Month: October 2024

There’s a ton of cool weapons in Baldur’s Gate 3: the super slick pirate rapier Duelist’s Prerogative, the Magic Missile-launching hand crossbow Ne’er Misser, the… hunk of salami? Yes, while it’s probably best reserved as fuel for your long rests, the salami item in Baldur’s Gate 3 is also a 1d4 damage bludgeoning weapon, and YouTuber cRPG Bro has produced a character build devoted to the most dominant salami-based fighter possible.

Though the noble salami’s base damage is pretty piddly, it’s still a viable delivery method for Baldur’s Gate 3’s many sources of elemental damage and other on-hit effects. cRPG Bro opts for a Paladin/Warlock/Fighter multiclass not dissimilar to the Oathbreaker Warlock build in our own best multiclass guide.

The Warlock-Paladin combo means tons of casts of Divine Smite augmenting those otherwise-wimpy sausages, while elemental damage gear like the Caustic Band or Helldusk Gloves only further the salami pain train potential. Unfortunately, even though these weapons are as improvised as they come, the salamis don’t qualify for bonus damage from the Tavern Brawler improvised weapon feat. Still, cRPG Bro shows off the build working jus…

Rockstar has released a patch for GTA Online that—hopefully—will fix the nasty security vulnerability discovered in January that enabled unscrupulous jerks to steal other players’ in-game money, reset their account progress, and even “corrupt” their accounts in a way that effectively leaves them banned from online play.

That’s all bad enough in itself, but was potentially only the tip of the iceberg. Speyedr, the creator of the unofficial Guardian firewall mod for GTA5 that aims to protect players from hackers, predicted that the vulnerability could eventually enable remote code execution, enabling hackers to run malware on any PC playing the game.

Rockstar acknowledged the problem shortly after it was reported, saying it aimed to take care of it in a “security-related title update.”

That update is now live, and while the patch notes don’t go into great detail, it’s clearly aimed at addressing the exploit.

The patch notes, courtesy of Rockstar Support:

Security

• Implemented a new data protocol in GTA Online to improve the security of network sessions and player-to-player messaging
• Fixed an issue that could result in a…
  

Korean authorities have rated Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games’ original cowboy epic, as of June 15, 2023. The listing, discovered and quickly propagated online, has fueled rampant speculation that a remaster of the game is on the way. In other corners, like ours, that’s cause for some enthusiasm, given that the original Red Dead Redemption never released on PC.

Throwing a big ol’ wrench in that theory is this detail: It’s a rating for console, reports Gematsu, as the letters “NV” in its ratings classification indicates. PC games have an “NP” classification. That doesn’t rule out the existence of a PC version, but it does mean this exact listing ain’t it.

In case you’re wondering, yes, the original Red Dead Redemption on PS3 did have a Korean edition in 2010—this isn’t just a local release 13 years late. The Korean ratings board has been the source of leaks in the past, as with God of War: Ragnarok and Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

The last we heard of a Red Dead Redemption remaster was July 2022, when a Rockstar insider leaked that plans for a remaster of RDR and Grand Theft Auto 4 were sketched out and in consideration. That was before the disastrous recep…