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GunZ in October: the player base fell 66%, the scores went up — and four events expire on Tuesday
An average of 353 concurrent players, five and a half days without a single official announcement, and four launch events ending on October 6 with no replacement announced. But the people still playing rate the game better than the lifetime score suggests, and Brazilians are the most positive audience of all.
GunZ Season 1 ended on September 20. Expert is the champion — and Masangsoft never announced it
The first official GunZ: The Duel clan tournament ended with Expert beating Focus 2-0 in the final, at 3am on a Sunday in Brazil. The result is recorded on the company's own platform, but no announcement was ever published to players. We pulled the full bracket.
Clan War, MVP and Lizardman: what GunZ gained in three weeks — and what got worse
Twelve official announcements in 19 days: the Clan War preseason opened, the clan tournament settled on 16 teams with a Twitch broadcast, and Lizardman and the MVP system arrived. But the concurrent player base halved and the forum moved on to cheaters.
Clan War and League are here: clan tournament registration opens today, and the Sept 1 patch changes network ports
Masangsoft announced Clan Battle Tournament Season 1, with registration opening tonight and 100,000 ZC for the winning clan, plus the September 1 patch that opens the League preseason. There are rules that disqualify, XP that will be taken back, and a port change affecting anyone who touched their router.
GunZ has stabilised and hit 968 online — but the compensation announced is not for the crisis
The game is running again, the complaints stopped, and Friday was the best day in four. Masangsoft announced five days of compensation — for something else entirely: GunZ Plus had been failing to apply the bonuses it sells. And the company never declared the crisis over.
After 49 hours of silence, Masangsoft is updating the "Agent" servers — and the game is running again
The official notice landed at 11:07 UTC on Wednesday, announcing a sequential Agent server rollout starting with Europe. Shortly after, the game was playable again in Brazil. What the notice says, what it does not say, and what that "BugTrap" crash window actually is.
The server came back, the game did not: 0 ping and nobody visible after the patch
Since the Aug 25 maintenance, players reach the room and cannot play: 0 ping, a connection icon over every head, people invisible. We went through the reports, what has already been ruled out, what a VPN actually fixes, and why Steam still shows hundreds of players online.
Server is back, and the patch landed: GunZ Plus, two maps and permanent drops
The early-morning maintenance on Aug 25 brought the server back and shipped the biggest patch since the relaunch: GunZ Plus, the Optimite Shop, the Catacomb and Classic Town maps, Clan Scrum Match and the end of the 30% XP event.
GunZ is down with "Authentication fail" — and Masangsoft does not know why yet
The server went down on the evening of Aug 24 and players are stuck on "Authentication fail". GM Dalmia said the team still does not know the cause. A scheduled maintenance and a large patch with GunZ Plus follow right behind.
Ping back to normal: GunZ stabilizes after a week of DDoS attacks
After a week of ping above 10,000, crashes and a stalling lobby, GunZ has been stable since Friday. Masangsoft owned up to the cause — DDoS attacks from day one — and shared what comes next.
GunZ Brasil is live
gunz.com.br gathers what the Brazilian GunZ: The Duel community needs in one place: online players, server status, news, rankings and guides.
GunZ: The Duel relaunches globally on Steam — free, with no pay-to-win
Masangsoft brought GunZ back online: a global Steam service with remastered graphics, rebalanced weapons and pay-to-win removed. K-Style is intact.