September 25 Update

September 25, 2026

The sewers are alive, antlions have taken the forest, and Bram wants you to hunt.

Headcrabs: Drop from the ceiling, pounce, burrow and bite. Some are poisonous.
New zombies: Fast zombies that run and climb, poison zombies that throw headcrabs, and crawlers.
Barnacles: Hang from the ceilings. Watch where you walk.
Go deeper: The deeper floors are tougher, with elites and surges.
The Brute: A sewer boss that grows with the number of players fighting it. Everyone who helps gets paid.

Stay quiet: Sprinting and gunfire draw the infected. Crouch to stay unnoticed.
Calm districts: Outside the sewers, the infected leave you alone until you start the fight. New players are left alone until they hit one first.
Kill pay: Every kill pays with a receipt, and sometimes a lucky find.
Materials: Creatures drop collectable materials, and specialist rounds drop from kills and nests.
Nameplates: Creatures show their name and health overhead, and appear by name in the killfeed and death screen.
Infested districts: A title card tells you when you've walked into one.
Quests: New infestation dailies and weeklies.

Levels: Every creature family has its own level, and each one makes you stronger against it.
Bestiary menu: Every family you've met, with art.
Leaderboard: A new Creature Kills board.

Bram: Take Zombie, Headcrab and Antlion Slayer quests from Bram and bring down the boss at the end.
/slayer: Check your quest from anywhere, with Auto-Slayer for when you're ready.

Job titles: Every job ladder has ten earned titles, showing your job and level. Titles you'd already reached are yours now.
Fuel Refiner and Genetic Researcher: Have their own titles.

The infected treat you as one of their own, but you earn nothing from killing them.