Tread Heavy Steam news

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• Review score100% positive
• Total reviews7
• Release dateApr 26, 2026
• DeveloperNos Games LTD
• PublisherNos Games LTD

Genres: Action, Indie

Company pages: Developer: Nos Games LTDPublisher: Nos Games LTD

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Tread Heavy Steam news

Tread Heavy news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

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• 1.2.1.0 Astral Gates Update - 8 May 2026

  What's New?The Pill BugThe Pill Bug is a new enemy, who will bunker down and pellet you with projectiles. While bunkered it is resistant to damage, but stick around them a few seconds to scare them into un-deploying! They were designed to make sticking within a region tougher, and to push you to attack the medium range harassers.The Astral GatesThe Astral Gate is a tear in the membrane of the lab. Approach them and activate them to summon bosses early, a quick source of XP and Stars for those confident in taking them on!The Upgrades IndicatorI've noticed some players confused on a first play, so I've added an indicator to the top middle of the screen which appears when you have upgrades available, pointing to the upgrade pad.What's Changed?Big RebalancingYour base tank is now faster with a higher fire rate and less recoilYour main gun damage scales a little bit lessYour base upgrades ar…

• 1.2.0.4 - 26 April 2026

  Fixed Window Resizing on pause or game end

• Release Version - 1.2.0.1 - 24 April 2026

  So here is a list of changes as best as I can recall them:Further performance improvement's with a much more stable framerate and a confirmed 60+ fps on the steam deck when things are at their busiestAdded a secret involving the reactor, and some funny computersAdded the Firmware mechanic, when you reach level 50 your XP will instead go towards infinitely scaling upgrades, some overpowered, and some just sillyGave the Buddy a battle bandanaFixed immortal skelimechsFixed the Wheelers aiming and firingFixed the mini-mines scaling wrongWhat is next?For Release:We appear to be ready!And then?Outside of post-release support, I'm considering my next project. I may return to Tread Heavy to add a boss or some enemies or add in some more triggers for using the voice work I've received.I do thoroughly hope you enjoy!,ScottNos Games

• Release Candidate 1.1.3.0 - 18 April 2026

  So here is a list of changes as best as I can recall them:Further performance improvement's particularly when firing a lot of projectiles at onceMore consistent recovery after falling off the mapSome fixes to AchievementsA rebalance of the mines, missiles and autocannon to scale more alike the other upgradesFixes to behaviours of the Menace and Starship bossesA change to the Final Boss to take damage (although reduced) when shot in the faceThe protector drones now have a knockback effect so when they group around bosses, shooting them away is an optionDisconnecting controller, alt-tabbing or opening the steam overlay now auto-pausesSteam Cloud is now set up, as is Steam Input gamepad defaultsThere is now a counter at the end of round of how many red stars you've collectedThere is now an indicator over the stars menu button displaying if you have options available for purchaseWhat is nex…

• Beta 1.0.0.0 Candidate - 14 April 2026

  So here is a list of changes as best as I can recall them:A new map with new interactable's and actionable'sA new boss in The Menace, a mobile harassment bossA new boss in The Starship, a roaming bomberA final bossAn end of round at 21 minutes, with an estimated 25 - 30 minutes to finish a gameAchievementsImproved handling and speed feelRebalancing and bug fixesLots of optimizations for CPU and GPU usageNew sound effects and tweaked visual effectsWhat is next?In Terms of only getting to release:We have reached feature complete! At least, minimum feature completeness, I've still got a month left of effective dev time to squeeze extras in, so I'm not done just yet, but in terms of what I intended, it has been achieved.Otherwise:I want to work more variety in for an endless modeI've had a couple of beta testers ask about customization, so I'm going to evaluate what would fit themeAn enemy…

• Beta 0.5.0.1 - 28 March 2026

  So here is a list of changes as best as I can recall them:20 new Upgrades, Upgrade Pack 1, and Upgrade Pack 2 each unique, no linear improvements3 New Elite Enemies, designed to force a change in the way you playMeta Progression with Red XP, earn by killing elites, or by ending a game and earning as many minutes played in Red XPA new soundtrackThe first boss, to spawn every 5 minutes, starting from the 10 minute markMassive efficiency improvements, it now takes much more extreme gameplay conditions to see slowdown and not to the degree it did before, for most players the slowdown should never become an issueLots of rebalancingWhat is next?In Terms of only getting to release:There are 2 more challenge bosses to addThere is 1 final boss to addI still have a lot of time left though, so in terms of goals in order I'll try to achieve them:A better map, the current one isn't as full or intere…

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