Chaos Front's Day One Patch Fixes Discounts, Softlocks, and Pushes Bad Ending Back a Year

Solo developer Han Zhiyu spent the opening day of Chaos Front in reactive mode, pushing close to ten small updates in eighteen hours and summarizing the changes in a single community post.

What changed

• Mouse cursor shaking — a bug affecting some players has been fixed.
• Default video mode — the game now launches in windowed mode rather than its previous default.
• Company traditions — the Mech Primacy and Fleet Primacy traditions were not applying their unit price discounts; they now do.
• Campaign battle join failure — a bug caused both sides to fail to load a campaign battle when the player was hostile with the attacking faction; fixed.
• Workshop item list — the purchase list would sometimes not appear on entering the Workshop; fixed.
• Sparring Contract prerequisite — the Sparring Contract mission is now a required step before the Psionic Weapon mission. Players who recruited Barbara before completing Sparring Contract are warned not to bring her into that mission, as doing so can cause a softlock.
• Ending 8 trigger date — moved to 30/12/C.E.29, representing a full year's extension from the original deadline.

On the last point, Han Zhiyu acknowledged community frustration with the original timing but was explicit that the underlying design — mercenaries without ideals accelerating the world toward ruin — will not change, only the window players have to avoid it.

For anyone already mid-campaign, updating the game is enough to apply the extended deadline.