Patch history

• Hotfix 15.1 (2026-10-08): One-Handed Thunder Hammer buff: +10% base damage, Underhand Swing +67%, Echoing Swing waves +100%, Energised Strike +100% damage and +50% radius, charged attacks +25% with better cleave; forced stagger from charging stances temporarily removed. Its perks: Charge Overflow lasts 20 s, Rapid Recharge cooldown 15 s, Deflective Charge cooldown 20 s, Perfect Reprisal buffs all Light Attacks for 7 s, Preparedness and Brutal Reforge now need One-Handed Hammer kills, Reverberating Slam second hit fixed. Power Maul: +30% damage per charge. Melta Rifle: magazine 6, ammo 12, later damage falloff (also Multi-Melta). Fixes: Auspex Scan no longer buffs Gun Strike damage without perks (14.2 behaviour), Combi-Melta shot via Tactical Reserve, Elusive Fire on Heroic Melta Rifle. Crucible Pandemonium Penance 15% -> 25%; Chaos Siege Hellbrute melee -30%.
• Patch 15.0 (2026-10-01): Tactical perk tree rework (Auspex Scan weaker, bolters get pierce by default, Tactical can take Power Sword/Power Axe/One-Handed Thunder Hammer instead of a primary, Tactical Reserve gives a secondary Bolt Rifle). New One-Handed Thunder Hammer; Techmarine gets Two-Handed Thunder Hammer. Base damage buff for most primaries, big Melta rework (+60-65% damage, less ammo, steeper falloff). New Crucible endgame mode (Penances, level 25) and Chaos Siege (map Hive).
• Hotfix 14.2 (2026-09-03): Accolade reward fix for Weekly Siege and Weekly Eternal War. No build-relevant changes.
• Hotfix 14.1 (2026-08-11): Buffs to new heroic weapons (Stalker Bolt Rifle, Combi-Flamer, Combi-Melta, Power Fist melta blast). Terminator Sorcerer tweaks and Kraken Penetrator Rounds bug fix.
• Patch 14.0 (2026-07-28): PvP focus: two new maps (Sanctum, Facility), PvP progression removed (all gear from level 1), Assault/Vanguard/Bulwark PvP tuning. Six new heroic weapons, new Terminus enemy (Scarab Occult Terminator Sorcerer). Siege Tech-Priest income nerf and higher resistance caps.
• Hotfix 13.2 (2026-06-09): Siege scaling and Atonement tuning (resistance caps 60%/80%). Small Combat Knife and Bolt Carbine One-Handed buffs; cooldown bug fixes on several signature perks.
• Hotfix 13.1 (2026-05-28): Gun Strike damage restored to pre-13.0 values; Plasma Pistol gun strike adjusted. New Siege Blessing and Atonements; fixes for perks breaking after loadout swap.
• Patch 13.0 (2026-05-21): Bolter damage model rework: body shots about +30%, headshot bonus moved from enemies to weapons. New perk loadouts tied to weapon loadouts (swap mid-session), new secondary Bolt Carbine One-Handed (Assault, Bulwark), Pyreblaster Canister equipment, new operation Purgation, Battle Simulator and Siege 2.0 (Blessings and Atonements).
• Hotfix 12.3 (2026-04-08): AI director fix (stray Extremis spawns during Terminus fights) and crash fixes.
• Hotfix 12.2 (2026-03-18): Vanguard Moving Target and Retribution buffs, Sniper base ability cooldown 125s to 90s, heroic Bolt Pistol gun strike buff. Several Techmarine perk fixes.
• Hotfix 12.1 (2026-03-05): Techmarine perk adjustments: Battlefield Repairs reworked, Inexorable Salvo buffed, Replenishing Salvo and Decapitating Stratagem fixed, perk costs fixed.
• Patch 12.0 (2026-02-26): New class Techmarine (Servo-Gun ability, Tarantula Sentry Gun, 25 perks) with new weapon Omnissian Axe. New operation Disruption, Restorative Stimms, Custom Stratagems. Assault prestige shuffle (Hammer of Wrath becomes prestige, Commendation removed, new Strong Strike), Kraken Penetrator Rounds bolter body shot buff, Artificer/Relic Balanced melee +15%.
• Hotfix 11.3 (2026-01-29): MS Store compatibility only.
• Patch 11.2 (2025-12-15): Sanctified Wrath Reliquary bonus now multiplicative; 11.1 buff reverted from 35% to 25%.
• Hotfix 11.1 (2025-12-04): Scoped Heavy Bolt Rifle versions +13% damage, Sanctified Wrath 25% to 35%, heroic Heavy Bolt Pistol hip fire fix, PvP Assault dash one-shot fix.
• Patch 11.0 (2025-11-25): Vanguard perk reworks (Retribution, Moving Target, Tenacity), Assault Jump Pack Dash attacks and Act of Attrition rework, Power Axe moveset changes, Heavy Bolt Rifle/Bolt Pistol/Volkite buffs. New operation Reclamation, Sanctified Wrath equipment, 6 heroic weapons, netcode damage cap raised.
• Patch 10.3 (2025-10-08): Technical compatibility with the free demo only.
• Patch 10.2 (2025-09-19): Sniper Camo Cloak activation cost now escalates after 3 rapid uses (limits cloak-cancel abuse). Heroic Chainsword reworked (Stomp finisher). Perk friendly fire fix.
• Patch 10.1 (2025-09-11): Power Axe buffs (whirlwind +50%, Power Step +66%, perk positions swapped), heroic Power Gladius buff, Bulwark Shield Rush no longer stun-locks Terminus. More Stratagem rewards.
• Patch 10.0 (2025-09-04): New weapons Power Axe (Vanguard, Assault, Bulwark) and Pyreblaster/Pyrecannon with Burning (Tactical, Heavy). New Stratagems mode (Battlefield Conditions, Accolades), first Heroic weapons, operation Vortex, Chaos Spawn. Bolter/melee speed buffs, Bulwark charged Shield Bash, Camo Cloak cooldown 25s to 35s, Helbrute Onslaught PvP mode.
• Patch 9.0 (2025-07-29): Full melee version rework (Relic always better than Artificer; Balanced/Fencing/Block stat rules) and large firearm version pass widening differences between variants. Assault perk reworks (Winged Fury, Defense Mechanism, Hammer of Wrath), Heavy Thermal Boost rework, Inferno Pistol crowd-control buff, anti-stunlock.
• Hotfix 8.1 (2025-07-03): Crash, disconnect and Siege mode fixes (wave 25+ rewards, infinite wave scaling).
• Patch 8.0 (2025-06-26): New Siege mode (wave survival on Kadaku). Bulwark can take Thunder Hammer (no shield). Absolute Terminus buff. Prestige perk replacements for Bulwark, Assault, Sniper and Heavy; Tactical Final Shot and Communion of Fire reworked; many class perk buffs.
• Hotfix 7.2 (2025-04-29): Network and black screen fixes; Bulwark perks no longer triggered by friendly fire.
• Hotfix 7.1 (2025-04-24): Plasma Incinerator weapon perk tree reshuffled, Power Sword Power Rake/Whirl buff, Neo-Volkite discharge +12.5%. Perfect-parry perks also trigger on perfect block; '10 kills in rapid succession' perks now need 7.
• Patch 7.0 (2025-04-15): Prestige Ranks (up to 4 prestige perks per class) and massive weapon perk rework for every weapon (Slayer/Eliminator perks replaced). Extended PvE loadouts (e.g. Heavy Bolt Pistol for many classes), new Inferno Pistol, operation Exfiltration (Trygon), Assault Ground Pound now restores 30% contested health.
• Hotfix 6.2 (2025-03-04): Follow-up perk tuning after 6.0 (Bulwark Invigorating Icon penalty halved, Chapter Banner health 30%, several cooldown cuts) and Power Sword damage buff.
• Hotfix 6.1 (2025-02-14): Crash and connectivity fixes; Unyielding Ceramite perk fix.
• Patch 6.0 (2025-02-06): Class perk rebalance across all six classes (mostly buffs, Auspex stacking fix, damage perks now scale with difficulty). New Absolute difficulty, Biovore, Datavault, Armoury Data refinement. Power Fist charge rework, bolter buffs, Aux Grenade Launcher nerf, Perfect Block needs 2 Adrenaline Surge stacks.
• Hotfix 5.1 (2024-12-16): Fencing perfect parry window reverted to pre-5.0, overtuned Artificer Chainsword fixed, Adrenaline Surge restores 2 armour segments.
• Patch 5.0 (2024-12-10): Melee rework: Block weapons gain Perfect Block and Adrenaline Surge stacks, Balanced weapons bigger parry stagger, Balanced +10% and Block +20% damage. Neo-Volkite sensitivity buff, operation Obelisk, Tzaangor Enlightened, Extermination XP bonus.
• Patch 4.5 (2024-11-12): New secondary Neo-Volkite Pistol (Assault, Vanguard, Bulwark; PvE only at first). Buffs to Bolt Sniper Rifle, Occulus Bolt Carbine (scope), SMG Bolt Carbine and Auto Bolt Rifle; Plasma Incinerator heat fix.
• Patch 4.1 (2024-10-24): Rollback of 4.0 difficulty spikes (Extremis spawns, Ruthless armour +10%, Lethal Tight Formation removed) and bolter damage buffs of 5-20% across the board; bots +30% boss damage.
• Patch 4.0 (2024-10-17): New Lethal difficulty and operation Termination. Auspex Scan boss damage -30%, Melta Charge boss damage -70%, fencing parry window change, Chainsword/Power Fist/Combat Knife charged-attack perk buffs, Ruthless harder.
• Hotfix 3.1 (2024-10-08): Crash, stutter, Linux/Steam Deck and ultrawide fixes.
• Patch 3.0 (2024-09-26): Private Operations lobbies, Sparring Arena, ultrawide. Enemy damage and Chaos spawn caps reduced, perfect parry restores armour on Minoris kills, Assault Ground Pound +30%, Power Fist charged and Heavy Plasma buffs, Aux GL ammo only from ammo boxes.
• Hotfix 2.1 (2024-09-11): Launch crash and soft-lock fixes; CPU optimisation.
• Launch (2024-09-09): Worldwide release with 6 classes (Tactical, Assault, Vanguard, Sniper, Heavy, Bulwark), 6 operations and 4 Operation difficulties (Minimal, Average, Substantial, Ruthless).