WHAT'S NEW?

MISSIONS AND MECHANICS

• Frost Wars Week 5 Challenge: New Lands
  • The map and minimap are not available.
    • Survive three times for 30 minutes to earn the Week 5 Challenge Flag.
    • Survive for 30 minutes to get the Spectral Blade.
  • Available from 03:00 Moscow time on January 31.
• Containers no longer spawn in Frost Wars chests.

• Increased the chance to find items for the quest "Ray on the Roof" in the Canny Valley questline.
• Items for the Musical Materials and Take Two quests now also appear in higher difficulty zones.

INTERFACE

• X-ray llamas have appeared in the game!
  • Llamas in the X-Ray tab of the Item Shop show all the items and upgrades they contain before they are purchased.
  • X-ray lamas can only be purchased one at a time.
  • The contents of the X-Ray Lamas change with the daily store update.
  • Attention: it will not be possible to find sets with a choice of cards inside X-ray lamps
• New ammo icons on the inventory screen.
• Updated the tutorial pop-up to inform the player to assign buttons to actions that they are not assigned to.
• The Repair Shelter mission now only displays one decreasing health indicator instead of shield and shelter health indicators.
  • Shelter durability indicators can now be seen on the map.
• Players can now craft multiple items at once.

• Players no longer get stuck at the end game screen after leaving a Storm Shield mission while it is in progress.
• Fixed an issue where all of the ceiling gas trap's damage numbers were displayed as critical damage after the first critical hit.
• Fixed item placement on the "Add to Collection" confirmation screen when a large number of salvaged items were returned to the player.
• Fixed a bug due to which players who were far from the post-match statistics screen could not see the screen properly.
• Fixed an issue with the Frostnite Exploration quest that prevented the player from being notified that the quest had been completed.
• Fixed a bug due to which the visual effects of the Storm did not disappear after completing the mission with the Storm.
• The crafting menu now allows you to craft bomb delivery paths.
• Fixed a bug due to which the autofill of cells did not work when the player leveled up a survivor in the inspection screen.
• Fixed an issue where the voting timer would sometimes not disappear from the screen.
• Fixed an issue with scrolling when leveling up an item in the Collection Book.
• Fixed a bug in the details panel on the llama rewards screen to show the amount of rewards received instead of the total number of rewards the player has.
• Selecting a message in the team chat pie menu and going to the team channel no longer opens the menu.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players in the "Deliver the Bomb" mission to place building elements in such a way that they intersect with the launcher.
• Fixed a bug in the Deliver the Bomb mission that allowed enemies to pass through the warehouse and launcher.
• Fixed a bug on the first attempt to select when the player opened the properties recombiner using the keyboard and mouse.

PERFORMANCE

• Fixed freezes when switching between points on the mission selection map.

HEROES

• Several Heroes from Past Events have been added to the Collection Book.
  • This update includes heroes that were previously only available in the Event Store, as well as several quest heroes.
  • Heroes from the event and quest store can be placed in slots, but cannot be disposed of. These heroes do not take up space in your account inventory.

• A character that takes damage from an Unstable Rift will now flinch in pain with the correct animation.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Lord of Frost to pose incorrectly in the lobby.
• Fixed a bug in the tooltip of Kassandra's Neon Lynx.
  • The updated description states that she is a Swiftfoot subclass.
• Fixed an issue that caused Kassandra's Neon Lynx to use the wrong idle animation in the main menu.
• Fixed an issue that caused players to save 20% rather than 30% resources when building using the Pre-Planning and Engineering skills.

WEAPONS AND ITEMS

• Added the ability to craft multiple items.
  • You can now craft multiple traps, ammo, and components (such as gunpowder and duct tape) at the same time by specifying the desired amount in the crafting menu.
    • All items are created at the same time, and it takes the same amount of time as it takes to create one item.
  • Players can also craft multiple low level items at the same time.
• Grenade launchers and rocket launchers have been added to the list of possible results when using conventional and small arms conversion recipes.
  • (Including hydraulic and artisanal.)
• Jabberwock has entered the weekly shop.
  • Fires cannonballs that explode, creating three even more explosive mini-cannonballs.
  • The item is available from 03:00, January 31, until 03:00, February 7, Moscow time.
• The Wraithblade will be available as a Frost Wars weekly challenge reward.
  • Deals great damage. Possesses moderate repulsive force.
  • Spectral Strike: A moving attack to the target, dealing high damage in an area. Can stun small enemies.
• Lunge can now be cast while in the air, and properly interrupts standard attacks.

• Fixed a bug that prevented throwing guided explosives that had run out of ammo.
• Items removed from the Collection Book now grant an upgrade and a replacement when scrapped or dropped.
• When scrapping or dropping common, uncommon, or rare blueprints, players will only receive perks and replacements for the modifiers that the item actually has or displays on it.
• Hit indicators no longer appear when shooting at non-damaging items.
• Cozy Campfire now heals multiple players at the same time.
• The tier 1 Dragon Might Shotgun now fires the correct bullets.

GAME PROCESS

• All players now receive a notification when someone finds a Tempest Chest.
• Storm Lightning now deals damage to objects it hits instead of destroying them all at once.
• Wards from Patrols now protect against Tempest Lightning.

• Storm Shield now has the same transparency in all Save the World modes.
• Traps placed inside the storm shield retain a margin of safety when leaving the shield and re-entering it.
• The camera no longer goes underwater when the player looks down.
• If the player is using the gamepad while fighting the Storm King, the auto-aim system will try to target weak spots if there are any.

GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION

• Updated the visual effects for the energy trail left by Dragon Tail.

• Fixed a bug due to which uninstalled telescopes in Canny Valley, after taking damage, were displayed as installed.
• Fixed a bug due to which explosions were not displayed when the projectiles of some rocket launchers hit the ground in Frost Wars.
• Fixed a bug due to which some elemental rocket launchers did not display muzzle flame.

COMMUNICATION

• Fixed an issue that prevented players from other modes from joining a party via an invite.

SOUND

• Updated sound effects for the map in the main menu.
  • Storm and Lightning now has sound effects.
  • Added background sounds for the Team, Heroes, and Arsenal tabs.

• Music no longer restarts when switching between tabs in the Item Shop.
• Fixed an issue that caused Lars' van transformation sounds to play twice.
• Fixed an issue that caused the sound to cut out temporarily when the player skipped the intro cutscenes.

GENERAL CHANGES

• Added matchmaking notification sounds that can play even when the game is minimized or not an active app. To do this, turn on the "Allow background sound" setting in the options menu.

• Changes have been made to the timing code for automatic weapons to reduce the performance impact on rate of fire.
• Fixed a bug due to which some visual effects when destroying vehicles did not rotate properly, due to which the destroyed vehicle jumped sharply.
• Fixed an issue where the repair animation for a building would not always play in full when it took damage while being repaired.
• The leaf effect no longer persists on players who have passed through a cornfield.
• Fixed a bug due to which the radius of hearing of some sound sources was not the same for different platforms.

PERFORMANCE

• Optimized the performance of the Switch version (Battle Royale and Creative Mode)
  • We are now using a more efficient memory allocator for the Switch, which has dramatically reduced the number of critical out-of-memory errors.
  • Fixed jerks in the Switch version during garbage collection.
  • Improved level streaming on the Switch version, making buildings load faster.
  • Increased the texture memory pool in the Switch version by 100 MB - now blurry textures will be less common.
  • Improved GPU performance on the Switch version to allow higher resolution.
  • Since we now have more free memory, we have doubled the number of cosmetic items that appear on the screen.
• The game can run at 60 fps:
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (US version)
  • Huawei Honor View 20
  • Huawei Mate 20 X
• Powerful mobile devices now use client anticipation to reduce stutter due to network communication and motion correction.
• Optimized most projectiles fired from weapons.