Running solo changes the maths on every item you bring down. A framework for valuing a loadout by what it costs you to lose it, why the expensive kit often performs worse alone, and where to look up the current item data.
The deeper reads on the games we cover — the pieces worth your time even if you missed them first time round.
TrueView re-runs the observed player's client-side prediction during demo playback, so a demo no longer shows only the server's version of a fight. That settles some arguments and creates new ways to read a demo wrongly.
Every shooter we cover, with the coverage that exists for it so far.
Extraction runs, loadout economy and surviving machine hostility.
Solo ARC Raiders: how to decide what a loadout is actually worth
Round survival, Main Quest preparation and wonder weapon strategy.
What to prepare before attempting a Zombies Main Quest
Economy discipline, utility usage and site execution.
FPS fundamentals: aim, movement and positioning
Everything we have published, newest first.
Respawn removed energy ammo from the floor entirely and gave seven weapons a regenerating stockpile. That turns a Volt into a gun you can fight with on a hot drop, and it frees the inventory slots you used to spend on bullets.
The July update that put Cache into Active Duty also took four maps out of every game mode and put three unfamiliar ones into Competitive, Casual and Deathmatch. If you do not queue Premier, that second change is the one that affects you.
Treyarch has named the enemies, the perk and the trap for the final Black Ops 7 Zombies map. Together they describe one problem: being surrounded at melee range and slowed. What is confirmed, what it implies, and the one reward with an undated deadline.
Embark has dated its biggest update since launch and confirmed it is running fewer, larger releases. That makes the next eight weeks the longest stable stretch the game has had — which changes what is worth investing in now.
Trials Season 5 started on 7 July and ends at 07:00 UTC on 30 September, with the Scorta outfit awarded by final placement. The objectives ask you to do specific things to specific machines — which is a different job from running for profit.
Season 05's new Survival map is not a new place. It is a fenced-off slice of the Totenreich round-based map, with no Main Quest and milestone rewards at rounds 10, 25 and 50. The small footprint is the whole point, and it changes how you should practise.
Season 05 added two new ways to load into Kowakujō. Directed Mode puts the quest steps on screen and stops the game at round 15. Starting Room locks you in the Outer Ward with seven machines and no exit. They train opposite skills, and queueing the wrong one wastes an evening.
Valve swapped Cache in for Overpass when Premier Season Five began, and has been patching Cache's geometry since. That changes what is worth practising right now, and what will be obsolete by the time you have learned it.
