No More Room in Hell 2 has officially launched out of Early Access on PC as well as onto consoles. Armageddon, our 1.0 update, contains all the content we’ve developed alongside our community these past 2 years as well as all-new features and improvements meant to make this the best zombie survival experience possible. We’re excited to be able to welcome everyone to come together and fight for survival in our vision of the apocalypse!
Players enter No More Room in Hell 2 as Responders - volunteers who prior to the outbreak volunteered to the CRC to fill understaffed jobs during the initial NPV health crisis. None of them could’ve predicted the horrors that awaited them when the dead began to rise and suddenly were expected to act as a ragtag task force.
Each Responder has their own short background as well as a starting Skill based on their past experiences. You can manage up to 3 Responders at your campsite, slowly building their arsenal to diversify their strengths and curate them to a given mode or difficulty.
Over time, you’ll be able to further customize your Responder’s appearance to showcase how they’ve managed to overcome the undead and preserve a sense of self through the carnage.
Responders are assigned their specific missions by the CRC, meaning you will only select the overall goal prior to deciding which Responder to play as. There are two distinct mission types you can aim to accomplish:
Objective scenarios involve large scale maps that ask you to complete a linear progression of tasks for the CRC, culminating in a high-stakes extraction window.
Survival maps are smaller and more frantic from the start, asking Responders to defend speaker systems that lure up to 3 waves of zombies away from civilians.
Difficulty options allow you to aim for greater rewards in exchange for withstanding increased zombie numbers and challenges. Permadeath is always a threat at extraction or on complete mission fail, but higher difficulties mean every death is final.
While deployed, you may find yourself experiencing some symptoms of NPV. Reports indicate they can be as minor as coughing and severe as acute psychosis. Once you begin to see veins appear, you’re close to turning into the undead!
To delay or prevent this, look for phalanx pills around the map which can delay your condition and buy you valuable time to make it to an extraction option. These are limited use items with 3 doses per bottle, so keep track of your reserves and communicate with others. There is also experimental gene therapy that can cure you and give you immunity, but only one spawns per match.
When deployed onto a mission, the CRC requests you collect a quota of Supplies as a team, found next to your Inventory wheel. These Supplies are converted into Credits at final exfil, allowing you to purchase more gear or cosmetics for future runs. There are occasionally rarer forms of Supplies that provide heftier cash outs in exchange for taking up inventory.
There are two forms of extraction: Early and Final. Early extraction is available after a short period in a run to allow Responders to preserve their lives if the mission feels insurmountable. They receive no character progression, and only a small portion of Credits. Final extraction occurs at the end of missions, and anyone who extracts this way receives character experience and Credits equal to the whole team’s Supplies.
As you improve at the game and complete several successful runs, you’ll be able to invest your Credits into upgrading Skills to Expert level as well as gearing up your Responder for greater challenges. Increasing the difficulty you play on grants improved XP and Credit rewards, with the current endgame goal to complete Nightmare runs: where zombies are overwhelming and resources are scarce.
As always, stay safe out there!
The NMRIH2 Dev Team