Updating the Main Branch & Recap of the Updates

We are updating the main branch.

Hey everyone, today we finally have the news you were looking forward to. Today, we are happy to announce that we are updating the main branch of the game to the recent version of HARD BULLET. This means you are no longer required to participate in the Public Beta to play the latest version. We have noticed that most of our players (naturally) prefer to play on the default branch, instead of our Public Beta, where we believe we've fixed most of the crucial bugs. This was also something we knew and expected, but we wanted to wait until our latest version is stable enough to push to the main branch - and today is the day!

⚠️If you were having a bunch of annoying bugs, issues with the game or its features, we highly recommend hopping in Hard Bullet again and giving it a try!

Here is a recap of the updates on what you can expect to see:

New Arenas

Harbor

Nightclub Arena

Atrium Arena

Brand New Mode: City Mode & AI Improvements

City Mode is our early vision of the Campaign for Hard Bullet, it's still in work in progress, and we aim to expand it in our future updates.

But you can already hop in and see the fundamentals, new missions, and where we're headed!

City Mode also includes new behaviours and animations for NPCs. This was a long-time-requested update by our community, so we reworked and built almost everything from scratch for NPCs.

We’ve fully reworked all in-game enemy animations and moved them to a new state machine, allowing us to add many more behaviors and animations in future updates.

Of course, this is not the final version for NPCs, as we keep adding new features for them! In our latest update on Public Beta, we also gave them some cool death, getting shot, and crouching state animations.

New Weapons

Of course, what is Hard Bullet without some cool weapons, right? We added a bunch of new weapons, updated some of them with new features, and added some new skins to make your experience fresh as possible!

Since it would be too long to include them all, we wanted to show you all some of them. 😅

To name a few of them;

• Lucky 7 Shotgun

• Gonzo the SMG

• Jatimatic the SMG

• A new bayonet on Veteran 12 Shotgun

• Tommy Gun

• Visual updates on many weapons, including Shredder, Wicked, G17, MP5 & MP5k, and more!

New VFXs and Destructible Objects

To enhance your gameplay feelings, we have added some new VFXs on impact, new destructible environments, and objects! We also improved the overall VFX quality, added LOD settings, improved explosion effects for a more dynamic look, and more!

This is also a work in progress, so expect to see more in future updates. 👀

End of Open Beta

Maintaining the Open Beta and bringing all parts of such a complex game together into the new Hard Bullet “engine” has been a massive and challenging task.

We are deeply grateful for your understanding, patience, and passion throughout this process.

The version that was the default one in 2025 is still available among the older builds. It is labeled “Summer 2025”, although it also includes security updates released in October: