FIREFIGHT RELOADED New Release - February 24, 2026

Firefight Reloaded, the brutal Half‑Life 2 mod focused on massive swarms of enemies and fast‑paced, movement‑oriented gameplay, receives a major update effective immediately.

Date: February 24, 2026

Highlights

• The update will be applied the next time you restart FIREFIGHT RELOADED.
• A warning that the new co‑op mode is unsupported and may cause stability or consistency issues.
• You can no longer ally antlions in Antlion Assault.
• Server owners can now enable cut‑co‑op mode via the new ConVar sv_enable_coop (must be enabled before setting up a co‑op server).
• Read the official news post for more information.
• Join the Discord server for future updates.

New Features

• Improved Contract functionality with custom spawnlists.
• Added original HL2 blood decals on top of the existing SMOD blood decals.
• Changed the outline color for Kamikaze zombies and headcrabs to differentiate them from allies.
• Added the ConVar sv_enable_coop for enabling co‑op mode.
• Increased Bullsquid health from 70 to 85.
• Increased Bullsquid bite damage from 15 to 25 and then to 50.
• Improved Bullsquid AI behavior when spitting and chasing the player.
• Improved M249 MPC sounds.
• Enemies now have a higher spawn priority than allies.
• Antlion spawns have been moved to Level 4.
• Houndeye spawns have been moved to Level 5.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash involving sound envelope controllers (used by the Fast Zombie).
• Fixed a crash related to AI squad enemy memory.
• Fixed animation errors with NPCs wielding RPGs.
• Fixed a bug where the attribute loader for NPCs reassigns the default model if models are assigned.
• Fixed a bug on Linux where map‑specific loadouts would not load.
• Fixed a bug where Houndeye blast damage was too high when in squads with few or no other Houndeyes.
• Fixed a stack overflow crash related to allied Antlion NPCs and contracts.
• Fixed a bug where enemies had incorrect spawn priority handling (corrected to give enemies higher priority).

More details available here.

For further updates, visit the official Discord server.