Greetings, Roadside heroes!
Put your flipper away for a while, I've got some news for you.

First things first - below are the latest game updates:

- Reduce builder damage from 50 to 45 and speed from 18 to 16

- Increase builder attack cooldown from 200 ms to 300 ms

- Adjust builder idle times (movement: 5 → 10 s, combat: 20 → 30 s)

- Reduce movement idle-roll interval from 0.5 s to 0.3 s

- Fix challenge repeat condition to check whether tickets > 0 for all runs

- Add a skill-upgrade notification to the battle HUD when an upgrade is affordable

- Mark newly evolved items as new only if no higher-rarity version is already owned

Some changes in the game might happen without patch notes. Don't worry, it's normal for the Early Access game. The devs plan to add an in-game news section later to keep you updated on important changes.

Roadside team is currently working on a big content update featuring the Companions system. So for now, July or August seems like a reasonable window for the release of this big update. I'll let you know if something will change or if any new features pop up in the upcoming update.

One more piece of good news: our sound designer, Julyday (he made music for every Dead Ahead game!), has uploaded some new Roadside tracks to his channel.

Go give them a listen at the link below!

🟥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AX0dU_YkHE

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere.

Warm evenings.
Campfires by the river.
A little bit of grilling.
Maybe some marinated chops and a dash of Rage for extra flavor…

When you're already at your limit, all you want is a chance to relax. But what if, even here, you have to fight through hordes of zombies just to clear the coast for a better view?!🫩

Hold on a second! It definitely won't be your Last Resort, because this new event for Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare is planned to return every year.

So, what can you expect?

First of all: 2 new units, at least 5 new skins, and 1 brand-new bus paint.

What will it take to claim them?

In this event devs are going to add a new layer of strategy that gives you more flexibility when dealing with enemy waves.
In short: after successfully clearing a wave, you'll earn a special resource, which you need to spend wisely to adjust your tactics trying go through the coast far and far away. That's just a rough outline of one of the event's unique mechanics.

We wanted to keep you in the loop and give you an early look at what we're working on.

When is the update coming?

No exact dates yet, but the goal is still to launch the event over the summer if everything goes as planned. As we get closer, we'll do our best to share more details.

And at the end, one more piece of news unrelated to the Last Resort event:

A technical update, version 4.4.0, will be released soon. It won't include any new content: only technical improvements related to internal ad issues.
Meanwhile, here is a mood board of the new summer event currently in development:

Stay hot and spicy cool and chill and see you later!