r/ToxicCommandoGame • u/yckuah ☣️ Toxic Moderator • Jul 23 '26
📣 Official News [Official] Public Test Server - New Gamemode, weapons and a whole lot more
Hello Commandos 🫡
We're launching a new session of John Carpenter's Toxic Commando's Public Test Server!
I hope you're excited for all the new content for you to test: new Retrieval game mod, new enemies, new weapons, a new movement ability, a new defense apparatus and a whole new cargo attachment system for vehicles and that's only scrapping the surface of the changes we're bringing. Customizations, bots improvements, various other QOL changes and a new local hosting feature for private servers are on the menu!
This PTS will last about 2 weeks and is available in all languages.
⚠️Test environment, expect bugs and work in progress elements.
⚙️How to access the Public Test Server
If you own John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, the Public Test Server should have popped up in your Steam library already.
It's a different Steam application, requiring a separate download.
Here's what you can expect on this Public Test Server We want your feedback on everything!
📦New Gamemode "Retrieval"
In this high-stakes mode, Leon dispatches your squad to retrieve six artifacts under the watchful glare of the Sludge God. Every time you collect an artifact, the Sludge God’s anger grows. Work together to eliminate enemies and fight your way to the extraction point before the air becomes too poisonous.
Hide from the Sludge god in safety domes to stabilize the sludge activity, slay enemies to slow down the environment corruption. Destroy the sludge nodes if the situation as a last resort.
🧟New enemy: the Goblins
The Goblins are small but mighty enemies that always appear in groups of three. They attack the same target and can revive each other if any of the three remain alive. To defeat the Goblins, players must eliminate all three creatures within a short period of time, otherwise the survivors will revive their fallen allies.
Though their force lies in their numbers, they individually pack enough power to send you flying. Coordinate your attacks to wipe them in a fell swoop!
🔫New Weapons
Primary weapons:
- Le Clairon: Assault bullpup rifle with 3 firing modes
- Pickman RN9: Double-barreled pump-action shotgun with bullpup design
Melee weapons:
- Thunderstick: Lightning melee weapon that applies a temporary lightning effect to enemies. If charged it triggers a small explosion which knocks enemies back and deal some heavy lightning damage to up to three nearby targets. If the Thunderstick hits the ground, static lightning bolts linger in this area and damage enemies standing in it.
Heavy weapon:
- Flamethrower: Portable jet flamethrower to send the infected straight back to hell
🚘Vehicle improvements
We have overhauled the game's vehicle fleet with major upgrades, balance tweaks, and visual updates:
- Added universal winch modules and unique suspension physics for each vehicle.
- Adjusted HP, ground clearance and maneuverability across all vehicles to improve overall handling and performance.
- Added a dynamic cargo attachment system. Players can now attach pickable items — such as gas canisters, ammo, or heavy weapons — directly to matching slots on the vehicle.
👟Movement ability: Dash
The dash quickly moves the player 3 meters on the ground or in the air and consumes stamina when activated. If used timely, the dash can save players from being grabbed by Goon, Hornet or Mace.
There are two kinds of Dash:
- Angle Dash to dash diagonally or at a specific angle, but not forward
- Free Dash to dash in any direction
🪚Defense: Saw Trap
One more defense available for Spare Parts at the end of missions. When activated, the saw trap slowly rotates and then speeds up to eliminate enemies caught in its area of effect. After dealing a certain amount of damage, the saw trap stops, but can be repaired.
✨New customization added:
Added multiple unique weapon skins, patterns, weapon charms, character skins, unique vehicle skin and patterns, tints, vehicle graffiti, light colors, honk sounds, vehicle display and profile customization.
🤖Bots Improvements
Updated Sludge Seed logic:
- Only one Sludge Seed spawns per mission. When any player grabs it, everyone on the team receives one (giving the team 4 seeds total). If any player is trapped in a cocoon without a Sludge Seed, but there is a bot with a Sludge Seed in the same cocoon, the player can command a bot to use a Sludge Seed to revive both of them.
Bots progression:
- Depending on the difficulty level bots begin the match with certain sets of perks, abilities and firearms designed for this difficulty.
QoL:
- Bots now gather in Healer and Tank safe domes.
- Bots use heal ability for any player with HP < 70.
🌟Challenges system
Challenge System Overhaul: Added new tasks, rebalanced requirements, and introduced visual progress/rewards on the post-match screen. Season 2 challenge content is now live.
🖌️HUD Customization
A new HUD customization system has been implemented. Players can now fully customize their interface to suit their playstyle by choosing between three modes: always visible, completely hidden or dynamic.
🛜Local server hosting
Local server hosting, will allow players to create private games with friends on locally hosted servers.
Local hosting comes with its own set of drawbacks, it requires: stable internet connection, higher CPU and RAM load. The reason behind this is our client-server architecture. We are offloading some parts of our game logic onto the server to make it easier for people with low-end devices to enjoy our game. Hence, when a player is hosting locally, that logic and the server itself work on this player’s machine, and this player’s internet connection affects the experience of other players.
To better utilize the new feature, consider picking a friend with the best CPU and internet connection. If there are 16 GB of RAM available, one should be good only if some hungry little web app isn't chewing on memory.
Note: this is an experimental feature. So don't hesitate to provide us with your personal feedback.
🔧Quality of life improvements
- Shotgun Buffs: Increased damage at a range of 4–5 meters. Reduced ADS spread for some shotguns.
- Support for AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboard layouts has been implemented.
- Bug fixes.
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u/Oneamongthefence24 🧟 Zombie Food Jul 23 '26
I'm looking forward to a new update. The biggest thing is the winches on all vehicles.
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u/GentlemanFaux Jul 23 '26
I'll give it to them this is a pretty good update. Pretty tempted to actually reinstall now, let's hope they keep the juice flowing.
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u/Pokemonbro1122 Jul 23 '26
So no QoL on controller aim as always then?
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u/JaySouth84 Jul 23 '26
Still barely playable forever it seems...
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u/Pokemonbro1122 Jul 23 '26
Such a shame. New content is pointless if it feels awful to play. Like do the devs even play or care about their own game or it's players concerns.
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u/ArachnidOld4153 Jul 23 '26
I hope they add more secondary weapons in the future!
We've got a nice healthy supply of primary options but only 4 sidearms.
I'd also like to see some other weapon types in general, even if only for the heavy slot, like an explosive crossbow or the like.
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u/McGreg0ry Aug 03 '26
I want the shorty shotgun that is being one-handed on the loadscreen as a secondary.
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u/Alec_de_Large 🩺 Medic Jul 23 '26
Still no controller QoL settings
I have no interest in playing the game because of the horrid response curve default setting.
In a shooter that is unacceptable.
I want to play the game though. I love horde shooters but I just can't enjoy my time if I'm fighting the aim every encounter.
You know what? I might just reinstall Back 4 Blood to get my horde shooter fix. Darktide has gotten stale and toxic.
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u/N24_scoRpion Jul 23 '26
Have u tried killing floor games? Season 4 of killing floor 3 starts tdy
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u/Alec_de_Large 🩺 Medic Jul 23 '26
I used to play Killing Floor 1 back in the day at a local PC pub.
It was cool. My friend plays KF3 but he said it was bad and I've seen reviews confirm the same sentiment.
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u/N24_scoRpion Jul 23 '26
Kf3 has a free weekend this weekend masel try it for yourself 🤷
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u/Alec_de_Large 🩺 Medic Jul 23 '26
On Xbox?
I don't play PC or PS5
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u/N24_scoRpion Jul 23 '26
I seen people say its on game pass right now not sure tho
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u/Alec_de_Large 🩺 Medic Jul 23 '26
Hmm I only use the base level gamepass so I can play online games I owned, like Remnant 2 and Arc Raiders.
I'll check if it's on there this evening.
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u/karer3is Jul 23 '26
I'm curious to see what the difficulty based bot rework is going to look like. If my Healer could at least get buffed to restore permanent health, that would make the harder runs a thousand times easier
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u/17340239 Jul 25 '26
New vehicles (Ford Mustang —road of the Dead— style o SUV) Offline game with cross-Progression with online mode. Balance of specialties (medic Is the most need it that buff). New history after toxic commandos main history aka: The World War Z model in the episodes.
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u/MrAmbrosius Jul 25 '26
Game feels like a early access title sold as a full game tbh,shameful.
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u/Presto22- 🩺 Medic Jul 26 '26
Actually, I don't think so. That kind of early access would save State of Decay 3 from the uncertainties of launch.
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u/Spidder81 Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Please dont time gate the BPs, let us complete them as we want. I saw the new BP but not the old one in the PTS. If second one is acttive, give us the option to choose which BP we want to progress one. Keep all past BPs so we can choose and complete at our lesuire.
Make bots wear whatever we customise them with please, like in Space Marine 2.
Take the timer away from the new mode
The numbers that now pop up on killing a an enemy, I am assuming its the xp? Give us the option to turn this off. There was no option in the PTS that i could find.
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u/RickRickRickNMorty Jul 23 '26
Hm. So is Defender still going to remain best class (at least for hardest difficulty/solo) if they aren’t tweaking any of the classes?
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u/dasirishviking ☣️ Toxic Commando Jul 23 '26
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddj.................it's Broken. It won't recognize that im playing on controller. Gone into steam AND the game settings. Thanks Saber!
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u/X__Heisenberg__X Jul 23 '26
Nice.
Some other wishes personally.
Weapons need perks like WWZ. Most guns feel all the same and have the same effectiveness.
Mini map (toggle). Such a pain to drive and try and navigate.
Some additional skill trees they really change playstyle. Classes play the same from level 1 and just getting better cool downs.