Now the effects of the potions are kept even if you leave the camp or the raid
Recipe update: the second longbow requires a nylon string instead of a copper wire
Added a splash screen before the main menu to explain how the saving system evolved
"Pain killers" items have been removed of the game
You can no longer consume unusable items by drag & drop in inventory.
Enhanced sounds and fixed volumes problems
Crow
Rain
Heartbeat
Few weapons
Fixed:
the problem with missions impossible to finish in co-op
the issue of the "doors under alarm" playing their opening animation in loop
leaks in the world that allow players to go outside the map
an issue making some enemies disappearing with their loot (ex: pelicans)
incorrect safes zones surrounding some buildings (kitchen, low fence)
props collisions
various bugs and collisions
If you experience any crash, please send the proc.dmp file to support@ekosystem.com
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Take care survivors : )
EKO Software & 505 Games
ATTENTION! New Camp Save and Character Save Formats
ATTENTION!
New Camp Save and Character Save Formats
As of the release of the new How To Survive 2: 1.0 version on Thursday we have implemented a new easier save game system for Camp saves and Character saves per all of your comments and requests during Early Access. We have waited until the end of Early Access in that this new system is not compatible with the old Camp and Character save files. This means that everyone starting play with the new 1.0 version will need to restart their Camps and Characters. With the new save structure you will be able to enjoy being able to move your characters to any camp, local or online, public or private. There will be 4 character slots available and up to 5 online camps you can create. You may also change your camp from public to private and conversely at any time. We have also implemented a backup system that will save backups of your cloud character info on your local machine in case your current cloud save file becomes corrupted or lost.
We are sorry for any inconvenience that this change may cause you, our valued players, but we hope that everyone will really enjoy the new format with it being more flexible and easier to use.
EKO Software & 505 Games
Welcome to the Launch of How to Survive 2! On Sale!
Welcome to How to Survive 2!
We have transitioned from Early Access to full release today! For those of you who have been with us since Early Access, welcome back. To those of you who are new, Welcome to Louisiana!
We received a message from Kovac this morning to welcome you all into the bunker.
Dear Survivors!
I am glad to see you have found me! I wasn't sure you would make it, but I was hopeful. I have been working long and hard over the months to build a bunker here, in Louisiana, and to notify other survivors by broadcasting a message around the world through the use of pylons.
Now that you are here, you will find things a bit different than on the islands. But have no fear, I don't, and be confident in your zombie slaughtering capabilities, like me, survivor. We can work together and with others to combat the walking flesh bags that threatening our very survival!
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to visit the forums and one of my minions will assist you.
Once again, welcome!
~Kovac
Update - September, the 8th
Dear Survivors, the major changes of this update include:
- An update of the saving system: now, you have the possibility to create and select up to 4 survivor that can be played both in local and online games, both in private and public camps!
- You can choose the visibility of your camp on the fly, Private or public, from the "Camp Management" menu.
- Level Cap increased to 51
* Unlocked by completing Kovac's challenge #8
- Now, your health bar decreases when you are starving or badly dehydrated!
- Added weapons pull out animations (yes, the corresponding skill is going to be useful, now!)
- Added 5 new quests, 3 from Kovac, 1 from Clifton and 1 from Roscoe
- New end-game content including:
* new enemies
* new distant weapon
* new armor suit
* new hidden challenges to find and to trigger in specific raids
- The possibility to craft:
* high level versions of the actual distant weapons (handguns, revolvers, bows, crossbows, rifles and assault rifles) or sledgehammer
* a new and visually unique high-level blade named "Cold Death"
- Added new recipes to be cooked in the kitchen!
- Added a special white zombie rabbit randomly roaming on the camp. Please don't feed him. Especially with your own flesh! - The rewards of the quests have been balanced (XP and items)
- Fixed various bugs, collisions and navmeshes
- A history of the save files has been established
If you experience any crash, please send the proc.dmp file to support@ekosystem.com
Take care survivors : )
For a limited time, you may purchase How to Survive 2 for 40% OFF!
Thank you from all of us at EKO Software & 505 Games, and Kovac...
Abandoned Backpack Gift & DLC
Hello Survivors!
Due to your continued support of my wacky wisdom, I have gifted all of you who purchased the game before release with an Abandoned Backpack. Now, please, don't ask me where it came from and we will both be better off. Enjoy this gift from me to you. You should find your pack items in your bunker trunk.
For my friends who have waited patiently to come down to the bunker and learn more rules of survival, I also have an Abandoned Backpack available for you. There is just one catch, it requires a blood sacrifice! Nah, just kidding comrade! For a mere $1.99, you can also sport the Dual Knives, Winter Hat and Black Crow and be ready for an apocalyptic fashion show!
See you in the bunker survivors!
~ Kovac
Game Release and Server Reset Information
Dear Survivors,
First, we'd like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your participation on this Early Access journey with us. Through blood, sweat and tears -- well, zombie blood anyway -- we have created a sequel to How to Survive 1 that brings you out of the islands into New Orleans with more Kovac shenanigans. Although we had a few bumps in the road (but who doesn't) through your feedback, suggestions, and bug reports we feel we have created a game you will be excited to play.
Second, release is tomorrow morning at 6am PST, 1pm GMT. All servers will be down for maintenance from 4am-6am PST, 11am-1pm GMT. Please note that due to a comprehensive overhaul of the save game structure, we are completely wiping servers beforehand. This wipe will remove everything from the server including your camp, your experience and your character. Old camp and character saves will not be compatible. When the servers come back online tomorrow, you will notice the new save structure by enjoying one character that can join any camp, local or online, public or private. There will be 4 character slots available and up to 5 online camps. You may also change your camp from public to private and conversely. Also, all characters will generate a backup locally on your machine.
Last, please continue to post comments, feedback, suggestions and bug reports on our forums as we will be monitoring them and game performance to decide our next steps. So stay tuned!
EKO Software & 505 Games
[LIVE] August 22 - More Language Support & Release Date
Dear Survivors,
When we began Early Access back in 2015 we stated that we wanted to have a final game by summer 2016. And we can now announce that we will be launching How to Survive 2 on September 8th 2016.
For the past few months, we have been working with you to enhance, widen and shape How to Survive 2 by taking in account requests and suggestions from the forums. We would like to thank everyone for their feedback by making sure that you get a nice pack of Early Access items. So anyone who purchased the game before official launch will receive the Pet Crow, the Winter Hat and the Dual Knives. Those who purchase at launch and after will need to purchase them via DLC. We will be keeping the Primal Fear Armor for those who already own another How to Survive franchise game. The Voodoo Guitar will remain exclusive to players who purchased the game early (thank you, guys!).
We knew from our research that the community wanted a space where they could play with friends and freely create their own camps, so we focused in developing a system where you could invite other players and cooperate with them to survive.
The scenarios are now bigger than ever in the How to Survive franchise, introducing a variety of environments from swamps to suburban streets, sewers, farms, the French Quarter, etc. And we have populated it with infected hordes that include classic zombies, fast zombies, SWAT, exploding or mutilated zombies, farmers and more. You can also find a large catalogue of animals, infected or not, roaming the scenarios: alligators, turtles, pelicans, bears, deer, pigs, bunnies, etc.
You can come across over a dozen NPCs that will trigger dozens of quests with different mechanics: scavenge, timed challenges, escort and stealth missions. And, first among the locals, there is Kovac who will guide your steps to craft your gear, build your camp and fortify it. Following his recipes, you and your friends will be able to equip your survivors with amazing weapons and armors. And you can choose among dozens of skills to level up and create unique characters.
There has been exhaustive work tweaking and adjusting animations, controls, difficulty, leveling, etc. And, by the time that you read these lines, our plan is to have the game available into, at least, 11 languages! In our latest update today we have added language support for Korean, Thai and Turkish.
There will be one last content update at launch to bring new challenges and quests, camp modifications, new enemies, building, weapon and armor novelties and… a special surprise Kovac finale! We wanted to do something completely crazy and unexpected, just like Kovac. So don’t tell us… "Oh, I saw that coming…" because you didn’t. ;)
Upon game launch we will need to reset the servers which will mean all camps and characters will be reset back to the beginning. We have implemented a new save structure that is a bit more simplified than what we had during Early Access which we hope will clear up a number of issues that users have reported to us. Along with the save update we are also releasing all the game Achievements for the game which will require you to start from a fresh launch. The quest structure has been updated and finalized so we hope everyone will have a nice story quest flow that will lead up to our new ultra-exciting story ending.
After the game launch we will be monitoring the forums and game performance to decide our next steps. So stay tuned!
EKO Software & 505 Games
[LIVE] July 19 Update - Level Cap 50, Bug Fixes and...
Dear Survivors,
We have an exciting update for you this patch! Since release date is right around the corner we've left a few things for you to discover on your own. Let us know in the live patch discussion thread what sort of things you find!
Level Cap increased to 50
Kovac challenge 7
Fixes
some rework on the melee combat (modification of some melee animation to be able to hit more than 1 enemy + more hit animation to the zombies to give more time to the player to handle the fight with multiple enemies)
data protection to avoid cheating (some data are now protected against cheats : inventory + xp + level of player/camp)
some fixes for the loss of camps
New
Environments
To be discovered
Quest Giver
To be discovered
Quests
Leslie
Kovac
To be discovered
Animals
Some zombies
Some not...
Armor
To be discovered
Weapons
To be discovered
Recipes
Someone has been cooking in the kitchen!
Feature
To complete a quest, the player must not be targeted by a zombie close to the player
We are getting closer to the release window we had in mind (Summer 2016) and we are currently sticking with it. We would like to thank all of you for your feedback, especially those who filled out the survey, which has help us identify the main areas of interest. You provided great valuable information and we are figuring what we can reasonably fit in the development schedule.
We found out there is a general interest in more content, tweaks in game play and technical features and closure on quest lines (specially for Kovac). So we are laying the plans to bring more living and undead threats, new locations, more items and recipes, new NPC and different quests from today until final release. We understood some of those quest branches need to be available early in the game cycle to smooth the experience of the new survivors. As well, we are considering the final quests for Kovac understanding we need to make them whacky enough to honor our favorite master survivalist.
That will be the most visible work but we will also do a lot of technical enhancements and tweaking and balancing of game play in weapons, enemies, dynamics, etc hoping that you get enough hours of Coop Zombie Crafting Survival Fun!
Today you can find the SWAT FORCES Update Live on the main branch:
New environment:
Discover the Town environment controlled by Swat forces turned into zombies
2 new quests for Madison (one featuring the old strong alligator - including the final Madison quest)
1 new quest for the fans (final quest)
1 new quest for Kovac
1 new quest for Kenji
New level cap and new Kovac challenge:
A new Kovac challenge to unlock camp level 45
Camp level and buildings can be upgraded to level 45
New weapon:
To be discovered
New rewards and crafting recipes:
Swat armor
Lights for the camp
New version of the weapons with better stats
New building:
Build and put light sources in your camp
New camp modification:
To be discovered
More menus have improved graphic appearance:
More sound effects
Bug fixes + Tuning
fixed crash when loading some camps
fixed character passing through walls when trying to catch a pushable object.
fixed aiming VIP with a paddle
fixed aim animation bug when switching between bows and melee weapons.
If you experience any crash, please send the proc.dmp file to support@ekosystem.com
Want to talk more about the update? Join our ongoing forum discussion here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/360170/discussions/0/364042703862835415/
If you like our updates, please share on: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat! @How2SurviveGame
EKO Software & 505 Games
[BETA] June 02, May 27 Update - SWAT Zeds!
SWAT forces update :
Update - May 27
Dear Survivors,
An update is now available in the "beta branch"
To access it, just go in BETAS tab of game's properties and select the beta branch option. It will update your game with the fixes and features below. When you first log in you will only see servers that have been updated to the new patch.
Please note that if you want to test the beta branch in multiplayer, all the players need to be on the same branch.
If the update is looking good to everyone over the weekend we will be looking to push it out to everyone on all branches next week or so.
New environment:
- Discover the Town environment controlled by Swat forces turned into zombies
New enemies:
- Swat armored zombies (different variations with helmet and/or breastplate)
- Old strong alligator
New Quest giver:-
- To be discovered
New quests:
- 5 new quests for unknown quest giver (featuring the swats)
- 2 new quests for Madison (one featuring the old strong alligator - including the final Madison quest)
- 1 new quest for the fans (final quest)
- 1 new quest of Kovac
- 1 new quest for Kenji (final quest)
New level cap and new Kovac challenge:
- a new Kovac challenge to unlock camp level 45
- Camp level and buildings can be upgraded to level 45
New weapon
- To be discovered
New rewards and crafting recipes
- Swat armor
- Lights for the camp
- New version of the weapons with better stats
New building
- build and put light sources in your camp
New camp modification (after the final quests of Kenji/Madison and the Fans)
- To be discovered
More menus have improved graphic appearance
More sound effects
Bug fixes + Tuning
June 02 Mini Update:
- fixed crash when loading some camps
- fixed character passing through walls when trying to catch a pushable object.
- fixed aiming VIP with a paddle
- fixed aim animation bug when switching between bows and melee weapons.
If you experience any crash, please send the proc.dmp file to support@ekosystem.com
Want to talk more about the update? Join our ongoing forum discussion here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/360170/discussions/0/364042703862835415/
If you like our updates, please share on: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat! @How2SurviveGame
