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Nightmare DriveNewsGame Update Patch Notes - 7/5/2026
Game update

Game Update Patch Notes - 7/5/2026

Nightmare Drive · published 5 Jul 2026, 07:36 UTC

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General Updates

  • Steam Cloud Save Files enabled for game

  • Fixed a bug where some save files would not be displayed in the loading screen

  • Save File fall back guards to help prevent items from being corrupted on changes made to items during updates.

  • Steam Achievement Fix for "Survive Night #" All previous achievements should now unlock for example, if on night 11 and you load a game, when hitting night 12, all previous achievement tiers will unlock up to night 12. Allowing this missed achievement to properly unlock all tiers. Steam achievement for Survive Night # will unlock when day transitions at midnight.

  • Added safety guards for food/water adding to inventory and consuming, to help prevent a crash issue.,

  • Fixed an issue when loading a game where the next 2 or 3 POI's items would be duplicated at those POI's,

  • Fixed an issue when loading a game, if the player saved at a zombie spawn location, when loading the game zombies would kill the player before they even loaded into the game.,

Vehicle Updates

  • Music on Radio's will no longer reset when hitting too many zombies

  • When Towing a vehicle, Towing Available Notification widget will no longer display when it should not.

  • When attempting to tow more then 1 vehicle game would crash.

  • When loading a saved game, Some car part attachments would not be attached properly on vehicles are now fixed

  • When client joins a host, sometimes a few parts would be invisible to client, host would have to detach and re-attach them to become visible for client, This issue is fixed.

Zombie Updates

  • Shooting Zombies in the head will now kill them with 1 shot from AK47

  • Zombies no longer die to sides of vehicles if vehicle is slow moving

  • Zombie Pathing enabled, Zombies will no longer run into walls when chasing players, they will avoid obstacles and choose the fastest route for each individual zombie to reach the player.

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