Dear Players, As promised in yesterday's announcement about the new Hong Kong servers we are rolling out a patch to add the new servers to the game and do some updates & fixes. For everyone that hasn't read the announcement about the new Hong Kong servers yet, please go here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/555570/announcements/detail/1272676270706621485 [b]To celebrate the release of the new Hong Kong servers we are rewarding all the players in the following way:[/b] [list] [*]We have upgraded player's current active subscription with an extra week. (premium, deluxe & extreme) [*]Every player that did not have an account subscription activated now has a week free premium. (This only apply to people who did not have any account subscription) [*]Everyone who registers a new account through the website will get 7 days free premium this week only. [/list] Basically, everyone will have a free account subscription for a week! Enjoy! Now, let's jump into the patch notes. [h1]Overall Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Added Hong Kong servers. Servers are now available and running. Private servers are not available in Hong Kong. (yet) [*]Added veteran badges to the game. Everybody who has played for more than one year will now automatically get the veteran badge the next time they log in to the game. [*]The Bada Boom (explosive) is now spawning again. [*]Updated the italian language pack. (Fixed some spelling mistakes etc.) [*]Updated the in-game menu background to a new one again. [*]Updated the visual breath sniper indicator. The styling has improved and the bar looks much better now. [*]Updated the alien super zombie loot. Doubled the chances of snipers dropping from the alien super zombie. [*]Fixed an issue related to some custom guerilla's changing into heavy armors randomly. Thanks for the reports. [*]Fixed some models (buildings) that recently got added to the game. (Some are used in the new Batte Royale lobby.) [*]Fixed the airport tower model where players could only do damage through some windows from one side only. [*]Fixed some other models (buildings) in the game that did not have the right materials assigned. [*]Fixed some visual bugs related to the loadouts and backpacks. [*]Fixed major issues related to the "reconnecting" screen. Improved the system aswell. [/list] [h1]Item Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Added a new country riot shield: Riot Shield Hong Kong. [*]Added a new moderator riot shield: Riot Shield Havi. [*]Added a new media riot shield: Riot Shield Zaihawk. [*]Added a new media riot shield: Riot Shield Marcelek. [*]Fixed the recipe names of the Heavy Armor's now too. All of those armors should be called "Heavy Armor" now. [*]Fixed the texture issues of the Riot Shield Svena69. [*]Fixed the texture issues of the Riot Shield MMFK. [*]Fixed the texture issues of the Bada Boom. [*]Fixed the name of the "Mosin Gladiator". Removed the "." from the name. [*]Updated the texture of the shotgun shell ammo to red instead of grey and fixed the store icons. [*]Updated the name of the "UZI" to "Mini UZI" since this name makes more sense due the UZI in game is actually a minified version of the UZI weapon. [*]Updated the "9x19 Para Mag" bullet capacity from 9 to 15 bullets. One magazine can now have 15 bullets instead of 9. [*]Updated the TEC 9 statistics. Increased the recoil and finally fixed the sound glitch. (No distance.) [*]Updated the STI Eagle Elite statistics. Decreased the spread and updated the name to "STI Eagle Elite". [*]Updated the Jericho 9mm statistics. Decreased the spread. [*]Updated the 1911 statistics. Decreased the spread and decreased the reload time. [*]Updated the RA H23. The light machine gun is now called: "MG36", and can now only take G36 C-Mags instead of Stanag C-Mags. [*]Updated the fire axe statistics. Increased the damage. [/list] [h1]Item Name Changes:[/h1] Based on feedback from newer players and to make the game generally easier to understand we have decided to do some name changes to certain items. [list] [*]The "Standard Mosin Magazine" is now called: "Mosin Clip". [*]The ".22 Caliber Clip" is now called: "Kruger .22 Magazine". [*]The "Medium Kruger Rifle Clip" is now called: "Medium Kruger Magazine". [*]The "Large Kruger Rifle Clip" is now called: "Large Kruger Magazine". [*]The ".40 Caliber 1911 Mag" is now called: "1911 Mag". [*]The "FN Five Seven" is now called: "FN57". [*]The "Standard Kruger .22 Rifle Clip" is now called: "Kruger Rifle Clip". [*]The ".45 ACP STI Eagle Elite ammo" is now called: "STI Eagle Elite Ammo". [*]The "Saiga 10 ammo" is now called: "Saiga Clip". [*]The ".308 Winchester Ammo" is now called: "Winchester Clip". [*]The "SVD 10 Ammo" is now called: "SVD Clip". [*]The "SVD 20 Ammo" is now called: "SVD 20 Clip". [*]The "Bizon 64 ammo" is now called: "Bizon Clip". [*]The "P90 50 rounds" is now called: "P90 Clip". [*]The ".338 Magnum Ammo" is now called: "AWM Clip". [*]The "CZ Scorpion EVO-3 ammo" is now called: "Evo-3 Clip". [*]The "Desert Eagle ammo" is now called: "Desert Eagle Clip". [*]The "AWP Mag" is now called: "AWP Clip". [*]The "DMR Ammo" is now called: "DMR Clip". [*]The "FN57 10 Ammo" is now called: "FN57 Clip". [*]The "FN57 20 Ammo" is now called: "FN57 20 Clip". [*]The ".50 BMG 10" is now called: "BMG 10 Clip". [*]The ".50 BMG" is now called: "BMG Clip". [*]The "SMG-20 Ammo" is now called: "SMG-20". [*]The "SMG-40 Ammo" is now called: "SMG-40". [*]The "MP5/10" is now called: "MP5". [*]The "MP5 10mm Mag" is now called: "MP5 Clip". [*]The "9mm Mag" is now called: "9MM Clip". [*]The "Sig Sauer P226" is now called: "P226". [*]The "9x19 Para Mag" is now called: "P226 Clip". [*]The "AW Magnum" is now called: "AWM". [*]The "Alice Rucksack" is now called: "Alice Backpack". [*]The "Military Ruck" is now called: "Military Backpack". [/list] [h1]Skin Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Fixed the store icon issues of the QBZ Tech recipe icon. [*]Fixed the textures of the Moto Helmet Alien. The helmet looks less "grey" now. [/list] [h1]Colorado V2 Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Re-added rocks around Boulder City. [*]Fixed a building in Boulder City, where player could get shoted behind a wall. [*]Fixed the metal fenses around Emerald Peak Retreat. [*]Fixed a superzombie spawn in boulder city, he spawned directly at a playerspawn all the time. [*]Fixed the detection radius of a superzombie in boulder. [/list] [h1]Colorado V1 Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Fixed loot spawns at Ridgeway Airport. [*]Fixed tons of misplaced objects at Ridgeway Airport. [*]Fixed floating objects at Hidden Forest Ranch. [*]Fixed and added some loot to Boulder City. [*]Fixed overal terrain issues. [*]Fixed a collision wall where you could walk outside of the map. [/list] [h1]Rocky Ford Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Fixed collision walls around the map. Updated them so that players can no longer glitch outside of the map. [/list] [h1]Lounge Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Fixed and updated the lighting in the map. Skins should look better / fixed now. [/list] [h1]Caliwood Updates:[/h1] [list] [*]Fixed floating objects at Convention Center. [*]Fixed floating objects at Police Station. [*]Fixed floating objects at Aeroorome Militairy Airport. [*]Fixed floating objects and terrain issues at Football Stadium. [*]Fixed objects around Parking lot. [*]Fixed Militairy Area near the beach. [*]Fixed rocks near the beach. [*]Fixed misplaced objects and improved loot at top left of the map. [*]Fixed collision walls at Convention Center where players could bump into it. [*]Added loot to Civilian Vehicles. [*]Added missing buildings. [*]Added Food to every Fast Food and Liqour store building. [*]Added tons of new Ambience Sounds across the entire map. [*]A new Secret Spot has been added to Caliwood. [/list] [h1]Battle Royale Updates:[/h1] [b]General:[/b] [list] [*]Added a visual indicator (dome / ball) around the safezone. Players can now visually see where the border of the safezone is. When being outside of the safezone the dome will turn blue. When being inside of the safezone the dome / border will only display when you get close to the border. [*]Fixed a bug where every time the first safezone spawns players would be for one second in the radiation. [/list] [b]Tropico:[/b] [list] [*]Added more lootable area's around the spawn (start of the Battle Royale) so that players don't have to walk that long to get loot fast. [/list] Servers will be down for around 30 minutes max. due the testing of the new Hong Kong servers. We will live update you all through our Twitter with the status of the patch: https://twitter.com/infestationnewz Servers are going down any time from now. Best Regards, // Infestation: The New Z - Staff Team