Update Content & Holiday Events: 12/18/2017

[ShiftySamurai 1,826]

It’s Friday Slashers & Counselors. We’re close to releasing the next update for Friday the 13th: The Game, and we have a lot of information to share with you today.

 

Offline Bots:
Maybe you hate playing online with people. Maybe you want to learn the lay of the land in all the maps. Maybe you just want to practice laying waste to scores of counselors. No matter the why of your situation, today I am happy to announce that the next update of Friday the 13th: The Game will include offline bots. 

To access this new feature, you’ll want to select the new “Offline Play” menu item, and then “Offline Bots”. Next up you’ll want to select the map you want to play on, and select your preferred counselor punishing Jason. 

Finally, you will be able to select how difficult the bots you play against will be from the 3 difficulty levels included in the update – Easy, Normal, and Hard. The higher the difficulty you choose, the longer counselors will remember you being in the area, the more likely they are to fight you, the quicker they are to react to your presence, the quicker they are to exit hiding spaces when you leave, and the more likely they are to use Medical Sprays smartly.
They’ll fix cars, boats, hide in closets, under beds, in sleeping bags, barricade doors, and more to keep you from making them into another victim. Feel like honing your single prey hunting skills? You’ll be able to select from 1 to 7 counselors in your offline game to ensure that you are playing against exactly how many counselors you want to stalk.

 

Max Level Increase:
Today I’m excited to talk about one of the new changes coming with our next update; an increase in max player level from 101 to 150. This increase won’t just be a number that keeps getting higher as you play more and earn XP. There are some cool things that you will unlock along the way, and we’re going to talk about a few of those right now.

New for Counselors: More clothing coloring options for Mitch, Fox… and a couple more counselors that we aren’t ready to speak about, yet… allowing you to stand out from the other prey in the match.

New for Jason: get ready to murder pesky counselors in new ways. In the upcoming patch you will be able to unlock two brand-spankin’ new grab kills for Jason, absolutely for free. Well, except for the cost of CP. We’ll also have bloody variations of multiple Jasons allowing you to walk around splattered with blood like the slasher you are.

That’s not all, though. More level rewards will be added in the coming months, and we’ll have more information about them in the coming months.

 

Holiday Events:
Starting on December 18th and lasting through to the 23rd, your chances of rolling a Rare and Epic perk will be increased. My advice, hoard that CP you collect over the weekend and spend it next week instead.

Starting on December 23rd and running through to the 27th, your chances of finding BOTH Pamela and Jarvis tapes will be increased. If you’re rummaging through drawers and find one, maybe go ahead and be a Chad and keep it for yourself.

Finally, from December 23rd and running through to January 2nd, you will be earning DOUBLE CP. Please note that CP earned from leveling up is NOT doubled, but everything else is. 

 

But when does it come out?
For our Steam and PS4 users, you’re looking at receiving the next update on Monday, 12/18/2017. That is not an exact time, as there isn’t one available.
For our Xbox One players, we expect the update to follow shortly.

[HowAreYa 72]

Finally a release date! I'm so curious I can't wait till monday 

Thank you!

[Shreddy 4]

goood, goooood.....

[Rycornog 4]

Excited for this!!!!

[Gdain 369]

Nice.  Actually looking forward to Monday. 

[BeepBeepRichie 40]

Maybe I'll finally get that epic sucker punch

[Charlie Chainsaw 690]

Yesssss. Offline bots. Couple of questions though. Will we have to unlock the bloody skins? If so, what level? Also, with offline bots, can we use ANY Jason? Even if we haven’t unlocked them in Multiplayer???

[gyaaft 212]

Sweet, can't wait!

[Sweenmasheen 55]

THANK YOU , Thank You, thank you. All great news. Maybe this will pacify some us. Im sure it wont be enough for all, but it will be plenty enough for some others , myself included.

[SteveChristy 248]

Great news! Offline bots and new grab kills! Excited!

[BFizzle 300]

I just wasted 40,000 CP a few nights ago. ????????????????????????????

[Danny 5]

That’s so awesome! Thank you  Well worth the wait. 

@JPops Silly question here but will EU get it as the same time as the US? 

[Gooby 44]

Thank you very much. This was a very welcome update.

[kitcat 476]

Nice!!!! Thanks guys <3 See you all on Monday. Now I'm going to enjoy my weekend without the feeling that I don't know when the new update will come. lol Much better!

Btw, you guys gave us a release date! This is just... Wow. I can't believe it haha

[PartVI_legend 21]

Will it be possible to choose which counselors will be in game session (offline bots)? If yes, will they have the same clothes we use in quickplay? Thx for the heads up shiffty S.

[Erik13E 52]

AWESOME, Finally. Going to be a Great day Monday!

[Chace Hollett 135]

In offline bots. Will the counselors know your there or not? Or is that only for single player challenges?

[SDA 196]

Well, that answers that. Very interested to see it in action, glad there's a date attached.

[thatdudescott 1,228]

Here I am,stuck on level 70-something..

[Rycornog 4]

Will offline bots affect achievements like Gotta Kill Em All or the Final Chapter?

@ShiftySamurai

[OCT 31 1978 1,176]

Looks like a lot to look forward to!

I especially love the difficulty setting for offline bots!

cant wait for the Bloody skins and the new kills !!

MERRY SLASH-MAS!!!

ho ho ho

 

[Quahogger 1]

Monday is my birthday, Happy Birthday to me! Thanks Gun and Illfonic!

[Tattooey 721]

Once again Xbox gets screwed on the update. Shortly means next year.

[JPops 2,205]

11 minutes ago, Chace Hollett said:

In offline bots. Will the counselors know your there or not? Or is that only for single player challenges?

It will be the same as the online version of the game. Single player challenges will be what you are speaking of. 

[Quinn FTW 144]

Cool. Can't wait to try the new stuff out next week.