The full patch notes for the latest free update for Battlefield V have been released, and there’s a lot there. Update 5.0 adds two new maps, new factions, new weapons, and vehicles to the game, all of which are tied to the Pacific Theater of World War II.

Starting October 31, the War in The Pacific comes to Battlefield V with two new maps: Pacific Storm and Iwo Jima. On both maps, you’ll be able to play as one of the two new factions: the United States and Japan. The change in scenery adds new weapons and vehicles too. For the former, you’ll gain access to the M1 Garand, Type 99 Arisaka, Type 100, and the M1919A6. In terms of vehicles, War in The Pacific adds the M4 Sherman tank, Type 97 transport vehicle, the LVT and the Ka-Mi Light Amphibious Tanks, the Dinghy, LCPV, MB Jeep, and Type 95 transport vehicle.

Update 5.0 also implements dozens of gameplay changes and bug fixes–way too many to list every single one here. We’ve compiled all of the major ones below; you can read through the whole patch notes in the link above.

In GameSpot’s Battlefield V review, Michael Higham wrote, “Conquest and the map roster don’t mesh well together, however, Grand Operations–and the other modes within it–steal the show and foster some of the greatest moments the franchise has offered. You might be surprised by the impact of the slight changes made for this entry, especially when you’re deep into pushing or defending objectives in Frontlines alongside teammates fulfilling their roles. That’s when Battlefield V is at its best.”

Battlefield V Update 5.0 Patch Notes

War in The Pacific

• Two New Maps – Pacific Storm and Iwo Jima.
• Four New Weapons at launch – M1 Garand, Type 99 Arisaka, Type 100, and the M1919A6.
• Deploying across the Tides of War, you’ll get your hands on the M3 Grease Gun, Nambu Type 2A, Type 97 LMG, and M1918 A2.
• As Chapter Rewards, the Jungle Carbine and the Type 94 and Model 27 sidearms are also available for you to earn and unlock during War in The Pacific
• New Factions: US and Japan.
• New Battle Pickups: Katana and M2 Flamethrower.
• New Vehicles: M4 Sherman tank, Type 97, the LVT and the Ka-Mi Light Amphibious Tanks, the Dinghy, LCPV, MB Jeep and Type 95 transport vehicle.
• New Planes – the F4U Corsair (Fighter and Bomber variants), and the Japanese Zero (fighter and bomber variants).
• New Reinforcements – New Rocket Barrage Tanks – The Sherman Calliope, and the HaChi.

Weapons

• Players are now able to inspect their primary and secondary weapons directly while playing. Simply hold down the commorose button, and press the reload button to take a look.
• Fixed an issue that caused the smoke grenade’s visual effect to flicker.
• Fixed an issue that would cause players to sometimes use their primary weapons as syringes during the revive animation.
• RSC – Fixed an issue that would result in a visual problem when reloading the weapons with some specific soldier skins.
• M1928A1 – The weapons shadow no longer looks like it has a fore-grip.
• Fixed an uncommon bug which made it look like soldiers used an ammo pouch to gain health back, or used a health pouch to gain ammo.
• Fixed a bug that would cause the grenade launcher on the Tromboncino to be unusable if the weapon was dropped and then picked back up.
• Flaregun Radius and TTL re-balance: Flares last longer in general, and vehicle flares cover larger areas.
• Fixed a bug that would enable the Panzerbüchse 39 to fire multiple times in a row.
• Fixed a bug with the ricochet tracer visual effect which made it look like it was going in the opposite direction of its original trajectory.
• Fixed an issue where healing rates could stack between self-heal pouch and medical crate (only the highest rate will now apply).
• Increased medical crate aura regeneration rate to 16HP/s from 12HP/s as a result of healing rates no longer stacking.
• Improved detection of fire damage against soldiers. This will reduce situations where players can take fire damage while not being visibly close enough from the fire.
• Increased incendiary grenade radius to 4.5m from 4m to better match the effect.
• Increased the Incendiary grenade damage duration to 7s from 6.5s to better match the effect.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the health and ammo crates to be deployed below the ground when deployed whilst prone.

Soldier

• Fixed an issue that would cause players to slowly glide across the terrain whilst waiting to start a round.
• Fixed an issue that would cause players to be seen playing the swimming animations whilst on the ground.
• Fixed an issue where players could often be seen with low animation quality in high-density areas.
• Fixed an issue where it would sometimes be possible to collide with soldiers that are dead.
• Soldier collision is now disabled as soon as the player dies, this means it will now be possible to move through players faster which will prevent cases where you can get blocked by a soldier you just killed.
• Improvements to the bleed out state that should decrease the chance of players getting stuck in a bleed-out state.
• Fixed an issue that caused the soldier to clip with the camera when opening a door while switching weapons.
• Fixed an issue that would cause an infinite death state if a player was roadkilled right after being revived.
• Fixed a bug that would not trigger the temporary slow down penalty after using the bayonet charge.
• Fixed an issue where players would be able to jump whilst charging.
• Holding down the melee button no longer blocks the sprint and jump input.
• Improved the vaulting animation when players are using the Revolver.
• Fixed an issue where a soldier would sometimes get blocked whilst vaulting over medium-sized obstacles.
• Players are no longer blocked from throwing health and ammo pouches while at the same time firing a weapon at full auto. The firing will now correctly pause to throw a pouch.
• Improvements to players that die while using a parachute – the sound will no longer cutoff if the player redeploys while parachuting, and we have removed the body falling sound effect if the player is in the air.
• Improved soldier ragdoll behavior to decrease the risk of them getting the “hanging from the hips” bug.
• Fixed an issue where soldiers could get stuck against collision with hard-edged assets, like for example the edge of a bridge railing.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the revived players to be in T pose when the reviver cancels the revive animation.
• Fixed an animation bug that could sometimes cause certain soldiers to be seen moving around in T pose.
• Fixed an exploit that would allow medics to endlessly throw medical pouches at each other.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players to deploy the bipod on shallow water.
• Improved activation consistency of the sliding functionality.
• Added support to choose between press or double-tap to activate sliding (default is double-tap).
• Increased Sliding cool down to 2s from 1.5s.
• Fixed an issue where soldiers teleport to an old position when exiting a vehicle.
• Fixed an issue where a soldier could vault through ceilings above stairs on Operation Underground.
• Players in shallow water can be revived now.
• Players can no longer get revived while in mid-air, which would cause players to end up under the terrain in some rare cases.

Vehicles

• JU-88 bottom gunner now properly shows hitmarkers when doing damage.
• Fixed a rare bug that would cause players to spawn into the world without a plane, after they had selected a plane from the deploy screen to spawn into.
• Fixed a graphical bug that could occur if players sat in the top gunner seat in the Sturmgeschutz IV tank while firing it.
• The Churchill MK VII top gunner turret no longer looks broken if the player uses the cover function from certain directions.
• Improved the animation from third person when a player switches seats in an airplane.
• Mounted and Coaxial Machine Guns have had a significant redesign. These weapons how have a converging accuracy model, with an initial period of inaccuracy that improves with shooting until the weapon is fully accurate. The accuracy potential of all these machine guns is higher now than it was previously, but only after firing a few rounds. Overheat has also been adjusted to balance with this new technique, allowing for more forgiving instances of overheat, especially when firing in long, suppressive bursts. Additionally, the velocity of rounds fired from the machine guns have been increased, making hitting targets of opportunity and moving targets easier, however the damage of these weapons has been reduced at long range, to prevent overly effective instances of sniping with the MG. You should now find MGs easier to use and hit targets once they are zeroed in, but targets at long range will have more time to react before they are killed outright.
• Reduced the rate of fire for bomb loads of 4 or more. The high rate of fire of these bomb loads allowed a player to drop all their bombs effectively in one area, negating accuracy and making the choice between different bomb types poor. In general, there is a longer delay between bomb drops but bombs generally have more effective blast radius, especially against infantry.
• Increased the default turret speeds and adjusted the acceleration and deceleration curves to be more responsive.
• Reduced the impact of disabled turrets on the speed of the turret.
• Improved the accuracy of the bomb sight in both First and Third person cameras. The biggest improvement is in the First Person View.
• Holding the fire button while dropping multiple bombs will now update the target position for each bomb dropped.
• Refactored Ammo Counts for vehicles with unlimited magazines so they show the ammo count instead of the total ammo. This fixes stationary AT guns showing 0 ammo when they actually have unlimited ammo.
• Reduced the overheat and adjusted the explosive damage of the AA for consistent hit damage against bombers and fighters. Players should now get consistent damage against all aircraft types, and AA can now destroy an aircraft flying directly at the AA without overheating. Aircraft will need to be crafty and dodge and evade the more stationary AA, rather than simply absorbing the damage as they could do previously.
• Increased shockwave time so that planes have a larger chance to escape the shockwave of low dropped bombs.
• Fixed an exploit that would cause the Bleinheim passenger guns to not overheat.
• Fixed a visual bug with the Mosquito 6PDR guns reload.
• Improved the Kubelwagens steering animation and touched up the handling.
• Tank turret aiming when using the chase camera (3p) has been redesigned.
  • The turret should now attempt to aim directly where you are looking.
  • The UI should now accurately reflect where the weapon is aiming.
  • If the weapon cannot physically shoot where you are aiming (because of objects in the environment etc), the UI should clearly reflect this.
  • 1p and zoomed aiming is not affected by these changes.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/battlefield-5s-big-pacific-theater-update-releases/1100-6470934/

Following Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint’s “very disappointing” sales, Ubisoft has officially detailed some plans to bring the looter-shooter into a more stable form of play, confirming it has “a lot of work” to do.

Ubisoft said its vision for Ghost Recon Breakpoint is to provide players with “a gritty and authentic military experience.” To do this, the company is working on “a more radical and immersive version” of the looter-shooter that will allow you to “tailor your experience.” There’s nothing set in stone on this front, but Ubisoft said it will “keep [players] updated as we progress.”

The first order of business revolves around technical issues. Ubisoft is aware of the numerous bugs and glitches players have encountered since Ghost Recon Breakpoint launched on October 4 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. And as such, the company is preparing to release two separate updates for the looter-shooter in November that will “[focus] on the most pressing issues.” These include fixing Drone deployment, changing the fire rate, addressing night vision googles blocking crosshairs, and patching the Mission Completion notification pop-up.

Though the company hasn’t provided any definitive release dates for the game’s post-launch content, Ubisoft is “dedicated to supporting Ghost Recon Breakpoint in the long term with plenty of post-launch content and special events to keep the world constantly growing and evolving.” This includes December’s Project Titan raid and the Terminator live event, which launches sometime following the raid.

Ubisoft is also making changes to Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s in-game economy, stating that adjustments are being made to ensure “the experience for players [is] more comfortable.” Ubisoft hasn’t specified what these changes are or when these changes will be implemented.

Elsewhere in the blog, Ubisoft has once again confirmed that AI teammates will make a return in Ghost Recon Breakpoint. With some of the other plans taking precedent, the company admitted that “adding back AI Teammates to the game is a major undertaking that will still require time.” No release date has been given for when AI teammates will appear.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint has received a fairly lukewarm reception since its launch earlier this month. Alongside a myriad of critics who scored the game lower on the scale, we gave the looter-shooter a 4/10, saying, “It’s essentially every Ubisoft open-world game rolled into one, failing to excel in any one area or establish its own identity. Breakpoint is a messy, confused game and a ghost of the series’ former self.”

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-more-radical-and-immersive-version-of-ghost-reco/1100-6470929/

Fortnite: Battle Royale appears to be teasing another Halloween event, with the return of “Fornitemares.” An image on the official Twitter account shows a spooky masked image with the caption “Face Your Fears.” It also drops a time to expect the event: October 29 at 9 AM ET.

Aside from that, though, the image doesn’t give much clue what to expect from this year’s event. Last year’s event, also titled “Fortnitemares,” introduced a special new mode, challenges, and cosmetic rewards. According to a status update, downtime for the event will begin at 4 AM ET and it will usher in update 11.10.

Fortnite has already gotten into the spooky spirit around the holiday, by bringing back the Skull Trooper and Skull Ranger skins, along with some other creepy crawly cosmetics. Fortnitemares is likely to be the centerpiece of hits Halloween activities, and may offer some exclusives to unlock.

Fortnitemares Start Times

• 9 AM ET
• 6 AM PT
• 1 PM GMT
• 11 PM AEST

In the meantime, you can progress your Battle Pass by checking out our guides on where to dance for the Chapter 2 challenge, where to find the hidden letters, and more.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fortnites-halloween-fortnitemares-event-start-time/1100-6470927/

Luigi’s Mansion 3 launches on Nintendo Switch later this week. This installment of the series takes the cowardly plumber to the Last Resort, a towering hotel filled with tons of ghosts and collectibles to find, but how long does it take to work your way through the adventure?

We’ve played through Luigi’s Mansion 3 prior to writing our review, and it took us approximately 18 hours to clear the main story mode. We played through the game very leisurely and tracked down most–but not all–of the special gems hidden on each floor, so your individual playtime will vary depending on how thoroughly you scour the hotel.

In addition to the main story, Luigi’s Mansion 3 features two dedicated multiplayer modes that will extend its longevity. First is ScareScraper, which was originally introduced in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon. The mode plays out very similarly to the 3DS game, challenging players with clearing floors of a tower within a time limit. Each floor has a different objective; some will ask you to defeat all the ghosts, while others will task you with finding Toads and bring them back to a safe point.

On top of that, Luigi’s Mansion 3 introduces a new multiplayer mode called ScreamPark. This is a local-only party mode that pits two teams against each other in mini-games. At launch, there are three different mini-games to choose from; you can take a closer look at ScreamPark in Nintendo’s extended gameplay demo. Nintendo will release additional content for ScareScraper and ScreamPark as paid DLC, but the company hasn’t announced what that will be or when it’ll arrive.

Luigi’s Mansion 3 releases, fittingly enough, on October 31. We awarded it an 8/10 in our Luigi’s Mansion 3 review and called it “perhaps the best installment in the series yet.” If you can’t wait to get your hands on the game, you can at least keep yourself amused with this terrifying (but free) printable Gooigi mask until it launches later this week.

from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/how-long-is-luigis-mansion-3/1100-6470923/