VAIL
Steam News 22 September 20258mo ago

VAIL Patch 1.7.15

EXTRACTION PRE-ALPHA Increased the number of max teams from 4 to 6 and total players from 12 to 18 Consolidated all ammo types into 4 types: compact, rifle, heavy, and shotgun Added 6 tiers of ammo — these ammo tiers do…

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Full VAIL update

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Extracted changes

4 fixes8 additions1 change1 removal
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Store
  • UI and audio
  • Events
  • Performance
changedEXTRACTION PRE-ALPHAIncreased the number of max teams from 4 to 6 and total players from 12 to 18
addedEXTRACTION PRE-ALPHAAdded 6 tiers of ammo — these ammo tiers do not change their base damage, but instead change their penetration in relation to the new shields
addedEXTRACTION PRE-ALPHAAdded 6 tiers of shields. The shield is projected around your entire body from a small device on your right shoulder (the model is placeholder for now). Bullets can still penetrate the shield, depending on how high a tier of bullet vs the tier of shield.
addedEXTRACTION PRE-ALPHAAdded 18 new loot items to extraction
addedEXTRACTION PRE-ALPHAReyn - remade all of the basalt rocks with new improved meshes and a new material with moss
addedEXTRACTION PRE-ALPHAReyn - adjusted floor materials to match the new basalt better
Increased the number of max teams4 to 6Increased the number of max teams from 4 to 6 and total players12 to 18

EXTRACTION PRE-ALPHA

  • Increased the number of max teams from 4 to 6 and total players from 12 to 18

  • Consolidated all ammo types into 4 types: compact, rifle, heavy, and shotgun

  • Added 6 tiers of ammo — these ammo tiers do not change their base damage, but instead change their penetration in relation to the new shields

  • Added 6 tiers of shields. The shield is projected around your entire body from a small device on your right shoulder (the model is placeholder for now). Bullets can still penetrate the shield, depending on how high a tier of bullet vs the tier of shield.

  • Added 18 new loot items to extraction

  • CosmeticReynremade all of the basalt rocks with new improved meshes and a new material with moss
  • CosmeticReynadjusted floor materials to match the new basalt better
  • CosmeticReynimprovements to the dock area of the level
  • Fixed some items not extracting consistently

  • Wiped all inventories for testing

GENERAL CHANGES

  • Set the default turn option to smooth

  • Added new sound effects for redeeming double XP tokens

  • CosmeticTutorialremoved the settings screen and replaced it with one single prompt to choose dominant hand
  • CosmeticTutorialimproved the final section of the tutorial, added GEL reward for completing the tutorial and skins to purchase in the tutorial
  • CosmeticTutorialAdjusted the layout at the end of the tutorial to be able to add a killhouse section
  • Upgraded some of our online infrastructure

  • Fixed occlusion culling on Citadel not working as intended, causing significant performance issues

  • Fixed shaders compiling extremely slow on Quest

  • Fixed helicopter nameplates in observer mode

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Steam News / 22 September 2025

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