Next Fest 2026 Update!

Patch Notes New Content:

• Added Tutorial Map

• Added New Rooms to interior

• Added Traps

• Added destructible props

• Added Kill Boxes to Rooms

• Added Train Hover

• Added Train Ambience and overall train sound improvements

Balance Changes:

• Increased AI spawn time for all tiers

• Reduced enemy count on Day 1

• Decreased health on all Tier 1 and Tier 2 enemies

• Hound damage reduced to 20

• Hound hearing range decreased

• Increased Marionette Grapple look time from 10s → 12s

• Pulse Lobber no longer damages the user

AI & Gameplay:

• Improved dungeon spawning logic

• AI now have effect indications

• Started item excluded from shop logic

• Shop catalog updated

• Added item drop sounds

• Added orange body color

Fixes:

• Leveled sound effect volumes for movement, weapons and UI

• Fixed footstep sounds playing behind the player

• Fixed clients not consistently seeing items in host hands

• Fixed Wickhead instant bomb placement on head

• Death Cam improvements

Optimizations:

• Major improvements to rendering pipeline, lowering GPU utilization in most modern systems

• Fine tuned medium and low quality graphics presets for lower-end machines

• LOD optimizations for better FPS on certain systems

• Fully revamped shadows and VSM's in all tiers for appropriate quality to performance balance