Population Zero

• if the device is placed in a proper area, it takes 5 minutes to accumulate the required amount of gas and the player can take the gas within 20 minutes before the device disappears
  
• if the device is placed in a wrong area, it just disappears after 20 minutes
  
• at any given moment when the device has not yet collected gas, it can be put back to the inventory
  

Gameplay

1. The chance of character receiving Sprained Ankle injury has been decreased, and the duration of this effect has been reduced to 20 minutes
   
2. Gas Collector now functions differently:
   
   
   
   • if the device is placed in a proper area it takes 5 minutes to accumulate the required amount of gas, the player can take the gas within 20 minutes before the device disappears
     
   • if the device is placed in a wrong area, it disappears after 20 minutes
     
   • at any given moment when the device has not yet collected gas, it can be put back to the inventory
     
   
   

Quests

1. Now the “Learning: Health Recovery” quest will not appear when Satiety effect is active
   
2. There are now more areas in Red Mosses with void samples that are necessary for “Steps toward Rescue: Study of the voids” quest completion
   

Resources

1. Hitboxes of the following resource nodes have been enlarged:
   
   
   
   • Limestone
     
   • Coal
     
   • Small Desert Bractus
     
   • Medium Desert Bractus
     
   
   
2. The number of stones and boulders has been increased in the area surrounding the Main Hub
   
3. The number of resources floating in mid-air has been decreased
   

Account Progression

1. Fixed an issue when upon getting the maximum amount of XP for Account Level 10, the experience was still awarded for quest completion and exceeded the limit
   

Visuals

1. The light source in the torch has been retuned:
   
   
   
   • its water reflexes have been corrected
     
   • the game now runs better in areas with large game character density when the torch is equipped
     
   
   
2. Female character skin glow has been corrected. The effect did not display properly at specific camera angles and in particular lighting conditions
   

Animations

1. The following female character’s animations have been reworked:
   
   
   
   • running
     
   • forward diagonal sprinting
     
   
   

Optimization

1. The game performance has been improved (the technical optimization is still in progress)
   

Sound

1. Sound volume has been decreased when the studio logo appears on screen before the intro cinematic
   

UI

1. Now the Founders survival and resource packages descriptions specify their contents
   

Texts

1. The game texts have received minor edits:
   
   
   
   • the required spaces between the text and the multiplier have been added in the account rewards menu
     
   
   

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed an Issue:
   
   
   
   • that lead to players receiving mostly green perks for crafting items
     
   • that lead to game client freezing during character respawn
     
   • when equipped weapon clipped through the right leg while the female character was sprinting
     
   
   

Game Client

1. We have added a supplementary logging function to the game client to more accurately determine the causes of various errors.
   

Mobs

1. Merids have been rebalanced and reworked:
   
   
   
   • their health has been reduced
     
   • the model has been slightly enlarged
     
   • the hitbox has been adjusted
     
   
   
2. Kvar animation speed has been readjusted
   
3. Baby Sahrim, Sahrim, and Snow Sahrim’s stats have been rebalanced
   

Controls:

1. The game now supports AZERTY-keyboard
   

Graphics Settings:

1. Stochastic Screen Space Reflection is only available in Ultra settings
   

Account Progression:

1. The amount of experience required to reach Account Level 2 has been changed. Now, you can get Account Level 2 by only completing the first main quest “Steps toward Rescue: Study of the voids”
   

UI:

1. You can now track average FPS in the game client. Press Ctrl+Shift+F to activate the FPS-counter
   
2. Map and navigation panel:
   

• Now, the corpse marker disappears after the player (or any other player in PvP game mode) loots it. You can also remove this marker from the map with the right button click
  

Quests:

1. You will be rewarded a random orange perk for finishing main quests
   
2. The item that activated the quest “Lost Property” has been removed from the global map. The said quest has been disabled.
   
3. The number of resources necessary to complete the quest “Steps to Rescue: Meat for the Hub” has been reduced
   
4. The quest “Toxicity” becomes available when the character’s toxicity level reaches its half
   

Localization:

1. German and Italian texts have been updated
   
2. Other languages have received multiple edits
   
3. The localization is still in progress, so texts in other languages may contain English names and descriptions
   

Gameplay:

1. The banker's storage capacity has been increased from 10 to 15 item slots
   
2. The water flask’s capacity has been increased to 30 units. The flask replenishes a third of character’s water balance
   
3. Health in Knockdown state had been decreased. When in K.O. the character has significant resistance to damage
   

Resources:

1. Boulders now give twice the number of stones
   
2. You can now get one extra Carapace (backplate) from Merids
   
3. When mining Thorium you no longer gather Gravel
   

Crafting:

1. Detox Stew (Ratatouille) recipe has been simplified
   
2. Gas-trap recipe has been changed
   
3. Simple Pickaxe recipe has been simplified
   
4. Healing Bandage crafting has been reworked: now you can craft 3 bandages from required resources, but it will take more time
   

Bug Fixes:

1. Fixed an issue:
   
   
   
   • when Baby Sahrim has low health and reaches Sahrim or Snow Sahrim it stops and does not move
     
   • when mobs moved incorrectly or stopped moving for some time
     
   • that could lead to the absence of visual effect when character attacks is blocked
     
   • when the Gas Trap icon in the Technology Atlas did not correspond to the item
     
   • when Foam Moss and Yutt Burrow were not seen on minimum graphics settings
     
   • he description is displayed when Perk is destroyed. Removed the point about the issuance of points of Practice Units, because it was not true
     
   • when the character twitched the spear while changing the direction of movement in the fighting stance
     
   • when the character twitched the head while sprinting with an equipped spear
     
   
   
2. The description that appears when the player dismantles a perk has been corrected. The line about Practice Points has been removed because it was false
   
3. The gas trap icon in the Technology Atlas corresponds to the icon of the item itself
   

HOTFIX 06.05.2020

• Population Zero social features
  
• Overall performance of the game
  
• Gameplay balance
  
• Visuals and animations
  
• Server Stability
  

HOTFIX 06.05.2020

1. The problem with Friend Invites: the ability to invite friends is now implemented through Steam functionality (you can find the instructions here). However, we realized that it is not convenient for the players. For that reason, we are preparing an in-game solution for inviting friends and creating groups. The update will be released as soon as we can make sure it works. Today we will patch and significantly simplify the system of joining friends via Steam. Your account level or game mode no longer matters when you are invited. Server player capacity doesn’t matter as well. You can jump into any session your friends are in, simple as that. This update will be live very soon.
   
   
2. Server Stability: We are already working on server stability and planning a number of hotfixes. You still might experience some difficulties in the upcoming days. Please, contact our Support Team if you come across any. Your ‘run.log’ files found in the game folder will help us solve such problems much faster.
   
   
3. Commander Edition Pricing Policy: We would also like to apologize to the members of our community who are outraged by the appearance of the Commander Founder Pack on Steam and the fact that it cost less than during the pre-order period via the official site. Firstly, it was a mistake to use the same names of the Founder Packs for the pieces of DLC and bundles on Steam. The latter did not have many items that Founder sets did. Secondly, we were wrong when we set the price for these packs as low as we did. We made the decision to remove all the DLCs from Steam for now and give the players who pre-ordered them via our website some in-game compensation. It may come in form or cosmetics or steam keys for your friends. Stay tuned for the news on that, as we’ll be posting about it here.
   

• Players are not able to do damage to one another and inflict status effects like stagger, bleeding, etc.
  
• Players are not able to loot other players’ corpses
  
• Players are not able to interact with other players’ items like chests, cocoons, or buildings
  
• Upon reaching the maximum mutation level colonists transform into the Void
  
• The Void are limited to a single life and 4 hours of playtime
  
• Death in the Void form finishes the session
  
• Account experience is rewarded for completing main quests and killing mobs
  

• Players are able to do damage to each other and inflict status effects
  
• Players can loot other players’ corpses and chests, destroy chests, cocoons, and buildings
  
• Loot drop is dependant on gear rarity: the better the gear, the higher the chance of losing it
  
• Upon death, players lose all their resources
  
• Players get the same amount of experience points as in the Standard PvE mode
  
• The Void can cause damage to colonists and to their own kind
  
• In the Void form, slaying colonists grants additional account experience points