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3 October 2026

20 changes in this update

Megaphone now works: your voice carries 50 m instead of 25 and is twice as loud, with horn rasp and street echo; you hear yourself through it, it shakes in your hand and throws sound waves, and monsters hear it twice as far
A bolt thrown at a mine arms it, so you can blow a mine up from a safe distance
2 seconds of grace after you pass a dungeon door, in or out: monsters do not notice you while you look around
Top-down view is more forgiving: a monster that chases you from beyond the screen edge for 3 seconds gives up and leaves you alone for 12 seconds
An item staked in a slot machine is dimmed in your inventory while the reels spin, and the same item can no longer be staked on two machines or on roulette at once

Monsters now see 20% shorter in first person, the chase was too relentless
The elk is 25% slower: 4.3 m/s instead of 5.8, you can now outrun it
Zenit camera frame now hugs the monster by its size and facing, a long monster seen from the side gives a wide frame instead of a thin column
Zenit in top-down view: focus takes 1 second instead of 3, and you can shoot standing sideways to the monster, just not with your back to it

Monsters no longer walk in the air at eye height and no longer crawl under the truck
A monster that came to the sound of a thrown bolt no longer counts as hunting the thrower: no tension music and no swing at you
A guest who died no longer loses their chosen outfit, on the road they wake up in their own jacket, gas mask, boots and backpack
The starter kit handed out after a wipe is now saved: the host can leave and return and the flashlights, vodka, detectors and camera are still on the shelf
Handcar: an item stacked on top of another item now rides along instead of hanging in the air
Megaphone and blowtorch now point forward in your hand and are held by the handle
Two players who grab each other with the physgun now both let go instead of flying off together
The distant world no longer shows through steep slopes, the junkyard hill had a see-through haze around it
Ground near cliffs is now drawn where you actually walk, it used to hang up to a meter above the collision
Wall pipes in shower rooms no longer split at module seams
Two errors that spammed for some players: a monster hurt right after it appeared, and the PDA on the arm

Minor improvements