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New Features

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• Take Part in SAS4's first ever Championship!
• First Championship: Elite Wquads - players earn Championship medals by killing bosses in regular multiplayer games and by surviving and

killing bosses in Apocalypse event games.

• Several one day Apocalypse events will run during the Elite Squads 7 day Championship, so earn as many medals in each for the best chance

for top rewards.

• The top 3 players will earn the incredible RIA Trident {BLACK] gun, one of 3 Diamond Badges, and other amazing goodies.
• The top 500 players in the Championship earn other special badges as a mark of their skill and achievement, which automatically show off in

leaderboards,multiplayer lobbies, and character profiles.

• Other Championship prizes include stacks of SAS4 Creds, heaps of top strongboxes,revive tokens, and free pre-game boosts foa a limited

time.

• New achievements added related to the Championship!
• An Event Panel has been added to the game to keep players up to date with the latest news, patch notes, and events.

Balancing/Changes

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• Event Rewards: Rewards have been increased for events and bounties.
• Nightmare Mode: Lobby hosts are now able to select the mission they want to play. Yeehaw!
• Nightmare Mode: Nightmarish zombies now ignore 5% armor in a way similar to Dark Minions.
• Multiplayer: "Ranked" option has been added to Contracts and Nightmare mode that will place players into matches within specific lovel

ranges. These lobbies may take longer to fill but will be more balanced if that's what you're after.

• Apocalypse: Thw process for modifying zombies stats based off the wave count has been adjusted. Games will now get harder more quickly

and more bosses will spawn.

• Last Man Standing: This mode now has the same zombie stat modifiers as Apocalypse. Bosses in these events now also drop loot, including

strongboxes!

• Last Man Standing: The player who places last in every situation will no longer be awarded any event points. No more join and die for a point.
• Stripper: This weapon has been balanced to reduce network traffic. The number of projectiles has been reduced to 3, while the damage has

been increased.Overall the gun DPS should be about the same.

• Ice Station: A timer has been added to the truck stage to eventually put players onto the truck if they are taking too long.

Bug Fixes

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• UI: A crash has been fixed when comparing weapons on the strogbox opening screen if the compared weapon had a elite core on it.
• VIP: The VIP himself can no longer be pushed around by players, this should stop the VIP form being pushed intl walls.
• VIP: Double end-game boss spawns should no longer happen in VIP nightmare mode.
• Contracts: Fixed an issue where a game could end in 5-15 seconds if onw player lagged out while loading into the match.
• Crash: Fixed potential crash when loading into a mission which caused the players avatar to break, not move and the UI to not show up.
• Re-match: Patched a problem where re-matching could smotimes lead to other random players joining the re-match lobby.
• Contracts: Fixed an issue were players could be in the same lobby but each be loading different maps.

New Features

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• Contract: Zombie Hotspot released! Zombies are mutating and this requires a rapid efficient response!

Balancing/Changes

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• Armor: Damage reduction armor formula has been modified so there is no longer a drop in damage reduction around 6000 armor.

Bug Fixes

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• Black Strongboxes: Discard button has been fixed and additional black strongboxes above the max cap are discarded once again.

New Features

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• New contract map released! Space Resort!

Balancing/Changes

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• Contract-Support Weapons Shipment:Crates now have double HP.

Bug Fixes

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New Features

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Introducing the all new Contracts missions!

• Manufacturers are now offering the SAS team Contracts to support the ongoing efforts against the zombie apocalypse!
• Play short, focused, single objective missions with specific reward types - perfect for a quick game!
• Brand new Contract specific modes consisting of Ammo Recovery, Support Weapons Shipment and Data Retrieval!
• Entirely new Contract only maps! Compound, Uranium Mine, Crash Site and Sea Lab!

Balancing/Changes

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Weapon Reloading: Reload time on guns is capped to 20% of base reload time.

Nantonium strongboxes: Will now drop a wider range of loot.

Apocalypse: Waves will now continue to spawn regardless of worms, which previously could cause the event to stop progressing.

Event Maps: More precautions have been taken to stop zombies getting stuck in walls.

Avatar Armor: Slight changes to the armor formula meaning that it is now harder to get to the max cap of 99%.

Nightmare Bosses: Cash drop nerf - they were dropping far too much cash previously.

Bug Fixes

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Pierce: An issue has been fixed that caused weapons with a certain amount of pierce to do very small amount of damage if only one target was hit.

Continuous Collisions Fix: Players no longer get teleported back through walls when passing through clothes racks and ferns.

VIP: More precautions have been made to stop the VIP spawning in the walls of the mansion, causing physics to break and players to be teleported off the map.

Mission Cash: Fixed a bug where events were giving out mission cash bonuses on completion.

Sound: More changes have been made to the sound engine to stop Loaderbots/Mechs creating never ending sound loops.

Heavy: Changes have been made to the Die Another Day and Hold The Lines visual effects to stop a visual glitch where they do not turn off.

New Features

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Meltdown Nightmare map released!

Balancing/Changes

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Meltdown: Overall optimizations to the map has reduced lag (FPS issues).

Vaccine: Loot that drops on the first train is no longer lost (left behind), instead it will now gravitate towards the player.

Ice Station: Zombies can no longer get inside the truck with the players (Excluding Dark Minions)

Ice Station: Players no longer take damage from acid pools while in the truck.

Bug Fixes

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Meltdown: Fixed rare case where an enemy dying in a doorway could cause a crash.

Assault - Killing Spree: Fixed some issues where killing spree could be achieved without meeting the correct criteria.

DoT: Optimizations have been done with DoT's, they are now sending 50% less network traffic!

[Hot-fix] Nightmare Bosses: Non-savage packs of bosses were not dropping strongboxes when they should and instead only dropping cash. This has been fixed and now on of the bosses in the pack will drop a strongbox and cash as is the intended result.

New Features

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Ice Station Nightmare map now available!

Balancing/Changes

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Revive: Increase respawn rate when mission has been completed and countdown time is displaying and ticking down.

Nightmare: All bosses now drop cash.

Elite Core Drops: Nightmarish Savage Devastator Elites now have a chance to drop Elite Cores.

Elite Core Augmenting: The "Enhance all base stats" augment has been reduced to a MAX of 50% instead of 100%.

Weapon - Luftplatzen: Bullets will not explode into a cone of fire if they hit walls/static objects etc.

Bug Fixes

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Pods: Stopped the Necrosis teleporter spawn from teleporting outside of the map.

Events: Gold event rewards was showing 1% black key chances but is actually 0.5%, This has been corrected.

Event Reward Tiers: Black key drop chances have been increased from 5% to 10% for Diamond and from 1% to 4% for Platinum.

Power Ups: Fixed exploit with powerups.

Field Supplies: Fixed rounding issues.

New Features

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New event maps! Meltdown and Ice Station Arena maps are now available!

Revive Tokens introduced for Ninja Kiwi players!

Custom Keybinding! All keys can now be rebound from the ""[?] Control/Stats"" button on the main screen in the bottom left corner!

Balancing/Changes

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Pods: Boss room doors no longer close when players enter the boss arena.

Pods: Enemies that spawn in the supermarket while players are in boss room now get teleported into the rubble that falls down.

Events: Temporarily disabled being able to leave LMS/Apoc and being awarded event points before game ends naturally.

Boss Rooms: A rare bug that causes players to be locked out of the Pods/Survivors boss rooms or left behind in the train terminal on Vaccine have been fixed. The game will now identify any players not inside the boss battle or on the train and move these players into the correct locations.

Ice Station: Some changes have been made to the locations zombies can get to in this mission. In order to stop zombies becoming lost and/or wandering off. This was causing the game to not move onto the next event as it was waiting for all zombies to be killed.

Map Masters: Nightmare versions of normal maps now count towards map master achievement progress.

Ammo: Can purchase ammo faster in the main menu's now.

Bug Fixes

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Events: Issues with new waves not spawning past wave 20 in LMS and Apoc.

Pods: Fixed bug where standing in between the doors into the boss room while mission was ending caused a crash.

Nightmare: Pods/VIP/Power Out now wait for all bosses to be killed before the mission ends.

Vaccine: Terminal doors no longer close, fixing an issue where they could cause a crash that would make the graphics bug out.

Events: Players leaving LMS/AV early by disconnecting their internet connection no longer get a win or awarded any event points at all.

Skills: Using auto clickers to initiate a skill multiple times before it activates has been fixed. (Adrenaline stacking etc)

Physics: Players no longer get stuck in ferns/clothes racks.

Exploit: An exploit has been fixed in relation to Black Strongboxes.

Statistics: Alpha Virus damage explosion no longer counts towards the collections weapon damage statistics.

Graphics: Fixes a rare bug where a crash could happen within the graphics engine while rendering sprites.

Weapons: [BLACK] HIKS 3100 main menu graphics have been fixed.

Collections Statistics: Damage numbers are now displaying correctly.

New Features

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New Nightmare map versions for VIP and Zombie Pods released!

Balancing/Changes

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Weapons - Shockfield damage reduced slightly.

Weapons - Proposition damage increased.

Nightmare - Removed nightmare mode revive speed bonus.

Achievements - Nightmare maps now count towards normal maps ""Map Master"" achievement progression.

Bug Fixes

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Sounds - More sound fixes for looping audio (Zombie Mech and Loaderbots).

Power Ups - Fixed in-game power up purchases to be the same as pre-mission prices in all cases.

Vaccine - Fixed bug where a crash could happen in the terminal by late spawning zombies closing the doors.

Armor - Revive time bonus is now visible again on the armor pieces that previously had these effects.

New Features

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New Map! Meltdown: Stop Boreas' main nuclear power plant going critical and causing a major disaster!

New Achievements! Map Champion's and more!

Balancing/Changes

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Power-Ups: Now scale cost based on player level rather than a hard switch at level 30.

Bug Fixes

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Weapons: Critical hits have been fixed for weapons that had been augmented with Pinpoint.

Achievements: ""Gotta Catch Em All' now tracking progress.

Map: Zombie Pods - Pods no longer automatically pop open by themselves.

Map: Zombie Pods - Nightmare waypoint for 5th purge nest no longer shows up in normal Pods missions.

Sound: Fixes to the engine to stop sounds endlessly looping.

Collection Rewards: Fixed multiple issues where some rewards were displaying incorrect visual information.

Nightmare Mode: Cash drops in nightmare mode from zombies are correct to be 5x the normal amount.

Nightmare Mode: Fixed a bug where main bosses would sometimes not drop cash.

Physics: Fixed some locations where physics caused issues with players becoming stuck.

Balancing/Changes

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Armor: [RED] Trooper Boots and [RED] Special Forces Boots had their armor stats around the wrong way and have been switched back.

Support: M45 and M48 grenades have had a damage increase.

Weapon: Hornet rate of fire decreased to 5 RPS.

Weapon: Gebirgskanone damage increased.

Medic: Protective Aura skill increased to 75 defense per point.

Medic: Bad Blood skill increased damage to +40 per skill point.

Medic: Final Farewell generates 3 medkits at skill level 1 but more kits at higher skill levels.

Heavy: Aerial Bombardment skill damage greatly increased.

Assault: Close Quarters Combat skill initial damage at skill level 1 decreased but increased for skill level 2 and beyond.

Assault: Assault Team skill increased health and damage of each team member.

Assault: Gun Mod Expert improved slightly.

Skill: Fast Reload skill reduced to 3.5% per point from 4%

New Features

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Nightmare mode introduced to SAS4! Reach level 35 for a nightmarish new challenge and a chance to get the very best new loot in the game.

Most weapons/armor now have [BLACK] versions, which are extremely powerful higher level versions of each weapon and armor piece in the game.

New Black Strongbox containing [BLACK] weapons and armor - obtain Black Keys from Nantonium boxes in Nightmare Mode.

Introducing Elite Augment Cores. Modify and enhance your stuff even more with these super rare, super powerful items.

Inventory Size Increase - weapons and armor inventory slots have been increased from 20 slots to 30 slots.

SAS4 Collections tab added into the game allowing players to see all weapons, all armor, and their stats.

Weapon Stats - the Collections tab allows you to track statistics on your weapons, kills/total damage/max crits and more.

Weapons and armor now display the approximate levels that they drop at in the Collections tab.

New achievements - "I AM the nightmarel" and many more.

Augment Rewards added for spending money on augmenting your equipment! Earn Black Keys, Elite Augment Cores, and high tier strongboxes.

Balancing/Changes

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Graphics Settings: In-game settings have been expanded on which allows for more custom settings to be selected.

Graphics Settings: Screen shacking is now disabled if VFX are turned off.

Armor: Shotlite Dragon [RED] set buffed, can now be obtained at higher levels.

Weapons: Mustang [RED] buffed, can now be obtained at higher levels.

Weapons: CM 225 can be obtained at higher levels, damage has been nerfed.

Weapons: HVM MPG nerfed, damage reduced, reload speed increased from 2 secs to 2.2 secs.

Map: Power Out - First corridor and main boss rooms now spawn zombies faster.

Augment: Enlarged - Now makes the Luftplatzen flame cone enlarge, Flamethrowers flames are enlarged as well.

Digit Grouping: Has been added to all figures in the game now for better readability. E.g. 1000000 will show as 1,000,000.

Map: VIP now has a countdown timer at the end of the mission.

UI: Zeus turret now shows correct image in the support tab.

Shielder: Shields can be pierced by bullets again.

Events: Players can now leave Apocalypse at any time and get their rewards, they will no longer get an "Event Failed" scenario.

Graphics: Necrosis Children have been optimized to perform better on lower and machines.

Bug Fixes

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Exploit: Wall Jumping has been fixed, it is no longer possible for players to jump through walls.

Instant Revive Glitch: A failsafe has been added that may stop this glitch from occurring.

Power Ups: "Tank" power up has been fixed, players now get the +50% HP regen in all scenarios.

Assault Teams: Boss projectiles no longer bounce off assault team members.

Weapon & Armor Statistics: Many bugs fixed in relation to this, stats should now accurate for all items.

Flamethrower Mastery: +25% Increased burn time now does more damage over tha additional time, instead of the same damage over a longer period of time.

Mission Summary: fixed an issue causing the mission summary to bug in multiplayer games if a player left during the map initialization phase.

Events: Last Man Standing - Fixed some issues that sometimes caused no event points to be awarded.

Events: Fixed issues where some events ere not being setup correctly before the games started.

Shielder: Fixed a bug where shooting a shielder shield may result in flash crashing.

Zombdroid Soldier: Fixed an issue where the solider would die while shooting but continue its shooting animations.

Skills: Final Farewell should no longer trigger more than once on death.

Multiplayer: Leaving a lobbby while the game is initializing no longer causes the game to bug out.

Ammo: Rounding errors fixed with some weapons ammo stats.

Maps: Ice Station - Fixed a bug which caused HVM Soldiers to die, causing them to turn into ghosts and not being able to finish the mission.

UI: Overall UI improvements, fixes.