Demo Update 1.2 — Drag and Then Also Drop (July 14, 2026)

Two new weapons and the birth of status effects

The headline of the July 14, 2026 update: two new weapons and the game’s status effect system — the announcement is the source of most weapon facts on this wiki:

• Bubbles — “a floating bubbles screensaver that damages over time and adds stacks of Infect to enemies”.
• Paint — “draws circles and fills them in that damage over time and add stacks of Lag to enemies”.
• Heat, Lag and Infect are stackable status effects: “Every half second they affect the enemy and reduce by 20% until stacks have depleted.” Heat damages; Lag slows (with enough stacks, freezing); Infect deals reduced damage and weakens. Full mechanics in the status effects guide.

The update also stated that Weapon Power replaces Repel (adding stacks and boosting knockback) and that Pinball has the hardest knockback — with the AVD the softest.

Drag and drop

The update’s namesake feature: you can drag items in the world — the announcement’s own example is pulling a vapor.exe away from a Defrag Collector you want to use right after, or grouping lemwire.exe files to process them together.

Other changes, as listed by the developer

• New enemy: the AVSN Messenger Buddy — stationary, attacks from range, knocks you back with emoji.
• Safe Folder: now respawns nearby with a 30-second timer.
• Keygens can spawn a key you can pick up.
• Fog of war on the map.
• Localisation: Croatian, Russian and Indonesian shipped with community help, and the announcement noted additional languages like Chinese, Korean and Japanese “should be doable” — plus that languages are moddable by adding a file. (What the full game actually ships with is on the system requirements page.)

Timeline

Playtest (Feb 2) → demo launch (Feb 13) → Next Fest (Feb 24) → Warmfix (May 2) → Demo Update 1.2 (Jul 14) → release date announcement (Sep 10) → Steam Deck Verified (Sep 17).