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• Announcements·30 Sept 2026Official

  ORMOD: Directive Playtest #5 Begins This Friday

  ORMOD’S BIGGEST PLAYTEST YET IS THIS WEEKEND!This Friday, ORMOD: Directive enters a new era with Playtest #5, bringing the largest update to the game so far. Following Gamescom last month, where more than 10,000 people visited the ORMOD booth, we’ve been hard at work rebuilding and expanding major parts of the game from the ground up. For Playtest #5, we’re inviting a total of 250,000+ players to jump in and experience the new ORMOD. A Completely Rebuilt WorldOne of the biggest changes you’ll notice immediately is the world itself. We’ve completely overhauled world generation, with towns, villages, roads, railways, power lines, and wilderness areas now generating with more deliberate layouts. Settlements and travel routes should feel more natural, while different parts of the world feel more distinct as you explore. We’re also pushing towards 300+ players per server, giving you a much larger world to explore, survive in, and fight over. Claim It. Fortify It. Make It Home.We’re giving players significantly more freedom over where and how they build. More existing locations can now be claimed and fortified, including warehouses, sheds, churches, construction sites, and garages, with 5 levels of fortification available alongside support for doors and garage doors. Building close to POIs is now possible too, opening up far more options for where you choose to establish yourself. Found the perfect little shed in the middle of nowhere? It might just become your new home.Build Your Own ATVVehicles are becoming a much bigger part of ORMOD. Players can now scavenge the materials needed to build their own ATV, with multiple variants available. You’ll need Amber Fuel Cells to keep them running as you venture further across the expanded world. You can also construct a Vehicle Workshop as part of your base to support the new vehicle gameplay loop. New MechanoidsOf course, getting your hands on those Fuel Cells isn’t necessarily going to be easy. New Mechanoid threats have been a...
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• Announcements·20 Sept 2026Official

  PLAYTEST 5 Coming October 2nd, Building Fortification!?

  Heya Everyone! PLAYTEST 5 DATE CHANGEORMOD: Directive Playtest 5 will feature some of the BIGGEST updates & shifts to the way you play the game yetWith all of this coming together, we need one extra week of development time before Playtest 5 begins. There’s a LOT packed into this update, and we want that extra time to get everything ready & polished before we put it in your hands. And when I say a lot, I mean it. What’s ComingBuild ALMOST ANYWHERE. One of the most highly requested features! Construct barricades, fortify doors & garages, and honestly, why stop there? Build an entire town with your friends if you want. ORMOD is meant to be a true sandbox after all!A COMPLETE early game overhaul. A massive upgrade to the density of buildings & size of towns, the loot found within them, and unique advantages to many POIs, such as planter beds or megaphonesDozens of new items & features. The craftable hatchet, chain explosive fuel cells, 12ga rubber rounds, tomatoes, PUNCHING, blindness effects, a buildable ATV, Vehicle Workshop, cutting up bodies (no… that doesn't mean cannibalism… yet), new rags, more T2 items to unlock, new enemies, an overhauled inventory & a lot more.New DatesAmber Backers: 30th September, 4pm UTCCreators & Steel Backers: 1st October, 4pm UTCDiscord & Steam Invites: 2nd October, 4pm UTC As an added bonus to thank you all for your patience, we will be extending the playtest by an extra 24 hours to the 5th of October! Transparency has been an extremely important pillar of the ORMOD community from day 1 and we’d rather be honest about needing more time to polish everything than rush it out before it’s ready. Special EventsWe're not going quiet for the extra week. Consider this the start of the countdown! Tune in next weekend for the release of Playtest 5 Teaser Trailer 3! For our Backers, we'll also be doing a vote tomorrow on which POI will be fortifiable next! See you all in-game very soon! I've already got my base location saved.
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• Announcements·9 Sept 2026Official

  Playtest 5 Announcement! What's Coming

  Hey Everyone!THE TIME HAS COME!We’re right back from Gamescom & getting ready to open the doors for ORMOD: Directive Playtest #5, and this one brings a pretty substantial batch of new systems, content, and improvements to the game. Here’s some of what you’ll be able to check out: New Structure Fortification - More work is going into making structures in the world much more meaningful places to discover, use, and potentially even call homeMore Automation - More crafting, more expansionNew Mechanoids - New mechanoid threats are entering the world, including some that can drop Amber Fuel Cells when destroyedBuildable ATV - Build your own ATV and use recovered Amber Fuel Cells to keep it running as you travel further across the mapPlayer Built Vehicle Workshop - Players can now construct a vehicle workshop as part of their base and use it to support the new vehicle gameplay loopPOI Improvements & Design - New signage for stores, better layouts & new POIsNew Tutorial - A new onboarding experience has been added to get players into the world and familiar with ORMOD’s core systems fasterPunching, Blindness & Rubber Rounds - Better ways to disrupt a fightNew Chainable Explosives - Boom.New Lore - (No Spoilers)Tech + Performance Improvements - A large amount of work has also gone into improving performance, stability, and the underlying tech powering the gameAnd More!ORMOD PLAYTEST LIVE // OCT 2 //Anyone who played in a previous playtest will automatically have access to this playtest (the game will be shown in your Steam library once the playtest is live).Patreon Amber Supporters - September 30 - 4 PM UTC48hr earlier access than the official playtest date! This means you get 2 whole extra days to play the game!Creators & Steel Supporters - October 1 - 4 PM UTC24hr earlier access than the official playtest date.DISCORD & STEAM LIVE - October 2 - 4 PM UTCRolling access throughout the playtestDiscord sign-ups will receive a key and access information via email from the ORMOD t...
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• Announcements·26 Jul 2026Official

  ORMOD: Directive is Heading to Gamescom 2026!

  ORMOD: Directive is Heading to Gamescom!We’re excited to announce that ORMOD will make its FIRST public appearance at Gamescom, Cologne, 26-30th August, 2026.If you’re heading to Germany next month, come visit us and be among the first people in the world to go hands-on with an exclusive Gamescom build featuring a sneak peek at what’s coming at launch. Here’s What You’ll Find At The Booth:An exclusive Gamescom demo featuring brand new content and features not previously available in our playtestsGamescom-exclusive merchandise, including shirts, stickers, mousepads, keychains, tote bags, lanyards, pins, and more! (*Available while supplies last*)The team behind ORMOD: Directive! Riley and the crew will be there all week and would love to chat, answer questions, and hear your feedback What to Look Forward to If You Can't Make It!Of course, only some of you can actually make it to the event, don't worry, you'll looked after!New content teasers announced throughoutUpcoming playtest soon after!Deep-dives into the road to launch & incoming contentLive-streams during the event Where to Find Us:Hall 10.1 / Booth #A-033, as marked on the map!We’ll provide more details in the coming weeks. Whether you’ve been surviving with us since the first playtest or you’ve only just discovered ORMOD, we’re super excited to meet you all in person!
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• Announcements·13 Jul 2026Official

  Playtest 4 Closes, Stats & What's Next

  Playtest #4 Has Now Closed!We have been having an incredible amount of fun playing, watching & listening to all of you! Everyone has been providing some absolutely incredible feedback & ideas, we're really excited about everything there is to come!Some Fun Stats!During the playtest weekend, we had:65,000 total players10,000 daily active players35,000 new wishlists2,500 new Discord members112,000 total hours played210,000 items placed1,500 bases built34,000 kills on servers16 golden sticks foundThe richest player had $15,000, the most XP collected was 22,000 & the longest play session was 24 full hours! Also, we’ve achieved the monumental milestone of 300,000 wishlists! Thanks so much for your support.What’s to ComeWe’ve already been reading through all the excellent, detailed feedback and will be incorporating it into our upcoming development plans. Over the next while, we will be looking at major improvements to gameplay, balancing, progression & world generation to make whatever map you're playing on feel as smooth as possible, more weapons, better animations, UI & crafting overhauls, fixing all reported issues, & major performance upgrades! If you haven’t already, give some feedback in Discord or via our form here. It truly makes a difference in helping us make ORMOD the best it can be! Next PlaytestThanks again to everyone who joined us for this playtest. Your feedback is helping shape ORMOD in a big way! August is set to be a huge month for the team as we prepare for a major event, which means there won’t be a public playtest next month. We’ll have more details to share very soon, and we can’t wait to tell you what we’ve been working on behind the scenes! More coming very, very soon!
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