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A new update arrived to both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone on March 19. The patch notes include changes to the Warhamer 40,000 LTM, removal of Warzone's night vision variant of the gulag, submachine gun balancing, and more.For Modern Warfare 3, the update makes changes to Season 2 Reloaded's limited-time Juggermosh mode that's themed around Warhammer 40,000. Juggernauts are no longer immune to stun grenades, flash grenades, or the shock stick, and the update also addressed an exploit allowing…

Activision has released a big new update for Call of Duty Warzone and Modern Warfare 3. The new Warzone update makes some significant changes, although it's not all good news. Indeed, the developer has rebalanced lots of weapons, particularly in Modern Warfare 3. The max damage for the DG-56, for example, has been reduced from 40 down to 32. Likewise, the Haymaker shotgun only does a maximum of 36 damage. Activision has also rebalanced first person and enemy footstep audio following feedback from fans. You can check out…

Destiny 2's latest major update is here, coinciding with the beginning of Season of the Wish, and it brings with it some big shake-ups to gameplay including changes to Crucible, abilities, armor mods, and more. Here's the rundown.Ability changes are coming in as part of Update 7.3.0, including a change to melee slides and shoulder charges that reduces their potential for lethality. Bungie has also halved melee lunge suppression time for players who are hit by certain displacing melee abilities. Bungie has…

A new update is live in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone, and the patch notes detail a few bug fixes and major weapon balancing for some overpowered weapons, including the Akimbo Snakeshot Basilisk.The Basilisk, FTAC Siege, and X13 Auto pistols have all held a reign of terror in Warzone and multiplayer, but the July 24 patch notes confirm nerfs for all three handguns. The Akimbo Snakeshot variant of the Basilisk has been deleting players in battle royale, but the developer says it fixed an issue…

Fans expected Diablo IV's Season of the Malignant update to bring some major changes to Blizzard's ARPG, but what fans didn't expect were wide-ranging nerfs across nearly the entirety of the game. Now, many in the community are heavily criticizing Blizzard over the state of Diablo IV, with Blizzard announcing a developer livestream to address the changes and the community's negative feedback.Season 1 was supposed to be the kicking off point for Diablo IV as a live-service game, bringing new seasonal…

Nothing brings together a community of gamers quite like a balancing patch to their favorite numbers-go-up game, does it? That’s what Blizzard’s new version 1.1.0 patch is doing for Diablo IV players, and the chorus being sung in unison by hardcore players is quite the tantrum.But here’s the thing: Blizzard really has mucked things up at a very inopportune time.Diablo IV’s patch 1.1.0 dropped yesterday, just two days before the start of the game’s first seasonal content drop, the Season of the Malignant, which will have…

Activision Blizzard Activision has released a new Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 update that nerfs the game’s best long-range weapons: the Cronen Squall and the ISO Hemlock. Specifically, the damage across both weapons has been reduced, making them both less effective in all situations. The news comes from the battle royale game’s latest round of patch notes, which outlines the new changes to the weapons. There are some major implications to those changes, though the updates aren’t as devastating as they might initially…

A massive breakthrough in scene representation(Photo by nuddle on Unsplash)As we have seen with methods like DeepSDF and SRNs , encoding 3D objects and scenes within the weights of a feed-forward neural network is a memory-efficient, implicit representation of 3D data that is both accurate and high-resolution. However, the approaches we have seen so far are not quite capable of capturing realistic and complex scenes with sufficient fidelity. Rather, discrete representations (e.g., triangle meshes or voxel grids) produce…

Niflheim is generally easier now Bayonetta 3 came and conquered, but Platinum Games has been infrequently tweaking the game since its October 2022 release. Beyond the initial day one launch patch, this week is the only time it’s been adjusted in a major way: in this instance, via version 1.2.0, which was implemented late on January 10, 2023. So there’s a few things this patch addresses: Combat adjustments that mainly apply to Viola Nerfs to many Niflheim challenge stages (which a lot of people asked for, even on…

Marvel Snap burst onto the scene months ago with plenty of fanfare, but one major omission from launch has finally been corrected. The latest patch adds artist credits, along with other changes including significant balance changes.Artist credits have been a major request since the game launched in October. Much of the game progression relies on collecting and upgrading core cards and various artist variants, rendering them in different styles. The lack of artist credits struck comic fans as a major…