Foxhole, a brilliant MMO which simulates a persistent conflict, is gearing up to add planes in 2025

The Airborne update will bring a major new chapter to the war MMO Foxhole in Summer 2025. The update, announced this week, will add a variety of warplanes to Foxhole's player-driven battles, which include land, sea and now air, with hundreds of players fighting simultaneously over one giant isometric battlefield.

The Airborne release includes fighter planes that can dogfight, bombers, new logistic to build and supply aircraft, and many flight roles. It will also include Paratroopers. This is a twist which will change the way backline partisan operations and logistics are played in Foxhole.

Airborne continues Foxhole's most important tradition: the idea that everything is created and driven by players. A single-pilot fighter can be operated by one person, but a larger, more complex bomber requires a crew of pilots, turret guns, and possibly even bombardiers.

The trailer shows planes partially disassembled on train cars, ready for transport. The teaser implies that people will gather resources and build each plane flown, bombs dropped, and bullets fired by these planes. They'll have to form airfield ground crews that will rearm and refuel aircraft for the next sortie.

A patch focusing on infantry will be released this month, November 18. It will include a number large gameplay overhauls. I'm certain that Foxhole's players will be perfectly normal about melee weapons and they won't cause a lot of suicide charges between trench networks.

The Infantry update is designed to be more tactical and team-oriented. This update introduces deeper gameplay suppression, weapon shouldering, and a stamina revamp, among other features, to make the infantry playspace more effective on the persistent battlefield," stated developer Siege Camp.

Foxhole is available on Steam. More information about the Airborne Update can be found on the Foxhole website, as well as in the joint announcement for the Infantry Update. The developers Siege Camp announced their next project, a medieval war MMO called Anvil Empires, which is being developed alongside Foxhole.

Foxhole has been around for a while. It was released in 2022, but it's kept up its pace ever since. It's a game where a community of dedicated players creates some great videogame folk tales, or creates a religion around a pile of corpses before crashing the servers over it. It's one of those "dead" but still very active games, attracting 3,000 or more peak users even on its worst days.