Below, you find a list of release updates.
For updates, that are currently in testing, check the items on the beta updates page.
- AS:RD Update – January 1, 2025 “Scavenger”It’s 2025, and to start the year off we have a pile of community-requested fixes! Commanders searching for anomalous materials together may find them quicker. Added convar rd_chat_item_messages to opt out of messages about players obtaining items such as medals and crafting ...
- AS:RD Update – December 1, 2024 “Invitation”It’s December, and that means it’s time for the monthly update! There’s a message here, addressed to you. M868 Flamer Unit: Adjusted friendly fire damage and duration on normal friendly fire difficulty. (Thanks, ModdedMarionette). Hardcore friendly fire is unchanged. Friendly fire with a flamethrower ...
- AS:RD Update – November 1, 2024 “Tune-Up”22A7-Z Prototype Assault Rifle: Removed damage falloff from alternate fire. Now does 1 damage regardless of distance for any target it hits rather than some fraction of a point of damage. IAF Incendiary Sentry Gun: Fixed a 2010 era bug causing ...
- AS:RD Update – November 1, 2024 “Tune-Up”22A7-Z Prototype Assault Rifle: Removed damage falloff from alternate fire. Now does 1 damage regardless of distance for any target it hits rather than some fraction of a point of damage. IAF Incendiary Sentry Gun: Fixed a 2010 era bug causing ...
- AS:RD Update – September 1, 2024 “Time’s Down”Mapping Competition 2024 Winner Downed Station by legomanas Changes in this update Removed the cl_interp convar. The game will now act as if it was set to 0. Improved the error message that is shown when attempting to connect to a server that hasn’t ...
- Update – August 1, 2024This month’s update is mainly related to weapon quality of life improvements. X-33 Damage Amplifier: Fixed a carried beacon not reliably connecting to the gun of the marine carrying it. X-33 Damage Amplifier: rd_buff_grenade_attach_sw_auto can now be set to 2 to restore ...
- Update – July 15, 2024New material shader: RDCharacter This replaces the VertexLitGeneric shader and the AlienSurfaceFX and NightVisionSelfIllum material proxies for characters in Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop. For Modders If your mod does not contain VMT files for characters, you do not need to make any changes. If ...
- Update – July 1, 2024Commander, The Office appreciates your hard work on the anomalous materials project. The folks in the lab say they’ll be ready for phase 2 soon. We’ll let you know when it’s ready. You’ll know it when you see it. Oh, and happy ...
- Update – June 1, 2024We’ve extended the deadline for submissions to the 2024 mapping competition until the end of July, so you have two extra months to make your mission. An update has been released with the following changes: Balance Reduced the attack speed of drones that ...
- Hotfix – April 25, 2024Fixed an issue that caused alien corpses to fade slower than intended.