Breachway news & patch notes

• Solarii boss: Suppressive Fire and Opening Shot cooldowns reduced from 2 turns to 1. It now also plays the upgraded version of Opening Shot.
• Starkin boss: Pre-emptive Pulse base damage increased from 3 to 4. The second Paired Pulse card fired in a reload cycle now has its cooldown reduced from 2 turns to 1.
• Freeroamer boss: Now plays 2 Drill Beams (1 turn each) and then reloads (1 turn), instead of playing one Drill Beam every 2 turns.
• Deadweight boss: Now plays 2 Trident Torpedoes (2 turns) before reloading.

• Starkin Sector 3 enemy (SK-S03C): Starts with 25 Shield instead of 30. Laser weapon durability decreased from 18 to 16. Engineering Bay durability decreased from 18 to 16.
• Solarii Sector 2 enemy (SOL-S02B): Charged Barrier play time increased from 2 turns to 3.
• Freeroamer Sector 2 enemy (FR-S02D): First missile play time increased from 1 turn to 2. First Block card play time increased from 2 turns to 3.

• Hotswap's functionality now matches the card text (was replacing all cards with Heated shells previously).
• Fixed an issue where Flak attacks could gain bonus damage from Brittle even when their damage should have been 0 due to Suppression or other damage-reduction effects.
• Fixed the damage display on Capacitor Tap, it previously showed only base damage, without taking damage increases into account.
• Fixed Shield Strain being reduced by enemy card plays.
• Fixed Slag Round not properly drawing a support card.

• Major updates. Named, themed updates, each built around one headline feature. These are the ones worth coming back for, and they're what this roadmap is about.
• Weekly balance patches. Small, frequent, and driven by real data. This is where we look at anonymized run telemetry every week (win rates, what's killing you, what nobody ever picks) and tune numbers accordingly. No big system changes in these, no forced run resets.
• Weekly bug fixes. Shipping right alongside the balance patches, and driven by you: what you report on Discord and the Steam forums is what gets fixed first. Run-killers and soft-locks always jump the queue.

The Roadmap

Update 1 - The Commander Update: controller support & quality of life - August

• Full controller support: menu to hangar to combat, playable on gamepad. This has been the most-requested feature for a long time, and it's been a genuinely long road. It also takes us a big step toward a proper Steam Deck verified status.
• Unlock rework: unlocking ships, equipment, and cards is getting dramatically faster and smoother. We've heard you on this one, the grind between unlocks was too long, especially early. The whole pacing curve has been redesigned.
• Randomize starting loadout: one button in the hangar to shuffle your starting setup, for those of you who want that bit of extra challenge.
• Accessibility & UI: tooltip fixes, a more color-blind-friendly palette, and eliminating most annoying UI issues.
• Combat value previews: this is another big one, drag a card out and see exactly what it will do before you commit, the game has a lot going on as-is, even without the added mental math.
• Precision lasers update: The Pulse and Light lasers are getting some new cards, a more focused drafting library, a new mechanic, and upgradable cards
• Performance & stability: a batch of fixes for hitches, freezes, and soft-locks, plus in-game patch notes so you can see what changed without leaving the game.

Update 2 - The Tactician Update: build variety & combat depth - October

• The headline for this is equipment transformation, giving you ways to switch out the drafting library of an equipment you're carrying mid-run, with one from the same equipment family. This means you can pivot and refine your equipment later into the game, instead of being locked into a specific setup early.
• Another one we're really excited about is more enemy equipment states, something that will open up more enemy types, greater combat diversity, and will truly make Railguns shine. We'll go into more detail on this soon.
• We'll also release two new precision laser weapons, including the devastating late-game Hyperlaser!
• You can also expect a set of new enemies that test your builds in interesting new ways, more equipment families brought up to the quality bar of the recent Flak rework, and a streamlined tutorial.

Update 3 - The Navigator Update - Winter 2026

Update 4 - The Explorer Update - Start of 2027

Update 5 - The Bounty-Hunter Update - Spring 2027

1.0 - The Signal Update - Mid 2027

What about right now?

Weekly Analytics Report

Achievement Fixes

• Fixed the Smuggling event to properly reset its state on run end, it previously failed to reset its state, thus could only be seen ocne per account
• Fixed an issue with the Smuggling event, where you would only get the achievement if you were allied with the Deadweights, even if you succesfully completed the mission otherwise
• Fixed an issue with the Avalanche game win unlock
• Upgraded Torch Beam is now properly named as Torch Beam+
• End of run statistics: Fixed classification for S01 Bosses (were misclassified as Elite enemies)
• End of run statistics: Fixed classification for S02 Elites (were misclassified as regular enemies)
• Fixed selling cost on Mk.I Coil-gun equipment
• Fixed text display on the Targeting Chip subsystem
• Fixed an issue where Solarii sector 3 ships didn't have PDC models displayed on the ship
• Fixed Cascade shot's damage not being affected by Kinetic attack damage multiplier effects

• Sol S02 Boss heavy barrage (8Dmg, 4 Shred) replaced with a 12 Dmg 6 Shred barrage
• FR S02 Boss Asteroid Breaker base damage increased from 4 to 5
• SK S01 Boss - First Fortifier Shield card now takes 3 turns to play instead of 2, Shield generator durability decreased from 16 to 12
• DW S01 Elite fights were too long. The shield card now takes 3 turns to play, up from 2, the first power lock now takes 2 turns to play, up from 1. Missile launcher equipment durability down to 14 from 16, and now plays a reload card after every 3 Starflare missiles played
• FR S01 Elite: Shield generator durability down from 14 to 12, Ion cannon durability down from 16 to 14. The first Flare played now takes 2 turns instead of 1
• SOL S01 Elite: Shield gained by its block card reduced from 8SP to 6SP. Flak Durability reduced from 18 to 16. Hull points reduced from 60 to 50. It now fires Starflare missiles instead of Fireflies after reloading its missiles for the first time
• SK S01 Elite: Hull reduced from 55(65) to 50(60). Shield generator durability reduced from 12 to 10
• Lancer starting Rail-gun, Coil-gun and Mass driver all start with 6 card slots now instead of 4, and 3 pre-drafted cards. The Range-finder subsystem is no longer pre-installed on the starting Rail-gun
• Lancer's starting corruptor hacking console, has the Waste Reductor subsystem ore-installed (Repair 1 Hull point for every 5 mass spent)
• Pinpoint: base damage increased from 3(4) to 4(5), bonus equipment damage stays the same at 4(5)
• EM round: cost lowered from 3E to 2E, EM round+ cost reduced from 4E to 3E
• Drill round: Cost reduced from 3O 1M to 2O 1M, Drill round+ cost reduced from 3O 2M to 3O 1M
• Hullbreaker: damage increased from 7(4 if shielded) to 8(5), Hullbreaker+ damage increased from 8(5) to 10(6)
• Spread shot: Base damage reduced from 4 to 3 on both versions

• Improved graphical performance in combat on turn change.
• Simplified and batched value updates, this should result in less CPU lag when turns change.
• Modified crew actions to be playable without the crewmember having to operate an equipment (with the exception of crew that affect the equipment they operate, like Breech Loading, which requires Elvira operate a missile weapon).
• Fixed Shredding barrage to no longer be consumed by enemy attacks.
• Modified the text on Catalyst pulse based on a player's recommendation.
• Fixed the upgraded Mark card to no longer have a different name than the base card.
• Modified text on Target lock to specifically reference precision attacks, to avoid confusion for it not buffing area attack damage.
• Added a Vsync option in the settings menu, the ultra graphics option had it on by default, which was clashing with our 60 FPS frame cap. It's now an independent option you can toggle on and off (it's off by default)
• Fixed an issue in neutral elite combat events where Solarii elites would never be added to the neutral elite event pool, expect to see them there going forward.

The Memory Leak Fix

The Flak Revamp

Quad-Flak

• Light Barrage — 2O 1M, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Add 1 Flak Shell to your hand.
• Suppressive Fire — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage. Apply 2 Suppression.
• Spread Shot — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. If an enemy missile is in flight: destroy the closest enemy missile.
• Lock and Load — 3M, CD 5 — Add 3 Flak Shell cards to your hand. Deplete.
• Charged Shot — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage. If the enemy is Shielded, deal +4 damage.
• Mark — 2O 2M, CD 5 — Deal 5 damage, Shred 3. If the enemy is Suppressed: your next Kinetic attack this turn deals +3 damage.
• Double Tap — 3M 1E, CD 5 — This turn, the next Flak attack you play resolves twice (pay its costs once). Each extra copy affects +1 attack.
• Broadside (Mk.II only) — 3O 2M, CD 6 — Deal 6 damage, Shred 3. This turn, each Kinetic attack you play gives your Kinetic attacks +1 damage.
• Flak Shell (token) — Free, CD 4 — Deal 2 damage. Deplete.

Shredder

• Shredding Barrage — 2O 1M, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Your next attack this turn gains +2 Shred.
• Opening Shot — 2O 1M, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Double the Shred this attack applies. Deplete.
• Chain Shot — 2O 2M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 3. If this attack applies Brittle: your next Flak attack this turn has its Ordnance cost set to 0.
• Twin Barrel — 3O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 3 damage, Shred 1, twice.
• Probing Shot — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Your attacks gain +1 Shred this turn (stacks up to 2).
• Titanium Shells — 4O, CD 5 — Deal 5 damage, Shred 5. When this card's Shred is increased, increase its damage by the same amount.
• Shaped Charge — 2M, CD 5 — This turn, double the Shred value of your next attack.
• Hull Ripper — 3O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 4. If this attack deals Hull damage: the enemy needs 1 less Shred to become Brittle this combat. Deplete.

Bruiser

• Hullbreaker — 3O, CD 5 — Deal 7 damage. If the enemy is Shielded, deal -3 damage.
• Sunder — 3O, CD 6 — Deal 5 damage, Shred 2. If the enemy has Brittle, deal +2 damage.
• Honed Shot — 4O, CD 6 — Deal 7 damage, Shred 2. For every 2 Brittle on the enemy: costs 1 less O (min 2O) and 1 less Cooldown (min 4).
• Rending Salvo — 3O, CD 6 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 4.
• Overwhelming Barrage — 4O, CD 6 — Deal 12 damage, Shred 4. Remove 2 random cards from your hand for the rest of the fight. Must have at least 2 other cards in hand to play.
• Concussive Shells — 4O, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage. This attack gains double the bonus damage from Brittle.
• Predictive Aim — 3M, CD 5 — Your next Flak attack deals +50% damage.
• Reckless Assault — CD 5 — Lose 4 Hull. Return 2 random attacks from this equipment's cooldown to your hand.

Pyroclast

• Heat Shift — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. If Overheated: dissipate 2 Heat.
• Blazing Barrage — 3O, CD 5 — Deal 6 damage. Shred equal to 2 + half your Heat (rounded down). Gain 2 Heat.
• Firestrike — 3O, CD 5 — Deal 6 damage. Deal +1 damage for every 2 Heat on your ship.
• Igniter — 2O, CD 4 — Deal 6 damage, Shred 2. Gain 2 Heat. If Overheated, increase this card's cooldown by +2.
• Melting Clip — 2O, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage. If Overheated: apply 1 Heat to the enemy for every 2 Hull damage dealt.
• Redline — 3M, CD 8 — On turn start: gain 2 Heat. On turn end: fire 1 Heated Shell. Upgrade.
• Hotswap — 2M, CD 5 — Shuffle up to 3 random cards from your hand into your draw pile. Add 1 Heated Shell to your hand for each card shuffled this way.
• Heated Shell (token) — Free, CD 4 — Deal 2 damage. If Overheated: dissipate 1 Heat. Deplete.

Area Damage Change

Individual Card Upgrades

Resource Bay Fix

Seeded Random, Weighted Draw, and Map Performance

Reactor Tweak

Upstanding citizen achievement

Bug Fixes and other changes

• You can now skip the hangar entry and exit animation by clicking while they are playing.
• The first node now offers a wider variety of weapons to pick from, leading to more run variety.
• Fixed the meta-progression unlock display, locked/unlocked states are now shown correctly.
• Meta-progression unlocks no longer keep counting damage dealt (and similar stats) toward things you've already unlocked.
• Fixed some enemy cards not updating and displaying their damage properly when playing cards like Suppressive Fire.
• Fixed a soft-lock that could happen when fighting an Elite if no fitting subsystem could be awarded. For now the game simply awards nothing, a stopgap while we track down why the engine sometimes finds no relevant subsystem to hand out.
• Updated localization for the new cards and card effects.

What's Next

• Controller support planned for patch #33.
• Further improvement to combat performance.
• A rework of the smuggling events/smuggling missions
• Rolling individual card upgrades out to the remaining equipment families.
• Bringing back Quad-Fire, Immolation, Hellfire, and Firestorm as subsystems, so any Flak weapon can use them.
• A missile design pass, including how the Brittle bonus recalculates mid-flight.
• Continued focus on enemy balance and variety, with a lot of new enemies planned.
• A way to transfer cards between equipment pieces belonging to the same equipment family.
• An option in the hangar to start with a random ship and ship loadout.
• A Roadmap giving you an idea of the work still ahead of us, and a timeline on when we expect to finish each milestone, and launch the full 1.0 version.

Memory Leak Fix

Flak Overhaul

Quad-Flak

Shredder

Bruiser

Pyroclast

Subsystem images

Area damage changes

Individual Card Upgrades

Seeded Random, Weighted Draw, and Map Performance

Smaller Changes

• The Smelter and Centrifuge Resource Bays are now correctly in the drop pool, if you've been wanting to try a high-card-volume or run-hot build.
• You can now un-assign reactor power while Overheated, to help you dissipate Heat faster. You still can't reassign that power elsewhere until you've cooled back down, so the Reactor Lock from Patch #30 still matters.
• A round of bug fixes across meta-progression display, sector events, enemy card displays, and an Elite soft-lock.
• Updated localization for the new cards and effects.

• Waypoint events and stations are now faster to load, reducing or eliminating the hiccups experienced in the map
• Card drawing and drafting options now use a seeded random instead of generating a new random seed every time. This means that quitting and re-entering combat will now always draw you the same cards in combat, and offer the same drafting options, similar to how other deck-builders work.
• Events are now also affected by the same random seed, so quitting and re-entering the game in the map will load the same event (there are still some edge-cases here that we need to take care of)
• Both of the above changes mean that soon we'll be able to have seeded runs, similar to other deck-builders, allowing for the possibility of daily challenges and other things later down the road.
• We now have a weighted card draw system, which means that cards that have been in your draw pile for longer have a higher chance to get drawn. This should eliminate cases where you never see some cards from your draw pile, because other cards come off cooldown and get drawn instead. Currently a card that sits in your draw pile for 4 turns is three times more likely to be drawn than a card that has just entered your draw pile at the end of last turn
• You can now un-assign reactor power when overheated, to increase your heat dissipation
• Updated localization for the new cards and card effects

Individual card upgrades

Resource Bays

Area damage change

Bug fixes

• Sector start events and sector end shops now correctly spawn in the second and third sectors.
• Fixed the meta-progression unlock display — locked/unlocked states are now shown correctly.
• Meta-progression unlocks no longer keep counting damage dealt (and similar stats) toward things you've already unlocked.
• Fixed some enemy cards not updating and displaying their damage properly when playing cards like Suppressive Fire.
• Fixed a soft-lock that could happen when fighting an elite if no fitting subsystem could be awarded. For now the game simply awards nothing , a stopgap while we track down why the engine sometimes finds no relevant subsystem to hand out.
• Fixed some Quad-Flak equipment starting with a malfunctioning Mark card in their initial drafted cards.

The memory leak

The Flak revamp

Quad-Flak

• Light Barrage — 2O 1M, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Add 1 Flak Shell to your hand.
• Suppressive Fire — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage. Apply 2 Suppression.
• Spread Shot — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. If an enemy missile is in flight: destroy the closest enemy missile.
• Lock and Load — 3M, CD 5 — Add 3 Flak Shell cards to your hand. Deplete.
• Charged Shot — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage. If the enemy is Shielded, deal +4 damage.
• Mark — 2O 2M, CD 5 — Deal 5 damage, Shred 3. If the enemy is Suppressed: your next Kinetic attack this turn deals +3 damage.
• Double Tap — 3M 1E, CD 5 — This turn, the next Flak attack you play resolves twice (pay its costs once). Each extra copy affects +1 attack.
• Broadside (Mk.II only) — 3O 2M, CD 6 — Deal 6 damage, Shred 3. This turn, each Kinetic attack you play gives your Kinetic attacks +1 damage.
• Flak Shell (token) — Free, CD 4 — Deal 2 damage. Deplete.

Shredder

• Shredding Barrage — 2O 1M, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Your next attack this turn gains +2 Shred.
• Opening Shot — 2O 1M, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Double the Shred this attack applies. Deplete.
• Chain Shot — 2O 2M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 3. If this attack applies Brittle: your next Flak attack this turn has its Ordnance cost set to 0.
• Twin Barrel — 3O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 3 damage, Shred 1, twice.
• Probing Shot — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. Your attacks gain +1 Shred this turn (stacks up to 2).
• Titanium Shells — 4O, CD 5 — Deal 5 damage, Shred 5. When this card's Shred is increased, increase its damage by the same amount.
• Shaped Charge — 2M, CD 5 — This turn, double the Shred value of your next attack.
• Hull Ripper — 3O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 4. If this attack deals Hull damage: the enemy needs 1 less Shred to become Brittle this combat. Deplete.

Bruiser

• Hullbreaker — 3O, CD 5 — Deal 7 damage. If the enemy is Shielded, deal -3 damage.
• Sunder — 3O, CD 6 — Deal 5 damage, Shred 2. If the enemy has Brittle, deal +2 damage.
• Honed Shot — 4O, CD 6 — Deal 7 damage, Shred 2. For every 2 Brittle on the enemy: costs 1 less O (min 2O) and 1 less Cooldown (min 4).
• Rending Salvo — 3O, CD 6 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 4.
• Overwhelming Barrage — 4O, CD 6 — Deal 12 damage, Shred 4. Remove 2 random cards from your hand for the rest of the fight. Must have at least 2 other cards in hand to play.
• Concussive Shells — 4O, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage. This attack gains double the bonus damage from Brittle.
• Predictive Aim — 3M, CD 5 — Your next Flak attack deals +50% damage.
• Reckless Assault — CD 5 — Lose 4 Hull. Return 2 random attacks from this equipment's cooldown to your hand.

Pyroclast

• Heat Shift — 2O 1M, CD 5 — Deal 4 damage, Shred 2. If Overheated: dissipate 2 Heat.
• Blazing Barrage — 3O, CD 5 — Deal 6 damage. Shred equal to 2 + half your Heat (rounded down). Gain 2 Heat.
• Firestrike — 3O, CD 5 — Deal 6 damage. Deal +1 damage for every 2 Heat on your ship.
• Igniter — 2O, CD 4 — Deal 6 damage, Shred 2. Gain 2 Heat. If Overheated, increase this card's cooldown by +2.
• Melting Clip — 2O, CD 4 — Deal 4 damage. If Overheated: apply 1 Heat to the enemy for every 2 Hull damage dealt.
• Redline — 3M, CD 8 — On turn start: gain 2 Heat. On turn end: fire 1 Heated Shell. Upgrade.
• Hotswap — 2M, CD 5 — Shuffle up to 3 random cards from your hand into your draw pile. Add 1 Heated Shell to your hand for each card shuffled this way.
• Heated Shell (token) — Free, CD 4 — Deal 2 damage. If Overheated: dissipate 1 Heat. Deplete.

Subsystem images

Area damage changes

What's Next

• We'll be watching balance and stability closely, especially on the Flak weapons and the Area damage change, and for any crashes or slowdowns still persisting after the memory leak fix.
• In the next few patches we'll be focusing on enemy balance and variety. We have a lot of new enemies planned, with a focus on making them interesting and varied challenges.
• We'll post an updated roadmap in the next couple of weeks, covering Breachway's development from now until full launch.
• Controller support will roll out sometime in July.
• The final sector has started production.

Breachway News Roundup

• Fixed the cooldown increase from Shield Strain
• Fixed Thermal recycler to properly get removed from your deck
• Fixed text on Shield Stream, to reflect the fact that the card does not deplete
• Fixed an issue where Ion Beacon was not properly buffing attack damage

• Fixed another potential soft-lock/crash on entering the last boss node
• Fixed an issue with Cascade shot not returning to the draw pile on equipment destruction
• Fixed an issue with missiles spawned by Trident Torpedo being affected by blind, but not removing the blind effect. Now only the first spawned missile is affected, after which the blind effect is consumed

Changelog:

• Fixed the soft lock/crash to desktop that could happen if you visited too many shops in a single run. This was caused by the game trying to find a unique subsystem to display when you'd already seen every subsystem currently in the game, resulting in an endless loop. As a temporary fix, runs with a lot of store visits may now show duplicate subsystems.
• Fixed an issue where the equipment description popup would overlap equipment in the cargo bay, preventing you from equipping or selling items. As a (temporary?) fix, we've added a scroll bar to the cargo bay when you have more items than the starting storage space can display.
• Fixed multiple text issues with a handful of cards (Hasty Defense+, Shield Strain+, etc)
• Fixed an issue with a few enemies not having their PDC models showing up, even though they had PDC equipment
• Updated localization files. Please note that localization is currently a couple of weeks behind, and any new cards and modified text won't be reflected in localized versions yet

Controller Support Update

What's next

• Moved crewmembers to weapon hardpoints from support hardpoints, so their abilities can be used right away after picking their second weapon, instead of waiting for the resource bay equipment to drop. No more need to manually move crew around
• Fixed text display on some subsystems that had missing values

• Fixed Hasty Defense+ text, and an issue that could lead to a soft-lock when hovering over the card
• Fixed an issue where enemy flak shell cards would not appear or appear in the player's hand area
• Fixed an issue with Heat ray damage increasing when hovering over the card
• Fixed bug where Reinforce+ was not working as intended

Resource Bay Overhaul

• Supply Depot: The starting resource bay. Reliable, straightforward, and designed to teach the fundamentals. Cards like Inventory Scan (gain resources based on card types in your hand) and Tactical Requisition (draw a card and gain matching resources) reinforce the resource system's rules . Lower variance than the other bays, it fills gaps while you figure out your build.
• Centrifuge: The Centrifuge rewards high card volume per turn. The more cards you play, the more resources it generates. Signature cards like Adrenaline Rush (gain 1 of each resource for every 2 cards played this turn) and Discount Rack (reduce card costs by type) create turns where you're chaining card after card, fueling the next one with the last. Pairs naturally with Flak, and other Equipment with plenty of cheap cards.
• Smelter: The Smelter generates resources by pushing your ship's Heat to the limit. Cards like Thermal Harvest (gain resources by filling up to your Heat Tolerance) and Danger Pay (gain 2 of each resource if you're Overheated) turn Heat into fuel. Pair it with a Radiator and Cerberus Shield for a "Heat economy" build where overheating is a feature.

Railgun Overhaul

• Railgun: The classic precision weapon. Specializes in targeting and destroying enemy equipment, then rewards you with tempo and card recursion.
• Coil-gun: An energy-hungry railgun that fires in devastating bursts using the new Overload mechanic. Playing Coil-gun cards temporarily disables some of your Energy production, creating a push-pull rhythm: fire everything in a burst window, then recover.
• Mass Driver: An industrial-grade railgun that converts your Mass economy into damage. Less surgical than the Military Railgun, it trades bonus equipment damage for raw power and Mass scaling. The signature card Mass Driver deals damage equal to double the Mass you've spent on cards that turn. Reinforced Accelerant is a persistent Upgrade that makes your first Railgun or Flak attack each turn deal +50% damage, as long as you play a support card each turn.

New Subsystems

Reactor Lock on overheat

Bug Fixes

Controller support

What's Next

• Fixed issue with Heat Ray damage scaling when hovering over the card
• Fixed issue with Reinforced accelerant effect not going away when the buff expired, removed damage scaling on turn end as it was complicating the card too much
• Buffed Mass Driver (card) damage scaling, it went from +1/+2 damage dealt per mass spent in the current turn, to +2/+3. This should make it feel like a proper finisher card
• Modified the effect of Slag round to draw a support card on play, and give the player +3/+5 mass on equipment destruction. The previous effect of making the next card played cost 0 mass was not synergizing well with Mass Driver, and other cards that cared about mass spending/playing support cards
• Improved damage for Cascade Shot , it was meant to be a high damage to cost ratio card with a long cooldown, returning to your draw pile on equipment destruction. Its base damage was too low to fulfill that function
• Reduced cost for rampart from 4E 2M to 4E 1M
• Added the new Mass Driver equipment card art

Resource Bay Overhaul

• Supply Depot: The starting resource bay. Reliable, straightforward, and designed to teach the fundamentals. Its cards show you how Mass works as an investment currency and how reactor specialization pays off. Cards like Inventory Scan (gain resources based on card types in your hand) and Tactical Requisition (draw a card and gain matching resources) reinforce the resource system's rules . Lower variance than the other bays, it fills gaps while you figure out your build.
• Centrifuge: The Centrifuge rewards high card volume per turn. The more cards you play, the more resources it generates. Signature cards like Adrenaline Rush (gain 1 of each resource for every 2 cards played this turn) and Discount Rack (reduce card costs by type) create turns where you're chaining card after card, fueling the next one with the last. Pairs naturally with Flak, and other Equipment with plenty of cheap cards.
• Smelter: The Smelter generates resources by pushing your ship's Heat to the limit. Cards like Thermal Harvest (gain resources by filling up to your Heat Tolerance) and Danger Pay (gain 2 of your lowest resource or 2 of each resource if you're Overheated) turn Heat into fuel. Pair it with a Radiator and Cerberus Shield for a "Heat economy" build where overheating is a feature.

Railgun Overhaul

• Railgun: The classic precision weapon. Specializes in targeting and destroying enemy equipment, then rewards you with tempo and card recursion.
• Coil-gun: An energy-hungry railgun that fires in devastating bursts using the new Overload mechanic. Playing Coil-gun cards temporarily disables some of your Energy production, creating a push-pull rhythm: fire everything in a burst window, then recover.
• Mass Driver: An industrial-grade railgun that converts your Mass economy into crushing payload shots. Less surgical than the Military Railgun, it trades bonus equipment damage for raw hull power and Mass scaling. The signature card Mass Driver deals damage equal to all the Mass you've spent on cards that turn. Reinforced Accelerant is a persistent Upgrade that makes your first Railgun or Flak attack each turn deal +50% damage, increasing by +10% every turn you maintain it. Build up your economy, then slam.

New Subsystems

Reactor Lock on overheat

Bug Fixes

Controller support

What's Next

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Latest Update News Roundup for Breachway

The Breachway team is hard at work on even more content based on your feedback and Steam reviews. As the team approaches Patch #30, here's the roundup.

• Patch #19 changed how enemies interact with players, rethinking their design, combat, and how the game plans to engage players deeper into combat.
• Patch #20 focused heavily on player economy; rebalancing resource bays, credit income (especially in the early game), and rethinking the Lancer's viability.
• Patch #22 focused primarily on bug fixes and balance changes, but also looked at reworking the Escalation system.
• Patch #23 introduced crew abilities, allowing players to benefit further from the abilities their crew has, benefiting player balance. Further bug fixes were also made.
• Patch #26 rebalanced difficulty massively by expanding the run to 3 sectors, slowing the run down, and allowing more time for players to upgrade and grow in power.
• Patch #27 introduced equipment subtypes, new cards to put in your deck, and a bug fix to missiles.
• Patch #29 reworked shield cards and balance, the first in an upcoming series of updates, to increase viability, tighten power spreads, and increase build variety.

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What changed

• Shield cards reworked + rebalanced
• Most Shield cards have been adjusted. In general:
• Higher cooldowns on many high-impact shield effects
• Cost changes to better match each card’s role
• Clearer separation between shield identities (reliable / scaling / risky / late-game)

• Shield equipment now goes up to Mk.II only (this will be the standard once an equipment family gets its redesign pass).
• Shield equipment now comes in different power levels / tiers.
• Shield equipment can be upgraded up to 6 card slots max

• Marauder now starts with Burst Shield
• Avalanche now starts with Charged Shield
• Firebrand now starts with Cerberus Shield

Full patch notes

Feedback wanted

• Which shield line feels strongest/weakest by sector
• Whether any specific cards feel like auto-picks or dead picks
• How the new starting shields feel for Marauder/Avalanche/Firebrand