Overview

• The Rupture Strain subfaction was disabled on September 17 with a planned return in five weeks, and no other units are affected.
• A September patch made Rupture Warriors track moving clients accurately, making their lunges equally dangerous for hosts and non-hosts.
• An Arrowhead QA lead said the prior host-only lethality came from a networking issue, and the fix spread the unfair attack to all players.
• Players had documented the host-targeting problem for weeks, and community backlash intensified after the fix made encounters harsher overall.
• Coverage places the episode within broader worries over crashes, performance, connectivity, and strained communication with the studio.