FBC: Firebreak Details Its First Major Update Coming on September 29

The first major update, named Breakpoint, for FBC: Firebreak is slated for release on Sept. 29, 2025, and will bring more content to the game.

Breakpoint is aimed at adding more variety to Jobs and reducing repetition, improving onboarding to make the game more welcoming for new players, and adding more depth and build variety with guns, grenades, perks, and the new Gun Mod system.

With the update, the Crisis Board will replace the Job Board and present curated playable content.

A new tutorial level titled Orientation will be added, accompanied by onboarding improvements across the game, along with a new Crisis (formerly known as Jobs) titled Outbreak, bringing a new location, enemies, and gameplay.

The new gun customization system, called Gun Mods, will bring modifiers that make guns more powerful or change their functionality.

On top of that, new weapons, grenades, cosmetics, and enemy types will be added to FBC: Firebreak, along with systemic improvements to harmful conditions, objectives, and devices.

As for the economy and progression overhaul, the old system of different tiers of gear and guns will be gone, and the old upgrade currencies will be replaced with four new.

After the update, any gun or grenade a player unlocks will already be at full power, with no need to buy upgrades to reach their maximum potential. Both Devices and Augments will also be at maximum efficiency from the start, so there will be no need to upgrade them either. On top of that the Reputation level cap will be raised to 200.

As for the new set of currencies, it will include Parts, Samples, Intel, and Trace, where Parts, Samples, and Intel are new types of Lost Assets that can be used to unlock cosmetics from Requisitions and to upgrade Perks to level 2 and level 3, while Trace can be used in the new Exotics cosmetic Requisition.

Set sometime after the events of Remedy’s Control, FBC: Firebreak follows the story of a special unit of soldiers named Firebreak, tasked with clearing the Oldest House of enemies infected by the Hiss. The game is a team-based, player-versus-environment shooter where players can team up in groups of three, duos or run in solo.

Developed and published by Remedy Entertainment, the first-person co-op multiplayer shooter FBC: Firebreak was released for PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X|S on June 17, 2025.

Notably, the game dropped on both the Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus game catalogs on its launch day.

As of the time of writing, the title has a “Mixed” rating on Steam with 1,589 reviews, while its number of concurrent players on Steam hasn’t surpassed the mark of 50 in the last two months, according to SteamDB.

While the studio behind FBC: Firebreak claimed that the game surpassed 1 million players within nine days of release, they also admitted that the title’s launch was disappointing.

FBC: Firebreak is both Remedy’s first multiplayer game and its first self-published title, as in February 2024, Remedy Entertainment announced that, for €17 million, it had acquired the rights to the Control franchise from 505 Games, publisher of 2019’s Control.