SWAT Commander — patch notes and updates
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| SWAT Commander v.0.8.0.1 - Small Update - Legacy Reward Unlock | 2026-10-29 | 🚨 Officers,A small patch today to SWAT Commander brings an option that will be relevant for many of you - based on your accomplishments in the game up until our recent First Campaign Update, you will now have the option to unlock all the currently available rewards. If you've already finished missions in the game on various difficulties, you may be entitled to our new in-game rewards.Essentially, if you want all your past progression to count for unlocking rewards, you can now make that happen with the click of a button. Of course, everyone has the option to simply start over and proceed from mission to mission in a campaign for their unlock |
| SWAT Commander v.0.8.0.0 - First Campaign Update | 2026-10-21 | 🚨 Officers,Today, we're rolling out our previously announced major feature, included in what we've dubbed "The First Campaign Update." Available in our Early Access version right now:And an accurate name it is, seeing as the new Campaign feature is the update's centerpiece.A quick reminder of what's gone live just now: the addition of the campaign system to the game will provide our new and veteran players alike with a new flow of unlockable rewards: both brand new and familiar equipment, as well as appearance customization for uniforms in the form of character skins.In the new system, there is now a playthrough progression, in which complet |
| Playtest Extended Until October 8th | 2026-10-05 | 🚨 Officers,Quick news update for you - the currently ongoing playtest will be extended until October 8th!If you still want to join, just head on over to the main page of SWAT Commander here:…press the playtest signup button below our EA disclosure window and download the playtest app:As a reminder, the playtest focuses on our upcoming Campaign/Progression update that features a special mission progression mode, dedicated challenges, unlockable rewards, and stat tracking under a new save system.If you have any feedback after participating in the playtest, we're all ears. Share your thoughts on our Discord server or the dedicated feedback thre |
| Playtest ! / Autumn Sale! | 2026-10-03 | 🚨 Officers,The Campaign/Progression system playtest is up now! Report to the main game's Steam page where you can still sign up to participate if you want to help us test our game's new upcoming features!A few unlockable rewards, progression for the first three missions in the game, gameplay stats tracking, all operating under a new save system!We hope that we can once again count on our community's irreplacable feedback, without which our game wouldn't progress the same way it does today. And what better way to know our hard work is well received than by listening to you, the players? After the many updates, SWAT Commander has been recently |
| New Playtest Sign-Ups Open! - Upcoming Campaign/Progression System | 2026-09-25 | 🚨 Officers,Today, we'd like to once again extend an invitation to participate in our project's development process! How? With a playtest for a brand new upcoming feature.What's the upcoming feature?The next update to SWAT Commander involves the addition of a campaign system to the game that's going to reward you with both new equipment and appearance customization for weapons and uniforms. As you progress from mission to mission, you'll be presented with the option of completing achievements and challenges in return for those unlockables. What's more, the game will give you the option of tracking various stats related to your performance on |
| Third Roadmap Update | 2026-09-03 | 🚨 Officers,It's a new month and the seasons will soon change again. We've recently had our midsummer blast when we celebrated our first EA launch anniversary, so now is a good moment to update you on the upcoming plans for SWAT Commander.No better way to do that than to present you with a new version of our development roadmap. You'll find it included in this news post down below as well as the full app's Steam page. There are plenty of interesting things to read up on, so be advised and study this intel carefully.We've got on the horizon new features such as a complete campaign system with challenges and mission progression for unlockable r |
| Cannon Clicker - Now Available! | 2026-08-19 | Teeeen-hut!At ease, soldiers - actually, no. Nobody's at ease today, because this is the big one - Cannon Clicker, our incremental battle game, is out NOW in full on Steam!The free demo was basic training, maggots - this is the real war. Take command of infantry, tanks and aircraft, fight your way through the full campaign, climb the expanded skill tree, and juggle three currencies on your way from one lonely cannon to total military supremacy.Enlist during premiere week and you'll deploy with a 15% launch discount. That's not a request, that's an order of exceptional value!And when the dust settles, report back to command! Drop a review and |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.9.6 - The Elite Society Update | 2026-07-31 | 🚨 Officers,The Early Access version of SWAT Commander has received a major update today, bringing a brand new mission to our EA players - The Elite Society! Check it out right here on Steam: New Mission - The Elite SocietyBehind rusted gates and overgrown grounds, a crumbling old residence has stood quiet for years, or so the neighborhood believed. The once-grand estate has been serving as the meeting place of a self-styled "elite society": a circle of privileged individuals convinced that wealth and connections place them above the law. Soon, a large-scale police investigation reveals that this group's gatherings serve as little more than a |
| SWAT Commander - Launch Anniversary | 2026-07-30 | 🚨 One Year in Early Access - You Said It. We Built It.Officers,One year ago on July 31st, SWAT Commander deployed into Early Access. Our brief anniversary video tells the story of that year the only way it should be told - through you. We went back through twelve months of your reviews, forum threads, and feedback, then lined them up against every update we shipped. You said the AI needed work. You said finding a squad was the hardest mission. You said the Commander needed a new voice. One of you said, in all caps, that you NEEDED MORE AMMO. Message received, every time. Year one, by the numbers: 14 milestones: from the free Prologue (April |
| "From Poland With Love" Sale Event! | 2026-07-27 | 🚨 Officers,Some good news from the home front: SWAT Commander is taking part in the From Poland With Love sale, an event hosted by Untold Tales. It goes live today at 19:00 CEST (10 AM PT) and runs until August 3rd - and for its whole duration, the Early Access version of our game is available at a 30% discount! 💰Fig. 1 - SWAT Commander participates in "From Poland With Love"If you've been holding off on deployment, this is a great opportunity to get on board and support our ongoing Early Access development. And the timing is no accident, because…Anniversary Update - New Mission: "The Elite Society" 🎭July 31st marks one year of SWAT Comman |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.9.5 — The Ragdoll Update | 2026-06-12 | 🚨 Officers,SWAT Commander has been updated to version 0.7.9.5, and along with it come some much needed immersive changes to the characters' death animations and ragdoll behaviors.With the goal of further improving the aesthetic side of SWAT Commander, a part of our ongoing efforts in Early Access development has been directed to the ragdoll behaviors and today's update delivers the result of those efforts - with new death animations played when Suspects and Civilians are delivered lethal force and adjustments to ragdoll behaviors, these changes should help position the bodies of these individuals before their following restraint in more real |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.9.4 — Magazines | 2026-05-25 | 🚨 Officers,The current version of our game is now 0.7.9.4, and the update allows you to customize the balance of primary and secondary magazines your squad brings on your missions.Many of you have been reporting the issue of running out of ammo in the game's bigger missions, and since it's also a matter that's been heatedly called to attention in recent discussions, we're addressing it with the following solution - from now on you can determine the ratio of primary and secondary weapon ammo magazines your operatives will be bringing with them on a mission.We see this is as a balanced compromise between the overpowered step of just adding mor |
| Perps Push Their Luck | 2026-05-15 | 🚨 Officers,Tell me, would you describe yourselves as risk-takers? Because soon, big risks you may just have to take. That is, once your SWAT squad is summoned to deploy to a certain seedy gambling den. In "Highest Stakes," one of SWAT Commander's upcoming missions, you'll be required to carry out a raid at a shady gambling den. The discovery of such a highly illegal enterprise already warrants police intervention, but what makes this situation even juicier is that the big boss of the ring, together with his right-hand man, are scheduled to make a personal appearance on site, possibly to admire their latest "handiwork."Fig. 1 - Bar area locat |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.9.3 — Subtitles | 2026-04-27 | 🚨 Officers,We're bringing SWAT Commander to version 0.7.9.3, whose chief feature are the dialogue subtitles.For better accessibility and quality of following what's exactly going on during the missions, all lines spoken by in-game characters will now be subtitled in every language supported by our project.This feature has an additional gameplay layer to it aside from making SWAT Commander's localization more complete. Very often, knowing what a character is saying is the factor on which the end result of an entire situation rests - knowing that an individual is no longer hostile, hearing the callout of your fellow officer in co-op, and so on |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.9.2 — New Commander Voice | 2026-04-10 | 🚨 Officers,The current version of the game is now 0.7.9.2, all thanks to our latest update, which introduces a brand new voice to the player-character Commander, featuring the talent of Brain Watts!As a voice actor with extensive experience in video games and animations, we can confidently say that Brian has made an excellent contribution to our project, granting the Commander a brand new quality!More on the subject, we have revised some of the lines entirely for improved accuracy and immersion!On a different note, a reminder that we've made a new roadmap available, which we're planning to amend further as we finalize our ongoing plans, such |
| Commander, Reporting for Duty! | 2026-04-02 | 🚨 Officers,📣 We proudly announce an upcoming update to our game that's going to feature a brand new voice for John, the titular SWAT Commander!And lending his talent to this effort is none other than the remarkably talented voice actor Brian Watts, who has prepared a short introduction for us! 👇With Brian's extensive experience in games and animation, there's no doubt in our minds that the role of SWAT Commander's team lead is in good hands. Stand by for the official game update!Brian's portfolio:https://brianwattsva.com/ Brian's announcement about another of his upcoming major roles:https://www.tiktok.com/@megavwatts/video/756451056300341 |
| SWAT Commander — v.0.7.9.1 — Hotfix 0.2 | 2026-03-09 | Fixed an issue where Officers could not pick up RPG weapons when executing the Search & Secure command. Fixed an issue with progression not saving correctly in advanced game modes. |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.9.1 — The Blue Holster Update | 2026-02-27 | 🚨 Officers,A major update today with a brand new mission brings SWAT Commander to version 0.7.9.1!New Mission — The Blue HolsterA den of ill repute by any measure, the downtown nightclub known as "The Blue Holster" has crossed the tenuous line that finally rendered it into a full-blown crime scene. Rampant, violent drug trade is by all means unacceptable to law enforcement, so a serious incident taking place this fateful evening and involving the dubious establishment along with a local criminal underground demands for a SWAT intervention.A two-storey dance floor area, balconies, facilities private rooms, as well as a number of storage and u |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.9.0 — Public Lobbies & AI Update | 2026-02-20 | 🚨 Officers,Today we're bringing another update in the course of SWAT Commander's Early Access development, and that makes the current version of the game 0.7.9.0.Co-op CommandsIntended as a measure of convenience is the new co-op command feature. They're an alternative to using voice chat and potentially a more effective way of letting your squadmates know what you want to accomplish in the team's next steps. Basically, the same way it's done in singleplayer mode with AI-controlled SWAT officers under your command.Chatter is often distracting. So what if you want your heavy support opperative to C2 a particular door and just telling them isn |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.8.4 – New Command | 2026-01-19 | 🚨 Officers,SWAT Commander receives a new regular update, bringing its current version to 0.7.8.4. The update comes with a discount, giving you the temporary chance to snag our game for a bargain!New Window CommandThis time, in an effort to reinforce our officers' tactical repertoire, we're introducing a new command that should make building entries easier by allowing you to issue a command to throw grenades through first-floor windows. This is configured for all of our current and future missions.Remember to adjust your choice of grenade to how quickly you can make an entry and that tossing grenades through windows outside of commands is a v |
| SWAT Commander's 2025 in Review | 2026-01-02 | 🚨 Officers,We bring you a summary report of 2025 for SWAT Commander! All of the improvements to the game we've brought to our project through new content in major updates! Feel free to inspect the sequence of events on file below.And take note that the Winter Sale is still in effect until January 5th! Good opening to grab our game at a discount if you haven't done it yet:2025 In Review**Smaller bug-fixing interventions not included in report for brevityCase number: SC-0773Date: July 31st 2025Detail of Event: SWAT Commander becomes available to all officers in its Early Access launch. With a considerable arsenal of police equipment, a complex |
| Best Wishes and a Winter Sale! | 2025-12-18 | 🚨 Officers,2025 is steadily drawing to a close, so we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for another year of SWAT Commander! Our work on the game continues thanks to your feedback and support of the Early Access version, so we're hoping to see more of you in 2026. Best wishes to you and your loved ones, many happy returns! 🎅2025 Steam Winter SaleAnd if you'd like to support our work on the game, now is a great opportunity as the Early Access version of SWAT Commander is participating in the Steam Winter Sale right now! Secure the objective in many more missions with a 20% discount!Stand by for further news about 2026 — more update |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.8.3 – Weapon Handling Update | 2025-12-16 | 🚨 Officers,Another update makes its way to SWAT Commander, making version 0.7.8.3 its latest build! Weapon Handling UpdateWhat's new in the game this time? We're doing what we can to enhance your experience with SWAT Commander on various levels and now we've taken the core functioning of weapons in our sights. This means a, now available, modification of various mechanics that govern the firing and handling of guns.A detailed list is available in the patch notes below, but to make a long report short, here's the rundown of what we've modified:Canted SightIn many circumstances, a greater versatility to aiming with your guns is very welcome, p |
| SWAT Commander EA v.0.7.8.2 - Custom Game Update | 2025-11-26 | GAMEPLAY Fixed an issue where suspects and civilians did not receive the correct health values when modified in Custom Game Settings. Added the ability to increase civilian and suspect health and morale up to three times higher in Custom Game Settings. UI Improved the Custom Game Settings interface to enhance usability and player experience. |
| Steam Awards & Mini Tutorial #3 | 2025-11-25 | 🚨 Officers,We wish to invite you to a very special operation, codenamed "Prime Nomination". It is our strong belief that SWAT Commander deserves a shot (pun, as always, fully intended) in the "Better With Friends" category of the 2025 Steam Awards, and so, we humbly request that you offer your nomination to our project!Much like our game wouldn't advance without your continued support, so would a SWAT intervention not go well without the support of your trusted officers. A reason why we've always wanted co-op to be an integral part of SWAT Commander.On to the next part of our dispatch — another mini tutorial lands on your desks. This time th |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.8.1 – Patch Notes | 2025-11-09 | 🚨 Officers,We're updating SWAT Commander to version 0.7.8.1 for a few fixes to the new Customization feature.Take note if you haven't yet, Officers, this new feature has made a number of settings available in SWAT Commander. These allow you to modify a range of previously pre-determined conditions in any mission you deploy on, whether that's in singleplayer or co-op. More details in our previous news post:A reminder that SWAT Commander is currently undergoing a sale in a Weeklong Deal! Great way to support our ongoing Early Access efforts before we drop more updates. Also, help us drop even better updates! The sale continues until tomorrow, |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.8.0 – Customization Update! | 2025-11-03 | 🚨 Officers,The time has come for SWAT Commander to be updated to version 0.7.8.0 with the brand new Customization Update!To celebrate, SWAT Commander is available at a 20% discount! This is a great opportunity to support our ongoing Early Access development if you haven't yet, and it'll be worth it, as more updates are on their way! Remember that the new feature we're describing below is available in both singleplayer and cooperative modes!What is the Customization Update exactly? Think back to all the components that make up a mission in SWAT Commander — the goals, the suspects you confront, what equipment they use, the civilians you encoun |
| Customization Preview & Mini Tutorial #2 | 2025-10-21 | 🚨 Officers,In the spirit of one of our previous posts, where we presented our current roadmap and provided some intel on the ability of suspects to shoot at SWAT officers through doors, we would today like to discuss a different feature of SWAT Commander — swapping ammo types.SWAT Commander's ammo typesWe'd like to encourage our officers to pay closer attention to a certain option native to the equipment configuration screen, where you can specify the different weapons and pieces of equipment with which your team will be deployed on a single-player mission or specify the equipment for yourself as you join a co-op session.You can access this |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.7.7 – Patch Notes | 2025-10-05 | 🚨 Officers,We're updating SWAT Commander to version 0.7.7.7 for a few fixes and improvements. Have a look at the patch notes below for details.In the meantime, a reminder that SWAT Commander is participating in the Steam Autumn Sale! Good opportunity to grab our game if you haven't yet. The sale continues until October 6th, 10 AM PT (19:00 CEST).There's a brand new mission available with our previous update, one of the biggest maps available in the game to date, and we're still eagerly gathering feedback from you on that as well as other features of the game, so keep 'em coming.SWAT Commander EA v.0.7.7.7 — Patch Notes:NETWORKFixed a bug whe |
| SWAT Commander v.0.7.7.6 – New Mission! | 2025-09-29 | 🚨 Officers,SWAT Commander's version 0.7.7.6 update is out now!Steam Autumn SaleSWAT Commander is participating in the Steam Autumn Sale! And for the occasion of this event, taking place from September 29th to October 6th, our game will be avaiable at a 20% discount! Check out the event, it's another great opportunity to grab our gameNew Mission — "Under the Hood"Now then, there's something to write home (or your superior) about with this update because you get to deploy on a brand new operation — "Under the Hood" joins the roster of missions available to you and your SWAT squad!A local auto manufacturing plant known as Gear Master Dynamics p |