MW4 DMZ Self-Revive Rules | Gaming News #69
MW4 DMZ self-revive rules are out: one Tourniquet, then you play at 100 HP until a medkit fixes you.
Gaming News · Issue #69 · 15 October 2026
TL;DR
- MW4 DMZ self-revive rules are out: one Tourniquet, then you play at 100 HP until a medkit fixes you.
- Rainbow Six Siege banned over 50,000 accounts in one day, right before Legend Division opens to Champions.
- WARDOGS Season 2 is live, and level 4 armor now blocks less damage while muffling your own ears.
- ARC Raiders and The Finals run on Nvidia's new Arm laptops from October 16, anti-cheat included.
- Xbox is asking players whether Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and even Minecraft should go console exclusive.
🎯 Extraction shooters
DMZ's Tourniquet Gets You Up Once, Then Caps You at 100 HP Until You Find a Medkit
Infinity Ward detailed how revives work in Modern Warfare 4's DMZ, the Call of Duty extraction mode. Every operator deploys with a Tourniquet self-revive, but using it leaves you wounded with max health cut from 150 to 100. Only a medkit cures the wound and recharges the Tourniquet, and going down again while wounded means no self-revive. Extra self-revives can be looted or printed. DMZ early access opens October 20 for digital pre-orders.
Player impact: Solo players get one mistake per raid, and the second one ends the run. Medkits just became the most valuable thing in your bag, so loot them before guns.
Sources: PCGamesN
Arena Breakout: Infinite Bans 10,848 Cheaters in Two Weeks, Up From 8,788
MoreFun Studios' October 14 ban report for Arena Breakout: Infinite covers September 28 to October 11. It lists 10,848 cheating bans, including 3,706 ten-year bans and 1,744 device or IP bans, up from 8,788 in the previous two-week report. The studio also confiscated Koen (the in-game currency) 6,505 times from players who queued with cheaters, and paid back 89,618 victims a combined 116.91 billion Koen.
Player impact: More bans means either better detection or more cheaters, and the numbers alone cannot tell you which. If you lost a kit to a cheater, check your mail for Koen compensation.
Sources: Arena Breakout: Infinite on Steam
🔫 FPS
Siege Bans Over 50,000 Accounts in a Day, Its Biggest Ban Wave Ever
Ubisoft banned more than 50,000 Rainbow Six Siege accounts on October 14, which Siege.gg calls the largest ban wave in the game's history. The accounts were tied to account sharing, account selling, or dodging earlier bans. The timing lines up with Legend Division, a new ranked playlist that opens October 15 for Champion-rank players only, with extra safety checks Ubisoft says will keep cheating services out.
Player impact: If you bought a boosted or shared account, it may already be gone. Champion players finally get a lobby Ubisoft is promising to keep clean, and the first week will show whether that holds.
WARDOGS Season 2 Is Live, and Level 4 Helmets Now Muffle Your Own Hearing
BULKHEAD's Season 2 patch notes for WARDOGS, its large-scale multiplayer shooter in Steam early access, landed October 14 ahead of the October 15 launch. Level 3 armor now blocks 50% of damage (down from 55%) and level 4 blocks 60% (down from 65%), and the level 4 helmet now muffles audio and narrows your field of view. Role level 20 drops from 250,000 XP to 111,500, and mortars jump from 150 to 600 supplies.
Player impact: Heavy armor stops being the default. Expect faster kills, fewer mortar spammers, and a much quicker climb to your role unlocks this season.
Sources: WARDOGS on Steam · low.ms
Modern Warfare 4 PC Preload Opens Today at 115GB, With Shipment Following on October 27
Activision posted Modern Warfare 4's launch roadmap on October 14. PC preload opens October 15 at 9am PT on Battle.net, Steam, and Xbox PC and needs 115GB. Campaign early access starts October 16 for digital pre-orders, and the full launch on October 23 brings 12 core maps. Shipment follows October 27, a new Possession mode October 29, Infected October 30, and Season 1 on November 6. Console preload times are not confirmed yet.
Player impact: Clear 115GB tonight if you pre-ordered digitally. Disc buyers miss the campaign head start, and Shipment players wait four days past launch.
Sources: GamerFuzion · GamingBible
Valorant 13.08 Pulls Ascent and Split From Ranked and Brings Back Bind and Corrode
Riot's Valorant patch 13.08, released October 13, rotates the competitive map pool: Bind and Corrode return, and Ascent and Split leave. Corrode gets faster defender rotations, a metal mid half-wall moved one metre out, and a new A-site plant zone. A new private Map Rating scores you from 0 to 500 on each map in Competitive and Premier, with grades from C to S, and everyone starts fresh.
Player impact: Your comfort picks are gone from ranked, so warm up Bind before you queue. The new per-map rating will tell you exactly which map is dragging your rank down.
Sources: Riot Games
PUBG 43.2 Puts Six Motor Gliders on Every Map and Gives Ranked the Same Cars as Normal
KRAFTON's PUBG: Battlegrounds Update 43.2 went live on PC on October 14, with console following October 22. Every map now spawns six Motor Gliders (two fixed, four random). Normal and Ranked now share the same vehicle types and counts on Erangel, Miramar, Taego, Vikendi, Deston, and Rondo. World item markers now only show within 300 metres, and console gets two new control presets.
Player impact: Late-circle air rotations are back on the menu for every map. Ranked players can finally practice vehicle routes in Normal without guessing what spawns.
Sources: PUBG: Battlegrounds
🔜 Coming soon
Metro 2039 Lands February 4, 2027, and the $30 Deluxe Upgrade Holds the Story DLC
4A Games put Metro 2039 pre-orders live on the PlayStation Store with a February 4, 2027 release date. The base game costs $69.99 or £59.99. The Deluxe Edition costs $30 more and adds a digital art book, the soundtrack, a Specialist Pack of early item unlocks, and a post-launch story expansion. This confirms the pre-order details reported earlier in October.
Player impact: You now know what the next Metro costs and when. Decide whether a story expansion is worth $30 upfront before anyone has reviewed the base game.
Sources: Push Square
🆕 Just released
Gears of War: E-Day's First Big Patch Fixes Crashes and Closes a Conquest Exploit
The Coalition released Gears of War: E-Day's first major update on October 14, about two weeks after launch. It fixes memory crashes in long sessions, login and account-linking failures, and strengthens server-side anti-cheat. Ranked Versus placement changes and a Precinct Conquest exploit is closed. Collectibles that went missing will not be granted back automatically.
Player impact: Long multiplayer sessions should stop crashing, and ranked placements should land closer to your real level. Collectible hunters may need to replay chapters.
Sources: Pure Xbox
🆓 Free to try
Mafia: The Old Country and Horizon Forbidden West Hit PS Plus Extra on October 20, and GTA 5 Leaves November 17
Sony confirmed October's PS Plus Extra and Premium Game Catalog on October 14. Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West, Mycopunk, Tales of Arise, Poppy Playtime Chapter 2, and Supercross 25 arrive October 20, and The Midnight Walk is already live. Premium adds Dino Crisis 2 and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 to Classics. Separately, GTA 5 leaves the catalog on November 17, two days before GTA 6 launches.
Player impact: Extra subscribers get two big singleplayer games and the Mycopunk co-op shooter on October 20 at no added cost. Finish any GTA Online grind you planned on the PS Plus copy before November 17.
Bad Cheese, a 1920s Cartoon Horror Game, Is Free to Keep on Epic Until October 22
The Epic Games Store's weekly giveaway rotates October 15 at 15:00 UTC, and Bad Cheese is one of the two free-to-keep games until October 22 at 15:00 UTC (October 23, 1am AEST). It is a psychological horror game drawn like a 1920s cartoon, where you play a young mouse doing chores for a volatile father while demons haunt the house. Claim it once on PC and it stays in your library.
Player impact: It costs nothing to grab and runs short enough for a Halloween stream night. Claim it before October 22 even if you only play it later.
Sources: Epic Games Store · Notebookcheck
🕹️ Console specifics
Xbox Is Asking Players Whether Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Minecraft Should Go Console Exclusive
Windows Central's Jez Corden reported that Microsoft is surveying Xbox Insiders about making major franchises exclusive to Xbox consoles again, with Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Minecraft named. One scenario would make every future Xbox franchise exclusive except Call of Duty; for Minecraft, PlayStation and Nintendo versions would stop being sold or updated. PC would not be affected. Microsoft has made no decision yet.
Player impact: If you play Bethesda games on PS5, nothing changes today, but the next Fallout's platform list is now an open question. Minecraft players on Switch and PlayStation have the most to lose.
Sources: Push Square · Playday
🖥️ Hardware
ARC Raiders and The Finals Run on Nvidia's Arm Laptops From October 16, Anti-Cheat Included
Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops, which pair a Grace Arm CPU with a Blackwell RTX GPU on Windows 11, launch worldwide on October 16. Nvidia says ARC Raiders and The Finals will be playable on day one with anti-cheat, alongside Counter-Strike 2, Fortnite, Marvel Rivals, and Rust. Delta Force has limited testing planned for a future season, and Arena Breakout: Infinite is due in 2027. Nvidia has not listed laptop prices.
Player impact: Anti-cheat on Arm used to be the wall that kept competitive shooters off thin laptops. Check your main game's anti-cheat before buying one, because Vanguard and EA Javelin are not on the day-one list.
Sources: Nvidia GeForce News
Microsoft's $49.99 Xbox Nano Controller Drops AA Batteries and Ships November 4
Microsoft announced the Xbox Nano Controller on October 14 for $49.99, launching November 4 with pre-orders open on Xbox.com. It is just over five inches long, weighs 3.5oz, keeps all 18 standard inputs, and uses a built-in battery instead of AAs. It works with Xbox, PC, iOS, Android, and some smart TVs, and launches in more than 35 territories.
Player impact: A cheap second pad for couch play, cloud gaming on a phone, or a smaller pair of hands. Competitive players with big hands should try one before swapping their main.
📦 Other
Epic's New Launcher Runs on Linux, and Fortnite Follows Once Easy Anti-Cheat v2 Is Ready
Epic released a preview of its refreshed Epic Games Launcher with native Linux support and GE-Proton compatibility for Windows games. Epic is building EAC Linux v2, a version of Easy Anti-Cheat that relies on signed kernels and secure boot, and Fortnite will pilot it once enough distros support it. There is no date. Steam Deck lacks what EAC v2 needs today, and Epic says it is talking to Valve.
Player impact: Linux players have a real route to anti-cheat shooters for the first time, but Steam Deck owners are still left out. Epic also admitted the launcher was built with AI help, which players are already roasting.
Sources: GamingOnLinux · Kotaku
Ubisoft Plans to Close Trials Studio RedLynx and Cut 70 Jobs in Singapore
Ubisoft plans to close RedLynx, the Helsinki studio behind the Trials series, affecting about 52 staff, pending Finnish change negotiations. It also plans to cut 70 jobs at Ubisoft Singapore. RedLynx had no current project and already lost up to 60 people in October 2025. The last Trials game was Trials Rising in 2019.
Player impact: Trials is effectively done, and Ubisoft's studio-by-studio cuts are still going. Fans of its smaller series should not expect sequels any time soon.
Sources: VGC · Game Developer
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