DarkSwarm Playtest Steam news

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DarkSwarm Playtest Steam news

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• Patch 27.4 - Closed Alpha 3 stability update 4 - 20 February 2026

  Elite Watcher slightly nerfed More ammo drops available at mission start

• Patch 27.3 - Closed Alpha 3 stability update 3 - 18 February 2026

  Fix for Spora Prime biome when playing on SteamDeck Typos fixed for Stormstriker weapon description Collider fix in Orbital Station Newsletter signup added

• Patch 27.2 - Closed Alpha 3 stability update 2 - 17 February 2026

  Fix for player positions getting desynced when playing with network lag

• Patch 27.1 - Closed Alpha 3 stability update 1 - 17 February 2026

  Crash fix Visual shop updates Fix for HUD not showing when loadout got closed while paused Cyclotron mini game is now gated on Chryos and longer on Tendraal and Orbital Station Fix for pumps playing wrong anim

• Patch 27 - Closed Alpha 3 - 16 February 2026

  Closed Alpha 3 test is here, with lots of major updates for DarkSwarm! New missions Voice Chat Ping Wheel Spectate Settings overhaul Keybindings support Singleplayer improvements Vulkan support And much, much more!

• Patch 26.4 - Closed Alpha 2 stability update 4 - 7 November 2025

  Fix for game freezing after a while Fix for duplicate animations in Result Screen Text Chat now available in Result Screen

• Patch 26.3 - Closed Alpha 2 stability update 3 - 6 November 2025

  Fixes for interactions and pickups Fixes for server browser

• Patch 26.2 - Closed Alpha 2 stability update 2 - 5 November 2025

  - Quick Reload fire bug fixed! - A couple of nice crash fixes

• Patch 26.1 - Closed Alpha 2 stability update - 4 November 2025

  Controller support for throwing barrels and energy ballsGuard rails added in ball room in Space StationText Chat messages bugfixSome T-pose bugs fixedIcon and texts fixed for selected weapons and weapon mods Spora Prime : Gaio and Reactor Core physics tweakedCrash fix on Result ScreenCrash fix on Minimap

• Patch 25.1 - Closed Alpha Fix for Active Reload and weapon rebalancing - 4 September 2025

  Fix: All weapons should now have proper active reload windows Rebalanced: RG-9 Ricochet Ravager Rebalanced: SG-19 Frostbite Rebalanced: CB-135 Novabolt Rebalanced: RG-12 Dreadpiercer

• Patch 24.1 - Support for Chinese characters etc - 3 September 2025

  Support for special characters from multiple languages, including Chinese.

• Patch 24 - Closed Alpha - 1 September 2025

  Bug fixes!! Controls screen Survey link Discord invite link Weapon Mod texts New 'claw game' area

• Patch 23 - Closed Alpha warm-up! - 29 August 2025

  Much love added to the game in the past weeks. Here are the highlights: NEW Lobby! NEW Load out screen before starting a mission Improved netcode Improved controller support in menus Tweaks to unlocking Tendraal from the get go New Class selection images Rebalancing on weapons Lots of tweaks and fixes First pass on analytics Codebase/project clean up

• Patch 22.3 - Hotfix #3 - 16 July 2025

  Fixed logging for Equipment screen

• Patch 22.2 - Network hotfix #2 - 9 July 2025

  Network fix for laggy player movement

• Patch 22.1 - Network hotfix - 8 July 2025

  Fix for the network jitter if clients are far from the host.

• Patch 22 - The big Closed Alpha warm-up! - 8 July 2025

  We’ve spent the last six months deep in development, and it’s been a busy and productive period. A lot has changed under the hood and on the surface — too much to list in full — but here are some of the highlights: Refactored most of the codebaseNew weaponsFirst pass on progressionSkins for classes and weapons4 biomes in totalReplaced old procedural generation system with new procedural level generation system.New equipment screenProgression system with XP, levels and rank unlocksMore work on audio and animation.Animated end of mission screens Have a great summer! See you at the Closed Alpha in September! All the best Bitfire Team

• Patch 21 - Optimizations, New animation system, tweaks and fixes - 18 February 2025

  NEW THINGS - The all new animation system for the player character. Recoil animation will be added later - Visual updates on Infiltrator's scanning ability on the sidearm - Pickup mines and gas canisters TWEAKS - Support class now only has healing abilities - Weapon tweaks. More damage on Engineer shotty and PlasmaBeam. - SteamDeck serverlist improvements - Various map updates to infiltration and planetary maps FIXES & OPTIMIZATIONS - "E" key fix when trapped in Trapper now supports controller - General GPU optimization and rig optimizations on crawler enemies - Various small bug fixes - Fixed CryoGun no longer hurts yourself

• Patch 20.1 - Trapper fix - 12 December 2024

  Just a small fix to give the trapper a delay before activating again after a player has been freed.

• Booom!!! Patch 20 is here! - 11 December 2024

  There has been so much going on so I can only touch on the biggest features I can recall. And million tweaks under the hood you might not take too much note of. **Mind you it is balanced approximately to 4 players** So SP might have a hard time. - Massive Player HUD overhaul - New Minimap now with last minute added player markers (early version) - New heavy weapons for all classes: Flamethrower, Cryogun, Gas Launcher, RicochetRifle. - New findable weapon, PlasmaBeam. - Completely new prototype surface mission map. - A new Mission Objective system. - A bunch of new objectives in the levels. - More work on stealth. Eg. stealth killing most patrolling enemies with a heavy charged melee attack. - New rooms with hackable doors. Armory, DataRoom and reactor room. - Carriables explosive barrels - Green auto opening doors and yellow press to open doors - VFX and proper exit on teleporter extrac…

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