Dead Island Epidemic Early Acces

Patch notes v0.51
08-27-2014,

General

Overhead dodge cooldown now displayed as default
You can now continue to use the in-game chat during the End game sequence/scoreboard in Scavenger Hunt
Base turrets now generate health over time

Reward Screen Improvements

Particles and 3D objects added to reward screen to improve the overall look and feel after a match
Flow of the reward screen improved

Weapons

Rifle
Primary Attack
Casttime reduced to 0.75s from 1s
Damage reduced to 110% from 135%
Range reduced by ~10%
Castbar is now displayed when firing
Secondary Attack
Casttime increased to 0.75 from 0.6
Damage increased from 70/100/130 to 90/130/170
Now deals reduced damage for each pierced enemy instead of limiting the number of pierced targets
Damage is reduced by 30% for each pierced target

Characters

Armored Amber

Medkit
Improved the tooltip
Augmentation 1 - Field Medic
Now boosts allies power by 10%, down from 15%.
Panic Shot
Augmentation 1 - Exhausting Bullet
Weaken factor is now 33%, down from 50%
Duration of weaken is now 4s, down from 5s.

Armored Berg

Toss Ability replaced by Brutal Swing
A cone attack that does damage and knocks the primary target into the air, who takes additional damage upon landing.
Augmentation 1 - Disorienting Impact
Inflicts Dizzy when the target lands. Dizzy causes the target to miss 33% of its melee and ranged attacks for the next 4s
Augmentation 2 - Intercept
Striking an enemy with Brutal Swing reduces the current cooldown of Tackle by 6s

Armored Bryce

Assault
First dash now pierces Walkers
Improved flow between 2nd and 3rd strike by reducing time between them from 0.3s to 0.15s
Harpoon
Improved flow by allowing to move while casting
Fixed a bug where you could change mouse position to opposite of the hooked wall making Bryce jump away from the wall instead of to it
Deflect (renamed into Counter)
You can now move while Counter is active but not attack.
Augmentation 1 - Combat Technique
Rage generation for each attack up to 0.5 from 0.33.
Augmentation 2 - Maneuver (replacing Smoke)
At the end of Counter, you execute a special maneuver that damages and cripples surrounding enemies, damaging for 75% and crippling for 1 s.

Armored Isys

Sentry Gun
Cast/Upgrade time down to 2s from 2.4s
Sentry Gun projectile range increased by ~14%
Nitrogen Cap
Added a channeling bar

Mutated Amber

Conceal
Immaterial duration increased to 1s from 0.5s
Bonus damage increased to 70/80/90/120 from 50/60/70/100
Casttime down to 0.1s from 0.2s
Preparation no longer breaks conceal
Preparation
Now ignores global cooldown
Now increases damage done by 20% for 8s
Stalker augmentation no longer increases damage output but increases movement speed by 25%
Poison Sting
Area increased to 26 from 13
First Augmentation Reworked - Deadly Reaction
Damage Mutated Amber deals to the target after the poison has exploded is increased by 25% for the next 4s.

Mutated Berg

Taunt
Improved tooltip

Mutated Bryce

Slithering Vein
Improved tooltip
Spore Cloud
Added general slow visuals

Mutated Isys

Stinger
Now deals 50% piercing damage to Walkers passed through
Plague
Added general slow visuals

Survivor Berg

Leaf Shield
The HP of the shield is now 200/220/240/300%, down from 220/240/260/320%.
Forceful now increases damage output by 10%, down from 15%.

Survivor Bryce

Duck Hunt
Fixed a bug that caused the slow effect to not always trigger

Survivor Isys

Evasion
Added "Miss" scrolling combat text for attackers who misses attacks on her
Combat Reflexes
Duration reduced to 2s from 4s
Kicking Spree
Damage reduction when kicking the same target increased to 20% from 15%
Distance when looking for a new target reduced to 50 from 60

Fuse

Rocket Man
Cooldown increased to 14s from 12s
Distance reduced to 70 from 80
Riot Foam
Dripping
The duration of the Burn effect caused from igniting the Riot Foam has been reduced to 1s from 3.5s.
Total damage dealt by the burning has been reduced to 50% from 100%.

Voltage

Flicker - Weapon Expertise
Chance to generate Sparks down to 20% from 35%
Electric Lash
Shocklash augmentation no longer consumes sparks
Shocklash damage per spark down from 10% to 7%
EMP Field
Drawing Energy
Stacks generated down to 2 from 3
Static Discharge
Changed to toggle cast ability instead of forced smart cast
Projectiles are now faster, longer and pierces Walkers
Sparkly augmentation
Now cripple independent of amount of sparks consumed
Cripple duration down to 1.5s from 2.1s
Connective Swap
Target damage down from 300% to 80%
Added explosions around Voltage and swapped target after finished swap dealing 260% area damage (swapped target is unaffected)

Perks

Toxic Spread
Now uses general silence visuals instead of a unique
Pulse
Trigger chance is now 10%, down from 15%
Stun duration is now 1s, down from 1.2s.

Crib

Crafting Popup improvements.
Boost Popup tweaks/fixes to flow. Added Level Up popup when acquiring a new level.
Voltage crib animation updated

Bugfixes

Massive Ram
Fixed a bug which let the Massive Ram punch players who are temporarily immune to attacks (like Wanta in Spirit Form).

GUI

Replaced the gold, silver and bronze stars awarded after a Horde mission with gold, silver and bronze cups.
Added reward screen sound effects when receiving items.

Replays

Only the latest 50 replays are now saved, if any more matches are played, the oldest replay will automatically be deleted