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Highlights

• Scavenger Hunter adjustments
  
• Kill feel improvement
  
• Russian translation

Scavenger Hunt

• Looters now spawn with 1/2 Attributes when the Infection Level is 5/10 and higher
  
  • Defense Attribute + 1 Random Attribute
  
  
• Hoarders now spawn with 1 Attribute at Infection Level 12 and higher
  
• Hoarder respawn timer is no longer reset upon reaching end game (night time)
  
• Looters now always spawn at a minimum in-game level of 3
  
• Barricade Run
  
  • The Roaming spawns before each barricade should now have a 100% spawn rate and should consist of the same type of zombies for all teams
    
    • Note that special type of zombies that spawn during the Barricade Event can still be random
      
    • Note that there can be a difference in number of "static" walkers on the way to the barricade (walkers that are sitting, eating, etc)
  
  
• A team can no longer overload their trucks with supplies. Players will be unable to deliver more supplies and flags will stop generating supplies once a truck is full.
  
  • You will be able to deliver supplies and flags will start generating supplies again If another team denies victory by stealing supplies
    
  • This change will make it impossible for another team to deliver more supplies than the winning team during the countdown - Reaching the supply limit first is still the victory condition
  
  
• Base Turrets attack range slightly increased
  
• XP Table has changed
  
• XP granted from hoarders are now based on a static value

• Paths leading up to hoarders have been slightly reworked

Kill-Feel Updates

• Players now uses rag-dolls similar to zombies to enhance the effect of dealing a killing blow
  
• A "gravestone" effect spawns on the location where a player dies. Standing near the gravestone will allow you to resurrect the player.
  
• First Player who kills an enemy player is awarded with "First Blood"
  
• Killing several players in quick succession awards
  
  • Double Kill
    
  • Triple Kill
    
  • Quadruple Kill
    
  • Penta Kill
    
  • Monster Kill
  
  
• Killing 4 Players without dying awards Killing Spree

Scoresystem Update

• Scoreboard now display damage done in Scavenger/Crossroads
  
• Scoreboard now display healing done in Scavenger/Crossroads
  
• Scoreboard now display "Takedowns" instead of Player Kills. Takedowns is a combined value of Kills and Assists (in Scavenger)
  
  • By assisting another player on your team you are rewarded with a Takedown.
    
  • Assist will count:
    
    • if you are nearby when a player on your team struck the killing blow
      
    • If you dealt damage to a player killed by an ally within a certain time-frame
      
    • If you healed/buffed the player who struck the killing blow
  
  
• Scoreboard now displays score. Score is awarded when performing certain actions in Scavenger Hunt
  
• Hovering damage/healing/takedowns/score displays details about this value in a tooltip

HUD

• HUD has gotten a facelift. Most HUD elements have been updated with new art and new design
  
• Level Up system has been updated to better relay information about each upgrade and to make in-game levels more obvious
  
• A buffbar has been implemented displaying passive effects, buffs and debuffs.
  
• A new statistics screen has been implemented displaying stats and perks in-game (Default bound to the hotkey 'V')

Characters

• Focus now properly increases damage output of Infested Minion.
  
• Updated character roles (In Crib) for several characters
  
• Additional voices has been implemented for several characters

Crib

• Weapon tooltips now compares your currently equipped weapon with the weapon you are hovering.
  
• An additional character tab has been implemented displaying a summary of a character's different qualities and an expected play-difficulty
  
• Item Info - Right Windows
  
• All window types now rescaled to have the same size on the item-display part (top half)
  
  • New background added to the Item-Display
  
  
• Reward window
  
  • Flow for daily rewards reworked.

Starter Quest Changes

• Steps lowered to 5
  
  • 1. Play Scout
    
  • 2. Craft Weapon
    
  • 3. Play Crossroads
    
  • 4. Buy Consumable (Or another item)
    
  • 5. Play 3 matches
  
  
• Steps can now be played in any order
  
• Starter Quest no longer locks the player to the current state, you can always browse all available features of the crib.

General

• Updated cursor and crosshair.
  
• Fixed a bug with the modification 'Sentinel'. Sentinel should now correctly grant shield value depending on life leech up to a maximum of 20% base health.
  
• Players are now invulnerable for 2.5s in Crossroads after respawning

Localization

• The game is now translated in Russian

Bugfixes

• VO for Mr. White added
  
• Character VO is now heard by all players

• Attack Speed calculation has been reworked. Stacking attack speed previously scaled exponentially. This change does not affect single attack speed buffs or attack speed bonuses from weapons but will have an impact when several buffs are stacked (something that could cause unintentionally high attack speed - for example when Armored Berg's ultimate was combines with attack speed weapons and attack speed buffs).

• Berserk
  
  • Attack Speed has been increased to 30% from 25% to cater for the new attack speed calculation.

• Action Hero
  
  • Action hero no longer turn Mr. Whites team color blue
    
  • The effects has been reworked

• Slight re-balances to certain enemy events
  
• Free Civilian from Cocoon Event - Increased cocoon base health to 4500 from 4000
  
• Escort Mission - Enemy assaults should now trigger further away from the base

• Over 150 bugs fixed

Highlights

Read the full patch notes here:

Read the thought process behind our decisions in the latest Stunlock Morse:

Highlights

• New PvE-Mode: Crossroads
  
• Progression System Overhaul
  
• Crafting Overhaul
  
• Passive Skills
  
• Loot System Rework
  

Crossroad

• You can receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal when completing a mission based on your performance
  
  • A better score awards more supplies
  
  
• There are a number of different missions that will be randomized during a playthrough
  
• All missions scale in difficulty-level based on the infection level. There is a significant difference in difficulty between low and high infection levels
  

• Your game reward is primarily based on the amount of supplies you are able secure during the game
  

• Similar to Scavenger, you begin in the morning and the game ends during the night
  

• Crossroad maps are divided into themes. The first theme available is the Swamp / Lab theme
  
• There is a number of different map layouts available within themes
  

• Attributes are permanent buffs that boost zombies
  
• Boosted zombies glow
  
• Attributes are more frequent on high infection levels
  
• Attribute List
  
  
  
  • Deadly
    
    
    
    • Damage output increased by 50%
    
    
  • Tank
    
    
    • Reduces damage taken by 35%
    
    
  • Enraged
    
    Increased Attack Speed by 50%
    
    
  • Speed
    
    
    • Increased Movementspeed by 50%
    
    
  • Projectile Resistant
    
    
    • Reduces Projectile type damage by 75%
    
    
  • Melee Resistant
    
    
    • Reduces Melee type damage by 75%
    
    
  • Area Resistant
    
    
    • Reduces AoE type damage by 75%
    
    
  • Plague
    
    
    • Deals damage to players standing close to the zombie
    
    
  • Unstable
    
    
    • An infectious explosion does damage to nearby players 2s after the zombie is killed
    
    
  • Amplifier
    
    
    • Zombie standard attacks inflict Amplify
    
    Numbing
    
    
    • Zombie standard attacks inflict Weaken
    
    
  • Uncontrollabe
    
    Zombie cannot be stunned/incapacitated/slowed/feared etc
    
    
  • Relentless
    
    
    • Greatly Increases Max HP and Damage ouput
    
    
  • Slaughterous
    
    
    • An attribute placed only on Massives. It indicates that the boss will be using stronger versions of its abilities.
    
    
  
  

• Crossroads uses a zoomed-in minimap due to the large maps
  
• The fog of war is being lifted as you explore the Crossroad map
  

• In Crossroads players respawn at a respawn point close to the remaining players
  
• All players respawn simultaneously
  
• If all players die the group receives a respawn duration penalty
  

• Doctor Bauer is a new narrator and the guy that is mainly responsible for coordinating missions in Crossroads!
  

Progression System Overhaul

• Levels for individual characters have been removed: there is now a global character level. Unlocks apply to each character once you reach a new level
  
• New account progression rewards have been added
  
  
  
  • All permanent unlocks will be handed out to users who have already bypassed these rewards
    
  
  
• Reaching the late-game content will now be faster overall and you earn more Gear Points to spend on your new weapons!
  

Crafting Overhaul

• The weapon leveling system has been removed and is being replaced with a new modification system
  
  
  
  • Modifications allow you to customize your weapons to better fit your needs and playstyle!
    
  
  
• The weapon tiers have been increased from 6 to 16
  
• Crafting weapons are no longer restricted by the workbench-level
  
  
  
  • Loot drops are now based on your character strength. Increasing your character strength by leveling up your account and by crafting new weapons will lead to a higher infection level and thus better loot
    
  
  
• All weapon-stats have been rebalanced
  
• New weapons can now be dropped
  
• Almost all legendary weapons have a unique perk and a more defined role
  

Passive Skills

• The weapon expertise on all characters has been removed and is replaced by a passive skills
  
• You can now choose whatever weapon you like and customize it to your character and playstyle using the modification system
  

Loot System Rework

• Smarter drop system with guaranteed drops and less randomness
  
  
  
  • The more games you play without receiving blueprints the higher the chance of receiving a loot-drop
    
  
  
• Weapon-types are also distributed more evenly. If you have not received a certain weapon-type for a long time you will have an increased chance to receive that weapon-type
  
• Duplicate blueprints are now transformed into account experience points
  
  
  
  • The Gear Point income has been re-balanced to accustom the new progression
    
  
  

Compensation

• As character levels and weapon levels are removed we are also removing the unbound experience part of the game. Everyone who spent cash to unbind XP gets compensated with Cash
  
• With the big crafting rework and the many weapon changes we are also compensating all users who have converted Cash into Gear Points by giving back 50% of Cash spent on the Cash to Gear Point conversion
  

Updates

• All Scout Missions have been reworked into single player missions
  
  
  
  • Each mission has a unique objective
    
  
  
• All three new Scout Missions are now part of the starter quest
  

• A new classification has been added: Infected. Infected-type zombies are stronger than Walkers but weaker than special-zombies.
  
• Elite Walkers are now named Veterans and their classification has changed from Walker to Infected
  
• The Suicider is a new Special enemy that will blow itself up along with you and your allies!
  
• The Runner is a new Infected enemy that will chase you down and whack you in the back when trying to flee
  
• The Spitter is a new Infected enemy that spits acid-goo (beware of large groups of Spitters!)
  
• All Massive zombies have been re-balanced and updated
  

Crafting Details

• All weapons have had their stats re-balanced
  
• Some weapons have a different rarity than before
  
• Several perks has been removed from weapons. These perks have been changed into modifications
  
• The required parts have been re-balance
  
  
  
  • The amount of different parts have been reduced to 10
    
  • Parts are reused over several weapon tiers
    
  
  
• Gadgets have their stats adjusted to fit the new crafting changes
  

Progression, Crafting and Loot Changes

Account Progression Changes

Crafting System Overhaul

• Bounty Hunter - Killing an enemy awards you with 5 supplies.
  
• Scratch Shield - Damage taken from Walkers reduced by 10%
  
• Acrobatics - You have a 30% chance to reset dodge cooldown when dodge is used.
  

Passive Abilities

Loot System Changes

• Levels for individual characters have been removed: there is now a global character level that applies to each character. Unlocks apply to each character once you reach a new level
  
• Weapon leveling and workbench levels have been removed
  
• Weapon modifications have been introduced: Permanent unlocks similar to blueprints that can be used on each weapon – if it has a suitable slot
  
• Lots of weapon balancing changes
  
• Character weapon expertise has been removed. Every character now has a passive ability
  
• Smarter drop system with guaranteed drops and less randomness