Developer posts and news about this game.
Hotfix v0.9.808 Hey Commanders, Fresh batch, straight from your reports: - Units freezing and taking turns to move in crowded battles is fixed. TrashPanda's repro cracked this one for the modifier players, thank you! - Upgrade prices were stuck at 2.00B. They scale properly again
Hey Commanders, Remember when I said more patches are on the way? I ran a deep bug-hunt sweep through Survival, and between this and your reports this one turned into a big pile of fixes. Grab a coffee. The big ones Elite and wave bonus rewards were getting silently overwritten o
Hey Commanders, So, funny story. Someone on Discord showed me a screenshot of 550 million credits earned in half an hour and asked if that was normal. It was not. Turns out the economy had a few holes in it. Prestige cost was flat forever, so once your income got rolling you coul
Hey Commanders, Quick SITREP: another day, another batch of bugs blasted. Here's what got fixed: - Units taking turns to move when the map gets crowded. A recent patch accidentally choked the pathfinding budget, so units were queuing up for their route calculations. Everyone move
Hey Commanders, Quick SITREP: went through your reports from the last few days and blasted a solid batch of bugs. Here's what got fixed: - Base "capturing itself" with zero enemies in sight, plus the "base is under attack" radio spam that came with it. Turns out flying wreckage a
Hey Commanders, Confession time. The last proper patch note I posted was v0.9.714, and we're now on v0.9.803. If you noticed builds landing on Steam with no notes attached, you weren't imagining things. I kept sitting on the changelog, telling myself I'd bundle it all with the Zo
Hey Commanders, Real quick, and no spin. Metal Thunder is in the Daily Deal today. 35% off, so $10.99 drops to $7.14. That's the cheapest this game has ever been, and the cheapest it's going to be for a good while. Here's the whole thing laid out, because I'd rather you see it th
Hey Commanders, Couple of urgent reports came in this week, all addressed today: Firing not registering on Steam Deck / Linux — AGT_ZURU and Bravo51 both flagged that mouse clicks weren't always reading, and holding to fire would cut out after a second or two. Tracked it down to
Hey Commanders, Got the email from Valve this morning, Metal Thunder is officially Steam Deck Verified . Steam Deck was the target platform from day one, so seeing that green checkmark land in the inbox really made my week. Wishing you a lot of fun raining hell from 10,000 feet o
Hey Commanders, Round two coming in. Weapon identity pass, a new Prestige feature, and a chunky performance fix that was biting the Napalm crowd. 🎯 Direct Hits Matter Now Landing a precision shot on the right target finally pays off. Maverick, Hellfire, 105MM, JDAM direct hits o
Hey Commanders, Small but important hotfix landing today. Couldn't ignore a few issues that were bugging players (and me). This is mostly about Steam Deck ergo Fixes: 🎯 Weapon Accuracy In-flight projectiles no longer count as misses before they land Direct hits on enemies always
Hey Commanders, Pulled a bunch of AI and pathing threads yesterday and most of it ended up knotted together today, so this one's a chunkier hotfix. A lot of "units standing around like statues" reports, a lot of "my squad won't listen" reports. Turns out those were all the same m
Quick follow-up to 708. A few things surfaced right after it went out. As a solodev I can only do so much testing before pushing updates out, so bear with me and thank you for your continued patience. Fixes: 🚁 Helicopters actually follow command orders - big thanks to @Travis440
Quick hotfix after 707. Couple things popped up once more of you got hands on it, sorry for the inconvenience. As a solodev I can only do so much testing before pushing updates out, so bear with me and thank you for your continued patience. Fixes: 🎯 Accuracy actually capping at
Hey Commanders, Thought I could sleep a little but once I got back Shipping a hotfix tonight targeting a nasty pair of bugs around currency and upgrades. A few of you have been reporting "I can't earn money to upgrade my weapons anymore" and the save recovery rebuild was the prim
Hey Commanders, Quick SITREP: some of you lost your lifetime progress after the big save refactor a few versions back. Currency, meta upgrades, weapon stats, all gone from the menu even though the data was still sitting there on disk. That's been bugging me for a while, so this h
Hotfix v0.9.703 Being a solo dev has its pros and cons, and the biggest con is the inability to test every edge case. You folks find them faster than I ever could, so huge thanks for the reports. Let's get into the fixes: Helicopters are no longer made of STALINIUM Invincible hel
Hey Commanders, First off, I owe you an apology for the long hiatus. Had to step away for a bit to get myself better, both physically and mentally. A lot of you were incredibly supportive through the whole thing, and I can't thank you enough for that. (A small handful were unnece
Hey Commanders, Good news! Slowly but surely getting back on track with the updates! Metal Thunder just went even more multilingual! This update brings full localization support for 15 new languages , so more Commanders around the world can join the fight. 🗣️ Newly Added Languag
Hey Commanders, First off, I owe you an apology for going silent since May. Life hit me pretty hard with burnout, a divorce, and needing to spend some real time with my kids this summer while I got myself back on track. That old dev meme about “divorced my wife and kids to make t