A free update introducing Endless Shift, a wave-based roguelite mode

I’m happy to announce that Rogue Protocol, the latest free update for FBC: Firebreak, is now available. It features Endless Shift, a brand-new, roguelite game mode that fundamentally changes the way you play and progress in the game.

Firebreakers risk their lives with each deployment but never has that risk been so extreme as it is in Endless Shift, the most dangerous (and most important) work a Firebreaker can do.

In Endless Shift, you’ll be tasked with descending into abandoned areas of the Oldest House so infected with Hiss that the zones themselves, along with all who dare enter them, become distorted over time.

During a Shift, your and your crew’s job is to clear as many waves of enemies as you can before becoming overwhelmed, collecting a new currency called Corruption for every kill along the way. Corruption can then be spent between waves to gain powerful new Enhancements for your Firebreaker and their equipment. The longer you survive, the more Enhancements you’ll collect, allowing you to create wild new builds on the fly each time you play.

Once a Shift is complete, you’ll earn exclusive cosmetics based on your lifetime kill count as well as over one hundred new Enhancements that can appear in future Shifts.

Ready to return to your favorite Crisis? Completing an Endless Shift will also allow you to retain some of your earned Enhancements for your next Crisis deployment, granting you powerful but temporary benefits for a single session outside of the mode.

Read more details about how Endless Shift works here.

The free Rogue Protocol update is now available, and you can read the full patch notes here.

Jump in and let’s clean house, crew!

Mike Kayatta,

Game Director