🚨 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! 🎅

And now, on to business at the headquarters.

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!

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What'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 Sight

In many circumstances, a greater versatility to aiming with your guns is very welcome, particularly when your weapon utilizes long-range sights that obstruct your view. A quick switch to an alternative form of aiming may just save your officer's life under this drawback while allowing him to maintain a focused ADS mode. We've introduced this mode of aiming to SWAT Commander in the form of canted sight for rifles and handguns. Use the related hotkey to switch your aim to a view on canted sight.

Try it out and remember to check the keybind for it in your settings.

Figs. 1–2 — Canted sight is now available in the game, check your keybind (default \[M]).

Recoil Revamp

This one is rather self-explanatory. Enough said, we've adjusted the parameters of weapon recoil extensively with the goal of offering greater variety and realism in weapon behavior. As you may expect, this is going to be most tangible when using auto fire. Practice and adapt to make the best use of your weapons.

Figs. 3–5 — Weapon recoil behaves differently in the automatic fire of different weapons.

Bullet Ballistics

Thanks to a new bullet flight system based on muzzle raycast instead of view raycast, SWAT Commander wll become more closely engaged in realistic ballistics — the bullets will come flying out of the muzzle of your selected weapon, which will allow you to work with your positioning more instinctively as well as improve the general immersion of all gunfights.

Have a look at some comparisons of how bullet ballistics worked before vs. how they work now:

Figs. 6–9 — A comparison of different weapons performing under the old and new ballistics systems.

SWAT Commander: Prologue v.0.7.8.3 Patch Notes:

AI

• Fixed an issue where suspects could hit the player before fully raising and aiming their weapon.

EQUIPMENT

• Added canted sight view for primary and secondary weapons (toggle with the M key).

• Added new high fire rate gun to the suspect weapon pool.

GAMEPLAY

• Updated bullet ballistics so shots now originate from the weapon’s muzzle instead of the camera view, improving shot consistency.

• Improved recoil calculation and bullet dispersion for more accurate shooting behavior.

• Updated recoil parameters for all weapons.

• Reduced shotgun buckshot spread.

ANIMATIONS

• Updated idle animations for pistols.

• Updated lowered weapon positions for all weapons.

• Updated suspect animation of reaction to the darkness.

Check out a short video presentation of these changes down below! 👇

More updates on their way together with an extended roadmap of our future work on the Early Access version, so stand by for further news!

Over and out,

SWAT Commander Team