Off The Grid pushes 1.0 to the holidays, citing 164 FPS and a 35% retention gain

In Brief:

• Gunzilla Games said Off The Grid (official site)’s 1.0 release “lands over the holidays,” after a May roadmap had targeted October 2026.
• The studio said frame rates on an RTX 2060 rose from 42 to 164 FPS and four-week retention climbed 35% over the past five months.
• Kestrel, its in-house anti-cheat, is live on every server. Its first ban wave hit Teardrop Island on Oct. 21.

Off The Grid’s full release is coming over the holidays, the game’s official account said. That puts 1.0 after the October window Gunzilla Games set in its roadmap earlier this year.

The post gave no exact date. It listed what the studio said it had shipped since the roadmap went out.

“Five months and five releases got us here,” the account said. “Teardrop was rebuilt under your feet.”

The numbers

Gunzilla’s main performance claim was a frame-rate jump on mid-range hardware: “42 → 164 FPS on the same RTX 2060.”

It also said four-week retention is up 35% and that 11 roadmap promises have shipped. The post didn’t say what baseline the retention figure was measured against.

A July performance patch had already delivered frame-rate gains of up to 100 FPS on weaker hardware, Gunzilla said at the time.

Kestrel and the first bans

The post said Kestrel is “LIVE on every server, and the first ban wave landed a week later.”

Gunzilla announced Kestrel on Oct. 9. The system uses machine learning to identify each player’s motor signature and flag input generated by cheat software. It launched in beta inside Off The Grid and is open to third-party integrations.

Kestrel was built in-house and runs alongside Easy Anti-Cheat, which the game’s Steam page lists as its kernel-level anti-cheat.

The first live ban wave on Teardrop Island came Oct. 21. Before any accounts were banned, Kestrel ran a passive telemetry phase that Gunzilla said evaluated more than 15 billion gameplay data segments across its match network. Penalties come in three tiers.

Gunzilla said Kestrel runs 24/7 in every match on Teardrop. A clip posted by the GUNZ account showed cheaters getting a five-second warning before the system steps in.

The original schedule

Gunzilla published its 2026 roadmap on May 29. It laid out five phases from June to October and said early access would end on the game’s second anniversary with the 1.0 public release.

Early access opened Oct. 8, 2024, on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. The official account still lists the game as in early access on all three platforms.

The roadmap covered engine optimizations, weapon and progression updates, a rebuilt marketplace, new Legendary Weapons, proximity voice chat and a map expansion.

Phase 04, scheduled for September, paired the new AI anti-cheat with a full migration to the GUNZ mainnet. Phase 05 in October was set to bring a creator and streamer marketing push, timed with the launch of Ranked Season 3, ahead of the 1.0 release.

Gunzilla’s FAQ still says the full release is planned for October 2026.

The game has slipped before. It was originally scheduled to release in 2023.

The holiday post opened with a single line, in capitals: “1.0 LANDS OVER THE HOLIDAYS.”