PATCHNOTE 8/6/2026 | Performance | Multiplayer | Quest System | Other

Performance & Rendering

• Significantly optimized dense vegetation and shadow rendering.

• Reduced FPS drops in forest environments, especially during sunny weather.

• Lowered the performance cost of foliage animation and shadow updates.

• Improved distant tree rendering and smoother transitions between full-detail vegetation and billboards.

• Fixed excessive brightness on distant foliage.

• Optimized texture resolutions, reducing the game's installation size by approximately 4 GB.

• Improved overall frame-rate stability while keeping Lumen enabled.

Gameplay

• Added a backpack death marker to True Survival mode, making it much easier to recover your dropped loot.

• Added collision to moss patches, preventing dropped weapons and other items from falling through the ground.

• Fixed an issue where players could respawn at random locations after dying. In multiplayer, your character will now consistently respawn at the location where you last left the game.

• Moved the Shotgun so it is now received from Max before starting the Path of Salvation quest.

• Added a 1-second delay before quest items respawn in multiplayer, allowing every player enough time to collect them instead of only the host.

Multiplayer

• Reworked several story systems to improve co-op progression.

• Story cinematics now play correctly during cooperative play.

• Each player can now complete the game independently while playing in co-op.

• Fixed multiple issues affecting Story Mode and Cooperative Mode.

• Player locations are now correctly saved in multiplayer.

Quests & Story

• Fixed the Crocodile, Home, and Hope achievements.

• Fixed story completion percentage after finishing the game.

• Fixed the first story mission not starting correctly after switching to Free Play.

• Fixed a soft lock and possible story progression loss when switching between game modes.

• After completing the game, the correct story completion percentage is now displayed instead of 0%.

• Fixed issues with the Looking for the Reaper quest.

Weapons

• Increased the texture resolution of several weapons.

• Rotated the Holo Scope to the correct orientation.

• Fully replicated flashlight behavior in multiplayer.

• The flashlight now correctly remembers whether it was turned on or off.

• Fixed an issue where other players could unintentionally toggle your weapon flashlight in multiplayer.

• Fixed several weapon recycling issues. Weapons with attachments can no longer be recycled accidentally.

• Improved the weapon ammo unloading system.

Audio

• Added new screams and voice variations.

Controls

• The Y key can now be customized in the Key Bindings menu.

Animations

• Improved melee attack animations.