We've been hard at work cleaning up bugs and implementing optimization fixes. Check out the new Jericho Pistol and weapon skins! We'd love to hear your feedback on these new additions.

General / gameplay

• New Jericho pistol available!
• Skins for weapons now available!
• Reduced overall max zombie count (last patch pushed it up a bit too high) and dropped their non-frenzied damage by 30%.
• New special stage zombie effects to make them stand out from the crowd better.
• Player bot difficulty now varies based on level, and fixed weapon recoil not affecting their aiming.
• Servers now tick networking at 60FPS, up from Unreal's default of 30FPS.
• Hit indicator noise added for when you shoot an enemy-frenzied zombie.
• Parabellums cause 30% less damage to zombies and 10% less damage to players.
• Dum Dums cause 10% more damage to zombies and to players with no armor left. Dum Dums do 30% less damage to armor.
• JHPs increased ADS accuracy (reduce ADS spread) and reduce kickback by 10%, dropped damage by 10%

 
Optimizations

• Zombie animation updates migrated from Blueprint to code and parallelized! Substantial (600%) CPU use reduction, and allows zombie animation to scale across all of your processor cores.
• Sizeable optimization made to player stats netcode which reduces a LOT of the start of match traffic and some mid-game activity too.
• Minor CPU use optimizations to reduce zombie mesh and collision updates, and to reduce material updates on all characters.
• Building more cached lists of actor types to reduce common iteration cases: like a list of alive players and alive zombies. Fixed small CPU hitches caused by the spawning system on host machines on lower end CPUs.
• Backend user profile initialization glue between client and server optimized: server now preps backend data for your account before you even start loading the map!
• Dropped foliage lightmap resolutions on some assets that had it a little bit too high, which reduces texture memory usage a little.

 
Bug fixes

• Integrated UE4 4.12.4.
• Fixed enemies showing on radar when they aren’t firing and recon isn’t active.
• Fixed radar distance limits for recon and full recon.
• Fixed a potential NaN while calculating weapon spread. Would result in 0 spread when there is 0 spread desired, but still.
• Gave spawn weighting a “forgiveness” threshold so that what is considered highly-rated is a little more forgiving, helping to ensure a level of randomness because there are more high-rated spawns to pick from.
• Fixed zombies idling on top of their spawn for too long after spawning, blocking it from being used by other zombies.
• Added map checks to prevent spawns from being placed inside of blocking geometry rendering them useless, and checks to prevent them from being placed too far above the ground. Fixed all blocked/floating spawns in all maps.
• Fixed player bots not attempting to respawn if they were starved of spawns (no valid ones to spawn at), resulting in no player bots showing up or only showing up for one life on smaller maps.
• Added more player spawns and fixed some unusable ones (inside of clipping geometry) to give the spawning systems more to work with, fixing spawn starvation.
• Various fixes to prevent zombies from accumulating too much in isolated areas, though it’s still not perfect.
• Implemented a minimum delay after landing from a jump (.4s) to prevent bunny-hopping.
• Fixed a handful of zombie spawns in Derelict not having their spawn animation hooked up, resulting in an ugly zombie pop-in.
• Fixed throwable weapons not updating their visibility and shadow visibility with the rest of the weapon code, resulting in floating shadows from the grenade/distractor you are about to throw etc.
• Fixed being killed by a zombie showing an invalid death HUD.
• Fixed a spot on Outpost you could drop down to and not die.
• Disabled player yellow invulnerability fresnel effect until it’s prettified.
• Fixed some bugs with CaH battle chatter.
• Fixed a potential lag-induced and/or late-join crash relating to CaH HUD elements.
• Fixed player material team color tints going away when they die.
• Fixed frenzied zombies not showing the friendly effects when frenzied by you or a teammate while you are dead.
• Fixed players not always respawning for the post-warm up cool down if enemy player(s) were near your starting spawns when warm up ended.
• Fixed a rare engine crash with particle ribbon trail rendering.

 
If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.
 
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We've introduced a new map called Outpost and Culvert has new at, check them out and let us know what you think! We've made lots of improvements to the game.

General

• Culvert has now been arted up! Check out how it looks and let us know what you think!
  
• New map Outpost available! A smaller map with a view.
  
• Spectators now start at designated viewpoints instead of reusing player spawns.
  
• New death camera system. Focuses on the player that killed you, showing you their weapon and remaining health on the HUD while highlighting them
  slightly red.
  
• Minor HUD improvements: Show health as infinite when spawn invulnerability active; Respawn timer to let you know when you’re going to
  respawn.

Characters

• Lots of work to improve the third person animation sets.
  
• Improved character health regeneration curve, so that at lower health it does not regenerate crazy fast.
  
• Player AI now selects the ideal weapon to use based on distance to target.
  
• Zombie foot step sound events hooked up and also emitting AI “noise” to alert other zombies who may be hunting zombies. Zombie weapons now emit AI noise too.
  
• Player AI now have working randomized profile avatars.

Weapons

• Tons of polish to score streaks. Sound improvements, usability fixes, couple of crash fixes. Some scorestreaks support warning the targeted area with VO before going off, giving time to evade Sniper etc. Optimized
  character lookups inside of the marked regions.
  
• Removed the stamina penalty and requirements from jumping and knifing. Low stamina only makes jumping slightly lower. Low stamina breathing sound hooked up.
  
• Weapon sight attachments now have their own separate render pass, showing what is on the other side of the scope accurately. Also improved the scope shaders a lot.

Optimizations

• Reduced a lot of excess actor iteration by using or building our own cached lists of actors of commonly-iterated types, like players and capture points.
  
• Perks replicate to users in a much more efficient way, only updating on loadout changes. Also moved a lot of their Blueprint script to code for a
  performance gain.
  
• Some small optimizations made to score event replication, like for kills,
  deaths, etc.
  
• Reduced character mesh visibility updates on zombies.

Bug fixes

• Disallowing dead zombies from frenzy-attempts when scanning for them in a radius of e.g. a PAM going off.
  
• Using a new and improved interaction system for mantling/vaulting, ammo/armor pack interaction etc. from F13.
  
• Fixed some issues
  with player footstep sounds being triggered too much from certain
  animations.
  
• Zombies and player bots now using separate navigation meshes optimal for their settings. Should make their pathing more reliable.
  
• Using the PathFollowing component for AI movement instead of the
  CrowdFollowing component because it is acting much more reliable.
  However this means we can’t use the avoidance features of
  CrowdFollowing until fixed.
  
• Tons of fixes, extensions and improvements made to the weapon attachments system for artists to exploit.
  
• Spawning system disallows re-using a previously used spawn when it fails to find you a new spawn point. Combed over spawn selection and fixed a couple of smaller issues with spawn selection as well.
  
• Fixed a kill log spacing issue with weaponized zombie kills.
  
• Updating session information immediately upon creation to fix a “stale data” dead time when the server is switching maps.
  
• Fixed zombie character sensing settings (sight range, FOV, hearing radius etc) not always updating to the more-aware frenzy settings when frenzied.
  
• Fixed frenzied and fast aggressive zombies having a long and sort of out-of-place wander delay.
  
• Fixed lobbies allowing showing more bots than are actually allowed when the match actually starts.
  
• Fixed zombie frenzy effects restarting randomly sometimes, depending on stimuli.
  
• Loads of random little fixes to first person spectating. Nearly feature complete!
  
• Fixed some bugs with weapon pierceability, used by our hit-scan and explosive weaponry. Wrote a debug display to visualize what was going on to
  spot the errors. Tweaked pierceability settings to be more
  realistic.
  
• No longer stopping the character movement component on death. Fixes characters floating briefly before resuming their fall when they die from
  falling/jumping out of the map.
  
• Fixed frenzied zombies not always pursuing another enemy target immediately after killing/losing their first one.

If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing
our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re
reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.


If you have any issues staying connected to the game after the patch is
live, please verify integrity for your game on Steam.

• Load Steam.
  
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We've pushed a patch live with some bug fixes.

AI

• Bots now sprint and focus on the player who shot them.
  
• Bots now consider objectives based on capture time and distance to objective.
  
• More special zombie stage variations added.
  
• Optimized sensing and zombie character mesh visibility updates to reduce server CPU load.

Matchmaking

• Lobbies can now auto start with a longer countdown when one person is present, so they can play with bots until people join and take their spots. Timer will drop if someone joins.
  
• Now putting players into a lobby after a minute even if solo, so they can play with bots.

Bug fixes

• Fixed "dropping smoke" voice over sometimes playing when PAM was deployed
  
• Fixed zombies t-posing sometimes while frenzied.
  
• Fixed weapons not firing if you press and held it before the equip transition finished.
  
• Ammo made entirely server authoritative (no more client simulation) to fix ammo count consistency issues.
  
• Fixed players being able to get more than a weapon's max ammo.
  
• No longer removing all zombie bubos on death. Not necessary after recent optimizations and fixes.
  
• Forcing zombies out of frenzy when match warm up ends.
  
• Fixed some zombie spawners being set to tick unnecessarily, wasting some server CPU cycles.
  
• Fixed all weapon attachments ticking when only the scope attachments needed it, wasting CPU cycles.
  
• Fixed zombie character movement not always consuming their entire time slice, resulting in some random jittering.
  
• Fixed payback being rewarded twice sometimes.
  
• Fixed custom key bindings not working.
  
• Fixed popup menus sometimes getting stuck.
  
• Fixed offline bots not returning to the correct lobby.

If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.

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More Bots! We now have bots available on co-op multiplayer! These bots are damn good, so give it a try and let us know what you think.

Bug fixes

• Fixed player bots crashing dedicated servers on Linux, the one major preventing them from working in matchmaking matches.
  
• Fixed zombie spawn and death animations sometimes teleporting them back to 0,0,0 (the center of Warehouse, for example).
  
• Fixed zombie bubos floating in the air (the brain looking objects), not always attaching correctly in multiplayer. The fix for this was also a sizable network optimizations for zombies with bubos too.
  
• Trailer now only attracts up to 7 zombies within line of sight.
  
• Fixed players getting pulled into matches after cancelling matchmaking if they had already reserved a slot in a session, and someone else joins to kick the session to a lobby. Matchmaking pop out does not close until leaving the session completes now too.
  
• Fixed LRAD, Trailer, Distractor and KoH dome pathing sometimes getting "stuck" due to not handling enemy distance biases correctly in one code path.
  
• Zombies now check if they should attack their target twice as often, fixing them standing still for an unusual or awkward amount of time after attacking you sometimes.

If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.

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We're excited for you guys to see all the new stuff we've been working on, and the new patch is live! The game looks better and plays better.

Of course with good news, comes bad news. Due to this giant patch, we had to reset levels again. It couldn't be avoided, but to help you get back on track, we'll be giving all current owners of the game 200,000 in-game dollars! Additionally, Double Cash and Double XP Weekends are on the way too, keep watch for the announcements on the forums and discord! We truly appreciate all of your support and feedback. We've listened and we really think you're going to like what you see in this patch.

Moving Hazard price is now $9.99! The feedback provided to us from our players is that Moving Hazard is not priced right, and we've listened and want to accommodate as many players as possible. We really want to thank those that have purchased prior to the price drop, and once we finish our "Weapon-skin" system, they will be receiving an exclusive in-game weapon skin.  

Bots! We're very excited to announce that we've implemented the technology of Bots to our matches. We'd love to have your feedback on bot matches. 

Gameplay

• New Hard level difficulty option spawns more zombies and the more dangerous higher stage zombies.
  
• Team auto balancing implemented. When one team has 2 or more players than the other, the newest person to the larger team is re-balanced.
  
• Players joining the server now start at designated spectator start points, instead of picking a random player or zombie spawn.
  
• New Offline Bots mode implemented, and LAN supports them too! These bots will automatically leave if a real player joins to take their place, and fill an empty slot when one leaves. They charge objectives, shoot, mantle/vault, knife, use items and throw grenades right now, with more iteration to come.
• Dedicated server bots are coming soon.
  
• Multi-kill tracking! For double, triple and quadra-kills.
  
• Sniper score streak now hits up to 3 targets.

Audio

• Battle chatter now supports managing world positioned chatter for things like call outs (grenade!) from players.
  
• Tons of new voice overs and call outs for all of the factions, including new item use call outs.
  
• New character hit marker and death marker sounds.
  
• Audio passes and iteration to all of the weapon sounds.

Rendering

• Updated Unreal4 from 4.10.4 to 4.11.2! Lots of performance, graphical and lighting improvements gained from this.
  
• Fixed self-shadowing and group lighting not working correctly on the first person arms and gun. This improved the lighting quality on them substantially.
  
• Lighting passes and improvements were done on all of the maps.
  
• Vegetation texture, usage and performance improvements.

UI

• Complete front-end and in-game menu/interface overhaul! The new menus are a big improvement on the old, but there are some known small issues we are working on patching too.
  
• Now displaying score events directly on the HUD.
  
• Now using video loading screens instead of static images, now that we are using UE4 4.11 which supports it.

Weapons and items

• Numerous weapon balance tweaks.
  
• Knife stab made less frequent in favor of the quicker swipe.
  
• Knife stab now requires that you have stamina to use it.
  
• Trailer implementation changed: Causes nearby zombies to follow in a fast-aggressive demeanor, but they can attack you too. Frenzies up to 5 zombies upon landing.
  
• Ammo pack score-streak now refills all of the ammo for all of your weapons and items.
  
• Smoke grenade no longer kills your frame rate when near the smoke: Now swapping out the particles for a screen effect to save fill rate.

Zombies

• Higher stage zombies are now better able to hear and see players than lower stage ones.
  
• Dropped the zombie collision capsule height to better match the render mesh, and to allow them to fit through some tighter spaces.
  
• Zombies can now lose track of their target if they lose sight of them for several seconds. They used to tail players for much longer or until another closer target came by.
  
• Many optimizations passes to the behavior tree code.
  
• Changed wander radii to be randomized ranges, making wander distances more natural.

Bug fixes

• Fixed ADS depth of field effect not clearing when ADS is held while match warm-up ends.
  
• Fixed zombie melee attacks sometimes missing their target player when they are surrounded by a group of zombies.
  
• Fixed zombies sometimes falling in the wrong direction when shot in the head at certain angles.
  
• Fixed your rotation while stabbing with the knife sometimes going horribly wrong.
  
• Clamping hit reactions to play for no longer than a half second.
  
• Adjusted the position of the zombie and their stance slightly while frenzied to make them more visible when they are up close to you.
  
• Fixed a bug where sometimes stamina was being taken twice for one melee attack.
  
• Fixed a handful of bugs with scoring.
  
• Fixed several sounds not being spatialized properly.
  
• Fixed zombies attacking players during the post-warmup and post-match cool-down periods. They couldn’t damage anyone, it was just annoying.
  
• Dropped the look yaw limits while mantling/vaulting to reduce exploitability.
  
• Fixed zombie outline, fresnel, LRAD effects not replicating to mid-game joiners.
  
• Refactored item, weapon and weapon attachment visibility and lighting setting updates in order to fix numerous mid-game join issues, floating weapon attachment issues, and items in general showing up at 0,0,0 in the map when not in use.
  
• Fixed the server browser not automatically queueing another refresh when already refreshing and you change between LAN and Public.
  
• Fixed the server browser entries not handling double click to join.
  
• Fixed massive performance drop when surrounded by zombies on lower end GPUs due to DFAO by disabling it selectively.

If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.

If you have any issues staying connected to the game after the patch is live, please verify integrity for your game on Steam.

1. Load Steam.
   
2. From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
   
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4. Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.

We have many exciting changes coming to Moving Hazard and couldn't wait to tell our fans! Our players have been valuable with the feedback that has been provided during our Early Access and we thank you all!  Check out what's coming to Moving Hazard!

Price Drop is Coming Soon!  The feedback provided to us from our players is that Moving Hazard is not priced right, and we've listened and want to accommodate as many players as possible. We really want to thank those that have purchased prior to the price drop, and once we finish our "Weapon-skin" system, they will be receiving an exclusive in-game weapon skin.  We hope to have more information about this in the upcoming weeks. 

Bots! We're very excited to announce that we've implemented the technology of Bots to our matches.  The bots are currently in testing and we're knocking out bugs as quickly as possible to get this out to you our players.  

New Item named Trailer which will distract zombies and when thrown it will frenzy the zombies. 

That's not everything, we've upgraded visuals on many maps, are also adding in improved Map rotation, Double XP and Cash events, Improved Stage 3 zombies and more! Keep watch for the upcoming patch notes for detailed information. 

We're pushing a patch out to our servers that contains some bug fixes. We're locking FFA mode for now due to some issues it was having, it'll be back very soon! Have a great weekend!

• Deployables/throwables will no longer float when thrown by other players.
  
• The hit direction input for hit reactions was fixed, which should make dead bodies fall more realistic relative to their final hit.
  
• Trailer fixed for FFA.
  
• Zombies lose enemies and stop pathing after them after 3 seconds of not seeing them.
  
• Weapon camera firing impulse fixes.
  
• FFA re-locked.

If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.

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1. Load Steam.
   
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The team has been super excited over all the feedback we're receiving. The patch going out later today will have some suggestions from our players and new additions that we hope you enjoy, including a new game mode, key binding changes, spawn system changes and more! 

Free For All (FFA) mode is now unlocked! You're on your own, you against everyone in this new mode. Use the Zombies wisely, it could make the difference of winning or losing the match! We'd love to hear your feedback on our forums, discord or to support! 
 
We've changed the spawning and introduce the new player spawning and weighting system, with game mode specific rules to make spawning more deterministic and competitive ready. These changes effect the following:

• CAH will spawn you near the points you have captured excluding the choke point B.
• KOH will spawn you no closer to the hill than you last died, but never closer than 10 m and never further than 80 m.
• All modes now avoid spawning within 20 m of the location you died and attempt to spawn near teammates.
• Spawn potential-visibility caching system updates 50% more frequently and now influences spawn weighting to help avoid players spawning in locations that are within firing range of an enemy. Also bumped the distance you spawn away from enemy players by 50%.
• CAH control point limit increased from 300 to 400.

It sucks being on a 3 v 4 team and with that we're introducing the idler auto-kicking. Various game play events (talking, spectating players, firing, crouching, ADS, jump etc) will bump the timer, but do nothing for 90 seconds and get kicked out of the match. 
 
UI

• One of the most asked for options is now available! Custom key bindings now supported!  

Weapons

• Updated AK74 fore-grip animations and lots of other weapon attachment specific animations were updated.
• Hooked up third person IK animation stances. 

Items

• Trailer item functionality implemented. Now serves as a frenzied-zombie counter and general zombie herder. 

Bugfixes

• Fixed zombies not being damageable during a monster-box spawn (when they crawl out of a hole).
• Fixed a crash when a callback would come from the database during map change or startup.
• Fixed some broken mantle/vault markup on all of the maps.
• Fixed projectiles not replicating their delayed activation, causing LRAD and distractor effects to not go off.
• Fixed mantle/vault and armor/ammo pack interact HUD widget getting stuck on the screen if you died while it was up.
• Various fixes to support FFA in the UI, items and visibility cache.
• Various fixes and improvements to battle chatter, including being able to configure cool-downs for each individual type and supporting VO variations for the same events to reduce repetitiveness.
• Player perch radius dropped to more than half of the collision capsule size, making it so you fall off from objects your feet are obviously not on. Also fixes players being able to hop onto trivial-sized ledges and exploit maps that way.
• Tuned garbage collection settings to reduce potential hitches caused by that.
• Whenever the player is dead and presses fire, and they can respawn, attempt spawning again.
• Fixed the low health sound being stuck on during the end of match cool-down.
• Fixed a rare server crash caused by the blindness virus score-streak.

If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.

If you have any issues staying connected to the game after the patch is live, please verify integrity for your game on Steam.

1. Load Steam.
   
2. From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
   
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4. Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.

We'll be pushing a patch live to all servers in 10 minutes (12:25 AM CDT). In this patch we've resolved many major matchmaking issues. Players should now be able to use the matchmaking and find a match very quickly. If you do have trouble please let us know by posting on the forums or discord. 

Weapons

• Weapon attachments (like ones that change your magazine or general gun shape) can now have their own animations, cleaning up animation errors on those.
  
• Weapon attachments can now modify a weapon's pierce-ability characteristics.

Items

• Damper now frenzies up to 2 zombies.

Misc

• New Battle Chatter manager. Prevents VO from stacking on top of each other, queuing in odd ways, or otherwise being obnoxious. Existing VO changed to route through it, and a bunch of new stuff hooked up.

Bug fixes

• Fixed score streaks not updating properly when you change loadouts.
  
• Fixed numerous issues with double-down and respeccing.
  
• Now users only have to accept the disclaimer once per patch.
  
• Fixed the knife not always killing frenzied zombies.
  
• Fixed manual reloads skipping the exit-ADS animation, circumventing that penalty for the crossbow.
  
• Worked around an issue with Steam telling our database who is or is not a demo client.
  
• Disabled gaining experience at level 50, instead of capping it off at the amount of XP it takes to hit 51 minus one.
  
• Fixed inverted controls not working in match warmup.
  
• Fixed the right button on the resolution setting not working while in-game due to a hidden widget.
  
• Fixed players not being able to join servers while the server is in the end of match cooldown.
  
• Fixed zombies that are feasting foot-sliding if they are frenzied while off of your screen.
  
• More fixes to zombies not pathing towards the hill point in horde mode.
  
• No longer disabling the Invite Friend button when the lobby timer is low.

If you come across any bugs or problems, please let us know by emailing our support department support@movinghazard.zendesk.com. If you’re reporting a technical support issue, please include a full description of what happened and include a dxdiag report.

If you have any issues staying connected to the game after the patch is live, please verify integrity for your game on Steam.

1. Load Steam.
   
2. From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
   
3. Select the Local files tab and click the Verify integrity of game cache... button.
   
4. Steam will verify the game's files - this process may take several minutes.