GZW supporter preview is live and Next Fest is a go. - Gray Zone Warfare: Rogue Ops 0.5: Supporter Preview is live now ahead of Thursday's full launch. Next Fest: - Veterans: Napoleonic Wars: demo dropped today with early access Oct 28, line-infantry tactics where volley fire and morale matter. - Frostrail: co-op survival FPS from the Barotrauma studio, set on an armored train crossing a frozen wasteland. 500k wishlists. Cool concept. - Stronghold 4: skirmish demo for the castle sim's return, economy management and siege warfare. - War Company: Fortress Europe: squad-level WWII tactical play. - Archrebel Tactics: retro turn-based squad tactics in the Rebelstar and Laser Squad lineage, with a demo the dev estimates at 6 to 8 hours. - Ghost Justice: turn-based tactical counter-narco operations.

Could shots have been placed better? Sure. Could I have leaned into the leg meta? Absolutely. Should a player who scores 3-5 unanswered center mass hits with 5.45 essentially always kill their opponent? It's subjective, but my sense is yes. High TTK is the reason REDSEC, Warzone, and any number of arcade shooters are uninteresting to me. "Tactical shooters" should be high lethality and high consequence attained partially by low TTK and damage models that are analogous to what one might expect in the real world. I don't need @WARDOGS to be Squad, Arma, or Bellum, but positioning and scoring first hits should be rewarded more often than punished. Skill, decision making, and execution should be the biggest predictors of gunfight winners... not time in game and meta kits.