will no longer regenerate its shields; we found that while players contended with the adds during the fight, it would unfairly regenerate its shield, negating the players’ progress. Finally, Billy had 25% of his health removed; we agree that this fight often dragged on needlessly. We will be monitoring each of these bosses and may make further adjustments in the future.

• Bloated Rakks no longer spawn so many Rakklesnakes

This change should make the Cistern of Slaughter in particular much more fun.

• Adjusted the cooldown values when they are displayed for Zane’s skills
• Amara’s Glamour will now turn enemies on each other, as described in the Action Skill
• Modified the loot spawn for Sera of Supremacy
• Spiderant Emperors occasionally wouldn’t drill back out of the ground, which created a potential progression blocker in the Proving Ground of Survival; we have adjusted this and the issue has been addressed
• Resolved an issue that could have prevented enemies from spawning while in Devil’s Razor
• Lavender Crawly’s physics were adjusted to prevent them exiting the world like a popped balloon
• Further safe guarded Apollo from being launched out of world as well
• The Rampager will no longer enter an idle at state at inappropriate times
• Saurian Slingers attacks were addressed
• Guardians now use all their attacks in Playthrough 2
• Guardian Wraiths now reliably use all their ranged attacks
• NPCs in the Slaughter maps were reported to sometimes attempt to automatically revive players in the arena. Going forward they will no longer attempt to revive players
• Minimized the glow effect when opening Eridian ammo chests, can more easily see the ammo inside when opened

One of 2020’s most anticipated games, Cyberpunk 2077, will be shown publicly for the first time in Australia at PAX Australia later this month in Melbourne.

Attendees can watch live presentations of the much-anticipated role-playing game each day of the show–October 11, 12, and 13. The presentations run for 45 minutes each. The first two presentations take place in the Main Theatre, while the third is being held at GameSpot’s own theatre on Sunday, October 13 at 12:30 PM local time.

Here is the schedule of presentations for Cyberpunk 2077 at PAX Aus:

• Friday, October 11 — 1 PM | Main Theatre
• Saturday, October 12 — 3 PM | Main Theatre
• Sunday, October 13 — 12:30 PM | GameSpot Theatre

In addition to the live presentations, Cyberpunk 2077 will have a place at the Xbox booth featuring more video presentations along with a cosplay competition. Fans can dress up in their favorite Cyberpunk cosplay for a shot at winning a $5000 prize.

Cyberpunk 2077 posters and t-shirts will also be available at the Xbox booth, along with signing opportunities.

PAX Aus 2019 runs October 11-13 in Melbourne, Victoria. For lots more on the show, and GameSpot’s plans specifically, check out this rundown of all the GameSpot Theatre panels.

As for Cyberpunk 2077, the next game from the creators of The Witcher series launches in April 2020 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

Destiny 2 will be offline on October 3 as developer Bungie performs maintenance on the multiplayer game’s servers. The downtime will commence at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET / 3 PM GMT, and during this time the game will be unplayable, while some functionality on Destiny’s connected experiences across web, mobile, and third-party apps may be interrupted.

The downtime is expected to run for 30 minutes, wrapping up at 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET / 3:30 PM GMT. While the servers are expected to be back online at that time, players might experience a server queue. This is nothing out of the ordinary, as many online games implement server queues at various times to help ease the strain of server load.

Destiny 2’s big new expansion, Shadowkeep, and the New Light free-to-play version of the game, released on October 1. The rollout wasn’t entirely smooth, as Bungie was forced to bring down the game’s servers for several hours to perform “emergency maintenance.”

Despite the hiccups, Destiny 2 was able to reach more than 200,000 peak concurrent players on launch day. The game continues to be extremely popular. Steam’s public statistics page shows the game reached 226,000 concurrent players on October 2, making it one of the most popular games on the whole of Steam.

For lots more on Destiny 2, check out GameSpot’s recent stories below:

The Switch is pretty sweet as-is, but add in some accessories like a second Nintendo Switch dock, a screen protector, and a Switch Pro Controller makes it even better.

A high-quality PSU is critical for PC stability and smooth operation. Here is our list of the top five power supplies, with one for every budget.