V2.6 EXP

Hello Survivors!

V2.6 Experimental is here with a group of fixes, tweaks, and gameplay changes.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Dew Collectors now require jars as "fuel" to produce water.

• Jars no longer require the crucible to be crafted.

• The default jar refund chance is now set to 60%.

• Zombie XP has been rebalanced based on type, HP, and Damage.

• Added tougher biome spawn zombies to the snow and wasteland biomes.

Here is how you participate:

1. Right click on the game in steam

2. Click on properties

3. Click the “betas” tab

4. The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available <— you want THAT

5. Select that and wait for the game to download

Continue reading below for more info!

Added

• Discord friends' sessions now appear in server browser's friends tab

• Replaced properties list for zombie xp values at the top of entityclasses.xml

• Added Roaming sounds for animalChicken and animalChickenHostile

• RWG town planner removes some connections between pairs of districts to increase the amount of T, L and Cap tiles

• Radiated, charged and infernal mutated zombie's ranged attacks now have increased distance, speed and different patterns

• Enemy AI now play an alert sound when they run away from either an entity or being hurt

• RWG conversion of one L tile to a Cap per district group unless the group would split

• Stag and Doe now have roam and alert SFX

Changed

• Removed the Bone Knife requirement from the Harvest Animals Challenge

• Updated loot list parameters to include ignore_loot_abundance="true" for construction crate, hidden stash, and buried treasure

• Adjusted spawn groups for the snow biome to include Radiated, Charged, and Infernal Chuck zombie variants

• Adjusted spawn groups for the wasteland biome to include Radiated, Charged, and Infernal Mutated zombie variants

• Increased the snow biome gamestage_modifier from 2 to 3 and gamestage_bonus from 20 to 30

• Increased the wasteland biome gamestage_modifier from 3 to 5 and gamestage_modifier from 30 to 50

• Adjusted the wasteland weather with new hot and cold events

• Refactored zombie xp progression based on zombie HP and Damage

• Reduced block damage on zombieSteveCrawler and zombieMaleHazmat hands to align better with other zombies in their group

• Adjusted various zombie HP values to align better with other zombies in their group

• Increased player kill XP

• Removed legacy "Boss" EntityDamage passives from Radiated Utility Worker and Radiated Businessman

• Updated chuck hand variants with new boulder projectiles that have progressive entity and block damage

• Updated loadingTipApiary to warn about closing the Apiary instead of when opening it

• Dew Collector requires jars as a "fuel type" to produce water

• Crafting jars no longer requires the crucible

• Updated the hit mask override on chuck zombie hands from arrow to rocket to prevent boulders from passing through bars

• Gyrocopter can now have 5 mod slots (requires a new gyro to be crafted)

• PC/Mac/Linux now use an uncompressed texture for the road splat map for higher quality blending

• Increased dire wolf and zombie bear hearing and sight ranges

• Increased mutated zombie ranged attack damage

• Bears can now fit through 1x2m openings

• Snakes now play footstep sounds

• Improved terrain blending where topsoil is removed

• Disabled allharvest HarvestCount penalty on several melee weapons to allow basic resource harvesting such as plant fibers, wood, and stone

• Updated harvest tags on several blocks for perkJunkMiner

• Updated oreWoodHarvest tag to only be applied to wood, stone, ore, clay, and sand

• Updated localization for armor perks to describe their loot boosted items

• Separated the dew collector and apiary fuel windows in code and XUI

• Dew Collector output now has 3 rows for a total of 9 slots

• Replaced old buff names used in logic for Stage 2 storm buffs

• Reduced completion requirements of several medical challenges to 5 - If the challenge cannot be redeemed, one additional cure will trigger the completion

Fixed

• Paint rotation on baseboard in hospital_01

• Switching Challenge tabs should no longer cause them to flicker

• Large Quest Generators now display their smoke particles correctly

• Localization keys for shapewedge60TipTrimQuarterLeft2Sided and shapewedge60TrimQuarterRight2Sided were flipped

• Localization typo in some quest reward bundle descriptions

• Removed debug logging of friend IDs

• Vultures on a dedicated server would only attack once

• ChangeBlocks could set the wrong neighbor block’s topsoil to broken

• AI targeting range for nearest player was too short and inconsistent

• Bear attack was hitting before animation hit

• The spawner source was set after the entity was spawned in four cases

• RWG mixer was using mountains instead of burntForest_mountains

• Tagging issue that would prevent Legendary Parts from spawning when any armor perk was active

• Apiary fuel is no longer lost when the apiary is picked up

• Progression bar no longer resets if fuel is removed from collector class workstations

• Shift-Click for "fuel" items in the collector class workstations is now working

• Set the default jar refund rate to 60%

• Floating platforms on growing trees are no longer possible

• Issues with adding/removing vehicle storage mods and item loss

• Large ragdoll forces no longer launches small animal corpses long distances

• Sleepers had too short of a kill off timeout

• Rogue Armor Set cowl would not show correctly