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.
• 8 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:

V0.8.1

• Updated dependencies

V0.8.0

• Fixed odd enemy sizes

V0.7.2

• Now uses old tumor damage cap

V0.7.1

• Removed Headhunter (added accidentally)

V0.7.0

• Update to use patched EEC

V0.6.0

• Heavy Machinegun
  • Updated to use R8 reload animation
  • Reload Time: 2.65s -> 2.05s
  • Reload cancel timing unchanged
• Tactical Rifle
  • Reload Time: 1.8s -> 2.1s
  • Added reload cancel at 1.5s
• Fixed evade speed and cooldown
• Fixed Impaler reload visuals

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

Older version patch notes included in download.