There is an absolute carkfest of a headline to be written here involving the words “head” “not” “enough” and “giving”, but I am a journalist of grace and discretion, and will resist. Treyarch, Raven Software and Activision have popped up a note-to-players covering a range of improvements they’re making to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 in the aftermath of August’s beta. Specifically, they’re tweaking the damage from bullets to the cranium, while trying to ensure that bullets to the cranium don’t “significantly affect the consistency of time to kill”.
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Exploding pagers kill nine and injure thousands in an attack on Hezbollah
Thousands of people were reportedly injured by exploding pagers in Lebanon and Syria. Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad said nine people, including a child, were killed and around 2,800 others injured, Lebanese state media agency NNA reported. Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosives in a new batch of Taiwanese … Read more
Closing the car boot on your head will now kill you in Pacific Drive
To survive in looter-booter Pacific Drive you have to keep the paranormal station wagon you drive around in good nick. You’re constantly repairing corroded doors and swapping out busted engine parts with cobbled-together technology. But maybe this tinkering was a little too much. Our review praised the game for its “trunk loads of atmosphere” but called the constant need to craft stuff “laborious”. If you also felt this, then good news. An update now lets you fiddle the difficulty options a generous amount, say developers Ironwood Studios, making the game easier and bringing crafting needs right down.
Buuut… if you thought the opposite – that the game wasn’t hard enough – you can now tick a box that makes hitting yourself with the trunk door kill you stone dead.