Everybody celebrate our 4th year in pre-alpha! Yaaay!!! ... Ah, j/k Okay, September 2017,... it's now ONE YEAR (and over 20 live updates) since the launch of TOXIKK 1.0 The game has fully become the pure hearted Arena FPS we wanted it to be, when we first announced the project in 2014. ~700,000 people have the game installed all over the world... Being a small indie studio, that's a number we n…
Summer is slowly coming to an end, but TOXIKK patches never will. Build 1.1.8 is here, sporting plenty of community inspired changes and features. Let's make hardcore Arena FPS great again... 01 - FEATURE - Instant Global Ban List We are introducing a live global ban list that bans reported hackers right after they've been convicted on all official and private servers. How to report a hacker: A…
STEAM SUMMER SALE JUST STARTED... ...and how could you possibly enjoy summer better than with a fresh bottle of TOXIKK at a 40% Summer discount? Have a sip of our new and delicious build 1.1.7 for only 8.99 now! Build 1.1.7 brings yet again many features, changes and fixes: For example FREE EDITION players get the chance to unlock the game's maps significantly faster (i.e. with less MXP) than i…
Yet another update for our pure blood Arena FPS: 01 - CHANGES - Server-Launcher Changes · On some win7 machines the launched game server instance did not get launched properly and left a zombie process. This was fixed. · Now deletes all subdirectory configuration files first on every launch to avoid compatibility issues with older versions. · Now supports SS "shortcut" for launching SquadSurviv…
Build 1.1.5 brings a bunch of features, fixes and changes. Here's what we did in detail: SQUAD SURVIVOR - GAME MODE FIXES · Some stats for the rounds (e.g. best player per category) were falsely greyed out. Fixed. · Player list in the HUD didn't show more than 10 players. Fixed. · HP in the player list sometimes weren't correctly updated if a player died instantly. Fixed. · Bots are no longer b…
TOXIKK 1.1.4 HAS LANDED Toxikk - Detroit Build 1.1.4 brings lots of new stuff like Squad Survival, a team-based game mode, plus lots of new features and improvements. Here's what we did in detail: NO BACKUP, NO EVAC ...NO REMORSE SQUAD SURVIVAL is the star of this update. In case you didn't already read the rules of this new game mode in one of our previous announcements, here's a quick outline…
NO BACKUP, NO EVAC ...NO REMORSE Two opposing squads get cut off from their battalions and face each other fully armed, but without the chance to call reinforcements (no respawns, no one can join a running round) or fresh ammo (no pick-ups whatsoever in the maps). Each squad member has all weapons right from the spawn, fully loaded, but only one life to lose. The surviving squad wins. The chall…
Yup, here comes another patchy day of your favorite Arena FPS. 01 - FEATURE: New "Join Friends" button in the main menu for Free Edition players (and also invite friends buttons in multiplayer menus for Full Game players) to make opening the Steam UI and playing with friends even easier. 02 - FEATURE: New visual hitmarker "Damage Plumes" that display the amount of damage a hit caused. Can be di…
Build 1.1 is here and brings quite a revolution for Free Edition players. From this build on, we'll let Free Edition players unlock ALL maps of the game through XP. If you already played a bit with your Free Edition of Toxikk, chances are you already unlocked some maps. We now also offer voting for next maps after each match for Free Edition players. 1.1 Detroit also holds lots of other fresh s…
TOXIKK 1.0.99 has landed and it's the last release of the Vanilla build generation, preparing the road for the upcoming "Detroit" generation of builds, starting with build 1.1. The Detroit generation will bring many changes, mostly for the Free Edition players and 1.0.99 is paving the way to it, bringing the following changes today: 01 - Change: Free Edition Players (FEPs) can now vote for the…
V1.0.9 brings a bunch of fixes to some nerve killing glitches , as well as some minor changes. Let's take a look at what we did in detail: 01 - FIX: In some rare cases, the armor and health packs were still displayed if someone picked it up while it was about to spawn (now REALLY fixed!) ... *fingerscrossed* 02 - FIX: if you have the "next and previous weapon" keys bound to character keys, thos…
The 3rd TOXIKK ESL EU Community Cup will take off later today (16h CET). With 20 contestants already signed-up, this is going to be a thrilling event. More details and FREE sign-up here: 3rd ESL EU Cup Details & Sign-Up Brought to you in cooperation with: ESL Play Accelerated Evolution QUESTIONS? Meet the community on our live Discord server at:
The sign-up for the first North American TOXIKK 1on1 Arch Rivals Community Cup is now open. The tournament takes place on Wednesday, February 08. More details and FREE sign-up here: ESL US Cup Details & Sign-Up Brought to you in cooperation with: ESL Play Accelerated Evolution QUESTIONS? Meet the community on our live Discord server at:
The 2nd TOXIKK ESL EU CUP had yet again some awesome matches, with a special focus on the duels between HardyRah and Yatja: Both contestants met in the winner bracket finals, where Yatja was victorious. HardyRah then fought his way through the loser bracket, only to meet Yatja once again in the final which was played "best of 3". Now, before you simply take a look at the final results, we recom…
Yay... another patch with fresh features & fixes: 01 - Borderless window display mode: "Allow borderless window" feature which switches to borderless mode if a fullscreen resolution is used. (thanks to PredatH0r and Chatouille) 02 - Since the last patch admins weren't able to use the addbots and killbots commands anymore...fixed 03 - Spectator got kicked from the server during travel if there w…
The first ESL Euro Cup was a thrilling experience with super close duels and adrenaline boosts for everyone. We've now opened the sign-up for TOXIKK - ESL Euro Cup #2: TOXIKK - ESL EURO CUP #2 Sunday, 29 Jan 2017 16:00 CET Sign up now on the official ESL Euro Cup page: LOOKING FOR STREAMERS We're looking for people who're interested in officially streaming some cup duels. If you feel like strea…
F3 IS MAKING A COMEBACK Yea, that's right: the infamous TOXIKK F3 is back! After more people asking for a recurring shootout night, we shall revive ye good ol' FRIDAY FRAG FEST , starting THIS Friday, January 20. Last time we did this (during Early Access), we kinda over-complicated things a bit by setting exact launch times for EU and US... This time we simply say that F3 launches twice EVERY…
Our first EU Community Cup started a bit bumpy with some mis-configured servers (wrong goal scores... *meh* ), but turned out to be great fun. Winner and loser brackets played a total of 51 matches over a little more than five hours. The matches were dominated by PredatH0r, Anub1ss, Archon0003, chortas, Dr. Hazard, Emmemad, Spartan195 and our French friend Chatouille who crushed the cup with an…
Another "Quality of Life" patch for TOXIKK, before we start our first ESL community cups next Sunday ( All details about the UPCOMING ESL COMMUNITY CUP HERE ). Also many thanks to Chatouille and PredatH0r for the help. Let's take a look at what build 1.0.7 brings in detail: 01 - FEATURE: EASY MATCH HOST Full Game Owners now can VERY easily host own matches to play with Steam friends. It require…
FRAG HARD: TOXIKK JOINS THE ESL Think you're the ultimate Arena FPS badass? God of Instagib? Master of wall-dodges? Show it off at the upcoming #1 ESL Community Cup! ALL THE DETAILS AND SIGN-UP TOXIKK officially joins the ESL, starting with our first Community Cup series on January 15 at 16:00h CET. Everyone can join the action! Find the full ESL announcement and your sign-up details here: MEET…
PATCH 1.0.6 focuses on the post match ceremony, new achievements and rewards, but also brings a bunch of fixes. Here's what we did in detail: 01 - FRAG ANNIVERSARY ACHIEVEMENTS & MXP REWARDS Introducing the Frag Anniversary achievements, which will count your total online frags performance: · BAD ASS (50 frags, rewarded with 500 MXP) · BUTTKICKER (100 frags, rewarded with 1,000 MXP) · TAG TAKER…
In preparation of our upcoming Pro League Tournaments, #TOXIKK 1.0.5 brings multiple further improvements, fixes and features. Let's take a look at what we did in detail: 01: IMPROVED CONNECTIVITY The Quick Join feature was affected by a bug that caused a "No Server Found" error under certain conditions. This should no longer happen. Also, if loading/connecting took very long, you could get stu…
Another major update and this one was a real bitch: Originally announced for early October, 1.0.4 had to be delayed multiple times as things just didn't work out as intended. Anyway, all hail the new build and the tons of fresh stuff it brings... 01 - ARCH RIVALS (AR) GAME MODE AR is a strictly competitive game mode where two players fight each other. The player who reaches 10 kills first, wins…
After two weeks out in the wild, TOXIKK gets its second update. All hail 1.0.2 Vanilla, the update to finally transcend TOXIKK into an entity of pure light and love. Let's take a look at what we did here: 01 - SKILL CLASS (SC) SYSTEM LIBERATED The Skill Class (SC) based matchmaking system was liberated a lot. Instead of grouping various SC ranges into individual groups, SC matchmaking is now pr…
After an exciting launch weekend and with the Early Access tag removed last Monday, we're now ready to deploy our first patch to the live build, where we tried to realize as much player feedback as possible. All hail build 1.01. Let's take a look at what we did here: 01: SC (SKILL CLASS) FILTER FOR SERVER BROWSER People complained about not being able to find SC matching servers quickly in the…
Q1: What is the FREE EDITION of TOXIKK? The chart below (which is also posted on the store page in the "About this Game" section) should already answer most of your questions. It's a straight feature comparison between the FULL GAME (FG) and the FREE EDITION (FE). * LIMITED AMOUNT OF MAPS ** IF RELEVANT TO INCLUDED MAPS It basically boils down to this: The Free Edition of Toxikk features the fu…
In today's GAMESCOM '16 release of our "Making of TOXIKK" video series, game director Martin Schwiezer gives an insight into design considerations and the development of the weapons for our classic Arena FPS. Questions? Comments? Chat live with the devs and the community on our new DISCORD server:
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Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.