There’s still a few days to go until Remedy Entertainment’s latest entry into their Connected Universe, FBC: Firebreak, is unleashed onto the world. Whether it’s any good or not in its entirety, we probably won’t know for a while yet given that online shooters of its ilk are always guaranteed to receive numerous patches to iron out some kinks. Our own Nic found a good bit to like about the game in his preview, ignoring the at the time rubbish guns, at the very least.
Whether those tweaks come or not, Remedy have guaranteed one thing: some big free updates with new things to do. Ain’t that nice! In the 2025 roadmap, there were a couple of updates outlined for the remainder of the year. The first one, coming in the fall/ autumn, is called Codename “Outbreak”. This one brings in a new jobsite, the Research Sector, alongside some new gameplay systems and enemies, and earnable rewards. There’ll also be a new paid Classified Requisition, which comes with some armour, skins, and character voice packs – the playable stuff in the update will be completely free though.
Then in the winter there’s the Codename “Blackout” update. The jobsite for this one hasn’t been named, but there’ll be even more enemies and rewards, alongside some new equipment. You’ll also be able to pick up another paid Classified Requisition.
Remedy’s communications director shared in a separate post that there are plans for more updates in 2026 too, but the teams wants to “launch the game first, see what the reception is and what the community wants to see, what you might gravitate to before we make more decisions on what kind of content we’ll be releasing, for free, in 2026 for FBC: Firebreak.” Lots to come it sounds like then!
FBC: Firebreak is due out next week, June 17th.
