Reaper Actual news & patch notes

Version 1.4.9

Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes We have some additional performance improvements and bug fixes to make the game better.

Performance

• Client performance optimizations across movement, combat, weapon handling, player customization, and nameplates — reducing per-framework for smoother frame rates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the chat log not scrolling — it now follows the newest message, and the mouse wheel and scrollbar work.

• Whispering an unknown player now tells you the name wasn’t found instead of opening an empty whisper tab.

• Fixed first-time onboarding tips taking over your input.

• Crafting now shows you which material a slot needs when it’s missing.

• Fixed matchmaking failing to recognize when you’re already in a queue.

• Improved server matchmaking so you’re placed in the right region, and freed up

  server slots faster (fewer failed or delayed deploys)

Version 1.4.8

We’ve now added a first-time user experience to give new players some guidance as to how to get started in the game. We’ve also added a time display so you can plan your loadout for day and night deployments. The team spent more time on optimizations, lowering some of the hardware requirements so the game runs smoother. There are some bug fixes to deliver more stability as well as some quality of life fixes. Finally, in anticipation of an upcoming free weekend, where we expect more players, we have re-enabled the European server region, so latency should improve for those having issues.

New

• European servers — added a European server region (eu-central-1) for lower latency and better connections for players in Europe.

• New-player onboarding — guided first-time tips, including a night-vision prompt when it gets dark in your base.

• Time-of-day indicator — a clock and day/night phase icon on the HUD and deploy screen for Marova.

• Switch frame generation without restarting — swap between FSR and DLSS frame generation on the fly.

Graphics & Performance

• Lower VRAM usage across all quality tiers — right-sized virtual-texture and shadow memory pools (~0.5 GB reclaimed on higher tiers).

• Smoother frame times — fixed hitches from cloud-shadow updates and from decorative moving objects (clocks, fans) constantly refreshing shadows; added sky and lighting idle optimizations.

• Fixed graphics quality getting stuck — settings no longer stay pinned to higher-tier values after you've run at Epic.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crashes while streaming into the world and during travel.

• Fixed a crash when equipping a weapon if the equip animation didn't play.

• Fixed a crash in the kill feed.

• Fixed a crash related to FSR frame generation.

• Fixed your weapon scope going black when aiming down sights.

Version 1.4.7

The in-game chat didn’t work as well as planned, so we took another pass at it and it will continue to improve. We rebuilt the chat box and made improvements that make it more reliable.  Driving just got more fun, because now you can use your tools in the car to plan your route more effectively with GPS, GPS+IT and Night Vision now toggleable while in vehicles.  The lighting also took a giant leap forward with Lumen lighting now working on mid-range GPUs as we continue to improve the performance as well as the in-game experience. Nights aren’t as dark anymore with this feature turned on for many more players. All that and a ton of bug fixes make Marova a smoother place to visit. See you in the game! 

New

• Rebuilt in-game chat box — a new native chat box with World / Squad / Clan / Whisper tabs, drag-to-move and resize, stays on-screen, and fades when idle.

• Smoother and more reliable than the previous overlay.

• Use tools while driving — GPS, GPS+IR, and Night Vision can now be toggled from the driver’s seat.

• Squad down alerts — when a squadmate goes down, you get a squad chat callout plus minimap and map emphasis.

Vehicles

• Fixed other players being able to walk through — or get stuck on — a vehicle you’re driving.

• Your GPS+IR enemy blips no longer disappear from the minimap when you get into a vehicle.

Graphics & Performance

• Lumen lighting on more hardware — dynamic global illumination is now enabled on mid-range GPUs, with a lower memory footprint.

• Further first-run graphics auto-detection fixes — high-end GPUs now benchmark to their correct tier (e.g. Epic) instead of being set too low.

• Lighting and streaming performance optimizations, and reduced shader hitching on Marova.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed inventory and vault items duplicating or falling out of sync, and inventory

  sometimes appearing empty after loading in (until a reload).

• Fixed crashes that could occur while streaming into your base.

• Reduced crashes during vehicle and world travel.

• Fixed the game stalling or crashing during shader compilation — for example a long freeze on the “Let’s Go” / startup screen, especially right after a graphics driver or game update.

• Fixed enemies floating on the sidewalks in Seaside City.

• Fixed the graphics settings tab showing the wrong quality level after a reset until reopened.

• Corrected the default mouse sensitivity (fresh installs and reset-to-defaults now use 100).

Version 1.4.6

Garaged vehicles can now be repaired, and you can craft the repair kits, or buy them from the traders. We made some updates to our benchmarking so it now optimizes better to your system’s capabilities. There’s also an awesome update for anyone that has dealt with the inventory system before, with sort buttons in the rucksack and vault. Goodbye looking for that stack of 9mm ammo that you know you have…somewhere.

New — Vehicle Repair Kit

• Keep your ride running. A new craftable Vehicle Repair Kit repairs your garaged vehicle back at base — craft it from common materials or buy the blueprint from any faction Trader (250 Credits), then hold to repair it to full.

Graphics & Performance

• Graphics quality now auto-detects to match your hardware. The first-run benchmark was pushing nearly every modern GPU to Epic at full native resolution; it now tiers correctly and enables DLSS/FSR upscaling by default for smooth performance out of the box. Existing players are re-checked once on next launch — your keybinds, audio, FOV, and Frame Gen settings are kept.

• Continued updates to optimize the gameplay experience on a performance level.

Vehicles

• Fixed exiting a moving vehicle launching you into the air, and your body then appearing off the seat after getting back in.

• Vehicles no longer get stuck on loot bags — you’ll drive right through them.

• Your garaged vehicle now has collision in your base — no more walking through it.

Quality of Life

• Inventory & Vault auto-sort — new SORT buttons that stack and neatly re-pack your rucksack and vault.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able to re-enter your base after returning to the main menu.

Version 1.4.5

This update includes the ability for you to take and store a vehicle in your garage if you own a warehouse base. Over time, vehicles will need maintenance and can be upgraded. Additional weapon tuning to damage is making them feel more realistic, and we have a put in some work on fixing additional crash bugs that have popped up from time to time.

New — Vehicle Garage

• Store your vehicle and take it with you. Park your vehicle at your warehouse base  to garage it — it’s saved to your account (along with its condition), displayed in your base, and can be redeployed from the Deploy screen, even on your next drop-in.

Weapons

• Further tuning to weapon damage over distance — corrected falloff ranges on several weapons (and enemy weapons) so damage scales properly across distance instead of dropping off almost immediately.

Vehicles

• Fixed being able to walk through parked vehicles (they’d turn walk-through after being driven once).

• Fixed losing collision or no-clipping after quickly exiting a vehicle, and occasionally appearing to hold two weapons after entering or exiting.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes after exiting a vehicle you appeared without your arms (it would resolve itself once you moved, fired, etc.).

Bug Fixes

• Additional work on a crash that could occur while traveling around Marova or back to your base.

Version 1.4.4

Just a smaller patch to finish out the week, but addressing some additional crashes and inventory issues. There are more features and fixes in the works – stay tuned. Please keep the feedback coming so we know if you encounter issues in the game.

Bug Fixes  

• Additional work to squash crashes that could occur while traveling between areas or as the world streams in.

• More work on the occasional giant-enemy appearance — they shouldn’t do that anymore.

• Fixed inventory and vault items that could appear duplicated, invisible, or couldn’t be dropped or removed.

Version 1.4.3

The GPS+IR tool now has a blueprint that can be found in world and crafted, running into NPCs and other players has a ragdoll knockback effect, and weapons have been rebalanced so they work a bit more like they do in real life. This plus bug fixes and multiple quality of life fixes are in the game now.

New

• GPS+IR tool — a new craftable tool that reveals nearby enemies on your minimap.

• Find the blueprint out in the world, and collect the items to craft this new gadget!

Weapons

• Rebalanced damage over distance — close-range and shotgun hits now hit harder, with steeper damage falloff at long range.

• Realistic effective ranges — each weapon type now has a sensible maximum range, from short-range SMGs and shotguns up to long-range sniper rifles. Shots past a weapon’s effective range won’t connect.

Vehicles

• Ram knockback — ramming a player or NPC now sends them flying; they’ll ragdoll and get back up if they survive the hit.

Quality of Life

• Chat box resizing and repositioning is much more fluid, and the box now always stays on-screen (resolution changes shouldn’t make it disappear/lead off screen).

• Crafting completion popup now shows the item you crafted — icon, name, and hover tooltip.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could occur while traveling or streaming into the world.

• Fixed enemies briefly appearing as giant, stretched figures.

• Fixed enemies sinking through sidewalks in Seaside City.

• Fixed a crash that could occur with the M4A1 and its attachments.

• Fixed whispers not sending or being received correctly.

Version 1.4.2

Chat (Work in Progress), combat and vehicles are all getting more attention. We’ve added a chat window that you can move around resize to fit your play style, worked on NPC damage to make it more meaningful (more to come), and made updates to the minimap per community request among other fixes and bug squashing.

Chat

• New tabbed chat box (World / Squad / Clan / Whisper) with whispers, unread badges, and drag/resize.

Combat

• Headshots and limb hits now actually do more/less damage — multipliers were being ignored, so every hit dealt plain body-shot damage. Affects effective time-to-kill on every weapon.

Vehicles

• Ramming a living player or NPC now plays impact + squish sounds.

Other

• The map now opens centered on you at a consistent zoom every time.

• Fixed the GPS tool’s description (was showing Night Vision text); Thor’s starting loadout now includes a GPS tool.

Version 1.4.1

We continued polishing the update from 1.4.0 on July 2nd adding collision damage to NPCs and players when you hit them with vehicles, fixed some audio issues, and removed the placeholder art that was in the game for a while. It has been replaced with new art created by our art team. Additional crash bugs have been hunted down and squashed. The game is improving every day. New & Improved

• Vehicle ram damage — Vehicles now deal impact damage when you drive into or over players and NPCs.

• Vehicle audio — Vehicle and engine sounds now play correctly for you the whole time you’re in a vehicle, whether you’re driving or riding as a passenger.

• Faction merchant artwork — Replaced placeholder, generated merchant portraits, with new art from the team.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when leaving Marova Island (traveling out / exfil).

• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when holstering your weapon while entering or exiting a vehicle.

• You will no longer get trapped inside a vehicle that’s parked against a wall or obstacle — you’ll always exit to a safe spot nearby.

Reaper Actual Major Update Version 1.4.0

This is our first major update adding new content including opening up the full map for exploration, vehicles that can be driven (squadmates can ride as passengers), and we have done a huge rework of NPCs and spawns. The main map is updated with squadmate markers and locations, and a lot of clean-up has been done to the map (say goodbye to the asteroid at the south-west gas station. Check out the new GPS tool that shows a minimap and find your squadmates nearby. There is also a ton of optimization work that has been done since 1.3.4 making this not just incremental, but a leap forward in the experience, thus 1.4.0. NOTE: Exploration around Marova will cause you to ultimately see a LOT of WIP items. If it's out of KAM, the path to Alaria, or Alaria itself, please consider these non-issues FOR NOW.  With vehicles in place and available, we expect you will explore the world, just know that Marova at large is still under heavy construction.

More to do and More to Explore

• Alaria is OPEN for exploration and is now active for in-world activities and events.  Deploy straight to Alaria from your base or traverse your way there across the terrain (but we warned, the roads are guarded!).

• Vehicles are in!  Find them scattered around the world, hop in and drive around!  Squadmates can ride along as passengers.

• New GPS tool: an item that can be equipped in a Tool slot that toggles your minimap on and off. It can be found as loot.

Enemies & Loot

• The world is far more populated: the airport, Alaria, and the highway between zones are now held by rival factions with patrols, checkpoints, tower holds, and roadside ambushes.

• A release-day loot pass spread containers across the new areas - common supplies, ammo caches, and a couple of legendary finds - with the better rewards placed in the more dangerous, contested spots.

• Garrisoned checkpoints along the corridors now have loot inside their buildings (some previously had none).

• Alaria's metro stations now drop you in at several randomized spawn points instead of just one.

• Player bodies and the loot they drop now stick around for several minutes after a kill, giving you time more to loot or recover items.

• Enemies now notice and attack you while you're driving.

Tweaks

• The out-of-bounds barrier is now off by default — no more "Leaving Mission Area" warning or death timer pushing you back into the play zone.

NPCS

• NPCs have been revamped.  You should not be mob squaded after exiting your base (especially if you have a Warehouse base)

• They should be more plentiful in the world, and respawn more reliably

• Animations for them should be cleaner at a medium distance

Vehicles

• Vehicles are in and have been constantly improved since the last patch. Behind the scenes, they drive better: higher top speed without losing low-speed control, with grippier, more planted handling and better grip through hard corners.

• Much smoother to drive online — far fewer jarring snap/teleport corrections, including when the server is under load.

• Smoother steering on keyboard: the wheels ease in and recenter instead of snapping instantly to full lock.

• Improved follow camera while driving (steadier, no longer pitches with the vehicle over bumps).

• Vehicle audio added: engine start / running / stop, doors, horn, and gear shifts, positioned in 3D so they fade with distance.

• Drivable vehicles are placed around Marova — several spots that used to have static, non-drivable props now have vehicles you can drive and there are a few Easter Egg locations, as well as vehicles in Alaria so you can drive back to your base in KAM.

Map Updates and GPS Device

• Your squadmates now appear on the main map as live, named markers that follow them as they move (and show their last-known spot when they're far away).

• The main map now shows every base location and extraction point across the whole island, with names on hover. Sewer and manhole exits are clearly labeled and now work as extractions back to base.

• A new GPS Device has been added and can be equipped in one of the Tool slots (the tool tip is currently incorrect but will be fixed in a future patch). The GPS Device gives you access to a minimap that can show your location as well as your squadmates if they are close by.

Social, Friends & Squads

• A new unified Social screen brings your squad, friends, nearby players, and Steam/Epic friends together in one place — invite, accept, decline, and manage your squad without bouncing between menus.

• Your Steam/Epic friends list now shows who owns Reaper Actual, who's in-game right now, and what they're playing, with filters to narrow the list.

• Cleaner presentation: friends show "Marova" as their location instead of a raw ID, and the Social window text is tidier.

Controls & On-Screen Prompts

• On-screen prompts, the HUD, and the key binding screen now show the actual key images for your bindings, and they're correct from the moment you spawn.

Smoother Performance

• Big improvement to frame rate in larger fights through more efficient handling of distant enemies.

• Lighting and vegetation were optimized for better performance.

• Smoother frames when a lot is happening on the network at once.

• Greatly reduced hitching and stutter while moving around Marova Island.

• Further reduced occasional hitches and stutters during play.

World & Visual Polish

• General map cleanup and landscape touch-ups across the island.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that could happen when leaving Marova Island while the map was still loading in.

• Fixed a reliable crash when loading into your base.

• Fixed players getting stranded after a server reset during matchmaking — the game now recovers instead of getting stuck on the loading screen.

• Fixed deploying to Alaria's metro stations.

• Fixed the extraction smoke flares not showing up at Alaria's metro stations.

• Removed an incorrect metro-station marker.

• Your squad list no longer goes empty when entering or leaving your base — it stays filled in as you travel.

• Fixed squadmates seeing loot that had already been picked up.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when vehicles spawned or despawned nearby.

• Fixed your character sitting up too high in the seat when entering a vehicle while crouched or prone.

• Fixed vehicles jittering or shaking while parked.

• Fixed getting stuck with no controllable character ("No possessed pawn") while driving – a vehicle you're riding is no longer removed out from under you, and you're safely put back on foot if it's ever taken away.

• Fixed a couple of vehicle spawn points that placed vehicles in midair or on top of parked cars.

• Fixed player nameplates bending or flickering while riding in a vehicle.

• Enemy spawning is more reliable — areas that used to go quiet now repopulate as they should.

• Fixed mid-range enemies that could look like they were stuttering at a distance.

• Fixed the issue where ESC sometimes wouldn't close your inventory.

• Fixed a steadily worsening slowdown during sustained combat caused by weapon effects piling up.

• Cleared up dark patches that were pooling under and around plants.

• Fixed grass poking through the floors and walls inside buildings.

• Distant buildings in the Seaside area now render properly instead of popping in late or not at all.

• Fixed a brief flicker and hitch where some surfaces could momentarily show the wrong material.

• Removed leftover placeholder text labels that were visible out in the world.

• Removed floating geometry near the warehouse and at a road outpost.

• Removed the stray giant rock (the Asteroid) sitting on top of the Area 15 gas station – we will remember, and there may be t-shirts commemorating this iconic Foundation Alpha moment in the future.

Known Issues

• NPCs can't be run over with vehicles (yet) - this fix is in testing

• Chat duplication

• Reduced performance in downtown Alaria

• Some loot boxes may be uniquely placed

• You MAY experience, upon exit of a vehicle, that your arms are gone.  Just reload/move/anything to get them back.

• The paths to Alaria (and Alaria itself) are still under construction.  You will see unfinished buildings, sometimes hanging flags, even random lights, etc.  You may also see debug text. These are known and, in the queue, to be fixed.

Come to the weekly town hall meeting and ask your questions about the state of the game's development. Meet members of the team and afterwards, hop in to the game and top the leaderboard with the most kills in two hours. Check out the stream on Steam at the top of our store page, on X, Twitch, and our Discord.

Overview

This update is focused on controls. Full key rebinding for keyboard & mouse is here, along with a reworked controls menu and a batch of fixes to make on-screen prompts match your setup.

Controls

• You can now fully rebind keyboard & mouse controls, with both a primary and secondary binding for each action.

• The controls menu has been redesigned: navigate rows with the arrow keys or mouse wheel, key buttons are restyled with clearer labels (LMB, RMB, Space, Ctrl, and so on), and a side panel now describes what each action does.

• On-screen key prompts and HUD glyphs now follow your rebinds — including reload and armor swap, which previously showed fixed keys.

Bug Fixes

• Accepting a squad invite from the on-screen prompt now works reliably — fixed cases where clicking Yes did nothing.

• Fixed squad invites being automatically declined.

• Fixed an issue where rapidly leaving a squad could create extra or duplicate parties.

• Hardened the Kick action so it can't fire twice.

• Fixed Interact being bindable to two keys at once, and a case where the on-screen prompt could show the wrong key.

• Fixed an issue that could cause some audio to fail to load, resulting in missing sound.

• Various smaller fixes to menu navigation and on-screen prompts.

Under the Hood

• Tweaks and adjustments were made to improve build stability and consistency.

Feedback

Got thoughts on the new control options? Let us know in the forums or in our Discord — we read everything.

We are streaming today on our Steam page at 4PM PDT for about an hour. Hop in and play with us and hunt down the devs. We realize this time doesn't work for everyone and we will look to do more streams at different times to reach people in different time zones. This is just the first of many sessions to come!

Join the Distinct Possibility Studios Team today for the weekly Town Hall/AMA at Noon PDT / 9PM CET on the official Reaper Actual Discord. https://discord.com/invite/reaperactual

If you can't make it, we will post a video after the Town Hall on Youtube.

Join the Distinct Possibility Studios Team today for the weekly Town Hall/AMA at Noon PDT / 9PM CET on the official Reaper Actual Discord. https://discord.com/invite/reaperactual If you can't make it, we will post a video after the Town Hall.