Toward Brighter Days

Welcome to the latest update for State of Decay 2!

Winter isn't washed with us yet, but nosotros can take center from the always-lengthening daylight that foretells the coming rebirth of leap.

We're yet difficult at work improving the game in means big and small. This update expands your options for recruiting new community members, adds mouse-and-keyboard support for Xbox players, brings back the Trumbull Valley Pack, and standardizes a monthly rhythm for returning content packs.

Jubilant Black History Calendar month

Before nosotros dive into more details on the improvements to the game, nosotros desire to signal out a special outfit item appearing this month. This unique t-shirt is inspired by the Black Lives Affair movement and the NAACP's "We Are Done Dying" campaign. The image is designed past artist Ty Ferrell and portrays a figure kneeling in peaceful protest, with images of raised fists bundled behind him in a way reminiscent of State of Decay'south familiar logo.

You tin can notice the new Basic Tee (Done Dying) outfit in your Cupboard starting on Feb 8.

A physical version of this T-shirt is also bachelor for purchase between Feb 8 and March 1 by visiting StateOfDecay.com/naacp. Sales of this shirt will benefit the NAACP.

The physical shirt will exist available for buy ONLY during this time-frame. No reprints are planned.

Recruiting from Neutral and Friendly Enclaves

New recruits are the lifeblood of whatsoever customs, merely they can sometimes be hard to find. At least until today!

Starting at present, every non-hostile ambience enclave offers you the selection to recruit. This means every bit long as they're not shooting at you, and they're not busy with their own issues (embroiled in an ongoing mission arc), you can recruit from among their ranks.

  • Allied enclaves withal allow you to recruit for free, every bit they always accept.
  • Friendly enclaves now permit yous to recruit for 750 Influence.
  • Neutral enclaves now let yous to recruit for 1500 Influence.

So now if you demand recruits, the simplest style to get them is to use the radio to contact a new Enclave, run into upwardly with them, and and so spend the influence to recruit from them that very minute.

The Trumbull Valley Pack Returns

This content pack celebrates the sleepy little valley where it all started. It features six weapons that beginning appeared in the Heartland expansion, plus iv outfits worn past iconic survivors from that storyline! It too includes the Improvised Weapon Station, a fan-favorite facility mod that lets y'all craft an array of useful weapons from spare $.25 and pieces lying effectually your base. Visit the Compensation Broker to discover out how to earn these items!

(We had previously indicated that the Disquisitional Response Pack would exist cycling back this calendar month, but Trumbull Valley was a better fit for the schedule. A revised and improved Critical Response Pack will render later this year.)

Compensation Broker News

Over the past yr-plus, nosotros've been adding new content packs to the game via the Bounty Broker. We at present accept eleven distinct collections of weapons, outfits, and other useful gear, each with its own theme, from pirates and soldiers to cowboys and movie monsters.

And now we've too implemented a new schedule for this library of content packs to automatically wheel in and out of the game. The first day of each month now includes an update of the Compensation Banker's inventory, with ane pack returning to circulation while another leaves. This provides you with a regular and predictable schedule to know when packs are coming and going, and does not require you lot to download an update to the game.

For example:

  • On the first day of March, the Pawn Shop Pack will return, replacing the Fearsome Footage Pack.
  • On the first solar day of Apr, the Plunder Pack will return, replacing the Stay Frosty Pack.

… and and so on. We'll keep you apprised of upcoming packs (particularly any with new or updated content) as nosotros become!

Mouse and Keyboard Support on the Xbox

Subsequently this update, the game no longer assumes that console players are restricted to using a controller. Now if you hook upwardly a mouse and keyboard to your Xbox, or connect to the game via Remote Play on a PC, you can control it using the same customizable mouse and keyboard controls that have e'er been bachelor when playing the game directly on a PC.

Thank you for all the Wishlist requests! (There were and then very many of them!)

More Fixes and Improvements

  • Zombies (specially Bloaters) are no longer allowed to spawn right on summit of you when you are traveling at speed. They were abusing their spawning privileges, and have been punished.
  • Non-hostile enclaves will now unlock all the doors when they motility into a new site, and then you won't take to bash down their door when they invite you within. This one came from the Wishlist!
  • The CLEO Accelerator and CLEO Tumbler have been upgraded to take their rightful place among all the other recently-upgraded muzzle attachments.
    • The updated CLEO Accelerator has increased touch, knockback, and range, at the cost of greater recoil. It makes a weapon more than effective against big targets, and at longer distances, but you take to aim and burn down more carefully.
    • The updated CLEO Tumbler splits projectiles in one-half, increasing spread and profoundly increasing the chance of dismemberment, at a cost to range and accurateness. It'south a groovy way to take autonomously a crowd, but not great for sniping.
  • Active sieges now automatically pin themselves to your HUD when you render home and trigger the countdown to the assault, making it easier to notice the siege before yous're wading in Juggernauts.
  • We fixed a problem that was causing Juggernauts to evaporate while attempting to chase a human into a building.
  • Survivors with the Sexting skill are no longer weirding people out, and are instead using their wit and charm for the good of the community, earning a minor income of +5 Influence per day.
  • Pressing the Map button a second fourth dimension before the map has fully appeared will no longer close the map as presently as it arrives. This should brand it easier for players using Remote Play to avoid accidentally re-closing the map when experiencing input delay.
  • The Forge facility has been re-tuned so that even at higher difficulty levels, with all their added Materials costs, it is withal a more profitable way to plough Materials into Parts than simply converting them in Storage.
    • This actually came out in Update 23. We only forgot to mention it.