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Destiny 2‘s Halloween event, the Festival of the Lost, is on its way with the weekly reset on Tuesday, October 29. But that’s not the only new content hitting the game next week. Season pass holders will also get a new Exotic weapon quest for the machine gun Xenophage, as well as access to a new dungeon as part of the Shadowkeep expansion.

Bungie gave a few new details about the upcoming content bits in its This Week at Bungie blog post. It includes a look at the Exotic machine gun, but very little in the way of information about what the quest will entail or how you can start it. We do know that it’s exclusive to Shadowkeep owners (sorry, Guardians who joined with the free-to-play New Light version of Destiny 2) and that it contains an insect as part of its design. Bungie also teased that you might have some options in how you earn the new gun.

“Where will your path take you first? There will be many options for you to consider, depending on how you like to play the most,” Bungie wrote in the post.

Apart from Xenophage, October 29 will also see the addition of Shadowkeep’s new dungeon. If it’s anything like the Shattered Throne dungeon of the Forsaken expansion, it’ll be a challenging three-player activity akin to what we might expect from Destiny 2’s raids. Apparently, access to the new area will require speaking with Eris Morn on Tuesday.

Changes are also coming to the Crucible with a new 6-on-6 mode called Momentum Control, which will be part of the featured playlist. “This is a fast-paced, hair-on-fire experience where the lethality of all weapons has been cranked to 11,” the blog post explains. “You’re incentivized to be aggressive as you defeat other Guardians to earn charged melees, grenades, and Supers.”

Here are all the changes Momentum Transfer will include:

• Instant Respawn Times
  • Out of the fight? No problem; drop right back in immediately
• Weapon Damage Increased
  • Higher combat lethality
  • Everything in your arsenal is a contender
• Ability Regen Requires Effort
  • Defeat enemy players to charge your melee, grenade, and Super
• No Tracker
  • Sneak around your enemies for some sweet flanks
• Amped Control
  • Zones capture faster and grant more bonus points per kill
• Super Charged Supers
  • Increased damage resist in Super means you become the 1,000-pound gorilla
  • Be careful, because Heavy weapons will put you down quickly
• The Heaviest of Ammo
  • Increased Heavy ammo respawn rates and drop amounts

That’s just about everything detailed on Destiny 2’s content calendar for the first month and change of Shadowkeep, and we’ll have guides for the Festival of the Lost’s Haunted Forest activity, the Xenophage Exotic quest, and the new dungeon shortly after they launch. There are a few more things to expect, however–the Garden of Salvation raid gets its first challenge on November 5, and the next phase of the Vex Offensive seasonal event, Final Assault, on November 19. That’s quite a bit to keep players busy through mid-November.

It’s worth noting that the Festival of the Lost event is free to all players, but the dungeon, Xenophage, and Vex Offensive require the Shadowkeep expansion and its included season pass for the Season of the Undying.

[UPDATE] Bethesda released a new statement to GameSpot on this matter that, among other things, confirms that a “small number” of players are in fact losing scrap items. The studio is working to fix this issue right now; it is a “top priority” for the company.

“Following the release of Update 14 earlier this week, the development team has been looking into player reports of scrap going missing. We have some details to share with you on our findings and our plan moving forward. Our initial investigation indicated that this was a display issue, and that no items had gone missing. However, we have since found that a small number of players have in fact experienced a loss of scrap items after placing them into the Scrapbox and then loading into a world. Resolving this issue is currently our top priority.

We are also exploring ways to restore the missing items.We are working to address this with a hotfix as soon as possible, and we will let players know once we are ready to deploy the fix.”

The original story is below.

Bethesda has released a statement in regards to some of the more prominent issues in Fallout 1st–the new subscription-based content update for Fallout 76. Speaking to GameSpot, Bethesda addressed the reported issues individually.

In regards to the disappearing scrap issue, Bethesda said, “A small number of players with a large quantity of scrap are experiencing a display issue causing their Scrapbox to appear empty. At this time, we believe this is a User Interface issue and that players have not lost any scrap. Players should still be able to access the scrap for crafting from workbenches. We are actively working to address this issue, both internally and using the data and characters folks from the community have provided us.”

Players have also expressed concern that their private servers have appeared already looted, but Bethesda clarified that this is most likely not an issue. Instead, private worlds behave like Fallout 76’s public worlds do. “When a Fallout 1st member starts a Private World, a dedicated World is launched on an AWS server,” Bethesda said. “Players who have seen looted containers upon login may be experiencing the expected behavior upon log out and log in. Loot is instanced for each player in containers. As Fallout 76 players know, if you loot a container on one server, and then log out and log back into another server, the container remains in a looted state for a period of time.”

Finally, Bethesda admits that allowing friends to join private worlds without gaining permission from the host player is not ideal and should be changed. “Currently, players on your friends list can join your Private World without an invitation,” Bethesda said. “We understand this is not what players expected for their private worlds and we are looking to provide an option in an upcoming patch that will allow Fallout 1st members to restrict access to their servers more completely, preventing friends from joining without permission.”

For $12.99 / £11.99 a month or $99.99 / £99.99 a year, a Fallout 1st subscription provides you with access to private worlds, a monthly bonus of 1,650 atoms to spend in the Atomic Shop, discounts on certain items in the in-game store, a private Scrapbox, unique emotes, the Ranger Armor outfit, and a survival tent that acts as a fast travel point you can put anywhere on the map.

Bethesda had already announced that some of these additions would be coming to Fallout 76 but gave no prior indication that they would be locked behind a paywall. This has attracted some criticism from players in the Fallout 76 community–though it remains to be seen how this will affect the overall reception that Bethesda has been cultivating for the game with its free post-launch content updates.

One of Fallout 76’s most anticipated expansions, Wastelanders, has also been delayed. Wastelanders is scheduled to add NPCs with dialogue and quest-lines to Fallout 76, which would ideally curate a gameplay experience similar to Fallout 76’s single-player predecessors.

Cliff Bleszinski, the creator and designer of Gears of War, nearly had a role in Hideo Kojima’s much-anticipated upcoming game Death Stranding. Bleszinski said on Twitter that Kojima asked him to visit the studio to get scanned into the game, but it didn’t work out.

Bleszinski said on Twitter that he wasn’t able to collaborate with Kojima for Death Stranding due in part to how, at the time, he was going through the collapse of his latest game studio, Boss Key Productions.

“He asked me to come get scanned when I was in Japan but it was as [Boss Key Productions] was nearly over and I was starting my ‘lay low’ phase and opted out. Kinda regret it,” he said.

Bleszinski revealed this after God of War director Cory Barlog lamented the fact that he wasn’t invited to be a part of Death Stranding with a cameo of his own.

All of this news comes immediately after comedian and late night TV host Conan O’Brien revealed that he was scanned into Death Stranding and has a cameo role in the game.

Even without Bleszinski and Barlog, Death Stranding is stuffed with celebrity roles and cameos. Walking Dead actor Norman Reedus plays main character Sam “Porter” Bridges, while Hannibal and Casino Royale actor Mads Mikkelsen plays Cliff. James Bond actress Lea Seydoux plays a character named Fragile, while Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Margaret Qualley portrays Mama. The Bionic Woman actress Lindsay Wagner portrays Bridget in Death Stranding, while veteran voice actor Troy Baker plays Higgs. Tommie Earl Jones (Pandora, The Politician) plays Die-Hardman.

The Death Stranding review embargo lifts on November 1, so keep checking back with GameSpot for more on the title in the days and weeks ahead.

Death Stranding officially launches on November 8 for PS4.

See what differs in each difficulty in The Outer Worlds and how to choose.

Another Marvel TV series bites the dust, as Freeform has officially canceled Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger.

Deadline broke the news, which comes five months after the live-action superhero series wrapped its second season. That lengthy gap already had fans speculating as to the show’s future (or lack thereof). But as Deadline reports, the final nail in the coffin came this week as the cast’s options ran out and the actors were released to pursue other projects.

“We are so proud of Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger and the trailblazing stories this series told,” Freeform said in a statement to Deadline. “We are also grateful to our incredible talent Olivia Holt and Aubrey Joseph for bringing these beloved characters to life, and showrunner Joe Pokaski for his vision. We’d like to thank our partners at Marvel Television for a wonderful two seasons and are we are hopeful that we can find another project together.”

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Full SPOILERS ahead for Joker!

Joker cinematographer Lawrence Sher has answered the lingering question of whether Arthur Fleck killed his neighbor Sophie Dumond near the end of the blockbuster DC film.

In a chat with /Film, Sher said, “Todd

makes it clear she wasn’t killed. Arthur is killing people who’ve wronged him in a certain way, and Sophie never wronged him.”

The cinematographer added, “In terms of what we did visually to play with the real and not real, there are callbacks and scenes that mirror each other. We leave hints using imagery or way we covered scenes similarly between scene. Outside of that, I like that people can have the conversation and come to their own conclusions.”

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Bethesda recently announced that Fallout 76 would be getting a $100-a-year subscription service called Fallout 1st. Unfortunately for Bethesda, the company neglected to claim the web domain, and it was instead taken over by a hilarious, and mildly irate, fan.

FalloutFirst.com (fair warning, some of the language used in this website would make a ghoul blush) lampoons the developer for charging a subscription fee to turn a multiplayer game (which many fans didn’t want) into a single-player experience, after having already bought the game. The website ostensively parodies Bethesda’s blog post announcing Fallout 1st, right down to its layout and included graphics.

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Amazon Prime Members: Sign up for 1 Month of Amazon Music Unlimited for $7.99, Get a 3rd Gen Echo Dot for Only $0.99

This deal only works for new Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers. Sign up for one month of Amazon Music Unlimited for $7.99 and you’ll get an Echo Dot for only $0.99 more ($8.98 total). By default your subscription is auto-renewed, but it is SUPER easy to go to your preferences and opt out of it (just make sure you remember). Even on Black Friday the 3rd gen Echo Dot will not be discounted this low, so grab it now with no worries. Amazon Music Unlimited works alot like the paid ad-free versions of Spotify or Pandora. Get access to millions of songs and playlists that you can stream from your Echo Dot, phone, PC, or other Alexa device.

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I spent a few dozen hours playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at a review event last week, and walked away with a lot of positive impressions. Perhaps the most superficial and obvious of which is that Modern Warfare looks absolutely phenomenal. As a PC gamer in 2019, “next-generation graphics” is kind of a murky term — but I think it applies here. Modern Warfare is running on a “new game engine” which is to say that major sections of Infinity Ward’s IW engine have been rewritten and now support features like 4K and ray tracing. This new-found fidelity was certainly noticeable when I played gunfight at Gamescom 2019, but it wasn’t until I sat down last week to play Modern Warfare’s single-player campaign in its entirety that the full effects of the visuals really sunk in.

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