Everything You Need to Know about S7 Beta

1 All-New Biohazard Modes

Zombie Mode: Infected Area (PvPvE)

This mode completely transforms the familiar Dark Zone with biohazard elements.

Map Availability: Replaces Farm (Forbidden Zone), Valley (Lockdown Zone), and Airport (Forbidden Zone).
Entry Requirements: Costs Koen, unlimited entries. Garrison units are primarily zombie mutants.
Weather Changes:
- Farm & Valley: Night rain, night, fog, sunny, and rain.
- Airport: Night rain, night, cloudy, sunny, and rain.

New In-Raid Threats (Mutant Types)

Normal Mutants: Common residents hunting for fresh scent.
Reapers: Spew mutated tissue fluid from a distance. (Green: Acid pool/damage, Yellow: Swamp/slow, Gray: Smoke/vision obstruction).
Ambushers (Infiltrators): Leap forward to suppress and continuously attack.
Bloaters: Explode on impact. (Green: Poison, Yellow: Slow, Gray: Blinding flash).
Breachers: Massive enemies with terrifying charge speed and knockback effects.
Phobos (Boss Breacher): Robust heavy tactical armor. Tears off armor and enters an enraged/invulnerable state when taking substantial damage.

In-Raid Mechanics & Loots

Merchant: Available 5 minutes after raid starts. Reach a transaction amount to unlock intel.
Horde Events: Shooting police cars triggers a zombie horde.
New Containers: Shipping containers, abandoned vending machines, oily clue containers. Defeating infected has a chance to drop Body Bags and miscellaneous items.
Airdrops: Randomly deployed, containing gold-quality miscellaneous items.

Out-of-Raid Progression & Missions

Zombie Research: Extract zombie samples to activate/upgrade research points on a skill tree. These upgrades are effective in the Infected Area.
Mission Line: 40 missions total across Stage 1 (15), Stage 2 (15), and Independent Stage (10 - Endless Mode exclusive).

Zombie Endless Mode

Map: Airport. A single team of 1 to 4 players.
Rules: Zero bring-in/out risk. Choose a class at the start for an initial loadout. Death means a permanently downed state. Raid ends when the squad wipes or extracts actively.
Progression: The threat level and mutant strength rise over time. Earn Merit by surviving to unlock permanent out-of-raid abilities.
In-Raid Merchant: Spend zombie tokens to purchase supplies, exclusive countermeasures, and keys for locked rooms with weapon cases.
Exclusive Ability: "Kick" (default key "~") consumes stamina to knock back mutants.

2 Core PvP Experience Improvements

Expanding Weapon Variety & Selection

New Weapons:
- A545 Assault Rifle: 5.45x39mm, AEK successor, high rate of fire with adjustable lateral recoil.
- AK-15SC Assault Rifle: 7.62x39mm, compact folding-barrel for close-to-mid-range.

Seasonal Weapon Attachments: PCC-9 Full-Auto Kit, FAL Recoil/Burst Kit, M110 Dual-Stage (Binary) Trigger, MPX "Vulcan" Barrel, Full set of enhanced accessories for the UMP45.

Detailed Combat Balance Adjustments

These changes are applicable to the beta and may change when the season arrives.

T88: Increased firing power. Range increased (82 → 102). Decreased firing recoil.
H416: Increased horizontal recoil during mid-to-late stages of firing.
ACE31: Vertical recoil (52 → 48), Horizontal recoil (28 → 27). Standard Barrel slightly decreased firing power. Long Handguard Vert (3 → 6), Hori (5 → 6). Plastic Handguard Vert (4 → 7), Hori (6 → 7).
FAMAS: Ergonomics increased (55 → 63).
MCX: Effective Range increased (30 → 35).
FAL: Vertical recoil (40 → 45), Horizontal recoil (22 → 27).
T03: Improved recoil performance during the first half of continuous firing.
UMP45: Rate of Fire increased (600 → 650).
M110: Decreased firing recoil.
AK-74N: Improved firing recoil performance.
AN-94: Reduced upward recoil between the first two shots.
VSS: Decreased firing recoil.
5.7x28mm SS190 Ammo: Penetration (41 → 42), Armor Damage (18 → 19).
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where weapon length affected weapon recoil in certain situations.

System Updates & Restrictions

Equipment Restrictions (Cap):
- Normal Mode: Protection and penetration level 4 or below.
- Lockdown Zone (including Infected Area): Value capped at 900,000 Koen. Protection and penetration level 5 or below.
TTK & Headshots: Slightly longer overall TTK, making headshots more rewarding. Increased effective weapon ranges.
New AI in Main Mode: Breachers, snipers, grenadiers, and fumigators from Hostile Sector added to regular maps (weakened versions).
Control Optimizations (3C): Self-detonation protection for grenades, improved sprinting input logic, redone melee gestures, unified 1st/3rd person perspectives while leaning, magazine loading for shotguns/pistols, and crouching now interrupts dog tag inspections.

Enhanced Post-Combat Recognition

Dog Tags: Value increased to 70K. Right-click to inspect, with 5 different animations depending on the amount in the backpack.

1 Dogtag

2 Dogtags

3 Dogtags

4 Dogtags

5 Dogtags
Combat Details: View damage and ammo match-up data (penetration/protection) from the final 30 seconds before elimination.
Highlights: Auto-save for multi-kills. Share highlights directly to World Chat.
High Rank Visuals: Legend rank display in chat, Gold IDs for 30-Star players.

3 Additional Gameplay & System Updates

Mastery System Updates

Core Masteries: Reset every season, no level restrictions. Unlock by completing missions. Equip 1 at a time (disabled in Arena, Covert Ops, Endless).
- Acoustic Earpads: Reduces sound-blocking of helmets.
- Tactical Belt: Expands pocket by four 1x1 slots.
- Hidden Compartment: Reveals secret compartments in certain containers.
Normal Masteries: Added "Last Stand" (Significantly reduces horizontal recoil/spread when HP falls below threshold). Parkour removed, Quick Seal moved to survival category. Added Preset Build save feature for custom point allocation.

Existing Events Tweaks

Supplies Drops 2.0: Shared Squad Crate Level. Normal and Covert Terminals grant XP. Leveling unlocks Purple-Quality Miscellaneous Crafter. Airdrops deploy heavily in mid-to-late game. Heavy armor AI units added to the map.
Third Warlord Tournament: Encrypted files give point multipliers (global broadcast on acquisition). Inspecting enemy dog tags broadcasts defeat info to the team and updates intel.

Trophy Room & Workbench Rework

Workbench: Formulas max out on unlock (Lv.1). Adjusted material requirements. New item craftable: M290 Stun Grenade.
Improve Research System (New Gameplay): Obtain "Improvement Blueprints" in raids. Research formulas to gain unique buffs for the season. Earn assisting blueprints by sharing formulas with friends.
Storage QoL: "Check Usage" for miscellaneous items to see contact trade values and workbench formulas. Total market price shown when exchanging full weapons.
Collection Room: Level limit increased by 2, red drop limit raised to 999. New red items: Elysium, MRID laptop, Northern Stars, Double-neck Lute, Emerald Jade Flute.

New Tactical Items & Reagents

Tactical Items:
- M290 Stun Grenade: Delayed detonation, inflicts tinnitus, slowing, reduces sensitivity, and blinds targets looking directly at it.
- Flare Guns (Infected Area): Calls in an airdrop with supplies.
- Lure Pheromone Grenades (Infected Area): Explodes on contact, spawns zombie horde, induces mutants to attack nearby targets.
- Healing Smoke Grenades (Infected Area): Slow-release smoke that continuously recovers HP.
Reagents (Infected Area): *All reagents increase damage taken from mutants and make you easier to detect.*
- Pathfinder: Increases max chest HP.
- Messenger (Courier): Increases movement speed.
- Cornered Beast (Lifeline): Severe head/chest damage puts you in a downed state instead of killing you.

Quality of Life & Fixes

Visuals: Corrected overexposure when a tactical flashlight illuminated surfaces at close range on high graphics.
Audio: Background music volume automatically lowers in multiplayer for clearer voice comms.
UI/Menu: Red dot marking for new dog tags is restricted to the Dog Tag Shelf. Mission details of locked missions can be viewed if their stage is unlocked. Raid details toggle added to Settings.
Battle Pass: Activity mission progress rewards now include bonus rewards from time-limited events.