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Palworld is currently on v1.0.5 (2026-09-15, source: Palworld official notice "v1.0.5: Bug fixes"). Breeding gained a new route after 1.0: besides the usual passive inheritance, the 1.0 release added a Mutation mechanic, where breeding can produce a stronger Pal at a low probability. The efficient approach is therefore to strip your parent Pals' passives clean first, then breed for volume and treat Mutation as a bonus.
Reverse: 1999 is currently on version 4.0.0, with the official site listing an update date of 2026.09.24 . The build order under 4.0 compresses into one sentence: get your main damage dealer's Insight and Psychube to a usable state first, then round out supports with Psychubes and Resonance, and leave Psychube amplification for last. Get the order wrong and materials land in the lowest-return layer.
Love and Deepspace's Xavier birthday event runs from 05:00 on October 11 to 04:59 on October 18, with a limited five-star Memory for Xavier on a heavily boosted rate, and a free login gift of 10 limited Deepspace Wish vouchers delivered to your in-game mail . Starting today, October 16 at 00:00, the birthday video call and the special Home interaction also open, and all four pieces close together at 04:59 on October 18.
Honkai: Star Rail's Planar Fissure event runs from 04:00 on 2026-10-12 to 03:59 on 2026-10-25, granting doubled rewards when you claim Immersion rewards or use Ornament Extraction in the Simulated Universe . The doubled rewards only apply to Planar Ornaments, not to Cavern Relics, so spend the runs on your carry's ornaments and farm the new Herta Outskirts relic stage separately.
The new Spiral Abyss rotation went live on 2026-10-16 in Genshin Impact 7.1. Floor 12 gives a 75% damage bonus to Starflash reactions in the first half and a 75% Cryo DMG bonus team-wide in the second half, while Floor 11 grants 60% Anemo DMG and 60% Cryo DMG to all party members . The whole plan reduces to one line: build the first half around Starflash reactions and the second half around Cryo, and do not split one team across both.
Failing a Tower of Adversity floor is usually a buff problem, not a build problem. Wuthering Waves is on version 3.7.1, and the order that works is read the current buff to fix the element direction, then set the main DPS slot and sequences, and handle supports and echo substats last .
Zenless Zone Zero 3.2 ends at 06:00 (UTC+8) on 2026-10-21 after a 42-day run. The last week has three genuinely free rewards: 10 Encrypted Tapes and 10 Boopons from two seven-day login campaigns, both ending at 03:59 on October 20, plus doubled rewards in the Combat Simulation room until 03:59 on October 19 . Clear those three before planning any character investment.
Arknights' October content enters its second stage after the emergency update on 2026-10-16: the second half of the SideStory "Yesterday Sea" opens, the Hengyuan Jinliang collaboration goes live alongside the first expansion of Integrated Strategies, and the emergency maintenance compensation is 200 Orundum (source: Arknights official notice, 2026-10-16). The cheapest way to clear both tracks is to finish the Salvage Plan missions first, spend the event currency second, and handle recruitment and base building last .