Battlefall: State of Conflict news & patch notes

Commanders,

A new update for Battlefall: State of Conflict is now live, bringing performance improvements, balance tuning, quality-of-life upgrades, and a powerful new Scrapper unit to the battlefield.

Here’s what’s new.

EFNET Final Mission – Performance & Balance Pass

The final EFNET campaign mission has received a major round of optimization and tuning. We focused on improving overall performance while also refining difficulty and pacing to ensure the finale delivers a smoother and more satisfying experience without losing its intended challenge.

If you were struggling with frame drops or difficulty spikes, this update should make a noticeable difference.

New Unit: Scrapper Striker

The Scrappers have a terrifying new tool at their disposal: the Scrapper Striker.

This is a high-cost, high-impact unit designed to deliver overwhelming firepower from long range. The Striker trades affordability for sheer destructive potential, allowing Scrapper players to break through fortified positions or dominate open battlefields when used correctly.

It’s expensive — but devastating.

🎥 Unit preview:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4rdGXudIQUQ

New Hotkeys for Faster Base Management

We’ve added two new keyboard shortcuts to make large-scale base building much easier to manage:

• C – Cycle through completed structures and prepare them for placement

• V – Cycle through completed defenses and prepare them for placement

These hotkeys let you deploy buildings without constantly returning to the sidebar, giving you tighter control during intense matches and late-game expansion.

Improved Scoreboard & Spectator Mode

The scoreboard has been slightly reworked for better clarity:

• Defeated players are now marked with a skull icon

• After a win or loss, you can now minimize the scoreboard and continue watching the match

• Press TAB to toggle the scoreboard on or off while spectating

This makes post-game viewing and competitive matches much easier to follow.

UI & Menu Improvements

We’ve added more visual feedback to the sidebar when interacting with buttons and options, making the interface feel more responsive and alive.

Several main menu actions have also been optimized — for example, starting an offline skirmish now happens instantly, without unnecessary delays.

This update focuses on making Battlefall faster, smoother, and more satisfying to play — whether you’re commanding EFNET in the campaign, unleashing Scrapper chaos, or fine-tuning your base in multiplayer.

More improvements are coming soon. See you on the battlefield.

Hi there Wastelanders,

This update introduces a small FPS boost, plus a check to override the Vignette/CRT shader setting which is always enabled on first boot. Upon booting this game after updating the game will disable the Vignette/CRT shader which has been the cause of a lot of visibility issues in Battlefall. If you wish to re-enable this setting, it can be found in Options > Graphical Settings > Enable/Disable CRT Shader -- both in the Main menu and Pause menu. Apologies for the lack of updates this year, it has been an eventful period, but rest assured there will be further improvements starting from 2026 -- we are still committed to our roadmap. Regards, KVGC and MicroProse Software

Howdy Wastelanders,

Greetings Commanders,

• Increased ambient lighting across all Campaign and Skirmish maps
• Explosions now animate faster and are more transparent
• Slightly increased transparency of snow and rain

• Units attacking flying units will now correctly move towards the target instead of the clicked location
• Decreased the default game speed from 80% to 70% - this affects the Campaign and Skirmish maps that do not have the extra Game Speed modifier applied
• Increased the default production speed of all units/structures by 20% - this affects the Campaign and Skirmish maps that do not have the Production Speed modifier applied

• Fullscreen/Windowed Mode can now be toggled
• Added option to enable or disable locking the mouse cursor to the application view
• Added resolution settings: ( "1024 x 576" , "1152 x 648" , "1280 x 720" , "1366 x 768" , "1600 x 900" , "1920 x 1080" )

• Added a 1s timeout to Unit Voices ( Select/Move/Attack ) to prevent audio spam
• Reduced the volume of the Hind's Select/Move/Attack VO's
• Added an audio cue when a player joins your lobby

• Prevented units being able to accidentally destroy cargo

• The AI will not initiate an attack or produce any forces for the first 2 minutes of the map

• Lowered the difficulty by removing periodic waves of Scrapper birds
• AI's will no longer spam Scrapper Armour tanks

• Changed video format of Main Menu background. Should fix Linux users and others experiencing low FPS only in Main Menu
• Halved the speed of edge scrolling on slow/fast modes

Battlefall: State of Conflict has officially launched in Early Access 🚀 and it's time to talk about our plans for the future of the game!

What you get when you buy Battlefall: State of Conflict today:

What we're working on now:

What's after that:

What we want you to have when we're done:

Commanders, the wait is over—Battlefall: State of Conflict has officially launched in Early Access! 🚀

What’s waiting for you in Early Access?

Commanders,

King of the Hill Game Mode

Veterancy

Refinery

Smooth Turning

Patch Notes Summary

Commanders,

• Significant performance improvements on maps with high unit counts
• Menu music will now continue to play through our entire soundtrack rather than repeating the original Demo menu music
• Unit weapon ranges have been UNIVERSALLY halved so that they scale appropriately to the map
• Weapons that deal an area-of-effect damage now deal damage more consistently
• A NEW Skirmish map featuring 1v1v1 Free-For-All gameplay! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43852137/74e6a54466f7b9433a40b39bb29301819968c39c.png
• Skirmish mode has received a CUSTOM difficulty menu where players can customize the following: Game speed 0.5 to 1.5x Starting Money 7500 to $37500 Production Time 0.5 to 1.5x Production Cost 0 to 2.0x Unit/Structure HP 0.5 to 2.5x and Credits Per Ore 0.5 to 2.5x

• Players were sometimes able delete buildings with DEL key, even while paused. This should no longer be the case
• Innumerable typos

THANK YOU!

• Fixed extremely poor performance on systems with multiple GPU's ( typically laptops ).

Hi Commanders,

• Fixed UI elements appearing stretched and/or off-screen on some resolution settings.
• Fixed Italian/French translations being swapped in speaker-UI ( campaign ).
• Added // modes to campaign.

The Kyoto Video Game Concern Team

• Adjusted max volume of Hinds.
• Adjusted max volume of numerous Soundtracks.
• Concrete walls now consistently take damage.