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• Announcements·25 Sept 2026Official

  We'll be at PAX Aus!

  WE'RE BACK!Come say hi to us at PAX Aus, Booth #35 - it's on the right of the main entrance as you come in.For the first time, we will be selling a limited amount of merch, so make sure to come by before the stock runs out!Grab your friends for 6 player battles - 4 players on Split-Screen, and 2 players on high-end Gigabyte Aorus laptops (huge thanks to Gigabyte for supporting us again this year!).It was so awesome to meet so many of you in-person last year, we're super hyped for this year!
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• Announcements·13 Sept 2026Official

  v0.21 - Capture The Flag!

  v0.21 is now live! This brings a month's worth of new fixes and updates, but primarily:Capture The Flag!One of our most requested modes, CTF is here! There are some key changes to the mode that make it play very well in ShatterRush:No Movement AbilitiesCritically, when you pickup the flag, you lose access to your movement ability. This sounds quite counter-intuitive, but let us cook - we REALLY want this mode to encourage Destruction and team-play. If you could pop a stim and just sprint between your base and the enemy base, that isn't much fun to everyone else in the lobby.Instead, by forcing you to slow down, you now rely on your teammates much more to protect you. As well, you can make your own destruction route around the map before capturing the flag for optimal return performance.We're really excited to see how players will react to this restriction, and what kind of strategies will come out of it.Always On MarkerWhen picking up the flag, you'll be permanently visible to the whole enemy team. This encourages you to fully utilise the movement system to avoid being eliminated early.No MechsWhile holding the flag, you can't use your mech. We want flag carrying to be an intense experience, and retreating to the safety of a multi-ton mech goes against this.Home Flag NeededWhen capturing an enemy flag, the home flag is required to score. This has lead to a lot of interesting behaviour in playtests - you now have to BOTH escort your flag carrier and defend your dropped flag until it resets, leading to incredibly intense firefights even in 1v1 matches!Other ChangesMAJOR improvements to the reliability of the mantle and climbing, it should be far more consistent in terms of performance.Teams now auto-balance, and teams are more evenly distributed skill-wise across matches.And much more!GG, have fun!
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• Announcements·28 Jul 2026Official

  v0.20 - The most fluid FPS movement ever? And 2 new maps + modes!

  One of the largest updates in ShatterRush history is coming this week: the "FreeFlow" update.FEATURE 1: "FreeFlow" Movement EngineThis update adds the "FreeFlow" parkour movement engine, designed to create the smoothest traversal available in a multiplayer FPS. Think of FreeFlow as a system that's purely designed to help you maintain flow-state movement.The goal of the system is to seamlessly transition you between states, with reworked wallrunning and mantling, plus the addition of wallclimbing. When you mantle, you will retain almost all momentum, and should you miss a ledge, your character will climb up and continue without interruption. You can also mantle sideways/backwards, allowing movement like this:This is one of those features that massively improve how the core gameplay works. The fluidity in movement you now get is just insane, I'm really excited to see how players use this system in combat!PS: This feature was suggested by one of our Discord members - when we say we listen to feedback, we really do mean it!FEATURE 2: High Performance, Low LagA common complaint we heard from you was lag/desync and frame drops occur more often than they should. The last few updates have completely rebuilt FUNDEMENTAL systems and code to provide the best possible performance. Where previous playtests revealed about 12 desync spikes per 10 minutes, I now get only ONE desync spike in 30-50 minutes of gameplay (which self-corrects after about 2 seconds). These improvements also allow us to increase the lobby size too!If you had issues with desync before, you absolutely should check out this version.FEATURE 3: 2 New Maps and 2 New Modes!As well, this update adds 2 maps (the AAA-designed Fusion map, and a reworked Dropship), and 2 new game modes (Gun Game, Infection, joining Team Deathmatch and FFA for 4 total modes).Infection is my personal favourite - having to use all of your movement knowledge and skill to weave between and dodge a dozen infected players is so much fun!But ...
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• Announcements·9 Jul 2026Official

  v0.19.0 - MASSIVE Stability/Lag Improvements, New Anti-Cheat, and so much more!

  This update completely overhauls the back-end netcode of the game. In our testing, rubberbanding and desync have been DRASTICALLY reduced. The FPS limit has also been removed now. We've also spent some time squashing a ton of bugs - including year-old ones! Reworked ability system to be lag-resistant. Really, try it! Because this is such a massive change, there may be someFINALLY FIXED a year-old issue where the bolt-actions can get "stuck" on high-latency environmentsFixed mech weapons not firing when you first embark in themDestruction now made much more reliable - when using explosives, you should almost always expect destruction to occurWe are making lots of adjustments to the controller aim assist, we will be tweaking the values based on data - please be patient with us on this!Movement should be feel lower latency, and much more optimised in high-player lobbiesAnti Cheat Updates The ShatterRush Open Pre-Alpha is now trialing Easy Anti Cheat as our security provider for the game. Recent improvements to Easy Anti Cheat have sufficiently increased the protection provided to the point where we now feel comfortable in using it for this project. I can confirm that ShatterRush's implementation of Easy Anti Cheat fully works on Linux/SteamOS, I have been testing it on my Steam Deck OLED with no issues. As this is done via Proton, no extra setup is necessary. Please let us know if you run into any problems with it. Thank you for your support in helping us fight against cheaters! What's Next? New Maps and Modes! We have finalized the layout for our AAA-designed map Fusion and will begin adding destruction to it soon. Get hyped!Based on your feedback on Discord, Instagram and Tiktok, we will be adding the most requested modes: Gun Game and Capture the Flag! Expect these modes very soon... :)This is a MASSIVE update, so please be sure to report any issues you have. Thank you all for your support, have fun! GG!
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• Community & Events·21 Jun 2026Official

  In-Person Event: Playtesting Secrets They Don't Tell You!

  I'm giving a talk at the University of Technology Sydney this week about how we playtest ShatterRush, using learnings and data from our over 133k players.I know this event is very different from what you'd typically see on Steam, but if you're interested in game development or just curious as to how games get made, this is worth a look! Tickets are free as it's my way of giving back to an industry that has given so much to me (in-person only!).https://events.humanitix.com/secrets-to-playtesting-and-prototyping-uts-tech-festival-2026
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