Unturned 3.26.3.13 Patch Notes — New BattlEye Launcher, Winter Costume Fixes & A Workshop Security Warning

Unturned's 3.26.3.13 update is a small one, but it carries two things worth your attention: a new BattlEye launcher that fixes Steam Overlay problems, and a player-facing security warning about malicious Workshop content that server owners should be repeating to their communities.

🛡️ New BattlEye Launcher Fixes Steam Overlay

• A new version of the BattlEye launcher resolves issues with the Steam Overlay.

This is the headline fix. BattlEye is Unturned's anti-cheat layer, and the launcher sits between Steam and the game — when it misbehaves, the symptoms tend to look like a Steam problem: the Overlay failing to appear, the friends list and shift-tab shortcuts not working, or overlay elements drawing over the game when they shouldn't.

If players on your server have been reporting overlay trouble, this is the update that addresses it. As with any launcher change, make sure your server and its players update together so everyone is running the same build.

🔧 Fixes

• News #1 formatting mistakes fixed — thanks to community contributor DanielWillett.
• Dr. Swanson's missing vest costume during the winter holidays fixed — also thanks to DanielWillett.

Both are small, but the second one is the kind of seasonal cosmetics bug that only ever gets noticed in December and then sits unfixed for a year. Credit where it's due to the community members who report and patch these.

⚠️ Security Warning: Malicious Workshop Content

Smartly Dressed Games used these notes to repeat a warning that matters more than anything else in this patch:

Malicious Workshop content is a genuinely nasty category of attack in this game. Mods and maps can ship more than models and textures, and a player who joins the wrong server or subscribes to the wrong item is trusting that content with their machine. The advice is simple and worth repeating verbatim in your community's announcements: don't accept invites from people you don't know, and don't join untrusted servers.

🖥️ What This Means For Your Server

• Update your server build and tell players to update. The BattlEye launcher change is the reason — a mismatch between server and client builds is the usual cause of "I can't join" reports after an anti-cheat update.
• Treat the Workshop warning as a server-owner responsibility, not just a player one. If you run a modded server, your collection is content your players are implicitly trusting. Keep it curated, review what gets added, avoid pulling in random Workshop items "just to test", and remove anything whose source you can't vouch for.
• Repeat the warning to your community. Most players who end up with malicious content got there through an unsolicited invite or a link from a stranger. A pinned message in your Discord costs nothing and protects your members.
• Be careful about who can invite players to your server. If your setup allows arbitrary invites, consider tightening it so your server's name isn't used as cover for something malicious.
• Keep an eye on your logs around this update. Anti-cheat and launcher changes sometimes surface new client-side failures; if you see a spike in connection reports, check the version first before assuming it's your configuration.

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Conclusion

3.26.3.13 is a maintenance patch: a new BattlEye launcher resolving Steam Overlay issues, plus two small fixes (News #1 formatting and Dr. Swanson's missing winter vest, both contributed by DanielWillett). The part that deserves more than a passing mention is the security reminder — with reports of malicious Workshop content increasing, Smartly Dressed Games is asking players to be careful about unexpected server invites and untrusted servers. If you run a server or a community, pass that along.

Update both sides of the connection, curate your mod collection, and tell your members not to accept invites from strangers.