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Chat In-match chat is visible and usable. T talks to everyone, Y to your team, Enter sends, Escape cancels. Pressing T no longer freezes your movement and mouse in a chat box you cannot see. The chat keys are listed in Settings → Controls, along with the scoreboard key. Audio Thr
Loadout Grenades and launchers have their own LETHAL tab in the armory. Frag, Molotov, Shrapnel, Thumper and Scatter are picked there, separately from your knife. MELEE is blades only now. A grenade you had equipped moves across to LETHAL by itself, and so does a launcher you wer
Matchmaking DEPLOY now looks for any open public room before it creates a new one. A player who picked FFA and a player who picked TDM used to end up in two separate rooms — now they meet. Quick Play from the Servers screen respects your mode and the featured map instead of rolli
Display Fixed blurry rendering on scaled HiDPI desktops (Linux especially) — the game now starts at the largest real display mode instead of the compositor's scaled-down logical size. New in Settings → Video: RESOLUTION and DISPLAY MODE (fullscreen / borderless / windowed) contro
Localization The entire interface — menus, inventory, shop, barracks, missions, settings, scoreboard and match results — is now available in 9 languages: English, 简体中文, Русский, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português (BR), Polski and Türkçe. Switch languages any time in Settings →
Achievements Five Steam achievements are live: First Deploy, Century (100 kills), Ten Thousand (10,000 score), Veteran (10 hours played) and Captain (top rank). Progress you already have counts — long-time players unlock theirs on the first login after updating. Menu The home scr
Progression Weapon unlocks were all packed into levels 3, 8 and 15, so about 58 kills cleared the entire catalogue and the remaining 63 levels handed out nothing. Unlocks now run from level 2 to level 62. Every weapon can still be bought, and every price is now set to half the gr
The lobby is a room now The menu scene used to ship with a camera, the interface, and nothing else, so every screen was drawn on a flat grey slab. There is a set behind the interface now: a floor with a pool of light where the operator stands, a backdrop far enough away that the
The end of a match looks like the game now When a match ended you got two pieces of interface that had nothing to do with each other, or with the rest of the game: a banner across the top in a different typeface, the countdown to the lobby floating loose at the bottom of the scre
The operator moves He did not before. The idle he was given is a humanoid clip - it carries muscle curves, not per-bone curves - and the component playing it could only read the second kind, so he stood perfectly still while the menus were built around him. He breathes, shifts an
The lobby has somewhere to be The menu scene contained a camera, the interface, and nothing else, so every screen was drawn on a flat grey slab. There is a room behind it now: an operator standing in the profile column, three lights, and embers drifting up through the dark. The s
Patch 2.2.10 — You can see how the match ended, and who killed you The end of a match is visible again When the clock ran out the match simply stopped. You were left standing in the map with the timer on 00:00, never told who won or what you earned, while the coins were awarded s
Patch 2.2.8 — Antialiasing, lighting and shadows that finally do what they were told Most of this patch is not new work. It is settings and systems that were already in the game, already switched on, and never actually reached the screen. Antialiasing The antialiasing option neve
Sniper scopes Scoped weapons show the world through the lens again instead of an empty circle. Bots Bots no longer get stuck on spawn on Fantasy Arena, Megapolis and Desert Arena. Bots stop crowding each other into corners. Matchmaking Everyone now connects to one region (EU), so
Progress protection Quest counters, battle pass XP and clan membership were tracked under an identity that could momentarily change mid-session — progress could silently land in the void, and quests could even lose the match you just played. All progression now uses one stable id
Loadout Fixed the long-standing bug where the weapon you equipped in the lobby could silently revert to your class default in a match. Loadout picks are now stored under a stable player identity and are never wiped by temporary validation states. The shop and the inventory now on
Scoreboard & HUD Team scores are now shown in the top HUD capsule in team modes — your team on the left, enemy on the right. No more guessing who's winning. Ammo counter shows your real reserve ammo and correctly hides when you pull out a melee weapon. Grenades show their cou
We’re happy to announce that VertalStrike now has its own category on Twitch . This means the game can now be properly selected and streamed under its official Twitch game category. VertalStrike is a fast-paced multiplayer FPS focused on movement, aim, and constant action, and it
The biggest UI pass since launch. Everything you see during a match got cleaner, sharper, and more readable. HUD chips (HEALTH / AMMO) Brand-new dark chips with gold accent stripe, big readable numbers HEALTH bottom-left: HP color shifts gold → orange → red as you take damage AMM
Operators — Combat just got the punch it was missing. Every hit, every kill, every shot now lands with proper feedback. Your gun sounds like a gun. Hits register. Kills celebrate. Shake, sparks, and a clean kill confirm — the whole loop finally feels right. We also gave the brigh