Highlights
Survivalist Perk

General
Server Takeover switch added to webadmin
Server takeover also now defaults to false if a server is passworded
Optimization for Flex Fluids

Balance
Perks and Weapons
FireBug
Fixed Napalm skill to work properly. It will now catch enemies in close radius to target on fire but not instantly kill them
Fixed an issue with other zeds not catching on fire with dragon's breath
Caulk n Burn spray damage reduced to 7 (was 10)
Flamethrower spray damage reduced to 14 (was 17)
Microwave gun spray damage reduced to 14 (was 15)

Berserker
The 30% damage bonus from the Massacre skill is now correctly applied

Sharpshooter
9mm/dual 9mm now get all skills and passive bonuses of the perk
Fixed the reload speed component of the Stability skill not working online

Gunslinger
Dual SW500 fire rate decreased 0.19 (was 0.14)

Medic
Airborne Agent no longer causes a camera shake

Grenades
Freeze grenade
Fuse time decreased to 0.15 (was 0.5) it's easier to get a direct hit on zeds
Freeze power increased to 150 (was 100) can freeze the FP with one grenade now

Flashbang grenade
Fuse time decreased to 0.25 (was 0.5) it's easier to get a direct hit on zeds

EMP grenade
Fuse time decreased to 0.25 (was 0.5) it's easier to get a direct hit on zeds

ZEDS
Alpha clot
Freeze incap time increased to 4 sec (was 2.0)

Cyst clot
Freeze incap time increased to 5 sec (was 2.0)

Slasher clot
Freeze incap time increased to 4 sec (was 2.0)

Gorefast
Freeze incap time increased to 4.0 sec (was 2.0)

Crawler
Freeze incap time increased to 4.5 sec (was 2.0)

Stalker
Freeze incap time increased to 4 sec (was 2.0)

Husk
Freeze incap time decreased to 1 sec (was 1.2)
Husk now casts a dynamic light on higher graphics settings

Siren
Freeze incap time increased to 4.2 sec (was 2.2)
Siren now casts a dynamic light that pulses when screaming on higher graphics settings
Fleshpound
Freeze incap cooldown increased to 10.5 sec (was 1.5)
Fleshpound will no longer rage after being decapped
Scrake
Freeze incap cooldown increased to 6 sec (was 1.5)
Scrake will no longer rage after being decapped

Hans
Freeze incap Vulnerability decreased to 0.5 (was 0.95)

Patriarch
Freeze incap Vulnerability decreased to 0.5 (was 0.95)

Difficulty
HOE
Chance of spawning an exploding Crawler instead of a regular Crawler reduced to 20% (was 30%)

VS Survival Balance
Game mode changes

Total wave count of zeds reduced 37%
Player zeds respawn timer reduced
Wave 1 = 20sec was 40sec
Wave 2= 27sec was 40sec
Wave 3= 30sec was 40sec
Wave 4= 35sec was 40sec
Spawn rate for AI zeds slowed 15%
Dosh mod for killing zeds increased 10%
Starting dosh increased to 500 was 300

Zeds
The following changes only affect playable zeds and have no effect on AI zeds or Survival mode. As you see there's a lot changed here, it’s our goal to make the zeds the star of the show in this mode and we wanted to make each zed fun to play, let us know what you think.

Alpha Clot
Health increased to 350 was 200
Rally damage buff increased to 1.5 was 1.2
Increased attack animations speed and distance traveled
Melee attack cooldown decreased
Walk speed increased to 325 was 300
Sprint speed increased to 575 was 550
First bite from grab attack does 2x damage
Resistance to incaps increased
Shotgun damage type does 10% more damage
Assault damage type does 20% more damage
Slashing/Blunt damage type does 30% more damage
Fire damage type does 10% more damage
Slasher Clot
Increased attack animations speed and distance traveled
Slashing/Blunt damage type does 30% more damage
Fire damage type does 30% more damage
Crawler
Health increased to 250 was 150
Gas attack now lingers for 10sec was 15sec
Assault Damage type does 10% more damage
Slashing/Blunt Damage type does 30% more damage
Fire Damage type does 10% more damage
Bloat
Bloat can move and launch bloat mines now.
Bloat mine cooldown increased to 1.55 was 1.35
Bloat puke mine does 15 damage was 30
Walk speed increased to 270 was 250
Sprint speed decreased to 401 was 420
Resistance to incaps increased
Slashing/Blunt damage type does 45% more damage
Assault damage type does 20% more damage
Gorefast
Blocking is 40% more effective
Increased attack animations speed and distance traveled
Attack Cooldown decreased 25%
Resistance to all incaps increased.
Walk speed increased to 350 was 250
Piercing damage type does 20% more damage
Slashing/blunt damage type does 45% more damage
Assault damage type does 20% more damage
Stalker
Increased attack animations speed and distance traveled
Health increased to 130 was 100
Slashing/Blunt damage type does 25% less damage
Fire damage type does 30% more damage
Siren
Rifle damage type does 10% more damage
Piercing damage type does 20% more damage
Fire damage type does 50% more damage
Assault damage type does 20% more damage
Slashing/Blunt damage type does 30% more damage
Knockdown resistance increased 20%
Husk
Health increased to 600 was 450
Backpack is 40% less vulnerable to blowing up.
Fireball explosion radius increased 45%
Fireball travel speed increased 25%
Shooting recovery increased 30%
Assault Damage type does 20% more damage
Slash/Blunt damage type does 30% more damage
Fire damage type does 40% more damage
Knockdown resistance increased 20%
Walk speed increased to 250 was 170
Sprint speed increased to 550 was 500
Scrake
Increased attack animations speed and distance traveled
Stun/Freeze/emp resistance increased
Fleshpound
Increased attack animations speed and distance traveled
Stun/Freeze/emp resistance increased
Patriarch
Melee damage reduced 60%
Health reduced 25%

Bugs
Song popup works again
Husks have remembered how to suicide
Fixed an issue that could cause all projectiles to fire at an incorrect offset
Fixed an issue that caused the Crossbow to misfire when fired very quickly
Fixed an issue that caused Crossbow bolts to do no damage to zeds when fired from very far away
Fixed an issue that caused all projectile weapons to misfire when firing immediately after swapping to them
Fixed an issue that caused all projectile weapons to misfire when firing immediately after a bash attack
Fixed an issue that caused some projectile weapons to misfire immediately after entering zed time
Fixed a visual bug in bullet tracers that caused them to appear offset and much too large
Fixed some zed hitboxes (Scrake, Gorefast, Bloat), especially on their weapons for better blocking hitbox accuracy
Fixed an issue where zeds could get stuck if they ran into other zeds in a tight choke point (stairs, ramps, etc)
Fixed player zeds being able to damage other player zeds without friendly fire being enabled
Fixed infinite Siren screaming when knocked back from a very close hit
Optimized Siren scream particle effect
Fixed an issue where the LAR shell ejections in 1st Person would appear behind world geometry
Fixed an issue where ricocheting Eviscerator blades did no damage
Fixed Eviscerator blood impact effect not appearing (chainsaw attack)
Fixed an issue where sometimes HX25 projectiles would not properly trigger the Nuke skill
Fixed a condition where the demo and support backpack icons would become set to the wrong state
Fixed an issue where if you had full ammo and received armor from a Support, you would not be able to receive ammo from that Support even if you hadn’t taken any that wave (and vice versa)
Fixed a case where users were unable to see teammates in lobby
Fixed an issue that prevented dualies from dropping a magazine when reloading with 1 bullet left
Fixed a case where demo weld text would stack on the side of the screen
Fixed trader menu inconsistency with weapon ammo capacity and perk skills that extended the capacity
Fixed inconsistency between changing perks through the escape menu and the trader menu
Fixed the setting “minimize battle chatter” not taking effect until the client was restarted
Fixed a case where clients could get infinite ammo via perk switching
Fixed an issue that caused ammo pickups to not play a pickup sound in the boss wave
Fixed an issue where Versus mode would allow searches for invalid settings returning no servers
Fixed an overlap UI condition with heal self message and Level Up message
Fixed a case where the Trader Menu armor fill button would stop responding to input
Fixed a case where medic armor would fill up even if you didn’t have the money for it
Fixed missing depth of field effect in boss cinematics
Various cosmetic item fixes (for items that can be used together and items that can’t due to clipping)
Fixed memory leak issue with FleX
Various map fixes
Various UI Message fixes
Various controller UI fixes