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Xmas 2021 Advent Calendar



Hey Survivors!

Once again it's time for the Advent Calendar! What does that mean?
From 01.12. till 25.12.2021 you will have a chance to open 1 door each day and get awesome prizes.

What do you need to get access to?
A premium account is needed.

When does it start exactly? 01.12.2021 at 00:01 CET (Central European Timezone)

How often can I open doors? Once per day

How can I claim my prizes? Prizes are getting sent directly to your account, you might have to restart after


Steam Award Nomination: https://playnewz.com/news#4224935490633237394
Discord: https://discord.gg/thenewz

Weekend Event

Dear Community,

It's Friday and you know what that means!
We will be starting our Weekend Event, which will run for 3 days.

[h3]START: November 26th, 2021 12:00 PM (CET)
END: November 29th, 2021 12:00 PM (CET)[/h3]



Let's get down to the details on this Weekend Event:
  • Skins from above [AC]
    You will have a chance of finding GD Skinboxes in server airdrops.
  • Skins from below [SV]
    Super Zombies will have a chance of dropping GD Skinboxes.
  • Vintage Fight [BR]
    There will only be Assault Rifles available in Battle Royale.
  • Hunger for Hangar [PVP]
    You will receive double reputation in Hangar Maps in the PVP Section.


[h2]Black Friday Double GC!
[/h2]
We are running a Double GC for Black Friday!
It started yesterday and it will run until tomorrow! Don't miss out!

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


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!

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

To stay updated regarding the patch and server downtime please follow us on our social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Infestation.NewZ/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/infestationnewz
Discord: https://discord.gg/thenewz
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/InfestationTheNewZOfficial
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/infestationthenewz
Website: https://playnewz.com/

We wish everyone a great weekend!

Black Friday - Double GC



Hey Survivors!

We are going to start a Double GC to celebrate Black Friday and Thanksgiving.
During this time, all purchased GC is going to be doubled!

Keep in mind, it's already showing doubled on Steam.

Start: 25.11.2021, 12:00 PM CET
End: 27.11.2021, 12:00 PM CET

Steam Award Nomination: https://playnewz.com/news#4224935490633237394

We wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, a great vacation, and good discounts on Black Friday!

Steam Award 2021



Hello everyone,

Once again this year we are competing for the 2021 Steam Awards on the category "Labor of Love"!
Labor of Love is the category for long-time running games that have stuck around through thick and thin, is continuously being updated and bringing new features.
Now the game you guys love so much has the chance of winning that award on Steam but for that to happen, we need all your guys' help!
    Go to Steam
    Select Infestation: The New Z from your library
    Submit your vote
    Spread the word to your friends
    or use option above the announcement

We are extremely grateful to every single player in our game for your continuous support which is the fuel we need to keep bringing these updates and new features for the past 6 years!

Thank you and much love from the whole Infestation: The New Z Team!

Patch 5.3



Hello Survivors!
On this patch we are bringing a few quality of life changes that have been both suggested and requested for a while and also some fixes for some smaller errors/bugs in the game.

[h2]GENERAL CHANGES[/h2]
[h3]CLAN MANAGEMENT UPDATE[/h3]
With this update, we are introducing a rework for the clan section. It is a complete overhaul that will see more options on your clan.
This has been asked for a while and though we wanted to work on this earlier, we had more pressing priorities.
Clan creation was one of the first features brought under the original developer team in The War Z, but it was lackluster. We have put off doing this complete rework for some time as we didn't feel it was that urgent as, though it was too "plain", it worked for its purpose.
However, we decided recently to start working on QOL changes such as this to make it even easier to understand for all players, new and old.

Here are some of the changes made to it:
To access the new Clan Menu, you can find it here:


On this menu, you can see all clans and their public information.
You can also use the sort tabs to better navigate


Clicking on a clan will show you all the public information on the clan, as such


Clicking on your clan on the top left will bring up a slightly different menu, with all the known functions you already had in addition to the Customize button:


On the Customization menu, you will be able to edit your clan icon, name, description and tag color.
With the clan tag color, you can also pick any RGB color from the menu that pops up:


[h3]GENERAL FIXES & CHANGES:[/h3]
  • Using a Transport will no longer switch off your weapon (changing to barehands).
  • Fixed an issue with the group list health bars.
  • Fixed a language pack issue on Battle Royale Airdrops.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing stamina desync with the server, causing crashes.
  • Fixed a UI issue that would cause the value of the discount on subscriptions not show properly.
  • Added Lobby MVP back to Battle Royale.
  • Fixed a minor issue in the Event Map server that would cause a bug that prevented accepting group invites in a very specific sequence of events.
  • Respawning to a Clan Territory will put that spawn on cooldown for 5 minutes.

[h3]OBJECTS AND ITEMS[/h3]
  • Updated the Collision around the Airport in Colorado to avoid glitching through.
  • We have reverted the Airport Tower back to the original one. We found some issues with the updated version that was causing many texture bugs.
  • Fixed the Adventure Backpack Desion Skin.
  • Fixed a material error on all M200 models.



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!

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

To stay updated regarding the patch and server downtime please follow us on our social media:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Infestation.NewZ
Twitter: http://twitter.com/infestationnewz
Discord: https://discord.gg/thenewz
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/InfestationTheNewZOfficial
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/infestationthenewz
Website: https://playnewz.com