2026-03-19 16:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Chet
The best things come in fours… From Beatles, to seasons, to horsemen… we love fours. And we are celebrating four great games in a Steam Bundle!While Lance is partial to the Anacrusis… everyone else has a favorite. Nessa is partial to Hunt the Showdown. An early extraction shooter that made the genre so cool, Nessa loves the discipline needed to play with scarce ammo and she absolutely loves the sound design. Liu can't help but want to terrify herself with the hardcore GTFO… she will play all night and then stay up hiding under the covers regretting her misses with her sledgehammer. Guion is pa
2025-10-03 00:08 UTC · Community Announcements · Chet
-Korean translations of the game have been improved-Fixed a bug in Versus where both Flashers wouldn't stop highlighting their target survivor on death-UV Flasher and Grabber have increased melee range in Versus-End Credits now reflect Community Update contributions-Ultrabrute's time dilation now normal in Versus, but has increased charge speed-Sanitation Grenade has a new model-Sanitation Grenade's max capacity increased from 1/2/4 to 2/4/6next upVersus balancing and improved player bots for single player versus mode!
2025-07-09 17:12 UTC · Community Announcements · StrayChet
With the massive community update out - we have a quick follow-up for some things we wanted in that update as well as a few fixes for some bugs... including a strange one.With the Flasher's alt fire you can now highlight and target a survivor to send your horde their way - similar to the spawnerFree Camera is now availableVolatile Gooper firing slowly gets a shorter cooldown (eventually caps at 3s) Weapon mods will now spawn in similar frequency to their category (special weapon, primary weapon, grenade)Upped bandwidth limits - this will help with a smoother experience for online playHolograph
2025-06-18 16:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Chet
The Community Update is LiveA year ago we kicked off an experiment with the community. What happens when you give them access to the source code and set them free?The result is the community comes together and makes a crazy, compelling, and fun update that expands the game with new weapons, creatures, maps, and game modes and opens up a whole new level of customization.Every single part of this update, except for this page, was done by the community.Thanks to everyone in our community at discord.gg/straybombay for making, helping, testing, and giving feedback.The best way to see all of what's
2024-12-09 22:27 UTC · Community Announcements · Chet
Join us testing the next major update - The community Update You can join us by entering "WeBeTesting" in the beta section of Steam and have access to our external playtest. Here are the notes on the latest update and what is being worked on for the Candidate build Bug Fixes: -> Removed collision for a cable (and rail) used throughout episode 2 which would kill non-host players on the alien team. -> Adjusted Survivor AI so that a player caught by the grabber is rescued far more quickly and consistently. -> Implemented a check to ensure a player cannot charge before their secondary melee attack
2024-11-04 19:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Chet
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40704928/0f82ac1eaf18a25a6b4f727d4682bfcb4f2bb779.png We have dropped our game price down to the lowest price we will offer this year - 75% off! This was at request of players wanting to be able to invite their friends to play and new players wanting to join our beta. To join our beta once you own the game enter - WeBeTestingInHere - in the beta code. We also want to be clear, our online community is small. You most likely will not find many online matches to match into in the wild. Our game works great with friends, solo, or joining our community at Discord.gg/StrayBombay w
2024-09-25 20:37 UTC · Community Announcements · Chet
The next update will be the "Community Update" We don't have an ETA yet, but are well on our way to working on and playtesting so I thought we could share here. If you would like to test I would suggest joining our discord - discord.gg/straybombay You can also test that branch any time by going into steam -> Betas and putting in the password WeBeTestingInHere That will give you access to the External Playtest Branch. Another big change is in the workshop we have areas for weapons and grenades. Those will be slowly added as we go through final versions - if you would like to make your own weapo
2024-05-28 17:13 UTC · Community Announcements · Chet
The Anacrusis is Throwing a pool party and you are invited! To kick off the summer, we've put The Anacrusis on its deepest discount ever! It's the perfect time to pick up some copies for friends, or dive in for the first time yourself. Don't worry, you don't need to go it alone, stop by our discord - discord.gg/straybombay where you can find a bunch of folks lounging by the pool, playing games and helping first time players discover everything The Anacrusis has to offer (we also play many old source mods and other fun multiplayer games). We have recently just updated our mod package to allow m
2024-01-12 19:22 UTC · Community Announcements · notthatwillsmith
Happy New Year! This update adds backend support required for the impending Epic Store version of the game and gameplay fixes for Episodes 3, 4, and 5. Once The Anacrusis is live on the Epic Store, anyone will be able to download the mod tools for free. Fixed multiple areas where players or aliens could get stuck in the Ep5 stadium event Fixing collision on a handful of doors in Ep4 and 5 Reduced the chance that common will get stuck on the first Ep5 door event, reducing the intensity of the event Extended length of Ep3 Apartment and Medbay events to make them more impactful Did backend work r
2023-12-22 22:31 UTC · Community Announcements · notthatwillsmith
We’re on sale for 50% off this week, and we managed to squeeze in one last update before the holidays! We've also enabled the holiday hats for Survivors for anyone who logs in in the next few weeks. This week’s update includes the following changes and bugfixes Dramatically increased the intensity of the Episode 5 Stadium finale. Getting those corn dogs off the Isolode should now be as challenging as we intended Redesigned the barrier at end of the gantry at the start of Episode 5 Fixed several lighting bugs in the Episode 5 finale Fixed several holes in the world in Episode 5 Fixed a variety
2023-12-15 21:46 UTC · Community Announcements · notthatwillsmith
This patch iterates the changes to the Brute we introduced in Update 59. The Brute charge's AOE attack damage and range are much larger, and the damage falloff is greater behind the Brute than in front of the Brute. We've also increased the damage that happens when a Survivor is hit by a charging Brute before the pounce.
2023-12-13 18:47 UTC · Community Announcements · notthatwillsmith
This week's patch fixes the following issues: Generally increased the intensity on the first level of each episode Prevented Mr. Brute from despawning in the holdout finale Fixed the closed door that players can traverse in Ep4 Increased the maximum volume for music in all levels. You can adjust the volume in settings to suit Versus AFK penalties are adjusted down Disabled the ability to turn the Brute during a charge in Versus
2023-12-05 18:05 UTC · Community Announcements · notthatwillsmith
Today marks our 58th update since launch, counting everything (aside from a few hotfixes here and there). It’s been a busy 22 months! Between Xbox and PC, more than a million players have tried The Anacrusis. In that time, we’ve added a dozen new weapons, a handful of new enemies, asymmetric Versus mode, Holdout Mode, full Steam Workshop support (including shared mods), and we also reworked the gamepad controls, reworked enemy AI, rebalanced the sound mix, added two new campaigns, and squashed literally thousands upon thousands of bugs. And yes, we’ve improved performance so much in the last 2
2023-12-05 12:57 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
Left 4 Dead remains the high watermark for co-op shooters. Atmospheric, varied, and able to encourage teamwork without clunky or intrusive extra mechanics, it's testament to the very best of Valve's game design principles. Both L4D and Left 4 Dead 2 succeed at subtly, almost invisibly making you want to work together. It's not about combining skills, abilities, and unique moves - you want to help each other because you love the characters, and because the drama and presentation are so intense, you get an intrinsic need to escape and survive. Now, 15 years later, Chet Faliszek, one of the co-cr
2023-11-28 22:27 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The Anacrusis is a co-op swarm shooter from Stray Bombay, the studio co-founded by former Left 4 Dead developer Chet Faliszek. It's currently making its way through Steam Early Access, but Faliszek says he "will never do Early Access again" due to "how player counts are seen by steam and then downwind by the community." Read more
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