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 were running as your primary — nothing you own is lost. · Grenade details read honestly: anti-personnel, thrown, wit…
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 rolling a random one. · Quick Play rooms are always 8 slots / 15 minutes — a random 2-slot room used to bounce the thi…
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) controls. Your choice is remembered. Achievements · Expanded from 5 to 21 — career tiers for kills, score, play time an…
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 → Accessibility · UI. The menu rebuilds on the spot; no restart needed. · 中文玩家：完整的简体中文界面已经上线——在设置中切换语言即可。感谢提出这个建议的…
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 screen now shows how many operators are online before you queue. · The deploy panel has been rebalanced — the DEPLOY…
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 grind to its own unlock level. Buying a weapon means having it at half the wait, instead of paying for something th…
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 frame ends in a surface, light shafts angled through the dark, and haze along the ground. He is not a photograph eith…
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 screen, and a summary panel below it in a different orange. It is one card now, in the same typeface and the same colours…
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 and settles now. And he stands somewhere The menu scene shipped with a camera, the interface and nothing else, so every…
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 surfaces the interface is made of went from blue-grey to neutral, and the warmth comes from the lighting instead - whi…
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 silently in the background. The end-of-match summary is back. So is the kill camera — the panel naming who killed you,…
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 never applied. The menu stored the position you picked in the list and handed that number straight to the renderer as a…
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 lobbies fill instead of splitting a small player base four ways. · The server browser shows the real mode an…
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 identity per session. · Creating a clan charges gold only after your clan is safely saved. If saving fails, you keep…
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 only offer weapons that can actually be carried into a match. Scoreboard & HUD · The Tab scoreboard got a full rede…
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 count. · Crosshair got a subtle dark outline — it no longer disappears against bright skies and snow. · Fixed clipped la…
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’s now easier for streamers and players to share it with their audience. We’re excited to see the first streams, clip…
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 · AMMO bottom-right: current bullets on left, reserve on right, no more text overlap Tab scoreboard — fully redesign…
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 bright maps the lighting they deserved. Trees stop reading as black silhouettes, foliage holds its color even in shadow, a…
Operators — The biggest visual upgrade since launch is live. The whole front of the game has been redrawn. New lobby. New map art. New weapon presentation. Better lighting on every map. Faster, smoother, sharper across the board. What's new: — Brand new lobby UI across every screen — Home, Servers, Host, Inventory, Shop, Barracks, Quests, Settings — Custom hero artwork for all 16 weapons (9 pri…
Small polish patch after the feedback you've been sending on the Patch 2.1.2 announcement. No new content — just things that should have been smoother from day one. Host form reads in plain English Creating a custom room is less confusing now. Labels that used to sound like developer notes have been rewritten, and Bots are ON by default so your public lobby fills instantly instead of sitting em…
Weapons get their call signs We've given all 24 weapons proper operator-style names. No more generic "Rifle" or "Pistol" in the HUD — your AR is now a Striker , your sidearm a Viper , your shotgun a Buckshot , your bolt-action a Hawkeye , and more. A few picks: · Rifle → Striker · Pistol → Viper · Shotgun → Buckshot · Sniper → Hawkeye · Grenade → Frag · Grenade Launcher → Thumper · Knife (comba…
Thanks everyone playing Vertal Strike! This patch fixes a few issues spotted during the launch window. Fixed · Shop weapons now unlock properly. Until today, every player could equip any shop weapon even without buying it — that was our bug, not intended. Shop weapons now unlock either by coin purchase or by reaching the required player level (Level 3 for starter weapons, Level 8 for mid-tier,…
We are going LIVE with a special Developer Event inside the game! This is your chance to play directly against the developer in a fast, intense match and test your skills in a unique setup. 🎮 HOW TO JOIN: Go to Servers Find the room named: “Developer Event” Join the server Enter the access code: 57892 🧩 GAME SETUP: This is an FFA (Free For All) mode — there are no teams and no team selection.…
VertalStrike is Now Officially Released We are proud to officially announce that VertalStrike is now fully released on Steam and available to play. After an intense period of development, testing, and constant iteration, the game is no longer in a “Coming Soon” state. This is not an Early Access launch. This is the full release of the game as a complete experience, and players can jump in and p…
Hey everyone! I’m really happy to share a new update with you today — we’ve added both a new map and some new weapons into the game! First of all, we introduced a new map called Cartoon City . It’s a low-poly city environment inspired by Megapolis, but this version is designed to be a bit smaller and more compact. The idea behind it was to create faster and more intense matches, where you’re no…
Hello everyone, This update brings several Steam and stability improvements to VertalStrike. Highlights · Steam auto-login for Steam players · Steam checkout flow and transaction reconciliation updates · Multiplayer lobby and room creation fixes across maps · AI and NavMesh fixes with better bot recovery · Lighting improvements for Megapolis · UI polish for clans, inventory, battle pass and sho…
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