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The Surge 2 — patch notes and updates

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Spring Sale2020-03-24Hi everyone, Spring Sale are now live on Steam - get up to 75% off on the Focus Home Interactive publisher page on a selection of top selling games in the coming days! Make sure to wishlist your favorite titles there not to miss any promotion!
Patch 6 is now live!2020-02-25Greetings, Warriors, We just rolled out a patch that fixes several recurring issues. Please find the patch notes below. Patch notes Fixed an issue where Eli could suddenly die during the fight at the University without even being touched. Fixed an issue where Nano Echo in the boss fight would have a voice line in English. Fixed an issue where players could cancel falling animation when using attack and block during the fall. Fixed an issue where players could survive the fall from the epicenter and skip the fight against Cain. Fixed an issue where blocking animation would not play completely. Fixed an issue where implants could not be equippe
Devblog #7 - Soundtrack2020-01-22https://i.imgur.com/hjqfRue.jpg The Surge 2 Premium Edition, including the base game and all DLCs, is now available! Play the hardcore Action-RPG featuring brutal exoskeleton combat on a dying earth on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC now! Today we are happy to have BowsToHymns - Helge Borgarts and Thomas Stanger, the composers behind The Surge 2 Original Soundtrack, tell us some interesting anecdotes and their main inspiration on this project. https://i.imgur.com/yUfyfJv.jpg What were your main inspirations on The Surge 2 soundtrack? As with every game the main inspiration comes from the project itself. The Surge 2 has a very distinct and uni
The Surge 2 Premium Edition out now!2020-01-16https://i.imgur.com/PkqUiYq.gif Greetings, The Surge 2 Premium Edition, including the base game and all DLCs, is available today! Watch the launch trailer for the Premium Edition to get a glimpse of the retro-themed suburban environments and deadly new enemies you’ll soon be engaging in brutal combat, as well as all the excellent content available in previous DLCs. The Premium Edition collects the base game and all DLCs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmUoyS--5I The Kraken expansion adds hours of narrative-driven content with a brand-new storyline and location, as well as a wealth of new weapons, implants and armor to discover and craft. On
The Kraken expansion now live for Season Pass Owners!2020-01-14https://i.imgur.com/EKUkdQJ.gif Hello everyone, The Kraken expansion is now live on Steam for Season Pass Owners! Fight your way through a retro-themed suburban environment battling pirates and security systems aboard the desolate military vessel, VBS Krakow! https://i.imgur.com/yGBqcgE.gif /!\ Spoiler alert /!\ You can find how to access The Kraken content here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQL0UsJ-kE The Premium Edition, including the base game and all DLCs, release January 16 on Steam. Enjoy your fight!
The Kraken DLC and premium edition release on Jan. 16!2020-01-08https://i.imgur.com/yGBqcgE.gif Hello, Happy New Year! We are thrilled to announce the upcoming Kraken expansion will come to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on January 16. Check out the newly unveiled teaser trailer, for a glimpse of the retro-themed suburban environments you’ll soon be exploring. https://youtu.be/McDhW39Dfek The Kraken expansion adds hours of narrative-driven content with a brand-new storyline and location, as well as a wealth of new weapons, implants and armor to discover and craft. On the outskirts of Jericho City, enter the VBS Krakow, a massive decommissioned aircraft carrier retrofitted as a retreat for the rich and famous. Batt
The Jericho’s Legacy Gear Pack is out today!2019-12-10https://i.imgur.com/wvgAxsV.gif Hello, The Surge 2 continues to get bigger and better with the release of the Jericho’s Legacy Gear Pack today! This brings three brand new gear sets to the game, and is available both standalone and as part of the Season Pass. With the pack out today, new screenshots take you to the heart of the action. This is the second major release as part of The Surge 2 Season Pass, with a massive story DLC yet to come. Jericho’s Legacy includes the BEAST Tank Buster for pushing back enemies, the Kyoko Hacker Suit, giving extra range to horizontal attacks, and the Jericho Firetails Mascot, which encourages a block-and-att
Vote for us in the Steam Awards!2019-11-27https://i.imgur.com/peaaj5S.gif Greetings, The nominations for the Steam Awards are here, and The Surge 2 would be honored with your vote in the “Best Game You Suck At” category! We feel that this fits the essence of The Surge 2 and its hard as nails combat. If you’ve ever clutched your controller in barely restrained rage and self-contempt, welcome to the club, and please vote for us! The Surge 2 has been out for more than 2 months, and we’ve been hard at work adding more content to the game and expanding its collection of futuristic gear! The Kraken DLC planned for January 2020 will bring you to a brand new location with new enemies, bosses
The free JCPD Gear Pack DLC is out now!2019-11-26https://i.imgur.com/el3z61y.gif Hello everyone, The Surge 2 continues to expand its collection of futuristic loot with the release of its second free DLC - the JCPD Gear Pack - containing a whole new set of armor and four new implants! Jericho City scientists have cooked up new toys for players to hunt down and acquire, such as the JCPD Team Zola armor set, which is all about generating stamina to keep those combos going. Combine it with the Omni-Cell Battery Converter Implant which converts batteries into drone ammunition, and you can keep slaying without pause. In addition, we also rolled out a patch that brings some new features and bug fi
Public Enemy Weapon Pack out today!2019-11-12https://i.imgur.com/Izys9pf.gif Hello everyone, We’re happy to release the first paid Public Enemy Weapon Pack DLC today! This DLC contains an array of 13 weapons across 8 different types, adding more diversity in the game’s acclaimed combat system once it comes to rip and tear equipment from foes using brutal executions. The Surge 2’s Season Pass owners will receive this new weapon pack as part of the Season Pass offer. The Public Enemy Weapon Pack DLC is out today on PC. Get a glimpse of the new weapons! To acquire today’s new weapons, such as the Strongarm Twinblade sword or the Codename: Zarathustra punching gloves, players must delve int
Season Pass now available!2019-10-29https://i.imgur.com/zSc8Cpw.gif Hello everyone, The Surge 2 releases its Season Pass today, chock-full of content coming in the next months to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC! Players who purchase the Season Pass will experience new weapons, including the exclusive BORAX-I Quantum weapon depicted in today’s screenshots, new gear sets, and a brand-new storyline in a new district introducing fresh enemies and bosses. The release schedule and contents of the Season Pass are outlined in our post-launch roadmap below. 13 new weapons will arrive in The Surge 2 in November, followed by three complete sets of gear for your exo-rig in December. Finall
New patch & free weapon DLC!2019-10-22Hello everyone, We’re excited to bring more content to the game and expand the collection of high-tech killing utensils with our free Future Shock Weapon Pack. This pack adds four new vicious weapons today on PlayStation 4 and PC, and tomorrow on Xbox One. This free Weapon Pack includes the deadly Golden Twin Blades, the devastating “BFH” Heavy Duty Weapon, the brutal Mangled Articulators Punching Gloves, and the versatile Golden Harvest Double Duty Weapon. Find the enemies wielding them and execute them to claim the weapons for yourself! And that is only the beginning. Stay tuned as next week will see the full reveal of The Surge 2’s Season
Watch our Accolades Trailer!2019-10-10https://i.imgur.com/fYjvWlK.gif Hello everyone, The Surge 2, our brutal Action-RPG set in the chaotic city of Jericho, released last month to a wide critical acclaim on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC! In order to celebrate, we are happy to present today’s limb-lopping, visceral Accolades Trailer, recapping the positive reception in typical Surge 2 style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48BsJSKuIDI The Surge 2 drops you in the crumbled carcass of Jericho amid a DeFrag nanostorm take-over of the city, and throws crazed techno-cultists, nanomachine monstrosities, and more at you as you try to slash and dash your way out. Create your own charact
Survive The Surge 2 with our essential tips!2019-10-02Hello everyone, The Surge 2 was released last week on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and you have begun your treacherous journey through Jericho. To aid your mission, our Essential Tips Trailer has some simple and advanced tips on The Surge 2’s gameplay elements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSy6UbxzPfs Each fight in The Surge 2 is a desperate risk-versus-reward decision. Will you target a weak spot to end the fight quickly? Or will you target an armored part to gain powerful materials and weapons? You must utilize all the tools in your arsenal to survive, including a customizable combat drone, game-changing implants, and a new directional parryin
Update #1 is LIVE!2019-09-27https://i.imgur.com/SjylLZX.gif Hello everyone! Our first update is live! Thanks to reports from all of you, we have been able to identify and resolve a number of technical issues. Also, we updated our beta branch liveops_beta (accessible through right clicking on Surge 2 in your library> Properties > Betas) with an even more updated build with further fixes. We will continue to work hard to improve everyone's experience in The Surge 2! Change Log Main Branch Stuttering fix Rendering crash fix (launch crash) Works on Win7 (xinput1_4.dll added to depot) In some rare cases the onboard GPU would set to GPU 0. The game will now check which of you
Community Update#3: Hotfix Beta Branch 26/09/20192019-09-26https://i.imgur.com/MaNFUIF.gif Hello, We’re very thankful for your feedback since release. We really appreciate it. As we mentioned yesterday, the team are hard at work addressing some recurring and urgent issues. Thanks to your feedback, we can today update our beta branch “liveops_beta“ that should fix the FLR crash and improve the stuttering issue. Please find the patch notes below. System and Optimization Stuttering We further improved the issue with stuttering that was caused by texture streaming. We still have an open issue with vsync, so to check if it’s better for you we suggest to set the vsync to OFF FLR Error Crash Should you expe
Community Update #2: Hotfix Beta Branch 25/09/192019-09-25https://i.imgur.com/W4brchT.gif Hello, Thank you so much for all your feedback since the release yesterday. We are really hard at work addressing some recurring and urgent technical issues. Today we invite you to try out the beta version of our next hotfix, including keybind and some potential performance fixes. Change log Fixed an issue with Inventory keybind input Potential stuttering fix FLR Crash fix : file checker tool For now, we advise you to try the following settings when you play The Surge 2: V-Sync = off FPS limit = 90 Anti-Aliasing = TAA or off We hope this could fix your performance issues. Please give us your feedback on this. P
First Update on its way2019-09-24https://i.imgur.com/dRBa51Z.gif Hi everyone, The Surge 2 has released this morning and we've spent the day reading reviews, watching streams and videos, and compiling your feedback on forums and social networks. Thank you so much for playing the game and posting your feedback! As this sequel is strongly influenced by community reports from The Surge 1, we're delighted to hear that many of you are loving The Surge 2! We're aware that some of you encounter technical issues and a first patch is on its way to fix the most urgent problems. Please find below a quick overview of the fixes we're working on right now. Our current prioritiesStutters an
The Surge 2 is now available!2019-09-24https://i.imgur.com/3dPTLnH.gif Hi everyone, The Surge 2 is now available! We'd like to extend a huge thank you to all of you playing the game already and slicing their way through Jericho City. We're now reading feedback carefully and working on updates based on your reports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xezCII893aY We’re sorry to read that some of you are experiencing technical issues and crashes. We're already working hard on fixes and improvements. In the meantime, we've compiled a list of useful technical fixes and workarounds that you can find HERE. Please let us know if you have any feedback about the game, wether technical or gamep
DevBlog #6 - Animation2019-09-20https://i.imgur.com/CZuOGfh.gif The Surge 2 comes out in just four days! Play the hardcore Action-RPG featuring brutal exo-skeleton combat on a dying earth on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 24th! This is the final blog in our series. We hope you have enjoyed the insights and stories on The Surge 2, including this final one. Check out other DevBlogs here: 1. Level Design 2. Sound Design 3. Combat System (Pt. 1) 4. Combat System (Pt. 2) 5. In-House Engine 6. Animation - You are here. Please welcome Alex Sennert, Animator on The Surge 2, to talk about - that’s right - the animation of The Surge 2! Hello! Could you please introduce