r/pcgaming • • 20h ago

The Legend of California AMA w/ Jeff Kaplan & Tim Ford

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Hi r/pcgaming,

We’re Jeff Kaplan (Game Director) and Tim Ford (Tech Director), two of 33 people making The Legend of California.

Quick background on our game: It's an enormous, multiplayer open world survival game.  We believe our greatest strength is providing players with a top-tier FPS gunplay experience. We’ve packed the game with a wide range of activities from cozy to lethal. Build your ranch. Stake your mine claim. Fight your way through enemy strongholds. Craft and mod a variety of weapons to suit your playstyle. Bond with your horse while riding to your favorite fishing spots. LOTS of player ranch and character customization. And we're just getting started. The game is primarily PvE with optional PvP. There will be PvP-only servers and we welcome community servers. Players can play the game solo or co-op with friends.

We're running a public Alpha from November 12 - 18. You can request access on our Steam page. Beta and Early Access launch are planned for next year (2027)

We've done a couple of 10-hour playtest livestreams and we stream playtests monthly. We do this to give players a front row seat to the game as it continues evolve and grow. You can find all of our content on our YouTube page.

We'll answer whatever you've got about The Legend of California - we're open to the full gamut:

  • Game direction - High level direction, philosophy, vision
  • Game Design - Features, game play, design decisions/goals, systems
  • Tech - Performance, optimization, tech goals, UE
  • Tougher topics - Monthly resets,  business model, no offline mode

The thread is now open - feel free to start posting your questions. Transparency is key. We've never shied away from it. Ask away.

We'll kick off the AMA tomorrow, October 24 starting at 10AM PT.  You'll have our focused, undivided attention for a couple of hours, and we'll keep going as long as the questions hold out.

Thank you r/pcgaming for hosting us.


r/pcgaming • • 1d ago

Tech Support and Basic Questions Thread - October 23, 2026

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Previous Threads

Welcome to the r/pcgaming tech support and basic questions thread! Having troubles with a game or piece of hardware? Have a question about a PC game, hardware, or something else related to PC gaming? Post here and get help from fellow PC gamers.

When asking for help please give plenty of detail:

  • What your computer specifications are. If you don't know them please follow this guide.
  • If you're using a laptop we need to know the make/model as well as the specs.
  • What operating system you're using.
  • What you've tried so far in order to fix the issue.
  • Exact circumstances to replicate the issue you're having.

Check out these resources before asking for help in case you can troubleshoot further:

Common troubleshooting steps:

  • Restart the system
  • Update your drivers
  • Update game/software
  • Re-seat any new hardware to ensure a proper connection
  • If your peripherals are malfunctioning, swap ports and check that the specific USB port itself works.

Special User Flair

🛠️ Tech Specialist flairs are given by the mod team to users who repeatedly help their fellow community members by answering questions and giving sound advice!

For immediate help visit us on our Discord server!


r/pcgaming • • 20h ago

[Misleading] Multiple Reports Say Nvidia Manufactured the Gaming GPU Crisis by Forcing Big Tech to Stockpile Unused AI Hardware

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r/pcgaming • • 58m ago

Fatekeeper Hits 500,000 Copies Sold in Early Access

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r/pcgaming • • 3h ago

Weekend PC Game Deals: Cyberpunk, Tomb Raider, Timberborn, and more

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r/pcgaming • • 21h ago

Information on Mass Effect Universe revealed

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r/pcgaming • • 1d ago

Canadian politician calls on government to help BioWare employees buy the studio and run it themselves

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r/pcgaming • • 23h ago

Video Our hockey roguelite Tape to Tape is leaving Early Access and launching its 1.0 version today!

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r/pcgaming • • 2h ago

Video 5 Years Later, Radeon Finally Delivers - FSR 4.1 on RDNA 2 Tested

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r/pcgaming • • 23h ago

Factorio 2.1, the final major gameplay update has been released

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r/pcgaming • • 21h ago

Torchlight II on Steam receives beta update with controller support and crash fixes

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r/pcgaming • • 22h ago

Metro Redux Next-Gen Update Patch for Metro 2033 & Last Light is Live Now on Steam

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r/pcgaming • • 4h ago

PSA: AMD Radeon Driver 26.10.1 can crash when displaying the on-screen overlay

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Happened to me about 1/5 times when launching a game due to the red box trying to display the settings on startup. The error is DXGI lost device.

I advise downgrading to 26.9.2.


r/pcgaming • • 20h ago

Cyberpunk 2077's Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) "prequel quest Clampdown + King gear, dual-wield pistols/revolvers, Glamdocs for cyberware skins, new Edgerunners radio, outfits, console mods via mod.io, FOV slider, new tour quest & QoL fixes"

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r/pcgaming • • 1d ago

Final Fantasy 14 players are watering locked-out strangers’ crops so they don’t die during outage

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r/pcgaming • • 23h ago

Indie game "Ebbtide" reaches 100k wishlists "Lead the last carrier task force through a world overrun by zombies. Command your forces on the operations map, then zoom into battle and take control yourself" From dev "Thanks to all of you, in just three days."

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r/pcgaming • • 22h ago

Arkane Lyon Has Until Mid-November To Find A Buyer Or It Risks Closure - Report

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r/pcgaming • • 22h ago

The Blood of Dawnwalker - Update 1.1 - Respec (Draught of Mind Rebirth), pet cats/dogs, new easier Story mode (combat assist; old Story=Forgiving), bigger subtitles for all lines, merchant buyback, better combat targeting/lock-on, 1,100+ bug/quest/crash fixes

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r/pcgaming • • 1d ago

Cyberpunk 2 Associate Director Says Half of Game's Quest Team Are Former Modders

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r/pcgaming • • 1d ago

Star Wars: The Old Republic lead writer calls out BioWare for snubbing the MMO

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r/pcgaming • • 20h ago

SYNTHETIK major update - Update 27 - Calibrated

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U27 brings tons of refinements to the game with a long list of changes.

Update 27 is a major maintenance update, bringing the game from the 2020 GameMaker 2.3 beta to GameMaker 2026 LTS (Long Term Support).

See the full patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/528230/view/693149828915399849


r/pcgaming • • 16h ago

Video Ordinary Oddness - Reveal Trailer

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r/pcgaming • • 1h ago

Village in the Shade on Steam

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r/pcgaming • • 1h ago

Thrive 1.7.0 is out now! A new major update for the free, open-source evolution game

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Thrive 1.7.0 is here!

Thrive is a free, open-source evolution game where you guide life from single cells toward increasingly complex organisms.

This update brings a major set of improvements to the Multicellular Stage, including:

  • Precise Cell Layout: Manually adjust your organism's cell layout instead of relying entirely on automatic placement.
  • 9 New Achievements: Take on new challenges, from building specialized colonies to reaching the Macroscopic Stage.
  • More Meaningful Evolution: Meet new requirements involving cell specialization, adjacency bonuses, and reproduction to advance to the next stage.
  • Changing Environments: Enable an option that refreshes the environment whenever you leave the editor.
  • Macroscopic Stage Preparations: New prototype features include a metaball rotation tool and creature skin textures.
  • Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes: Numerous optimizations and fixes across the game.

The update also introduces new tutorials for the Multicellular Stage and allows AI-controlled species to evolve into multicellular organisms on their own.

Thrive is still actively developed, with work continuing toward completing the Multicellular Stage and moving on to the Macroscopic Stage.

Don't forget to support the developers if you enjoy the game!

See the full patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1779200/view/671757730685392568

Official website: https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/


r/pcgaming • • 1d ago

A Mass Effect 5 trailer was reportedly ready to go before EA canceled the game and shut BioWare down

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