Clone Drone in the Danger Zone — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Play the new Team Battle Update! | 2026-03-26 | Hello Humans! The Team Battle Update is out!After spending almost 10 years in a booth together, Commentatron and Analysis Bot have finally gotten on each other's nerves. But they're too "smart" to fight themselves, they have humans to do that!It's time to grab your friends and pick a team to sort out their feud!The new King of the Hill maps are the start of our plan to provide more ways to play together in Team Battle mode! Capture and hold the central objective or explore the maps to upgrade your advantage over the other team. Stick together and multiple players can get the same upgrade which is really helpful for overwhelming your enemy!But |
| The Team Battle Update - Trailer and Release Date | 2026-03-20 | Hello Humans!For a little while now our team has talked about the work they're doing in dev logs. Making giant Commentator heads, writing new lines for them and improving the multiplayer connection experience!Now a lot of that work is done, we're in the polishing phase and we can finally announce when the update will arrive.That's right! The Team Battle Update introduces the new King of the Hill mode and you can play it on all platforms on March 26th!On launch day, you'll be able to join the Doborog team streaming on Twitch and Steam! We'll be playing on public servers with all of you so you can show us how amazing you are at being King of th |
| Giant commentator heads! - Dev log | 2026-03-09 | Hello Humans!Today we're talking to our artist Isaac about how the Commentators have been adapted to work with the new King of the Hill team battle mode!What are you working on right now? Recently I’ve been working on the King of the Hill update. I’m focusing on some holograms of Commentatron and Analysis-Bot, the visual effects, and how those will affect gameplay in that mode. I’m making key art, which we will reveal on the store page when the update launches!I’ve also helped playtest the new mode. The times we’ve played as a team have been the most fun I’ve had in Danger Zone. I was wondering why we didn’t have this mode before!What new vis |
| How should connecting to multiplayer feel? - Dev Log | 2026-03-02 | Hello Humans!As we've been building the new King of the Hill team battle mode, our new Server Engineer has been making sure everything about multiplayer works smoothly. Scarlett has only been with the team a few months but it's likely you've already felt the effects of her work! We asked her a little bit more about the technical side of the game to show you what has been happening "under the hood."What have you been up to?Oh gosh, so many things. Although my official title is “Server Engineer,” I work on a wide variety of things because we’re a small team. A big chunk of my time recently has been spent feeling like I’m cosplaying as a sysadmi |
| Commentators and Map Design - King of the Hill Dev Log | 2026-02-21 | Hello Humans!Today we have TWO of our team talking about their work on the new King of the Hill mode. The Commentators are busy and have a brand new job! Meanwhile, we're thinking about how to make the maps as fun as possible.Geoffrey, Narrative DesignWhat is the premise of the new King in the Hill mode?King of the Hill is the first team-based PvP mode in Danger Zone! In the lobby, players are divided into two teams with familiar captains: Commentatron and Analysis-Bot. There is an elevated zone in the middle of the map called “the hill.” The commentators push their human players to conquer the hill by any means necessary. The team that spend |
| The winners of the Ride or Die Art Competition! | 2026-02-17 | Hello Humans!The Doborog Team and Community Judges have taken their time looking over every single drawing, screenshot, video and voxel! A massive thank you to Niek, Myeh and TVCat for looking through all the art and helping us decide the winners! It was HARD to pick our favourites because there were so many incredible submissions for this competition. If you're not mentioned here, please don't feel bad. Thank you to everyone who submitted art to the competition!Here are the winners:Community PickThis was the category that you all voted in. Thank you for taking the time to look through all the amazing art. These three got the most votes! You |
| Experimenting with new modes and maps - Multiplayer Dev Log | 2026-02-13 | Hello Humans!We’re starting a brand new series of dev logs to give you a look into what we’re making and how game development works!This is our first official announcement that new multiplayer modes will be coming to Clone Drone!Erik the Creative Director answered some questions to get you up to speed on where we are in development.All screenshots are work in progress levels. They'll look a lot cooler on release!Why are we adding multiplayer modes now?We’re a small team and that means we mostly focus on making one thing at a time, and for a long time that was Clone Drone in the Hyperdome!After the launch of Hyperdome and its big Skyscrapper U |
| Vote for the winners of the Community Pick Award! | 2026-02-09 | Hello Humans!The Ride or Die competition is officially over!Visit this page to vote for the winners of the Community Pick Award!The Doborog Team and our Community Judges will take the next week to decide on the winners. There have been over 100 entries so we’re carefully taking our time! Meanwhile it’s your turn to decide who wins the Community Pick award! Because there were so many entries, this voting form is very long but please scroll through and see as many entries as possible before you click submit! You will be able to vote for all of the art that you like on the form, so don’t be afraid to pick lots of them!Unfortunately there isn’t a |
| Hotfix 1.8.0.23 | 2026-01-28 | Hello Humans! We're hard at work on fixing both the game and servers. Here's the list of bug fixes:Game:Invisible enemies - fixed numerous bugs that caused these and added logic to auto-kill themFixed placement of fire on fishing pole and picnic hammerNo longer plays an emote when customising weaponsLocalised weapon textFixed "This is not co-op" achievementFixed mounts not getting cleaned up when you lose and between levelsSettings menu "Get more" \ button opens in steam overlay instead of web browserTracked mounts so they persist if you reload your saveServers:Dynamic server capacity - servers will now start up and wind down based on demandF |
| Multiplayer Connectivity Issues and how we're fixing them! | 2026-01-21 | Hello Humans!Apologies for the server connection problems lately, and thank you immensely for your patience as we work to get things resolved.The servers have had stability issues because right now we're trying to upgrade how they work.Toward the end of last year, we hired a new server engineer who’s working hard to get everything back on track. (You may have already met them; say hi to ButterOverflow in our official discord!)We’ve got a mix of work we’ve done, work that’s almost done, and plans to improve things in the long term.What we’ve already done:Clearing finished matches: Fixed an issue where we weren’t properly cleaning up “old” game |
| The Ride or Die Art Competition! | 2026-01-07 | \Hello Humans! To celebrate the release of the Ride or Die update we’re running an art competition! Do your friends ride and die for each other in Co-op and battle it out in Last Bot Standing? Do you try to look fashionable on top of a Rip Rider? We’re giving away skins to the winners of 4 categories of artists! If you have screenshots or art of Clone Drones then enter them into the Ride or Die competition! RulesThe competition starts now! (January 7th)Submit your art through this form or email josh@doborog.comAll except Best Dressed accept any form of art.Best Dressed will only accept screenshots from the game.Examples of accepted art: Penci |
| Long Live the Danger Zone! | 2025-12-18 | This is a mega-blog full of exciting announcements, bug fixes, and our thinking about premium skins. But first, a message straight from our cold, robot hearts:We’ve never been more excited about the future of Danger Zone! Thank you for supporting the Ride or Die update. New updates are in development for next year, including new multiplayer modes, a 10th Anniversary celebration, and community competitions! You’ve shown up for us, again and again over the past nine years, and we’re so grateful.Free Weapons and Quick FixesThe Ride or Die update launched Danger Zone into the future, but there were some bumps in the road. Here’s what's in the lat |
| The Ride or Die Update is out now! | 2025-12-15 | Hello Humans! Today we ride into battle for our huge new update. Our biggest content update in far too long. The Ride or Die Update adds a sawblade unicycle called the Rip Rider and an extensive system for customizing your Human! Here’s a closer look at what we’re wheeling out.Got a need for speed? The Rip Rider is the fastest you’ve ever been able to move in Clone Drone. You’ll be across the arena before your enemies realise you’ve cut them in half! Practice the art of wheeled warfare on the Rip Rider in the new Challenge, both single player and co-op. Then take on your Ride or Dies in Last Bot Standing, where you’ll slice robots apart like |
| Steam Awards 2025: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone! | 2025-11-24 | Hello Humans! We've been working on updates to Clone Drone, ever since its Early Access release and WE'RE STILL GOING! We're excited to be working on the next update for Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. It will include new things to ride, and new ways to customise your Human! For this year's Steam Awards we'd love to be nominated for the Labor of Love award. We're going to continue improving and adding content to the Danger Zone next year too because you're all so dedicated and have kept the game going all this time!Thank you for being the best community we could have asked for!- The Doborog Team |
| Russian Multiplayer Connection Problems | 2025-11-20 | Hello Humans,We’re sorry to tell you some bad news. As lots of you have pointed out to us, most players from Russia can’t connect to our multiplayer modes. Unfortunately this is because Roskomnadzor has decided to restrict access to specific services and our online game servers are included.All public and private multiplayer modes can’t be connected to, including:Endless Co-OpLast Bot StandingAll Co-Op ChallengesPrivate DuelsRight now we can’t fix this problem because it’s not the game that has broken, it’s an issue with general Russian internet service. We have heard that some community members have been able to connect to multiplayer throug |
| Hotfix! Twitch Mode login + Unity Patch! | 2025-10-20 | Hello humans!We just released a tiny hotfix that fixes two issues:Twitch Mode login - A while back the little link to log in to twitch mode broke. The new flow does not go via any dodgy links, and should be much easier to use. Let us know if you experience any issues with it!Unity vulnerability - Unity released an update for a security vulnerability that affected every game ever built in it, including this one! We have now updated to the latest version, and the only security vulnerability left in the game should be that the garbage room forcefield sometimes lets humans get through it.Please enjoy this more secure experience!Oh, but while you' |
| The Voices of the Looprunners - Building the Hyperdome Part 2 | 2024-12-11 | Hello Humans! We interviewed the actors that are voicing our looprunner characters to see behind the scenes of making Clone Drone in the Hyperdome! Don't forget that the game will be out tomorrow! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401230/Clone_Drone_in_the_Hyperdome/ Team Doborog |
| Behind the Scenes: Developing the Hyperdome | 2024-12-03 | Hello Humans! We're making a series of videos about the process of making Clone Drone in the Hyperdome! In this first one, Erik, our Creative Director and one of the founders of Doborog Games talks about how he wanted the game to feel and the challenges of moving from PC and Consoles to VR. Make sure to Wishlist Clone Drone in the Hyperdome before release on December 12th! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401230/Clone_Drone_in_the_Hyperdome/ |
| Clone Drone in the Hyperdome is coming December 12th for VR! | 2024-10-23 | Clone Drone in the Hyperdome Hello Humans! Thank you for all your support in these many years of development. We are so happy to show you the new trailer and tell you the release date for Clone Drone in the Hyperdome. In Clone Drone in the Hyperdome, sword fight with killer robots in an all-out VR tournament of death! You are Blink, a teleporting robot who is the newest “looprunner” gladiator forced to compete in Crashloop, a deadly roguelike combat sport. Die and reawaken in an endless loop, leap over lava pools, avoid turret fire, take down waves of enemy defendroids, and feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Deal damage exactly |
| The Winners of the Apocalypse Competition! | 2024-10-03 | The Apocalypse competition is over! Thank you everyone who made levels, art and animations. You're all very talented and it was a difficult decision. Our judges Nook and TVCat helped us decide what to put on this list so a massive thank you to them too! We will be contacting the winners soon to organise their prizes. Here is the full list of winners! Community Choice Awards You picked these winners and we can see why! Each one has something special and got the most votes! City 101 by pd2 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3299193889 Chronopocalypse https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3336196450 Art by Ju |