Pizza Bandit News

[h2]Bandits, [/h2][h2]The wait is over—Pizza Bandit is officially live in Early Access! 🎉[/h2][p]Grab your crew, blast through hordes of Reapers, and cook up chaos to fund your dream pizzeria. Early Access is just the first slice, and with your feedback we’ll keep adding new missions, gear, and surprises all the way to 1.0 (with consoles joining the feast next year).[/p][h3]👉 If you’re playing, please leave us a review—it helps more than you can imagine.
[/h3][h3]👉 Join the community on Discord to share feedback, memes, and pizza.[/h3][h3][/h3][p]Stay hungry—the ovens are just heating up. 🔥[/p]

[h2]Hey Bandits,[/h2][p]The ovens are hot and the portals are humming—Early Access is just the beginning. We’ve got a lot on the menu, so here’s your first look at what’s coming down the pipeline.[/p][p]---[/p][h3]1️⃣ Restricted Timeline – Black Bounty[/h3][p]The Black Bounty Finder is finally open. This warp station leads to the Restricted Timeline, a sealed parallel world where reality itself has gone rotten.[/p]

• [p]Black Contracts: High-risk, high-reward missions.[/p]
• [p]Exclusive Bosses & Missions: Face Dread Time Reapers and horrors found nowhere else.[/p]
• [p]Twisted Locations: Familiar maps, but darker and deadlier.[/p]

[p]---[/p][h3]2️⃣ New Gear, New Arsenal, New Playstyles[/h3][p]Your pizza cutter won’t cut it forever. The battlefield’s heating up, and so is your arsenal:[/p]

• [p]🍍 Pineapple Bombs: Sweet, explosive chaos.[/p]
• [p]🍕 Dough Traps: Sticky sabotage for enemy slows.[/p]
• [p]🔥 Flamethrower: The most requested weapon finally arrives.[/p]
• [p]⚙️ Fresh Gear: Items that completely reshape your playstyle.[/p]

[p]---[/p][h3]3️⃣ Hell’s Kitchen – Burn and Survive[/h3][p]Step into the ultimate survival challenge: Hell’s Kitchen.[/p]

• [p]Endless waves of Time Reapers, escalating into Dread-class assaults.[/p]
• [p]Brutal modifiers and shifting conditions—no two runs are the same.[/p]
• [p]Escape to claim your spot in the Hall of Bandits, with exclusive rewards for top survivors.[/p]

[p]---[/p][h3]4️⃣ Frequent Updates Along the Way[/h3][p]Between these bigger content drops, we’ll keep things fresh with:[/p]

• [p]Quality-of-life improvements[/p]
• [p]Bug and balance fixes[/p]
• [p]Performance tweaks[/p]
• [p]New cosmetics and customization options[/p]

[p]Your feedback will guide us every step of the way.[/p][p]---[/p][h3]5️⃣ Console Launch with 1.0[/h3][p]The dream doesn’t stop at PC. When Pizza Bandit hits 1.0 next year, we’re planning a simultaneous launch on consoles so more Bandits around the world can join the feast.[/p][p]We’re not announcing exact platforms yet, but the ovens are warming.[/p][p]---[/p][h3]🔮 The Road Ahead[/h3][p]Early Access is just the first slice. With your help, we’ll refine, expand, and perfect Pizza Bandit into a full-course experience worthy of its grand opening.[/p][p]Stay hungry, Bandits. The best slices are still in the oven.[/p][h3]---[/h3][h3]👉 Join the community on Discord and help us shape the future of Pizza Bandit.[/h3][p]---[/p]

[p]We’re one week away from the Pizza Bandit Early Access launch on August 25th @ 10AM PT—but you don’t have to wait to see the chaos unfold.[/p][p]Today we’ve teamed up with two legends of gaming entertainment for a special pre-launch event:[/p][h3]🎮 Kinda Funny vs. Giant Bomb 🎮[/h3]

• [p]Two teams enter, only one walks away with the ultimate bragging rights[/p]
• [p]Inside the game, they’ll be blasting Reapers and racing through missions[/p]
• [p]Outside the game, each player must run into the kitchen and make a real pizza before tagging back in![/p]
• [p]Expect frantic firefights, flying toppings, and plenty of laughs[/p]

[p]📺 Watch the stream: Watch Here [/p][p]🕤 Starting Time: 9:30 AM PT – Today![/p][hr][/hr][h3]🚀 Early Access Launches Next Week[/h3]

• [p]📅 August 25th @ 10AM PT[/p]
• [p]🍕Pizza Bandit on Steam[/p]
• [p]💬 PJoin our Discord[/p]

[p]Don’t miss this special sneak peek before launch day. Grab a slice, tune in, and get ready for the mayhem! 🍕💥[/p]

[h2]🚀 Early Access Launches August 25th @ 10AM PT![/h2][p]The countdown is nearly over. In just a few days, you’ll be blasting Time Reapers, baking pizzas under pressure, and building your dream pizzeria—together.[/p][p]But before the doors swing open, we’ve got one last dev update to share.[/p][hr][/hr][h3]🛠️ A Quick Look Back[/h3][p]We started this journey in 2023, thinking we’d be able to launch the game by 2024. Like all good pies, it took longer in the oven.[/p][p]With a small team of six—mostly programmers—we began with whatever we could grab from the Unreal Store. It wasn’t until six months in that we finally found art support and began shaping the look and identity of Pizza Bandit. The game has changed a lot since then, and every change has pushed it closer to the game we always wanted to make.[/p][p]For the past two months, we’ve been in overdrive—polishing systems, recording VO, and locking in our final feature set. The build is currently under review (nerves = high), but here’s what we’ve been working on since our last update:[/p][hr][/hr][h3]🎙️ VO Recording: Locked and Loaded[/h3][p]We heard your feedback on the temp VO in the demo—and we agreed. So we hit the studio with our full cast, and they absolutely delivered.[/p][p]Led by Chris Borders, amazing VO director behind Gears of War, we finally nailed the tone we always wanted: punchy, sarcastic, character-driven.[/p][p]Here’s what to expect:[/p]

• [p]🎭 Full personality across the board. Malik’s got bite, and mission handler Finn no longer sounds like a bored robot.[/p]
• [p]🎧 Pop culture nods hidden throughout the dialogue—you’ll know them when you hear them (and hopefully laugh like we did during recording).[/p]
• [p]🔊 Boss missions now feature more unique sound design to bring enemies to life (before you take theirs).[/p]

[hr][/hr][h3]🏆 Bandit Records: Your Legend Starts Here[/h3][p]Introducing Bandit Records—our in-game achievement system that tracks your wildest moments and most chaotic plays. Some of them even show up on your Steam profile.[/p][p]A few favorites:[/p]

• [p]Oops – Accidentally damage your teammate.[/p]
• [p]Catch This – Kill a Reaper by throwing food, drinks… or maybe a tuna.[/p]
• [p]Death from Delivery – Drop a Pizza Pod on an enemy’s head.[/p]

[p]Whether you're chasing bragging rights or just causing mayhem, we’ll be watching. 👀[/p][hr][/hr][h3]💀 Reinforced Enemies: Beefed Up and Battle-Ready[/h3][p]Crank up the difficulty, and you’ll start facing Reinforced Time Reapers—beasts wearing scavenged armor from broken timelines.[/p][p]What makes them scary:[/p]

• [p]🛡️ Frontal damage won't cut it. You’ll need to break their armor first—or hit them where it hurts.[/p]
• [p]⚔️ Some weapons work better than others, and yes, that includes explosives.[/p]
• [p]👀 Visual cues make them easy to spot—if a floating head with a football helmet is charging at you with a fire bomb, prepare accordingly.[/p][p][/p]

[p]They hit harder, last longer, and turn the battlefield into a puzzle. Good luck.[/p][hr][/hr][h2]💬 We’re Just Getting Started[/h2][p]This wraps up our devlogs before Early Access, but it’s only the beginning of the journey. Your feedback will be critical in shaping what comes next.[/p][p]Join the conversation here:[/p]

• [p]💬 Discord[/p]
• [p]🌐 Bluesky[/p]
• [p]🐦 Twitter/X[/p]
• [p]🎵 TikTok[/p]
• [p]📷 Instagram[/p]
• [p]📺 YouTube[/p]

[hr][/hr][h2]📅 Once more for the folks in the back...[/h2][p]Grab your crew. Lock in your loadouts. Fire up the oven.
Pizza Bandit is almost open for business.[/p][p]— Team JofSoft[/p]