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[h3]🆓 FREE CONTENT ALERT: Patch 6 is Here![/h3]

Dive into the mayhem with our latest update, packed with features you've been craving:

🔹 Neighborhood Watch Mode – Squad up and tackle fresh horde co-op madness. Friends = More Fun.
🔹 New Game+ – Take on HELL-A with maxed-out gear and bring the carnage to the next level.

Patch 6 turns up the heat with new ways to slay, replay, and master the art of undead destruction. Team up or fly solo—the chaos doesn’t stop.

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[h2]Slayers and Bobcats, [/h2]

We hope you’ve been enjoying the new content in Patch 6, including Neighborhood Watch and New Game+! We know some bugs can pop up now and then, like achievements not unlocking, and we’re always working hard to squash them. That’s why we’re bringing you the seventh quality-of-life update for Dead Island 2—geared towards making your HELL-A adventures even more seamless.

Meanwhile, let’s take a moment to highlight the seventh quality-of-life patch. It tackled pesky bugs and fine-tuned combat and skills for a better slaying experience. Dive into the full patch details below:

[h3]General [/h3]

• Fixed an issue where achievements do not unlock
  
• Implemented a variety of fixes for crashes and to further improve stability
  
• Fixed keycard door interactions for the side quest: "Dez and The Mother Of Satan"
  
• Fixed an issue where the "Battering Ram" skillcard does not increase the Ram's skill damage
  
• Fixed broken interactions with portable toilet doors
  
• Fixed invisible zombies during portable toilet ambush events
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can get soft locked when using the fury pounce ability from the elevated surface
  
• Fixed an issue where journals not picked up during the "Drunk and Disorderly" prevented 100% completion of journals
  
• Fixed various tutorial pop up issues
  
• Fixed an issue where players can be locked out of playing the Haus expansion together after fast travelling out of the expansion due to DLC quest mismatch on invitation
  

[h3]Neighborhood Watch [/h3]

• Fixed an issue where the Host remains in an infinite loading screen after the Client loses connection to the session in the mission select screen
  
• Fixed an issue when at least one Client leaves a session without proceeding through the full Results flow, remaining players "Waiting for squadmates" will not advance to the Lobby
  
• Fixed an issue where clients can find that their inventory slots have changed to a broken format after completing a full Neighborhood Watch run
  
• Fixed an issue where no confirmation message appears when leaving the session in the post-shelter defense score screen
  
• Various audio fixes for music, sfx and voice lines during gameplay
  
• Fixed and issue where the "Chonky Cats" perk does not give the player knockdown immunity as it should
  
• Fixed the Neighborhood Watch difficulty imbalance issue while the players' active main game save is NG+
  
• Fixed an issue where some ability buffs won’t apply to players that just have been revived
  
• Fixed various issues where they player can get stuck after vaulting through windows
  
• Fixed an issue where ranged weapon magazine size can be reset to default temporarily after performing certain actions
  
• Fixed issues with the player falling out of bounds
  
• Fixed an issue during the "Pizza Party" mission where, in the objective "Kill the previous customers," a target enemy could fall through the map, blocking progression
  
• Fixed various rendering issues
  
• Fixed an issue with "Crowd Control Control" mission where objectives will persist after failing the mission
  
• Fixed an issue where mission markers are missing from various missions
  
• Fixed an issue where sliding with the Medics "Charging Bonesaw" can cause a loss of player functionality
  
• Fixes to persisting and missing UI and vfx elements
  
• Fixed an issue where "Shoving", "Slammin’" and "Charging Bonesaw" have improper functionality when used during medkit healing animation
  
• Fixed report card not updating in the front end
  
• Fixed an issue with some traps not being removed after the end of a mission
  
• Fixed an issue where a session day does not instantly end if a player is downed while there is another player in the exit travel circle
  
• Fixed an issue where the number of Bond gained is not increased from 15 to 18 in message on chat with "Spirit of the Bobcat" perk
  
• Fixed an issue where the player can charge a heavy attack while holding the trap building tool
  
• Fixed an issue where grading is incorrect for some missions
  
• Fixed an issue where the "hunting knife" is incapable of triggering electric boxes
  
• Fixes to instances where enemies cannot reach the player
  
• Fixes to issues with picked up items being placed in designated spots
  
• Fixed an issue where "Calculated clapback" does not guarantee the critical hit for Clients using ranged weapons
  
• Fixed an issue when during 2 player CO-OP only the host gets stalked by the butcher after the Stalker Meter fills up
  

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Dead Island 2 is ON SALE now, including the recently released Ultimate Edition, which comes packed with everything you need to dominate HELL-A: two story-driven DLCs - Haus and SoLA, plus a full arsenal of weapon packs and skins to slay the undead with maximum style! 🧟‍♂️🔥

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[h5]Dive into the full zombie-slaying madness with our recently released free Patch 6 content you've been craving:[/h5]

• ⚔️ Neighborhood Watch Mode – Rally your squad for this fresh horde co-op challenge. Friends make slaying more fun (and way easier)!
  
• 🔁 New Game+ – Ready to run it back with your beefed-up gear? Gear up, max out, and run it back harder, better, faster, and bloodier.
  

Patch 6 doesn’t just bring the heat—it cranks up the chaos with fresh ways to play and perfect your Slayer skills. Whether you're teaming up with friends or flying solo, the fun never stops in HELL-A.

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Between four days of deadly missions and a final battle for survival, Dead Island 2’s new Neighborhood Watch mode has enough to challenge the most hardened zombie apocalypse veteran. We spoke to FIshlabs Director of QA, Thomas Bark, and ace QA tester Ro Griffiths, to get their top five tips for getting through it in one piece.

[h3]Keep your eyes on the prize[/h3]
A lot of players get lost on the streets of Hell-A, trying to fight and kill every shambler going. ‘Keep in mind that, for every zombie you kill, there will be another one coming’ says Thomas, ‘and slowly but surely, they’ll converge on you’. Instead, keep your focus on your mission, and skirt around groups if you don’t need to fight them. Get where you need to get to, complete your objective and grab your rewards.

[h3]Look after your weapons, they’ll look after you[/h3]
If you chance upon a weapon that works for you, treat it nicely. Upgrade it, buff it and repair it when you get the chance, and don’t focus too much on finding specific weapons or perks. ‘I always invest in a small suite of weapons that I can keep with me going forward through the session’ says Ro. ‘Some will break, but if you’re upgrading and repairing them at the end of the mission, you can end up with some really powerful weapons that will get you through your daily missions and eventually the shelter defence.’


[h3]There’s no ‘I’ in team[/h3]
Play as a team and use your skills and talents to help each other. There’s nothing wrong with wandering off quickly to search for loot or investigate a building, but the further and longer you’re away from your fellow Bobcats, the faster your Stalker meter builds up. Let it fill up, and you’ll spawn a Butcher zombie – and that means you’re in big trouble. As Thomas puts it, ‘he’s going to be very tough to deal with on your own, but if you can get to your friends they can help you take him down’. Sure, you can only spawn one Butcher per mission, but isn’t it smarter not to spawn one at all?


[h3]Get ready and go with the flow[/h3]
The shelter defence will be your biggest challenge, so go into it with your best weapons, all the shelter perks that you can muster and enough materials to build a bunch of traps. Pick your missions and rewards with the final day in mind, but go with the flow. If you’re getting lots of traps or shelter rewards, think about how you can adjust your defence to make the most of these. And don’t save all your traps and materials for the final battle. ‘Just strategizing with them and using them in a pinch is a good way to get through the missions’ says Ro.

[h3]Coordinate and communicate[/h3]
When you’re on the final shelter defence, coordinate your efforts. Make sure you’ve got the three doors covered, and that you haven’t got two players heading out to revive a downed Bobcat, leaving your defences open wide. Voice chat can be really helpful here, but quick emotes are fine if that’s not an option. Also, think about how you can combine attacks and signature weapons. There’s no point having your Chemist freeze the zombies only for your Medic to unfreeze them with a quick and ineffective attack. Look for ways to maximise the damage!


[h3]Don’t panic[/h3]
As Thomas says ‘the mode can be overwhelming, especially for new players. When one of your team is downed, there’s no respawn, you have to pick them up again.’ When that happens, don’t rush in. Keep calm, assess the situation, and see if you can distract the zombies or lead them away so that your other teammate can get in and help. The Hunter’s Meat Stick trap can be really useful here, or – if you’re stuck – using the signature attack will make you temporarily invulnerable. You won’t be slaying so many zombies, but you’ll have a chance to get your buddy back in action.

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This week, we’re celebrating BIG! Not only we dropped the Ultimate Edition, Neighborhood Watch, and Patch 6, but we’ve officially hit 10 MILLION SLAYERS since launch! 💥 From the sunny streets of Hell-A to the gnarliest zombie-smashing action, y’all came, y’all slayed, and now we’re celebrating every bloody moment.

Whether you’re chopping heads, firing up traps, or blowing things up with electric grenade launchers, YOU made this happen. We can’t wait to see how you keep turning up the heat and leveling up the chaos!

Big thanks to all our Slayers across the globe! 💀

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