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Cold Snap
– December 16, 2025 (Major Winter-Themed Update)
The biggest recent update is the new Cold Snap content drop:
Key features:
- ❄️ Snowfall Map Condition — snow effects alter maps with reduced visibility and footprints, adding environmental hazards.
- 🧭 New Quests & Seasonal Content — quests you can take from Speranza vendors tied to the winter theme.
- 🎁 Flickering Flames Event — a limited-time event with thematic goals and rewards.
- 🃏 New Raider Deck — essentially a battle-pass-like progression for credits and unlocks (gear, cosmetics, Snap Hook item).
This Cold Snap update is the latest major patch and is intended as the final big content release for the year, keeping players engaged into 2026.
📅 Patch Cadence Shift & Smaller Fixes
Embark Studios has changed how updates are delivered:
- The devs are moving away from guaranteed weekly updates (no more weekly Thursday patches) toward less frequent, more substantial updates and Tuesday release windows.
Prior to Cold Snap, a smaller patch (Patch 1.6.0) rolled out on December 11, 2025, focusing on quality-of-life and exploit fixes:
📌 Removed an out-of-bounds zipline in Stella Montis
📌 Fixed collision issues (prevents vaulting/falling through walls, blocking misbehaving materials)
📌 Collision gap fixes that stopped players being shot through structures
📌 Confirmation that future updates will land less often than weekly.
🛠️ Earlier Patch History (Context)
To give you context on progression before Cold Snap:
- Update 1.4.0 (Nov 27, 2025) — bug and exploit fixes (gun quick-swap exploit, locked-room protections, texture fixes, menu and lighting corrections).
- Update 1.3.0 (Nov 20, 2025) — balance changes including weapon nerfs and economy tweaks.
- Update 1.2.0 (Nov 13, 2025) introduced the Stella Montis map and new enemies with a community unlock event.
🧠 Summary
- Latest major content: Cold Snap with winter weather, new quests, event, and Raider Deck (Dec 16, 2025).
- Patch schedule change: Weekly cadence is ending; updates will be more spread out.
- Recent minor patch: December 11 hotfixes (collision & exploit fixes
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