Infestation: Battle Royale News

Hey Survivors!

Today the Twitch stream event starts. That means, you only have to stream our game in one of our sections on Twitch and you will earn GC for FREE!

Rules:
Stream at least 25 hours in total during this event and you will earn 3,500 GC as a reward.
Please read the following rules before:
- Make sure your Past Broadcast is enabled.
- You need to have 25 hours in total. Example 5x 5 hours, etc.
- Streaming AFK or in just lobbies will not count
- Make sure your Twitch account is linked to New Z.
- After you streamed the 25 hours in total, you submit a ticket to us right at https://playnewz.com/support.
- Only currently active accounts and not secondary accounts

Start: NOW!
End: 04.01.2020

More information: https://playnewz.com/event

Enjoy streaming and stay safe!

Hey Survivors!

Our yearly Xmas event just started.
The first step will be Double XP in all game modes and Double Currency in Arcade, Battle Royale, and Competitive.

Start: 18.12.2020
End: 22.12.2020

This event is running on Officials and privates.

More information can be found here:
https://playnewz.com/event

Xmas 2020 Giveaway:
https://playnewz.com/giveaway

Have a nice weekend!

 

'Tis the season of giving! The end of the year holidays are upon us and we're bringing this year's Xmas Event! Since it is the season of giving, we will be bringing a lot of content that can be found in-game! A new full skin set of Christmas skins so you can show your love for this magic night will be available not only on the servers but also from the in-game store. Also, take part in the Twitch event to earn some FREE GC by following extremely simple rules!

Join in the festivities and hunt for presents under the trees! With a special event where there will be special crates containing Xmas items only in the Official Server. That will also ensure a lot of fighting over these goodies and will make them even more worth your time!

So put on your elf ears, Santa hat or stick a carrot on your nose and celebrate this Christmas with us!

Happy hunting!

 

Start: 18.12.2020, 12:00PM CET
End: 04.01.2021, 12:00PM CET


Now let's start with the Xmas 2020 Skinbox.
 


and more!

 

Just like every year, we will have Xmas trees with presents all over every map! Go and find them!

and more!


This year we are also creating an event within the event. We have added a special Xmas crate that contains the Xmas 2020, other Skinboxes and more!
NOTE: This crate will only spawn on Official Servers and give you only 1 item at a time.




Xmas 2020 Character clothes that are available in the in-game store.





 

Here you can find the list of upcoming events with dates and explanation:

 

18.12. - 04.01.2021

• Xmas 2020 Skinbox release
  • Can be found in-game from Super Zombies and in Radiation zones
  • Can be bought through the in-game store for 250GC each
  • Added as a winner prize and random premium reward to Battle Royale
• Xmas 2020 character clothes release
  • Can be bought through the customization tab of your character. Remember: that unlocking it on one character will unlock it for all characters in all game modes!
• Release of Xmas 2020 Sprays
  • You will be able to purchase the Xmas 2020 sprays in the ingame store or find them ingame
• Release of the Xmas 2020 loot
  • Xmas loot such as Candies, Breads, Contracts and more will be spawning at the Xmas trees
  • Xmas 2020 Key Card will be spawning at the Xmas trees and inside the Xmas 2020 crates.
• Release of the Xmas 2020 themed Trading Lounge (Arcade)
• Release of the Winter PVP map (Arcade)
• Start of the Xmas 2020 Seasonal Leaderboard
• Xmas themed Zombies

 

18.12. - 22.12.2020

• Double Currency (Arcade + Battle Royale + Competitive)
• Double Experience

 

20.12. - 25.12.2020

• Double Skinbox rewards in the following game modes:
  • Competitve
  • Battle Royale
• Double Random rewards

 

23.12. - 04.01.2021

• Twitch stream event.
  • Stream at least 25 hours in total during this event and you will earn 3,500 GC as a reward.
    Please read the following rules before:
    - Make sure your Past Broadcast is enabled. If you don't know how to check out this article CLICK HERE
    - You need to have 25 hours in total. Example 5x 5 hours, etc.
    - Streaming AFK or in just lobbies will not count
    - Make sure your Twitch account is linked to New Z. If you don't know how to do that, check out this article CLICK HERE
    - After you streamed the 25 hours in total, you submit a ticket to us right HERE. (You have to log in using your game account)
    - Only currently active accounts and not secondary accounts

 

24.12. - 27.12.2020

• Free Premium Xmas
  • During the celebration of Xmas 2020 we will give every player Premium!
• Free Premium Daily Rewards

 

29.12. - 01.01.2021

• Double Currency (Arcade + Battle Royale + Competitive)
• Double Experience

 

01.01. - 04.01.2021

• Free Revive In Arcade
  • You will be able to revive for Free during this weekend
• Double Daily Rewards
  • Premium Daily reward will be delivered twice a day by Santa!

 

*Start and end time depends of the day because of the vacations.
 

The entire Fredaikis Team wishes everyone happy holidays and a happy New Years Eve, stay safe!

 

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

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SUMMARY:

• Made changes for easier navigation on the in-game inventory, which can be disabled through the options menu.
• Added Holiday music to the menu.
• Major server crashes have been fixed.
• Changed the VOIP system to a more reliable one. 
• Fixed a bug with a dead body hit reg. 
• Added FPS Cap option.
• Added the option for server owners to add Winter Mode to their private servers.
• Reworked the look of the Airdrop after it's been open. That way you will know if the Airdrop has been opened already.
• Made more tweaks to weapons. Lowered overall Spread on them, but also lowered the reduction from attachments. That way they will feel the same way as they currently do with full attachments, but are improved overall with no attachments.
• Buffed Karambit.
• Nerfed Saiga.
• Fixed some physics issues on the maps.
• Added "Overgrowth" back to buildings in Survival.

Full Patch Notes:

GENERAL CHANGES

USER INTERFACES AND MENUS:

• Added a key-bind to drop the item currently selected from the in-game inventory. 
• Added a new Tutorial image to explain the in-game HUD. You can access it by pressing on the icon  ?  or by pressing F1.
• Fixed some localization in some languages.
• Fixed a few UI bugs in Battle Royale.
• Added a new Holiday song to the menu. You can toggle it on the Options Menu.
• Menu music does not play if you are tabbed out of the game. 

GENERAL FIXES & CHANGES:

• Fixed several crashes both Server and Client-sided.
• Added an FPS Cap option to the settings.
• Changed the VOIP system from TeamSpeak to Vivox. 
  • Vivox is a much more reliable and modern system. For most of you, you won't feel much of a difference, but  disconnecting randomly from VOIP will be greatly decreased.
• Double-clicking in the inventory will now use/equip/attach an item (you can disable that option from the Options Menu)
• Added an option to add "Winter Mode" to your private servers.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Slicer Icon to appear randomly on the map multiple times.
• Fixed a bug related to dead body hit reg.
• Fixed placing a shield on dead bodies.
• Fixed an issue with eating food that could remove your shield.
• Fixed an issue with Competitive Matches not starting in Oceania

ITEM CHANGES

ADDITIONS & CHANGES:

• Reworked the Airdrop Icons.
• Added a new model to show the Airdrop has already been open. That way you will be able to see if it's been open or not from afar.

• Added a few new Airdrop types. More information soon.
• Reworked the icon for a few items:
  • AR Barrel
  • Sniper Barrel
  • AR Stock
  • Sniper Stock
  • Snow Man Barricade
• Changed the damage from the Karambit.
  • Player Damage: From 50 to 80.
  • Zombie Damage: From 80 to 105
• Decreased the spread of guns globally. 
  • This means all weapons have had their spread reduced slightly so they can be used well without attachments. 
• Decreased the spread reduction on all attachments.
  • This means at the end, with full attachments, you will have the guns as good as they currently are, but the difference from no attachments to full attachments will be lower. 
• Decreased the damage and decay (distance to start having a reduction in damage) of the Saiga
  • Damage from 27 to 25.
  • Decay from 5 to 4.
• Increased the damage of the grenade on Zombies.
  • From 140 to 160.
• Changed the cooldown of the Wood Shields in Arcade back to what it was.

 

SKINS & SKINBOXES:

• Fixed the Scope on the Hynx v2 OTS-SVU.
• Fixed the material files for the M4 Apocalypse.

ARCADE

GENERAL

• Loot:
  • Improved the respawn timer of the crates in the secret spots.

MAPS

• Colorado: 
  • Fixed a physics model at the airport where you were able to go through a wall.

SURVIVAL

FIXES & CHANGES

• You can no longer deal damage to Group Members in Survival. Unfortunately, this was being heavily abused against new players. 

LOOT:

• Loot will continue being tweaked as we get general feedback. These changes do not require game patches to go live and we will keep you posted on those on the official Discord.

MAPS:

• OREGON
  • Fixed some misplaced staircases in Rio.
  • Improved some terrain near the Airport.
  • Increased food spawns overall.
  • Added more vehicle spawns and increased the spawn chances.

• COLORADO V1
  • Fixed the missing helicopter crash icon at Whitestone mountain.
  • Decreased the sound volume of the global ambient sound.
  • We are adding back the "Overgrowth" on buildings. This was something classic in I:SS and people voted to have it back. This is still a work in progress and we will continue adding to other buildings.
  • Some buildings are also closed again but don't worry, it's not done yet and we might open some again such as the restaurant.
  • Added some more trees around Clearview to protect players who are just spawning in.

 

CHRISTMAS EVENT



More information on this year's Christmas Event VERY soon!!!

 

 

Estimated patch size: 300MB

Estimated downtime: 2 hours

Estimated Patch time: 16.12.2020 10:00AM CET

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 updates with your friends and followers!

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

If you'd like to share suggestions and ideas you have for the game please let us know at https://suggest.playnewz.com/

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Dear Community,

Today is Friday and that means WEEKEND!
For this weekend event we'll have it live for the following period of time:
 

START: December 11, 2020 12:00 PM (CET)

END: December 14, 2020 12:00 PM (CET)
 

Now, let's jump into further details about this Weekend Event:

1. Clearview PVP [PVP]
   We are going to release a new version of Clearview as PVP map. This map will replace Rocky Ford and will include the perk Double Reputation during this weekend.
    
2. Melee Only [BR]
   During this event you will only find melee weapons to fight against others to win the prize for the best.
   NOTE: Early matches may still have some weapons spawning, as loot takes some time to be recached.
    
3. Double GD on Officials [AC]
   You will earn the double amount of game dollars on all Colorado Official servers during this event.
    
4. Double Reputation on Officials [SV]
   All reputations earned will be doubled on the following servers:
   Survival 002 + 003 (US, EU, HK,SA)
   Survival 002 (OCE)

• MARKETPLACE SALE!
  This week we are doing a sale on the Skin recipes and Skinboxes!
  Note: This sale is a weekly one so it has already started before the weekend event and does not have the same start-end times as the weekend event.

AC= Arcade
SV= Survival/I:SS
BR= Battle Royale
ALL= All game modes
PVP= PVP servers
CP= Competitive

 

Please let us know what you think of this weekend event so that we can use that feedback in the future for new weekend events! If you have any ideas or suggestions feel free to share that as well as we might be able to use your idea for upcoming weekend events!

Have any feedback for the weekend event? Feel free to share that with us at http://forums.fredaikis.com/index.php?/topic/8532-feedback-weekend-event/

 

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

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

If you'd like to share suggestions and ideas you have for the game please let us know at https://suggest.playnewz.com/

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We wish everyone a great weekend!