Dear Community.

 

Today is Friday and guess what? It's time for the weekend event!  Let's jump into it: 

 

START: July 27th, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST) 

END: July 30th, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)

 

 

✦ Special Server Event: There will be a No Shield + FPS Only Event on a Veteran map during the entire weekend.

✦ Skin Release: The newest Katana skins called "Frozen" and "Frozen Vengeance" will be added to the Revolution skinbox.

✦ Find me Event: You can find Sprays on the Random Airdrops! (Available on Open World and Survival mode.)

✦ Premium Weekend: Everyone who logs in will get Premium for the entire Weekend. The Deluxe, Extreme, Forever Premium and Legendary accounts will get a Mystery skinbix as Reward!

 

 

 

The Staff Team wishes everyone a great weekend!



 

Dear Community.
 

Today is Friday and guess what? It's time for the weekend event!  Let's jump into it: 

 

START: July 20th, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)
END: July 23th, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)

 

✦ Double XP Event: You will get the double amount of XP by killing Zombies and Players. (In all game-modes)

✦ "Find me" Event: You can find GD Skinboxes from Normal and Alien Super Zombies. (Survival & Open World) 

✦ Speedy Gonzales Event: There will be a double speed event on one of the PVP Servers. This means everyone will be able to run twice as fast.

✦ 25% EXTRA from the 20€ Package. Go to https://playnewz.com/buygc.php to use the discount.

 

Have a nice weekend!





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Dear Players,

Before we jump into the notes we would like to give a heads-up to you all about the forum changes we have made today. There now is a special dedicated forum section for feedback where players can let us know their feedback about a certain topic regarding the game. Feedback from our community is extremely important for us since we use it to improve our game every day. Please don't hesitate to let us know your feedback about anything in the game! Go to: http://playnewz.com/feedback and don't hesitate to send us your feedback!

Without further ado, lets jump right in:

OVERALL:

• Fixed a UI bug regarding the group health bars.
• Fixed a crash related to joining friends from the home screen.
• Fixed a bug that was causing FPS issues on most machines (you should see a FPS improvement, especially in smaller maps).
• Fixed a crash in the server caused by big maps.
• Fixed the amount of zombies in the Open World Colorado V2. (Please leave us more feedback if needed at: http://playnewz.com/feedback)
  Please note that we are aware of the loot / zombie amount issues on Colorado V2 (also on the new Oregon Survival map). We are working on this and adjusting the loot as we speak and that's why your feedback is extremely important for us. Give this hotfix an hour or two and try it out, if something is still not "right" please let us know as soon as possible so that we can make further improvements if needed and aim to get the loot "back" as how it was.
   
• Fixed a rigging issue related to the unreleased "Shane" character. Fixed his fingers. Character should be ready for release now.
• Fixed the Tactical Binoculars third person model. Fixed the pivot point. Mesh was flying in characters hands.
• Fixed the Light Sword Cross Rainbow (skin) not being rainbow.
• Fixed crash related to 000434.718| Failed to auto cook convex mesh: data/objectsdepot/weapons/mel_katana_02_special.sco
• Fixed and improved the store icon of the Stanag C-Mag.
• Fixed and improved the store icon of the Stanag C-Mag Elite.
• Fixed the M200 Destruction skin. Added a skinned scope to the weapon.

FAC 2.0:



There has been a lot of fixes on the new client, including performance issues, kicks, and other things that were not working properly. Statistics show that players using the new client have improved performance, and less issues. There are still some people that are not able to use the update or just don't have any sound. If you are one of these people, please contact our support, and we can help you in order to fix it and push a live update.

Our legacy client will get this hotfix too, we will be soon not supporting the old client, so please make sure you test the BETA Patch to make sure that the day we remove the old legacy client you won't have any issues. More info can be found here: https://playnewz.com/getpost.php?id=5335


SURVIVAL:

• You can now rent an Oregon Survival private server.

Private server owners will receive a little compensation soon for the hours "lost" on their private servers due to the issues.

Estimated patch size: 100 mb.

Patch ETA: Patch is about to be rolled any time.

Estimated downtime: Server downtime will be minimal. Client & Server update are required.

 

To stay updated regarding the patch and server downtime please follow us on our social media:
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Best Regards,

// Infestation: The New Z - Staff Team

Dear players,

 

In the next few days we will be making some changes to the servers for the Survival game-mode in all regions where there will be some servers removed.
To avoid issues for players that have lockers in the affected servers in the Survival game mode we would like to give a heads up so that those players that want to, have time to remove their lockers from the affected servers.

For now the following servers will be removed on exactly: Friday, July 20, 2018 (Around 12:00 PM CEST)
 

EUROPE:
- Europe - SURVIVAL 004 (Colorado)
- Europe - SURVIVAL 005 (Colorado)
- Europe - SURVIVAL 006 (Colorado)
So in the end 3 Colorado servers + 3 Oregon servers.
NOTE: We will also 50/50 the ping limited servers.
NOTE 2: Server names and numbers will be updated so that they are in order again after the changes.


NORTH AMERICA:
- North America - SURVIVAL 003
- North America - SURVIVAL 004
So in the end 2 Colorado servers + 2 Oregon servers.
NOTE: We will also 50/50 the ping limited servers.
NOTE 2: Server names and numbers will be updated so that they are in order again after the changes.


SOUTH AMERICA:
- South America - SURVIVAL 003
- South America - SURVIVAL 004
So in the end 2 Colorado servers + 2 Oregon servers.
NOTE: We will also 50/50 the ping limited servers.
NOTE 2: Server names and numbers will be updated so that they are in order again after the changes.

 

HONG KONG:
- Hong Kong - SURVIVAL 003
- Hong Kong - SURVIVAL 004
So in the end 2 Colorado servers + 2 Oregon servers.
NOTE: We will also 50/50 the ping limited servers.
NOTE 2: Server names and numbers will be updated so that they are in order again after the changes.

 

We are aware of the crashes still happening on the Oregon Survival servers. We are working on a solution as we speak and will roll out a hotfix as soon as we can. Hopefully tomorrow! (Monday, July 16)

Please let us know further feedback in the comments on this announcement! Based on that we plan on doing even more changes to the Survival servers list if needed!

ONCE AGAIN: SERVERS WILL BE REMOVED AT Friday, July 20, 2018 (Around 12:00 PM CEST)

Those who have lockers in these servers please remove/empty them as soon as possible as once the servers are gone they are gone.

Thank you for understanding,

 

// The New Z - Staff Team

 

So it's the day again, patch day!

There has been a lot of fixes and polishing being done this patch, also the new reworked FAC 2.0 has been implemented! We really hope you guys get a better gaming experience every patch, and don't hesitate to post a comment / send a support ticket if you are having any issues with this patch.

So without further ado, the notes:

Overall Updates:

OVERALL:

• Fixed an issue with the GC Airdrops where for some weird reason it would still sometimes drop a Killer Skinbox.
• Fixed an issue related to random airdrops not appearing normally.
• Fixed an issue related to the airdrops where it would not always come.
• Fixed an issue where the "right peek fix" for the Tar and L85 and some other weapons wasn't working properly.
• Fixed an issue related to some item id's missing descriptions in translation packs. This was also spamming in error log.
• Improved the right peek animations where in third person and aiming down a sight with an assault rifle the weapon would aim down to the left and not aim towards where you are aiming. This has been improved and fixes several issues. (example: https://gyazo.com/ab34bf55ef3a00fac6125a689a2b997d)
  UPDATE: Fixed "the left" peek where players could abuse this with SVD / M107's.
  UPDATE: Fixed the same for some assault rifles where players could "left peek" with again.
• Updated the textures of the "Item Loot Box". Now it should be more clear due texture differences what box is a random box and what box is an actual "skinbox". (Example: https://prnt.sc/jzvmh8)
• Life time premium players / players who have purchased life time premium will get back their 10 load-out slots.
• You can see your subscription time left again, by hovering your account subscription tag. (In the main menu)
• Fixed a bug happening to people with poor internet connections that would make their characters stutter occasionally.
• Fixed a bug causing invalid objects to show on the spawn protection selection menu.
• Fixed a UI bug causing cosmetics to not display correctly in the home screen.
• Made some improvements to the spray system.
• Fixed ping limited servers where some players had issues joining them even though they had a low enough ping.
• Saving the settings will no longer increase the brightness slightly.
• Muting a player will also mute the chat for this player.

MODELS:

• Fixed a physics issue related to the newly added palm trees. (Leaves parts had physics while it shouldn't)
• Fixed an issue with one of the town buildings garage where we forgot a little part of overgrowth. (example: https://prnt.sc/jpienz)
• Fixed a texture / model issue with the clan contest points. Improved look overall.
• Fixed some material settings of some airport props in the new Oregon map.
• Optimized one of the huge apartment buildings. (had 60.000 faces) and now has 45.000 faces. Also added LODs AND for the third LOD version, which is the one furthers away before the model unloads we have tried a new process. (Example: https://i.imgur.com/bN9R8QE.jpg)
• Optimized the new airport terminal building which is used in the new Oregon map. This model is now 5-6 times more optimized than before without changing any of the overall look of the building.
• Optimized one of the huge skyscraper buildings. (Used in for example "Rio" in the new Oregon map). Also added LODs.
• Fixed an issue with the cali gas station building where there was some faces missing in the model.
• Fixed a physics related to one of the trees used in Rio in the Oregon map. The leaves had physics, and now only the tree branches have physics.
• Fixed a texture and physics issue with one of the Caliwood highway objects. (Example: https://prnt.sc/jtjsmn)
• Fixed various issues with one of the open norad office building. Fixed pivot point of the building, some texture issues, some gaps inside the building and created LODs for this model. Also optimized original model. (Example: https://image.prntscr.com/image/oFBtcsyXTXCwFPzGajLaGA.png)
• Fixed various issues with one of the smaller open norad office buildings. (The one with the solar panels on top) Optimized original model and fixed some texture issues.
• Fixed an issue with some flying wooden barricades at the gas station model. (Example: https://prnt.sc/k4miqn)
  
  For more information about LODs and optimizations please read our following dev blog: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/3535-devblog-optimizing-models-lods/

VEHICLES:

Major improvements have been made to the vehicles system and the vehicles overall. Vehicles should overall work better and more smooth now and are way more stable than before. We are still aiming to make improvements and there will still be some stats for certain vehicles that can be updated and improved so make sure to let us know your feedback so that we can work on this!

• Fixed a bug where the camera would get glitched as a car passenger.

ANTI-CHEAT:



We have finished the development and major testing of FAC 2.0. Most of you should expect a boost in FPS, stability and a decrease of the already super-low percentage of 'cheaters'. If you have any problems with this, please make a support ticket. We will be dedicating a lot of time to making sure this is not going to be a problem for everybody, but a improvement instead.

There has been other optimizations too, many of the engine's features have been moved to using multi-threading, giving computers with high amount of CPU cores a bigger boost.

 

Item Updates:

ADDITIONS:

• Added a new media riot shield: Riot Shield Nozze.
• Added a new ammo box for the PKM. "PKM Ammo (200) Box". Also renamed the original ammo box to: "PKM Ammo (100) Box". This new ammo box is a variant and has 200 bullets instead. (Also reworked original ammo icon to match the new ammo.)
• Added a new variant of the stanag mag. The: "Stanag E-Mag". This magazine is a stanag mag with 200 bullets. To make this ammo box not too overpowered it gives a weapon 20% more spread and recoil when using it. (double as much as for the Stanag C-Mag). We are not sure yet what the rarity of this new ammo will be etc. as it can't be too common to "break" the game so give us some time to decide this.
  
  Items mentioned above might not be released instantly. If you want to stay update with releases please follow us on our social media channels where we announce the release of new items.
   

CHANGES:

• Increased the fire rate and damage of the FN Scar H based on community feedback.
• Increased the fire rate and damage of the VSS Compact based on community feedback.
• Increased the fire rate from 120 to 200 of the FN Fal.
• Updated the fire mode of the FN Fal. This weapon can now also has a automatic and triple burst fire mode.
  
  Anyone that likes to let us know feedback about weapons and items please do in a comment to this thread: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/4931-devblog-weapons-rework/

FIXES:

• Fixed an issue with the Witch Hat where the texture wasn't working properly.
• Fixed / improved the Lunaa hat. The character's head is no longer clipping through the back side of the model.
• Fixed an issue related to the ACOG sight (attachment) where the actual sight was not properly centered. (example: https://prnt.sc/jo1fwl)
• Fixed the angle of the Hunter Backpack store icon. Mirrored the icons horizontally so that it matches the angle of the other backpacks. Also updated skin icons.
• Fixed an issue with the new "Police Dragster" vehicle where this spawner was spawning the wrong vehicle.
• Fixed / Improved the QLB first person running animation. Now, the weapon does not take so much space on the screen anymore. (Example of the fix: https://gyazo.com/9fc489fd9982c726bb8841493e0e6746)
• Fixed the sound cutoff of the TEC 9 shooting sound. For some reason there was too much "bass" with this pistol shooting.
• Optimized the original FPS and TPS models of the Tactical Binoculars. This model was very unoptimized and potentially causing FPS drops and crashes. The model has been optimized from 24k to 3k.
• Did major FPS / Performance improvement related to the SVU skins. Some of the skins were extremely unoptimized.
• Fixed an issue with the M4A1 where the iron sight was flying. This sight is no longer flying.
• Fixed the M4A1 TPS model. Now also has the clip / sight attached.
• Fixed the VSS Compact icon and removed the silencer from the icon. The icon now matches the weapon in-game.
• Removed the "silenced" barrel from the FN Scar H. Since this weapon wasn't silenced it didn't make sense to have this huge barrel attached. Also updated the store icon of the weapon to match it again.
• Updated the icon of the Stanag C-Mag.
• Updated the model and icon of the G36 C-Mag. We have reworked the model of the magazine so that it's not a blatant copy of the Stanag C-Mag. Now, it actually has it's own recognizable G36 bullet clip instead of the stanag one.

REWORK:

• The AK-12 has finally been reworked. We have also renamed this weapon to AK-15 based on the ammo type it's using. Statistics are updated too and this weapon is able to use all attachments. It's also spawning everywhere again.
• The M200 has been reworked. The main reason this weapon needed to be reworked was to optimize it. Also, we weren't happy with the look of the weapon. New model is 6x more optimized and looks better. In the meanwhile we have also reworked the firing sound and on top of that a new scope (M200 now uses it's own custom scope) has also been added with a custom sight.
  Also, the skins for this weapon have been reworked and updated to the new model: M200 Chrome, M200 Christmas and M200 Destruction.
• The AS VAL has been reworked. This weapon has been reworked mainly due to optimizations, also it now has a overall better looking model. Iron sight / sight animations have been improved and we have also updated the stats. In patch 2.18 this weapon was a little bit nerfed and based on you guy's reports we have updated / buffed the statistics of this weapon again.
• The AMR2 has been reworked. Pretty much the only thing that is changed here is that the mesh is 20 times more optimized. Old model had around 80.000 faces and the new one only has 2-3.000! This is very good for FPS and performance improvements where this weapon was SUPER unoptimized. (Example of the improvements: https://i.imgur.com/LecLhk7.png) Also skinned version meshes have been updated!
• The STI Eagle has been reworked. This mostly because it's been using the "Jericho" model since for ever. It was relatively easy / short to replace this model so we were like; "Why not?". Also reworked / updated the icon.
• The DMR Ammo has been reworked where we have changed the magazine to a new model to mainly match the FN FAL rework. It has also been optimized A LOT. 
• The FN FAL has been reworked. This weapon was the last weapon that needed a rework because of optimization reasons. Major improvements have been done and we have worked with an entire new model with new textures. 
  
  As you can see is that we have reworked and updated some statistics on some weapons. This is all done based on YOUR feedback so it is extremely important to us as much of you guys as possible give us as much feedback as possible. If you have complaints or ideas about a certain weapon could you please let us know in a reply to the following forum thread? http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/4931-devblog-weapons-rework/

OPTIMIZATIONS:

• Optimized the TPS model of the M200 and it's skins.
• Optimized the TPS and the FPS model of the Light Swords Twin and it's colored skins.
• Optimized the TPS and the FPS model of the Light Swords Cross and it's colored skins.
• Optimized the TPS model of the PKM and it's skins.
• Optimized the TPS model of the M16 and it's skins.
• Optimized the TPS model of the Thompson and it's skins.
• Optimized the TPS model of the M107 and it's skins.
• Optimized the TPS model of the Airdrop Caller GC and GD.
• Optimized the TPS model of the SVD and it's skins.
• Optimized the Hunter Backpack and it's skins.
• Optimized the Heavy Armor Fallen Angel and it's skins.
• Optimized the Climber Character and it's skins.
• Optimized the Average Jane Character and it's skins.
  
  You see above where we optimized a lot of weapons and other items. A lot of TPS (Third Person) items weren't optimized AT ALL. TPS models get used when an item is for example dropped on the ground. Basically, the more dropped on the ground in a server, the less FPS a player can have and when TPS models dropped are very unoptimized this becomes a huge FPS killer. Imagine going to the airport and loading all that unoptimized TPS loot.. The list you see above will not contain everything that was unoptimized in the game because this would simply be too much work to do at once, but the list is based on priority where the most unoptimized items are optimized first. We will keep working on this over time.

 

Skin Updates:

ADDITIONS:

• Added a new skin for the Community Box: Custom Guerilla Fallen Angel Purple.
• Added a new skin for the Community Box (probably): Banana Chrome. (Melee)
• Added a new skin for the Community Box (probably): Thompson Purple.
  
  For all new skins added to the game it doesn't mean they will be instantly available. For updates regarding this please keep an eye on our social media where we announce the release of new skins.

FIXES:

• Fixed an issue with the Moto Helmet Krissy skin where there was the wrong glow map texture used.
• Fixed the legs of the Average Jane Alien skin.

 

Open World Updates:

OVERALL:

• Improved the Tactical Weapon Case loot. Removed the Stanag C-Mag / AK Drum from the box since it's only obtainable from Super Zombies / Alien Super Zombies. Only rare items are in the crate now.
• Increased the revive sound volume in PVP Servers. (The sound we added in the hotfix when another player spawns in) Players could literally not hear this sound when being in PVP. We higher-ed it and will await and see how it is now.

OREGON:

• Improved the minimap: reduced the blue colors of the waters. Made it less bright to make it look better.
• Loot is fixed! Loot was completely broken and not how it was intended to be. If you've played Oregon in the past, please try again because the loot is completely changed.
• Players are now able to rent this map as private server in Open World.
• Fixed a player spawn at the Harbor where players were spawning inside / under the terrain.
• Fixed some overall terrain issues and settings.
• Fixed some overall flying objects generally around the entire map.
• Fixed the "Fredaikis container" which is placed pretty much round the entire map. It didn't had correct physics.

COLORADO V2:

• Fixed an issue related to the render distance of the terrain and hills.
• Fixed some flying placed down vehicles in Frosty Pines.
• Fixed some flying trees around Devil's Pass.
• Fixed some miss-placed signs around the airport.

CALIWOOD:

• Fixed some terrain issues around the football stadium.
• Improved the overall shadow quality for players that are playing on ultra on this map.

PVP ROCKYFORD:

• Updated and fixed the player spawns.
• Added Rockyford V1 (old Rockyford) which may be available later during weekend events for example.

PVP SPRINGVALLEY:

• Added collision walls around the oil containers to prevent players from glitching.
• Added SpringValley V1 (old Springvalley) which may be available later during weekend events for example.

PVP SCHOOL:

• Fixed some rocks around the school building that didn't had physics.

PVP CLEAR-SMALL:

• Fixed some miss-placed objects in Clearview.

PVP PRISON:

• Removed the airport tower from this map since it was a way too overpowered spot for players and it was getting abused pretty much all the time.

 

Survival Updates:

OVERALL:

• The super zombies now have a chance of dropping a super zombie head. This item is very rare and until (for) now you can't do more with it than just collect them. The goal is to in the end create a special progress based melee that has these heads spiced up. Basically, a collectible item farmers can collect and upgrade with the crafting system where in the end it will be a super cool, rare and valuable melee with a lot of super zombie heads spiced up. Stay tuned for this!

COLORADO SURVIVAL:

• Opened some of the fences at the prison.
• Added some metal walls around the airport tower at the prison to make it less camper friendly.
• Added some car spawns around the newly added area's.
• Fixed some flying objects in and around the prison.

OREGON:

• Oregon is now available as Official Server map in this game mode. Players are now also able to rent Oregon private servers in Survival. Oregon does have reworked loot so expect some change not just in the map but also the loot. Loot should overall be better, make more sense and at the same time still have the same values of the "Survival idea". Please give us as much feedback as you can about this as we don't expect everything to be perfect at first try.
• Oregon now has alien super zombies. This means that for the first time in Survival we are releasing alien super zombies. The spawn parameters are the same as in Open World, aka it only spawns in the night. This alien super zombie drops overall better loot than the normal super zombie and it has a higher chance of dropping a sniper.
• Fixed a player spawn at the Harbor where players were spawning inside / under the terrain.
• Fixed some overall terrain issues and settings.
• Fixed some overall flying objects generally around the entire map.
• Fixed the "Fredaikis container" which is placed pretty much round the entire map. It didn't had correct physics.
  
  NOTE: Changes are planned to happen to old Colorado Survival as well as this map will still be available. This means we do plan on adding alien super zombies / loot improvements in this map very soon as well.
  
  NOTE 2: Depending on how the newer / reworked weapons are received by the community we might consider releasing them at a later moment in the Survival game mode as well.
  
  NOTE 3: For all those Survival players out there: Please keep up the amazing feedback. We plan on using and processing as much as possible to improve the Survival game mode as much / good as possible!

 

Battle Royale Updates:

TROPICO:

• Fixed a player spawn at the Harbor where players were spawning inside / under the terrain.

 

 

Estimated patch size: 250 MB

Patch ETA: Tomorrow (July 13th) - 10:00 CEST

Estimated downtime: 1 hour

 

Once again thank you for your great support! Want to support us even more? Make sure to share these patch notes with your friends and followers!

To stay updated regarding the patch and server downtime please follow us on our social media:
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Best Regards,

 

// Infestation: The New Z - Staff Team

WEEKEND EVENT!

Today is Friday and guess what? It's time for the weekend event! This weekend there will be a small surprise for you guys! Let's jump right into it:

- You will get 50% extra GC + Lifetime Premium when buying
the 100 euro package on https://playnewz.com/buygc

- All game dollar earnings will be doubled!

- Weekend Seasonal Leaderboard! The Seasonal Leaderboard will be activated during the entire weekend event. Rank 1-3 will be rewarded. Good luck!

- You will recieve your daily reward every 12h!

Start: July 6th, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)
End: July 9th, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)

The Staff Team wishes everyone a great weekend! :heart_eyes:

Register: https://playnewz.com/
Buy GC: https://playnewz.com/buygc

Today is Friday and guess what? It's time for the weekend event! We would like to bring for this weekend some more fun for you PVE players but also for our PVP players. Let's jump right into it:

 

• 25% Extra GC while buying the 20€ Package on https://playnewz.com/buygc
• You can find GD Skinboxes on random airdrops (Open World & Survival)
• Weekend Seasonal Leaderboard! The Seasonal Leaderboard will be activated during the entire weekend event. Rank 1-3 will be rewarded. Good luck!
• Hospital PVP map makes its come back during the entire weekend. Have fun!

 

START: June 29, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)
END: July 2, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)


The Staff Team wishes everyone a great weekend! 

Dear Players,

 

As promised here is the hotfix that we planned to roll out. This hotfix will contain FPS improvements, fixes for crashes and server stability and some other overall fixes. Please note that this is not a patch so therefor not a lot of changes.

Let's jump into further details:

 

FPS Issues Fix:

This patch contains numerous improvements related to players having low FPS. This issue started happening a few patches ago and is definitively the most important we have to fix. With this hotfix the main issue should be fixed. Either way:

If you stil experience FPS / performance issues after this hotfix please let us know by creating a forum thread about the issue or by creating a ticket.

Towards patch 2.19 and in the near future we have a lot more improvements coming that will give players more FPS and better performance overall. Most importantly is that those who experience issues let us know through feedback so that we can work on this!

 

Respawn System:

Based on a lot of feedback we have improved the respawn / revive system.

FOR OPEN WORLD SERVERS (Colorado V2, V1, Caliwood):

• The revive timer has been increased from 10 to 45 seconds.
  This was something requested by a lot of players and the 45 seconds is a number that we think "fixes" the issues but also a number that is averagely around the same number our community was suggesting.

FOR PVP SERVERS:

• Added a little sound to when a player spawns.
  The revive "issue" was happening in PVP server as well but what most players said was that there was no way they could know when another player spawned in behind them. Rather than increasing the timer we have decided to try something else that we think would improve the situation. If this added sound is well received by the community we consider adding it to the Open World maps too.

Please know once again that on this point we are also open to do even more improvements. If you have any feedback related to the respawn system please let us know what you think and why so that we can use that to improve the system even better.

 

Right / Left Peek Issue:

Yeah we know. We have said this a million times now. We'd just like to address the issue once again because it is definitively still an issue. At this moment the most abused is the right peek with snipers (or certain sniper rifles) where players can literally shoot from behind a shield / wall and kill another player without that other player even seeing them peek at all. This was a big and major issue and we are very happy we have fixed this so players can no longer abuse this.

Another issue was / is that during all the right peek / left peek fix attempts we might have crossed a line where some animations don't look that good anymore. There was even one animation that when shooting and aiming with an assault rifle the weapon would aim left down and totally not towards where you are actually aiming / shooting to. What we just like to say here is that we are tweaking the animations here in such a way that they still look good while at the same time players can't abuse anything. We would just like to say that also very noticeable improvements have been made here.

For further reports / issues please create a forum thread / ticket explaining us what the issue is and perhaps even show us how players abuse a certain peek so that we can look into it and fix it.

 

Server Changes:

The servers list has recently already been adressed and we are currently gathering more feedback. The main reason we are addressing the servers list is because a lot of players are playing in server regions where they're not supposed to play. What we mean with this is for example a player from Hong Kong is playing in Europe servers and not in Hong Kong servers. This behavior affects everyone but mostly the European players playing in European servers with a good connection. We addressed in the live Q&A yesterday a very important point of view:
Quote: "Players with a bad connection should never have the advantage over a player with a good connection."
WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON RELATED TO THE SERVERS LIST:

• We found out that our anti-lag system was not working as intended. This is now fixed for this hotfix and should from now always give lagging players a disadvantantage while playing.
   
• Adapt / change the server list in such a way that it fits better to the player demands for each region. We believe this will make servers more popped, giving you a better experience.

We will keep changing the servers list based on your feedback so it is extremely important as much of you guys give us feedback about the changes we do in the servers list. For more information and feedback please go to: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/5178-server-changes/

 

Other Fixes:

• Fixed an issue related to called airdrops where they would not always come when called.

 

 

Other Information:

Q&A:

A lot of the issues have been addressed in the live Q&A we did earlier this week. For those who missed it and like to get more information about what we're working on and what our plans are we highly recommend you to watch the Q&A back here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQh61wuYDco

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT PLANS:

During the live Q&A we have also talked about plans for the future. Based on that Elias, our COO, has started a discussion about some ideas we have for the game. Summarized up we are talking about missions and dynamic events. You can read more information about this here: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/5189-missions-and-events-discussion/

LATEST DEV BLOG WITH MORE OPTIMIZATIONS:

Silent is currently working on big optimizations for the servers and Open World maps. Wondering what he's doing? Read more information here: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/5183-devblog-optimizations-of-all-official-ow-maps/

 

 

 

If you experience any further issues related to this patch or related to the servers please make a support ticket at: https://playnewz.com/support.php

 

 

We are currently working on a major patch with a lot of fixes and content for patch 2.19 so stay tuned for this! Right now we aim to get the most annoying and main issues out of the way.

 

 

Estimated patch size: 80 mb.

Patch ETA: Patch is about to be rolled any time.

Estimated downtime: Server downtime will be minimal. Client & Server update are required.

Extra information: If you experience an error like "Cannot replace TheNewZ.exe ...." please go to your game installation folder and delete TheNewZ.exe manually and start your launcher again. If the issue is still not fixed go to your antivirus settings and make sure TheNewZ.exe is not blocked anywhere and whitelist it if possible.

 

 

To stay updated regarding the patch and server downtime please follow us on our social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Infestation.NewZ/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/infestationnewz
Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/thenewz

 

Best Regards,

 

// Infestation: The New Z - Staff Team

Dear Players,

(Original Post: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/5165-qa-live-stream-10-announcement/)

We would like to announce official live-stream Q&A #10! First of all we'd like to say we are very sorry there hasn't been any Q&A's lately and that's mainly due to all of the issues that had / still need to be fixed. We really feel that it's time to do another Q&A again to update you all about what's going on but also to give you all a chance to ask us what ever you want to know about the game. 

Also this time we have a new guy in the Q&A: Elias. He is our COO and a guy that has been a lot "behind the scenes" of the company. He's one of the responsible people for the game and our company and will be able to answer a lot more "in-depth" questions.
 

Q&A will take place at: https://www.twitch.tv/sven
Q&A will start at: 16:00 (CEST) June 26, 2018.

UPDATE: Q&A is finished. For those who missed it, you can watch it back here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQh61wuYDco
 

Even if you don't have any questions, which we are sure of you'll have, just come swing by to say hi! Feel also free to already ask some questions in reply to this thread as we will be discussing those as well in the live stream.

 

Best Regards and see you all tomorrow!

 

// Sven
// The New Z - Staff Team

(Original Post: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/5143-weekend-event-giveaway/)

Today is Friday and guess what? It's time for the weekend event! We would like to bring for this weekend some more fun for you PVE players but also for our PVP players. Let's jump right into it:

 

• Double XP Event during the entire weekend on Open World AND Survival mode! 
• You can find the Luna Hat everywhere in the maps. (Available on Survival and Open World.) 
• 50% discount on all Spawn Protection Colors. Check them out in the marketplace! 
• Prison PVP map will available the entire weekend. Have fun! 
• Giveaway! We are giving away a 1 week free extreme account subscription. Join here: https://www.playnewz.com/giveaway.php

 


START: June 22, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)
END: June 25, 2018 12:00 PM (CEST)

 

The Staff Team wishes everyone a great weekend!