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COD: Modern Warfare 4 steals the week as ARC Raiders' aimkey drama and Finals hotfixes roll on

Modern Warfare 4's strong launch dominates FPS chatter while ARC Raiders deals with a hardware-ban controversy and The Finals keeps patching Season 12.

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COD: Modern Warfare 4 steals the week as ARC Raiders' aimkey drama and Finals hotfixes roll on

Biggest story of the week: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 blows past Black Ops 7

The week's biggest FPS story isn't one of our regulars — it's Call of Duty. Modern Warfare 4's campaign went into early access on 16/10 and 1,630 of the game's 1,812 Steam user reviews were positive at one point, giving it a "Very Positive" score of 90%. That early buzz held up: at launch the campaign was sitting at Very Positive based on 94% of reviews. Full multiplayer and DMZ dropped Friday 23/10 (AEDT), and the game hit over 227,000 concurrent Steam players at launch, with Modern Warfare 4 still trailing Black Ops 6's 315,000-plus concurrent peak but comfortably ahead of last year's flop. Activision's own marketing chief admitted the quiet part out loud — "I think we missed expectations with our community last year". If your squad's been drifting from extraction shooters toward CoD this week, this is why.

ARC Raiders

Update 2.2 landed with the Wreck Set and Hydra/Turbine fixes as the PvE toggle test wrapped on a "polarising" note, but the real drama was streamer aimkey. After posting a clip on 20/10 asking "how am I not banned yet", Embark hit him with a hardware ban, citing "a consistent pattern of abnormal behaviors that are evidence of aimbotting". He's denying it and says he's received death threats over the situation. Reddit's mood: vindicated.

WARDOGS

Still simmering over the 175ms ping cap and region locks — OCE players remain the collateral damage in the anti-cheat fight.

THE FINALS

Season 12 "PRIME TIME" launched with a huge overhaul, then needed a hotfix for console bugs, then another hotfix for the Guardian Turret bug, broken DLC access and missing showcase drops. Players are enjoying the content, less thrilled about the rollout.

Battlefield 6

Season 5's Discord Q&A (held at the painful hour of 2am AEST / 4am AEDT) couldn't shake the Gauntlet-removal backlash, and the Dead Space crossover launched into an XP-cap survey EA opened to cool the anger.

PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS

Quiet week for drama, loud week for content. Update 43.2 brought SLB: Dawnbreakers of Rondo, a four-player co-op PvE mode with crafting, missions, and escape goals, plus a PUBG x Bentley collaboration bringing three premium vehicle skins modelled after the Flying Spur Mulliner and Continental. Solid, low-drama update — fans seem into it.

BattleBit Remastered

A "Death of a Game" retrospective did the rounds this week, reigniting the long-running complaint that the lack of news had led to BattleBit receiving a 'Mostly Negative' recent reception on Steam. Operation Overhaul playtests are real and ongoing, but patience is wearing thin.

Out of Action

No major patch this week — just the usual early-access drip of movement and netcode tweaks. Community's steady, unbothered.

Bodycam

Quiet since September's big Loadout System overhaul. No fresh patch notes this week; players are still digesting the move toward 1.0.

HELLDIVERS 2

The 7.2.1 hotfix killed the squad-crash bug, but anti-cheat anger hasn't gone anywhere — fixes landing faster than trust is rebuilding.

Delta Force

The Halloween Update's Trickster Store landed clean — genuinely rare for this game, no patch drama to report.

What to watch next: Watch for Embark's response to the aimkey ban fallout, more Finals Season 12 hotfixes, and PUBG's Your Shop discount event opening 28/10 (AEDT).

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