Apr 25, 2019

Infestation: The New Z - Silenterror

Dear Community

Are you ready? We are very excited to announce this Weekend Event.

Start: April 26, 2019 12:00 PM (CEST)

End: April 29, 2019 12:00 PM (CEST)

Now, let's jump into further details:

Easter After-Party
- Easter Eggs of different colors will be spawning again on the Easter parts of the maps, this will allow players to finish Easter Festival Contracts Part 2.
Cliffside Survival
- You will be able to play Cliffside during this event.
  - Only in Survival.
Characters For GD
- 3 random characters in the marketplace are going to be purchasable with GD (GameDollar).
Deluxe Subscription Discount
- During this event, you will have 20% discount on the Deluxe Subscription which you only can get through our website.
  - NOT the in-game subscription!
  - Only available on https://playnewz.com/buygc
  - This discount only counts the first month, the second one will have no discount.

Weekend Event Sale
- Special weekend event sale is also active during this time. Check the picture below for more information.

We would also like to remind players if they experience any issues regarding the game to please contact us.

Official Support: https://playnewz.com/support.php/

Twitch Drops: https://playnewz.com/drops.php

Partnership Program: https://playnewz.com/partners.php

Last Patch Notes/News: https://playnewz.com/news

Feedback: https://playnewz.com/feedback

The entire staff team wishes everyone a great weekend!

// The New Z - Staff Team

Apr 16, 2019

Patch 2.33

Infestation: The New Z - Boss

Dear Community,

(Original Post: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/7634-patch-233/)

It's almost Easter and that means time for a patch! This time we have added a lot of Easter content which is all part of the Easter 2019 event that is starting soon. Next to that we have made some improvements overall and we have done some performance optimizations. Overall a nice patch!

Now, let's jump into the patch notes.

Easter 2019 event:
https://youtu.be/07g0Ij6s5DA
With Easter upon us, we will be doing a week long event to celebrate this special date!

New theme skins (which will be limited) will be brought out! You will be able to hunt for Easter Eggs on the map and also have Easter Egg wars with friends and enemies.

There will also be a special character model given to all players during the event to celebrate this Holiday.

In addition to all these goodies that you'll be able to find in game, you will also be able to farm and farm and farm as we will also be having Double XP and Double GD during the week.

More information about the Easter 2019 event can be found at: http://playnewz.com/event or go to: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/7632-easter-festival-event-2019/

Overall Updates:

EVENT:

Every map now has Easter 2019 areas which are specially made for the Easter 2019 event. These areas are placed in the maps and will be filled with special loot, zombies and more event related stuff.
- More information will come soon in a separate Easter 2019 event announcement.

GENERAL:

Fixed an issue with server passwords and the recent / favorite games list.
Fixed an issue where it was not working to hide your missions in the screen with "L" (default).
Fixed an issue in the Russian language which was causing crashes.
Fixed an issue in the Chinese language which was causing crashes.

MODELS:

Fixed the LODs of the office building. These LODs were added the last patch and were causing some issues.
Fixed the Convention Center and created LODs for it.

Item & Skin Updates:

ADDITIONS:

Added a bunch of Easter content for the Easter 2019 event. More Information about the Easter 2019 event will come soon.
- New grenades have been added:
  - Easter Grenade Yellow.
  - Easter Grenade Green.
  - Easter Grenade Blue.
  - Easter Grenade Light Blue.
  - Easter Grenade Red.
- New consumables have been added:
  - Easter Egg Yellow.
  - Easter Egg Green.
  - Easter Egg Blue.
  - Easter Egg Red.
  - Easter Egg Orange.
  - Easter Bunny Chocolate.
  - More. (Announced soon)
- Also added some cosmetics, skins and sprays for the Easter 2019 event.
  - 8 new Sprays have been added. (more information follow on the release date)
  - Around 10 skins have been added. (more information follow on the release date)
  - More information about the Easter 2019 event can be found at: http://playnewz.com/event or go to: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/7632-easter-festival-event-2019/
Added a new Riot Shield for the clan called v5k.
Added a new Media Riot Shield for the streamer KoolKid Edgar.
Added a new Media Riot Shield for the streamer 37Frauen.
Added a new Media Riot Shield for the streamer Kill3r.

CHANGES:

Updated the Custom Guerilla UNIT textures because it looked too similar to another skin set.
Updated the Heavy Armor UNIT textures because it looked too similar to another skin set.
Updated the MP7 Banana Kong skin.

FIXES:

Fixed the materials for all the Infinity skins which were too bright. This was mainly in the Caliwood map.
Fixed the skin recipe of the Custom Guerilla Helix and Rapido.

Open World Updates:

Trading Lounge (Open World):

The trading lounge is now in Easter style! This for the Easter 2019 event.
Updated the shadows on ultra quality settings.

Caliwood (Open World):

Updated terrain settings to improve performance.
Updated depth of field settings to improve performance.
Fixed the small military area under the bridge which was completely flying. (Reported by the community)

Colorado V1 (Open World):

Updated terrain settings to improve performance.

Rocky Ford (Open World):

Added back a red house to Rocky Ford. (Requested by the community)

Competitive Updates:

Maps:

We are going to update the available maps in the PVP Servers section. The map "Hangar" is going to get removed and the map "West Oaks" is going to be added. We will see how this rotation is received by the community and based on that we can implement further changes & improvements.

GENERAL:

Players can now see the amount of players queuing in that region when queuing. Hopefully this will motivate players more to stay longer in a queue; before players would leave when queuing for 5 minutes because a game wasn't starting. This is a very understandable behavior but unfortunately that has lead to not a lot of games starting and a lot of players not being able to play this game-mode yet. (Here is how it looks BTW:)

Village (Competitive):

Contest point B has been moved more towards the defending team's spawn.
Fixed the camera of the end screen for the attacking team. (Team that ended attacking in the final round)

Smallville (Competitive):

Added more smaller props and objects around the map to improve gameplay and give more cover for players.
Fixed the flying objects in the mechanic buildings.

Clearview (Competitive):

Added more smaller props and objects around the map to improve gameplay and give more cover for players.
Removed the big truck at contest point B. Players could glitch inside this truck and abuse that.

Survival Updates:

Maps:

We are going to update the available maps in Survival. Based on a poll and feedback from the community we will change the available official maps. This means that after this patch only Oregon and Colorado V1 will be on the official list. Colorado V2 will still be available but only as private server.
Note: Content of the lockers that are placed on the disappearing servers will automatically be moved to the player's global inventories.

Oregon (Survival):

Fixed the terrain under the bridge. Players were able to glitch inside of the terrain at some places and abuse that.

Colorado V1 (Survival):

Updated terrain settings to improve performance.

Colorado (Survival):

Updated terrain settings to improve performance.

Cliffside (Survival):

Added a Survival version of Cliffside for upcoming events. More information about this and the release will come soon.

Battle Royale Updates:

Arizona V2 (Battle Royale):

Fixed the new open buildings and also added interior props and loot to them.
Fixed some flying rocks close to the school.
Removed all the big rocks from the entire map. (There was some issues with them)

Estimated patch size: around 250 mb.

Patch ETA: Around 9-10 AM (CEST) on Tuesday April 16.

Estimated downtime: Around 1 hour. We will try to keep the downtime as little as needed.

Pre-patch notes might be changed if we need to fix / add something.

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!

For any feedback about the game or this patch please let us know at http://playnewz.com/feedback

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

Apr 15, 2019

Easter Festival Event 2019

Infestation: The New Z - Silenterror

It's Easter again! That means a brand new event week in The New Z! We are very excited to share what's happening this week with you all! First of all we would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter. For this week we have a lot planned; sales, new content, events, discounts, giveaways and more!

Before we jump into any event details let's make clear over what period of time this event is taking place:

Start: April 17, 12:00 (CEST) 2019.

End: April 24, 12:00 (CEST) 2019.

Also, you can also view the event information at: https://playnewz.com/event.php

Now, let's jump into the details:

Easter Festival Contracts:

This year we are bringing a kind of Quest into the Event which includes Contract Part 1, 2 and 3. You have to finish these contracts as often you can to collect Easter Trophies to be able to finish part 3 and to get the final prize of the Easter Festival Event.
- Contract Part 1:
  - You have to eat 50 Easter Choco Bunnies to get one Easter Trophy.
- Contract Part 2:
  - You have to collect 50 easter eggs to get one Easter Trophy.
    - Part 2 has 5 different versions since there are different colored eggs find-able.
- Contract Part 3:
  - You have to collect 10 Easter Trophies to get the Easter Festival Bunny Suit.
    - The Bunny Suit contains 2 items, one for the body and one for the head.

Easter Festival Places:

We have added Easter Festival places on every map in Open World and Survival.
- These places are mainly for the Easter Festival Contracts but can also be used to farm Easter Festival Content.

Double XP / GD:

During Easter 2019 there will be a double XP and GD event. Here are the details:
- Double XP: Start: Friday, April 19, 12:00 (CEST) 2019. End: Wednesday, April 24, 12:00 (CEST) 2019.
- Double GD: Start: Friday, April 19, 12:00 (CEST) 2019. End: Wednesday, April 24, 12:00 (CEST) 2019.

Free Revive Weekend:

During the "Free Revive Weekend" revives are free in every game-mode for every type of account.
Start: Friday, April 19, 12:00 (CEST) 2019. End: Monday, April 22, 12:00 (CEST) 2019.

Easter Giveaways:

We will be doing special Easter giveaways on our social media channels!

Easter Items:

The following items will be released and available in-game during the Easter 2019 event:
- Easter Grenades in all kinds of colors.
- Easter eggs (consumables) in all kinds of colors.
- Various candy. (newly added) (consumables)
- Easter Bunny Suit + Easter Bunny Head. (combination)
- Skins for items such as: Custom Guerilla, Small Backpack, K. Style NVG, M. Style Helmet & more.
- Sprays:
- Head gear such as: Chicken Head, Pirate Mouse Head, Girl Head, Bunny Head & more.
- Easter Egg Basket 2019. This basket will contain all the skins and sprays from this year.
- All other previous released Easter content from previous years.

Easter Character Clothes:

During Easter 2019 we will release a brand new character clothes set. Every player who logs in during the Easter 2019 events will receive these Easter 2019 character clothes after the event. These character clothes won't be available in the marketplace and can only be obtained by playing during the event.

Special Easter Sales:

During the event we will be doing special sales.

Easter Themed Menu:

During the event the game-menu and launcher will be in Easter style.

Easter Zombies:

During the event zombies in both Open World and Survival will wear and drop Easter items.

More:

More events will happen but they will remain a secret! Stay tuned on our social media channels.

Once again we'd like to remind you that you can also go to https://playnewz.com/event.php for further information.

For now we wish you all a happy Easter.

Have fun!

// The New Z - Staff Team

Apr 1, 2019

Patch 2.32

Infestation: The New Z - Boss

Dear Community,

(Original Post: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/7514-patch-232/)

We are trolling out a small hotfix today mainly to fix the bugs in the new Competitive game-mode and also including fixes for every game-mode. We are also very happy to announce that we have new servers for the North America region. There might be some downtime in this region today; stay tuned on our social media channels for further updates regarding this matter.

We also wanted to say thank you to all of those who helped us test the Competitive game-mode during the stress test and for bringing up a lot of feedback which helped us to improve this new game-mode. Those who have missed this or like to receive more information regarding the new Competitive game-mode please read the following announcement: http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/7442-competitive-beta-now-open/

Overall Updates:

GENERAL:

Updated the Russian language with the newest Competitive text.
Updated the Thai language with the newest Competitive text.
Updated the German language with the newest Competitive text.
Updated the Portuguese language with the newest Competitive text.
Updated the Chinese language with the newest Competitive text.
Updated the French language with the newest Competitive text.
Updated the Spanish language with the newest Competitive text.

MODELS:

Fixed the LODs of the Office which was causing problems in every map.

PING SYSTEM:

Added a little sound notification to the ping.
Reworked the ping icon. It's now more visible.

FAC Updates (Anti-Cheat):

GENERAL:

FAC has gotten a big improvement.

Item & Skin Updates:

CHANGES:

Changed the iron sight of the G36 Battle Royale to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the G36 Canada to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the G36 Elite to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the MP7 BananaKong to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the MP7 Specialist to a skinned version.
Updated the MP7 Banana Kong skin.
Changed the iron sight of the FN P90 S Vindicator to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the FN P90 S Destruction to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the FN P90 Skully Pink to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the FN P90 Halloween to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the FN P90 Indy to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the FN P90 Red Roses to a skinned version.
Changed the iron sight of the FN P90 Trigon Wave to a skinned version.

FIXES:

Fixed the material files for all Infinity skins which were too bright mainly in Caliwood.

Open World Updates:

TRADING LOUNGE (Open World):

Updated the shadows on ultra quality settings.

Competitive:

OVERALL:

Fixed a bug causing weapons to not drop during the game round.
When a game is cancelled due to players not joining the server, a message will show in the disconnect reason.
Contesting the point now produces Overtime as long as the contest point doesn't drop to 0%.
If you leave a game and rejoin your money and stats don't get lost anymore.
Added a notification now everytime you get money for any reason.
Fixed a visual chat but regarding kill streaks.
Fixed a bug related to purchasing support items.
Contesting speed has been reduced.
Added kill assists:
- If another player inflicts a significant amount of damage on your kill, get will get an assist.
- Assists grant extra money to that player. (50% of the normal kill amount)

VILLAGE (Competitive):

Moved the Contest Point B more towards the defender spawn
Fixed the camera of the attacker team

SMALLVILLE (Competitive):

Added more cover all over the map
Fixed the flying objects in the mechanics

CLEARVIEW (Competitive):

Removed the truck from Contest Point B where a player could easily contest without getting shotted
Added more cover all over the map

Survival Updates:

OVERALL:

Fixed a bug where you could not use skinned objects to craft.
Canceling a craft queue that used multiple non-stackable objects will no longer return them stacked.

CRAFTING:

The "Hunter Backpack" is now craftable. Players can craft this backpack using 10x Military Backpack, 1000x cloth, 250x leather and 10x thread.

Battle Royale Updates:

ARIZONA V2 (Battle Royale):

Fixed the new open buildings and also added interior and loot to it.
Fixed some flying rocks close to the school.

Estimated patch size: 100MB

Patch ETA: max. 1 hour

Estimated downtime: max. 1 hour

Pre-patch notes might be changed if we need to fix / add something.

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!

For any feedback about the game or this patch please let us know at http://playnewz.com/feedback

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