George Tsagkarakis
In Brief:
- KOMPETE (official site) pushed v0.96 live on PC and mobile, a post from @KOMPETEgame said.
- The patch adds Sol Vista Hills as Blitz Royale’s second map, has Junkies take over Heatborn at certain times and includes FPS improvements.
- An in-game Event Coordinator named Roddy now schedules and runs events, starting with a Blitz Royale event Sunday at 5 p.m. ET.
KOMPETE KOMPETE $0.0009316 ▼ -14.4% v0.96 is live on PC and mobile, and it gives Blitz Royale a second map. The official @KOMPETEgame account announced the patch on X.
The new map is Sol Vista Hills. The first Blitz Royale event on the updated build is scheduled for Sunday at 5 p.m. ET, the post said.
KOMPETE v0.96 is live on PC & Mobile!
– Junkies take over Heatborn at certain times
– Sol Vista Hills, Blitz Royale's 2nd map
– FPS improvements
– Roddy, our Event Coordinator, now schedules and runs events
First Blitz Royale event: Sunday, 5 PM ET.
What’s in the patch
The post lists four changes. Junkies now take over Heatborn at certain times. Sol Vista Hills joins the Blitz Royale map rotation. The build also brings FPS improvements.
The fourth change is about who runs events. “Roddy, our Event Coordinator, now schedules and runs events,” the post said. The account didn’t say how often Roddy will run events or which other modes he’ll cover.
It also gave no schedule for the Junkie takeovers in Heatborn beyond “at certain times.” No full patch notes were linked in the post.
Two days after A New Era
V0.96 comes shortly after KOMPETE: A New Era, an update that went live Friday, Nov. 13. That update added Heatborn, rebuilt Kart Race and moved Blitz Royale to first-person by default with added FPS mechanics.
A New Era also gave Blitz Royale the Kestrel Mesa map and a new win condition built around extracting a rare gem called the Kore. Sol Vista Hills is now the mode’s second map.
The upgraded graphics and characters in that update made the game heavier to run. The FPS improvements in v0.96 come on top of that.
Heatborn and Blitz Royale
The official KOMPETE site describes Heatborn as an open-world crime and cooking sim built as a parody of America. Its tagline reads: “Spawn in broke. Skate the city. Cook. Deal. Survive the heat. Fight off the zombies.” Lobbies hold up to 12 players.
Blitz Royale is listed on the site as a free 30-player FPS battle royale. Squads drop in together, and players respawn and skydive back in as long as a teammate is still alive. Matches run under 10 minutes, and a drone spawns protection or mobility items.
The mode has been getting new queue options all year. @KOMPETEgame said it enabled Blitz Royale Solos on Feb. 23 and Trios on Feb. 25.
Background
Modernize Games develops KOMPETE on Unreal Engine 5. It’s free to play on PC, iOS and Android with crossplay and cross-progression, and one download covers Blitz Royale and the platform’s other games. Players build a single character that carries across all of them.
The game is still in early access. The studio plans to leave early access when KOMPETE 27 launches in 2027.
Two more games are listed for Q4 2026: Explorer, a first-person extraction shooter, and Pool, a 1v1 8-ball game with spin and jump shots.
Replies to the v0.96 post were mixed. One user asked whether players would get paid or earn free tokens for playing. The post didn’t address rewards, and the Sunday Blitz Royale event at 5 p.m. ET is the only event date the post gave.
