Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days News

[p][/p][p][/p][h3]Although it's not necessary to access new content, we recommend starting a new playthrough for the best experience.[/h3][p][/p][h2]Heart of Darkness
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• [p]Added a new Escape Plan: Heart of Darkness. [/p]
• [p]Added three new locations: Researcher Camp, Route 86 and Pickett Stadium. [/p]
• [p]Added a new recruitable survivor. [/p]
• [p]Added new NPCs. [/p]
• [p]Added a new Survivor Mission.[/p]

[p][/p][p]To kick off the Heart of Darkness plan, visit 319 Schrader St (entrance), Texway Gas Hart St (entrance), Old Ballard (entrance) or the Bowen St Construction Site (after the first ledge). You may need to go to more than one location to trigger it. After that, the leads are located at Vivaldi's, Fire Station No.13, Mercer High School, Texway Gas Green St, 15 Independence Boulevard and Briarwood Motel and you need to visit 2 locations to unlock the Plan. Hint: visiting all of the locations could be useful...
[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Adjustments[/h2]

• [p]Added new animations for survivors as they walk into a scavenging location.[/p]
• [p]Added different visuals for different levels of workstations as players upgrade them.[/p]
• [p]Updated the balancing for the starting barricade health across all shelters and the items that survivors start with in their first shelter.[/p]
• [p]General graphics optimization to increase performance.[/p]
• [p]Updated zombie spawns at Texway Gas Hart St, 22 Springwood Drive, Aunty Mae's Truck Stop Diner, Texway Gas Green St, The Hitchpost, Bottle Hill Ruin, Stanton and Sons Meats. [/p]
• [p]Added additional relationship day log events that only trigger between opposing personality types. Also added more delays between some of the random events like arguing about supplies, pulling weight, etc so that they don't trigger repeatedly too often for the same survivors.[/p]
• [p]"Missing a loved one" morale influence has now more nuance when it is triggered, depending on the relationship an affected survivor has with the person who died/left.[/p]
• [p]Updated the day log so that if players select a State in the list, it will show the State's description.[/p]
• [p]Removed the "Have your say" button from the Main Menu.[/p]
• [p]Improvements to zombie grabs to reduce the out-of-sync difference between zombie and survivor animations.[/p]
• [p]Survivors are now immune to being grabbed or taking damage during the sequence when they're leaving a location and the player doesn't have control over them. [/p]
• [p]Tweaks to character physics to reduce chances of getting stuck falling at various locations.[/p]
• [p]Tweaks to the hitboxes for the Machete and Spiked Baseball Bat.[/p]

[p][/p][h2]Fixes[/h2]

• [p]Fixed an issue where a weapon would auto-equip when players used "Transfer All" into a survivor’s backpack, given some players are unarmed on purpose.[/p]
• [p]Fixed the invisible cover point visual behind the truck before the front door in Victory Meat Processing.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where survivors could vault over a ledge in the wrong direction.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where survivors sometimes became invulnerable while they were walking into a door.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a minor memory leak.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a visual bug to do with a misaligned doorframe in the Abandoned Kosyaire Factory.[/p]
• [p]Fixed various zombie and level bugs in St Bernadette Hospital.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where zombies could get stuck in windows if survivors pushed them there after a grab/struggle.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where zombies could get stuck running into survivors.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where zombies in the aggressive, searching or frantic searching states stopped being able to sense noise, making it easier for them to lose track of survivors. This also fixes an issue where zombies would turn around before going into the searching state.[/p][p][/p]

[p] [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]A smaller update with some quality of life improvements, including weapon swapping and improved shelter management. 
[/p][p]See you in the Discord: [/p][p]https://discord.gg/Xd8RPnRZjx[/p][p][/p][p]Harriet &
the Into the Dead team[/p]

[p][/p][p]It's nearly time for our first Early Access update of the 2026! Update #7 brings you Heart of Darkness, an all new Escape Plan out of Walton City.[/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][p]We're a New Zealand based team and we'll be releasing the update for everyone on Steam on Thursday 15 January at around 1:00pm our time. This is: [/p][p][/p]

• [p]Wednesday 14 Jan @ 4:00pm PST [/p]
• [p]Wednesday 14 Jan @ 7:00pm EDT [/p]
• [p]Thursday 15 Jan @ 12:00am GMT [/p]
• [p]Thursday 15 Jan @ 3:00am MSK [/p]
• [p]Thursday 15 Jan @ 8:00am CST [/p]
• [p]Thursday 15 Jan @ 11:00am AEDT[/p]

[p][/p][p]You can find your exact local time (and a countdown!) on our Discord: https://discord.gg/Xd8RPnRZjx[/p][p][/p][p]We'll release the full update notes at this time too, which will break down all the changes included in the update.[/p][p][/p][p](For all PR and content creator inquiries, get in touch with [email protected]!) [/p][p][/p][p]See you soon![/p][p][/p][p]Harriet
& the Into the Dead team [/p]

[h2]Happy New Year, everyone![/h2][p][/p][p][/p][p]We hope you've had a restful break (or, at the very least, managed to play a lot of cathartically violent video games).

Our team are back in the office from today and ready to kick off again for 2026.
[/p][p]We're happy to announce that Early Access Update #7: Heart of Darkness, an all new Escape Plan and our first update for the year, will release in Wellington, New Zealand on Thursday 15 January at around 1:00pm, or: [/p][p][/p][p]Wednesday 14 Jan @ 4:00pm PST [/p][p]Wednesday 14 Jan @ 7:00pm EST[/p][p]Thursday 15 Jan @ 1:00am CET[/p][p]Thursday 15 Jan @ 8:00am CST[/p][p]Thursday 15 Jan @ 11:00am AEDT[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Don't forget to join us over in the Discord: https://discord.gg/Xd8RPnRZjx[/p][p][/p][p]See you at the stadium soon...[/p][p][/p][p]Harriet
& the Into the Dead team [/p]

[h2][/h2][p][/p][h2]Fixes[/h2]

• [p]Fixed a critical issue where the game would freeze and players would lose UI and game control when trying to load a new phase, due to an issue with shelter events. [/p]

[p]_____[/p][p][/p][p]RZ &[/p][p]the Into the Dead team [/p]

[h2][/h2][p][/p][h2]Fixes[/h2]

• [p]Fixed an issue where the Sunstroke State did not resolve after assigning the affected survivor to the Rest Area.
  
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[h2]Adjustments[/h2]

• [p]Removed the age limit for consuming alcohol. Merry Christmas. Be responsible.
  
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[p]_____[/p][p][/p][p]Harriet &[/p][p]the Into the Dead team [/p]