Fellow Players,

Welcome to the Summer Season!

Today marks a new beginning for Ink: Tournament Paintball. We are kicking off a massive content expansion that we'll be rolling out in four major stages over the course of this season. Each stage will bring new maps, new markers, and new reasons to hit the field.

The first of these, the Rebirth Update, is LIVE NOW!

To celebrate this new chapter and to kick off the Steam Summer Sale, the game is also 50% OFF! There has never been a better time to get your friends together and dive in.

The first drop of official 2025 layouts from National League is here! Jump into three pro fields, ready for competitive action

• INK Midwest Open

• INK Atlantic City Open

• INK Tampa Bay Open

Two new marker families have arrived. Unlock and master the FLY DRS+ and the EARTH TEK 70R and their variants in-game now! Remember, our in-game store has zero microtransactions and no pay-to-win. All content is unlocked by playing the game.

*If you’re a veteran and have already made it past Level 6 (Promise), good news — you’ve just unlocked the FLY DRS+ | Noble Blue. Time to suit up and show what experience really looks like.

*If you're a beginner, you should know that you've just unlocked the Earth TEK07r | Neon.

VISUAL & PERFORMANCE OVERHAUL This update includes a massive overhaul of the game's visuals and performance. From dynamic bunker physics and upgraded atmospheric rendering to huge optimizations that reduce disk size and improve frame rates, the game looks and feels better than ever. The full list of these global changes is in the changelog below.

Adds

• Maps: Added National League 2025 layouts: Tampa Bay Open, Atlantic City Open, Midwest Open.

• Markers: Added FLY DRS+ (and 4 variants), Added EARTH TEK 70R (and 3 variants).

Visuals

• Bunkers now have a subtle sway & bounce effect when shot.

• Upgraded Sky & Atmosphere rendering.

• Upgraded volumetric effects.

• Updated/added Terrain Details/Vegetation shading & density.

• Added distant vistas billboard rendering to add details to horizons.

• Updated playing field net models.

• Increased Bunker Sizes for improved gameplay.

• Some older maps received minor visual changes like more details, props and lighting.

• Improved Exposure Compensation to better fit day/night scenarios.

• Increased baseline shadow resolution by 2x.

Optimizations

• Distant trees have been replaced with billboards where applicable.

• Some weapon models were optimized (Reduced poly count and batches by up to 70%).

• Banner and other looping shaders were modified to be more reusable (less draw calls).

• Improved VRAM usage by reducing some cache sizes for unused effects.

• Introduced Instanced Rendering for Vegetation.

• Disabled Terrain shadowcasting, improving CPU/GPU times.

• Migrated old maps to APV GI instead of Lightmaps, improving memory efficiency.

• Rebaked GI (average size reduced from 200mb to 20mb per map).

• Static objects now use shadow caching.

• Reduced terrain detail density to reduce grass overdraw on specific maps.

• Removed shadowcasting from small vegetation/details.

• Backend: Changed rendering to GPU Resident Drawer + GPU Occlusion Culling.

• Reduced shadow cascades to 2 and reduced their draw distance.

• Disabled Shadows for smaller lights, replacing them with cookies to fake shadows.

• Removed SSR from 'Force' map, now uses baked Reflection Probes.

Bugfixes

• Fixed audio null issue in the main-menu preventing some SFX/Ambiance from playing.

• Fixed an empty weapon slot issue when selecting weapons for the workbench.

• Fixed Z-fighting on 'Force' and other maps.

• Fixed shadow artifacts on 'Snake Valley'.

• Fixed various errors in the Class Customization UI.

• Fixed Killcam not resetting/tracking properly.

• Fixed AI being unable to move properly on some older maps.

• Fixed weapon positions in the workbench.