- Newest Patch Notes & Teaser - 3 September 2026
Hop in the Newest Patch!Jump into today’s patch featuring new Anti-Aliasing options, Framerate caps, Simplified Chinese localization, and a stabilized Replay system.Patch NotesUI & LocalizationSimplified Chinese Support: Thanks to the help of users GEGT and Cattsilisk the core game and major menus have been fully localized for Simplified Chinese (zh).Editor Notice: The Level Editor is still in development and currently remains in English.Graphics & SettingsAnti-Aliasing: Added a new Anti-Aliasing setting to the graphics menu, featuring FXAA and SMAA options for improved visuals.Frame Rate Limit: Added a Frame Rate limit setting, including an Uncapped option, to give full control over performance. Replays & StabilityReplay Stability: Fixed a major bug that caused severe lag spikes and engine freezes during chaotic replays.Gore Accuracy: Greatly improved blood and gore accuracy in replays…
- 0.96 PATCH and STEAMDECK Support - 30 July 2026
PATCH NOTES: -Fixed replays in Good Luck Parking -Added new color picker UI for character customization menu -Fixed AI attack, slide, roll, animations being cut off, and missing diving right animation -Fixed broken control tips in Mean Streets and Rooftop -Added more controller support to the editor. You can now click using your "Fire" button usually right trigger on the controller -Fixed a bug where UI navigation would break when leaving the cheat menu on controller -Fixed "toggle noclip" console command, noclipping player control now works much better and actually lets you fly through geometry -Fixed broken photomode controls in arctic 2 -Added controller support for color picking in character customization menu -Input fields for character name and studio name now work on steam deck -Fixed issue where steam deck resolution was locked at 1280x800Playable On Steam DeckUpdated Color Pick…
- 0.96 UPDATE RELEASE - 26 June 2026
Maximum Action 0.96 Is Live!So happy to finally set this update live on the main branch of the game! Lots of new levels, improvements, and features.Arctic 2Arctic 2 is here! Fight your way through an underground missile silo and reach the Runway just in time for the missile launch. New original music from the genius himself Daniel J. Stimac.This level is still a bit rough around the edges and a work in progress! Wanted to get it out to you all to enjoy, expect improvements with lighting textures and sound effects coming soon.Arctic EndlessChill out and fight endless waves of enemies in this icy cool launch room. Stay frosty and try not to shoot up too many of the computers. And enjoy the unique background music track for this level.Jungle 2An all new Jungle sequel is officially dropped! With a new music track from Daniel J. Stimac. Snake your way through the military base dodging helico…
- 0.96 Testing Branch Updated! - 8 May 2026
Go try out the next update before full release!Go to Properties > Betas.Select "0.90_testing" from the dropdown.New Jungle 1!New Jungle 2!New Tank Boss Fight!New Player Faces with full eye movement, dynamic expressions and blinking! ;)New First Person Hand Textures!Improved Replays!Lots of new angles added to the auto director for replays!Third Person Mode!Open the console '~' and type the command 'toggle thirdperson'Highlight Mode! (ALPHA EXPECT BUGS)Go to Properties > Betas.Select "0.90_testing" from the dropdown.Thanks to you all for your continued support!!
- Maximum Action December News - 19 December 2025
December Development UpdateIt's been awhile since the last Maximum Action update, wanted to show some screenshots of what I've been working on and what's coming next for the game! Happy Holidays!No new official updates but switch to the testing branch to try out what's in progress! Go to Properties -> Betas -> 0.90_testing Playback cleanup updates A testing branch update released in November with the first version of the overhauled replay system. New highlight mode and hugely improved playback. Still lots of quirks to work out but overall this new system sets the core foundation of what will be an amazing and finalized action movie directing simulator.A whole new level of coolness as you play Maximum Action not only to feel like a badass but look like one too. Working hard on this to add more John Woo like cinematography with unique dynamic camera angles like slow motion bullet cams or…
- Maximum Action Update Preview - 8 October 2025
Maximum Action — Major Update Preview! 🎥💥Hey Action Heroes!We’ve been cooking up some seriously explosive stuff behind the scenes, and it’s time to give you a sneak peek at what’s coming in the next big Maximum Action update!🎬 Replay System OverhaulThis one’s HUGE. The replay system has been rebuilt to be way more consistent, way more cinematic, and just straight-up cooler. Whether you’re capturing your finest slow-mo dive or your most chaotic self-inflicted explosion — your replays will finally do them justice. New camera angles, more consistent playback, improved AI director.Auto generated cinematic camera angles!Choreograph your own action! 🎬 Highlight ModeNow when completing a level, a cinematic highlight reel of your game play will play automatically! Immediately enjoy the head shots, kicks, dives and slides in true action movie form.Updated Levels: Jungle & Arctic 2Both maps h…
- Maximum Action June News - 28 June 2025
REPLAY UPDATESThe replay version of the player is being overhauled to be a 1:1 recreation of all of your actions! Dives, rolls, slides, dropkicks, and reloads will all now show up in the replay just how you did them.Muzzle Flashes, Shells, and SmokeGun muzzle effects and smoke have also now been updated to show up in the replay! Finally your replays will start to feel like a real full detail action scene. Make John Woo proud with choreographing your own ballistic shootout.Both of the above clips were recorded in-game with the free cam mode during replay!THIRD PERSON MODEWith all of the updates to the replay player, I couldn't resist adding a proper third-person mode to the game! Soon you will be able to experience all of Maximum Action from a whole new perspective. And of course workshop weapons are supported as well!Maximum Payne Maximum ActionJUNGLE Progress on 2 new levels. The Jungl…
- New Levels on Testing Branch! - 14 March 2025
TESTING BRANCH UPDATE The 0.90 testing branch has been updated! Go check it out: Early drafts of the new Jungle level and Arctic 2 level. Updated Jungle Level Go try out the updated Jungle level! Enemy placement, textures and placeholder props are all subject to change and further the level eventually will be divided into two for even more action. Note please walk into the foggy fence and the end of the village section to teleport to the military base! Arctic 2 Inside the Arctic tape there is now a button for Arctic 2, the sequel! Fight inside a missile silo. This is also a very early version with lots of placeholder and missing assets. WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK We wanted to get these out for testing much earlier in the development cycle so we could incorporate feedback from you all! @o... and I figured the sooner y'all get your hands on these levels the sooner we can figure out what's work…
- 0.95 Patch - 10 February 2025
Patch for version 0.95! PATCH NOTES: Fixed broken Tiny Mode Fixed bug where picking up a gun over and over kept giving you ammo Fixed issue where your first person model was always wearing a vest regardless of your character edits Fixed particle effect issues with glass railing prefab in editor Added out of map reset to Hotel Endless Increased size of out of map reset for Rooftop
- 0.95 New Player Controller Update Release - 7 February 2025
NEW PLAYER CONTROLLER I am so happy to be finally releasing the new player controller update to you all! After months of hard work and fine tuning I think you'll find it is a much needed upgrade to Maximum Action. Dozens of new animations for the player and even more bug fixes. WARNING FOR YOUR EDITOR LEVELS Backup your "AppData\LocalLow\BalloonMoose\Maximum Action\Custom\Levels" Folder!! especially if you are on the testing branch! Myself and others have encountered a bug where Steam cleared the entire folder of anything that wasn't subscribed to. Meaning any non published levels you are working on could potentially be deleted. Working on a fix for this now! This happened when booting up the game and the workshop items failed to load properly. Full Body Awareness and Rock Solid Weapon Handling No more 4 arms swinging around when looking up and down. No more head and body dislocation wh…
- Next Update Available For Testing! - 19 December 2024
UPDATED PLAYER CONTROLLER READY FOR TESTING HOW TO GET ON THE TESTING BRANCH Right click on Maximum Action in your Steam library and click on "Properties.." then go to Betas and switch to the "0.90_testing" branch! The game should update and you can now try the new player controller! DISABLE CAMERA ROLL Most of you will want to enable this setting if you want to prevent motion sickness. If this is disabled, the first person camera will roll with the player rolling animations for a more true first person experience. CROUCH SLIDE, AND KICK! New crouch slide has been implemented, as well as a kick. Kick a guy out a window like a true action hero. IT'S NOT A BUG IT'S A FEATURE Enter a crouch slide then press and hold the dive key immediately after to trigger an infinite super slide. As long as you hold both the crouch and dive key you will slide forever. You can kick to redirect yourself. G…
- New Stuff Coming Soon! - 16 September 2024
It's been a while since the last Maximum Action Update and I wanted to share with you all the current development progress and new features underway! NEW FPS CHARACTER ANIMATIONS It's finally time for the first-person controller to get some love and polish. Working on all new full body animations for diving, sliding, rolling, kicking! No more floaty 4 hands! Very tight and arcade-like. Dive Backwards and Land Animation Tree New Slide Animation Roll from Land Animation LEVELS Arctic 2 OptionalSpace has been hard at work on a sequel to Arctic! Inspired by Goldeneye, and Biocyte labs shootout from Mission Impossible 2, this level will feature tons of dynamic shootouts and destructibles. All under the backdrop of a missile launch, but be careful, this rocket might be more than just a static background B) A successful rocket launch?? not in maximum action :) Jungle Rework OptionalSpace and I…
- 0.94 Patch - 3 June 2024
Just released a patch for the 0.94 CUTSCENE Update Big loading optimization! I rewrote more of the game loading code and this patch should decrease load times for both campaign and workshop levels even further than the 0.94 update already did! this patch fixes the following : Game crash and freeze bug at the end of Restaurant Issues with Player Arm Color not updating Rewrite to enemy weapon loading to decrease level load times for both campaign and workshop levels!
- 0.94 CUTSCENE UPDATE - 16 May 2024
Hello Action Fans! All new cutscenes and loading cinematics have been added to Maximum Action NEW INTRO CINEMATIC New game boot-up cutscene! See your character in true action movie form NEW LEVEL CUTSCENES All-new intro cutscenes for every campaign level! Here's just a snippet of a few! NEW LOADING SCREEN Update features an overhaul to the loading screens, no more lagging and freezing, and a new badass loading level cutscene! DEATH CUTSCENE As well as a new-level end cutscene and a two "death" cutscenes. These are all still work in progress, these cutscenes took me many long hours to create so I really hope you all grab some popcorn and sit back and enjoy! NEW MUSIC New track from Daniel J. Stimac, Hard Knox at the Woohouse! Check it out in the level "Mr. Woo's Warehouse" Other bug fixes: HUD UI Elements Upscaled Character Face Textures Upscaled Lighting and performance fixes for Mr. Wo…
- 0.93 Controller Support Patch - 20 January 2024
Small Patch For Controller Support! And Night Club level optimization! Fixed bug where player would freeze if crouched or slide on keyboard with controller plugged in Fixed bug with controller crouch and slide speed being too fast Night Club lighting rebaked Night Club neon lights added to stairs and more lights added around level Night Club performance and lighting optimization, should result in much higher FPS in all parts of the level Wall texture UVs fixed in Saloon
- OFFICIAL CONTROLLER Support Update! - 12 January 2024
Hello Action Fans! Controller Support has now been added to Maximum Action! Go check it out! Tested to be compatible with Xbox or PS4 and even PS5 controllers! Lots of cool features such as: Controller Button Rebinding Rebind any button on the controller to your liking! No pre-made maps every button can be rebound! Note : Joystick mappings for look and move cannot yet be changed. Aim Assist Adjustable Aim Assist works great for making gameplay with a controller feel as natural and smooth as possible! Use the "Terminator" mode to have cyborg levels of auto-aim! Vibration and Stick Deadzone Settings Enable / disable controller rumble and adjust the global dead zone value for your joysticks! STEAMDECK SUPPORT With the added controller support, the game now plays well on the steam deck using the game's controller mapping! Official Steam Deck verification is still a work in progress, NOTE th…
- Try Out Controller Support on Testing Branch! - 22 December 2023
Controller Support and a Unity Engine update is coming soon to Maximum Action! Try them out on the 0.90 Testing Branch! Cool features such as controller button rebinding, aim assist, rumble feedback, and more! Also the entire project has been updated a new version of the Unity Engine for increased support! To get on the testing branch simply go to Maximum Action in Steam , go to Properties -> Betas, and then select the 0.90_testing branch! NOTE : Some bugs are still being worked out, sometimes all controller binds show up as "None" also a bug with kicking has been introduced where the camera rotates behind the player occasionally when kicking
- 0.93 Patch 01 - 2 November 2023
PATCH FOR VERSION 0.93 Good Luck Parking now connects with Mr. Woo's Warehouse Mr. Woo's Warehouse connects to Boiled Action Crossbow weapon glitch fixed Some collision adjusted / cars / scaffolds in Woo's Warehouse made penetrable Audio settings for music adjusted to decrease level load times Destructible scaffold collision bug fixed Loading screen vhs flash effect reduced
- MR. WOO'S WAREHOUSE - UPDATE 0.93 - 31 October 2023
Happy Halloween Maximum Action Fans! Maximum Action version 0.93 has just been released! This update features one of our most action-packed levels yet Mr. Woo's Warehouse and an all-new endless level Penthouse Endless MR. WOO'S WAREHOUSE Inspired by the famous warehouse shootout from Hard Boiled Shoot your way through a dark gritty cargo shipyard and into an underground gun smuggling operation. Fight waves of enemies on motorbikes, and dodge and weave through a warehouse packed with juicy destruction! Cars, boxes, scaffoldings, windows, all for you to destroy! Find this level on the Good Luck Parking tape! PENTHOUSE ENDLESS Heavily inspired by Face Off, take a trip to a luxurious penthouse just in time for it to be raided by the FBI. Shoot through couches, vases, plants, newspapers, and pillars as you battle your way through waves of enemies in this moody new endless level! Lots of juic…
- New Levels Available on Testing Branch! - 21 July 2023
NEW LEVEL Mr Woo's Warehouse NEW ENDLESS LEVEL Penthouse To get on the testing branch simply go to Maximum Action in Steam , go to Properties -> Betas, and then select the 0.90_testing branch!
