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I have the day off work, so I’ve been grinding through Far Lands this morning and got the Buggy and MiniCopter! Time to prepare and go after the Mad Scientist!

Always nice a see regular updates from a game released 2014!

• fof_robertlee: wider doorways at certain areas
• Heavy Loads: push force on floor bounces increased on horizontal axis and decreased on vertical axis, no view punch on enemies except for wall bounces, launched prop minimum speed to cause damage increased (250 to 300), prop granted on respawn intermittently (50% of times) unless it's a barrel (100%)
• removed prop physics push back for those that can't be held (seems to create issues with saloon doors and certain physics entities)

Link to the FoF Steam Notes page

The SHRAPNEL team posted a update toward the development of the game on August 7, 2026. I am a fan of the game, and I look forward to the next update.

For those not similar with SHRAPNEL, below will find a brief description:

Shrapnel is a 4v4 objective FPS. Operators clash in a storm-ravaged impact zone to control Sigma—a volatile resource capable of reshaping humanity’s future.

The following news is from the SHRAPNEL Discord channel:

Hey all, it’s been a while and you deserve some explanation!

We've been quiet. That's on us

We made a call a while back to stop talking and start rebuilding.

We went into the core of the game and reworked the parts that weren't landing. That kind of work doesn't produce good screenshots. It produces whiteboards, arguments, and a lot of builds that get torn down the following week.

We're not going to pretend the silence was a strategy. The work behind it was real though, and it's far enough along now that we can start showing you!

 

What We Heard

We went through your feedback. The long posts, the clips, the threads where you told us exactly what wasn't working.

The stakes felt flat. Going into the Zone and coming out again didn't feel meaningfully different from one run to the next.

Nothing followed you, there was nothing to build toward. Sessions ended and the slate wiped clean.

The Zone needed to feel like it wanted something from you. Difficulty on its own doesn't do that.

We didn't agree with every piece of it, but we agreed with most of it. The systems we've been building are a direct response to the parts we agreed with.

 

The Core Loop, Reworked

The heart of Shrapnel is still the same. Get in, take what you can, get out alive. That isn't changing and it shouldn't

What's changing is everything on either side of that:

What you bring in matters now

What you carry out has somewhere to go

The decision to push for one more deposit instead of calling EVAC is a decision we've made harder

 This iteration had several passes, some of which we threw away. The version sitting in the build right now is the first one that made the team stop and say - YES!

 

What's Coming

We're not going to lay it ALL out

Some of this is still in flux. We'd rather show you working systems than describe intentions

Here's enough to give you an idea:

Weapons That Remember

Your weapons are about to stop being interchangeable. They accumulate a history. They exist in different states depending on what you've done with them and how your last run ended, and not every weapon that leaves the Zone comes home with you

Some of them can be recovered. There's a service for that. Ask around about the Valdacha Weapon Retrieval Service. That's we'll say for now

 

What You Take Out Can Be Taken From You

This caused the longest internal argument we've had to date, and it's the thing we're most excited for you to get your hands on

Extraction is no longer the end of the risk

That's the whole tease. We know exactly what you're going to ask and we're not answering it yet

 

A Record That Follows You

Time you put into Shrapnel is going to add up to something visible and permanent. A record other players can read on you before you've said a word. Some of it will be very hard to earn. Some of it will only be earnable under specific conditions. All of it is meant to be worn

 

Looking the Part

You've asked for expression and you're getting it. Zone Skins and Weapon Charms are both in active development, with an emphasis on things you earn and things that visibly signal how you play

 

Dates and Roadmaps

We're not giving you a roadmap. We've watched what happens to studios that publish dates for systems still in design, and we're not doing that to you or to ourselves

Here's what we'll commit to instead. We won't announce something until it's playable internally and we're confident in it. When we do announce it, we'll show it running and when something changes or gets cut, you'll hear that from us too

Everything described above is in active development. Anything specific, including numbers, timing, and exact behavior, is still being tuned

 

Staying Closer

The gap between updates was too long, and we're changing the process that allowed it. Expect more from us here, more often, including the unglamorous parts

Thanks for sticking with it. The people still here through the quiet stretch are the reason this build is what it is

Hyperlink to this post on the SHRAPNEL Discord Channel

I am about 100 hours into Outlaws of the Old West and just made a second homestead. This screenshot was right before daylight was about to break; To be a seven-year-old game, the graphics still look amazing. The next project is to begin working on the train to haul cargo.

Far Lands was release was released Jan 19, 2024, and the devs deployed an update on June 4, 2026. The update addressed the following: "The End achievement not triggering has been tested and fixed". Hyperlink to the update notes on Steam. Nice to see continued updates!

Reaper Actual just went on sale yesterday. The game was released on May 29th this year. I know the initial launch reviews were rough ("Mixed"), but the recent reviews are at 80% positive. It looks like the devs have been dropping frequent patches to clean up the launch bugs.

Has anyone played it since the recent patches? Appreciate any feedback before I pull the trigger!

If you have the survival game “Outlaws Of The Old West” and have Windows 11 and received the "BattlEye Service: Driver Load Error (2148204812)"; there is a solution. I purchased the game earlier this year and was never able to play because of the aforementioned loading error; I have Windows 11. Recently, I found a solution on YouTube by MaLPaSo.

The video shows how to replace the BattlEye exe file with a modified version. It worked me and I was finally able to play the game. I am not affiliated with YouTube producer or the developer. Just pasting information. Search for the following since the video is outside the community rules" FIXED Play Outlaws of the Old West on Windows 11 25H2. BattlEye Service Error" or search for the content creator "MaLPaSo". The video was posted May 10, 2026.