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Dispatches
Daily Deal - The One About the Cheap Thrills
Hey Commanders, Real quick, and no spin. Metal Thunder is in the Daily Deal today. 35% off, so $10.99 drops to $7.14. That's the cheapest this game has ever...
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Hotfix v0.9.714
Hey Commanders, Couple of urgent reports came in this week, all addressed today: Firing not registering on Steam Deck / Linux — AGT_ZURU and Bravo51 both...
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The One About Playing on the Couch
Hey Commanders, Got the email from Valve this morning, Metal Thunder is officially Steam Deck Verified. Steam Deck was the target platform from day one, so...
Read DispatchHotfix v0.9.713
Hey Commanders, Round two coming in. Weapon identity pass, a new Prestige feature, and a chunky performance fix that was biting the Napalm crowd. 🎯 Direct Hits...
Read DispatchHotfix v0.9.712
Hey Commanders, Small but important hotfix landing today. Couldn't ignore a few issues that were bugging players (and me). This is mostly about Steam Deck ergo...
Read DispatchHotfix v0.9.711 - About Your Squad Actually Listening
Hey Commanders, Pulled a bunch of AI and pathing threads yesterday and most of it ended up knotted together today, so this one's a chunkier hotfix. A lot of...
Read DispatchHotfix v0.9.710
Quick follow-up to 708. A few things surfaced right after it went out. As a solodev I can only do so much testing before pushing updates out, so bear with me...
Read DispatchHotfix v0.9.708 - About Win Softlock
Quick hotfix after 707. Couple things popped up once more of you got hands on it, sorry for the inconvenience. As a solodev I can only do so much testing...
Read DispatchHotfix v0.9.707
Hey Commanders, Thought I could sleep a little but once I got back \ Shipping a hotfix tonight targeting a nasty pair of bugs around currency and upgrades. A...
Read DispatchHotfix 0.9.706 - About pre 0.9.5 saves
Hey Commanders, Quick SITREP: some of you lost your lifetime progress after the big save refactor a few versions back. Currency, meta upgrades, weapon stats,...
Read DispatchHotfix v0.9.703
Hotfix v0.9.703 Being a solo dev has its pros and cons, and the biggest con is the inability to test every edge case. You folks find them faster than I ever...
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Update v0.9.700 — The One Where All Hope is Abandoned
Hey Commanders, First off, I owe you an apology for the long hiatus. Had to step away for a bit to get myself better, both physically and mentally. A lot of...
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