DF1 > DF2 Rewards and Name Reservations are live!

Please follow these steps to reserve your username, clan name (if you own one) and claim your DF2 rewards:

1. Go to deadfrontier.com and login to your DF1 account
   
   
2. Put any items you wish to claim (VC, WC, Dusk etc) into your inventory. Items in storage or trading won't count.
   
   
3. Go to the following link:
   https://fairview.deadfrontier.com/onlinezombiemmo/index.php?page=58
   
   
4. Read all of the information on screen and then enter your main email address (the one you plan to use with DF2) into the two boxes and click submit.
   
   NOTE: Once you have entered an email, you cannot change it. Make sure you get it right the first time!
   
   
5. You should then receive a confirmation of your name reservation(s) and DF2 rewards.
   
   
6. If you have any other DF1 accounts, return to step 1 and repeat. You can apply rewards from multiple accounts to a single email address.
   
   
7. When DF2 launches, create an account with the same email address and complete the
   confirmation process. Once that is done, log out and back in again, and you should then have access to your credits and cosmetic rewards. In addition, only you will be able to make a character or a clan with the reserved names.
   
   
8. Enjoy all your free stuff!

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Once you have linked a DF1 account to an email, you cannot link it to any other email.
  
  
• You can claim rewards multiple times. So for example you can claim at level 200, then claim again at level 325 and get the extra rewards.
  
  
• Multiple DF1 accounts can be linked to the same email.
  
  
• The email you choose does NOT have to be the same as the email entered for that DF1 account.
  
  
• Wraith Cannons and Gau-19s (non unlimited ammo versions) will get permanently marked once they have been claimed. That means they cannot be claimed again.
  
  
• The name that gets reserved is your DF1 username (not the character name, which is not unique).
  
  
• Reserving a name does not mean that you *have* to use it in DF2.

Raw gameplay footage & other news before launch

Gameplay Video
As of today we have just over 42k wishlists on Steam. Even though this isn't quite the 50k target I previously set, I've decided that it's close enough (we'll probably get there by launch day anyway). So I've gone ahead and made an unedited 10 minute video of Dead Frontier 2 gameplay. Of course it's still not 100% done, but I think it's good enough to show at this point. Unlike bigger developers I didn't have time to pre-plan this, or setup anything special to show off; we literally just launched the game and recorded whatever we happened to come across. Hopefully you guys will like what you see :)

See the video here:
https://youtu.be/2yH_3jzJhNY

Alpha Testing
We began the alpha testing process with just over 20 people a few weeks ago and I'm pleased to say that things have gone very well. The feedback from the testers has been incredibly positive. Whilst there were some issues, they were all fairly minor and I've managed to iron pretty much all of them out already. With just a handful of bugs left to fix I am now very confident that the game will be both stable and fun to play on launch day.

Only 26 days to go!
I can't believe there is less than a month to go until launch day. The time has just whizzed by (for me at least!). I've still got a lot to get done in that time and that unfortunately means that this will probably be my last blog post before EA begins. For those who are interested, this is what I still have to get done (in order of priority):

• DF1 > DF2 Reward system
• Final bug fixes/tweaks
• Books/journals
• Basic main storyline
• Server upgrades
• Final load test
• Premium cosmetics system
• Storage upgrades
• Marketing/Advertising 

That is a lot to get done in such a short period of time, but I think I can do it (just about). Regardless of if I get it all in or not, the game will launch on August 31st (10am BST).

Name Reservation and DF1 Rewards
This is currently the highest priority item on my todo list, and I'm hoping to have this system ready within the next few days. Once it's done I'll be posting in all the normal locations (Discord, Reddit, Forums etc) with instructions on how to claim these.

If you haven't already, please do add DF2 to your Steam wishlist, that way you'll be notified the moment the game is launched:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/744900/Dead_Frontier_2/

Thanks for reading!
Neil

https://deadfrontier2.com