Welcome, Marauders, to our November Health Patch! (NOW LIVE)

We have much to get through! In the notes below we have detailed all the fixes, additions, balancing, and more.

❗ Make sure to read through to the end, you don’t want to miss the sneak peek at what’s coming next!

FULL PATCH NOTES

 

NEW

  • Webley Pistol
  • EM-2 battle rifle
  • Locked Depot for the Navy Outpost
  • Locked Depot for Penal Colony
  • Sten attachments; Muzzle Brake, Drum Mag and Wooden Stock
  • Additional Daily Contract missions, bringing total to 42
  • Single loot spawners have had their physics disabled to prevent loot penetrating collision/spawning outside of the play area
  • Added map cycling to prevent too much map repetition
  • Players now receive a Marauder Kill for destroying a Breacher Pod
  • Intro movie can be disabled with Steam launch option command: ‘nostartupmovies’
  • Can now adjust FOV (80 to 100)
  • Can now have lean set to toggle
  • Air control – most weapons now have a larger spread and recoil whilst jumping. Some weapons have their spread only increased a little where it makes sense e.g. the viper mk1, shotguns and pistols.
  • Navy Commandos and their Major can spawn in any raid location except for the navy outpost.
  • Crews are automatically locked but you can set it to be unlocked via the creation of the crew.
  • A siren alarm can now be heard when a breach occurs inside a ship.
  • Reinforced Anti-Cheat

ART

  • Colour, reflections and lighting pass on Asteroid Mine.
  • Sten Weapon Model and Textures
  • Redistributed airlock positions in Asteroid Mine
  • Colour and reflections pass on Merchant ship
  • Stg44 rifle now has a front post (foresight)
  • Improved Krasa muzzle flash effects.

BALANCING

  • Capital Ship and Merchant Ship have had their spawn chance increased by 30%
  • The headshot damage multiplier is now 3x rather than 3.5x
  • Airlock redistribution in Asteroid Mine
  • 6 airlocks in Terraformer
  • 6 airlocks in Navy Outpost
  • 5 airlocks in Prison
  • 5 airlocks in Spaceport
  • The Airlock now has more accurate collision (props etc)
  • Sten suppressor now requires fabric alongside metal scrap
  • Sten suppressors does 2 extra damage instead of 1
  • Large first aid kit’s healing amount has been increased by 35%
  • Lower-tier recipes have had their crafting timers greatly reduced.
  • All armour and helmets (except the leather jerkin, civilian helmet and pouch rig) have been buffed by 20% protection.
  • Heavy caliber weapon damage has been increased by around 15%, except SVT40, Johnson and the Mosin pistol which have had their damage reduced.
  • “Top brass” mission requirements is now 8 instead of 10
  • “Become Infamous” mission has been re-balanced to include more targets.
  • M45-k is the only SMG to receive a damage buff.
  • Compact containers are now 3×3 cells.(storage capacity remains the same)
  • Industrial locked loot bins in Navy Outpost and Penal Colony
  • Klobb is now a burst only weapon and has a 24 round capacity
  • The jump turn rate is now 40% (down from 50%)
  • The durability of SMGs has been lowered
  • Most weapons have had their credit value increased by 15 to 35%
  • Welrod damage is down to 36 from 40.
  • All Smgs have had their recoil slightly increased.
  • Uzi suppressor now requires a toolkit instead of metal scrap
  • 9mm ammo and luger replaced with the Webley revolver in the pirate factions trader
  • Suppressors and stocks no longer available in the trader have been moved to crafting unlocks
  • EM-2 and Sten drum mag can now be looted from the Kingdom Alliance supply drop.
  • Radio backpack is now 6×6 storage capacity
  • Reduced recoil on the M50 rifle
  • Shotguns now have a large increase in spread over distance. the terminator and trench having a tighter spread, liberator and jackhammer have a medium spread and the double barrel has a larger spread
  • Reduced the length of certain actions on ai squads (sas and commandos) to prevent them looking frozen when failing to complete/reach them
  • Panzer removed from the central empire shop (now it’s higher tier armour) and replaced with plate armour. (medium tier armour)
  • Pirate trader’s supply drop has been added to the vault loot pool and removed from the faction shop, it has been replaced with the machete.

UI

  • The Discord button is now on the main menu screen
  • Removed ban appeal option from the main menu ticketing menu (moved to else where in the UI)
  • Changed the guide info to say you prestige at level 50 to match the actual in-game level you need to hit
  • Moved report button next to the player who killed you name in the end screen to make it more obvious
  • Added toggle lean to the options menu
  • In the main menu, can now use the ESC key to quickly close the following menus: leaderboard, support ticket, guide, ship management, daily contracts
  • Login screen and main menu you are banned now have buttons to appeal ban which goes to t17 support
  • Options menu tweaks and updated for new fov and toggle lean settings
  • A marauder-specific KD (aka KD against other players) to the stats menu
  • Build id is now shown on the login screen
  • Moved commando maj stat kills up next to the commando kills in the stats menu (as makes more sense)
  • New can’t enter raid area as pod warning popup if you try to use a raid entrance as a pod

ANIMATION

  • EM2 rigged in-engine and core animation set done
  • Webley rigged in-engine and core animation set done
  • Radar dish on top of the prison raid area now rotates slowly
  • Sten animation poses tweaks to go with new model

SOUND

  • New unlock sounds for the locked bar doors
  • Updated several sounds use in the large metal shutter door
  • Removed dead space from start of the pick up put down item sounds so they feel more responsive
  • Misc tweaks/adjustments to item pick up put down sounds
  • Tweaks/adjustments to misc attaching attachments to weapons sound in the workbench menu
  • Unique sounds added for k1 stock and mp40 stock being attached
  • New and reworked vault door sounds
  • New and updated lootable sounds
  • New sounds for the Webley (shoot & reloads)
  • Radar dish on top of the prison raid area now has sound

OPTIMISATIONS

  • Optimised Merchant Ship
  • Optimised Terraformer
  • Optimised Asteroid Mine
  • Optimised Ship Interiors

FIXES

  • Miscellaneous crashes
  • Various duplication issues
  • Various exploit issues
  • Various raid collision issues
  • Various Crew issues
  • Fix added to stop Auto looting/Fast looting removing attachments from weapons
  • Fixes added for instances of gear not coming into raid that was equipped in menu
  • Fixes added for Keycard’s losing dock information and player data.
  • Fixes added for members of a crew not going into raid with their captain/crew
  • Fixed transition sounds not playing when using the ESC button to quickly go back from certain menus
  • Fixed pressing escape on the main menu first time it would try and go back even though it was at the top-level menu already
  • Fixed vault locks back side being see through
  • Fixed some industrial bins being able to be accessed without being unlocked
  • Fix for crew still showing up in server list even if they were set to private (locked)
  • As pod the able to “breach” popup now contains the correct “key” based on your keybind settings
  • When on the turret the “key” to exit turret message now contains the correct key based on your keybind settings
  • When piloting the frigate the “key” to exit the pilot seat message now contains the correct key based on your keybind settings
  • Fix for the fire extinguisher, blowtorch and flamethrower’s ammo is not shown in first person view/fpp
  • Fixes added to help with ultrawide problems
  • Fix added for splines causing a crash

ONE MORE THING…

Our first, significant update is coming to Marauders this December – codename: Ace.

Cast your eyes on the transmission:

source: OFFICIAL MARAUDERS



The first teaser for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (opens in new tab), released more than two years ago, centered on a four-person recon squad investigating sub-level six of Atoma Prime’s Tertium Hive. The video ended with the team looking to be in a spot of trouble—and now we finally know what happened to them.

A new World Intro Trailer released today for Darktide starts off in fine Warhammer fashion, with ominous music, foreboding narration, and the obligatory reminder that “there is only war.” A massive, gothic starship enters a portal that crackles with purple energy, emerging on the other side over a city so great, its towers are visible from space. As religious imagery melds with cosmic horror, we are taken deep into the dank sublevels of the Hive city, where four members of the Astra Militarum are beating a hasty retreat from… something.



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Razer has announced a new high-end PS5 gamepad to compete with luxury offerings like Sony’s upcoming DualSense Edge or Microsoft’s Xbox Elite controllers on PC. Razer’s Wolverine V2 Pro (opens in new tab) has an eye-watering $250 price tag, and includes the requisite rear paddle buttons and swappable thumb pads while also boasting “mecha-tactile” button switches and “hyperspeed wireless” through a special dongle⁠—presumably to cut back on input latency?

I have no doubt this thing will impress when it comes to build quality and general feel⁠⁠—at this price, it better be the most premium-feeling controller I’ve ever laid hands on. However, I’m not seeing a killer feature here to justify that price tag. The Xbox-style layout could be an advantage to PS5 players who prefer it, I suppose, but the customizability, high-end button action and potentially improved wireless aren’t the sort of slam dunks to justify a $50 premium over the DualSense Edge (opens in new tab) or $100-$150 over the Xbox Elite V2.



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Call of Duty: Warzone is getting a sequel next week, and the ol’ battle royale dinosaur isn’t taking it too well. Activision announced in a blog post yesterday that, once Warzone 2.0 (opens in new tab) is out, the original game is going through some big changes.

First, the old game is shutting down for a few weeks starting on November 16. Development resources will be primarily diverted to Warzone 2.0 to make sure its “ecosystem is fully stable.” After a holiday break, old Warzone will come back online on November 28 with a new name—Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera. The rebranding seems to mark the informal “end” of Warzone 1.0’s ongoing support as focus shifts to the new game, but Activision isn’t just leaving 1.0 as it is today. Warzone Caldera’s maps and modes will be stripped to bare essentials.



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There are lot of free games floating around there right now, from Epic’s weekly freebies to publisher promos on Steam, GOG sale giveaways, and more. But staying on top of them all can be a real chore, and you might be missing out on some good stuff.

So we here at PC Gamer have decided to help, with this running list of every free game that crosses our screens. The goal is to help you find and claim games that usually cost money, so free-to-keep and temporary promotions will be included and noted as such, but free-to-play games and others that are normally free won’t be—for that, be sure to take a look at our categorized breakdown of the best free PC games.



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We liked Kynseed (opens in new tab) well enough to say it “could be the next Stardew Valley (opens in new tab)” in a 2021 preview. With a few big differences, of course, including vengeful gods to worship and fearsome monsters to battle. It’s been around since 2017, when it enjoyed a successful Kickstarter campaign and trip through the Greenlight process (remember that (opens in new tab)?) before debuting in early access in 2018. Now, five years later, we’ve got a full release date and a new trailer showcasing farming, fishing, fungus, and fantasy fighting.

Kynseed is a multi-generational game, with characters who will age and die as their adventures unfold, leaving their farms, their business, and their journeys to their children. Mundane and magical activities coexist—you can grow both food and potion ingredients on your farm, for instance—and you’ll develop relationships with a cast of “colorful NPCs” while simultaneously battling “dark fairytale creatures” who lurk in the dark corners of the realm.



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Netflix has released the official teaser trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin (opens in new tab), the four-part prequel mini-series that’s set to debut on December 25.

Some of the bits in this teaser we’ve seen before, and the new stuff unfortunately doesn’t reveal too much about what to expect from the show. There’s Michelle Yeoh with a sword, there’s a verdant vista and a sad elf, there’s a burning city, there’s a meaningful look, there’s Michelle Yeoh talking about prophecy, there’s an elf opening a portal, violence, and there’s another sweeping vista. 



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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2‘s Spec Ops co-op missions have tons of intel to collect, and here we’ll guide you to each intel location to collect all 20 pieces from the Low Profile mission. These pieces of intel are scattered around the map in the form of items such as USB sticks, audio logs, and crates. Additionally, it’s worth noting that finding 20 intel items in Spec Ops will reward you with the Full SSE Trophy/Achievement. There are 50 intel pieces throughout all three Spec Ops missions, but this is the easiest route to get the 20 needed for the Trophy/Achievement.

MW2 Spec Ops – all Low Profile intel locations

These intel pieces can be collected by using stealth to move around the map, or you can go in guns blazing and just clear out every location as you work your way around the area. There’s no time limit for completing the mission, so use what method you prefer.

The intel can be collected in any order, but starting at B and working around the map clearing out enemies with stealth is a great approach to avoid getting overwhelmed. You can scroll down to the last intel location on the list and choose if you want to start there to make that intel an easier grab, or if you want to nab it after clearing out all the enemies. It’s a bit tricky, so I saved it for last.

Intel #1

B Target building for first two pieces of intel
B Target building for first two pieces of intel

The first Intel location is near the B Target Site, which is the marked objective on the map. You’ll find a USB Stick Intel fragment on a table inside a building with three arches.

Intel #2

Now you’ll want to head to the roof of the same building as the first piece of intel, where you’ll find the second piece is a crate on the rooftop.

Intel #3

Crate intel on rooftop just north of B Target building
Crate intel on rooftop just north of B Target building

The third Intel location is another crate, which is found on a rooftop of a building just northwest of the previous one. You can easily access the roof by climbing up an exterior ladder on the side of the building.

Intel #4

Crate intel inside white truck on the west side bridge
Crate intel inside white truck on the west side bridge

Now you’ll want to make your way over the bridge located near the west side of the map. This is the one closest to the objective’s Target C Site. In the middle of the bridge, you’ll find a white truck with the fourth intel drop inside. This is another crate. Beware of the Juggernaut enemy lurking nearby with a minigun. If your stealth is successful and none of the nearby soldiers get alerted, you might be able to grab this piece without triggering the Juggernaut to pursue you.

Intel #5

Yellow ping marks the building for intel 5, 6, and 7
Yellow ping marks the building for intel 5, 6, and 7

Moving just past the bridge, you’ll want to access the second building on the left. This is an odd, jagged-shaped building layout with a large antenna on the roof. The intel is a USB stick found on the first floor. It’s on top of a table with a computer.

Intel #6

You don’t have to go far for the sixth intel piece, as it’s another USB stick inside the same building and floor as the fifth location. Move towards the set of stairs that leads up to the second floor, and you’ll find the USB plugged into a laptop on a table with two radios.

Intel #7

Staying in the same building, head up to the second floor to find the seventh intel, which is an audio log located on top of a desk with several documents.

Intel #8

Yellow ping marks the location for intel 8, 9, 10, and the key needed for 11
Yellow ping marks the location for intel 8, 9, 10, and the key needed for 11

Now backtrack to the building just south of the last. (The first building on the left past the bridge) fifth intel is found inside the first building on the left. You’ll find the audio log item on top of a cabinet in the kitchen.

Intel #9

The ninth piece is found on the second floor of the same building as the eighth. Once on the second level, look for a room that has a laptop. The intel is a USB stick plugged into the laptop.

Intel #10

Staying in the same spot as you found the last piece, go to the neighboring room to find the tenth piece as an audio log on a bedside table.

Intel #11

Desk drawer with folder intel
Desk drawer with folder intel

In order to collect this eleventh piece, you’ll first need to obtain the Desk Key from the same room as the tenth piece. This key is located on top of a table. Grab the Desk Key and head inside the next building to the north–moving farther away from the bridge now. There’s a locked desk drawer on the first floor. Unlock it to collect the folder intel piece.

Intel #12

Entrance to dive down for intel 12
Entrance to dive down for intel 12

The twelfth piece is a bit sneaky, because it’s actually located underwater by the island. This is found by heading to the smaller bridge located on the middle of the map to the south of the central island. From the small bridge, you’ll need to jump into the water and swim west until you find a large square opening located between some rocks. There is a crate intel piece in the water here. You shouldn’t have to dive for long to find it.

Intel #13

Underwater cave on island to dive down for intel 13
Underwater cave on island to dive down for intel 13

Intel thirteen is also found underwater, but you’ll need to go further out from the last piece to the small island nearby. You’ll find a small underwater cave on the island, which is near the right side of a large building. The crate intel is found underwater inside the cave. This can easily be spotted if you’re familiar with Modern Warfare 2’s Hydroelectric multiplayer map. It’s the pool of water near the B Domination point. You should see the crate just by looking down into the water here.

Intel #14

Intel 14 on the rooftop directly north of the island
Intel 14 on the rooftop directly north of the island

Next, head north from the island to find the fourteenth piece. You’ll find the crate intel on the roof of a building directly north of the small island.

Intel #15

Yellow ping marks the building for intel 15
Yellow ping marks the building for intel 15

Now, you want to head towards the A Target Site to find the building directly next to the bridge from B to A. The fifteenth piece is a crate found on the roof of the building on the left side of the street.

Intel #16

USB stick for intel 16
USB stick for intel 16

These next three intel pieces are all found inside the A Target building, which requires you to first disable all the traps before you can collect the intel. Tripping any of the traps will instantly down you, so move through the building with caution and disable each trap.

The sixteenth piece is a USB stick on the first floor of the A building. This USB is found on a table in a room with empty weapon cases and lots of scattered bullets.

Intel #17

Audio log for intel 17
Audio log for intel 17

The seventeenth is an audio log located in the room next to where you find the sixteenth piece. The intel is found on a box next to a window and some lockers.

Intel #18

Audio log in breakroom for intel 18
Audio log in breakroom for intel 18

You’ll find the eighteenth piece requires you to move up to the second floor of A building. This is an audio log sitting on a breakroom table near some vending machines.

Intel #19

Yellow ping marks location of intel 19
Yellow ping marks location of intel 19

The nineteenth piece is located outside against a wall near the most northern buildings on the map. This is a crate on the ground. It’s not too hard to spot, but if you’re struggling with visibility on the night map, make sure to use your night vision goggles here.

Intel #20

When standing on top of the radio tower at Target A, you're aiming for the tower on the island
When standing on top of the radio tower at Target A, you’re aiming for the tower on the island

The final intel isn’t easy to access. First, you’ll want to climb to the top of the tall radio tower located near the A Target Site. From the top of the tower, parachute towards the tower found on the small island. The intel is a crate on the rooftop.

Additionally, you can try to attempt this when first dropping in to the mission by parachuting down to this rooftop first. Otherwise, you’ll need to get to high ground to reach this roof. I saved this for last.

If you’re wanting to make the most out of the campaign, make sure to check out our guide for all locations and unlock codes for Modern Warfare 2’s safes. We also provide some recommended Modern Warfare 2 settings to use across campaign, MP, and Spec Ops.

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The Game Awards has launched its own Discord server and announced multi-faceted partnership with the social media company leading up to the award ceremony on December 8.

In the official TGA Discord server, you can vote for nominees and watch the show live together. You can join via a link that the official TGA account posted on Twitter. In broader partnerships with Discord, TGA will introduce AMA stage events with special guests. This year’s ceremony will also debut the Best Community Support Award in collaboration with Discord. The award will recognize the community managers and other staff that make the communities in and around video games possible. Whether this award will see actual screen time, or be shifted off in favor of yet another ad, remains to be seen.

In other TGA news, the nominees for this year’s awards will be announced on Monday, November 14 at 9 PT / 12 ET in a separate streaming event. After the nominees are announced, fan voting will commence. The upcoming show will also introduce the Best Adaptation award for recognizing “authentic” adaptations of video games into film, televisions, comics, and other media. For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will be available to an in-person audience via ticket sales.

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Chinese studio Paper Games just announced a new open-world action game called Project The Perceiver, developed by internal sub-studio 17ZHE. It’s certainly a surprise announcement, as Paper Games is very well-known for producing the popular dress-up game Shining Nikki and the Nikki Up2U series.

From the trailer, it looks like Project The Perceiver is set in a fantasy historical era with Dark Souls-inspired combat. According to an official description, players will also meet a lot of different characters against a backdrop of turbulent unrest, understand and transform their ideals into masks, and also participate in violent duels.

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In the trailer, a character dies and after reviving, receives a “blank mask.” The official Project The Perceiver website reveals only two characters so far, the “Mask of Devotion” (the main character in the trailer wearing white) and “Mask of Umbra,” who appears to be a guy you can fight in the trailer.

Project The Perceiver has no release date set yet. So far it’s confirmed for PlayStation, and other platforms are unannounced.

There seems to be a trend of open-world Dark Souls-inspired action games set in loosely historical fantasy settings from Chinese studios, such as, Black Myth Wukong. It remains to be seen if Paper Games can crack an entirely different genre from its usual fare, though if Love Nikki’s narrative arcs (Blood curses! War!) and Shining Nikki’s 3D models are anything to go by–we should have high expectations.

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