Feature Updates
New Map: Ruby Lake
Set on the outskirts of Warren County, New Jersey, Ruby Lake is our latest Survival experience inspired by the campsite slashers of the 80s. The CRC is assisting the National Guard in ensuring the extraction of civilians from the wider area, with zombies goaded into the now-vacant facilities as distraction.
New Progression Systems: Retirement & Distinguished Service
Responder Retirement offers a long-term, prestige system for players seeking greater accomplishment in No More Room in Hell 2 that also provides a path towards powerful items that will make a tangible difference in the upcoming Hell Mode.
When you visit the Responder screen, you’ll see your Distinguished Service Rank as well as the option to retire Responders in the bottom left. Once retired, a Responder is no longer playable and their slot on your roster becomes free once more. In exchange, you will progress Distinguished Service as well as gain +1 starting level to future Responders, up to a maximum of +29! (i.e. starting at Level 30)
Note on the right, two new loadout slots earnable through Distinguished Service!
Distinguished Service is a new leveling system that rewards experience exclusively through retired Responders. You can preview how much XP each retirement would provide, based on their accomplishments and skills up to this point. Responders must reach level 100 before being eligible for retirement, but you can check in on your potential progress at any level!
Distinguished Service has its own rewards track with unlocks at every level. An additional loadout slot is the first major unlock, with cosmetics and new gameplay features in later levels. In this update, there are 20 Dedicated Service levels available with additional levels to be added in future updates.
Here are the new perks and passive items that are available only through Distinguished Service:
New Experimental Feature: Subtitles
Subtitles are now available as an experimental feature, starting with single variants of CRC dialogue. This means that while the actual lines may vary, there is always a subtitle that conveys the core goal of a mission objective. This iteration also includes some limited settings that allow you to customize the display of subtitles to better suit your needs. Please give us any feedback as we hope to improve this feature in the future!
Cosmetic Content
Retirement Rewards
As part of Responder Retirement, various new cosmetic items and logos are available to earn exclusively through Distinguished Service! Here are all of the new items being added:
DLC Offerings
We’re adding three additional cosmetic bundles available for purchase, including homages to horror icons as well as the return of a NMRIH1 favorite! Our Scarecrow pack, which has some additional 3D components involved in its creation, will be at a slightly increased price point.
Balance & Map Changes
In-Match Communication Changes
Adjusted Nameplate and Voice over IP (VOIP) ranges across all maps
Larger, open maps (Power Plant and Pottsville) will now show nameplates and allow Responders to speak with each other up to 90m apart.
Denser maps (Bunker, Lewiston, Flooded, and Lighthouse) will allow up to 60m apart.
Our smaller, most dense, or vertical maps (Ruby Lake, NOTLD, Broadway, and Hospital) will allow up to 45m apart.
Power Plant Finale Changes
Reworked the Power Plant ending scenario to merge the exterior POI repairs and HQ parts repair scenarios.
Responders will now need to complete two randomly selected objectives in the three exterior POIs (the Ash Farm, Cooling Tower, and Stacker Reclaimer) before entering the HQ.
After this, Responders will complete a set of repairs for one random group of parts (condensers, ventilators, or water pumps).
Finally, Responders will open the shutters to the control room, find a codebook, enter the code, and pull the lever to extract.
Dev Comment: We felt that these scenarios were both a bit underwhelming and a little easy for a finale on their own, and chose to combine them to see how it felt. After testing with these adjustments, we think it will make for a much more satisfying conclusion to Power Plant runs!
To accommodate these changes as well as address zombie pressure issues, we’ve changed to spacing between zombie spawners in this scenario to be a bit sparser.
We also took this moment to update thematic zombie spawn rates in the central Power Plant region for all scenarios. Players should see a mix of Firefighters, Riot Police, and National Guard zombies in this area now, look out!
Additional Map Updates
Hospital
Reduced barricade plank spawn rate by 30%
Lewiston
Car trunks should more reliably have loot spawns within
Raven Rock
Added critical supplies to the loot pool
Adjusted the amount of zombie pressure during train extraction
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Art & Animation
Fixed an issue where SFX and VFX appeared only twice when shooting the MP5 in burst fire mode.
Fixed an issue where dismembered limbs could take on the wrong skin tone.
Fixed an issue with the reload animation failing to play when sprinting.
Audio
Reverted some EQ adjustments that were made due to a now-resolved bug. Players at higher dB levels should hear voices more clearly!
Made additional improvements to voice chat.
Fixed various issues with zombie runner audio.
Fixed an issue where Sam Foster would play dialogue hallucinations when not infected in Survival
Wait what? Nothing to see here. I don’t know what you’re talking about!
Fixed an issue where the insect hallucination would still play crunchy audio after taking gene therapy.
Fixed an issue with overlapping responder and commander VO when spawning in Power Plant.
Fixed an issue where IED sounds could play after the explosion.
Gameplay
Infection progress should now be paused when players are disconnected.
Fixed an issue where final warning for infection would still occur even after taking gene therapy.
Applied additional fixes to prevent issues where responders on the extraction helicopter can be left behind unintentionally.
Fixed an issue that could cause players to respawn indefinitely on Power Plant (Normal)
Added a missing respawn checkpoint on Pottsville (Normal), before the Neighbourhood extraction holdout.
Added a missing respawn truck near the Bank POI in Pottsville.
Fixed an issue where Responders would not respawn at the City Hall as intended.
Environment
Fixed an issue where the Food Storage roof on Lewiston was accessible unintentionally.
Fixed an issue where players could not throw anything over Power Plant's train derailment saferoom fence.
Fixed an insta-death location too close to the fishing spot spawn point on Power Plant.
Fixed an exploit in Pottsville where weapons could be taken from outside a cache.
Fixed a spot on Bunker and a spot in Power Plant where players could fall through the map.
Fixed an issue where railings in Lighthouse could not be shot past properly.
Fixed some graphical issues with blood splatters in the Tutorial map.
Fixed some objectives where zombies would despawn unintentionally.
Added prevention to zombie spawning around the player spawn points in Pottsville’s downtown.
Fixed various locations across maps where zombies could get stuck crawling out of, down from, or inside objects.
Fixed various navmesh locations where zombies could get stuck around stairs.
Applied various fixes for small locations where players could get stuck or hit invisible objects.
Applied various fixes for floating, popping, and clipping objects in the world
Applied various fixes for clipping item spawns.
Fixed more cases where zombies could vault through gated windows.
Server and Client
Applied various crash fixes.
Made improvements to the matchmaking system to address long queue times for players with crossplay disabled.
Made various server performance improvements.
Improved the reliability of updates to the friends list within the social menu on unfriending a player.
Fixed an issue where respawning responders can have inventory items duplicated.
UI & UX
Fixed an issue where the Report button was missing or inaccessible while in-game.
We deeply appreciate all reports that come from in-game and look forward to resolving issues through them again!
Fixed various controller navigation issues across all menus.
Adjusted how long truncated usernames are displayed to be more consistent between different menus.
Fixed a case where players would not be prompted to save their changes when exiting the Loadout screen.
Fixed an issue where players would be prompted to save their changes when opening the settings menu for the first time.
Fixed an issue where objectives with multiple steps would be double-counted in the objective log.
Extended the view distance of plank objective items on Pottsville.
Fixed an issue where the Lewiston water pump placement visual would appear even if Responders are not holding the necessary part.
Fixed an issue where respawn countdowns could remain on the screen after respawning.
Fixed various issues where compass markers and objective icons could be incorrect after respawning.
Fixed various issues with inaccurate objective logs after completing certain objectives.
Improved error messaging when attempting to add a user as a friend who is already on your friends list.
Ensured that “Respawn Disabled” text appears properly on Bunker.
Addressed some overlapping UI on the end-of-match screen.
Fixed an issue with a tooltip appearing unexpectedly in the customization menu.
Fixed an issue with incorrect text showing in a tooltip when at the max account level.
Fixed some inconsistent font sizes.
Addressed various localization issues and mistranslated strings.
Known Issues
We are aware of issues related to forming squads under certain network conditions, and are working on a fix shipping in a future update or hotfix.
We are aware of a bug where players can become unable to shove or kick. We’ve got some tentative fixes in this update, but would appreciate any more info, videos, or repro steps if you run into this problem!
We’re aware that attempting to retire an under leveled Responder after retiring all current Responders can cause the game to hang.
Make new memories with them first until we resolve this!
We are aware of some subtitle timing issues, which should be resolved in our next update!
Exiting the options menu can cause the Character menu to open unexpectedly, without its backdrop.
The Scarecrow Mask and Cloak are incorrectly excluded from being worn together, which will be resolved in our next patch.
We are aware of some animations with firearms failing to play for other responders.
Your feedback has helped shape No More Room in Hell 2 every step forward we take. Help out by continuing to report bugs in-game, on Discord, or at http://nmrih2.com/support!
Stay safe out there,
The NMRIH2 Dev Team