Dreadzone v1.5.8.3

As always, we want to start by thanking you for the continued support, feedback, bug reports, and suggestions. To the kind-hearted players on Steam, Discord, and everyone playing — your support truly means a lot to us, and it helps guide the development of Dreadzone.

This update focuses on fixing and improving several systems, addressing reported issues, and continuing optimization work across the game.

🛠️ Patch Notes:

• Fixed a bug where achievements were not progressing or completing correctly

• Winter weather “Snowing” is now a more rare occurrence

• POI reset duration increased by 3x

• Fixed a bug allowing the Respawn Menu to be closed after death using ESC / Back button

• Fixed a bug where the Wandering Trader could become hostile if the player shot someone nearby

• Fixed issue related to vegetation blur

• Fixed minor bug causing reflection issues

• Fixed certain UI element issues

• Fixed minor DBuffer issue

• Fixed performance issues related to Z-Pass

• Fixed and improved Translucency Lighting performance

• Fixed rendering issues related to Ray Tracing

• Improved overall level rendering performance

• Improved shadow, lighting, and volumetric optimization

• Improved Virtual Texture optimization

• Improved Entity Spawn System performance

• Improved melee weapon hit detection

• Balanced and tweaked melee weapon stats

• Balancing and tweaking to item values

This update is another step forward as we continue refining systems and improving stability and performance across the game.

We wish you all a great weekend ahead, full of chill time, fun moments, and good vibes — and as always, happy gaming!

— The Dreadzone Team