Community31 Aug 2026August Dev Blog - What's next after 1.0August has been an absolutely wild and incredibly rewarding month for the team. After months of building, polishing, and testing, Update 1.0 finally went live. A huge milestone for the entire project. Launch week was fast, chaotic, and honestly pretty magical. Within hours, you all were diving into the new content, stress‑testing systems, and sending us a flood of reports, clips, and reactions.…
Dagger Directive Update 1.0 marks a major milestone for the game. With the depth, stability, and feature set now in place, “Early Access” no longer reflects what the experience offers, so we’re officially calling this our 1.0 release. Players now have 54+ weapons, 20 missions, and a wide range of systems to explore. Over the past months, we’ve dedicated significant effort to improving performan…
Hello Everyone, We have a lot of exciting news for you this month! We are going to unveil additional the remainder of the features going into Update 1.0. New weapons, air strikes, cosmetics, and more. We also have some status updates related to other future and current features for the game. We are going to kick this off with a major announcement. Update 1.0 will be released in less than 3 week…
Hey everyone! We’ve got some exciting news to share about the upcoming Update 1.0. The team has been making incredible progress on new maps, new weapons, and a ton of other content we know you’ve been waiting for. No need to stall, let’s get right into what’s coming next. Missions Last month, we teased one of the maps featured in an upcoming mission. This time, we’re giving you a top‑down look…
Update 0.9.0 & Hotfix 0.9.01 are now out the door. So what is next? This month we want to take a moment to and give you some insight into the team, go over an update of the roadmap, and even a sneak peek into something brand new. We are very excited about what’s upcoming. We want to start out by thanking everyone again for their quick feedback and bug reports after the launch of 0.9.0. It enabl…
Our last update 0.9.0 introduced some really cool features, however, it also introduced some bugs as well. We took each bug report and piece of feedback seriously and quickly got to work on fixing the issues. We identified three major points of feedback and made adjustments. AI Updates Some players seemed to like the previous AI interactions, while others were thrilled with how the new AI behav…
In this patch we are continuing to follow the roadmap and launch the Custom Maps feature. This allows players to submit their own environments and missions. This bring a new wave of content coming in to the game. We suggest continuing to check back in the game to see what your fellow players have been cooking up. However, that’s not all that is included in this update. We have two other feature…
Hello Everyone, It’s the end of April and we are exited to give you updates about the work being done on Dagger Directive. First, we would like to mention our surprise to the players reactions to our April Fool’s joke. We didn’t expect so many people would want to have the opportunity to hunt a monster like Sasquatch. We defiantly took note and are exploring what we can do with this interest. T…
The Custom Map & Missions Guides are now available , and we’re gathering a set of creator-made maps to help us test the upcoming Beta. This phase is all about validating the workflow and ensuring the tools support you the way they should. 📘 Guideline: Custom Maps Guide — Dagger Directive Maps don’t need to be large or highly detailed. What matters most is helping us confirm the creation pipeli…
Patch 0.8.03 is a small update to the game. The majority of the work is not visible since it is prep work for the release of the custom map feature. However, we have released some pending changes we had completed related to the custom weapons workshop. A list of those changes are listed below in the change log. Change Log: - Back End Updates for Custom Maps - \ Added Tag filtering to the worksh…
. . . . . . . April Fools! If we ever add a 12‑foot forest cryptid to the game, you’ll know because the patch notes will be much louder. On a serious note, we did release a real hotfix today: · Fixed an issue where players joining a server mid‑mission could get stuck in a failing state. No more dropping into a doomed mission like you just walked into the wrong cabin in a horror movie. Thanks fo…
Hey Everyone, We hope you are enjoying the new weapons coming in from the community. Here are some examples of the new items Community members have made: Great work Nvsble & SabinyAK! If you want to get involved in making weapons check out the guide here . What’s Next The energy rolling out of 0.8.0 didn’t slow us down for a second. The team jumped straight into Hotfix 0.8.01, tightening up UI…
We appreciate everyone continuing to dive in and put the new custom weapons to work. The creations coming in from the community have been outstanding, and we’re looking forward to seeing what you forge next as the arsenal grows. Thank you to all players who reported the issues you encountered. Your quick intel allowed us to respond fast and lock down fixes. Some key highlights are as follows: ·…
Hi Everyone! Update 0.8.00 is here! With it you’ll find the custom weapons and magazine, multiple front attachment support, exporting and importing of loadouts, two new third person camera views, along with various other small improvements and bug fixes. Below you can read about the new features and at the bottom you’ll find the full change log. Custom Weapons and Magazines You can now create,…
Hi Everyone! It’s another short dev blog this month as we’re finishing up custom weapon support and a few other features for the 0.8.00 Update. Custom Weapons Interacting with custom weapons will be done through a menu in the armory. From the menu you can subscribe/unsubscribe, create, and update weapons and magazines. Configuration Menu Originally the configurations were done in a text file bu…
Hi Everyone! The SAS update is here! With it comes new weapons, attachments, uniform options, updates to maps, and a list of AI improvements and bug fixes. You can read more about what has changed below. At the bottom you will find the full change log. Weapons and Attachments SPAS-12 - a semi-automatic shotgun M10 - a compact sub-machine gun with an optional suppressor Update MP5 and MP5SD mode…
Hi everyone! We’re at the end of the year and I wanted to thank you all for the feedback and support! We released the demo back in February and since then we've added co-op, released into Early Access in June, had a few bug patches, released the 90’s update, had a large performance patch, and we’re just about done with the SAS update. Looking into next year we've got the SAS update first, then…
Hi Everyone! There’s not too much to go over since the last patch notes included some preview content, so this will just be some additional info. We’ll go over some more details of upcoming features like the SAS Content update and the Custom Weapons update. This content is in addition to fixing issues from the performance update last week along with continuing to improve performance, improve ga…
Hi everyone! Sorry for the delays in getting this update out. It took a lot longer than anticipated. Sorry for not keeping you all updated on the progress too. I’ll work on keeping to the devblog schedule and responding to discussions. The good news is you won’t have to wait this long for the next one. Improving performance was our main goal but we’ve included a few new graphics options and som…
Hi everyone, A minor update today mainly to fix a security vulnerability with Unity. October 7th, 2025 - V0.6.02 Unity Security Fix Notes: · Updated Unity to 6000.0.58f2 to fix a security vulnerability in the engine. This brings some additional changes and updates to the engine and may also improve Vulkan performance on Nvidia GPUs. More info: Bug Fixes: · Fixed a black screen error when attemp…
Hi everyone! Small update today to fix some things we broke with the last update and an attempt at improving network stability when loading into some of the more dense missions. Bug Fixes: · PSG-1 suppressor is back in the armory · Tracer rounds are back in the armory. One magazine per rack has tracers. · Fixed stuck AI breaking objectives. They may still get stuck and be killable but the objec…
Hi Everyone! The first of our planned content updates is here! The 90’s Pack, In it you’ll find a selection of weapons, attachments, and uniform options from real life, games, and movies from the 90’s. See a full list of new additions, changes to gameplay and missions, and bug fixes below. New Weapons You can now choose from ten additional weapons, two new sights, and a new type of grenade! Her…
Hi Everyone! We’ll keep this month's update a bit shorter as we’re busy finishing up the first content update. MicroProse Podcast First up, we’re on the first episode of the new MicroProse Podcast! You can listen to it in a few different places and hear a bit more about the development and future of the game: Spotify: YouTube: Facebook: Upcoming Weapons and Equipment Next, here’s another previe…
Hi everyone! We've got a small hot fix to correct a few issues from the previous update. August 5, 2025 - V0.5.05 Build: 725 Changeset: 4710 Bug Fixes: · Fixed loading from a save causing duplicate magazines to float in the air. · Fixed multiple rounds loading into the M203 and M1014 if you reload and then try to pick up additional shells. · Fixed graphics setting menu not displaying properly t…
Hi Everyone! It’s already the end of July and here’s our development update. Today you’ll see a new update for the game that includes a new shotgun, carrier drone, networking improvements, and bug fixes. You can view the full change log at the bottom of this update. New Features Carrier Drone The new carrier drone opens up some new ways to play. You can attach small items such as magazines or e…
Hi everyone! We’re a bit late on the June Dev blog (It was a busy month) but here it is! We launched into early access on June 3rd and since then we’ve released a few updates to fix bugs and improve stability. Thanks for all of your feedback and support! It has been a massive help in tracking down and fixing issues. In the last patch notes we mentioned that we’re going to be taking some additio…
Hi everyone! Update 0.5.1 is here! This update was focused on improving objective and mission stability while also fixing bugs with multiplayer. We’ve reworked each mission to simplify and improve the objectives. Because of the rework, any in progress mission saves will be invalidated. Your campaign progress saves will still be there. We had hoped to get this update out last week but needed som…
Hi everyone! This week's patch is here! This patch is focused on improving performance, especially around networking. We reworked the way the network messages are sent to reduce the CPU cost and size of the messages. There was a general pass on over all performance and we took care of a few big issues. There’s still a lot to improve on too. Next week's updates will be focused on improving the m…
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