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.
Practical
Walkthroughs and fundamentals written to be acted on, not skimmed.
Crosshair placement is the highest-return habit in Counter-Strike 2 and the one players skip in favour of aim training. Here is what good placement looks like and how to practise it deliberately.
You do not need memorised lineups to get value from smokes, flashes and molotovs. Here is the small set of utility habits that work on any map and pay off immediately.
Perk order arguments usually end in someone quoting a list. A better approach is to work out what kills you first and buy against that — here is the reasoning that survives map and mode changes.
Directory
Every shooter we cover, with the coverage that exists for it so far.
Extraction runs, loadout economy and surviving machine hostility.
Latest guideSolo ARC Raiders: how to decide what a loadout is actually worth
Round survival, Main Quest preparation and wonder weapon strategy.
Latest guideWhat to prepare before attempting a Zombies Main Quest
Economy discipline, utility usage and site execution.
Latest guideFPS fundamentals: aim, movement and positioning
Build & meta
Weapon reasoning, build economics and competitive decision-making.
Solo Zombies is not co-op with three players missing. Revives, horde density, points and objective pacing all change — here is what to adjust rather than simply playing more cautiously.
Training is the core survival skill in round-based Zombies, and most players learn it as a shape rather than a principle. Here is what the loop is actually doing and how to pick one on a map you do not know.
Most squads lose because they take a fight in a place they cannot hold, then try to move while damaged. Rotating early costs you loot and wins you placement — here is how to decide when to move.
Reference
For live data, maps and exhaustive reference material, these are the destinations we send readers to. FPSing handles the editorial judgement; they handle the numbers.
ARC Raiders
A community database and toolset for ARC Raiders: item and quest records, surface maps with grid coordinates, loadout and workshop planners, and event timers.
Call of Duty Zombies
A reference wiki for Call of Duty Zombies: map and quest documentation, Easter eggs, wonder weapons, perks, enemies, characters and the story timelines across continuities.
Everything else
The rest of what we have published, newest first.
Most patch note coverage reports what changed. The harder question is whether a change matters at your skill level and in your role — here is the method we use to work that out before rebuilding a loadout.
Abilities in Valorant are not damage, they are purchases — of space, of information, or of time. Sorting your utility into those three categories fixes most of the mistakes players make with it.
Battle royales ask whether you can win a fight. Extraction shooters ask whether you should take one — and that single change reshapes everything from loadout choice to how the genre handles losing.
The competitive meta describes what wins at the level it was measured at. Below that level it describes something else entirely — usually what is popular. Knowing the difference saves a lot of wasted practice.
Main Quests fail during preparation far more often than during the steps themselves. A checklist covering roles, perk order, ammo economy and the points budget, plus where to read the step-by-step for your map.
