State of Decay 2 Patch Notes
Released December 19, 2018
The Apocalypse Keeps Getting Better
As the year draws to a close and the nights get longer and colder (at least on our side of the globe), it’s common to exchange gifts... which means that EVERYBODY GETS A WIZARD VAN!
After updating the game with the new patch, use your radio menu to call in the delivery, and moments later you’ll be riding in style. (It’s okay if you didn’t get us anything. We know we’re hard to shop for.)
But the fun doesn’t stop there! This update also features plenty of improvements to the experience of playing State of Decay 2, including several fan-favorite suggestions. We've highlighted the most exciting items in each category, but we recommend reading the whole list to see all the changes.
Thanks for your support, and we’ll see you in 2019. Until then, keep playing State of Decay 2!
Highlights
- We made several balance changes to the Daybreak rewards — CLEO guns are better, CLEO ammo can be crafted, and Red Talon contractors are cheaper ... though a bit more unruly.
- We added some new facility actions — you can craft Ammo, Meds, and Food, and you can teleport gas cans and repair kits straight into parked vehicles.
- We amped up the benefits of allied enclaves, and added the option to dismiss trader enclaves when you're trying to summon a new one and there isn't any room for them.
- We added the ability to use simple consumables while in a vehicle.
- We bumped up the size of zombie hordes late in the game.
Daybreak Mode & Content
- CLEO guns have been rebalanced to make them more valuable in the base game.
- All CLEO guns are 20-40% lighter.
- All CLEO guns (except bolt-action rifles) are 15-25% more durable. (Bolt-action rifles can't be more durable than they already are.)
- All CLEO guns (except pistols) are about 20-30% faster to reload. (CLEO pistols were already unusually quick.)
- CLEO ammo is now much easier to acquire in large amounts, though it still always costs prestige.
- The Red Talon Crafting Station allows you to manufacture CLEO ammo at will, spending prestige, circuitry, and Ammo from your resource stockpile.
- The CLEO Relay now offers a CLEO Drop alternative that delivers 8 stacks of CLEO ammo.
- We worked with members of the community to rebalance Red Talon contractors, so that they are no longer 100% overpowered. Now they are more like 85% overpowered.
- Existing Red Talon contractors now have the potential to run wild and waste resources if their morale is low.
- Existing Red Talon contractors are now "Irritable" towards others, which makes them more likely to start fights when their morale is middling to low.
- However, we also changed the threshold that causes "Irritable" characters to fight, so that fights happen less often, across the board.
- Newly-recruited Red Talon contractors now come with minor downsides tied to their fifth skill. Hackers snack more than other people, Logistics experts use up extra bed space for storage, etc.
- Red Talon acknowledges that attrition has made their pool of recruits shallower, so they now only charge 2750 prestige for their contractors (down from 3250).
- In summary, if you keep your morale high, your current Red Talon contractors should be just as awesome as they've always been — but it's more important now to keep maintaining that morale. New contractors now have minor drawbacks, but they also cost less.
- We now refund the full prestige value when you reject a Red Talon recruit. This removes the old incentive to exploit the system by restarting the game. And it's just nicer. Thanks for playing Daybreak.
- Ferals should no longer occasionally enter a "T-pose" when moving through the environment.
- Hostile NPCs should now properly trigger the detonation of deployable minefields they stumble into.
- Followers should now properly follow the player when in the vicinity of a deployable minefield.
- We improved performance and reliability of VO playback during various moments in the game.
Gameplay
- Many simple consumables can now be used while in a vehicle.
- This includes bandages, painkillers, and other consumables that don't involve throwing, placing, or playing a complex animation.
- Consumables that cannot be used within a vehicle are now shown as unavailable in the HUD while you're inside a vehicle.
- Allied enclaves now offer a greater variety of more powerful enclave benefits, to make the time spent befriending and supporting them more worthwhile.
- Late in the game, zombie hordes can now be up to three times as large as before. (You asked for it ...)
- When summoning a trader over the radio, you will sometimes have the option to dismiss an existing trader to make room for them, if that's what it takes to get them into the map.
- Ranged weapons no longer jitter in your hands as you aim left and right.
- A new option in the Gameplay section of the Settings menu allows you to ensure that no weird zombies (such as clowns, coneheads, and war reenactors) appear in your game.
- We fixed a bug related to rapidly placing explosives that could result in premature detonation and character death. Sounds painful.
- We increased the size of safe zones created by clearing large sites to more accurately encompass their area.
- Survivor traits that reduce the number of required beds should be accurately counted by morale system.
- We fixed an exploit that prevented hostile enclaves from defending their base when mines were planted in the area.
- We solved a rare crash that could result when destroying a plague heart with ignited bloater gas.
- Zombies should show up more often inside buildings while you are exploring.
- On the other hand, random zombies should now NOT show up inside an infestation that you've just cleared.
- Any attempt to pick up stackable items from the ground now tries to pick up all items in the stack.
Facilities
- You can now produce Ammo, Meds, and Food at your base with the right facility and ingredients.
- Meds are produced in any Infirmary from parts, chemicals, and ethanol.
- Ammo is produced in any Workshop or Armory out of parts and chemicals.
- Food is produced in any Kitchen by spending seeds and ethanol (yum).
- You can now use your Parking facilities to move gas cans and toolkits directly from your community's inventory into parked vehicles.
- The Infirmary now uses characters' nicknames, instead of their full names, making it consistent with the rest of the game.
Missions
- Missions that involve searching dead bodies or killing zombified humans now pinpoint the corpses with icons on the minimap, rather than requiring you to hunt for them near a marked location.
- We resolved an exploit that let players cancel Threatening to Leave missions by quitting and restarting the game.
- We fixed a potential case where some NPCs in an enclave would not be visible during an objective to kill them all.
Graphics
- We "tightened up the graphics" to achieve higher and more consistent resolution and frame rate on the Xbox One.
- We improved the camera transition when moving into or out of a crouch while zoomed in.
- We reworked our anti-aliasing system to reduce ghost outlines and blur artifacts when rotating the camera.
- Lens flare effects are now smoother and crisper.
Multiplayer
- The Multiplayer section of the Settings Menu now has options for voice chat, and is generally awesomer.
- Most notably, we've added a push-to-talk option, and left it unbound for players to assign as they wish.
- On a controller, we recommend D-Left (Emotes) if you want to swap out something that doesn't directly impact gameplay.
- When a player speaks over in-game chat, their player indicator pulses to indicate which character is talking.
- When a client is tethered to a host who is driving a vehicle, they now land in a passenger seat in that vehicle, rather than being dumped by the side of the road like garbage.
- We fixed a rare case where the host would think a client's character died if they sustained many injuries, healed, and then sustained more injuries.
- We fixed a rare crash bug that could occur when an Xbox client joined a UWP host just as the host is completing the search of a building.
- You can no longer make progress toward the Citizen Z achievement by using the "Stuck" radio command, or by choosing and then cancelling the "Volunteer" or "Call for Help" commands.
Interface
- We reworked the use of icons in the HUD and the Character Panel, so that the icons that pop up next to the Health, Stamina, and Infection meters can be followed all the way into the deepest menu to find out what they mean.
- The "Show HUD" and "Show Notifications" options in the Settings Menu now consistently turn on and off their respective UI elements.
- We clarified the visual language of the infection meter, to make it clear that you are progressing from a minor infection towards full-blown blood plague.
- On PC, the game will now recognize any plugged-in controller as belonging to the player, rather than specifically requiring the designated "Player 1" controller.
Comments
48 comments
At least add mod support!! All can be fixed by the players!!
Here are some changes that could be made. This is not my video I promise. https://youtu.be/TLI3IZD96UQ
Your new Zombies spawns of 20+ zed are appearing within feet of you while you look at it happening.
Your infestations are spawning by the twos & threes literally multiple times within minutes of each other starting on day two. Especially if "Action Hero" is one of your ongoing storylines. It's making keeping moral for a starting group a mop up of areas you can't get to & can't assault without some time gathering supplies.
Vehicle spawns on maps are down to less than minimal. (two to three at best?) Oh gee, I guess you're trying to push your DLC transactions.
Weapons? Also now near gone, utterly removed form most military checkpoints on most map incarnations.
Do you even playtest these patches before going forward with them? Or has the money been made so its moot at this point?
The same you can't MAKE us play co-op on your wave after wave zombie buster arcade.
Most of this bought this as a zombie survival game, in an effort to enjoy a few hours of trying to rebuild after such an apocalypse on our computer...Constantly catering to the Xbox CoD crowd is turning people away.
Hi all
Is anyone else having this issue.
I have not selected a group leader yet but when I look at an item or look at leveling up my player it always has the leader persons leader stats there.
I wish I could add the pictures to support my issues.
I think that a mod menu on Xbox One would be nice. After playing the game over and over again with the same problems and situations, it would be nice to have a play through with an all Military crew, owning other cool player created bases. Even with the DLCs it all gets a bit dull after like a couple of days.
Mod creators can also fix minor mods that might not be worth developers time like clipping issues for zombies and cars.
I reckon people would alot more inclined to buy or re download the game with the addition of player created content which 99% of the time is amazing. I just hope a mod menu can come to consoles in the future so the game can be enjoyable and played long after its time is up.
Lots of big improvements love them. Containers stoped disappearing as much. In my base, still lose my followers occasionally.but love the inventory changes.
That being said....Wtf daybreak is Insaine now. I've run 10 missions and haven't unlocked the next item
The dam bloat clouds with boater sprint at you. It's to much. The clouds need to be lessen affective or something. Easyer setting. We completed 1
Of those 10 runs and I think that was a bug bacuse nothing but jugglers and a few normies came at us.
I've been play religiously since the release of SOD1 in my top r games af all time. SO LITSTEN WHEN I EMPLORE YOU. Give a us story. Where are the charicters we want to get to know. Add a little romance to the apocalypse. After the into mission there's nothing to time al the random crazy missions together. Add a story mode or add an easy/slower pacesed setting, so I can stop and engoy the notes /side stories.
The sandbox is awesome but just like bathezda is learning the giant opne beautiful world is Not enough to satisfy our hunger for strong quality NPC's
I NOW HATE Bloaters more than screamers. Thanks a LOT CLEO.
Oh and one last issue. What happen to the snapshot targeting? It's not working on any guns anymore. Daybreak or stories. I've never been grate at among manualy and it's kill my game. Is that on purpose.No right. You need it without the time slow ability on rifle
No really haw to I turn the assisted targeting back on. It marked in settings.
I have been through all the posts on here with patch 6.0 and there is not one comment from any state of decay representative.
See I thought this was going to take zombie games to the next level but in face it's just upgraded graphics of the first. Zombies the same harder zombies the same looting the same.
Why in the new game can't we rename our group or why can't we have 3 followers from your community or select someone from your community to go looking for ruck sacks or cars or more valuable loot.
State of decay said at the beginning they will listen to us as we play the games and give accurate feed back.
Why can't we choose our own first Base and use all the space available within each Base.
Hordes are good but I was stood in a gas station after clearing it all and nothing around to have a horde spawn in the same place. I have seen loads more juggernauts so close together.
The XP for high ranked zombies is not fair.
5 XP for screamer
25 XP for fare
50 XP for juggernaut
Juggernauts are loads harder but XP does not show that.
Come on state of decay answer our messages. Show us your not another company who take our money and don't listen to our issues. Make this game good again please.
I have been playing State of Decay 2 for a while now (62 Legacies) and I think that the game could use some difficulty scaling with each legacy completed (similar to breakdown) to make it fun again. Or a separate hardcore mode to prevent complaints. What I mean by difficulty scaling is harder zombie attacks, scarcer resources, more special zombies, more hostile survivors (Raider Attacks?), and more zombies. I like how you increased horde size because it is a step in the right direction. Just wanted to share my thoughts. Thanks for all your hard work. ;)
After short time i want to play this game, because i have good feelings with it in past...
and i love your patches, but PLEASE give us an option to stop moving by crouching.
i want simple go in cover, when a horde is moving forward me, but the automatic "go" movement makes me crazy.
i dont understand, why this "movement" is in the game now... please make it undone, or give us a option.
thank you
Great work i love the new hoards got my friend killed..a hoard of pleuge zombies
So I’m a huge fan but I’m hoping the next update will allow for more community members beyond the 11 count.
Can you please add a base building element to the game? We want to customize our communities the way we want. We dont want to play carbon copy cookie cutter sessions.
Allow us to have multiple "home" bases where we have to balance our presence amongst all of them. We'd have to drive to assist in defending one home or be torn between two at time.
Have a mission where a group calls for help and you can board up their windows and make the survival element much more interesting.
We dont want the game to be harder, we want it to be challenging. Let us build defenses and try to make a town a base instead of just a building. It would be more challenging defending a bigger plot of land with multiple buildings from zombies and human attacks.
This game can be so much better but you guys are crippling your own game.
^^^^ Exactly!!! great ideas!!!
Hi, I'm a fan of you and this is the first time I make a suggestion.
I would suggest a new pach which in my view is very important and would greatly increase the fun and strategy of the game.
would be more fun and strategic if we could use base characters in other missions without controlling them.
for example: use the radio menu to send a group to search for specific resources for the base such as food, ammunition, remedies, fuel, weapons, etc.
also often have many missions to which we do not give alone and it would be good to send a group of our base to solve the problems of the community, except major missions.
type: requests for help from an unknown people or group, requests for help from an ally, destroy house infestation, destoy pestilent nucleus as well.
the success of the group depends on several factors, such as experience of the chosen characters, type of weapons,
knowledge and skills of the characters such as: specific computer skills (to break electronic gates), chemistry (to use chemical arsenal or to collect specific substances), driver (to drive a car), shooter (to improve the use of firearms, hits or errors of shots and damage), various fights (to do well using melee weapons), intelligence to use survival strategies and hidden during the mission, etc ...
In addition, survivors could be used more strategically on the basis of defending. we could choose among the survivors who would be at the forefront of base combat in case of invasion.
and what kind of weapons they have to defend.
and finally, there should be more base defense options and more invasions as well, defenses that would depend on a builder's ability to be built, such as solid walls, defense towers, staked holes, window blocking (like state of decay 1), and repairs on base after the invasion.
To drive a car without causing additional damage for driving, you need to learn the driver's ability.
etc.
that would make each character more unique and we would feel the loss of anyone, even if it was a janitor.
I thank you for your patience and I really hope you will read and discuss my suggestion.
hugs a fan
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