Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun Fully Playable on Steam Deck After 7/6 Update

Looking to get back into some boomer-shooter goodness? Well don't fret, the newest update to Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun makes it much more playable on the Steam Deck! This hotfix/quality of life update brings a plethora of improvements to this incredible game, including improved damage indicators and the framerate being capped at loading screens, but on the Steam Deck, it has been fixed so now cutscenes can play through Proton!

While we didn't test this out ourselves yet, our friends over at GamingOnLinux did and not only did they confirm the videos are working, but they're reporting that the performance of the game has improved as well! This is pretty fantastic to hear, especially since the game is a ton of fun.

We did review Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun as well and even before the patch, it was definitely playable. Hearing how it is running now and with cutscenes fixed, we couldn't be happier and will need to dive back into the game ASAP.

You can purchase this awesome shooter over on Steam right now! It is on sale for the Summer Sale for 20% off ($17.59) until tomorrow!

Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun 7/6 Update Changelog:

Steam deck

• The cutscenes now play on Steam deck, making the game completely playable on the Steam deck

Accessibility

• New cheat available : Unlock all weapons
• New cheat available : Infinite ammo

Quality of Life

• Damage indicators are now stronger, and even more for high damage attacks
• Added a toggle to deactivate the red “PURGE” filter
• Reduced the opacity of the red “PURGE” filter
• Lord of Change’s Pink Fire ability deals less damage
• The plasma gun inflicts less damage to the player when overcharging (praise the Omnissiah)
• Added additional loading hints
• Added an option to deactivate the slow motion triggered by the chainsword
• Added an option to deactivate the freeze frames caused by the dash
• Now displaying level stats (kill percentage, timer, secret discovery) in the pause menu
  Ultrawide support : cutscenes are now properly displayed instead of being stretched
• Allowed rebinding of the P key
• FPS are now capped in loading screens
• Added an option to disable the parallax effect for the Warp rifts
• Servo skull lines are now easier to read : they stay displayed for longer instead of “typing” slower
• Added an option for higher text contrast
• Reduced explosive barrels damage to the player
• Negative mouse acceleration has been disabled
• Plasma gun cultists don’t track you through walls anymore

Bug fixing

• Fixed a bug causing the player to get a “pistol start” (ie losing your weapons) when using the “restart” button after dying
• Fixed a bug causing the controller inputs to still be active after switching back to KB&M
• Fixed the sound playing in VR headsets when the game is launch with a headset plugged in
• Fixed a bug where Chaos Marines would play their “alert” animation in a loop instead of fighting the player
• Fixed translation issues in Czech
• Fixed a bug that made the servo skull only scan health pickups : he will now point at more various things, including doors
• The Aspiring Champions no longer try to shoot you at point blank range
• Fixed an a bug where obtaining the Vortex grenade in C3M1 caused a crash
• Fixed the sound of teleporting portals sometimes not playing correctly
• Fixed issue with level loading hitch when loading an autosave from a different level
• Fixed a bug where bile projectile would stack on top of each other

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