STRAFTAT, the winner of our Best FPS of 2024 award, has just come out with a beefy free update that consists of 30 new maps (plus three more for DLC-owning players), nine new weapons, new features and QoL tweaks, as well as a lone new suit for the arena shooter’s delightfully ugly little potato men.
While I’m stuck on weekend news duty, PC Gamer’s FPS-likers have been having a gay old time with the new goodies, fragging out like it’s a 2002 LAN party amid the terminal decline of 2025. Among the new weapons, the katana feels so right it’s shocking there wasn’t one in the initial release of the game. I’ll be curious to see how the AP mine changes up STRAFTAT’s slapstick mines-only maps, while the failed ’80s/’90s experimental “future guns” represented by the H&K CAWS and G11 were practically made for games like STRAFTAT—they certainly didn’t get much play with the Bundeswehr.
