As I'm sure you've noticed, I've missed the intended launch date for the level 50 update :( This is due to:

- The Easter events for both games taking up more of my time than previously planned. I basically couldn't make any progress on DF2 until Easter had already ended.

- The new mutations taking a lot more work than I thought. I correctly estimated the coding time, but failed to take into account how long it would take to manually place and adjust the mutations for all 27 enemy types. I also had some unexpected performance problems which took a fair bit of working around.

- The storyline has taken a bit longer to implement and test than planned as well as there is quite a lot fiddling required to get all 18,000 words correctly formatted and getting things like the timing of subtitles totally correct etc.

Here is where I'm up to:
- 40 New Weapons (including assault rifles) COMPLETE
- New Boss A COMPLETE
- New Boss B COMPLETE
- New Boss C COMPLETE
- New Boss D COMPLETE
- Crafting System COMPLETE
- Various bug fixes and optimisations COMPLETE
- New Zombie Variants COMPLETE
- Story Line Final Implementation 95% COMPLETE
- New Uniques, Skills, Items and miscellaneous code for level 50 (eta 2 weeks)
- Testing and Balancing (eta 2 weeks)

As you can see I've decided to increase the ETA on last two items from 1 week each, to 2 weeks each as I want to minimise the fallout that usually occurs after a big update. This new ETA will bring us to somewhere around June 20th.

Sorry to everyone who was looking forward to early May. I'm annoyed at myself because the early part of the update had gone really well. On the upside I'm pretty confident that there won't be any further unexpected delays as the rest of the work from here should be fairly straightforward (its pretty much just data entry).

I'll leave you with another little sneak peak of one of our many new types of basic infected :)

Everyone gets +25% EXP and +100% Aim Speed this weekend!

Everyone gets +25% EXP and +25% Unique Find Chance this weekend!

Everyone gets +25% EXP and +25% Headshot Damage this weekend!

Everyone gets +25% EXP and +30% Damage VS Mutant this weekend!

Everyone gets +25% EXP and +30% Damage Zombie this weekend!

P.S Here is a sneak peak of one of our upcoming zombie types :)

From now until Sunday April 11th you can:

• Follow the clues and craft a special reward in our daily scavenger hunt!
  
• Loot a powerful new unique item that is only available this Easter
  
• Take down Easter infected that grant large amounts of bonus EXP!
  
• Join in with Easter themed challenge events!
  
• Loot some Easter Eggs and enjoy the sugar rush
  
• Get +100% EXP, +100% Ammo Loot, +100% Elite Find Chance AND +100% Unique Find Chance!
  
• Get 20% off on all credits and membership packages

Check the #df2-scavenger-hunt-announcements channel on our Discord (https://discord.com/invite/deadfrontier2) for the first scavenger hunt clue and check back at **12pm UTC** (midday) each day of the event for more clues. The first one to find the egg and post their username in #df2-scavenger-hunt-submissions each day wins 1000 credits :)

Starting early on Friday April 2nd (Good Friday) and continuing until Sunday April 11th you will be able to:

• Loot a powerful new unique item that is only available this Easter
  
• Follow the clues and unlock a special reward in our daily scavenger hunt!
  
• Take down Easter infected that grant large amounts of bonus EXP!
  
• Join in with Easter themed challenge events!
  
• Loot some Easter Eggs and enjoy the sugar rush
  
• Get +100% EXP, +100% Ammo Loot, +100% Elite Find Chance AND +100% Unique Find Chance!

The scavenger hunt begins at 12pm UTC (midday) each day in our Discord (https://discord.com/invite/deadfrontier2) and the first person to solve the clue, find the Silver Easter Egg and post proof wins 1000 credits. Note that even you are unable to be online at this time you can still get the egg later in the day (until next reset). You will need to collect at least 8 Silver Easter Eggs to get your reward.

Miss it at your peril!

Quick Progress Update 2: Electric Boogaloo
Just wanted to let you guys know how things are going with the level 50 update. Here is my progress so far and what is left to do:

• 40 New Weapons (including assault rifles) COMPLETE
  
• New Boss A COMPLETE
  
• New Boss B COMPLETE
  
• New Boss C COMPLETE
  
• New Boss D COMPLETE
  
• Crafting System COMPLETE
  
• Various bug fixes and optimisations COMPLETE
  
• New Zombie Variants (eta 2 weeks)
  
• Story Line Final Implementation (eta 1 week)
  
• New Uniques, New Consumable Items and miscellaneous code for level 50 (eta 1 week)
  
• Testing and Balancing (eta 1 week)

As you can see some things have changed from the previous plan. I ended up adding an extra boss and a crafting system (partly because I needed it for Easter). I've also added a week to implement the story as this has ended up being a lot more complex than I had previously thought.

Unfortunately I've decided to remove the new clothing from the plan because our character artist (Dobrin) has been sick with a heart condition recently and therefore he's had to slow down the pace of his work. The new clothing will be here eventually, but it won't be finished in time for the level 50 update unfortunately. We are adding a lot of new stuff though so when it finally drops it should be worth the wait :)

Right now I am 100% focused on getting the Easter events ready in both games (I'll be announcing them on Monday), but starting April 5th I'll be able to put all my energy into DF2 again and hopefully have the level 50 content out in early May.

I'll leave you with a screenshot of one of our new zombie variants. Hope you like it! :)

Everyone gets +50% EXP this weekend :)