Coming July - Broadway

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Hello Responders!

Today, during the PC Gaming Show we revealed that No More Room in Hell 2’s fourth map, Broadway, will be coming to the game in July. Keen eyes might have also spotted other features coming to the game this Summer: a Tutorial Gym, Early Individual Extraction, Casual Difficulty with Respawn, Difficulty Preference and Customization.

Broadway

We’re so excited to introduce our first fully urban map to NMRiH2, a once lively and energetic area of New York that’s been transformed into a sprawling hellscape by the living dead. Set in Queens, our team has taken years to try and get this corner of the Big Apple just right, then turn it into something sinister.

This map takes place around the intersection of Broadway and Roosevelt in Queens; it has the iconic raised train bridge, a beautiful art deco transit station, and busy streets full of vendors and busy city life. We really tried to recreate the feeling of the city, and there are a lot of recognizable landmarks to look out for!  Our art team had the fun challenge of layering elements of a years long city wide quarantine, on top of a newly emerged zombie threat with incredible attention to detail.  I hope you all enjoy struggling together on our newest map!

• Cenelder - Associate Art Director

Broadway (technically the third iteration of the map after NMRIH1’s two versions) should trigger players' nostalgia for the original No More Room in Hell, and also live up to their new expectations with the sequel.

Welcome to the third installment of Broadway, One of the main features I aimed to capture with Broadway 3 is the essence of the original two maps with their tight, night-gritty layouts and close quarters combat, along with a modern touch of NMRIH2 mixed in to truly capture the atmosphere that Broadway was always intended to have. The layout is roughly based on a mixture of the original maps, with the goal of retaining as many iconic locations as possible whilst also introducing some fresh new ones. I am truly proud of how this map has turned out from its initial design and vision. The Broadway series has come a long way since the original map, I hope you all enjoy it 

• nay0r - Level Designer

We don’t want to give away too much just yet, stay tuned for more Broadway details and exciting news about our upcoming large July patch.

Customization, Casual Difficulty and more!

We’re also eager to share that along with Broadway, a Tutorial Gym, Early Individual Extraction, Casual Difficulty with a Respawn system, Difficulty Preference, Customization will be making its way into No More Room in Hell 2 this summer. 

Our vision for No More Room in Hell 2 has always included customization, but some hard decisions had to be made leading up to our launch into Early Access. Very quickly after EA launch we realized the large scope of work that we had on our plate, and those realities pushed customization out of planning for a long period of time.

That reality doesn’t diminish the importance of customization in a game like No More Room in Hell 2. The hardcore nature of the game, and severity of permadeath requires players to regularly reroll characters, and the lack of customization can really negatively impact your feeling of immersion in our apocalyptic world.

Now, with months of updates under our belt, we feel it’s the right time to give customization the development time it needs and bring it to NMRiH2. Starting this summer Players will be able to earn items via play during Early Access and better express themselves with hundreds of possible combinations. Customization will initially ship with a smaller catalogue of items that will grow over time.

That's all we have to share today, but stay tuned for news on our upcoming June update, and more updates on what Players should expect this summer!  If you want to join in on the discussion, please join our Discord. You can also leave feedback in-game, or at https://NMRIH2.com/support.

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