• Added new "Hot Shot" ammo type which ignites enemies near the impact area and continues to apply additional damage over time while they are burning
  
  
  
  
• Enemies and some objects will now briefly catch fire after taking explosive damage (this is a visual effect only, it does no extra damage)
  
  
  
  
• There is now a short delay before barrels explode. Before they explode, they will catch fire giving you a brief warning to move away.
  
• Added burning barrels
  

• Crash could occur when hosting a public game. This could happen if the router returned an IPv6 address while performing UPnP port forwarding.
  
• Crash could occur if a resolution higher than 4K was used.
  
• Crash could occur if the audio playback device became unavailable while the game was running.
  
• Crash could occur if a controller is used and unplugged during play.
  

• Your best scores are now saved for each mode/map/difficulty and shown at the start of the game and in the HUD. Last Stand mode also tracks the highest stage you survived and the most waves you survived.
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• Added support for Steam leaderboards
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  Compete against your friends and others for the best score!
  
  
  
  
• Scoring Changes:
  
  
  
  • Scoring is no longer based on damage done to enemies. Instead enemies have a fixed base score of 100 for normal enemies, 300 for tanks, and 1000 for mini-bosses.
    
  • Tweaked/Balanced amounts awarded for all bonuses
    
  • Added "Long Shot" bonus which gives you +15% for long distance shots
    
  • Can now receive "stealth" and "assist" bonuses from explosive damage
    
  • Added "Solo Bonus" which gives you +10% points when you are the only player alive
    
  • Added "Survivor" bonus which is awarded at the end of the stage if you didn't die. It gives you +20% of the points scored during the stage. If no damage was taken, the "Unscathed" bonus is also awarded which gives you +30% points.
    
  
  
• Last Stand mode now resets the score at the start of each day.
  The reasoning behind this is that this is an endless mode, so it made more sense for the score to represent your best score for a single day. This means that you don't need to play from day 1 to get the maximum points. You can just keep playing from the last day you got to to potentially get an even better score. It also makes more sense for multiplayer games as late joiners can still compete for score against people who have already been playing for a while.
  
• Campaign & Last Stand modes now only show rankings at the end of each day
  
• Note that Escape mode scoring still needs more work. I decided to postpone overhauling this mode so that I could get this update out sooner to you all.
  
• DISCLAIMER: While I'll try to avoid this where possible, your scores may get reset from time to time. This is because Final Days is still under development and the scoring systems may change further.
  

• Enraged enemies now always show up on the mini-map. This should make it easier to find the last remaining enemies.
  
• A message is now shown when you're the last one left alive, and when you're the only one alive and another player spawns.
  
• Each players respawn timer is now shown in the players list. So now you can easily see how long you'll need to hold out before dead players can respawn and help again.
  
• No longer auto-switches to High-Ex when you pick it up because it's so easy to accidentally blow yourself up when this happens.
  

• Fixed a bug (introduced in v0.23) where enemy numbers were not scaling correctly based on the number of players. This resulted in too few enemies for multiplayer games.
  
• Changed when enemies enrage. They now enrage sooner, but the timer resets whenever an enemy is hit.
  
• When a player dies, they now drop up to 5 items that they were carrying (pipe bombs and full clips get priority)
  
• Added a torso bobbing animation for players based on speed. This should help highlight that moving forwards is faster than going backwards.
  
• New main menu screen!
  
  
  

• Changes to Last Stand Mode
  Last Stand mode has got a bit of an overhaul. Here's a summary of the main changes:
  
  
  
  • The levels are now broken into "days" and each day has 5 waves.
    
  • Once you complete a day, the following day will be unlocked and you can now continue or even start a new game from that day. Progress will even be synced with Steam Cloud!
    
  • Revamped how enemy progression and scaling works to give a more fun (yet still challenging) difficulty progression.
    
  
  
  
• New Game Mode: Campaign
  The basic idea of this mode is that your base has been overrun by mutants, and now you must evacuate and rendezvous at the extraction point in 7 days time. It basically strings several Last Stand maps together with each one representing a day that you must complete to progress.
  
  
  
  
• New Game Mode: Escape
  In this mode the idea is that you're trapped in the lower levels of a bunker, and you need to fight your way to the surface and escape. Rather than having to kill all enemies like in Last Stand mode, you instead just need to find the exit for each floor. However, you don't know where the exit is and the mini-map uses fog-of-war to hide it from you. The levels are also procedurally generated and will be different on each play through.
  
  
• Made several changes to try and better balance item drops. This should hopefully make the game a bit more consistent, and avoid the "feast or famine" situations that could previously occur with item drops.
  
• Added a radial ammo selection menu. This should make ammo selection a bit easier (particularly for controllers) when you have a lot of different types. To open it, hold reload.
  
• The total ammo clips you're carrying is now shown in your HUD. This should hopefully make it more obvious how much you're carrying, and why you can't pick any more ammo up. This info is also shown above other players heads so that you can tell if they might need some additional ammo.
  
• Partial ammo clips can now be dropped. So now you can make space in your inventory without having to empty a clip by shooting.
  
• Replaced the field of view effect with a new rolling fog effect. This new effect fits the game a little better than the old "TV static" effect and creates a bit more atmosphere.
  
• Added an option to manually control the camera zoom. When enabled, you can toggle the camera zoom level using "Left Ctrl" on keyboard or "D-Pad Up" on controller.
  
• Menus are now scaled based on your resolution.
  
• Added an option to unlock the frame rate. (I recommend locking to 60fps for the optimal experience, but the option is at least there now for those that like to run at max FPS.)
  
• Several fixes!
  
  
  

• Added new "Darter" type enemy which darts back and forth to try avoid being shot
  
  
  
  
• Added flanking behaviour for "Stalker" enemies. They'll now try to avoid your line of fire, and attack you from the side.
  
  
  
  
• Added special attacks for the large enemies. Each enemy type has a different special (e.g. charge attack).
  
  
  
  
• Added "tank" class enemies. They are basically a little bigger and a different colour to normal enemies with more HP and special attacks.
  
• Mini-boss HP is now affected by difficulty (Easy = 66.6%, Hard = 112.5%, Insane = 125%)
  
• "Bloater" enemies now have a slithering style movement
  
• Improved animations
  

• To avoid spawning players in the middle of a horde during a wave, players will now be spawned at the spawn location furthest from any enemies. Secondary spawn locations have also been added and are used during a wave.
  
• Walls and Tank Traps are now much stronger and will last a bit longer against enemy attacks
  
• Damage done to barrels by gunfire is now consistent (e.g. to destroy from max HP: 3 shots from Standard, 1 shot from Power Shot)
  
• Several network performance improvements
  

• Pipe bombs
  Pipe bombs are fitted with an alarm which attracts mutants to them before they explode. The alarm angers the mutants so much that they'll focus all their attention to it. This can obviously come in handy, so use them wisely!
  
  
  
  
• New ammo types
  
  
  
  • Spread Auto: An automatic version of Spread Shot. It's not as powerful, but has a larger clip size. Great for clearing away hordes!
    
  • High-Ex: A high explosive round which really packs a punch! Be warned though, it is NOT intended for close range use! ;)
    
  
  
  
  
  
• Tank traps
  Added tank trap defenses to most of the maps. They can be handy for holding back mutants for a bit while you open fire on them. They're pretty sturdy, but won't hold out for long against large hordes.
  
  
• Drop ammo improvement
  The "drop ammo" action now throws ammo towards the crosshair position. This should make it a little easier to get ammo to the desired team mate.
  
  
• Ammo carry change
  Previously you could only carry a max of 4 clips per ammo type. But now you can carry a total of 10 clips overall. So you can now carry more of your favourite ammo type. And if your ammo is full but you'd like to pick up a different ammo type, then you can just drop some of another type you're carrying.
  
  
• Difficulty tweaks
  Some people were still finding Final Days too difficult (even on easy mode). So I've made "easy" a bit more forgiving. But I've also made "hard" and "insane" modes a little more challenging for the more hardcore players ;)
  
  
• Added some screen shake effects (can be disabled under advanced video options)
  
• Added option to disable ammo auto-switching (under control options)
  
• Added some "Streaming" graphics presets intended for video streaming/recording (they basically disable the animated field of view effect as it does not compress to video well at all)
  

New Features

• Object Dragging
  It is now possible to grab objects (i.e. crates and barrels) and drag them around. This makes strategically placing objects MUCH easier!
  
• Drop Ammo
  If you have any special ammo to spare, you can now drop it to share with your team mates. Note that you must have at least 1 full clip left for this to work.
  
• New map: "Hospital"
  (Thanks to Makofire for the concept which inspired this!)
  
• Support for Latin and Cyrillic characters
  The most common Latin (e.g. European) and Cyrillic (e.g. Russian) characters are now included in the fonts. So player names and chat messages using these characters will now display correctly. Other characters (e.g. CJK characters) aren't supported by the fonts I'm using, but I will try to look into this later.
  

Notable Fixes

• Auto port forwarding (UPnP) fixes
  In some cases, this wasn't working even though it was configured correctly. This was obviously quite bad as it meant that others could not join your public games. This should now be working much more reliably than before. But if you are still having any issues with this, then definitely let me know!
  
• Fixed sound effects being too loud
  This issue mainly affected people using headphones or surround sound speakers.
  
• Physics are now much smoother
  Previously, physics could get a little jerky when there was a lot of enemies on screen or on high latency connections. Things should now be a lot smoother in these cases.
  

• Fixed rare crash related to setting music volume
  
• [Steam] Fixed: App could take 5 seconds longer to start if there were no Steam Controllers connected
  
• Fixed: Prevent screensaver from starting while Final Days is running (needed when using a controller)
  
• Fixed: Server: Prevent computer from going to sleep while dedicated server is running
  

• Added official Steam Controller support.
  
• Frame rate and camera movement should now be much smoother.
  
• Added new "World Detail" graphics quality option which basically controls the maximum visible amount of debris and blood. The "Low" and "Medium" presets now have improved performance as a result.
  
• Changed the frame rate setting to now be part of advanced video options. The "High" and "Medium" presets use 60fps, and the "Low" preset uses 30fps.
  
• Spectator mode is now much smoother (particularly when there's a lot of enemies on screen, or when switching cameras on high latency connections).
  
• Made movement of off-screen players much smoother (no more jumping player labels).
  
• Gamepad controller: "RS-Click" now also opens/closes doors, and "X" now also cycles ammo types (the opposite direction to "Y").
  
• Can now display in-game help using a controller (instead of having to press "F1" on the keyboard).
  
• Improved appearance of help for Keyboard/Mouse and Steam Controller.
  
• Several improvements to the server browser.
  
• Added option to launch the dedicated server instead when starting a game.
  
• Multiplayer networking improvements.
  
• Several fixes and tweaks.