Official news, season launches, balance changes and patch notes from the development team.
Play The Fifth FamilyArena Re-launching @ 12:00 Today Hello everyone!We have largely finished the work on the Arena but will use the last two weeks of the Battle Pass to test the new system before matching the Battle Pass and Arena reward s…
May 31 — Performance & Leadership Votes Two drops in one post: a performance pass to stop the game cooking laptops and mobiles, and a family fix. Smoother, cooler, kinder to batteries We chased down the reports of d…
Improvements & QoL's Three updates rolled out. Lucky Wheel — rewards reworked The Wheel was overdue a glow-up. We've stripped out the consolation cash and replaced it with rewards actually worth winning. What's new:…
27 May Patch Notes Quality of life — straight from suggestions. What's new District Banners The crime screen now shows an animated phasing banner of wherever you're operating. Collection Celebrations Vaulting a 1st coll…
Patch Notes & Referral Competition A packed weekend update. Round 2 of the recruitment hype kicks off tonight, GIFs are now live in chat, and a stack of UI fixes have rolled out. 🏆 Recruitment Competition — Round 2 …
The Five Families Hello all I wanted to warn the community that big things are coming and in the coming weeks, we will be bunkering down and making sweeping changes to really bring the families to the Fifth. Changes wil…
Street Intel — Mission Pool Update Less low-level clutter. More mid-tier scores. We took a hard look at the Street Intel pool after multiple reports of low-level missions dominating the board. What we changed We've adde…
Season 2: The Five Families Today a new Battle Pass begins @ 00:00 and it is a sample pack of changes to come and a mix up of old and new rewards. I'm excited to share exactly what we have cooked up for the community! M…
Season Two: The Five Families Five families. One throne. Season One closes. Season Two begins @ 00:00. The Five Families brings 100 tiers of new chase rewards across 28 days. Cash, weapons, gold, exclusive consumables, …
Quality of Life: May 17 Update Mobile-first improvements across Crimes, Gym, and combat training. Crimes Panel Quick Use chips — Tap to use crime related consumables directly from the crimes panel including Nerve Tonics…
Season One Ends — Season Two Incoming Season 1: The Birmingham Boys wraps at 00:00. Monday will be a one-day off-season, then Season 2 kicks off Tuesday May 19th @ 00:00. Ensure you collect any rewards as they'll be los…
Media Circus Round 1 - Casino We need YOUR help promoting the game in a meaningful way and part of that is exciting new videos of the game being played! We thought it might be best to involve the community in collecting…
Player Feedback Survey Your voice shapes what we build next — and there's a reward for taking part. The Survey Is Live We've just sent a Player Feedback Survey to every player's in-game Mailbox. It covers onboarding, cr…
District 8: The Syndicate A new district. A new power structure. And the first piece of something much larger. The Syndicate Has Opened District 8 — The Syndicate — is now live. To reach it, you'll need to defeat "The A…
Family Wars · Coming Soon The streets are about to change. What's Coming A new system is in active development. Families will be able to commit to a corner of the city, fight building by building for control, and ultima…
Two Deadlines Approaching Referral Competition closes in under 3 days · Season One ends in under 5 days Referral Competition — Final Push The current Referral Competition ends in under 3 days. Head to More > Ref…
Arena lock-ins, Mansion expanded. Read before you fight. A packed update across Arena, the Mansion, and a handful of long-overdue fixes. There are real changes to how Arena works — read carefully before locking in. ⚔️ A…
What's New — May 9th A new round of upgrades just dropped across the family. Battle Pass — Overflow Rewards Maxed out the Battle Pass? Your work doesn't stop earning. Past tier 100, every 1,000 BP now drops a random con…
The Underworld Reopens. Rackets relaunch tomorrow @ 12:00. Fully rebuilt from the ground up. The old system was tired. Raids fired off infrequently with no warning, payouts felt thin, and once you had three rackets ther…
Bigger Families. Bigger Estates. A meaningful expansion landed today — more room in the family, more rooms in the manor. Family changes Every family's member cap has been raised by +5 slots, taking the standard cap from…
A few quality-of-life upgrades. A bunch of small but meaningful improvements went live in the last hour, mostly around chat and the casino. Quick rundown: Chat Trading channel A third chat tab is now live alongside Glob…
The Arena is live. Season 1 has begun. The doors of the Coliseum are open. Step inside, lock in your loadout, and start climbing. What you need to know The Arena is live for every player level 20 and above. You've alrea…
Plinko Final Round — We Have a Winner Congrats to Robdabank for hitting 1000x at 20:28! The final round of the Plinko competition has a champion. Robdabank takes home a Don Syndicate Pack — for landing the elusive …
Plinko Final Round — Tonight at 20:00 First to hit 1000x wins a Don's Syndicate Pack (worth $99.99). The final round of the Plinko competition kicks off at 20:00 server time tonight. The rules are simple: Drop the ball,…
The Arena opens tomorrow. Launching Monday 00:00 server time. A new way to compete is coming to The Fifth Family. Quiet. Calculated. Ranked. What is The Arena? The Arena is a weekly async combat ladder — silent hits aga…
QoL Update A round of small but meaningful fixes from the last 24-48 hours. Item Market — Buy in Part You can now buy a portion of any consumable bulk listing instead of being forced to take the whole stack. Listing of …
Plinko 1000x — Round 2 Winner! Congratulations to Dmaz for hitting the 1000x multiplier and taking home the Don Syndicate Pack! Roll of Honour Round 1 Winner — Metal Keno 🥇 Round 2 Winner — Dmaz 🥇 Two rounds, two legend…
Plinko Competition Round 2 Starts today at 12:00 server time. Round one's over. Round two opens at midday — fresh start, new winner. How to Win The first player to land a 1000x multiplier on any bet size takes home a Do…
Two Competitions Are Live — Get In Now Recruitment Competition runs until 17 May 00:00 server time. Plinko 1000x Challenge is live until claimed. The Recruitment Competition Bring new blood into the Family. The more rec…
The Empire Expands — Real Estate & Smuggling Family, Two big additions hit the city today. Read closely. Real Estate Has Been Overhauled Until now, every district had a single way to plant your flag — and only four …
The Family Grows. Live now. The Platinum Store has been completely rebuilt. 🔴 The Mystic Crate has arrived. A new tier of loot box. Containing the rarest gear in the city — items that, until today, only the Penthouse gr…
🎁 Website Packages — 10% Off Starting 23rd April at 00:00 BST, every package purchased via the website will be 10% off. How To Claim Head to thefifthfamily.com in your browser, log in and grab any package from the store…
Item Market Update Effective 20th April · 12:00 server time Consumables — No More Listing Cap Consumable items will no longer have a listing cap on the Item Market. Stock up, flip margins, move volume — whatever your pl…
The Birmingham Boys are coming. Going live Monday 20th April @ 00:00 — two days to prepare. A packed update on the way — Battle Pass Season 1 kicks off, Black Market gets a serious rework, consumables spread into new dr…
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