Welcome to Duo Trials by Project Zaero.

• This rundown is designed for duo play, starting with beginner difficulty leading into extreme intensity expeditions. Please report any issues you find to Project Zaero#9999 on Discord.

Features:

• Verified duo clearable expeditions.
• Progressively more challenging expeditions. A tier starts off beginner friendly, while E tier will challenge even the top 0.1% of duos.
• 7 Expeditions currently available.
• Main objectives are relatively easy, while sectors provide a significant challenge on all levels.
• The first expedition of each tier will contain only vanilla enemies.

Vanilla enemy rebalances & reworks.

Striker: Unchanged.
Shooter: Damage increased 5% -> 8%. Adjusted homing properties, longer cooldown between shots.
Hybrid: Damage increased 4% -> 6%. Barrage pattern reworked.
Giant Striker: Adjusted stagger & limb health breakpoints.
Giant Shooter: Removed.
Charger: Tentacle nerfed 18% -> 16%, punch buffed 4% -> 6%. Much more stagger resistant.
Giant Charger: Animation speed upscaled proportionate to their size, so they no longer animate in slow motion. Greatly increased stagger resistance and limb health.
Tank: Adjusted weakspot health values. Increased aggression.
Birthers: Adjusted weakspot health values. Significantly reduced animation speed.
Child Striker: Dies instantly to any damage. Moves much slower.
Spitters: Damage 4% -> 5%.
Shadow: No longer react to movement unless you are very close, but instead wake up to flashlights. Significantly faster with reduced health.
Giant Shadow: Same detection behavior as small shadows. Retro/R2 style aggression but worse.
Shadow Scout: Adjusted detection cycle. Model fixed to be a shooter model.

Other notable changes.

• Infection health decay rate increased by 25%.
• "Armor" (white hitmarkers) on boss enemies now deals 35% damage instead of 0.0001% damage. If they're low, shoot them anywhere!
• Pouncers no longer have armor.
• Chargers have a critical point at the center of their chest, and take critical damage to their back, with an "occiput" style center of back super damage bonus.
• Foam on the floor is massively improved for stalling enemies.
• Custom syringes with special properties spawn on most levels. Try them out!
• Bio-Tracker has color coded enemy tags, with varying icons to make special enemy variants stick out.
• Resources and consumables can be dropped back into containers to assist in planning out encounters.
• Health Regen Cap 20% -> 25%, medipack healing 20% -> 25%.
• Some levels have enemies that inflict status effects, including Bleed and Infection. If you have the "Bleeding!" status effect, medkits and regeneration effects from syringes will stop the bleeding instantly.
• If you see a shooter fire blue projectiles, you're already dead.

Release Notes:

V0.5.0 Gear Balance Changes

• Light Machinegun renamed to Shrapnel Machinegun
  • Crit: 1.5 -> 1.75
  • Stun: 1.67 -> 1.2
  • Range: 20-80m -> 11-55m
  • Shot delay 0.07 -> 0.06
  • Reserve Ammo: 400 -> 440
  • Aim Spread: 0 -> 1.25
  • Reduced recoil, more horizontal recoil
  • Changed sound effect
  • Sight changed to Hel Gun's
• The Grinder
  • Shot Delay: 0.055 -> 0.05
  • Mag: 48 -> 40
  • Reload Time: 1s -> 0.9s
  • Slightly reduced recoil
• Precision Rifle
  • Changed reload animation
  • Reload time: 2.15s -> 1.62s
  • Reload cancel time unchanged

V0.4.3

• Hatchet Chg. Damage 20 -> 16, Chg. Stealth Multiplier 1.0 -> 1.25

V0.4.2

• Updated dependencies

V0.4.1

• Weapons updated to match Redemption
• Knife damage hitbox timings adjusted

V0.4.0

• Updated to fix broken weapon models.

V0.3.0

• D2 Condemned now available.

• Syringe adjustments. Some are too strong, others aren't so great.

  • HEAL: Healing 15%-25% -> 24%, 1% Regen effect added to counter bleed.
  • STRENGTH: Healing 10%-15% -> 19%, 1% Regen effect added to counter bleed.
  • ADRENALINE: Infection 8%-12% -> 5%. Total Heal 7-20% -> 16%. Speed Duration 45 sec -> 90 sec.
  • REGEN: Infection 4%-15% -> 0%. Total Heal 16%-28% -> 25%.
  • VIRUS: Infection 35%-55% -> 20%. Total Damage 15%-50% -> 35%. Total Heal 33%-125% -> 155%.
  • ANTIBIOTIC : Disinfect 15%-45% -> 40%.
  • RECOVERY: Total Heal 40%-120% -> 120%.
  • REVOVERY+: Infection 14%-20% -> 25%. Total Heal 135% -> 150%.
  • RAGE: Infection 35%-55% -> 50%. Super Armor duration 20sec -> 35sec.
  • ANTIBIOTIC-REGEN: Disinfect 35%-65% -> 60%. Total Heal 56% -> 80%.
  • HALLOWED-VIRUS: Infection 55%-65% -> 40%. Total Damage 50-60% -> 50%. Regen Delay 60sec -> 20sec.

V0.2.1

• Expedition adjustments.
  • A1, B1 extract scan time reduced significnatly.
  • Brawlers removed from A1, they were not intended to spawn.
  • Slightly adjusted wave times on A1 and B1.

V0.2.0

• Start of "Modded-Style" Expeditions.

  • A2 "Recover" added.
  • B2 "Sundered" added.

• E1 adjustments.

  • Added logs to provide details on Override commands.
  • Fixed an issue where a boss was spawning the wrong enemies.
  • Removed second password locked terminal.

• All maps:

  • Since the devs won't, I fixed the vanilla bug of consumables getting stuck in boxes by removing their ability to spawn in the environment.

• Enemy adjustments.

  • Reduced the Stagger value of Revenants.

• Gear adjustments.

  • The Grinder damage 2.8 -> 3, rate of fire increased by 9%, stock ammo 429 -> 400, recoil moderately reduced.
  • Spear Crit 1.35x -> 1.5x.
  • Added Recovery II Syringe. For comparison, 40%-120% heal for 4-8% infection -> 135% heal for 14%-20% infection. The regen ticks are also more frequent, effectively countering bleed.

Older version patch notes included in download.