We are live with our fifth content update! This update is a little smaller than the rest but has a couple of very exciting new items: Poison and Pot Pies! Players can find poison in traitor crates as well as bunker crates (very small chance) and use it to poison food. The Pot Pie can be used to regain a large amount of hunger as well as a small amount of health and warmth but beware! Someone may have added a secret ingredient. More details below.

• Implemented Poison
  
  • Added Pot pie Item and recipe
    
  • Added Poison Effect
    
  • Poison Item spawns in Traitor Crates and can spawn in bunker crates (Very low chance)
    
  • Poisoned versions of cooked food can be made at the cooking station
    
  • Poison will cause players to vomit

As always we have fixed some bugs! Please see below:

• Added ability to poison food
  
• Animal corpses no longer have collision against players
  
• Fixes to animal navigation
  
• Can no longer craft gun parts
  
• Traitor crate changes - more likely to get consumables and deployables, less likely to get gun parts
  
• Pass on bonus objective reward values, mostly lowered overall
  
• Fixed issue where players could climb on top of the Helicopter
  
• Fixed Snow trail issue on some tiles
  
• Fixed an issue with downed but not dead players not being counted towards the "Survivors remaining" banner
  
• Fixed an issue where ghosts could fall through a sabotaged bridge
  
• Fixed an issue where the traitor crate notification wasn’t appearing for the host
  
• Updated Camo baseball cap to use the correct texture
  
• Updated collision on the cabin to keep players from getting all up in our house.
  
• Fixed an issue where dead traitors who left the game would get points for “Survivors Stopped” even if survivors were still alive
  
• Fixed an issue where players could not get off the escape vehicle when using a controller
  
• Fixed issue where players could not walk away from the Exile board once the menu was open
  
• Ghosts now see proximity chat
  
• Fixed issue where player bodies would sometimes rotate around
  
• Fixed animation syncing between animals
  
• New cosmetic items added to the reward drops

That's it everyone! Thanks for playing, and don’t forget to join our discord (www.discord.gg/projectwinter) for more news, updates and to become a part of our amazing community!

-The Project Winter team

We're happy to announce Project Winter will be leaving Early Access and launching into 1.0 on May 23rd, 2019! Check out our release trailer here!

Project Winter initially launched into early access on February 7th, 2019. The team took a look at the MASSIVE list of features we'd love to have in the game and organized them from absolutely necessary to "would be nice". The list as a whole could have kept the team busy for more than a year, maybe even two.

We decided early on that the last thing we would want is for this game to be perpetually in Early Access. The team had a clear vision for what the game was meant to be and we had a clear path to get there. The features we have decided that would make this game 1.0 was estimated at just under 3 months but of course the point of going into early access is to get feedback from the community! So we ended up a little late on our original estimate, but that was to ensure we were implementing the feedback as it came in.

We have had 4 major content updates and 2 major system overhaul/bug fixing updates since launch. We plan to have 3 more before 1.0 with a particular feature we've been working on for awhile coming in today :) .

Here is a brief overview of what has been added in the last 2.5 months:

Power Station

• In place of the objective locator, we have now added a new objective system! The power station can be found on the main tile of the map; once discovered, players will need to work together to repair the power station which will restore power to the grid. Once restored, players can then move on to the escape vehicle and repair that to escape.
  
• With the addition of the power station, we have also done an Objective UI overhaul to help with first-time user experience and clarity.

Truth Serum

• Confirm if your fellow player is a friend or foe! Find the Professor's Lab and work together to activate the consoles, gain access to the serum, and reveal a player's true role as either a Survivor or Traitor.

Swapping Clothes

• When a player interacts with a corpse they will now have the option to swap clothing.
  
• Swapping clothes will only exchange the players' clothing and hair, the body type will stay the same.
  
• After swapping clothes, the player will switch names with the corpse as well, and the player's role will be re-concealed to any player that had used a truth serum on them.

Mass Hysteria Global Event

• We've added a new global event where all characters are transformed into bunnies so that nobody will be able to tell who is who. The event is accompanied by a special music track and a psychedelic screen effect. It lasts for 90 seconds.

Ghost Mode Overhaul

• Teleport between living players, locate any traps that are placed, and switch between radio channels to hear the remaining players' conversations. Become a fly on the wall after you kick the bucket!

Survivor Airdrops

• An emergency airdrop for the survivors! This airdrop will spawn when there are 2 survivors left in a game that started with 7-8 players or when there is 1 player left in games of 5-6 players. The survivor airdrop will contain repair supplies, survival supplies and guns to help the remaining survivor(s) reach their rescue point!

Console Overload

• Traitors now have the option to overload a console instead of just helping the survivors use them. Once the consoles are overloaded they will emit a smoke PFX, and can't be used for 90 seconds. All of the connected consoles will be smoking so the traitor can't be immediately outed.

Server Browser

• Join/Host a lobby
  
• See open games that are looking for players
  
• See games that are currently in progress
  
• Easily switch regions
  
• Set passwords for lobbies
  
• Set language preference for lobbies
  
• Kick/Ban players from your lobby

Hot Spring Overhaul

• The hot springs can be activated to restore warmth or sabotaged to damage survivors.

And we still have a lot more work to do!

So what changes for Project Winter after 1.0 is released? Nothing really. The major change is that the team will be taking a bit of a breather and slow down on the release schedules. Up until 1.0, we have been doing major overhauls and adding brand new systems within a week then sending the builds to QA to test and bug fix for another week before release. This has been obviously quite stressful on the team and it has allowed bugs, exploits and unbalanced content to make its way into the game.

After 1.0, we will be selecting just one feature, completing it, iterating, and focus testing it to ensure it is not rushed and good for prime time. The future release schedule will likely be 3-4 weeks between feature updates.

If you are interested in the features we still have planned and wish to help us prioritize them you can check out this survey.

And as always, we want to hear any feedback and suggestions you might have so join us in our Discord to chat with us and meet new players!

See you in game!

Happy Easter, Everyone!

To celebrate this Holiday, we're launching a special Easter event starting now and ending on April 30th.

Holiday Special features:
- An Easter Holiday crate, available during the event's duration only. This crate contains new items added specially for Easter.
- A brand new progression tree for players to unlock new items by completing specific objectives in the game. The tree is only available during the Easter event, but any items unlocked during this period will remain available for purchase.

General features:
- Global events are now randomized!
- General bug and stability fixes implemented.

We hope you enjoy!

The fourth content update is now live! This update includes a feature we’re really excited about: Swapping clothes with a dead player! Players will now be able to change their appearance to disguise themselves as another player who has died. You’ll have to use your powers of deduction to figure out the truth. The rest of the content update includes:

Swapping Clothes

• When a player interacts with a corpse they will now have the option to swap clothing.
  
• Swapping clothes will only exchange the clothing and hair. Body type will not switch.
  
• After swapping clothes the player will switch names with the corpse, and the players role will be re-concealed to any player that used a truth serum on them.

New Global Event

• We’ve added a new global event, it will last for a short duration and will affect all players in game.

More bonus objectives

• 21 new bonus objectives have been added. Don’t forget to check the cabin map to claim one!

Animal AI improvements
Animals now have collision.
Wolf AI improvements.


We’ve also fixed a few bugs! Please check out the entire build notes below:

• Added swapping clothes with dead players
  
  • A corpse will now have the option to swap clothing when interacted with.
    
  • Swapping clothes will only swap the clothing and the hair, not the body type
    
  • After swapping clothes the player will switch names with the corpse
    
  • Roles will be re-concealed to any player that used a truth serum on them after swapping clothes
  
  
• New Global Event!
  
  • Global events UI now works slightly differently for all events: warning notification displays a generic message and timer which counts down to the event starting, after which an event-specific icon is shown for the duration
  
  
• Bonus objective additions & changes
  
  • 16 new survivor objectives added
    
  • 5 new traitor objectives added
    
  • Reward adjustments for existing objectives
  
  
• Animal AI Improvements
  
  • Players can no longer walk through animals and will be pushed out of the way.
    
  • All wolves in a group will respond with aggression to the attacker.
    
  • WHen a wolf is aggressively chasing a target, the wolf will choose a new target if another player is closer than its original target
  
  
• Added new shortcuts for inventory management
  
• Players can now leave the escape vehicle after initiating takeoff
  
• Fixed issue where game over could trigger while survivors are still alive
  
• Fixed issue where escape pod was occasionally not interactable after it landed
  
• Fixed various controller UI bugs
  
• Improved aiming with controller
  
• Fixed collisions with items that players are holding
  
• Fixed issue where respawning resources would push players
  
• Fixed various lobby UI bugs
  
• Players should be unable to drop items while in an escape vehicle
  
• Pressing esc while in a lobby should prompt to exit the lobby
  
• Players should receive points for people who leave the game after escaping
  
• Credits should end as soon as they are finished scrolling
  
• The cursor lock setting should be set to true whenever the game is switched to fullscreen mode
  
• Stat boost popup should be accurate
  
• Bear trap hold time increased from 3 seconds to 6 seconds
  
• Bear trap damage reduced from 350 to 100
  
• Power Station repair costs adjusted to 15/3/3
  
• Increased time between exile voting from 30 seconds to 60 seconds
  
• Bolt action crafting cost reduced from 3 to 2
  
• Semi auto rifle crafting cost increased from 2 to 3
  
• Added 8 regular crates inside of truth serum laboratory
  
• Removed initial cooldown on truth serum laboratory
  
• “You Go First” achievement can no longer be unlocked by taking the escape pod
  
• Animations for players on MVP screen will no longer be perfectly synced

Contest news! We have ranked all the traitor clips you guys have sent in and will be releasing the montage of the top 5 traitor clips tomorrow, Friday April 12th. We’d like to thank everyone who participated, make sure to check out the highlights to see some awesome betrayals!

Check out our discord (www.discord.gg/projectwinter) for more updates, contests, sneak peaks, and to become a part of our amazing community!

- The Project Winter team

The third content update is now live and it is filled with goodies! This update includes the new Truth Serum! The Truth Serum is used to reveal another player’s role as either a traitor or survivor, so use it wisely. Players will have to work together to unlock the professor's lab to get the serum inside. A second serum will be available after a certain amount of time, so you’ll have another chance to catch the traitor!

Power Station:
In place of the objective locator we have now added a new objective system! The power station can be found on the main tile of the map; once found, players will need to work together to repair the power station which will restore power to the grid. Once restored players can then move on to the escape vehicle and repair that to escape.
With the power station addition, we have also done an Objective UI overhaul to help with first-time user experience and clarity.

Truth Serum:
The Truth Serum is finally here! The serum can be found in the professor's lab; find the lab and work together to activate the consoles to gain access to the serum. The Truth Serum is used to reveal a player’s true role as either a Survivor or Traitor. The Lab can only be unlocked after the first 10 minutes of the game has passed. There are two truth serums per game with the second serum becoming active 5 minutes after the lab is opened.

Survivor Airdrop:
An emergency airdrop for the survivors! This airdrop will spawn when there are 2 survivors left in a game with 7-8 players, or will spawn when there is 1 player left in games of 5-6 players. The survivor airdrop will have repair supplies, survival supplies, and guns to help out the remaining survivors.

Drunk Effect:
If you drink too much Vodka in game, you’ll get drunk! We encourage you to try this out for yourself to see what the effect is.

Ghost Mode Overhaul Part 1:
We’ve added some changes to the Ghost mode to make being dead more enjoyable! Ghosts are now able to teleport between living players, and can also see any traps that are placed. Ghosts can also now switch between radios to hear the remaining player’s conversations. Collisions have also been tweaked for ghost mode. Stay tuned for Ghost Mode Part 2!

Game End prompt:
A prompt will now tell players when they die, the game ends, etc.

As always we also have a list of bugs that we have fixed! Please see the full build notes list below for more details.

• Ability to teleport to other players when in ghost mode
  
  • Ability to teleport has a cooldown, HUD will let the players know when they can or cannot teleport
    
  • When a player is inside a structure they can't teleport
    
  • Ghosts will now have visibility of all traps
    
  • Ghosts can now swap between radio channels with the tab key to listen in (but not talk) to living players
• Implementation of Power Station & changes to objectives
  
  • First objective is now always near the cabin
    
  • The cabin map now displays indicators for the objective locations
    
  • Objective locator has been removed
    
  • Objectives UI text is now identical for survivors and traitors
    
  • Exiling will now also prevent access to the first objective
    
  • First objective can be sabotaged 3 times, which will require survivors to gather more resources in order to repair (with the items needed for repair decreasing for subsequent sabotages)
    
  • The “activate beacon” contextual action is no longer available on the first objective
    
  • The “objective sabotaged” banner notification will no longer appear when a repaired survivor objective is sabotaged
    
  • Traitors will no longer have indicators on the edge of the screen pointing towards repaired objectives (unless the “activate beacon” action is used by a survivor on the second objective, in which case traitors will have an indicator pointing to the second objective)
• Truth Serum implemented
  
  • Truth serum laboratory now spawns near the cabin
    
  • Lab becomes active after 10 minutes into a game
    
  • Consoles to open lab are spread far apart, all must be used at the same time to open the lab
    
  • Truth Serum item can be obtained from two crates in the lab, the first one is available when the lab is opened
    
  • A second truth serum crate becomes available inside the lab 5 minutes after the lab is opened
    
  • Timeline event listing the player who used the truth serum and the player who it was used on (and their respective roles)
• Survivor Airdrop added
  
  • Survivors will receive an airdrop when there are very few of them left alive and enough time has passed in the round
• Proximity Chat voice range decreased
  
• Added game over message which indicates what condition triggered the game ending (all survivors escaped, all survivors died, or last escape departed) prior to the results screen appearing
  
• Added drunk effect to vodka item, which blurs the screen and slightly offsets the player's movement direction by either 30 or -30 degrees every time vodka is consumed. This lasts for 10 seconds. Note that drinking while a previous effect is ongoing does not re-randomize the effect but rather extends the existing effect.
  
• “Best” region in the lobby will now display the actual region the player is being connected to, ex. “Best [USA East]”
  
• New cosmetic items added to reward drops
  
• Localization updates
  
• Added warning popup for post-processing setting change
  
• Added first-time user popup for the cabin map the first time the user walks up to it
  
• Added button sounds to the settings menu in a few places where they were missing
  
• Fixed controller UI support and added extra support
  
• Fixed "Click and Drag" Japanese text going off screen
  
• Meat item should not instantly create blood puddles when swapped to
  
• Downed survivors at the end of the match should now count as traitor kills
  
• Energy drink tooltips should now display the correct values
  
• Changed traitor contextual options to the new white credit icon where applicable
  
• Cabin radio can no longer be sabotaged
  
• Fixed issue where landmines wouldn't deal the correct amount of damage to the player that stepped on it
  
• Fixed vanishing animals
  
• Mouse prompt near cabin should now appear on top of the tree it's meant for
  
• Adjusted position of campfire refuel prompt so that it no longer overlaps fire duration meter
  
• Healing items should no longer heal stats of players when thrown at them
  
• Join Game tooltip explaining why a lobby can't be joined should now only appear when the lobby is in fact unable to be joined
  
• New flag viewpoints should show more of the world and follow the players rotation only when you enter them.
  
• New aiming icon added making it easier to see on controller
  
• Added a shine effect and bouncing animation on MVP screen
  
• Changed recycle text to 'Choose items to recycle'
  
• Changed ESC position from center to top left on crafting/cooking stations
  
• Changed all survivor icons to the correct diamond logo
  
• Traitor should no longer be prompted to sabotage a fulton that's already been sabotaged
  
• Cursor lock should work on the main menu
  
• Hitting ESC on the main menu will now bring up the quit prompt rather than the settings screen
  
• Ghosts can no longer die by falling off a sabotaged bridge (they will be teleported back to the cabin)
  
• Fix cases where player status could be listed as “none” on the results screen

Important contest news! We will be having a Traitor Highlights contest this weekend, to enter all you need to do is send in your funniest/best clips of betrayal to the #clips channel on Discord. The contest will run from NOW until April 1st 11:59 PM EST. We will be accepting only three clips from each participant, so make sure you send in only the best. We will not be accepting videos that exceed 30 seconds, and the clips need to be from the latest version of the game (so during the weekend of the contest). The top 5 traitor highlight clips will be featured in a video uploaded by the Project Winter team and all content creators will be credited. All participants who are chosen in the top 5 will receive 20,000 survivor points, with 40,000 awarded for the #1 clip. This contest will replace the MVP contest for now, we will update you on future contest news after the conclusion of this one.

Our next content update is scheduled for April 11th, our main focus is:

• Holiday Progression and Crates
  
• Swapping Clothes with Dead Players
  
• A new Global Event
  
• New Bonus objectives
  
• A new Objective type with Animals
  
• Animal AI Improvements
  
• Steam Item Store Updates

That’s everything for this update! Don’t forget to join our discord (http://discord.gg/projectwinter) to stay up to date on anything that is happening, contests, and the occasional sneak peak of things to come!

- Your friendly Neighbourhood Project Winter Team

It's that time again! The weekly MVP competition is live! Join our Discord [http://discord.gg/projectwinter] to participate. For the next 24 hours we will be accepting your best MVP scores in the #clips channel. Take a screenshot of your best scores and post it there, the highest single MVP score after the 24 hours will be crowned MVP of the week. This week we are accepting scores from both survivors and traitors, so you will have a chance to compete no matter what! The winner will receive 35,000 survivor points! So hop in, post your scores and good luck!

We are back with another round of our weekly MVP challenge! Join our Discord [http://discord.gg/projectwinter] to participate. For the next 24 hours we will be accepting your best MVP scores in the #clips channel. Take a screenshot of your best scores and post it there, the highest single MVP score after the 24 hours will be crowned MVP of the week. This week we are accepting scores from both survivors and traitors, so you will have a chance to compete no matter what! The winner will receive 35,000 survivor points! So hop in, post your scores and good luck!

Our second content update is now live! We’ve been working really hard to ensure we get new content out to you survivors and traitors as quickly as possible, so we are pleased to announce we will be pushing new content every 2 weeks from now until 1.0! In the meantime, please check out the notes for this weeks content update.

Console Overload:

• Traitors now have the option to overload a console instead of just helping the survivors use them. Once the consoles are overloaded they will emit a smoke PFX, and can’t be used for 90 seconds. All of the connected consoles will smoke so the traitor can’t be immediately outed.

Hot Spring Overhaul:

• We’ve completely overhauled the hot springs for both Survivors AND Traitors! Hop in to find out what it does ;)

Animal Guardians:

• Wolves will now sometimes guard the second objective!

Stat Boost Items:

• Stat Boosts are now in the form of energy drinks and are found in traitor crates. There are three types of Energy Drinks: Weak Energy Drink, Energy Drink, and Strong Energy Drink. Energy Drinks also have a low chance of spawning inside of crates for Survivors, so you can’t be outed as a traitor just because you have one.

Traps and land mine tweaks:

• Traitors are now able to see where each other have laid bear traps or landmines.

Portuguese added


In addition to all this new content we have fixed some bugs the community have been experiencing, along with some small tweaks to improve gameplay.

Bug Fixes:

• Added extra checks to the "What's in the Box" achievement to prevent it from unlocking incorrectly
  
• Fixed issue where escaping while exiled would result in the player being locked in the cabin as a ghost
  
• Fixed issue where only the first global exile event would take effect
  
• Removed player icon from the gameover results screen
  
• Changed ALT to L ALT for clarification
  
• Rebalanced hunger system to work the same as it currently does now except with a value of 500 instead of 1000
  
• Player's max hunger cap reduced from 1000 to 500
  
• Player's hunger depletion rate reduced from 1.65 to 0.825
  
• Cabin stats volume hunger value reduced from 1.64 to 0.725
  
• Amount of health given by raw berries reduced from 75 to 50
  
• Amount of health lost by eating raw human meat reduced from 50 to 25"
  
• Fixed framerate issues for lobby snowball fight
  
• Updated Photon networking plugin to latest version
  
• Added pain and death vocalizations for players
  
• Added contextual action animations for using the traitor transporter and airdrop abilities
  
• Fixed issue where player would drop equipped item when closing containers using the B/Square button on a controller
  
• Fixed issue where active beacon indicator position would not update when a player died and moved around as a ghost
  
• Fixed issue where camera would continue to shake after being killed by animals
  
• Fixed issue where key mapping would reset every time the game was launched
  
• Fixed issue where text chat would spill out of the input field causing it to overlap with other text
  
• Fixed issue where the second objective timer would keep counting down even after being completed which would cause the second traitor drop to occur
  
• Made it so music and sfx sliders could go to zero
  
• Added setting to toggle mouse cursor lock and made it so setting would remain active after display modes were switched
  
• Made it so on the main menu, ESC key now brings up the exit game prompt and doesn't interfere with other menus when pressed
  
• Fixed issue with alt-tab after switching between fullscreen and borderless window
  
• Animal pathfinding improvements
  
• Set the 6 player game modifiers 'max coop terminal limit' from 2 to 3
  
• Decreased blizzard warm-up time from 75 seconds to 45 seconds
  
• Increased blizzard time from 45 seconds to 75 seconds

We are running a new MVP of the week contest starting this week on every Friday. Compete with others to get the highest MVP score within 24hrs to win. The highest score will win 35,000 Survivor Points! Check the discord for more information.


Our next content update is scheduled for March 28th, our main focus is:

• New repair flow for objectives
  
• Truth Serum
  
• Drunk effect (From drinking Vodka!)
  
• A Survivor Airdrop
  
• Ghost mode overhaul part 1
  
• Game end Transition

That’s all for this update! Don’t forget to join our discord (http://discord.gg/projectwinter) to stay up to date on anything that is happening, participate in the MVP contests, and maybe get some sneak peeks from time to time!

Happy deceiving!
The Project Winter Team

We are back with another round of our weekly MVP challenge! Join our Discord to participate. For the next 24 hours we will be accepting your best MVP scores in the #clips channel. Take a screenshot of your best scores and post it there, the highest single MVP score after the 24 hours will be crowned MVP of the week. This week we are accepting scores from both survivors and traitors, so you will have a chance to compete no matter what! As usual, the prizes for the winner are a FREE copy of the game to give to a friend and 20,000 survivor points! This will be the LAST week for the foreseeable future that we will be giving out a free key of the game, so get your games in and try to win!

It’s time for our weekly MVP Challenge! Join our Discord in order to participate. It will be ongoing until 3:00pm Eastern (UTC-5) tomorrow (March 2)! This week we will be taking only the best SURVIVOR scores again. We will not necessarily be taking “MVP” scores (as traitors can sometimes get more points than survivors and become MVP at match end), but we will be taking the best SURVIVOR score achieved in a 24 hour period that is posted to our #clips channel, and crowning that survivor as MVP of the WEEK! They will receive a free copy of Project Winter to give to a friend + 20,000 Survivor Points to spend on themselves.