A new and major update for Better Than Dead is on the way to us, and it brings more to experience in the Better Than Dead Early Access
If you have been playing the Early Access for Better Than Dead, you may have seen quite a few updates flowing out there for the game as it rages on PC. If you have yet to be sold on the game, though, it looks as if MicroProse is ready to entice you into the Early Access once more by hitting a massive milestone and offering up a rather large update for the game. All as we see Better Than Dead hit a 0.5 state on its way to a full 1.0 state of being. Not a terrible journey for the game to be on, and even better to see that this new update will give us much more to experience in the bodycam action titles that we have been watching since it was first announced.
While three new levels added to Better Than Dead might not sound like much to many, this does allow players to go through the full experience “To Hell.” Yes, the Early Access will now allow you to do a complete run of the game while still in a very early state of being. Along with this, there are many other updates mixed into all of this, as we all should have assumed. This will make the firefights in Better Than Dead quite a bit more intense, as we will have new ragdoll physics, bullet impacts, and other sound design elements mixed in to further immerse us into this Hong Kong setting. You can have a look at the gameplay that we have for all of this a little bit further down the page so you can see just what we are talking about here. Or you can just pick up the game and do a full run of it all in the current Early Access form. You do you.
Better Than Dead — 3 New Levels, Major Update
Hong Kong, 1990s, and the body count just went up.
Better Than Dead Update 0.500 is the biggest update since Early Access, adding three new levels that complete To Hell, the game’s first full run. Fight through a nightclub’s cramped corridors, a sprawling restaurant shootout where tables and furniture splinter under fire, and an unfinished construction site of exposed concrete and scaffolding.
Firefights are more intense too. Enemies now advance with weapons raised and fire on the move, with improved ragdoll physics, bullet impacts, and sound.
Every new level is replayable through Level Select, so you can keep chasing the Black Star rank.
Have you been playing Better Than Dead up to now, and are these new updates going to make the game more immersive for you? Will it be fun to be able to finally do a full run of it all, or did you want that to be held off until the full version of the game had dropped out there? How long do you think it is going to take to get to the 1.0 version of the game from now, and will we still see that in 2027 on the current timeline? Let us discuss all of that and anything else that comes to mind for the game in the comments below. We will keep watching for more to share for Better Than Dead, so please keep watching the website for updates. You can follow all of our social channels to see when it all goes live, along with the other fun things we get up to in the meantime. I am sure you will enjoy all of it.