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Friday, February 6th, 2026

DF1: SEARING STEED (Coming Soon) 🐴

• Celebrate Lunar New Year with us! Starting on February 12th and continuing until March 2nd:
• Complete a challenge and earn the new Horse Head and Lunar Horse Mask cosmetic!
• Take on the Horse Head Bandits
• Find Red Envelopes filled with fortune
• Get a massive +100% EXP, +200% PvP Points, +30% More Loot Spots, +35% Looting Speed, +100% Weapon/Armour Loot AND +100% Ammo/Cash!
• Grab the new Limited Edition dual wield "Bronco" shotguns from the credit shop
• Grab the new U Implant (looting implant) from the credit shop at a 25% discount (not Limited Edition)
• Get an extra 20% credits with every purchase!

Miss it at your peril! 🐎

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025

DF1: FROSTBORN FURY & CRYOSTORM COMMANDOS (Coming Soon!)

Take part in our upcoming dual themed Christmas event! Starting December 15th and continuing until January 12th you will be able to:

• Track down the hidden Christmas gift loot spots for a range of special rewards
• Complete challenges to earn the new Santa Claws, Crystorm Reactive, and previous event rewards
• Collect the new Frostborn raider themed cosmetic items!
• Take on the Frostborn Bandits, Frost Giant and a range of other Christmas themed mutations
• Get a massive +100% EXP, +200% PvP Points, +30% More Loot Spots, +35% Looting Speed, +100% Weapon/Armour Loot AND +100% Ammo/Cash!
• Grab the new Limited Edition "Cyrostorm C1" frost AOE energy shotgun from the credit shop
• Grab the new Slayer Implant (boss hunting implant) from the credit shop at a 33% discount (not Limited Edition)
• Get an extra 20% credits with every purchase!

Miss it at your peril!

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025

Hardcore Ironman Event

Hey survivors, we know its been awhile since the last HCIM event but we hope everyone is ready as its finally time for the next HCIM! In order to strike a balance between those who wanted a month long event again and those who wanted a shorter one, we'll be hosting the HCIM event starting on November 21st 8am EST (or forum time) and ending 2 weeks and some change later on December 8th at 8am EST. In order to give people a break after the Halloween event and before the Christmas event we decided this was the best timeline to fit the HCIM event into this year still.

For more information including new HCIM shop items, please visit the thread here: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=965128.0

Note: This is only the announcement thread, as we automatically include HCIM accounts created after the start time into the event there is no need for an entry thread. 🙂

Monday, October 20th, 2025

Changelog

New

• Supply Officer in outpost page
• Players can now donate cash towards a community milestone that randomly grants a stacking 2% combat boost. A random active boost will degrade by 1% a day.

Changes

• Bandit instances now have reduced infected aggro rates, reduced by about half.
• Food and Medicine reverted to 3x from 2x when cooked/administered. Base values reduced.
• Food and Medicine items are roughly 25% more rare to find when looting.
• MC items now scrap for more money the better their stats are, with the largest bonus coming from GC items.
• Vendor is now split into multiple pages to make room for more stock. Event items now appear in all vendors and items are slightly more organized.
• Weapons and Armour generated in the vendor can now only be bought once instead of infinitely until it restocks.
• Weekend Events now weigh previous events and tries to choose a different boost type if one was recently used.
• Players can no longer "preload" loot spot bonuses when entering an area. To benefit from loot spot bonuses the implants must be equipped and active.

Bug Fixes

• Players should no longer get a trade request for challenges if they have no cash or item rewards.
• Fixed a bug that didn't allow you to swap implant presets if you had max implant storage filled.

https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.30

Saturday, October 18th, 2025

Official "Leaks" For Some Upcoming Items

These are not releasing with Halloween!

• New Dusk/X-Dusk/Dawn weapons
• Fleshed out Biomass weapon set
• A few new 120s
• WIP Implants

https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=964766

Monday, October 14th, 2025

🎃 DF1: RED HARVEST (Coming Soon!) 🎃

• Hunt down the evil pumpkin loot spots that contains Halloween themed collectibles,
• Complete a challenge and earn the Halloween Mask, which features 12 designs in one and earn previous Halloween challenge rewards,
• Collect FOUR new 'Mangler' themed dyable cosmetic items!,
• Take on the Mangler Bandits,
• Get a massive +100% EXP, +200% PvP Points, +30% More Loot Spots, +35% Looting Speed, +100% Weapon/Armour Loot AND +100% Ammo/Cash!,
• Grab the new Limited Edition "Gut Stitcher" SMG weapon from the credit shop,
• Grab the new Hook Implant from the credit shop at a 33% discount (not Limited Edition),
• Get an extra 20% credits with every purchase!,

Miss at your own peril!

https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=964750.0

Friday, July 18th, 2025

Summer Event Update

• Enemy balance pass
• Challenges now scale XP rewards based on level
• Food and Medicine Overhaul
• Weapon Proficiency Overhaul
• Implant Storage and Presets
• Stealth Overhaul (now Survival)

https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16913414#msg16913414

Monday, July 14th, 2025

🤠 🎲 DF1: Gunslinger's Gambit (Coming Soon!) 🎲 🤠

Take part in our upcoming Summer event! Starting July 18th and continuing until August 17th you will be able to:

• Collect FIVE new Gunslinger themed dyeable cosmetic items!
• Take on a gang of gunslinger Bandits
• Track down the hidden loot spots with summer themed rewards
• Get a massive +100% EXP, +200% PvP Points, +30% More Loot Spots, +35% Looting Speed, +100% Weapon/Armour Loot AND +100% Ammo/Cash!,
• Grab the new Limited Edition Dynamite Crossbow from the credit shop
• Grab the new Mastercraft Implant (increases mastercraft chance and quality when looting) from the credit shop at a 25% discount (not Limited Edition)
• Complete two new challenges to earn a pair of Gunslinger themed dual-wield revolvers with their own unique attributes.
• Try your luck with the new Gambit Implant or Dealer Implant that randomly roll their bonus stats
• Have another chance to complete previous summer event challenges or earn any items you missed last time.
• Get an extra 20% credits with every purchase!

Miss it at your peril!

Roadmap

Releasing with Summer Event:

• Food and Medicine Overhaul
• Weapon Proficiency Overhaul
• Implant Storage and Presets
• Stealth Overhaul

These are our current major focus areas:

• Unity 5 Engine Upgrade
• HUD Remake (planned to launch alongside Unity 5)
• Map Overhaul
• Multiplayer Overhaul

Check out the full post on the forums for more details:
https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=963736.0

Friday, July 11th, 2025

Discontinued Support for 32-bit Windows Operating Systems

Hello everyone,

Beginning with our summer event, we will be releasing future Dead Frontier Standalone clients exclusively for 64-bit operating systems.

As discussed previously, the in-development engine upgrade for Dead Frontier 3D to Unity 5 will require us to drop support for 32-bit operating systems.

Upgrading to a 64-bit standalone client is needed to maintain performance due to increasing requirements of more modern unity versions and generally speaking, it should provide better performance for more modern computers.

We appreciate your understanding and apologize to any users this may inconvenience.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2025

Independence Day Event & Sale!

From now until July 9th everyone gets the following boosts: +200% exp +50% misc loot chance +100% weapon/armour loot chance +100% cash/ammo loot chance +35% search speed +40% loot spots +200% pvp points

annnnd +20% credits with all purchases!

Have a great July 4th!

Client 263

• Fixed a bug with Spirit Pumpkin Head cosmetic where it wasn't dying the particles effect black
• Fixed a bug that let you toggle fire mode type mid-burst causing a faster fire rate than intended.
• Fixed a bug that let burst fire weapons shoot more bullets than you actually had.
• Added a 1 second cooldown on fire mode toggle as a fail safe.
• Added a recenter button to World Map menu.
• Added level 75 requirement to enter Death Row like other end-game zones.
• Added a deeper level to Death Row, future content prep. Only armored DR longarms, cystic DR rumblers, DR special mutants, and the Behemoth *(wont apply today) will spawn here.
• Increased the spawn rates of zombies around Nastya's Holdout for a faster paced early game.
• Food decreases by 1 every 90 seconds instead of 106 seconds while in-game.

We're still working on Unity 5 release, we will post a public roadmap for updates soon.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2025

Issue Regarding Microsoft Emails

Hello gamers :gawoo:

The Microsoft email issue should be resolved (tested multiple times). Please be patient when waiting for an auth code. Allow for at least 10 minutes for an auth code to come through. If the issue persists, please create a support ticket in the ⁠global-support channel on the Dead Frontier Series (Official) Discord server and tag me (@hotrods).

It's best to add a recovery email to your account through an alternative provider to avoid issues in the future. There'll be an announcement soon about compensation. Thank you for your time and patience.

Sunday, June 22nd, 2025

If you are still having problems logging in because of email issues, please create a thread in the ⁠global-support channel in the Dead Frontier Series (Official) Discord and directly @ mention me, @hotrods.

You will be asked to provide identifiable information. Do not invite anyone else but myself to the thread. If I do not respond immediately, please be patient and only mention me in the thread.

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We're continuing to work towards a solution for those impacted by the recent 2FA email issues with Microsoft emails. In the mean time our team has been manually delivering auth codes for Microsoft emails when requested and reading through support tickets. We've created a list of all users impacted and plan to restore any active/lapsed Gold Membership time and doing a makeup event for this weekend event once the issue has been resolved.

Saturday, June 21st, 2025

Weekend events are now automated. They will start and and end at an exact time every week for consistency and the boost is randomly selected. A bot will then also automatically post in this discord channel and on the forums when the weekend event starts up.

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025

2FA Email Verification

It has been brought to our attention that there is currently an issue with users receiving authentication codes from Dead Frontier via email. It cannot be said for certain but most reports seem to be coming from users with a Hotmail email address. We are aware of the issue and will post an update here when we find out what is going on. Please be patient and if you are using another provider that isn't hotmail please submit a ticket in ⁠global-support so we can be aware.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

We made some changes to our 2FA system. You will need to re-verify your email. If you do not have a valid email address, you should still have access to the profile and account settings page to update your email to a valid email.

Thank you for playing Dead Frontier!

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Since some users have had issues entering their 2FA numbers, I reset attempts allowed for everyone. If you still have problems, please create a thread in the Dead Frontier Series (Official) Discord server and fill out the "Discord Support Form." If you keep trying and you cannot get the email, please check that you are using the correct email at this link,
https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?action=profile;sa=account

Edit: You MUST use your email verification code. The 2FA app can be re-enabled after you re-verify.

Saturday, May 31st, 2025

We are currently investigating the issue with the 24h bans so if you have been affected by it please be patient as we sort it out. We will update you once we've corrected the issue.

Thursday, May 22th, 2025

New Credit Shop Implants

Pale Parasite
Cannot be equipped with Symbiont Implant

Predator Gland
Cannot be equipped with Scavenger Hunt Implant

New Camp Valcrest Vendor Implants

Bone Spire Graft
Cannot be equipped with Amber Implant

Crimson Cortex
Cannot be equipped with Pioneer Implant

Deadman's Grasp
Cannot be equipped with Fatman's Implant

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Client 260

• Bear spawns in all of Raven Ridge reduced by 30% based on feedback.

XR-1

• Alt Fire added, deals 100% damage on single target but non-burst fire (-50% firing speed)
• Added 50% noise reduction
• Added hit sound effect on zeds.

XR-2 Magstorm

• Capacity: 1 -> 2
• Removed damage reduction when shooting through walls and other objects. (Still applies in PvP/Arena)
• Primary Fire now always evenly splits among the enemies hit instead of prioritizing high health targets.
• Added a Alt Fire that always deals 100% single target damage.
• Adjusted shot sound effect based on feedback
• Fixed a bug where damage was sometimes being reduced when hitting enemy ragdolls.
• Fixed a bug where the correct amount of knockback wasn't being applied to enemies on hit.

XR-2 Magstorm Arena

• Capacity: 15
• Shot size hit box increased by 20%
• Reduced Arena damage debuff from 50% to 30%

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Golden Frying Pan

• Extended range
• 1.5 hits a second

Revsaw 750

• Extended range

IM-2 Combat Suit

• 35% damage absorption on breaking hit

Client 260 was repackaged as 260(2) with proper signing.

Friday, April 11th, 2025

• Fixed an issue with Soda, Coffee, Multivitamins, and Supplements being unlootable.
• Temporarily giving Outbreak Pamphlet, Survival Handbook, Combat Training Manual, and Secronom Research Notes 1% healing so that it's not categorized as rare misc items.

Monday, April 7th, 2025

DF1: PROJECT MAGSTORM (Coming Soon)

Take part in our upcoming Easter / 17th Anniversary combo event! Starting April 18th and continuing until May 11th you will be able to:

• Track down the hidden Easter Egg loot spots and earn festive rewards
• Collect FOUR new Voltguard cosmetic items complete with recolors!
• Take on the Voltguard Bandits
• Craft the returning Bunny Backpack
• Complete a returning challenge to unlock the Hare Trigger 47 Easter assault rifle
• Complete a new challenge to unlock the XR-1 Pulse rifle
• Get a massive +300% EXP, +200% PvP Points, +30% More Loot Spots, +35% Looting Speed, +100% Weapon/Armour Loot, +50% Blueprint Loot AND +100% Ammo/Cash!
• Grab the new Limited Edition XR-2 Magstorm railgun weapon from the credit shop
• Get an extra 20% credits with every purchase!

Miss it at your peril!

Friday, April 4th, 2025

Balance Update

Full Details: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16901925#msg16901925

Summary

• Melee range extended for 120, Tier 2 120, X-Melee, and DR Melee weapons.
• Another balance round for lower tier combat implants.
• X Weapons and X Armour crafting cost reductions.
• Slow fire rate end-game grenade launchers given more stun chance, stun duration, and bigger explosions.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Forum Update

Dear Gamers,
A recent patch has been tested and deployed that fixes forum load times.

Love, hotrods.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Important Announcement: Dead Frontier Joins Tencent

After several months of discussions and negotiations, we’re announcing that both Dead Frontier and Dead Frontier 2 will be joining the Tencent family of games.

This partnership marks a new chapter for the franchise. Tencent’s extensive infrastructure and expertise in live service development will allow us to deliver faster updates, expanded features, and access to new technologies we previously couldn’t tap into.

Some upcoming changes you can expect as part of this transition:

• Integration of optional, reward-based ads, allowing players to earn items, currency, and respawns in exchange for ad views.

• Localization into over 30 new languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and simplified English

• Auto-Aim Assist with Face-Tracking: Your webcam will now monitor your fear levels in real time. If you're not scared enough, we’ll just up the difficulty.

We understand that some of these changes may be unexpected, but we’re confident this partnership will ensure a stronger future for the Dead Frontier universe. The gameplay you know and love will remain at the core of the experience—we’re just opening the door to more ways to play and engage.

For more information, please watch this short video presentation:
https://deadfrontier.com/tencent/

Thank you for being part of this journey,
— The Dead Frontier Team

Friday, March 28th, 2025

Balance Update

Full Details: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16901297#msg16901297

Summary

• Increased the damage for early game melee weapons.
• Increased the damage for early game pistol weapons.

Misc.

• HCIM implant, IM-2 Combat Suit, IM-2 Combat Helmet added to HCIM reward box.
• Tatakau and Shinobu Helmet can no longer be dismantled into Rare Metal Scrap.
• Energy Drink, Inhaler, and COmbat Training Manual increased in item level from 50 to 60

This should make them more likely to be found around Secronom Bunker / NEZ.

• Fixed an issue that caused Dragon's Maw damage to revert to 9.5 per hit rather than 10.0

Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

Added a new weapon, the EBR-12. Tier 1 120 lootable battle rifle (machinegun prof) that uses 12.7mm Rifle ammo.

• Added crafting recipe for EBR-12 for ironman / hardcore ironman characters.
• Added crafting recipe to change the EBR-12 into an EBR-14 that uses 14mm rifle.

Balance Update

Full Details: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16900665#msg16900665

Summary:

• Early to mid/entry level late game Mesh armour have a little more durability and absorption (up to Nomad Mesh)
• Early to mid/entry level late game Reactive armour have little more durability but greatly increased absorption (up to Tatakau Reactive)
• Early game lootable combat implants given a small boost in bonus
• Mid game mutated infected rebalancing
• Wasteland enemies deal a little more damage

Monday, March 17th, 2025

Hardcore Ironman Event 2025

Sorry for the delay everyone, I got off work a bit later than expected and we had a few small issues to fix with the HCIM stuff before starting the event. The HCIM event has now officially started, you should also automatically receive the challenges if you have created a new HCIM account. Good luck everyone.

HCIM Changes

• Dusk Implant and X-Dusk Implant added to Dusk Reward and X-Dusk Reward box
• Makeshift Flamethrower craftable added
• IM-2 Combat Suit armour and Helmet added to HCIM shop
• IM-2 Implant added to HCIM shop

Note: for anyone that created accounts before this post, the milestone challenges likely will not show up for you. You will either need to make a new account or reincarnate with that account in order for the milestones to show up. (Only accounts made after the start time will count towards leaderboards, so if you don't see the challenges then you will need to reincarnate/create a new account.)

^All accounts created after the initial start time will be counting toward the leaderboard and should have the challenge milestones fixed.

Grenade Launcher and Stagger Rework Update

Full Details: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16900467#msg16900467

Summary:

• Grenade Launcher Rework
• Explosions can only deal damage to up to 5 targets.
• Enemies hit beyond that 5 will still get staggered or stunned, but will not be damaged.
• Bosses will now have a 20% chance to stagger if you successfully roll a stun with a Grenade Launcher.

• Stagger Rework
• Zeds will now stagger if dealing at least 5% of their max health in damage instead of 12.5%
• Chainsaws and ARs given an extra stagger power stat to help with crowd control

Friday, March 7th, 2025

Balance Update

Full Details: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16899619#msg16899619

Summary:

• Increased the base weapon and armour find chance in NEZ
• Increased drop rate for Experimental Parts
• Reduced crafting costs for most end-game weapons and armour by roughly $1m
• Small early game enemies balance changes
• Added crafting recipes to craft small amounts of fuel ammo from beer, red wine, or whiskey.

Hardcore Ironman Event 2025

Hey everyone, its finally time for the next hardcore ironman event to take place. I know some of you have been waiting, others possibly dreading it but its finally time. The poll for the duration of the HCIM event has come to an end and the majority of people want the event to last for a month. For those who wanted a shorter HCIM event that voted on the other durations, I do want to experiment with a 2 or 3 week HCIM in the future sometime after the next holiday event so please stay tuned for that if you end up sitting out of this one.

The Hardcore Ironman event will be starting on March 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM and ending roughly 1 month later on April 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM (these times are automatically converted to your local time zone). We will post an announcement when the event officially starts that day as well. In order to enter all you have to do is create a new account after the event has started and select the "Hardcore Ironman" class. (Normal Ironman will not count, please make sure you choose the right one)

Hardcore accounts will PERMANENTLY lose all items and character progress on death.
HARDCORE IRONMAN ACCOUNTS MUST BE CREATED AFTER THE EVENT STARTS TO QUALIFY
!WE WILL NOT RESTORE ITEMS OR PROGRESSION LOST!

For more information such as ironman restrictions and rewards please visit the announcement thread on the forums located here: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=962517.0

Friday, February 28th, 2025

Balance Update

Full Details: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16899044#msg16899044

Summary:

• Increased drop rates for Experimental Parts, pre-assembled Death Row 120s, 130s, and 135 prof items by 20-25%.
• Energy Cell ammo big stack crafting recipe added, requires 2 Rare Metal Bars.
• Revisited Chainsaws based on feedback. Reduced knockback but given 10% more stun chance to help with survivability and locking down targets.
• Mid to end-game Rifle balance around Armour Penetration and Noise Reduction.

Friday, February 21th, 2025

Balance Update pt1

Full Details: https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?topic=960566.msg16898463#msg16898463

Summary:

• Pre-Assembled X-Weapons drop rate increased around SB / NEZ.
• Increased attack range and stun chance on end-game chainsaws.
• Increased damage for mid to late game melee weapons.
• All Assault Rifles given a pierce shot (60%/20%/20%) for primary fire, single target alt fire with no damage split. Press Q to toggle between them.

Saturday, January 25th, 2025

🐍 DF 1: SLITHERING IN THE SHADOWS 🐍

Celebrate Lunar New Year with us! Starting on January 28th and continuing until February 16th:

• Complete a challenge and earn the new Snake Head cosmetic!
• Take on the Snake Head Bandits
• Find Red Envelopes filled with fortune and eat sticky rice cake
• Get a massive +100% EXP, +200% PvP Points, +30% More Loot Spots, +35% Looting Speed, +100% - Weapon/Armour Loot AND +100% Ammo/Cash!
• Grab the new Limited Edition "Serpent's Fang" revolver from the credit shop
• Get an extra 20% credits with every purchase!

Miss it at your peril! 🐍