EARLY ALPHA 0.33.2 · 27 SEPTEMBER 2026

LOCK AND KEY

FEATURES

Traders have new stock that appears only when you complete certain tasks: their best ammunition, optics and suppressors, the SLK-6 plate carrier, the Vostok R48 raid pack and more. A task's rewards show what it unlocks, marked with a padlock.
Orlov and Marshal have five new tasks each, for levels 10 to 25: a hunter's lessons in Blackwood, a lake that keeps its secrets, a missing payroll and a consignment someone would rather you never found. Many send you to places as well as after targets.
Storage cases can now be bought (before, they were only found in Room 354 at the Freight Yard): Nurse sells the Buran Scrapper's Crate, and after her Blood Work task the MedCore Field Pharmacy and the Atlas Expedition Trunk; Rook sells the Frontier Mag Locker; Wrench sells the Greyforge Cartridge Chest and the Blackline Rifle Transit Case after his late bench orders. The Lockwell Key Wallet is still found only in raids.
Join the Dead Sector Discord from the main menu or the login screen.
Two more menu tracks, The Iron Perimeter and Beneath the Containment Wall. The music now shuffles: every track plays once before any repeats, and each visit starts on a random one.
UI scale can now go down to 80 %.

Looters carry stims and valuables far less often: each stim is a 4 % find instead of 14 %, electronics like processors and disk drives turn up about a quarter as often, and gold, silver and other valuables in their bags are much rarer.
Volkov sells the KM-74 with its magazines and the OK-45 from loyalty level 1, and the VS-9 with its magazines from level 3. Orlov's OB-91 is loyalty level 2.
The Broker only buys now; he no longer sells Shelter materials.
Storage cases are worth much more: the Atlas Expedition Trunk 3,570,000 CZK, the Buran Scrapper's Crate 1,560,000, the Blackline Rifle Transit Case 1,340,000, the MedCore Field Pharmacy 412,000, the Frontier Mag Locker 354,000 and the Greyforge Cartridge Chest 214,000.
Wrench's Quiet Optics bench order is now a KM-74 build: an RDC-1 railed dust cover and an H-3 sight, recoil 70 or less.

The main menu buttons were reworked: PLAY stands out as the main action, the rest are grouped, and hover and keyboard focus are clearer.
Error messages were restyled and now sit above the social bar instead of behind it.
No more generic 'Inventory action rejected' message; the specific messages (no space, not enough CZK and so on) remain.
If the game is updated while your tab is open, you now get a clear prompt to reload instead of a game that silently stops responding.
A trader with nothing to sell now says so clearly, with a shortcut to SELL.
The desktop app opens web links (Discord, Terms, Privacy) in your browser.

Protocol update: hard-refresh the browser (Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-R).