Scouts Out

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• Announcements·21 Sept 2026Official

  Scouts Out is now $4.99 – Time to Heat Up the Leaderboards!

  To bring even more players into the arcade and heat up the competition, we are permanently dropping the base price of Scouts Out to $4.99 starting today.Our goal with Scouts Out has always been about chasing that classic shmup high-score thrill. By making the game more accessible, we’re throwing the doors wide open for a new wave of players to challenge the current rankings.To our veteran pilots: guard your spots. The leaderboards are about to get a lot more competitive.To the new players joining us today: welcome to the arcade. Grab your ship, start your run, and let’s see if you have what it takes to claim the #1 spot.See you on the leaderboards!
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• Announcements·21 Aug 2026Official

  Scouts Out just got weirder — and cheaper.

  Custom Decals - Put Your Own Art on the HelicopterYou can now drop your own images into the game as decals. Slap them on your helicopter, or let them show up right as everything goes wrong (and in Scouts Out, everything goes wrong eventually). However you use it, this run is now yours in a way it wasn't before.This is two updates in one. If you've been playing since launch you're jumping straight from 1.0.2 to 1.2.1, so you're getting the decal system, a visual overhaul, and a difficulty rebalance that changes how a run actually feels.Fly Your Own Colors: Custom DecalsNo config files, no setup. Drop any PNG or JPG into the game's decal folder and it turns up in the menu, named after your file.To find the folder: right-click Scouts Out in your Steam library, then Manage > Browse local files, then open ScoutsOut_Data > StreamingAssets > Mods > DecalsAuto-scaling. A 128px icon and a 4096px masterpiece render at the same size, aspect ratio preserved. Nothing to tune.It sticks around. Your decal flies with you, shows up as a watermark on the game-over summary, The Difficulty PassScouts Out was too easy, and the reason turned out to be arithmetic rather than design, damage was scaled so small against your health pool that a run basically never left full health. This release rebuilds that from the ground up.If you've played before, this is the change you'll feel first.Damage rebalanced across the board. Every weapon, drone and collision now costs a meaningful share of your health. A run ends in a handful of solid hits rather than a few hundred grazes.Incoming damage ramps with the run. The round that grazes you in the opening minute is a serious threat once you're up to speed.Health regenerates between engagements. Stay out of fire for a few seconds and you recover - but only to the top of your current quarter of the health bar. Damage is never fully undone without a pickup.Deep runs become a war of attrition. The further you go, the lower your recovery ceiling.Brief invul...
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• Announcements·12 May 2026Official

  1st Week

  One week ago, Scouts Out officially launched on Steam.I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who picked up the game, left a review, shared it around, or spent time playing during launch week.As a solo developer, getting to finally release a project like this and see people support it has been a pretty surreal experience.I appreciate all of the support during the first week and I’m glad to finally have the game out in the wild.– Tim / Rotating Games
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• Announcements·28 Apr 2026Official

  Scouts Out 1.0 Launches May 5

  Scouts Out officially launches into Version 1.0 on May 5thWhat started as a small project gradually evolved through multiple rounds of iteration, system redesigns, balance passes, UI improvements, technical fixes, and polish work to reach this full release milestone.Version 1.0 brings together the finalized core gameplay experience along with a wide range of improvements made throughout development and during the final launch preparation phase.What's Included In 1.0Gameplay and pickup balancing adjustmentsFinalized scoreboard and menu UX polishStabilized leaderboard refresh/reset behaviorRefreshed loading/tutorial visualsFinal launch-window bug fixes and cleanupOfficial 1.0 packaging and deployment updatesThis release also includes a large amount of behind-the-scenes technical cleanup, stabilization work, and overall refinement across the project.To everyone who wishlisted the game, tested builds, reported bugs, shared feedback, or supported development throughout this process, I can't thank you enough. Your feedback directly helped shape the final release.Whether you've been following development from the start or are just now discovering the game, this is the best and most complete version of Scouts Out yet.Scouts Out launches May 5 on Steam with a 15% launch discount during launch week.
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• Patch Notes·15 Apr 2026Official

  Audio Overhaul Update – Version 0.9.36

  Just pushed a pretty big audio pass across the game.Weapons should feel a lot clearer now when they change. You’ll hear distinct sounds when you upgrade, and when you burn through upgraded ammo and drop back to default. It’s a small thing, but it makes moment to moment gameplay easier to read.Pickups also got cleaned up. Armor, health, and weapon upgrades now all have their own proper sounds instead of sharing the same generic one, so you can tell what you grabbed without needing to look.There’s also a broader pass on audio across multiple systems. Nothing flashy, just tightening things up so everything feels more consistent and intentional.More polish updates coming soon.\ - 2026-04-14- Added clearer weapon transition audio feedback: - weapon upgrade sound now plays when a new player weapon is applied, - weapon downgrade sound now plays when upgraded weapon ammo is depleted and it falls back to default.- Ensured upgrade pickup sounds use specific SFX mappings for Armor, Health, and Weapon upgrades instead of a generic pickup label.
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