The Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake will feature three difficulty settings—Dracky Quest Mode, Dragon Quest Mode, and Draconian Quest Mode—along with quality of life improvements like manual and autosave functions, quest guides, and speed adjustments. The game is set to launch on November 14th for Nintendo Switch and other platforms.
Palworld's latest 0.2.0.6 patch introduces the game's first Raid boss, Bellenoir, along with new items, abilities, and quality-of-life changes that have garnered high praise from players. The update includes Training Manuals and Ancient Technical Manuals, a Recovery Med item, Homeward Thundercloud ability, Ability Glasses, and Multiclimate Undershirt. Players are particularly pleased with the 'Mercy Hit' passive ability, Ore Mining Site building, and various quality-of-life improvements, leading to widespread acclaim for the patch.
Stardew Valley fans are excited about the upcoming 1.6 update, particularly due to a quality-of-life change that will provide players with a sapling when their fruit trees are cut down, making it easier to relocate orchards. The sapling will have the same maturity as the original tree, allowing for quicker regrowth. This update, announced last year, is the first new content for the game in a while and is expected to be the last major piece of content before the developer shifts focus back to their next game, Haunted Chocolatier.
Palworld players are requesting "vital" quality of life changes from developers Pocketpair, despite the game's positive reception and record-breaking player numbers on Steam. Suggestions include allowing mounts to fall from the sky with a button press, enabling summoned pals to eat from feed bags, implementing a meditation feature, and improving pal team organization. While some players have found workarounds for current limitations, they are eager for these improvements to be implemented.
Players of Baldur’s Gate 3 are calling for quality-of-life changes in future updates, including automatic chest opening after lock picking, a way to rearrange party members without dialogue, a prompt for concentration spells, more features with the companion Scratch, and additional camp life cinematics. While the game is highly acclaimed, players believe these simple changes could further improve the overall experience.
Diablo 4's upcoming Season of the Construct introduces dungeon delving in search of treasure with a mechanical spider companion named Seneschal, customizable with magical stones. The update also includes quality of life changes like WASD key control support, competitive leaderboards, an extra stash tab, and reworked Helltide events. Season 3 launches on January 23rd.
Remnant 2 has released a major patch with balance changes and quality of life improvements. The patch includes increased trait cap, useful rewards from Tomes, unlimited trait changes, and free archetype swapping. Class buffs include increased durations, damage adjustments, and increased health for certain abilities. Weapon balance changes include scaling adjustments, increased fire damage, reduced fire rate, and damage adjustments. Other changes include enemy damage reductions, hitbox adjustments, and reduced incoming damage in multiplayer.
Blizzard announced several quality of life changes for Diablo 4, including improvements to Nightmare Dungeons, adding gems to the materials tab, and lifting inventory caps on crafting materials. They also revealed that resistances will be buffed in season 2 and are considering group-finding tools for Nightmare Dungeons. The season 1 launch is still on track for mid to late July, with a developer livestream planned for July to reveal the season's theme and more detailed information.
Insider Tom Henderson reports that Warzone 2 Season 4 will increase player health from 100 to 150, bringing it in line with Warzone Pacific and increasing the skill gap. The update will also include changes to Strongholds and AI, as well as the Rejoin feature.
GTA Online's San Andreas update will bring a slew of quality of life changes, including the ability to buy all body armor with one button press, no longer having to repurchase armor when restarting a mission, and vehicles destroyed in contact missions won't cost anything to restore. Content creators will also get new props, weather options, and Halloween-themed decorations. The prop limit on PC will be increased to 300 from 200.
GTA Online's upcoming free update will add quality-of-life changes such as a "hold to sprint" option, the ability to replace all destroyed vehicles at once, and more props and snow options for content creation. The update will also expand the functionality of the aircraft hangar and improve the Avenger aircraft.
Rainbow Six Siege Y8S2 Dread Factor will launch on May 30, featuring a new Swedish Defender Operator named Fenrir with a new gadget called the F-NATT Dread Mine, a map rework of Consulate, and quality-of-life changes including new shooting range options and a new permanent Free for All arcade mode. The Observation Blocker gadget has been shifted to Y8S2, with the Frost rework pushed back to Y8S3.