Arc Raiders ships Frozen Trail as Old School RuneScape dates its new raid for October 20

Embark shipped Frozen Trail, the 2.0 update, with a new map called Pendola Pass, a patrolling Frigate, three new enemies, two weapons, a weapon upgrade tree, a grappling hook, and a player Outpost with a research bench.

• —Pendola Pass is a vertical alpine map with a Flash Freeze weather condition and a fallen ARC Emperor at its centre.
• —The Frigate is a boardable airborne carrier pitched as the hardest encounter in the game; the Hydra turret lives on it.
• —Weapon Amplification reaches 15 weapons through the Outpost's Research Workstation, with branching upgrades per gun.
• —Raider Decks are replaced by Reward Passes: a 60-level Frozen Trail pass with free and premium tracks, plus a free Legacy pass that keeps anything already earned. Max stash rises by two levels to 328.

Patch 1.2.0.0 adds the EXFIL Brothers referral program, which pays experienced players for raiding with new accounts, reworks PMC bot behaviour and faction relations in PvE, and brings a six-level Prestige system to the PvE Zone.

• —An Operator needs an account older than 7 days and level 30 in any mode; a Candidate must have registered within the last 7 days. The pair earns a 5% XP bonus in shared raids.
• —Candidate rewards include 9.5 million roubles, 10,000 dollars and a set of unique cases; Operators earn up to 1,200 TarCoins and 6 Bitcoins per Candidate.
• —PMC bots now spawn at raid start on every map, scale their gear to level and faction, and appear in The Labyrinth. USEC and BEAR bots team up far more often.
• —PvE Prestige has six levels, keeps up to 50% of skills and mastery, and lets a player who never reset unlock the release storyline and Icebreaker chapter.

The October wipe adds cows and sheep with genetics, milk and cream, a biofuel generator for spoiled meat, locked loot rooms at 13 monuments, and a Bandit Camp helipad that must be repaired before air vehicles are sold.

• —Grown animals and up to 400 wool sell to a new Stables vendor, who offers three randomized prices before refusing to trade for 15 minutes.
• —The Air Wolf helipad starts each wipe broken; pooled resources repair it for the whole wipe and open the vendor to the whole server. Admins can revert it with vehicle.padrepairsrequired.
• —Heavy fuse decay now scales with population: at 10 or fewer players online fuses last four times longer, tapering to normal at 100.
• —Sandbags stack through four stages to a pillbox, grenades and C4 are client-predicted, and a mandatory Halloween update lands October 22 at 17:00 UTC.

Jagex set October 20 for The Fractured Archive, the new raid beneath Lumbridge, and explained its systems ahead of the bosses: scaling from 2 to 8 players, a Theatre of Blood style wipe, a choose-your-door layout, and live spectating.

• —Entry requires While Guthix Sleeps; the lobby has a bank chest, grouping board, strategy board and Ascension rocks to mine between raids.
• —Eight encounters: a fixed Archive Guardian, three rounds of a left-or-right boss choice, then a final boss. Both doors in each pair award the same contribution points.
• —A team wipe ejects the party with normal gravestones, there is no Overload or mid-raid banking, and a points-based resupply depends on performance.
• —Practice Mode is deliberately absent at launch and switches on later; Jagex recommends 3 to 5 players.

Pete Kayer, a PvP tutor at Ferox Enclave, arrived October 7 with five drills covering protection prayers, freezes, special attacks, gear switching and combo eating, each with an endless mode, ending in two duels against Pete himself.

• —Clearing all five unlocks a mid-gear duel, then a high-gear final in which Pete fakes switches and combo eats.
• —The final reward is an Ancient cosmetic kit for the Imbued God Cape, with Max Cape and Deadman Cape variants.
• —Each challenge also hands out Blighted supplies and 25 points for the Last Shopper Standing shop.
• —The same update made net traps stackable by combining rope with a small fishing net at level 29 Hunter.

Crimson Harvest runs until November 3. Capsuleers pick Blood Raiders or the Order of St. Tetrimon, and the side that wins decides whether the Blood Raiders keep a foothold in Pochven or Triglavian minor victory status is cleared from some Amarr systems.

• —The seasonal track ends in a blueprint for the Akoman, a Blood Raider attack battlecruiser available only through the event for now, plus new officer modules.
• —Hollow Outbreak sites come in three classes, from Tech I frigates in highsec and Pochven up to Tech III destroyers in lowsec and Delve.
• —Criterion of Fitness sites are timed solo three-wave encounters unlocked with ciphers; killing Triglavians there costs no standings.
• —Outside highsec, 90% of a destroyed ship's items drop as loot and pods have a 50% chance to surrender implants for the duration.

Update 4.15.0 went in on October 7 after a three-hour downtime. Vegamor's unique enchantment stones move into Lucky Reward Chests that bypass Guild Distribution, while 11 Amitoi, 11 Shapeshifts and two materials can now be distributed by the guild.

• —Lucky Reward Chests go by chance to every character who contributed to the encounter and are excluded from Guild Distribution.
• —Trait Resonance enhancement rolls succeed more often, and Trait Resonance Stones can be crafted from 6 pieces, 25 Precious Magic Powder and 30,000 Sollant.
• —Potential Ability cooldown reductions were trimmed across Sword and Shield, Daggers, Longbow, Wand, Spear and Orb.
• —Longbow's critical bonus now applies to party members instead of the caster, at half the previous values.

Season 5: A Grim Doctrine launched October 6 with Doctrine, a new Support hero, the first new Escort map since Overwatch 2 launched, a Halloween mode, and role changes that move Sombra to Support and rebuild Roadhog's kit.

• —Watchpoint: Grimsvotn is an Icelandic prison map and closes the Reign of Talon story.
• —Mystery Madness: Graveyard Games starts you as a random hero and grants random powers on each death.
• —Sombra becomes a Support; Roadhog gets a revamped Scrap Gun and a Trash Compactor ability.
• —Drives come to Quick Play and older Battle Passes are unvaulted during the season.

Season 34 reaches its Midseason Invasion Day this weekend with double scoring and a major Season Point payout. Asia and the Americas have runaway leaders, while Europe's top three remain close enough to reorder.

• —Invasion Day broadcasts: Asia on October 10 at 14:00 UTC, Europe on October 10 at 18:00 UTC, Americas on October 11 at 01:00 UTC.
• —In Asia, CCTV lead with about 550,000 points over Western Paradise and High Cards; in the Americas, PIVAS near 500,000 chasing a third title.
• —In Europe, SZKODA OC lead MYDAKI and Most Hated, with roughly 30,000 points between second and third.

The Icebind is live on Yuvan Peak: an experimental six-player mode against level 999+ enemies with randomized modifiers called Binds, guaranteed Riven Splicer rewards and bonus rewards for side objectives.

• —Six-player squads, up from the usual four.
• —Requires the Angels of the Zariman and Whispers in the Walls quests plus Elite Temporal or Deep Archimedea unlocked.
• —Digital Extremes calls it experimental and published a Dev Workshop alongside the launch.

By God Alone released September 30 with the free 1.20.0 Crozier update. The expansion adds the Christian Church as a Situation spanning all of Christendom, with chapters that can end in a Great Schism, plus an Ecclesiastical government.

• —Every Christian ruler of County tier or above is a participant, sorted into six groups by faith size and clerical or secular status.
• —Seven chapters, from Fragile Unity to Concord; a Crisis chapter can end in the Great Schism once progress crosses a threshold.
• —A Guide the Christian Church decision is available once every ten years and has four times the effect when taken as Head of Faith.
• —Clerical Regions can be founded on any Duchy-tier title and slowly convert neighbouring counties to their holder's Rite.

Rare's October schedule sets a Bilge Rats Weekender for October 16 to 19, Fight Nights every Tuesday and Emissaries of Fortune every Wednesday, and closes the sail design competition on October 23.

• —Bilge Rats Weekender brings event-only Smuggler Voyages, fireworks and challenges paid in Doubloons.
• —Fight Nights raise Allegiance and gold from Faction Battles on Tuesdays when Last Ship Standing is not running; Emissaries earn more for 24 hours on Wednesdays.
• —The winning sail design, chosen by a public poll of the art team's top three, ships in the March anniversary update.