Hey survivors! This update brings exciting new missions to support the American Red Cross (#SummerofSurvival), customizations, new challenges, and more. We're introducing Curveball events with a fresh twist, along with a new control panel to tailor them to your liking. Plus, we've implemented a raft of quality-of-life improvements and major bug fixes.
- Red Cross Event
- The undead may crave it, but survivors desperately need it too! Undead Labs, in partnership with the American Red Cross, urge you to donate blood. By giving blood, you give a bit of yourself to help save a life! The blood supply is critical. Blood cannot be saved or stockpiled. Don't let the blood banks run dry - donate today and become a real-life hero!
- Together, we survive!
- New Special Enclave - With one member missing and another critically injured following a disastrous skirmish, an Enclave is desperate for help. Are you prepared to give your blood, sweat and tears to save them?
- New Cosmetics - Unlock three new cosmetic rewards from assisting the new special enclave!
- Blood Donors Jacket - Not all heroes wear capes… Some wear Jackets!
- Blood Donor Basic Tee - Time to make Zombies donate their blood to the floor!
- Blood Nurse Basic Tee - This nurse seems totally trustworthy, nothing to worry about...
- New Traits - Two new traits have been added as part of this mission. These traits will be applied to some members of the new special enclave.
- Blood Donor Trait - “Donating blood has always been my thing. Before the apocalypse, the need was constant.”
- +15 Morale
- +100% Resting Trauma & HP Recovery
- +3 Levels to Cardio
- EMT Driver Trait - “I responded to an emergency, when I got there, the scene was full of the undead.”
- Grants Driving Skill
- +4 Levels to Cardio
- Allows Cardio Specializations
- Powerhouse
- Backpacking
- New Hero Bonus - EMT Vehicle Delivery
- Grants a radio command to request and have one of the following vehicles be delivered:
- Ambulance
- Bloodmobile
- Bloodmobile Permanently Unlocked - The Bloodmobile is BACK and this time it is here to stay! Unlock it as part of the new special enclave missions, or through the new EMT Driver trait!
- Nighttime Improvements
- We’ve implemented changes to address some of the issues players encountered during the night.
- Stronger Flashlights - In this update we have made the flashlights stronger, making them a far more useful tool for both exploring the world at night, and dark indoor locations during the day.
- Better Night Time Lighting - We have also slightly adjusted the overall night time lighting to make it a bit brighter and more readable.
- Choose your Atmosphere - For a challenge, you can adjust night brightness from the Accessibility settings for a darker experience. Rely solely on your flashlight!
- New Curveball Settings
- Choose Your Own Apocalypse! - The new control panel located on the Curveball screen lets you customize events – balance, frequency, impact – it's all up to you!
- Toggle Settings - Within the Curveball screen you'll be able to enable these settings, or keep with the default Curveball experience.
- Balance Slider - The Balance Slider allows you to adjust the type of Curveballs you receive, such as tipping the balance in favour of more beneficial events. Alternatively, if you're up for a fight you turn karma against you for more of a challenge!
- Frequency Slider - The Frequency Slider allows you to adjust how often new Curveballs will appear. Using this option you can prevent any more occurring, or crank up the speed so new events will be right around the corner.
- Impact Sliders - There are two Impact sliders! One affects the positive Curveballs, the other affects the negatives, and between them these sliders determine the presence they have on your play session. They can influence the following:
- Duration - How long that type of Curveball will remain in the world if it is timed.
- Effect Strength - How strong the modifiers are within the Curveball. For example, an effect which increases the amount of damage a zombie deals will be even greater if the Impact Slider is high.
- Range - Curveballs that have a visible area of influence will have an increased size on higher impact.
- New Curveball Events
- Bangernomics - Keeping your rides running smoothly even before the apocalypse was a pain. Nowadays keeping these heaps of junk on the road is even more problematic. This Curveball affects the handling and performance of your vehicles.
- Smoke Storm - The wind has carried over a dense, thick plume of smoke from a mysterious explosion at a chemical plant a few miles out of town. This Curveball creates a suffocating smog that lowers your visibility.
- More Quality of Life Improvements
- Home Base Minimap Marker - A new marker on the minimap will always point in the direction of your home base, so you don’t need to keep placing down a waypoint each time you want to head home. This new home base marker can be toggled on and off in the HUD settings menu.
- Threaten Enclave Check - We have added an ‘Are you sure?’ confirmation on the act of threatening another Enclave, giving you a chance to back out.. if you’re having second thoughts.
- Enlist Followers from the Community Screen - You no longer need to run around searching for a specific follower. When in range of your home base you can now directly enlist a follower to join you from the Community screen.
- Disengage from Locked Doors - It’s now really easy to walk away from a locked door without using force to open it.
- Cancel out of a Failed Grapple Animation - Previously, when trying to grapple or assassinate a Zombie from the front you could be locked into a failed animation which prevented you from performing other actions for an extended period of time. This could prove frustrating and was often no fault of the Player. It is now possible to dodge out to cancel this animation.
- Freak Spotted Voice-Over - The "Freak spotted" voice-over can be misleading, as it sometimes plays when a Survivor detects a Freak that's not actually visible. To improve accuracy, the spotting call will now only trigger when the identified Freak is within the Survivor's line of sight.
- Cinematic Kill Cam Toggle - During decapitations of undead enemies, the game can transition to a "Zombie Finisher" camera animation. While undeniably cool, this effect isn't universally preferred and can sometimes disrupt gameplay at inopportune moments. It can now be toggled on or off within the GAMEPLAY settings menu.
- Zombified Community Members Marked - Upon becoming a zombie, deceased community members are now marked with a coffin icon, making identification and retrieval of their belongings easier.
- Trunk Space Increased for Certain Vehicles - The Ambulance and Bloodmobile have increased from 9 > 15 trunk slots, and the Trumball 4x4 and Burninator have increased from 6 > 8.
- Curveball Adjustment : Gargantua Mutation Objective - The Curveball which mutates Juggernauts to be even harder now has an objective. Killing a Gargantua Jugg will end the Curveball and award 150 Prestige points.
- Curveball Adjustment : Black Heart Damage Thresholds - The Black Heart will perform more frequent expulsions and calls for reinforcement when reaching certain levels of damage.
- XBOX One Crash Fix
- Players on Xbox One have reported crashes due to memory issues, often occurring within an hour of gameplay. To address this, we've implemented a fix that will automatically detect memory overload before a crash occurs. A short, 2-3 second loading screen will appear to free up memory, preventing the crash and ensuring a smoother gameplay experience.
- Other BUG Fixes
- Removed the unintended, unfair situation in which zombies could suddenly magnetise towards you with a grapple / tackle attack, despite dodging past or away from them.
- Fixed an issue in which the Black Heart wasn’t awarding the correct loot after being defeated.
- Fixed an issue with incorrect values assigned to the Zombie Toughness modifier that affected a few Curveballs.
- Small UI & UX Improvements to the Curveball screen and notes.
- Fixed an issue with key binds on the radio, inventory and character menus not working correctly.
- Fixed a bug in which nothing was being spawned during an Infestation mission, preventing it from being completed.
- Fixed a title crash caused from Curveballs becoming active when relaunching a community.
- Fixed a title crash caused when a Player is searching inside a loot container while the Fuelling the Plague Curveball is active.
- Fixed an issue with the Juiced Up Curveball ending too soon.
- Fixed sieges hordes attacking the Tranquillity Factory homebase taking huge detours to get to the player's base.
- Fixed hordes not being able to navigate from West Marshall to Downtown Marshall and vice-versa.
- Fixed "Danger Dog PPSh-41" and "Soviet PPSh-41" being classified as rifles despite what their description implied. They are now classified as Assault weapons, as intended.
- Fixed a potential blocker in "The Santos Legacy: All Good Things"
- Lure Crate Curveball: Fixed an issue where the supply crate would not have any zombies around it if you left without emptying the crate and then came back.
- Miscellaneous mission fixes. ("Home Upgrade: Workshop", "A Friend In Need", "Trader: Strange Request", "Trader: Friends With Benefits", “Boozehounds: An Offer to Join”)
- Fixed boombox audio which kept playing in certain situations after the boombox had disappeared.
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After this latest update, there is a bug in the general translation of the game from English to Brazilian Portuguese on Xbox Series X/S.
The game still crashes on Xbox series S, along with multiple loading black screens, post update. Need more info please ask. I know the update was supposed to address a memory leak issue in the latest update with a loading screen, however we get multiple loading screens, and the game still crashes. State of decay 2 Juggernaut edition. 7/24/24
No where in here do I see mention of the fact you can't really drive through water any more (my car goes less than walking speed when doing so). You guys have a bad habit of introducing changes, and not documenting, and it's super annoying. I'm hoping to find that some of the cars can still go through water.
The water seems to be a feature (that will have modifiers) that was being tested for a future update and was accidentally released. We will be releasing a hotfix to address it.
ahh, good... and also boooooo. There better be some cars that are OK with water, like the jeeps... and also, please fix the... i think drift... on the trail beast. years ago that was my favorite vehicle, then you released an update that made it practically impossible to steer except on pavement... which is absolutely insane for a "trail beast". It should handle better off road than any other vehicle. it should not handle like you're driving on ice.
Since the update came out, my entire game is in English. I come from Germany and everything was in German. You can't even set whether it's German or English. Please fix that
We're aware of all the language issues for sure!
Nice, but i don't know why, but when i enter a house is bright, no shadows inside the houses, im in xbox series s i don't know if that is the problem..
Thank you very much for the great work done, but there are issues with the traslation of the texts into spanish (México or Spain), a problem caused by the lady update 37. Xbox series S.
I'm kind of disappointed that there isn't a way to disable automatic zooming out of camera when engaging in melee combat.I requested it to be added along time ago and it disappointed me that its still not added in the couple of recent updates smh.
Hello!
First, thank you for the work you still continue to do with this game, not all companies do it and that makes us great.
And well, I don't know how to get in touch with you, I guess it's here.
A somewhat recurring bug is the menus, where I get a lot of text in English (I play in Spanish). But that's the least of it, although of course, I would like to play it completely in Spanish.
My biggest complaint comes with performance. The game does not run smoothly and I have noticed that when using the flashlight in certain areas there are frame drops where there were none before. (For example at the beginning of Providence Ridge, a forested area. Although it also happens on all maps)
I love the game and I enjoy it a lot, but since this patch I don't enjoy it as much anymore, and it makes me angry that it doesn't run smoothly, even though it never has. (I play on a Series S, but I still suppose it should have a much better framerate)
Well, thank you very much for the work and I'm sure you will solve the problems.
Greetings!
Edit: I agree with what the user above says with the issue of zoom in combat, you should give the option to remove it. Personally I don't like it.
Sorry but I use a translator, I hope you understand me.
Thanks greetings!
Hola, mi unico problema es que el juego está en inglés y no en mi idioma el cual es el español solo tengo ese problema, Gracias.
French translation problem. please fix it quicklyHello!
I have checked the issue of frame drops a little better, and the framerate drops quite a bit where there is vegetation, if you add the flashlight to this, it gets even worse... It seems silly, but that's how it is.
The game, as I said in the post above, has never been 100% good, but this has never happened to me so much...
I'm playing in Ducker County to be able to enjoy the game, which is where there is less vegetation, and I'm just writing this when I'm hiding from 4 zombies in some bushes and in that area the frames have dropped quite a bit (without a flashlight, but especially with a flashlight on ).
Well, that being said, I don't know if that will ever be fixed...
Greetings...
Problem with Russian language, half of the game is in Russian, half in English, please fix it.
Boa noite, comprei uma promoção do Juggernaut Edition na maior espectativa, o jogo está dando telas pretas de carregamento e crashando toda hora, jogo num Xbox One S, ninguém informou que não podia usar ele nesse console pois na compra não informa isso... Meu jogo está impraticável... Existe algum reembolso ou site onde eu possa cancelar a compra feita e receba meu valor de volta? Decepcionado.
pire update ever serieusement je suis decourager sa fait 4 fois je pogne le criss de curveball bangernomics depuis 3 jour merde vous avez detruit le jeux cest rendu telement de la merde je suis obliger de les desactiver maintenant jaimais bien le challenge mais la non sa cest juste merdique cest pas un challenge cest un game killer
pis si au moin on pourais le desactiver direct mais non meme si tu veux le desactiver faut quand meme que tu le fasse tu desactive juste les futur curveball de la merde je vous dit
merde je vien de pogner lautre nouveaux curveball smoke storm ya des limite a reduire la visibiliter on vois pus rien en gros cest 2 curveball ou tu reste a ta base et tu fait rien sinon ben garenti de crever pis la je suis pas encore a lethal
Hi Rohan
State of decay 2 fps needs fix, it needs to be more scary undead labs really listen ideas buildings run down maps lags ,scary sounds add to the game ,fix smoke storm to work
Having a new enclave quest line (the blood donation one) is nice. However, it's ALL i seem to get now. Just did Meaghar, and had 3 enclaves of that. Didn't get the alcoholics, didn't get the auto mechanics, no zombie catches, no cannibals... and speaking of that, what happened to some of the older ones. What the heck happened to the abandoned military guys? I've not seen that enclave in several years.
Also, there seems to be something wrong with the Bastard of Belleau Wood now... I've encountered several instances, usually in tighter quarters or next to a car or something, where it just outright isn't hitting.
Thanks for fixing the water!
Game fps needs work to many fps drops
The new outfits from the "New Special Enclave" don't appear in my closet. I did these series of missions on several saves. Apart from the ambulance, I don't get anything.
Since this patch arrived, my Windows 11 PC has been struggling to download it for days. The launcher shows 0 bytes transfer speed, the Microsoft Store app shows "Download starting", but my task manager shows there is actual download traffic. This is usually going on for hours, then it either silently fails, or it states the update is complete. The other day the updating starts again.
Can you check what is causing this issue?
Please stop making the game more TEDIOUS than it already is!
Those new curveballs are THE WORST idea EVER, not even some positive ones to balance it out? Yuck.
Fix the game breaking issues 1st!
Game still crashes all the time to desktop, vehicles flickers in and out of existence, zombies slide off your rear bumpers but teleports over your engine, on Lethal literally so many zombies spawns that get FPS drops to a slideshow and input drops on a brand new Gaming PC!
We don't need cute new enclaves and traits.... WE NEED BUG FIXES
I started playing again, and I noticed that the lighting is bugged out in certain interiors. I started playing on Cascade Hills, with the Builder boon, and there's some shading problems. While the rooms are lit, the objects and the people are not.
error in the Mission Of the Crazy Scientists, Meeting with CLEO The Doctor is calling, I'm going with the NPC where he tells me when he arrived he won't let me Search for what I have to search for 🔎🔎 The NPC goes around and around searching and searching, I arrive to the magnifying glass and it won't let me do it CLEO BUGS Missions! And they are almost closing According to and The game is full of bugs: XBOX SERIES S.
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