A very good take on duality:
- Looks good for active players
- Looks bad for bosses at SONY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6mJfpERH0s
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Valve put CS2 on fire yet again: you lose ammo during the reload. Let me explain — even in casual milsims you don't, you just have half-empty mags in rotation.

It's generally compensated with more ammo but the community is concerned that the whole meta of the game will change. Some weapons will be completely obsolete and the gameplay can become too "safe", people will not rush-in instantly.

And rating matches are barely working. People are not used to the new system and lose ratings miserably. So only a few exceptionally good players farm there.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/532126482488623353?l=english
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Still standing

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And another great study on why BF6 (and some other shooters) feel wrong: bullets are much faster, they reach greater distances with no drop and it makes maps sizes and weapon classes irrelevant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwpDN0fRvAA
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Ubisoft is making a move: it's a mobile shooter in The Division universe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhE68uZi1Bw
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And MADFINGER brought the biggest update Spearhead to their Gray Zone Warfare (they are nice folks and the game is a bit underappreciated IMO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCKnT__J4FM
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Yeah, duh 🙄 (via)

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First they are like: The cube, Save us! The cube then like: nope, ain't gonna save ya!

The game has been released just a few weeks ago in March. And it will be down by May 8 including Discord server. For example, the discord of Highguard is still up and running.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/3810880/announcements/detail/508484486901530657

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Dune Awakening devs are working on Self-Hosted servers and PvE. Soon PvP will become fully optional, less than 20% ever use it and they are less engaged.

Will AAA publishers notice it? Your live-service games are no longer needed, collaboration is the key, exploration and creation are the driving force.

https://duneawakening.com/news/developer-update-april-2026/
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Yet another multiplayer fell just a few weeks after the release. This time the company wants to give it back to you, the people:

It's a paid game, costs €12 by the way, peaked at 500 CCU and never got over 100 since.

UPD: The game has been developed by a small studio Night Street Games, founded by Imagine Dragons members, including Dan Reynolds and his brother Mac.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2721340/view/675119576448500506?l=english
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There's something terribly wrong going on with The Finals:

Embark is banning people even for accessibility controllers and players started to research the issue, but got deeper than expected.

- They apparently removed anticheat for pro players (secretly, then confirmed it by saying it was due to massive reports on their exceptional skill levels)

- They made a special discord for selected pro players where they have tons of privileges

- They ban average users with one request from pro players and without clear investigation

The same company also operates Arc Raiders. Which is far less competitive but still...

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Over the last couple of years I intentionally added all reasonable free to play multiplayer games to my Steam account. Dozens of games to simply look after the industry.

Many of them were just released
Most of them are already closed

Like literally: end of line, support termination, we took a tough decision to take the game offline. Party games, competitive games, and so on. I haven't even played most of them and never will. Often they don't even announce it — the server just goes offline and the game ends up unable to connect.

Were they that bad? Nope, but the whole market is oversaturated and there's barely any place left to conquer. Make solo games, folks, they are timeless.

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