The Deep Blue Z Summer update Is Now Live Across All Platforms!
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Deep Blue Z
- Unveil the secrets of a Horzine Deep Sea Underwater research base, deep in the Marianas Trench, that has definitely seen better days. Who knew Zeds could dive? Clean up the facility in the new map, Subduction.
Unfortunately, there has been another outbreak besides the Zeds, and it’s a really dangerous Contamination in the air. Defend the Safe Area in Contamination Zone Weekly Mode and be careful with staying outside, you might end up more beaten up than after fighting a Fleshpound. Luckily, there’s a new HRG weapon to help you keep the crowd controlled and defend a spot: the HRG Bombardier. A heavy-loaded Drone that will make Zeds go boom if they get near.
Check this new content coming right from the Depths!
New Additions and Highlights
- 1 New Community Map
- Subduction
- Compatible with Survival, Weekly, VS and Endless Game Modes.
- A submarine Horzine facility.
As a reminder, the database update for ticket drops and setting up steam items for sale will occur at approximately 1pm EDT after all the patches go out in order to verify that the patches are deployed across platforms.
Addressed Community Feedback
As mentioned in the 2022 Killing Floor 2 ‘State of the Game’ our goal is to bring to the community a continued stream of QOL changes for each update throughout the year. Please continue to report any QOL changes you believe should be added to the game by submitting your feedback in the ‘general’ section on our official forums at: https://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/index.php?forums/killing-floor-2.175/
General
- Option to Toggle the Friendly HUD using a Keybind:
- Added a Keybind (configurable on PC) to toggle visibility of the Friendly HUD
- To use it in the console, open the comms dial and press RT
Balance
- Weapons
- Minigun
- Magazine from 90 to 120
- Damage from 35 to 38
- Spare ammo from 540 to 600
- Ammo price per magazine from 90 to 120
Designer Notes:
After many requests and lots of voices asking (a lot) for a way to search for specific items in your inventory OR purchase them in the Store, we finally included an Item Search Bar! Now finding stuff is easier than ever, on any platform. We also added a way to easily toggle the Friendly HUD for players who prefer less information on the UI, or for the ones who need to check things real quickly.
Regarding balance, we have made tweaks in some weapons, following the State of the Game Survey:
The Minigun was a powerful weapon, but magazines were always empty by the time the fun started! Bigger mags, more damage and more spare ammo make the minigun a great option for its weight and price.
The revolver trio (Rhino, Winterbite, Spitfire) had a bit of a problem, and it was its bash attack. The animation and impact were slower than other similar pistols. If any of the gun wielders got trapped, having that weapon meant they wouldn’t have any good way to escape. Now, the bash speed has been leveled with other pistols (9mm, Revolvers) and any class which uses it will have a way to defend themselves.
The HRG Locust is an extremely powerful weapon just by its design. Both that and its price being 900 Dosh made it a weapon not properly adjusted to its Tier. After the changes for this update, the weapon should feel more fair in all matches now.
Reducto Ray’s case was basically the same as the HRG Locust but in an opposite way. It wasn’t a weapon as powerful as its price suggested, so it became the Tier 2 alternative for the survivalist.
The common opinion on HRG Healthrower was that it’s currently a weapon that’s too powerful. It worked wonders both for healing teammates and had the killing capacity of Firebug spray weapons. The Debuff applied to this weapon was solely focused on the damage aspect of it. It’s now a weapon more oriented to healing and supporting teammates, still preserving the viability of using it in Solo mode.
The Mine Reconstructor needed a bit of love to show how great a weapon it is, so we increased its Fire Rate! Woohoo!
The Road Redeemer is a limited Berserker weapon whose stats didn’t make a difference with its Tier partners. After a damage buff, it owns its rightful spot.
Feedback on HRG Crossboom was that it was too weak. After checking and looking for what made it weak, we found out that the arrows took too long to explode after impact, and that the explosions weren’t as devastating as they should have been. That has been addressed!
The Head Hunter is a very special weapon, which forces the Sharpshooter to change its playstyle. However, the main gimmick of the weapon (pop heads with the alt-fire) was overly constrained. Now there’s room for more usage of that Alt-Fire.
And now, for the Field Medic perk.
We read tons of feedback regarding the Field Medic and how it was the most powerful Perk by a difference. Especially how the Resilience skill made them virtually invulnerable in some specific situations. In order to balance this Perk and make others as usable as this one, we adjusted the effectiveness of Resilience. We also debuffed the final extra run speed the class got passively due to its level. That, combined with the Healthrower debuff should make the Field Medic much more balanced compared to other Perks.
Bug Fixes
Also mentioned in the 2022 Killing Floor 2 ‘State of the Game’ our goal is to bring to the community a continued stream of community-reported bug fixes for each update throughout the year. Please continue to report any bugs you discover by visiting our official forums at: https://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/forum/killing-floor-2 and posting in the ‘PC’ or ‘Console’ sections.
Community Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Survivalist's “Faster Weapon Switch” bonus was only applying to survivalist weapons.
- Addressed an issue where downloading or updating existing or new Workshop Maps were not always downloading due to getting into a poor state.
- Fixed an issue with the Demolitionist SKill Destroyer of Worlds that could lead to unintended damage types and visual effects being applied to some weapons.
- Fixed an issue where the Crovel and HE Grenade were used by default when changing perks to Survivalist at the Trader Pod.
Weapon Fixes
- Sentinel
- Fixed an issue where the animation of pressing the remote control would not play when the al-fire was pressed.
- Fixed an issue where the Drone ammo count would be out of sync when dropping and picking back up the remote control.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Sentinel from firing through glass.
- Fixed an issue where the Sentinel played no sound during the weapon check animation.
- Fixed an issue where the Sentinel would not fire at Zeds that were meleeing the drone owner when playing offline.
- Adjusted the behavior of the Patriarch’s tentacle to not grab and draw in the Sentinel.
- Fixed an issue where the ammo counter would be reduced when switching weapons during drone deployment.
Map Fixes
- Subduction
- Worked to improve performance on the map in areas where the frame rate would dip.
- Updated the blood splatter in all areas of the map to ensure proper coverage is occurring.
- Updated the impact decals in all areas of the map to ensure the proper decal is being applied from bullet impacts.
- Updated the impact sounds in all areas of the map to ensure the proper sound is playing from bullet impacts on the materials.
- Updated the occlusion for water audio so that it can be heard from the appropriate distance and not through areas and objects it should not.
- Added audio for all of the generators
- Updated the spawned weapon spawn points to prevent clipping into the environment.
- Updated the lighting throughout to ensure the light cast matches the light source.
- Updated the Trader Path arrows to clearly designate the path for players.
- Updated the SYG borders to more accurately reflect the defended area.
- Fixed an issue where the waypoint arrow for the Auditorium SYG was not present.
- Fixed multiple invisible collisions near railings throughout the map.
- Fixed multiple pathing issues for large Zeds near the railings.
- Fixed an issue that caused the player’s camera to twitch while in the lobby.
- Fixed multiple instances of z-fighting with the railings and walls throughout the map.
- Fixed multiple instances of walls disappearing and reappearing within the player’s view.
- Fixed multiple instances of lights disappearing and reappearing within the player’s view.
- Fixed multiple instances of texture seams throughout the map.
Weekly Outbreak Fixes
- Fixed an issue during the Contamination Zone weekly outbreak on Airship where the Safe Area had no SYG lines designating it.
Localization Fixes
- Addressed the localization for the Plague Doctor Hood where it did not fit within boundaries in multiple languages.
- Fixed issue for the M4 where an extraneous M was present in German in the inventory menu.
- Corrected the Russian text for the Projections from the Deep achievement.
- Updated the description of the Seasonal Objective “Somewhere, beyond the Z” to fit within the designated UI
General Fixes
- Fixed multiple instances of log spam around lighting/PCV warnings as well as StaticLoadObject warnings.
- Continued to address overall console stability issues
As always, thank you for your continued support!