Win $500 or 500 Nether Gold by creating a video of your best time in Nether playing with other players! This video contest is about teamwork, group play, tribal strategy, or so much more! We want to see how you interact in groups on Nether. We can’t wait to see your creative vision or just fun gameplay footage! You can find the contest rules and prize information below.
IDEAS/EXAMPLES
Grab a buggy and ride around picking up other players. Will you lead them to their death or become a team?
A tutorial on your best team strategy to survive in Nether.
A look at tribe life!
Anything and everything that involves group play! The possibilities are endless!
Contest Rules
Video length must be under 3 minutes
The video must focus on an aspect of group/team play.
Upload your videos to YouTube
(You are responsible for following YouTube's copyright guidelines and TOS or you risk your video being taken down)
Do not use someone else's video footage without their permission.
You can ask for feedback in our video section: https://forums.playnether.com/forumdisplay.php?22-Videos-Streams-amp-Screenshots !
Contest End Date: TBD - Likely mid-April
Please feel free to leave any questions about the contest in this thread! We will answer them as soon as possible.
PRIZES
Top 1st to 5th Place Winners:
$500 or they can substitute for 500 Nether Gold
6th to 10th Place Winners:
500 Nether Gold
Our Community Manager, General Manager, and Lead Dev will be choosing the top 10 winners.
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March Update #1
A big update is here! We are excited to introduce the starting foundations of the Tribe system, in our next update, Tribes will be expanded to include a territory system where tribes battle it out over land!
When is the Update
The current ETA is 12 PM CST, Monday, March 3rd.
Whats new with Nether?
Tribes, New Vehicles, New Nether, New Weapons, Improved AI and more!
TRIBES!
Band together with your friends to control your server with the introduction of tribes!
Sign up for a Tribe in the Lakeside Safe Zone – Act now to receive your early adopter TRIBE OUTFIT reward!!
Keep in touch with your members using the Tribe Chat. (/tribe)
Outfit your character with your Tribe uniform!
Hunt Enemy Tribe Members to earn cash bounties!
Tribe Reputation: build up your renown with the new reputation system!
Gain reputation by killing Nether and players in enemy tribes.
Lose reputation by killing your own Tribe Members and survivors that are friendly towards your tribe.
Lose too much reputation and your Tribe will kick you out!
Earn a positive reputation and you'll earn bonus account points for persistent perks!
NEW NETHER!
Mantis Creature: Watch the skies and listen for wings. The new Mantis Nether has arrived!
Mantis Nether has 3 new collectible parts that you can trade for new rewards at the Nether Hunters
All-Terrain Vehicle:
Grab your friends and go hunting! Hop in this new 3 seater where you drive and your friends shoot!
Persistent account level ups
Looking for some permanence to your character? Check out the new persistent account level ups. Each level you earn grants you a bonus that you’ll never lose and get every time you spawn!
Survival Bonuses:
In Nether, it’s survival of the fittest. There’s no better way to see who’s fit to stay alive than our new Survival bonuses! The longer you stay alive, the greater rewards you gain.
6 new weapons:
Pipe Sniper: Craft the new Pipe sniper for long ranged hunting!
Heartburner – Using the Mantis’ incendiary gland, this gun explodes in a spray of Hunter Spikes!
Bonespur – Nether are dangerous and it’s about time you put that to use. This sword is cobbled together from Nether parts!
Skullcleaver – just keep saying “Stop hitting yourself!!” as you cut down nether with this axe made from their fallen corpses!
Shovel – You’ve dug enough graves, so now it’s time to fill them. Hey, this handy tool can do that too!
Gravedigger – Since the stock on this impromptu Rifle is made from a shovel, the gun pretty much named itself.
Added new Metal pipe scrap item
Added new wood block item
Craftable at any Vlad Gunsmith
Nether AI Improvements:
Nether behaviors are now more befitting of the monsters they are.
Trying losing your attackers by ducking in buildings and hiding places they can’t see you to get them off your trail.
If you make a loud noise, get out of there!! If they don’t see you, they might just leave.
Take refuge in buildings if you’re afraid of those prying eyes and ears. Nether can’t hear so well through walls!
No place is safe anymore. Now the Outposts periodically come under attack! See if you can activate the Anti-Nether Devices to save the outpost without alerting the Nether!
Creature Mode:
Make your way to the Safe Zone and purchase the Nether potion! Take up the reins as a crawler! Hunt those pesky survivors down and devour their bodies!
The crawler is quick and agile. He can run much faster and jump much higher than any survivor.
Teleport around using the Left Mouse. Watch your stamina! When you run out, you reappear.
Constant hunger - you're always hungry for more humans! Make sure to take them out whenever you find them or you'll starve!
Let us know what you think about the update!
Introducing our new Official Wiki! Hosted by Curse!
We would like to introduce Curse as host of the Nether official wiki! Make sure to check out the wiki for up-to-date information on Nether, tips and tricks, lore, and much more!
Check out the wiki page here: http://nether.gamepedia.com/Nether_Wiki
The second vote to find out Nether's Tribe Names is here! You will find the tribe names that are up for your consideration on the voting page, there you will choose your top three!
Thanks for being a part of Team Nether & we can't wait to see what you think!
February Update #2 - Keybinds, Sound, and Mouse Sensitivity!
February Update #2
Key Bindings/Capacity System
Key bindings are finally here! This smaller February update has usability options and some smaller additions and tweaks to Nether! Here are the notes, enjoy! Servers will go down shortly during the day for the update to be made live.
Major Updates:
• Keybinding! Volume slider! Mouse Sensitivity! Added more usability options to the Settings menu.
• Added more Crafting Vendors to the world.
• Backpacks and GI use a Capacity system instead of slots. This is in early stages and may require additional balancing. Keep in mind, how slots used to work is now different
Other Notes:
• Various gun tweaks
• Made the escort mission reward players with items
• rebalanced and distributed gun spawns to be spread better around the map.
• moved loot drop locations in west of map work reliably
• Fixed a bug where the Lopes was uncraftable
LATER TODAY – TRIBE VOTING ROUND TWO STARTS!
This will be the final vote to decide the tribe names in the upcoming Tribes feature so make sure to keep an eye on the forums and the Nether Twitter and Facebook for an announcement when the voting starts.
[H1]February Update #1 & Character Wipe/Tribe Pledge
Servers will experience downtime from approximately 10 AM CST - 11 AM for the update and character wipe. Here is what you can look forward to once we get back online! First an announcement and then features in the update!
Tribes:
Today we are really excited to announce "TRIBES", a new feature that allows our players to join one of 16 unique tribes and battle each other in a struggle for territory. By joining a Tribe, players will be rewarded with stronger offensive and defensive skills, larger cash and loot drops, extra space to store inventory items, and more. Tribes will fight for control of the city’s strategic vantage points, which will provide the controlling tribe greater power over enemy movements, the ability to affect market prices and alter mission objectives in their favor.
Name the Tribes - Help us name the 16 tribes! Discuss and offer tribe names at this thread: https://forums.playnether.com/showthread.php?7522-Vote-3-TRIBE-NAMES-First-Part-of-Voting!&p=70903#post70903
Join a Tribe
Players that pledge to joining a Tribe before February 15th will earn special rewards, which include a Tribe outfit (worth five Gold) and no Tribe initiation when the feature is available at the end of the month. So head to the Safe Zone to pledge to the tribesman and prepare for Tribal warfare!
Character Wipe
After warning for the last couple of patches, we are now resetting all characters and wiping stats. This is needed to fix previous exploits and bugs that have occurred during our early access. Game play should now become more balanced and the overall experience will be improved. All character inventory has been removed. All the gold players have purchased has been returned along with any gold included in the Believer and Chosen packages.
Features in the Update:
Crafting- Go to the Weaponsmith in the Safe Zone and bring components of weapons and he will craft you a new weapon! The 'recipes' for different guns are revealed as you find them. Check out the new makeshift "Can Gun" made from found parts and shotgun shell.
Nether Hunters- These cult members will give you rewards for bringing them Nether body parts that are dropped from killing creatures.
Secret: There might be a secret feature....
Notable Fixes:
· Most powerful guns will no longer spawn in the world and will need to be crafted
· Sidearm and weak gun spawn rates significantly reduced
· Removed some exploitable console commands and ini settings
· Various inventory UI fixes
· Gun damage on certain weapons will now falloff at distance so that you can’t “snipe” with a pistol
· Fixed an issue where the safezone message sometimes wasn’t there
· Sunny days are now more likely than foggy days
· Enemies will now drop loot more consistently independently of loot spawned on the map
· Reduced sprint stamina drain and increased stamina recovery rate, and fixed some bugs with stamina drain while jumping
· Various AI and item spawn balance tweaks
· Various world collision fixes
· Various Z-Fighting, seams in world, and floating objects fixed
Character Wipe Coming Feb 4th!
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The next update and the long-awaited character wipe are coming! This Tuesday we will be doing both. All inventories will be cleared and all Nether Gold will be returned to you. The game update and character wipe will result in downtime. This is the current planned schedule of possible downtime.
UPDATE/CHARACTER WIPE DOWNTIME
Tuesday, February 4th
9:30 AM-11 AM CST
*Those waiting for the extra gold for launch issues and preordering early access will also be given those rewards around this time. (https://forums.playnether.com/showthread.php?405-Nether-Server-Issues)
January Patch #1
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Features in the Patch:
• Motorcycle/Dirt Bike- There are motorcycles that spawn in the world. This is very much in a "early access" state- if you are carrying gear you don’t want to lose, it is recommended you deposit the gear in the global inventory before riding.
Known issues:
• There is some network rubberbanding that causes bike to appear to hiccup
• If bike is laying down, press E to start flipping it over, and E again when it is upright
• FRAPS may have perf issues while riding motorcycle.
• Group System- Group chat, group members show up on map, easily identifiable nametags
Group system overview/instructions: • Access the group screen from the main menu bar.
• Invite people to your group by clicking the plus icon next to their name in the right most column.
• Invites appear in "invites" window. You can accept or ignore them. Accepting an invite, while your currently in a different group will cause you to leave that group.
• You can send chat messages to only your group members by beginning your message with /group.
• You can return to global chat by typing /say.
• Group member's name tags always appear over their heads.
• Group member's locations can be seen in the map screen.
Escort Mission- new objective where you have to bring a heavy box with a glowing beacon to shopkeepers in Safezones. The box attracts Nether, and you can’t use weapons while holding the box, so 'Group' up with other players to successfully complete the objective. Everyone in your 'Group' will receive the escort reward.
• New Cosmetic Gear in the marketplace- Russian Hat, Motocross Helmet, Ski mask (balaclava), Ballcap, Face Bandana, Half Mask, Spray Mask
Notable Fixes:
• Disabled console log off
• Stamina drains on jumps, to discourage sprint-jump bunny hopping (note jump does not require stamina to use)
• Fixed bugs with Character screen not showing proper items
• Made it so nametags for group members look different and appear more readily.
• Fixed bug with map objective info not appearing correctly online.
• Hid lock and quest icons for quickslot item icons.
• Adjusted red dot sight to be more clear and smaller
• Fixed issues with Glider not showing up on other players
• Added enemies to subways
• Various Map fixes
• Various Nether bomb fixes
• Fixed stat screen interface issues
• Fix for throwing grenades in Safezones
• Adjusted ground textures, wear patterns on ground
• Fixed the courier package inventory icon to match the mesh
• Added spawn protection timer with a random variable between 10-15 seconds
Motorcycle/Dirt Bike Preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oUVMnl9cRY
The Dirt Bike has been tweaked more since this recording was taken... Who wants to see a stunt video?
Let us know what you think in the comments!
December Patch #2
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New Update is going LIVE! More features and fixes!
New Features in this Update:
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<*>Courier Missions: deliver necessary supplies to different Safezones and outposts for large rewards
<*>Subway Network: Use abandoned subway tunnels as alternate routes to get around the world. Generally safer against campers!
<*>Wing Glider: Travel across the map from above. Equip in quick slots and use in midair to glide.
<*>Nether Pheromone Bomb: Throw this jar of Nether innards to attract creatures. Use it to even out a fight or earn some XP
<*>Sonic Repulsor: Throwable Anti-Nether grenade that will cause all Nether in the vicinity to run away for several seconds
<*>New AI- Golem: A large Nether who can take a lot of hits and does big knock back attacks. Don’t let him get close.
<*>"Supply Drop" Event: Event which will occasionally spawn multiple loot in a different world locations and mark that location on the map for all to see
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Notable Fixes:
Fixed a bug preventing the day-night cycle from playing
Quickslots will now be saved in between play sessions
Fixed some broken collision in the world
Slight rebalance to reduce blood meter aggro increases
Slight store item rebalance
Slight food restoration amount rebalance
Minor performance improvement for servers
[URL="http://steamcommunity.com/app/247730/discussions/0/630800443115073650/"]Click me to share thoughts on Patch #7![/URL]
December Patch #1
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Patch #6 is live!
Here are the Patch Notes!
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<*>Added a new "blood meter" to the game. Nether will now smell the recent blood of other players on you and be more likely to detect your presence and aggro you from further away.
<*>Added new military character templates which can be purchased from the character menu
<*>Added a new Collection objective
-visit the Safe Zone to find out what items to scavenge and turn in for cash and XP reward
<*>Added a throwable grenade that will do damage in a radius when it explodes
<*>Added a throwable flashbang that will cause temporary blindness and deafness in a radius when it explodes
<*>Fixed a bug with guns where the clients weren't simulating fire effects properly causing "gun lag"
<*>Fixed an issue with character stats being occasionally wiped after logging out
<*>Increased the amount that all food heals by 20-30%
<*>Slightly increase base walk speed
<*>Increased global inventory to 20 slots
<*>Increased the size of the riverside outpost slightly
<*>Added gun sway to standing pose
<*>Fixed bad placement of some anti-nether devices in the safezone
<*>Made Crawler more alert and aggressive but reduced their health. They will also patrol much further and more quickly.
<*>Fixed an issue where players would still be "safe" if the safe zone was disabled during an attack
<*>Fixed some animation issues with crawling and crouching in various gun poses
<*>Players can now buy more nether gold via a link in the store
<*>Fixed some LOD popping in the world
<*>Players can now intentionally drop cosmetic items (but they still will not be dropped on death)
<*>Fixed some visual issues with fog when standing high up in buildings
<*>Fixed various collision issues in the world
<*>Fixed some bad loot locations
<*>Fixed some broken player spawnpoints
<*>Added some minor UI polish
<*>Fix for detail meshes in certain parts of the world not appearing
<*>Fixed an issue with the heartbeat sometimes not playing during low health
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Note: VAC anti-cheat is now active and we are working with Valve to start adding in the commonly detected hacks/cheats to the system.
Talk about #Patch 6 [URL="http://steamcommunity.com/app/247730/discussions/0/648813728678231852/"]Here[/URL]
