We're finally getting close for a final release of the update and two DLCs we've been working on for so long. Although we've been testing and bug-hunting relentlessly, it's possible that there are still some issues remaining and we'd be grateful if few of you would like to try the update before it goes officially out. 

If you want to access the beta, open properties for Dead Effect 2 in your Steam library, open BETA´S tab and in the combo box select "testing external". 

This will update your version to our latest beta. All your saves from the previous version will be automatically backed-up (to files profile0.sav.updatebackup) in case you would want to revert to the standard version before we'll update it. You might want to back up your data manually before you switch to beta. You can find save files in AppData/LocalLow/Badfly Interactive/Dead Effect 2/ folder on your computer


Apart from the numerous old bug fixes and some small improvements, the update contains a lot of new content and some handy new features:

- New armor and implant sets and new upgrade modules for them with various unique boosts and bonuses, allowing you to customize your character even more.
- New weapon upgrades - you can now improve or modify your weapons with laser sights, penetrating ammo, scatter ammo and various new special boosts.
- New weapons, each in several variants. There are several small knives, throwing stars, 3 new big melee weapons, 6 secondary firearms including a small submachine gun, a new shotgun, and a new heavy rifle, all waiting to be added to your arsenal.
- A big pile of various unique weapons that can be unlocked by advancing in weapon training and finishing side tasks, bringing a total number of unique weapons to 25. New grenades, combo-weapons like a sniper-modified machine gun, shotgun revolver, powered melee weapon, shotgun modified to a powerful slug thrower...
- Abilities that unlock two new weapon slots - one for small melee/shurikens and one for additional general secondary, meaning that you can, for example, carry a sword and a pistol to the fight, or a knife and two pistols (and your main weapon of course)
- Dual wield ability, so you can hold that sword and pistol, or two pistols, or whatever you want, at once.
- Voice chat
- Weapons with holographic sights can be now customized - you can choose the size, color, and shape of the dot.
- Several new side tasks
- Few improvements in the store screens (you can now mark weapons as favorite and filter available weapons based on their type)

The update also contains necessary data for both upcoming DLCs. These are not yet available, but you can have a glimpse of some of the new stuff that will be available with CyberMagic DLC.


Info about upcoming DLCs:

CyberMagic DLC unlocks a fourth playable character, Xandria aka Cyberwitch, who specializes in active ability uses. It also adds a lot of new combat abilities that can be used by other characters too, and new unique ability for each of the characters. You can also equip experimental psionic accelerator as a secondary weapon that can interface with your abilities and improve their efficiency. Psi-acc can hold two additional abilities, meaning that you can enter the mission with two combat abilities activated in your Psi-acc and two additional of your choice for support.

Escape from Meridian DLC is a story expansion adding a new story arc with 10 story missions filled with new enemies, new features and some surprises. It also adds new levels for other game modes, a new game mode, special setting for increased difficulty, and some other small goodies like an unlockable ability to summon an auto-turret to the missions to help you with those new zombies.

After a long time in development, we are getting to the testing phase of all the new stuff that we're preparing for Dead Effect 2 and we thought it was high time to give you some info about what you can expect. There's a ton of small, not so small and big improvements, changes and new content waiting for you!
A lot of those will be contained directly in the standard update, but some will require you to buy a DLC.

The arsenal
There are new implants and armor sets and pieces, often with unique powers, which you can further upgrade or customize with new special modules. You can look forward to a pile of new weapons, both melee, and firearms. New revolvers, pistols, submachine guns, knives, rifles… Luckily, you'll be able to bring more weapons on the missions after you upgrade your character!
There are also some new unique 'ultimate' weapons waiting for you, but you'll have to earn those and it won't be easy.
There are new upgrades for most of the weapons that allow you to further customize your weapons. How about a shotgun modified to fire strong penetrating slugs? Or would you prefer a rate of fire over accuracy with rifles modified to quick burst fire? Is your character specialized in weapons and your suit energy is usually full? Most melee weapons can be now upgraded to use your power for additional damage and chance to stun your enemies! A hammer with a kinetic capacitor that charges with each swing until it releases all stored energy in one strong kinetic burst is a very nice tool to quickly disperse crowds of those annoying zombies!
And there are also several utility upgrades you can mount on some weapon,for example motion scanners and laser sights.

Cybermagic
Meet Xandria, call sign Cyberwitch, our fourth playable character. She's no noob when it comes to standard weapons, but she specializes in combat implant use in the battle and brings a lot of new abilities, mostly direct damage dealing, to the table. Equip her with a psionic accelerator that boosts ability efficiency and watch the world around you burn.
Would you rather stick with your previous character? All original characters will be able to use most of the new abilities and combat tools, but Xandria is the most efficient with them. She's The Cyberwitch after all.

Story Expansion - "Escape from Meridian"
The fight for control over the ESS Meridian was a stalemate for a while. But now the balance of power is quickly shifting in a way that looks grimmer and grimmer every day…
You can look forward to a lot of story missions (about half in size when compared to the original game), full of new enemies… and these are not your standard variety of dumb space zombies. Whoever controls these new hordes is also teaching new nasty tricks to the standard enemies – but as the elite cyber soldiers you'll adapt and overcome these new threats.
Playing through the story expansion will also unlock some new options, including new special difficulty level “Infected” that will challenge you even when playing through the original missions. And you'll get access to new locations for standard game modes that may contain some interesting loot!

Cheers!

Your BFI Team

Dear community,

Thank you for your support, feedback, and suggestions over the past year.
We are grateful to have you and looking forward to bringing you more in 2018!

Have a great holidays and a wonderful time playing our games.

With special thanks and much appreciation,

Your
BFI Team

It´s our pleasure to announce, that we are working on a brand new IP – TauCeti Unknown Origin, a real existing world with unlimited game opportunities.

This new action-packed coop sci-fi FPS game, is currently in development for PS4, XBOX ONE, PC, PC-VR and mobile platforms. TauCeti Unknown Origin offers an original and epic gameplay experience, set in an exciting and exotic space world.

https://youtu.be/IpsAILNvRs4

TauCeti Unknown Origin features a protagonist hero (you) living your worst nightmare. Your spaceship, the famed ESS Meridian (known from Dead effect 2) has gone haywire and crashed; luckily you managed to use the only working escape pod, which has sent you straight to TauCeti f, a strange and unknown land ready to be explored …

The project aims at uniqueness, originality, and an epic exotic world of the game taking place in an existing planetary system around the TauCeti star.

KEY FEATURES
• Cooperative game for up to 8 players
• Solo, group and raid content
• Class-based game
• PvE and PvP game modes
• A strong story, following up of our previous games
• Open Word game with a lot of opportunities (to explore, harvest, craft, upgrade, build base)
• RPG elements (ability, gear sets, a ton of upgradable weapons)


BadFly team

Dear community,

We would like to clarify that all information noted by our Privacy Policy do not violate any law or Steam´s Code of Conduct, indeed.

Please be aware we have never done "data mining" and never taken any advantage of gathering your data. The collecting of some data is a must by which we are ensuring the functionality of our services. Following that we would like to assure you - the claim about us doing it is a fraud.

Our Privacy Policy is general and refers to all our games available for all platforms. The collection of any personal or non-personal information applies to the functionality of our products/platforms, that use such a service – namely Dead Effect 1 and Dead Effect 2 for mobiles only.

Note: We will never collect any information sent outside of the functionality of our Websites/Apps, including through emails or text messages.

This collection is the correct matter of enabling us to:
• provide you with any goods, services or functionality you have requested,
• respond to any inquiries you have made through our customer service features;

In any case, our purpose is not to abuse them!

Dead Effect 1 and Dead Effect 2 to for PC do not use these services, so there is no collecting of information.

Please be aware of the common use of this privacy policy, where is collecting of personal data used in the same way. This formal statement use even greater game developer companies for the same reason as the functionality of our services (etc. https://www.gameloft.com/en/privacy-notice).

Following that we would like to clarify we have never done, did, do or plan to do any “data mining”. As we look into this situation, such a hoax and fraud statement may cause the damage of our good reputation and trustful brand of our game developing.

So to all loyal members of our great community:

WE ARE NOT DOING ANY DATA MINING

If any of you suspect such a doing, please promptly contact us at [email protected].

All the evidence and information on this case can help us reach the fraud and intervene it through all available legal means.

BFI Team

Enjoy the game? Missing new missions, enemies, weapons or just looking for the new content?

Huge update for PC users of Dead Effect 2 is coming later this year.

Our studio is devoured to its community and our job we are passionate about. We love the games we have made and once we fell in love with the game we cannot give up on it.

We feel ready now to officially inform you – we are hard working on HUGE

UPDATE which will include:
• New story missions
• New gear sets
• New enemies
• New weaponry
• New assets, non-recycling images (unique mini boss, and so on…)

You can bet we are picking on the newest stuff for you.

And what a most – THE STORY WILL GO ON …. to the surprising END!

Your waiting was definitely WORTH IT - mega brutal update is getting to be ready!

Dev team
BadFly

BadFly Interactive studio is proud to say that in couple days will launch Dead Effect 2 VR in Early Access. „We are ready and want you to get even more involved“, says the team of developers.

Want to feel how is to be attacked from each angle?
Charge and change weapons against unpredictible enemies?
Fairly new demo will be available till the end of the week.
Are you excited...?

http://steamproxy.com/steamstore/app/646200/Dead_Effect_2_VR/

According to your feedback it looks like the latest beta update is ready to become a regular update. We have also attached few fixes that were not included in the beta update.

What can you look for?
- Updated engine version to unity 5.4.2p4 - this fixes most of the crashes that happened on some configurations and game runs bit more smoothly now
- Updated Russian translation – we have finished translation of Side tasks and all new items
- Fixed mouse lag that happened with high DPI mouse on lower FPS
- Fixed disappearing Mjlonir hammer
- Fixed several problems with side tasks (wrong missions being selected for some tasks
- Fixed randomly failing explosions of drones
- fixed game freezing after killing a Spacewalker for the first time, that occurred time by time
- slightly adjusted visual effects

We hope that a new update will improve your gaming experience.
BadFly team

Hello players,

we've made a patch that fixes some problems you're having, especially most of the crashes that sometimes happen, but we had to update the engine version we're using for it. As Unity updates sometimes break things that works, sometimes in a way that's not immediately visible (for example, we had a big performance hit with newer version we noticed only after some time and had to find a way to fix it, that's main reason why it took so long), we've decided to put the new patch out as a beta version first for people who're willing to help us test it.

To get the beta version you need to open the game properties in Steam and select "Betas" tab.

Change log:
- Updated engine version to unity 5.4.2p4 - should solve most of the crashes that happen
- Fixed disappering mjolnir hammer
- Fixed wrong missions selected for some side task (if your save contains any wrong task, running the save slot in the beta will automatically fix it and select valid side task)

BadFly dev.team