Work together or die alone! Fight to restore peace to London or tear it down for profit in the most challenging team based shooter around.
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Release Date: Jun 2015

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26 July

Scheduled Hotfix Update - July 27th, 2016



Dirty Bomb will be in maintenance at 16:00 UTC on July 27th, 2016 for approximately 3 hours. There will be a client and server update, but there should be minimal server downtime.

When:

  • London (BST, UTC+1): 17:00 - 20:00
  • Los Angeles (PDT, UTC-7): 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Sydney (AEST, UTC+10): 2:00 AM - 5:00 AM, July 28th
What:
  • Dirty Bomb servers and client will be updated with a hotfix update
  • There should be minimal server downtime
Thank you for your patience.

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13 July

Scheduled Hotfix Update - July 14th, 2016

Dirty Bomb will be in maintenance at 12:00 UTC on July 14th, 2016 for approximately 5 hours. This downtime is to apply the latest security updates to our servers, and we will also be deploying a hotfix update to the Dirty Bomb client and servers.

When:

  • London (BST, UTC+1): 13:00 - 18:00
  • Los Angeles (PDT, UTC-7): 5:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Sydney (AEST, UTC+10): 10:00 PM - 3:00 AM, July 15th

What:
  • Dirty Bomb servers and client will be updated with a hotfix update
  • Servers will be updated with latest Security updates

Thank you for your patience.

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About This Game

Dirty Bomb takes first person shooters back to their purest roots in a fast-paced team game that will challenge even the most competent players. This game won’t hold your hand, in fact it is more likely to kick your teeth in. With no controller support or aim assist, all that lies between you and certain death is player skill and reaction. Work together or die alone in the most challenging team-based FPS.

A string of 'dirty bomb' attacks cripple London, leaving the Central Disaster Authority to restore it. When criminal syndicate Jackal begin disrupting and stealing their technology, the capital is thrown into chaos as mercenaries from across the globe are hired by both sides.

That's where you come in. After all, what’s a little radiation sickness when there’s money to be made?

Features:

  • Fast-paced, highly competitive teamplay that takes the shooter back to its purest roots
  • 19 distinct Mercenaries (and growing), each bursting with their own abilities, attributes and expletives
  • Three game-modes:
    • Objective – Battle through parts of the city, completing objectives to reach the finale before time runs out
    • Stopwatch – Objective mode for competitive types, where teams swap sides mid-match to see who's faster
    • Execution - Blow up part of the Containment Shield or take out the other team to win in this round-based search and destroy mode
  • A Free-to-Win progression system, where skill beats money every time. Take down your rich friends and watch 'em weep

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 7 (64-bit)
    • Processor: 2.33 GHz Dual Core
    • Memory: 3 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512MB - GeForce 7800GTX
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 5 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Generic Sound Card
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 7 (64-bit) or better
    • Processor: 2.0 GHz Quad Core or better
    • Memory: 3 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512MB - GeForce 7800GTX or better
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 5 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Generic Sound Card
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YukonSlushii
( 266.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
A game where it takes time to get good, I would recommend at least trying
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Bike123
( 313.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
Great and fun
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MMeeseeks
( 0.9 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
I try to join a game and i get stuck at a loading screen for 3 mins then sent back to the main menu
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Ajcool
( 121.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
Dirty Bomb! Is a Free FPS the game can be very fast paced!
There are plenty of characters to play with so there is something for everyone.
Such as medics/engineer/tanks etc...
The characters in game have a rotation system just like other games that are free to play every 2 weeks they change up.
However any character can be bought with in game currencey.
The in game currencey is pretty easy to come by since the game gives out 3 quest every 2-3 hours.
Loadout cards are fun to unpack hoping to get something rare such as a cobalt!
I have gotten 8 Golden cards with 100 hrs in the game just by unpacking regualr cases.
The cases are cheap for only 1000 credits you can possibly open 5-15 cases a day depending on how good and how much you play.

The Game modes are objective base which is refreshing compared to other fps out today.
There is also a search and destroy type game which is where you can show your skills off.

once you get too level 7 i believe you get a arsenal case which has items you would have to pay real money for so they
give you a nice gift everytime you level up!

The devs are constantly updating this game. They also listen to the community.
They really do seem like they care.

I would recommend this game too anyone who likes objective shooters and fps in genearl.

8/10 in its current state!
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Fritoes
( 154.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
I really do recommend this game, it has many mercs to choose from each with different abilities and play styles. At first it seemed like some mercs were OP but everyone has a unique ability that could be the game changer. The maps (though few) are very detailed. Each mode is fun in a different way but competitive had hardly any players playing so waiting times can last up to an hour. The devs do seem to be slowly fixing all the bugs, slowly making progress, but hey its progress. Another big problem are unbalanced games, there are games were the other team is just spawn killing and the shuffle teams option doesnt help at all. Overall fun game, with good maps, good mercs (plenty of choices), but competitive is crap because there arent enough people, matchmaking can be unbalanced, and slow development.
SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!!
BUT DONT GET ME WRONG I LOVE GETTOWATCH!!
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Choose_the_noose
( 3.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
I have only played a little bit of this game, but I think it is safe to say that it is not a game that I could get into. Sure it has its moments but it doesn't make me want to keep playing this game. The most I ever enjoyed the game was when I played with friends. Even though I don't recommend this game it is still a good free to play game.
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dershiN
( 62.0 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
Great game
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robjay13
( 2.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
Its a mix of Overwatch and the Team Fortress 2's new update.
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Poop Dublio
( 6.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
This is a fun game, if it doesn't freeze during a loading screen, which mine does. I've tried everything to get it to load; I've reinstalled the game, verified the files, checked my firewalls, it still freezes. Maybe if you play this game you'll get lucky and it won't freeze, but you could also be an unlucky ♥♥♥♥ like me :)
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Most Helpful Reviews  In the past 30 days
19 of 20 people (95%) found this review helpful
8 people found this review funny
Recommended
6.0 hrs on record
Posted: 5 August
If you can't afford Overwatch and you're VAC'd from TF2,
then Dirty Bomb is the one to choose!
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43 of 64 people (67%) found this review helpful
62 people found this review funny
20 of 29 people (69%) found this review helpful
Recommended
25.6 hrs on record
Posted: 24 July
Really fun and refreshing fps; majority of the characters are balanced and the different abilities set the game apart from other class based shooters. The game is not p2w at all, after bronze rarity all the cards just have AESTHETIC changes.

A few tips:
Dont waste your credits on cases; instead spend it on bronze loadout cards in the store or unlocking mercs.
The default music is decent but if you disable music and play edm it's a lot better imo.
Don't buy vassili as your first paid for merc, he's only really useful on certain maps and takes really good reflexes.
If you want lots of xp play assualt medic as Aura or do secondary objectives.

Try the game out :D
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13 of 18 people (72%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Not Recommended
332.9 hrs on record
Posted: 29 July
Overall it's a pretty good game, especially for a free-to-play title but right now there is absolutely no balance in pub games, 95% of the time one team stumps the other. DB can be very fun when both teams are roughly equal but at least until Casual Matchmaking comes out balanced games are too rare of an occasion to endure through all the boring matches. Just my 2 cents.
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19 of 32 people (59%) found this review helpful
5 people found this review funny
Not Recommended
1,117.5 hrs on record
Posted: 28 July
Honestly, after spending so much time and money on dirty bomb I can honestly say this game is straight up bad at this point, there has been too few good things to happen in the last year for me to play this anymore. The devs are incapable of doing anything reasonable or working with an eager community, there are many players such as myself at a time who wanted to do a lot more in dirty bomb competitively than some awful matchmaking button allowed, but there just wasn't anything.

You don't get enough for what you do, If you'll look at some of my screenshots for this game I have in some of them over 100 kills and 40k score in under 30 minutes of playtime, and I still don't get anything extreme when the average player gets anywhere from 20-40 kills and 8k Score in that same time.

Here are some things the devs could do in my opinion that would significantly boost this game and it's potential in the future.

1< Ask the community on reddit what they want, and make changes based on that, if they're obviously not working, it isn't like you cant revert them in a hotfix.

2< Reward almost triple or quadruple the currency you are awarding right now, if I'm going to pay for double credits it should actually be significant to the amount I would recieve without paying and not turn 300 into 600.

3< Make forging new cards out of old cards cost no credits, and make all case types buyable with credits.

4< Take away the merc purchase costs. Its either I play for 6 months or pay 100+ dollars to play the full game? like what the hell? nobody wants or likes this in the game, let people find what they're comfortable with off the bat, it's losing potential players.

5< Develop an actual anticheat or somehow endorse VAC.

And for anyone taking a specific interest, you need to pay for a -lot- of the fun in this game.

[ P.S, Impossible to master is said in the intro, and I'm quite sure PROW.Hothead on nader and Sagan.on.roids on Aura invalidate these statements :^)]
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9 of 14 people (64%) found this review helpful
5 people found this review funny
7 of 11 people (64%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
13.5 hrs on record
Posted: 30 July
I personally would consider this one of the best free to play games on steam. I have played this game quite a bit and I tried to get my friends to play with me, but they said they hated this game. So, with that said, I would not say this game is for everyone, but a certain crowd could find this game amusing.
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3 of 4 people (75%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
421.6 hrs on record
Posted: 26 July
This is the most fun I've had gaming. The closest things have been circa 2005-2007 the era of Dystopia, Planetside, Red Orchestra, and COD 4. Before that, maybe nothing but Day of Defeat, Tribes 2, the pre-Source Team Fortresses, and original Counterstrike were capable of generating moments of the intensely engaging entertainment possible in online FPS's.

Insurgency had my attention for a short stretch, that's the kind of FPS I normally like, but it just doesn't have variety of strategy and play compared to this. The class aspect of Rainbow Six Siege intrigued me for a while, but that's too constrained in scope to really hold my attention after experiencing Dirty Bomb.

Dirty Bomb has the solid mechanics of a well designed, modern FPS in addition to cool characters with effective feeling weapons and an assortment of class based powers that facilitate great team play. Even better, if used in ways suitably appropriate for their capabilities, each one can be satisfying and decisively effective. Their assorted clashes and collaborations somehow create a delightful symmetry of assymetries... in that rock/paper/scissors sort of way that gets people at various times ♥♥♥♥♥ing about each of the different characters as OP. Everything overpowered in its own way. There's satellite lasers, airstrikes, artillery, grenade launchers, stun grenades, deployable turrets, deployable healing stations, heavies with miniguns, concussion grenades, super fast mine laying, shotgun wielding engineers with cockney accents and crickett bats, remote revive/sniper lasers, katana wielding stealthers, snipers with actually effective smoke grenades & thermal vision, or remote sensing devices that feed enemy location to teammates, etc. etc.

And, of course, they can all parkour around off the walls at various speeds, which is a skill that even the slower characters can use to evade or ambush in amazing ways, but really only if suitably skilled. That is something which is not terribly easy but so satisfying as it begins to be learned, in addition to being downright astounding the first time a really skilled player is encountered. Some are so skilled they can decide the outcome of matches on their own. Many will ♥♥♥♥♥ that they're hackers, but don't be discouraged, just put on the stealth suit and go hunting. After many failures, you'll eventually find yourself having snuck into the midst of a coordinated team that is working with the elite player you've been stalking, like scavenger fish around a top predator. The experience of taking out your target and escaping their team is on my top shelf of gaming moments (not much else up there except for some cloaker and skyguard Planetside memories and some awesome games of Dystopia.)

Medics are also great fun to play. A careful and attentive medic can be the reason a team wins, and can be done effectively even when one can't hold their own in the firefights. And effective support pays off to the degree that medics can be the top scorer even with 0 kills.

I played for a bit and was iffy about it, but the game mode that really intensified my interest is Execution, which is just like Search & Destroy, so no respawns (unlike the other game modes which are also good, objective based, and probaby preferred by most people.) When combined with medics to keep people going and engineers that can arm/defuse the bomb frighteningly fast, the gameplay is intense and which side is going to win can be shifted decisively at any point in the match.

Teamwork feels so good in this game!

Negatives: It's a beta. There's stupid bugs.

Screw it, just play, it's amazingly fun and caters to a wide range of strategy and play.
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3 of 4 people (75%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
10.7 hrs on record
Posted: 30 July
Pros:
1.Great gameplay mechanics
2.Good graphics
3.Excellent class distribution
4.Somewhat interesting guns (such as the revivr gun)

Cons:
1.The crafting system suks
2.The game is almost p2w. Make sure you get the down and dirty started bundle.
3.New maps dont come that often.
4.Team balance is horrible
Overall a great game. 9/10
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3 of 4 people (75%) found this review helpful
Recommended
620.4 hrs on record
Posted: 24 July
I would highly recommend this Cs:go, Call of duty, BAtlle field and overwatch on a budget game. Pretty funny and I like the players who paly the game, it's a frendly society here and the procuders did a great job making the game kudos to them. And despite lack of maps and no one ranking you can play this game all day and still enjoy it.
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