Road to 1.0: Early Access Retrospective

Hello Responders!

For our final blog on our Road to 1.0 – don’t worry, we still have Patch Notes and other info accompanying our launch – we thought we’d take a look back at the whole journey that brought us to this moment. First, we’ve put together a video for those who are returning from a while away or aren’t fully aware of how far we’ve come since Early Access release:

2 Years, 16 Content Updates

We’ve been working tirelessly alongside our community to expand and improve No More Room in Hell 2 from a single map and core gameplay systems to the unique cooperative survival game we envisioned with features they desired. This includes:

  • 2 Distinct Gamemodes
  • 9 Maps
  • 38 Weapons
  • 10 Unique Zombie Types
  • 4 Difficulty Levels
  • Expanded Gameplay Systems
    • Infection
    • Extraction
    • Inventory
    • Responders
    • Skills
    • Onboarding
  • 8,000+ Bug Fixes
  • and much, much more!

We cannot emphasize enough how important the community was to getting us to this moment. Their feedback in Discord, on forums, and through our Community Tester program was integral in our ability to create more content and add new systems to provide the best experience possible. 1.0 is the culmination of almost two years and sixteen content updates. We couldn’t be more proud of how far we’ve come from our initial launch, together.

Armageddon Launch Information

For most of our past update releases, players have been minimally disrupted until the patch was published. This launch, due to its size and multi-platform nature, will require additional downtime. Players will be unable to launch into new matches starting 5am EDT on August 11th in order to ensure everyone has finished their Early Access progress before we handle the account wipes and rewards distribution.

Patch Notes will be available a day prior on August 10th, alongside some additional info of what to expect hopping in at launch. As always, we’ll be looking forward to your feedback on Discord and want to hear any issues you run into through our Support page.

2XP Weekend Live Now

Speaking of Early Access rewards, we wanted to do something special for the final weekend to help push players to earn as much as they can. Starting now, all Account and Character XP earned from matches has been doubled! This should allow everyone to build more Responders, attempt more Nightmare runs, and most of all stay sharp ahead of 1.0. We plan to do more of these post-launch, so consider this one final “test” for Early Access.

Since everything is reset Tuesday, take advantage of this moment to have more fun: build strange Skill loadouts, risk everything more often, say goodbye to a long-lived Responder in a heroic fashion. We’re looking forward to seeing just how ungently you go into the good night of Early Access. Survive together…until you can’t.

See you all for Armageddon!
The NMRIH2 Dev Team