Mod update: Spawn Select, airdrops and new guns

Two updates in September. The big one landed on 2026-09-27; a smaller one on 2026-09-13 reworked spray paint and stickers and took random jams off worn guns. Everything below links to the guide that covers it in full.

New

• Spawn Select. Every new character picks where it spawns — a zone from the camera preview, or Random. → Spawn Select
• Airdrops. A C-130J or an Mi-8 drops parachute crates or walk-in containers (military, medical, food, industrial, construction, civilian, hazardous). Each drop is marked with coloured smoke you can see from far away, and a switched-on Handheld Transceiver tells you when a supply aircraft takes off. → Airdrops
• Hack the walk-in containers with the tablet on their doors, and hold out until the countdown runs down.
• New weapons: the AN-94 with its two-round hyperburst, the M1014, the Baikal MP-27, the Uzi and the TEC-9. → New weapons and the Inspect key
• Inspect Weapon key (default I) for most guns and twelve knives.
• New reload, charge and inspect animations for the AN-94, HK433, STG44, Kriss Vector, AWM, Kar98K (stripper clips included), Marlin, SPAS-12, M1014, Baikal MP-27, Uzi and TEC-9.

The Stuart Island Nexus quest

→ Quests and keycards

• Only the keycard that hacked all the antennas can open the Tier 4 door. The first hack binds the grid to that card.
• After the first and second antenna there is no global sound any more — instead the Nexus Hacking Device points you to the next antenna.
• The rumble only starts after the third antenna.
• The Nexus portal now shakes the ground and is surrounded by toxic gas — bring a gas mask.
• After the final hack the card becomes activated for about an hour: its carrier gets unlimited stamina, shock immunity, purple night vision and immunity to the portal gas (no mask needed).
• Keycard doors: a failed swipe keeps your card, lockpicks cannot lock a keycard door, and the Stuart Tier 4 door now takes only the activated card.

Zaruun meteors

• Every Nexus Hacking Device with a battery in it now warns you about an hour before impact which map the meteor will land on,
• and gives you the broad area of the crash about fifteen minutes before impact.
• The device's search-mode switch moved to F.

Gear and rules

• Nexus Space Helmet and Nexus Nano-Composite Jacket absorb more damage and shock. → Armour and member gear
• Logging out in a restricted zone (keycard areas, for example) always moves you out of it, and your stamina buff is reset and temporarily pushed below zero. → The stamina buff
• Tents and shelters can no longer be built inside someone else's territory flag. → Territory flags and building
• Several players can use a bunker hatch at the same time.
• Worn guns and magazines no longer jam at random (2026-09-13).
• The Tactical Shotgun Suppressor is more durable.

Spray paint and stickers

→ Spray paints and skins

• Spray paint textures reworked completely (2026-09-13): every pattern is made for the item it is sprayed on.
• Sticker placement reworked (2026-09-13): place, size and rotate a sticker on a preview of the item.
• Spraying and sticker application are faster.
• The ECS pistol grip and the SR-2M 30rnd Magazine can now be spray-painted.

Fixes

• Fishing, and hands that got stuck, after leaving or entering a bunker.
• Nexus travel from a ladder sometimes landed you in water.
• Other players sometimes looked as if they were aiming at the sky.
• The spray-paint animation could get stuck loading.
• Empty-chamber reloads hung on some modded guns.
• The LEHS suit showed underwear in the inventory preview.