Dead Island: Epidemic revival group is hosting an event, more info in the group's announcement http://steamcommunity.com/groups/wewantdieback#announcements/detail/1290688221272783293

Unfortunately we don't have any news to give about DI:E returning yet. Meanwhile you can join our Discord server https://discord.gg/RcAG5v4

Please find time to read and write down why you want Dead Island: Epidemic to return: http://steamcommunity.com/app/222900/discussions/0/135508833654719224/

We need your help. Share, reunite and join this group to support us http://steamcommunity.com/groups/wewantdieback More info in the group.

Together we can make it happen, WE WANT DI:E BACK. Don't miss this opportunity to achieve our goal and bring Epidemic back from the dead.

Dear players,

Ever since starting with the Closed Alpha, and all the way through the Closed Beta and Open Beta, we’ve received a great amount of useful criticism and encouraging feedback from our players. This has been invaluable for all the teams involved in developing the game.

Over the past weeks and months we’ve been evaluating how to proceed with Dead Island: Epidemic and looking towards the future for the game. We’re sad to announce today that we’ve come to the conclusion to cease further development.

We will be leaving the servers open until the end of October 15th (Pacific Time), during which time we’ll run a very large discount on all characters and boosts to give everyone a chance to spend any remaining currency on characters and items you may have wanted to try before, but never did.

We want to thank everyone for their support, their feedback, and their time playing Dead Island: Epidemic! The game would not have been the same without you.

Signed,
Team Dead Island: Epidemic

Hey, survivors!

We are playing scavenger on EU servers!

You can see the details of the contest here:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/222900/discussions/0/537402115076264377/
And you can watch our matches here:
http://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561198028367862


See you ingame!

Hey survivors,

We've been reading your forum posts and are aware you are waiting for updates. Unfortunately there are some difficulties that need to be solved in the upcoming months so we apologize for the wait.

In the meantime we'll be running a few new events, first of which shall be named "Defeat the Mods Contest".

Our volunteer moderators who most of you already know will be playing Scavenger over the coming weeks at random times and random servers. Some of them will be even playing with a brand new character which should attract the interest of all the teams. And if you want to get your hands on Rico as well, keep reading.

Your goal here is to win the match against the moderators team using any means necessary ok not quite, can't be using any of unfair or unethical methods such as griefing or base camping and remember to keep the language nice and clean.

If you manage to play fair and win the match, you and your teammates will be rewarded with Rico, the brand new character for absolutely free.

Interested yet? Want to know who your targets are?

Here's the list...
• Bleeder / Bleeder91
  
• Joker / JokeR
  
• Juriz / Jur1z
  
• Messi / Fran
  
• Varonth

and potentially more...

Are the guys here you're buddies and you're a little hesitant to take them on? Well if you want to help them out and manage to win the match while on their team you'll be awarded Rico as well.

Wondering how you know the match will be counted towards the contest? Easy, the mods team will wear the Moderator Icon "M" next to their names.
We hope to see you on the battlefield soon.

You can discuss this contest on forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/222900/discussions/0/537402115076264377

Cheers

Hey Survivors,
Here is a list of some of the issues we’ve fixed for this update.

• Fixed issues related to account experience not Saving correctly after Re-logging.
  
• Reward screen – fixed calculation of gained experience on the reward screen related to already owned items
  
• Rewards Screen - the icons' pop-up description windows are animated both when opening and closing.
  
• Scavenger - Defence Turret's particles will be displayed correctly
  
• Immortal Suicider – Damage taken has now been adjusted
  
• Elite Puller will no longer be able to pull someone already pulled by a normal Puller
  
• HUD - Premium icon is no longer displayed on HUD when no premium is active
  
• Tutorial / Scout - Fixed graphical and collision issues related to environment textures
  
• Additional adjustments made to the in game chat!
  
• Friendly Touch heals minions
  
• Sentinels max shield value should now be correctly capped
  
  
  Characters
  
  
• Hailey – Frozen Shield Area Damage - Damage from Cryoseism is increased by Chill.
  
• Hailey – Chill – changed Chill functionality, so the Amplify component will be applied on Hoarders and Uncontrollable enemies.
  
• Sam B - Charge / minions can now receive shield from Brofist augmentation
  
• Grim Retaliation tooltip adjusted
  
• Armoured Amber - Medkit augmentation increases damage of minion.
  
• The Fuse - Grenade Launcher - Smoking Hot reduces damage taken only within the skill’s area
  
• The Fuse / Rocket Jump – Adjustments made to jump indicator.
  
• Charlie – Crab cage skill does not react to camouflaged / invisible enemies
  
• Septian / Snake Attack tooltip contains the information on duration of the skill
  
• Roy – Camera Flash – Deals damage to barricades
  
• Roy - Rollin' skill animates correctly after attacking
  
• Mutated Bryce - Infected Sprout should now display a clear healthbar of infected sprout should be visible to all users
  
• Mutated Bryce / Slithering Vein - Fixed animation of 'Slithering Vein' casted on non-movable targets.
  
• Hermann / Dropping bombs - Plane Shield passive skill will no longer attack incapacitated enemies.
  
• Herrmann / Parachute Away – Fixed animation issues related to characters affected by the skill
  
• Hermann – can no longer throw a Zepellin at the beginning of a match.
  
• Hermann will not execute an attack while selecting target for the Guardian Zeppelin.
  
• Mr. White / Beatdown now ends as soon as a targeted Suicider dies
  
• TL - Survivor Bryce / Concussion Shot - pierced enemies are incapacitated by Concussion Shot. + tooltip changes
  

Time is running out on our Easter sales, only one week left! This week be on the lookout for sales on Sam B, Xian Mei and Allie. You'll be finding deals on all three but only for an hour at a time, so make sure to keep checking to grab the best bargain!

Hey Survivors,

Here is a list of bug fixes that went into this patch.

We would like to thank those of you that have been helping us out in the forums by posting bugs, tracking down bugs, providing us with vital information, and assisting your fellow community members.

Keep up the great work!

DI:Epidemic Team

• Sinamoi audio event – “Scavengers are stealing from us” audio event triggers near the end of games
  
• Sinamoi head picture obstructs with game event popups
  
• Win Countdown - gets stuck when truck is filled and enemy steals right after
  
• Reconnect - Possibility to trigger anti-hack system by reconnecting when the character is dead
  
  
  Crossroads
• Health bars overlap mission tab
  
• Deadly difficulty - stats cap / tier restriction
  
• Freed civilians get stuck in one place after returning to base
  
• Capture the Flag and Supply Facility missions have supply icons instead of clock icons
  
• Bauer's portrait is displayed instead of Civilian's in Escort mission
  
• Special infected stuck in the mission where you have to steal supplies from a truck
  
• Civilians not disappearing after cocoon mission
  
• Respawn point calculated using disconnected players
  
• A player respawns near respawn point but not on it
  End time displays as 00:00
  
  
  Characters
• General - Certain Ultimate skills' tooltips do not show reduced cooldown
  
• General - Keyboard remains active in character list while inside equipment lists
  
• General - Inconsistency between the functionality of Armored Isys' and
• The Fuse's ultimate skills
  
• Mutated Berg / Taunt - Taunt effect is not negated after inflicting 25%+ damage to walker and veteran zombie enemies
  
• Armored Berg / Skull Clap - Uppercut's description can be confusing to the player
  
• Survivor Isys / Tornado Leg - Immune caption is not displayed over zombies resisting cripple effect
  
• Survivor Isys / Lightning Fury - Focus attribute does not increase damage from Sparkling Punt augmentation
  
• Mutated Isys / Stinger - Stinger skill is able to negate immunity status on enemy characters
  
• Armored Isys / Rocket Launcher - Interaction zones are flickering upon contact with flames from 'Firestorm' augmentation
  
• Survivor Amber / Pheromones - Mutated Bryce’s Infected Sprout can be attacked but not dealt damage under Pheromones effect.
  
• Survivor Amber / Nerve Cut - Focus does not increase life leech from Surgeon augmentation
  
• Armored Amber / Command - The player is able to summon more than one minion
  
• Armored Amber / Command - Skill's cooldown restarts counting when character dies while minion is alive
  
• Armored Amber / Command - Minion does not level up alongside the player
  
• Amber / Smoke Screen - Players affected by the Smoke Screen skill have reduced damage taken after leaving the skill's area
  
• Hermann / Guardian Zeppelin - Zeppelin travels to incorrect location after it is created
  
• Hermann / Guardian Biplanes - Biplane locks on target beyond its reach and ignores other targets
  
• Sam B - Several fist weapons are not placed correctly in character hands
  
• Hailey / Icicle - Hailey is unable to apply Frozen effect on target Chilled by the enemy with a single cast of Icicle
  
• Hailey / Chill - Chill cannot be applied on hoarders and Uncontrollable enemies
  
• Voltage / Static Discharge - The skill always deals the same amount of piercing damage
  
• Voltage / Flicker - Secondary ranged attacks do not generate sparks
  
• Voltage - EMP Field - Disable does not stop zombies or special zombies attacking
  
• Roy / Picnic - Dropped burger heals player for the base healing value when picked up at the last possible moment
  
• Roy - Rollin' (first) skill don’t do damage to barricades
  
• Roy / Picnic - Missing information on skill's duration in the tooltip
  
• Roy / Passive - Passive will be triggered by every blind effect if the enemy was flashed once
  
• Roy / Picnic - Primary damage from Rotten Burger augmentation is reduced by Area Resistant attribute
  
• Septian's and Xian Mei's ultimate skills deal no damage to turrets
  
• Allie / Stealth - Incorrect value of damage taken by holographic simulation
  
• Allie - Stealth - Clone displays no health bar
  
• Allie / Stealth - The hologram from ghost augmentation does not have overhead health bar
  
• Xian Mei / Replica - Replicas health is not reduced on the overhead health bar seen by the enemy player
  
  
  Weapons , Modifications, etc.
• Weapons - Formidable modification text overflows weapon details page
  
• Weapons - Pistols - High latency servers increase firing movement speed
  
• Modifications - Improper spacing in the Workbench description of Sentinel mod
  
• Modification - Supplier - User takes damage when unloading supplies after cap
  
• Modifications - Avenger does not trigger if the obstacle is between teammates
  
• Modifications - The Player can modify a weapon using no modifications for Cash
  
• Modifications - Time-out heals for the same amount even when maximum health changes during delivery
  
• Modifications - Energy Rush does not work when killing blow is made with secondary attack of light and heavy weapons
  
• Modifications - Bonus Damage from Zombie Slayer is not reduced by Defence
  
• Modification - Ultimate Recharger - Ultimate tooltip cooldown is not affected by this mod
  
• Perks - Bonus Damage from Desperado is not reduced by Defence
  
• Perks - Rogue always leeches life equal to the damage from melee attack
  
• Rage bar can be displayed as filled when characters' Rage is below 1 / 2 / 3
  
• Consumables - Hoverbar displayed on an enemy player who is under Zombie Disguise effect
  
• Consumables - Zombies ignore second Meat Lump when two consumables exist at the same time
  
  
  Zombies
• Elite Floater / Elite Puller - Elite zombies do not run away after being hit with blind effect
  
• Massive Puller targeting stays on player even after Puller dies
  
• Massive Puller - wrong direction of spit traces
  
• Suicider explosion does not knockback players
  
• Enemies - Suicider killed by the player grants additional 10000 damage in the scoreboard
  
  
  General
• Crib - Missing names for the Account Level Rewards
  
• General - Inconsistent stealing supplies icons in Scavenger Mode and Crossroads Mode
  
• Crib - Weapon Count does not update after selling in Inventory
  
• Reward Screen - Account Progression/Level - received XP from duplicates is not accounted towards Account Progression/Level
  
• Reward Screen - Parts are not described by their unique icons in Reward Screen
  
• Score System - Score for takedown is not granted when minion or non-moveable object kill while character is away
  
• Kill feed not working for Spree/First Blood
  
• Scoreboard - shows a percentage of deaths while hovering over deaths count
  
• A player can see a skill bar of his teammate after his character's death
  
• Scoreboard - Hermann - Guardian Zeppelin - recasting while zeppelin is alive adds 10000 Damage in Scoreboard
  
• Score System - The Player is granted score after killing Wanta while her ultimate is active
  
• Options - Text from dialogue boxes overlaps options menu window
  
• Rejoin - The Player is unable to rejoin the match or start any other match after leaving the match
  
• HUD - Starter missions have crossroads HUD implemented
  
• Shop - No confirmation prompt when buying characters with cash
  
• General - Immune caption is not displayed over zombies resisting cripple and slow effects
  
• Crib / Profile - Inconsistency between match history and Scoreboard statistics