Menace was one of early 2026’s highlights for fans of turn-based strategy games, putting us in control of a military strike force blasting its way across a lawless frontier. This article rounds up all the information about the title’s latest patches alongside how its 2026 update roadmap is shaping up.
Below, you can find the full patch notes for the latest Menace update alongside a list of its previous patches and their launch dates, helping you get a sense of changes introduced since the game’s early access debut.
Menace Latest Patch Notes - v0.6.8 update
Menace hasn’t received a complete 2026 update roadmap so far, although we did get a first set of details regarding what to expect content-wise. In addition, several patches have already been deployed.
Patch 5, or v0.6.8, focuses on more bug fixes, balancing, and improvements. It went live on February 26, 2026. Check out the full patch notes below.
New
- Added “Subtitles” setting to disable subtitles
- Added “Show Unique Leader Heads” setting to disable unique 3D squadleader heads
- Added “Player Guide” link to the title menu
Improvements
- Optimized various assets for better performance
- Increased width of tooltips to prevent them from being cut off (e.g. when targeting with a skill)
- Infantry repositioning animations look more natural and trigger only when necessary
- Improved readability of strategic/enemy asset icons on the mission preparation screen
- Active strategic/enemy asset are now shown on OCI screen
- Offmap ability ‘Laser Turret’ now always spawns if there is a least 1 valid tile in range
Bugfixes
- FIXED Keyboard input shouldn’t be broken anymore, after opening the Steam Overlay
- FIXED The impact explosions of the Airburst Launcher were too bright at night
- FIXED Infantry Tripod Weapons was incorrectly tagged as “Vehicle Weapon”
- FIXED Enemies sometimes ended up under the terrain while leaving a tower
- FIXED AI units sometimes left transporters using a far-away tile as exit
- FIXED Deployment positions were sometimes not saved correctly, when strategic assets increased deployment zone sizes
- FIXED Some events rewarded the wrong pirate boarding commando armor
ITEMS:
- FIXED Armors and vehicles with penalty to Detection now show it in the tooltip
- FIXED “Aphenedrin” accessory didn’t reduce suppression when a unit was inside tower
- FIXED “Nitrophenyl Injector” accessory didn’t work as intended
- FIXED Jetsuit armors set the detection stat to 0
- FIXED “Smart Gun Link” accessory only worked for 1 mission
Objectives:
- FIXED Objective in POW Rescue Mission where POW unit was not being spawned but automatically saved
- FIXED The game could get stuck when civilians were rescued as last unit in a round
- FIXED One of the secondary objectives in the [REDACTED] recon patrol mission didn’t grant any reward points
- FIXED The secondary time limit objectives in the Rogue army POW Rescue missions weren’t configured correctly
Balancing
- Set stats of vehicle accessory VMAT to be in line with T2 Rocket Launcher
- FIXED Damage To Armor Durability from 0 to 330
- Reduced Accuracy Bonus from 20 to 10
- Reduced Suppression from 90 to 70
- Reduced Elements Hit from 2 to 1
- Increased Ideal Range from 5 to 6
- Reduced Max Range from 10 to 9
Known Issues
- Some antivirus programs incorrectly classify the “GameAssembly.dll” file as malware and delete it, making the game unplayable. If that happens please whitelist the “GameAssembly.dll” and “Menace.exe”.
- If the game is installed on HDD drives, loading times are bad and barks are delayed.
- Some letters in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian are displayed with a different font.
- Display mode “Fullscreen” behaves sometimes not as expected, after minimizing the game. Until this is fixed please consider using “Fullscreen Window” instead.
Menace Roadmap of Updates for 2026
Below, you’ll find the full list of updates, patches, and hotfixes that Menace has received since entering Steam Early Access on February 5, 2026:
| Patch Notes | Release Date |
|---|---|
| Hotfix 1 | February 6, 2026 |
| Patch 1/v0.6.3+16067 | February 6, 2026 |
| Hotfix 2 | February 8, 2026 |
| Patch 2/v0.6.5+16107 | February 9, 2026 |
| Patch 3/v0.6.6.+16265 | February 12, 2026 |
| Patch 4/v0.6.7+16403 | February 19, 2026 |
| Patch v0.6.8 | February 26, 2026 |
With Menace’s latest patch notes and roadmap of updates for 2026 covered, here are our impressions of its initial early access version.
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