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Breach Protocol updates ship as showcases rather than as a running commit feed. A write-up lands every few hundred builds — sooner when something significant is fixed. The in-game updater brings you to the current build automatically.

Update 2437 · 11 August 2026 · builds 2136–2437

Your name is your own

Every player now has an Agent ID — a name plus a tag, like Viper#4417 — and nobody else can take the name you picked.

Names used to collide. Two players could both be Viper, and everything that identified a player by name — the scoreboard, the kill feed, a report — had no way to tell them apart. Names are now claimed first come, first served, and the tag after the hash keeps yours distinct even when someone else picks the same word.

Your login no longer travels with you. The identifier your account authenticates with is no longer sent to other players, shown on your ID card, or attached to a bug report. What other people see is your Agent ID, which is safe to share; what signs you in stays on your machine.

Also in this update

Team colours are yours to pick. Choose the friendly and enemy colours in Settings, and set how solid your reticle is.
Weapons go by their own names in the kill feed, the after-action report and the Barracks, instead of an internal label.
The Barracks follows your interface colour along with the rest of the menus.
Alerts and warnings no longer look identical. A warning you can act on and a message that is only telling you something now read differently at a glance.

Accounts Privacy Interface

Update 2135 · 9 August 2026 · builds 2035–2135

Seven maps out of the vault

Bank, Harvest, Markethouse, Meridian, Obsidian, Presshouse and Sundown are back in rotation.

These seven were pulled from the previous update on purpose. Each of them had a basement you could see and could not get to: the ground outside the building ran on under it and roofed the cellar stairwell, so the whole lower floor was cut off from the rest of the map. On the maps with a bomb site down there, that site could not be reached from any attacker spawn. A round could start that no attacker could win.

The building pipeline now cuts the exterior ground to the building's own footprint, and refuses to finish a map where anything outdoors is still sitting over a flight of stairs. All seven were rebuilt against that rule and re-checked room by room from every spawn before they were let back in.

Also in this update

Outbreak — Drownpoint. The barrier lamps were mounted relative to the wrong surface and floated. They now sit where the map says they sit.
Outbreak — ending a match. Leaving a match could leave the power switch and parts of the station set behind in the next one. Everything is torn down properly now.
Rotation. Fifteen maps are now selectable across Multiplayer and Outbreak.

Maps Outbreak Rotation

See the full map list →

Earlier updates

Update 2034

The map standard

Maps stopped shipping on the strength of looking finished. Every map now has to prove, before it can be selected, that its floors tile cleanly, that no room is sealed, and that no doorway opens onto a stairwell void or lands on a wall junction where a breach would cut the building in half.

Eight maps failed that check and were held back rather than shipped — and the update said so at the time instead of quietly shrinking the rotation. Seven of them returned in 2135.

Also in this update

Match length. Competitive is a best-of-nine series, Casual a best-of-seven. Both are now a length that can actually resolve — the old pair could not.
Rebuilt from the vault. Gridlock became a traffic-control block, Meridian a civic art museum, Ruins a shelled state capitol. Same names, new buildings.

MapsMatch rules

An earlier update

Signatures that mean something

An operator's signature gadget is supposed to be the reason you pick them. Two of them were not doing that job.

Breaker now carries the thermal charge. The breach charge opens a soft wall and anyone can carry one; the thermal charge is the only tool in the game that opens reinforced steel. The hard breacher owns it.
Warden now carries deployable cameras, and nobody else may. Warden's previous gadget was shared with six other defenders, which meant it identified none of them.

A signature gadget that is not in its operator's normal pool is now offered properly in the loadout screen instead of being silently replaced at spawn — that quietly affected five operators.

OperatorsLoadout

See the operator roster →

Older builds

Published builds before 1878 are not archived on this site yet. The in-game bulletin board carries the notes that shipped with each update you have installed.