Grid Legends, Half-Life 2, Dark Souls 3

Extremely low player count on Steam

Grid Legends is a Codemasters arcade-style car sim that garnered Average ratings. In light of this, the extremely low number of players on Steam is quite shocking. Read on to find out why this might be the case.

Grid Legends is the next motor racing game from Codemasters, the company behind the Dirt and F1 genres.

It's claimed to be a car race with an authentic sim racing feel, with over 130 tracks and places to choose from. However, the present Steam player statistics are grounds for alarm.

Electronic Arts' title has been available for less than two weeks and is available for PC, Playstation, and Xbox systems. The number of players on the distribution platform Steam is used to gauge the game's success.

Although it does not show all of the players across all platforms, it can provide a good indication of general popularity, particularly when compared to other current titles. These are at an alarmingly low level, according to SteamDB.

Grid Legends currently has less than 200 players, with a maximum of 455 players playing at the same time. Grid Autosport easily surpassed these figures, reaching a peak of 3,554 players, while Grid 2 managed to inspire 27,339 players at the same time.

It is still unknown why the number of participants is so modest in contrast. Grid Legends garnered comparable scores to its predecessors, clearly preferring AMD graphics cards, but not to the point that Geforce users won't enjoy the game as much.

It's possible that marketing is to blame. It is not easy for a game to be released at the same time as Horizon Forbidden West and Elden Ring, but it is possible. However, if one of the biggest franchises, Gran Turismo 7, also launches a vehicle simulation around the same time, the low number of players in Grid Legends can be justified.

Half-Life 2: Overcharged Mod allows shooters to shine in unexpected ways.

Half-Life 2 has whole new gameplay features, new regions, and a slew of graphics improvements with the Overcharged mod. The mod is now accessible and is meant to provide players with a new gaming experience, despite the fact that the first-person shooter itself is a few years old.

If you look back through the history of video games, you will certainly come across the first-person shooter Half-Life 2. Valve's immediate successor to Half-Life included novel physics principles and puzzles, as well as an intriguing gaming setting and unmatched gunplay for the time. The first-person shooter is now a few years old, but owing to the Source engine, it can still be played nicely.

If you still desire something more current, you'll appreciate the next change. The Overcharged Mod for Half-Life 2 not only adds graphic elements like Dynamic Global Illumination, Bokeh Depth of Field, SSAO, and improved textures and shaders, but it also adds gameplay enhancements. There includes better gunplay, bigger maps, over 50 weapons, and novel mechanisms that allow the player to slow time down. This should alter the main game idea, providing a lot of variabilities.

Players can also expect improved artificial intelligence, which should make opponents more difficult. There are also previously unseen combination units. The Overcharged patch includes a "Fire Mode" with over 300 gameplay choices for customizing the gaming experience to your preferences. The modification is now available for download from Moddb.

Dark Souls 3: A new makeover mod for gameplay, controls, and more has been released.

While everyone is buzzing about Elden Ring right now, one of its spiritual forefathers, Dark Souls 3, has lately undergone an interesting facelift.

Dark Souls 3 was launched in 2016 and is still popular with fans of the "Soulsborne" games, thanks in part to mods, even though the primary developer studio From Software has since followed up with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and, most recently, Elden Ring. "Reforged" is a recent unauthorized update for Dark Souls 3 that tries to improve the gameplay, which is normally quite tough to reach.

The makeover update, according to modder "ElFonz0," focuses primarily on expanding the moveset and the player's options. Furthermore, it provides a lot of "Quality of Life" enhancements and other relevant modifications. The "Reforged Mod" increases the player's ability to perform new attacks and movements. For example, the patch adds new standard attacks to the movesets, as well as modified forward R1 assaults, backstep attacks, heavy left, and block heavy strikes.

Furthermore, Reforged adds multiple underutilized armor sets to various shops and progressions, as well as several new beacon service possibilities. Several armor elements can be coupled in various ways with others.

Those looking for a little more graphics quality can rely on a large upscaling mod with improved textures for weapons and armor from last year, while Ashen Blood, a modification for Dark Souls 3 that is heavily based on the gameplay of the role-playing game Bloodborne released in 2015, is in the works.