The horde, four new places and a rebuilt battle map

The horde

• A new kind of wave: thousands of enemies instead of a dozen. They move as one solid front, flow around the rocks and close in from both sides.
• The whole convoy works on the horde: turrets, cannons, mines, ramming.
• The minimap shows which side it is sweeping in from, and the HUD has its own bar for how much of it is left.
• Raiders have no horde: they still bring people and vehicles.

Four places instead of one

• The Wasteland — mesas and plateaus you can climb.
• The Arctic — frozen lakes that send anything driving onto them sliding.
• The Swamp — water, fog and mud that is hard to get out of.
• The Dead Forest — log jams and a rusted zone.
• Every place looks and plays its own way, instead of being the same map with a fresh coat of paint.

The map

• Terrain and objects have been redrawn: the wasteland finally looks like a place, not a backdrop.
• Real objects by the roadside instead of grey placeholder boxes.
• The convoy drives straight into them: shoves them around, drags them along, leaves ruts behind.

Weapons

• You can finally see the shots: muzzle flash, tracer, impact spark.
• The cannon got a role of its own: it fires backwards along the track, without stopping, with canister or high-explosive shells.
• Mines are now solid objects and trigger on the horde.
• Fixed: the cannon car was mounting a regular turret instead of the cannon.

Crew and objectives

• The crew now has roles and named specialists.
• The observation post comments on what is happening out loud, in six languages.
• All objectives are collected in one list, visible on the globe and on the pause screen.

Objects along the route

• Supply points, shelters and stations have been redrawn and glow in the dark.
• Each one has its own interaction card, fully localised.
• Salvaging only starts on your order.

Interface

• Separate save and load windows.
• Camp and menus work with a gamepad.
• Objective bars are lined up in a row and no longer overlap.
• The minimap is smooth now.
• Fixed: minimap markers left a trail behind them while parked.

Performance

• No more stutter during the first minute of combat.
• Framerate no longer depends on zoom.
• An FPS cap has been added to the settings.
• On Steam Deck, with the cap off, 200+ FPS.