Hello Responders,
Health Update #2 is coming December 2nd, and with it comes a bevy of changes that should impact your gameplay experience at every level of play. Similarly to our September Health Update, we’re focusing entirely on the current state of the game, without introducing new content and features.
Where this health update differs from the first is us looking at other aspects of players experience besides optimization and bugfixes. 0.7.1 also brings big changes to perks & a new faster crawler threat.
We’ve been reading your feedback, and realize that Hospital came with a large number of bugs, this update is coming slightly later than intended to give our Dev team more time to polish the issues that came in 0.7.0 with our 0.7.1 update.
Lost Connection Issues:
We are still investigating the issue a number of players are having with timing out either before entering, or during a match, and eventually seeing a “Lost Connection to Host” message. The issue is complex with multiple contributing factors, including load time and geographic location. We have multiple fixes on the way, but it also appears that players who have the game installed onto HDD experience the bug more often. We highly recommend you install the game on a SSD if possible, as it could resolve the issue.
If you continue to experience this issue, please reach out and let us know your PC specs, where you are in the world, and what type of drive you have the game installed on. Thank you!
Unreal Engine Upgrade:
Unreal Engine 5 is an extremely powerful tool, and each UE5 update gives us more tools for game optimization. Unreal released its latest update in June with 5.6, and we’re ready to update No More Room in Hell 2 to 5.6 with our 0.7.1 update. While 0.7.1 will only launch us into 5.6, we have plans over multiple updates to fully take advantage of the new optimization opportunities to improve players' experience.
Perk Pass #1:
Perks in No More Room in Hell 2 act as one of our major progression tools, giving players something to work on round after round (if their character survives!). Unfortunately, in their current state they’re much too strong, particularly abilities that increase a responder's survivability or stamina tend to make them stronger than intended and let them more or less circumvent or plow through systems in the game that we want them to engage with.
We want to go even further and rework the way perks work for 1.0, but in the meantime, it’s important that we lower the power scaling and ground the perks in realism. This is the first of multiple passes, and its major focus is on the “baddest actors” within our perk pool.
Perks getting a stat adjustment with 0.7.1 include:
Sturdy Body
Adrenaline Rush
Athlete
Thick Skin
Acquired Immunity
Resident Genes
Lucky Pathogen
Mule
Caravan
Deprived
Scavenger
Marathon Runner
Rush
Guts
Butcher
Wicked
Foreman
And all of their expert counterparts
Runner Crawlers:
Crawlers in No More Room in Hell 2 work well in theory: the idea of slicing off legs of the living dead but them still coming towards you can be terrifying — unfortunately they currently come without threat.
Our upcoming update looks to change the crawler dynamic. When runners lose one of their two legs they will fall to the ground and maintain almost all of their speed. If a Runner loses both its legs it will become a regular crawler.
The update will also feature a large number of bug fixes, a couple optimization passes, and more!
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