2017-05-09

Developer Patch 2017/05/09 ''Faster than expected we are rolling out another patch! We have worked very hard the past week to roll out this patch as soon as possible and we're very excited to share the new features and the new Battle Royale map with you all! For more information about the patch status please scroll down to the end of these patch notes. Let's get into it!''

GENERAL UPDATES
Fixed a texture issue / glitch related to one of the body's of the average joe character. Fixed a crash related to some components materials missing causing clients to crash. Fixed a crash related to "000096.746| GFx Error: Loader failed to open 'Data\Menu\$Data/Weapons/CraftingResources/Craft_Oil_01.dds'". Fixed the Xsolla promotion loading screen spelling mistakes for the Thai text part. Fixed a bug related to changing backpacks. (Sometimes the client could crash when this happened) Fixed a bug related to some car spawners having 0% durability. This is now fixed. The game is now also available in Italian language. Thanks to Robex for translating! Loadouts now also save the backpack. When loading a loadout it will also equip the backpack saved in that loadout automatically. (There is still a visual bug when doing this, we will fix this ASAP)</li> Deluxe and Extreme account subscriptions now have auto revive when opening your inventory.</li> All skinboxes are now always displayed in the in-game marketplace even if they're not available so that players can click on them and see their content.</li> Event servers now display at the pvp server selection screen. Added a new map called "Event".</li> Car lights are now toggable. Players can turn the lghts on or off by using the same key thats used for the flashlight.</li> When aiming down with a sniper and holding breath there is now a breath indicator that indicates the players breath.</li> Improved the new killfeed style. Should be generally more visible and clear now.</li> Improved the trade window in-game. Players can now trade items up to 36 slots instead of 16.</li> Updated the in-game menu background. We will keep changing the backgrounds every patch from now.</li> Added a sound when players receive a group invite. Just so players have an extra notification when receiving a group invite.</li> Added a claxon sound to the vehicles. Players can use the claxon by being in a vehicle and clicking.</li></ul>

UI/MENU UPDATES
<ul>Added a searh button to the marketplace. Players can now search for the item they want inside the actual marketplace just like how they can search in their inventory. </li> Added "Streamer Mode" option to the options menu. Players can now enable / disable "Streamer Mode" without having to close the game. </li> Added more information such as the region to "Recent" and "Favorites" tab of the server selection screen. </li> Added a visual indicator to display barricade's health while aiming on it. </li> Fixed a bug related to the lockerUI not being able to show messsages. </li> Fixed a bug that would cause FPS not to update when entering a vehicle. </li> <li>Improved the UI of the character inventory screen. Some buttons are updated / better aligned and quality is improved. </li></ul>

BATTLE ROYALE UPDATES
''The new Battle﻿ Royale map is finally finished! We are very happy and excited to finally be able to release this second Battle Royale map. As some of you might already know is that this new Battle Royal﻿e map is a little bit diffe﻿rent than the old Battle Royale map.'' We will go through all the changes and explain everything as clear as possible for you ﻿guys. <ul><li>The new Battle Royale map is a SECOND Battle Royale map meaning that players can now choose what map to play. The new Battle Royale map IS NOT a replacement.</li> <li>The new Battle Royale map is called "Tropico" and the old Battle Royale map is now called "Arena".</li> <li>Added so that when players select the Battle Royale game mode they can choose what map they want to play. </li> <li>Tropic﻿o is a SOLO ONLY Battle Royale map meaning grouping / name tags / clan tags are disabled. Please keep in mind that anyone we see grouping will be punished. This new Battle Royale map h﻿as a warm-up lobby too, just like the old Battle Royale map.</li> <li>On the new Battle Royale map player spawns work different: Instead of everyone spawning randomly in the world (like on the old map) everyone spawns in the centre of the map. All players will spawn in a big circle with in the middle a military place with a lot of good loot.</li> <li>Players will be able to join the action instantly by﻿ running to the middle or run away into the world and play more 'safe'. We are very excited to see how players are going to play this new kind of Battle Royale. </li> <li>WARNING: Please keep in mind that this is the first release of the map. Expe﻿﻿c﻿t﻿ ﻿﻿﻿bugs / glitc﻿hes, we will do our best to fix those instantly.</li> <li>We will also keep updating the map based on the feedback from our players. Changes will most likely happe﻿n﻿﻿.</li> <li>Arena now has a grouping system again. In this Battle Royale players can play duo.</li></ul> <!--===SERVER UPDATES=== <ul><li>Implemented PVP Servers Map Rotation. Please read more at the "PVP Servers Map Rotation" part of these patch notes.</li> <li>Added Caliwood servers to the open world -> beginner servers part of the game. Beginning players are now able to get used to Caliwood aswell.</li> <li>Decreased amount of game servers to keep total server population more pact. This also had to be done because of the new South American servers coming.</li> <li>For official servers both NA and EU Colorado V2 servers have been decreased. Also Colorado V2 AR ONLY server amount has been decreased.</li> <li>For beginner servers both NA and EU Colorado V2 servers have been decreased. Caliwood servers have been added.</li> ''For all the players wondering about the South American servers. At this moment our servers still haven't arrived yet. They're almost certain to arrive before this patch so the servers will most likely be enabled after this upcoming patch but at this point we are not 100% sure yet. If the servers arrive after this upcoming patch we will do a small announcement as soon as we enable them. We're doing everything we can to get them up ASAP.'' <li>Solo﻿ Servers:</li> As many of you already know is that "Solo Servers" are finally here! ''"Solo Servers" have been a big demand of our entire community but also from a lot of streamers streaming our game. Until a week ago we didn't really had an idea how Solo Servers would work but we came up with a strong idea:'' ''"Solo Servers" is an idea originally from a group of streamers where players can ONLY play solo. This aims to avoid bigger groups while playing the game and fighting against individual persons only. Here's some features summed up:'' ''There will be a new button added under the 'Open World' part of the game. This button will be called "Solo Servers".'' When clicking the "Solo Servers" button the player will NOT go to the server selection screen but will immediately join a random chosen server. <ul><li>No grouping + no group tags. Players playing in these type of servers will not have the ability to invite anyone to group.</li> <li>No clan tags / no clans. This is all disabled.</li> <li>Original Colorado V2 Servers only. You do not 'lose your spawn' when playing on official Colorado v2 servers and switch to Solo Servers.</li> <li>When joining a solo server it will not show anywhere what server you're on. (Basically players don't know what server they're on themselves)</li> <li>When dying / logging out of a solo server, it will not show up at the 'Recent Servers' tab what server you were on.</li> <li>Players will have the ability to join back into their server after dying by clicking the 'Rejoin Last' button. This way players still have the ability to join back the server after dying to pick up their loot.</li></ul> <li>PVP Servers Map Rotation</li> Based on the feedback received from the community the past week we've decided to implement the PVP Servers Map Rotation. <ul><li>Rotations will be ONLY done in the "PVP Servers" part of the open world part of the game.</li> <li>Rotations will be done every patch, for now, until we create a way to change the rotation live.</li> <li>There will always be 2 maps only active and every map 1 or more type. (Type is: AR ONLY, SNIPER ONLY & HYBRID) So in the end there will always be 6 servers or more.</li> <li>Rotating the PVP maps of the game gives players more excitement about "what map is coming next time", a more variated PVP environment, less confusion about "too many different maps in the game" but it also gives us the ability to add new PVP maps without overflooding the amount of PVP servers.</li></ul> ''We hope to follow a certain pattern with a schedule where and when we switch maps in the future. For now it will work in the way explained.'' We would like to make clear (also based on what we explained with the "Seasonal Leaderboards") that statistics still count for PVP servers but only for the ALL TIME statistics so not for the Seasonal Leaderboards.</ul>

COMMUNITY UPDATES
<ul><li>Seasonal Leaderboards:</li> ''Seasonal Leaderboards are finished! Many have asked for this and we thought it was time to bring the leaderboards and competitve level of the game to a next level. With this said we think these seasonal leaderboards﻿ will bring a lot of fun.'' Seasonal Leaderboards will work as the follow﻿in﻿g﻿: <ul><li>Periods / time of a s﻿eason + season name will be decided by us manually. We will create our own seasons and based on that combine them with events and prices.</li> <li>Seasons can take up to a month time or can be only for a few days. It's just what ever we decide depending on the event.</li> <li>Statistics in Seasonal Leaderboards only count statistics from Official Servers and Solo Servers.</li> <li>When no season is active the seasonal leaderboards tab in the menu will say "No seasons active".</li></ul> ''From here we will start working on special events related to seasons with cool rewards, maybe even seasons that are only for 1 day. We're planning on even adding rankings in future. We'll see what comes based on this!'' <li>New Reputation Ranks</li> ''Based on feedback from the community and our moderators we've decided to add new ranks to both the postive and the negative side of reputation. On the postive side we added:'' <ul><li>+300000 rep - "Genius"</li> <li>+400000 rep - "Devin"</li> <li>+500000 rep - "Sheriff"</li></ul> On the negative side we added: <ul><li>-1250000 rep - "Warrior"</li> <li>-1500000 rep - "Evil"</li> <li>-2000000 rep - "Cannibal"</li></ul></ul>

MARKETPLACE UPDATES
''We've received a lot of feedback from our community regarding skins. Some people were complaining there are too many skins in the game, some people were complaining there hasn't been any new skins since forever, and some said prices are too high etc. We've discussed this and came up with a solution, a ne﻿w system, that will be fit for everyone. Summed up there's basicly too many skins available to players. Some skins are too old, some new, it can be very confusing this way. Based on this feedback we've came up with the following solution / system:'' <ul><li>There will from now on only be a limited amount of skin recipes available instead of everything being always available. We will rotate the skins daily meaning new / different skins will be available every day including discounts.</li> <li>Some skinboxes will be removed forever from the marketplace. (They might come back on certain events sometimes)</li> <li>Skinboxes will rotate in the marketplace instead of everything being available at once. We plan on making different boxes available for different/certain periods.</li> <li>This will leave us with more space to actually release new skinboxes instead of "flooding" the marketplace with skins.</li> <li>Skinboxes will increase in their value. Some skinboxes will become legacy.</li> <li>This will also leave space for us to release boxes that can be cheap or have prices more based on the actual quality of the skins.</li></ul>-->

SKIN UPDATES
<ul><li>Fixed / Reworked the Elite Skinbox store icon. (Look overall way cooler and has a better quality now)</li> <li>Fixed / Updated the scope of the AWP Red Strike. The weapon now uses the right scope.</li> <li>Fixed / Updated the store icon of the AWP Red Strike.</li> <li>Fixed / Updated the textures of the FN Scar Elite.</li> <li>Fixed / Updated the textures of the NVG Red Strike. (The white colors are more solid white now)</li> <li>Fixed / Updated the description of the Heavy Armor Fairy Tale.</li> <li>Fixed issues related to the Heavy Armor Fairy Tale. When unskinning / skinning this skin now it will be a heavy armor instead of a custom guerilla.</li></ul>

ITEM UPDATES
<ul><li>A﻿dded a new country Riot Shield: Riot Shield Cambodia. This new riot shield will be available in the in-game marketplace.</li> <li>Added a new media Riot Shield: Riot Shield Razziel. This new riot shield will be available in the in-game marketplace.</li> <li>Fixed / Updated the missing textures and store icon of Worrun's Broom. (Melee)</li> <li>Fixed the missing store icon problem of the riot shield chupacabra.</li> <li>Fixed the missing store icon problem of the riot shield NP2.</li> <li>Fixed the missing store icon problem of the riot shield MMFK.</li> <li>Fixed the missing crate models of the riot shield MMFK.</li> <li>Fixed the missing textures for the pine apple model. (food) </li> <li>Fixed the missing textures for the bada boom model. (explosive)</li> <li>Fixed a problem related to the kruger pistol that would have a silencer attached. This no longer happens﻿.</li> <li>Fixed a problem related to the Crossbow models. The TPS versions of the models was glitched for all versio﻿ns.</li></ul>

MAP UPDATES
<ul> <li>Colorado V2﻿</li> <ul><li>Fix﻿ed physics of some opened buildings at Tyler Ranch.</li> <li>Fixed a glitched ambient sound at Lonetre﻿e Farm.</li> <li>Removed / Fixed some flying rocks and object﻿s.</li></ul></ul>

'''Servers will go down very soon for expected 1-2 hours max. The reason for this longer downtime is because of some server maintenance we need to do. We will do everything we can to bring the servers back up as soon as possible.'''

Best Regard,

Infestation: The New Z - Staff Team You can find the original Patch Notes in our forums here