Full-Metal Tapped · patch notes
v0.8.24
27 Oct 2026
This update ended up with a lot of changes in it, so it's a bit tough to sum up!
The biggest one you'll see right away: the runners have new faces, drawn by a real pixel artist, with more variations in the portraits coming soon. There's also a new kind of effect that lets you aim at one card on the street and change it, and the stat-based Lots got reworked around it, so it's easier to build a run around your crew's strongest stat.
Here's the patch notes:
New Runner Portraits
- Runners now have pixel art portraits by Angelika 'Angi' Bojko, built from parts so most runners look like nobody else
- A face changes with the runner: its colours follow their strongest stat, chrome shows up as that stat grows, a Gold star runner can wear a trophy, and wounds show until they heal into scars
- Runners also have a short bio in their tooltip
Aimed Effects and Reworked Lots
- Some upgrades now aim at one card you pick: a gold laser follows your pointer, the cards it can hit light up gold, and a click changes that card on the spot
- The stat-leaning Lots can now bend the street toward your crew: The Range's new Explosives turns a mission's Tech into Force, the Recon Guild's new Spec Ops turns Force and Tech into Mobility, and The Switchboard can rewrite a mission into Tech
- The Switchboard is now a hacker's chair instead of a REP engine: a Tech runner sits there and runs one HACK a turn, either rewriting a mission or handling a small Threat
- The Recon Guild's Recon is cheaper and now trims a mission's REP and Heat, and The Dead Drop's holds lock one card you pick instead of the whole street
More Chrome, Gear and Threats
- The street deals more events, with new chrome, gear and Threats among them, and missions from Tier 2 up ask a little more to match the stronger crews
- Magenta tags now do something on their own, like +1 to a stat or a discount on events, and there's a new green tag, 'Bar Fly' to get discounts when hiring at the Pub (now total of 3 green 'economy' tags for asset bonuses)
Other miscellaneous changes
- The menus and windows now come in German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian: pick one under LANGUAGE in Settings. The cards stay in English for now
- Hired Guns, Couriers and Console Cowboys now draft 3 of 7 runners like Street Crew, instead of 3 of 5
- You can ABORT a mission under way between turns: the crew still rolls and takes any Heat or wounds, but nothing pays out. A mission whose whole crew dies now leaves the board
- A tuning pass over a lot of missions to balance for all the new gear and implants, and new flavour text across many cards
- More juice: wounds and heals fly from the card that caused them, and the end of a turn plays out in steps
As always, thanks for playing!
Let me know how you feel about this update or the game in general in the comments or join us on the Discord to discuss