Hi Porters,

To celebrate 16 million active users on DEATH STRANDING, the team at KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS have started a special Photo Mode campaign that will run throughout 2024 over on Instagram and Twitter/X.

To ensure as many Porters as possible can get involved, we're also running this event here on Steam!

Each month, entries will be accepted according to the theme of each month, and the 10 best photos will be selected. Out of those selected 10, KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS staff will vote for one “Photo of the Month” winner.

The 12 photos of the monthly winners will be used as the cover for each month on the 2025 KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS calendar. This calendar will be sent to the Photo of the Month winners as a prize.

• February's theme is "Connection"🤝
  
• End date for submissions: February 25th 2024.
  
• Submit your best photo mode shots here in the comments to be in with a chance of getting selected!

The following rules will apply for this Photo Mode campaign.

• Please turn off the UI when taking your picture (Photo Mode menu settings).
  
• Do not use frames and logos when taking your picture (Photo Mode menu settings).
  
• Do not use other apps to edit the pictures other than the ones in the game’s Photo Mode.
  
• Please submit your own photos(Submission will be invalid if you apply using other people’s pictures).
  
• If you are capturing it vertically (i.e. portrait), go to the Roll menu and change the settings to tilt it 90° or -90° beforehand.
  
• We recommend an aspect ratio of 16:9 (9:16 if vertical).
  
• The works selected in the top 10 and Photo of the Month may be used on KOJIMA PRODUCTION's website or social media.
  
• Please save the image data.

• The winner of Photo of the Month will receive a KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS 2025 original calendar (1 person per month, total of 12 people).
  
• This calendar will become a novelty item that includes each month’s Photo of the Month entries (Shipping is scheduled for January 2025).

More details can be found here: https://kojimaproductions.jp/en/DSPhotomodeCP

Good luck, Porter. Keep on keeping on!

- Antonela, Director of Global Community @ 505 Games

A few slide tutorials were improved, and the combat tutorial now also includes an introduction on shell items!

• In Ground Realistic Battles, active scouting of a recently destroyed enemy (less than 1 second ago) is no longer considered a miss and blocks the reuse of scouting for 6 seconds, which is the same time for a successful scout, rather than for 45 seconds.
  
• Starting with the Sword of Justice event, the cost of purchasing an event stage with Golden Eagles will be significantly reduced when the player reaches 85% and 95% progress in completing a stage.
  
• Disappearance and deformation of textures when using the latest NVIDIA video card drivers has been fixed.

The current provided changelog reflects the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates, additions and fixes may not be listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving and specific fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

Hello Divers!
Fresh patch notes coming in

🌍 Overview
For this patch, our major areas of focus were

• Resolving crashes.
  
• Improving matchmaking functionality.
  
• Optimizing our server
  
• Defend event updates

🔧 Fixes
The following issues have been fixed for this version.
Matchmaking

• Playfab optimization
  
• Playfab environment optimized - All lobbies now have proper data to run more effective matchmaking
  
• Filtering optimization
  
• We are optimizing the filter system when players are searching for lobbies, so that it excludes already full lobbies.
  
• Stability and crashes
  
• We have fixed three of our top crashes in the game, including particle renderer crashes and ragdoll crashes.
  
• Fixed an issue where the application prioritized integrated graphics over some GPU in laptops.
  
• Defend Events and Major Orders.
  
• For readability purposes, we added a visual progression indicator to major order defend events

🧠 Known Issues
These are issues that were either introduced by this patch and are being worked on, or are from a previous version and have not yet been fixed.

• Players may still experience some instability while matchmaking.
  
• Background music, Sound effects and JP audio does not play during the opening cutscene. Japanese VO is also missing from the Ship TV.

A weekly gift for our most active players!

Copy the promo code into the special window in the game's GXP store in the "Gifts" section, and the gift will end up in your GXP backpack!

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We wish you a pleasant game!

We strive to provide a fun and fair gaming experience for all our players. Our team carefully monitors and actively removes players who do not adhere to the Operational Policy and Terms of Use.

>> Operational Policy
>> Terms of Use

We maintain a zero-tolerance policy against the use of unauthorized programs or software, manipulation or tampering of game data, and intentional exploitation of game systems.

To date, we have permanently restricted more than 14,055,400 accounts.

[Accounts Banned or Restricted]
- Applicable Date: Friday, Feb. 16th, 2024
- Number of Accounts: 2,744 (Total 14,055,439)
- Reason: Use of unauthorized programs & Violation of Operational Policy

*If you wish to make an appeal for the restriction imposed onto your account, please submit a support ticket through our official website.

(https://cs.mir4global.com/customer)

Inquiry Route : Contact Us > Account > Objection of restriction

※ Please note that it may take a long time to receive an answer if you don't submit your inquiry ticket through the route above.

We will continue to do our best in order to ensure a safe, fair, and fun gaming environment for all our players.

“Go for it! Ancient Weapon Holly-chan” vol.3 is now available!

Holly has sworn revenge and is aiming for the surface, but she also shows a surprising side to everyone except her enemies...?

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Copy the promo code into the special window in the game's GXP store in the "Gifts" section, and the gift will end up in your GXP backpack!

Promo code:

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❗Promo code is valid until February 21

We wish you a pleasant game!

Weekend is here!

Good mood, smiles and gifts are perfectly combined with it. By the way, this is for you!

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