Double Action: Boogaloo

Double Action Factory Jorge Rodriguez

Released: Oct 23, 2014
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 14:24 GMT

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14 Oct 2025Developer post
Double Action: Next Update
In a few weeks I'll be working on a followup to my previous Double Action update and I want your feedback. But before I get started this is not a changelist! Just because you see something here doesn't mean it will happen this way, and just because you don't see something here do
In a few weeks I'll be working on a followup to my previous Double Action update and I want your feedback. But before I get started this is not a changelist! Just because you see something here doesn't mean it will happen this way, and just because you don't see something here doesn't mean it won't appear in the next update! This is just a current working list of the major ideas I'll be looking at.
With that our of the way, here are some of the things I'm thinking about for the next update:
Tweaks to how health generation works - regen after four seconds if nobody is around, otherwise regen after eight seconds. The new health regeneration sometimes behaves in unexpected ways and I want to make sure the health always comes back appropriately.
Fix a visual bug where sometimes you spawn and your health claims to be zero.
Don't allow the player to spawn directly on Rat Race checkpoints.
The Bouncer range upgrade for brawling should only apply to bare fists and not weapons
The Reflexes passive should not come out of your total slowmo points, should deactivate on its own after .5 seconds, and should leave you at a higher speed than normal to reduce disruption
Leave your thoughts on anything I might be missing in the comments and I will check them out, or join the discussion in the official unofficial Double Action: Discord. I'm currently targeting mid November as the time I'll be starting work on this.
Also, I have a game that just launched an updated demo as part of Steam Next Fest. Eclipse Breaker is an action RPG where you get one attack at a time. Please take a moment to check it out.
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29 Jul 2025Developer post
Double Action: Updated Style Skills
Hello, fans of Action! For years I have had many updates I've wanted to make to Double Action. I had a week or two free while working on my other game, and I decided I wanted to use that time to check some of those items off my list. The main thing is that every style skill now h
Hello, fans of Action! For years I have had many updates I've wanted to make to Double Action. I had a week or two free while working on my other game, and I decided I wanted to use that time to check some of those items off my list. The main thing is that every style skill now has a builtin passive! There are also now health bars on enemies and some reworks to Wanted and Rat Race. It's all available to play now on the default Steam branch. Check out the full changelist at the bottom of this post.
People often ask me what I've been doing lately. The answer is Eclipse Breaker! It's a combat-focused roguelike where you pick up a 25 year old save file and fight through the final dungeon of an updated JRPG. I've been putting as much effort into making a killer game as I did into Double Action, so if you remember Double Action fondly please do me the pleasure of clicking here and checking it out.
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Changelist
Every style ability now has a new passive.
Updates to Bouncer:
New passive: Brawling enemies grants +25 health. This effect has a 20 second cooldown, but resets if you get a kill.
Bouncers deal more and receive less Brawl damage (they didn't deal any more damage before even though the game said they did, oops)
Bouncers have a slightly higher Brawl range
Bouncer Brawl freezes enemy players by 50% for .35 seconds
Updates to Reflexes:
New passive: Reflexes now automatically activates slowmo if you get damaged by a bullet while at full health.
Reflexes automatically grants one second of slowmo.
Updates to Marksman:
New passive: Getting a headshot on an enemy refills half of your magazine.
Updates to Athletic:
New passive: The player now gets a +30% style bonus while stunting.
Lowering the prone and slide speed boosts to 35% from 50%,
Lowering the slide speed boost to 15% from 25%,
Lowering the movement speed boost to 15% while the style skill is off but increasing it to 25% while it's on (from always 20%)
Updates to Nitrophiliac:
New passive: Hitting an enemy with a grenade slows them and momentarily reveals their position.
You can now see enemy player health bars.
Health regeneration starts much quicker if there are no enemies around and regenerates your health much more quickly.
The Wanted now starts with a full Style Bar, which depletes over time. If it depletes then they "win" the minigame. If they get a kill then some Style is added, prolonging their time as Wanted.
Sometimes Wanted would go a very long time if it was given to a player with a high skill differential compared to other players in the server. Now this player will have to continue to get kills if they want to extend Wanted, and either way the minigame will eventually end.
Players now no longer lose progress in the Rat Race if they die.
Sometimes Rat Race would go a very long time due to nobody being able to complete it. This was done to help ensure Rat Race ends in a reasonable amount of time.
Players now receive only 85% of the damage if they are shot in the back.
Style grant changes:
Aim in bonus lowered to 10%
Bonuses stack additively rather than multiplicatively
Sliding bonus lowered to 65% from 100% since sliding is easier
New view model and sounds for Black Magic.
Vote kicking players is now no longer available.
This feature was intended to help players police hacking, but ended up being used much more often to kick high skill players.
A new game startup song.
Fix: Shotguns would sometimes not reload if the reload was interrupted by brawling
Fix: Animation errors if you switch weapons during a grenade throw
A few other small bug fixes.
Linux build
I've been unable to get the Linux build of Double Action working on my computer, so I'm looking for anyone who is knowledgable in this area and able to compile the build for me. If you can, drop in the Double Action: Discord and ping me.
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26 Jul 2025Developer post
Double Action dev build playtest now
Hey folks! You're invited to the second (and hopefully last before release) development playtest. It's going on right now! I'm gearing up to release a new version of Double Action soon, and you are invited to help playtest it. I've been wanting to do some of these changes for man
Hey folks! You're invited to the second (and hopefully last before release) development playtest. It's going on right now!
I'm gearing up to release a new version of Double Action soon, and you are invited to help playtest it. I've been wanting to do some of these changes for many years, and I had a week free. Please join me in testing these changes ahead of their release.
How to join the playtest
Make sure you have Double Action installed
In your Steam library, right click on Double Action: Boogaloo and click "Properties..."
Click the "Betas" tab
Under "Beta Participation" choose the "develop" branch.
Click the "Installed Files" tab
Click the "Verify integrity of game files" button
Steam should now load the dev build onto your computer. If you start Double Action, the server browser will show the test server. Don't forget to change your beta branch back to None after the playtest so that you can play regular Double Action!
After the playtest, you can write your feedback in the community discussion or join the Double Action Discord server.
See you Saturday!
Changelist
Every style ability now has a new passive.
Updates to Bouncer:
New passive: Brawling enemies grants +25 health. This effect has a 20 second cooldown, but resets if you get a kill.
Bouncers deal more and receive less Brawl damage (they didn't deal any more damage before even though the game said they did, oops)
Bouncers have a slightly higher Brawl range
Bouncer Brawl freezes enemy players by 50% for .35 seconds
Updates to Reflexes:
New passive: Reflexes now automatically activates slowmo if you get damaged by a bullet while at full health.
Reflexes automatically grants one second of slowmo.
Updates to Marksman:
New passive: Getting a headshot on an enemy refills half of your magazine.
Updates to Athletic:
New passive: The player now gets a +30% style bonus while stunting.
Lowering the prone and slide speed boosts to 35% from 50%,
Lowering the slide speed boost to 15% from 25%,
Lowering the movement speed boost to 15% while the style skill is off but increasing it to 25% while it's on (from always 20%)
Updates to Nitrophiliac:
New passive: Hitting an enemy with a grenade slows them and momentarily reveals their position.
You can now see enemy player health bars.
Health regeneration starts much quicker if there are no enemies around and regenerates your health much more quickly.
The Wanted now starts with a full Style Bar, which depletes over time. If it depletes then they "win" the minigame. If they get a kill then some Style is added, prolonging their time as Wanted.
Sometimes Wanted would go a very long time if it was given to a player with a high skill differential compared to other players in the server. Now this player will have to continue to get kills if they want to extend Wanted, and either way the minigame will eventually end.
Players now no longer lose progress in the Rat Race if they die.
Sometimes Rat Race would go a very long time due to nobody being able to complete it. This was done to help ensure Rat Race ends in a reasonable amount of time.
Players now receive only 85% of the damage if they are shot in the back.
Style grant changes:
Aim in bonus lowered to 10%
Bonuses stack additively rather than multiplicatively
Sliding bonus lowered to 65% from 100% since sliding is easier
New view model and sounds for Black Magic.
Vote kicking players is now no longer available.
This feature was intended to help players police hacking, but ended up being used much more often to kick high skill players.
A new game startup song.
Fix: Shotguns would sometimes not reload if the reload was interrupted by brawling
Fix: Animation errors if you switch weapons during a grenade throw
A few other small bug fixes.
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17 Jul 2025Developer post
Double Action dev build playtest this Saturday
Hey folks! I'm gearing up to release a new version of Double Action soon, and you are invited to help playtest it. I've been wanting to do some of these changes for many years, and I had a week free. Please join me in testing these changes ahead of their release. How to join the
Hey folks! I'm gearing up to release a new version of Double Action soon, and you are invited to help playtest it. I've been wanting to do some of these changes for many years, and I had a week free. Please join me in testing these changes ahead of their release.
How to join the playtest
Make sure you have Double Action installed
In your Steam library, right click on Double Action: Boogaloo and click "Properties..."
Click the "Betas" tab
Under "Beta Participation" choose the "develop" branch.
Click the "Installed Files" tab
Click the "Verify integrity of game files" button
Steam should now load the dev build onto your computer. If you start Double Action, the server browser will show the test server. Don't forget to change your beta branch back to None after the playtest so that you can play regular Double Action!
After the playtest, you can write your feedback in the community discussion or join the Double Action Discord server.
See you Saturday!
Changelist
Every style ability now has a new passive.
Updates to Bouncer:
New passive: Brawling enemies grants +25 health. This effect has a 20 second cooldown, but resets if you get a kill.
Bouncers deal more and receive less Brawl damage (they didn't deal any more damage before even though the game said they did, oops)
Bouncers have a slightly higher Brawl range
Bouncer Brawl freezes enemy players by 50% for .35 seconds
Updates to Reflexes:
New passive: Reflexes now automatically activates slowmo if you get damaged by a bullet while at full health.
Reflexes automatically grants one second of slowmo.
Updates to Marksman:
New passive: Getting a headshot on an enemy refills half of your magazine.
Updates to Athletic:
New passive: The player now gets a +50% style bonus while stunting.
Updates to Nitrophiliac:
New passive: Hitting an enemy with a grenade slows them and momentarily reveals their position.
You can now see enemy player health bars.
Health regeneration starts much quicker if there are no enemies around and regenerates your health much more quickly.
The Wanted now starts with a full Style Bar, which depletes over time. If it depletes then they "win" the minigame. If they get a kill then some Style is added, prolonging their time as Wanted.
Sometimes Wanted would go a very long time if it was given to a player with a high skill differential compared to other players in the server. Now this player will have to continue to get kills if they want to extend Wanted, and either way the minigame will eventually end.
Players now no longer lose progress in the Rat Race if they die.
Sometimes Rat Race would go a very long time due to nobody being able to complete it. This was done to help ensure Rat Race ends in a reasonable amount of time.
Players now receive only 85% of the damage if they are shot in the back.
Style grant changes:
Aim in bonus lowered to 10%
Bonuses stack additively rather than multiplicatively
Sliding bonus lowered to 65% from 100% since sliding is easier
New view model and sounds for Black Magic.
Vote kicking players is now no longer available.
This feature was intended to help players police hacking, but ended up being used much more often to kick high skill players.
A new game startup song.
Fix: Shotguns would sometimes not reload if the reload was interrupted by brawling
Fix: Animation errors if you switch weapons during a grenade throw
A few other small bug fixes.
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11 Jan 2022Developer post
Nerfed the shotties
Use a different gun for once, jeez
08 Jan 2022Developer post
More shotty fixes
This should fix the swapped sounds and weird damages on the shotguns
12 Dec 2021Developer post
Shottyfixes
Patch no0tes: Updated texture on stakeout Debuffed persuader so it's not a one-hit boomstick anymore (soz) Changed the MOTD to something that we can update regularly Added a phys model for the stakeout so when you drop it it doesn't just slide around the place like a banana Fixed
Patch no0tes:

Updated texture on stakeout
Debuffed persuader so it's not a one-hit boomstick anymore (soz)
Changed the MOTD to something that we can update regularly
Added a phys model for the stakeout so when you drop it it doesn't just slide around the place like a banana
Fixed animation sound timing even on stakeout draw animation so it goes "shk chk" when you actually pump the thing.
As always, join us in the discord for advance discussion on updates, playtest announcements and general riff raffery! https://discord.gg/rTTfN2dj2m
much <3 and metal gloves!
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30 Oct 2021Developer post
Double Action: Shotgun Hell
Debuffed the persuader, sorry (reverted, not nerfed) Also added da_doubletrouble to rotation in server config files
27 Oct 2021Developer post
Double Action: Doves Of Fury
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AT LONG LAST AND WITH GREAT FANFARE IT IS MY HONOUR TO PRESENT TO YOU TODAY: DOUBLE ACTION!! DOVES OF FURY!! Like Keanu Reeves walking through welding sparks, like Jason Statham in an airborne car, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the jungle, Double Action has
31 Jul 2021Developer post
Double Action: Back on the Block
Hello everyone! Stormy here. It has been a while. After a brief (6 year) hiatus, I have picked up development on DA again. I have just finished the first pass on all 31 of our achievements for DA and we now have a beta branch LIVE on steam where those achievements can be unlocked
17 Feb 2021Developer post
If you're not hearing weapon sounds at all since the update...
Quick info for everyone wondering why they're still not hearing weapon sounds: We changed the way the server sends sounds to the client. The client now ignores the old "piggy-backed" way of sending weapon sounds in order to prevent double sounds. Servers that aren't updated yet w
17 Feb 2021Developer post
Double Action: Boogaloo v1.3.2.1
1.3.2.1 offblast! Hello everyone, this time, there's just one change, but this one has probably been annoying most of you a lot. The full changelog can, as always, be seen at: Highlights Weapon sounds will no longer fail to play Weapon sounds should now play under all circumstanc
1.3.2.1 offblast!
Hello everyone,
this time, there's just one change, but this one has probably been annoying most of you a lot.
The full changelog can, as always, be seen at:
https://github.com/BSVino/DoubleAction/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
Highlights
Weapon sounds will no longer fail to play
Weapon sounds should now play under all circumstances.
Previously, in bandwidth-limited situations, with low rate settings or with low-end server hardware, weapon sounds didn't get transmitted to all clients.
For the longest time, I couldn't reproduce this because I have high rate settings, a fairly good internet connection and I was playing on less than full servers.
Thankfully, Dementei found some people who not only could reproduce the issue but also had the knowledge to address it.
tl;dr: Weapon sounds work now \o/
(If you still don't hear weapon sounds, make sure you're playing on an updated server)
Thanks

Valkyrie for the initial patch and for patiently debugging through this with me
Joshua Ashton for helping with the initial patch
Dementei and Stray Chet for, in one way or another, for making the connection
What now?
The official servers have been updated or will be updated once they have drained of players.
All other server owners have been notified about this update and will probably update their servers to the new version very soon.
The new and old versions are forwards- and backwards-compatible with one another, so you can still play on unupdated servers, but you will not hear *any* weapon sounds on unupdated servers.
Client updates are optional (but will happen automatically through Steam anyway).
Server owners will most likely need to update manually (but all players can still connect).
You will be able to find both old and new servers with both the in-game and Steam server browser.
Players can tell whether a server is updated by using the "da_version" command and verifying that the server and client have the same version (comparing the first 4 digits is enough in this case).
Servers updated so far:

SimRai
Superfall Boogaloo!
dr.N0s
[ju:nien]
karn's
Knalltüten
Minced Meat Mans
OurDare
RIVINS
Rudeflesh
Servers not updated:

EMR (notified)
Jim's (no contact info)
Tuijnenburg (notified)
Xerneas (notified)
This time, due to the servers being compatible, I won't be able to easily verify which servers have updated, so I can't keep the list as up-to-date as the last time.
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01 Jan 2021Developer post
Double Action: Boogaloo v1.3.2.0
How's 2021? Does it smell nice? It smells of burnt gunpowder. Less so than the previous year, though. Hello everyone, the world finally made it through 2020, so here's a treat to start out the new year! The full changelog can, as always, be seen at: Highlights Melee Rebalance Thi
How's 2021? Does it smell nice? It smells of burnt gunpowder. Less so than the previous year, though.
Hello everyone,
the world finally made it through 2020, so here's a treat to start out the new year!
The full changelog can, as always, be seen at:
https://github.com/BSVino/DoubleAction/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md
Highlights
Melee Rebalance
This attempts to balance brawl-centric styles of play with other playing styles by making the following changes:

Bring gun brawl (stock attack) damage down to the current level of regular melee attacks, so that you cannot 1-hit-kill people with 100% health even if you have the bouncer's melee buff unless you have a heavy weapon (Persuader/Vindicator/Black Magic).
Melee attacks can now no longer be held down for more than 5 punches. People have been abusing the full-auto nature of melee attacks using console commands and this fixes that.
Style bar usage for melee attacks is now based on the damage potential of the attack.
Akimbo Stallions/Sentinels now have the same melee damage as a single Stallion/Sentinel
Diminishing certain bonuses over time

After winning a race/dropping off a briefcase/killing the wanted, you are rewarded with a super style meter. This meter's depletion rate is now doubled every minute. The initial depletion rate has been halved to compensate.
When chosen as the wanted, you get healed every time you kill someone. This heal will now halve every minute. The initial amount of healing has been doubled to compensate.
This will mean that even experienced players will no longer be able to hold on to these bonuses for an extreme amount of time.
No longer automatically dropping weapons to make room for weapons picked up from the ground
This stalled people too much in case the game dropped the wrong gun. Press G to drop manually. The old behaviour can be restored with the "da_drop_overflow_on_pickup" variable.
Other changes

Add Russian translation for the menus by Louie
Fix a race condition in the vote kick system allowing people to survive a kick vote by reconnecting at a certain time
Make da_version_server respond in rcon properly
Changed a few drums from prop_physics to prop_physics_multiplayer in order to be able to walk through them.
What now?
The official servers have been updated or will be updated once they have drained of players using the old version.
All other server owners have been notified about this update and will probably update their servers to the new version very soon.
You will not be able to find servers that haven't updated yet with the in-game server browser.
However, you will be able to find them using the Steam server browser, but trying to connect will yield a version mismatch error.
I recommend using the in-game server browser until all servers have updated.
Servers updated so far:

SimRai
Superfall Boogaloo!
dr.N0s
EMR
Jim's
[ju:nien]
karn's
Knalltüten
OurDare
RIVINS
Rudeflesh
Tuijnenburg
EDIT:
There's an unofficial community discord server, managed by slikktic and [L'SL] Lucasjlw™:
https://discord.gg/aycVCUDrXj
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17 Jun 2019Developer post
Double Action: Boogaloo v1.3.1.1
Small crash fix, thanks Niki for reporting it!
16 Jun 2019Developer post
Double Action: Boogaloo v1.3.1.0
Hello everyone, it's been a while since the last update, but here's a new one, finally! The full changelog can, as always, be seen at: Highlights: - Steam rich presence - Now your friends can see when you're falling to your death! - Korean translation - Thanks to 스팀유저! - Map-end
08 Apr 2018Developer post
Double Action 1.3: I Said I'd Be Back!
What's this? A mini-map-emission for our most dedicated Boogalooers? Damn Straight. Bring it in tight for the latest map from Doum - a prison-themed shoot-em-up in the vein of your favourite badass brawlers. With tight hallways to concentrate the boom boom and high ceilings to ex
08 Apr 2018Developer post
Double Action 1.3: I Said I'd Be Back!
What's this? A mini-map-emission for our most dedicated Boogalooers? Damn Straight. Bring it in tight for the latest map from Doum - a prison-themed shoot-em-up in the vein of your favourite badass brawlers. With tight hallways to concentrate the boom boom and high ceilings to ex
28 May 2017Developer post
Double Action: Boogaloo v1.2.2.2 (Update)
This server-side patch fixes a rounding error in the vote tallying system, leading to votes failing unless there is no counter-vote. Windows and Linux Steam clients will also automatically update the local server component. This update is not necessary in order to effectively par
28 May 2017Developer post
Double Action: Boogaloo v1.2.2.2 (Update)
This server-side patch fixes a rounding error in the vote tallying system, leading to votes failing unless there is no counter-vote. Windows and Linux Steam clients will also automatically update the local server component. This update is not necessary in order to effectively par
09 Oct 2016Developer post
Double Action: Boogaloo v1.2.2.1
This patch fixes a couple of bugs in the voting system. On the client side, effective immediately when downloading this update, there are two changes: Prevent situations where there is a preselected choice that you cannot change. In the "Call vote" menu, entries used to be invisi
This patch fixes a couple of bugs in the voting system.
On the client side, effective immediately when downloading this update, there are two changes:

Prevent situations where there is a preselected choice that you cannot change.
In the "Call vote" menu, entries used to be invisible when selected. This has been fixed.
On the server side, effective as soon as the server owner updates, there is

Tied multiple-choice votes are no longer decided in favor of the topmost choice, but treated as if not enough players had voted.
Onwards comrades, power to the people!
PS: With apologies to the Mac users among you, we're only releasing this bug fix for Windows and Linux. Mac users can still join v1.2.2.1 servers with v1.2.2.
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How to join the playtest

Changelist

DOUBLE ACTION!!

DOVES OF FURY!!

Highlights

Weapon sounds will no longer fail to play

Thanks

What now?

Highlights

Melee Rebalance

Diminishing certain bonuses over time

No longer automatically dropping weapons to make room for weapons picked up from the ground

Other changes

What now?