- The Rebirth Update - 20 September 2026
A new permanent progression system has arrived. Save Rebirth lets veteran survivors restart their current Seasonal save while retaining key endgame accomplishments. In exchange, every Rebirth permanently increases the power and progression speed of that save. Save Rebirth Requirements Clear Event Horizon Ladder Level 10. Reach Infernal Prestige Level 100 with any survivor. Credits are not required. Rebirth can be performed once per Copenhagen week, with a maximum of five Rebirths per save. Permanent Rebirth Bonuses Every Rebirth grants: +50% Character XP earned by every survivor. +20% to all item stats from every item and stat source. A Rebirth tag on the leaderboards, ranging from Rebirthed (x1) to Rebirthed (x5). These bonuses stack with every Rebirth. What Rebirth Resets Rebirth returns ordinary progression to a fresh Seasonal start: Character levels and Character Prestige. Items, eq…
- NULL TIDE — New Mode, Permanent Passive Upgrades & DOOM LOCK - 14 September 2026
Null Tide joins Digital Survivor with a new endgame run, permanent passive upgrades, exclusive relics, and a brutal new Extraction difficulty. OUTRUN THE NULL TIDEDefeat ROOT//PRIME to unlock Null Tide in the Game Mode menu. Fight through 30 rooms across eight escalating difficulty levels, from First Surge to Absolute Zero. Choose one of five weapon programs before the run begins. Take on three massive horde chambers, each with a Recompiler. Break through upper and lower bypass routes to release locked seals. Follow the indicators, clear the guards, and keep the route open. Face themed enemies in distinct environments, with new room artwork, animated machinery, and a layered data-void background. The tide never waits for you to finish fighting. It deals 20% of your maximum core every second while you are caught, and higher difficulty levels make it advance faster. Its speed is now 2.5×…
- Performance, Display Settings & Quality-of-Life Update - 12 September 2026
This update improves combat performance, reduces work while paused, lowers image-loading overhead, and makes progression, armor changes and season-pass checkout clearer. Performance: higher frame rates and steadier combat Across four controlled stress-test comparisons, the final optimization pass delivered 31.5% to 79.8% higher frame rates. The desktop test build improved by 45.7% in Godfall and 75.7% in Extraction. Godfall — 2560 × 1440, 600 enemies: 46.1 FPS → 67.1 FPS (45.7% higher FPS) Extraction — 2560 × 1440, 240 enemies: 54.2 FPS → 95.3 FPS (75.7% higher FPS) These comparisons used fixed enemy populations and six active weapons. Extraction included player movement. Resolution and combat workload were preserved within each comparison, and the 4K tests waited for relevant artwork to load. Longer frames also became shorter. The 95th-percentile frame interval improved from 30.6 to 19…
- World Visual Upgrade, Equipment Tracking & Performance Fixes - 11 September 2026
- Improved wall depth, textures and shading. Walls fade when your character is behind them. - Walk behind tall objects and cross low bases with a slight slowdown. - Sharper characters with lighting that better matches the environment. - Equipment specials now show cooldowns, active effects, stacks and charges beside passives. - Fixed overlapping moving walls and scenery drawing over walls. - Ground effects, including Glitch Mine, Frost and Earthquake, stay beneath walls and scenery. - Optimized Faultline effects to address freezes during heavy use. - Divergent Ancients keep their original item names and rarity colors. - Open Multiple comparisons now wrap long names and stat-quality details. - Comparison cards stack on smaller screens, keeping stats and Equip buttons accessible.
- NEW Weapon: Faultline - 9 September 2026
Turn the ground around you into a constantly pulsing earthquake, cracking the arena and slowing enemies by 30% while dealing damage over time.Hold your ground to raise boulders that wait for nearby targets, then launch and shatter, damaging and pulling enemies inward. Pair Faultline with Firewall to unlock Molten Faultline: flaming boulders that leave two-second fire patches dealing triple normal ignite damage.
- Inventory & Loot Quality-of-Life Update - 8 September 2026
Inventory -Folders now cost 50,000 Credits and can hold up to 50 items. -Items stored in folders no longer consume main inventory space. -Pets no longer consume inventory space and remain available through the PETS folder. -Inventory counters have been updated to reflect these rules. Equipped Items -Equipped physical items, including trinkets, accessories, Ancient gear, and Event Horizon pieces, no longer appear in the inventory or consume inventory space. -Use UNEQUIP TO INVENTORY from an equipment slot to return an item to the bag. -Equipped items retain their stats, upgrades, sockets, and ownership. Enchanting -Removable equipment must be unequipped before its slot can be enchanted. -Blocked attempts display REMOVE EQUIPMENT FIRST and do not consume the enchantment. -Default armor can still be enchanted normally. Case Results -The multi-case results window is now larger and automatic…
- Leaderboard responsiveness update - 7 September 2026
Optimized leaderboard responsiveness and reduced delay from up to several seconds to around 40ms.
- LEADERBOARD UPDATE - 5 September 2026
• Added unique leaderboard avatars for all 15 character skins. • Existing records will update to display each player’s currently equipped skin after they return to the game. • New records will permanently display the skin equipped when the record was set. • Improved initial leaderboard loading speed. • Improved loading when switching between heroes and leaderboard categories. • Previously loaded standings remain visible while updated results load in the background. • Improved reliability during temporary connection issues.
- Minor fixes & updates - 4 September 2026
- The minimap now unlocks with the tactical overlay after completing the Guide Beacon mission. Updated mission and settings text to reflect this. - Compiler Rage now grants +3% total weapon damage per rank, up to +15%, multiplying existing damage bonuses. - Fixed the Reset Altar showing “Bit Orbit” for VEX.E. It now displays VEX.E Dagger Orbit with the correct icon and reset messages. - Optimized Godfall’s floor rendering to reduce unnecessary GPU workload while preserving its appearance.
- Patch 1.0.8 - 4 September 2026
Visibility & Gameplay Update - Added a minimap transparency setting. - Added an option to enable or disable the minimap. - Added a “How VEX.E works” guide to the Weekend Challenge, explaining Bladespin’s healing and Monster Protocol’s burst damage. Control hints reflect your current keyboard or controller bindings. - Increased the text size of the FIRST BLOOD and BYTE PET tags. - Disabled the loot bag and item reward drops in the Weekend Challenge. XP and health pickups remain available. Reworked ground textures following feedback about distracting backgrounds.- Floors are now calmer and bright areas darker, while preserving each level’s distinctive look. Following feedback that the game could use a bit more challenge early on:- Increased enemy health and damage by roughly 20% on Warmup through Blackout. Root Prime and higher difficulties are unchanged.
- Patch 1.06 - Weekend Challenge - 3 September 2026
Added a minimap to help you navigate during runs. Added the VEX.E // BOSS BYTE Weekend Challenge, featuring a dedicated leaderboard and exclusive companion rewards.
- Launch Bug Fix - 1 September 2026
Fixed a small bug that caused players unable to start a warmup run when skipping the tutorial
