Shooter Tuesday: BF6, WARDOGS and Bodycam all drop big this week — but WARDOGS steals the drama
Three season launches collide Tue 10–Fri 13 Nov while WARDOGS' anti-cheat and December-off news overshadows its own patch.
Biggest story of the week: three season launches collide, and WARDOGS copped the heat
The week of Mon 9–Sun 15 Nov (Brisbane AEST, same dates Sydney/Melbourne AEDT) is stacked: Battlefield 6's Season 5 Phase 2 lands Tue 10 Nov, WARDOGS Season 3 wipes everything Wed 12 Nov, and Bodycam's zombie mode drops Fri 13 Nov. The standout drama, though, is WARDOGS — a wipe, 185,000 cheater bans and a new map should've been the story, but it got buried under backlash after reports the devs plan to ban high-end PC owners over "potato shadows" settings, and Bulkhead's CEO telling players to go play GTA 6 instead of WARDOGS in December. Community sentiment on that one is genuinely heated.
ARC Raiders
Store Update 2.4.0 and hotfix 2.4.1 cleaned up the Raider Tool skin bug, Xbox crashes and a Seed Vault exploit, with Ukrainian added as a language. Concurrent players on Steam peaked at around 185,000 on October 11, 2026, the highest in about seven months after the Frozen Trail update, and the game has since settled back into a quieter rhythm. Mood: cautiously mixed — people are glad the bugs are getting squashed but want the "wider fix" promised sooner.
WARDOGS
Season 3 (Sabatulo map, full wipe, 185,000 cheater bans) hits Tue 12 Nov, but it's overshadowed by anger over banning "potato shadows" PC settings and Bulkhead taking all of December off. Players feel let down just as a big content drop should be a win.
THE FINALS
No scheduled content drop reported by us this week, but Embark-adjacent dev Round 12.2.0 landed Nov 5 with a refreshed Store, more info about TGM26, and tweaks to the Medium's automatic and semi-auto weapons aimed at improving its odds against 175 HP Lights. Steam rank #73, 24h peak 19,740 — steady, not spiking. The Grand Major at DreamHack Stockholm (Fri 28 – Sat 29 Nov AEDT) is the next big date. Mood: quiet, balance-patch business as usual.
Battlefield 6
Season 5 Phase 2 (tower collapse, Casino Heist preview, Vegas Strip heli fix, Ranked BR crossplay shake-up) ships Tue 10 Nov, but Platoons and the B-81 got pushed to 2027 and the Casino map got cut, softened by a 4x XP weekend. Player counts are sliding: November's average concurrent count is 27,943.8, down 5,060 (-15.3%) on the prior period, with a peak of 47,185 — a long way off the peak Steam player count of 747,000 smashes Call of Duty record hours after release. Mood: mixed, frustration over delays tempered by free XP.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Update 44.1 scraps the unpopular LMG buff and crates are being phased out in December; a KRAFTON anti-cheat letter says 10,237 HWID ban-evaders have been caught, with tougher team-with-cheaters rules coming. Mood: mixed — cheater crackdown welcomed, LMG reversal less so.
BattleBit Remastered
No update shipped this week. The long-promised Operation Overhaul rework (map reworks, lighting, weapon changes) is still the community's main hope, but it remains in playtest limbo rather than live. Mood: quiet, patient but waiting.
Out of Action
No news this week. The game sits at Mostly Positive (928 reviews), 77% of the 928 user reviews for this game are positive on Steam, a solid base for a smaller Early Access shooter with nothing big to report right now. Mood: quiet.
Bodycam
v0.9 "The Dead & Damned" brings a zombies mode and anti-cheat on Fri 13 Nov, but the party system is delayed again — the third such slip players have flagged. Mood: mixed, zombies hype offset by party-system fatigue.
HELLDIVERS 2
The Noxious strain of Terminids launched Nov 3, fast, venomous enemies as part of the free Galactic Sterilization campaign, running from November 3 to November 16, 2026. Helldivers 2 has generated $786.3M via over 23M copies sold across Steam, PS5 and Xbox. High Command also denied "outbreak" rumours on TCS+ planets in an in-universe tweet players are reading as a tease. Mood: mixed, playerbase engaged but wary of the EAC rollout fallout from late October.
Delta Force
The Nov 5 update stacked free skins and double-XP ahead of Season Aurora. With no controversy and nothing broken reported, this is the calmest shooter on the list this week. Mood: quiet, positive undertone.
What to watch next: Tue 10 Nov AEDT: BF6 Season 5 Phase 2 + Server Browser test begins. Wed 12 Nov AEDT: WARDOGS Season 3 wipe. Fri 13 Nov AEDT: Bodycam v0.9 zombies mode. Sat 28–Sun 29 Nov AEDT: THE FINALS Grand Major, DreamHack Stockholm.
Sources
- Update 12.2.0 — THE FINALS
- THE FINALS — Latest Updates & Patch Notes
- Helldivers 2: new poisonous Terminid types, more bug caves spawn across the galaxy today
- Helldivers 2 has sold over 23 million copies
- Arc Raiders Player Count (Oct 2026) - Steam Peaks
- Battlefield 6 Live Player Count & Statistics 2026
- Battlefield 6 Steam player count of 747,000 smashes Call of Duty record hours after release
- Out of Action on Steam
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