Full Details on This Week’s Massive ‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ Update; TEN Single Player Challenges
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Tomorrow, May 24, is a big day for Friday the 13th: The Game for a handful of reasons. For starters, the game will implement a 130% XP Bonus as well as Doubled Tape Drops, beginning tomorrow at 4pm EST and running through 4pm EST on Tuesday, May 29.
In addition, the next patch update arrives tomorrow, and it’s HUGE. Along with the hotly anticipated Single Player Challenges, tomorrow’s new update includes…
Counselor Victoria Sterling, Jason Part 7 rebalance, new skins for Roy, upgraded Jason grab, Jason weapon selection, PC key binding, AI improvements, and more.
Today, the game’s official website provided full details on the Thursday, May 24th update, highlighting exactly what you can expect from the Single Player Challenges.
“Test your skills as Jason Voorhees by clearing out all of the counselors in Camp Crystal Lake in each of the 10 unique scenarios. Each level contains special cinematic kills that are available only in Single Player Challenges.
There are also multiple challenge objectives that are available in each level that can only be completed through proper planning and preparation. Play as Jason in any way you like. You may choose to be slow and sneaky for that suspenseful cinematic experience, or you may choose to brute force your way through, hacking and slashing!
There are also 30 new unlockable emotes that can be obtained in the Single Player Challenges! Each Challenge has a reward of 3 unique emotes through the collection of these following skulls: No Survivors Skull, XP Score Skull, and the Undetected Skull.”
Additionally, we’ve learned that Victoria Sterling will unlock at Level 42, with weapon swapping unlocking at Level 113. Read the official patch notes to learn more.
Overshadowing the announcement of Ninja Theory’s third entry in the Hellblade series earlier this month were reports that the developer was facing possible closure by Microsoft, alongside South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games and Double Fine. Now according to a new story by GamesBeat, another developer under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella is potentially facing closure in Undead Labs, who are currently working on State of Decay 3.
Earlier this month, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had announced that Microsoft was in the process of ‘resetting’ Xbox. That resulted in a report by Bloomberg during Summer Game Fest that revealed that multiple developers were negotiating with Microsoft to spin off of Xbox to avoid closing down. Now, according to the GamesBeat report, Undead Labs is now part of that group of developers negotiating to be bought to avoid layoffs.
The article states that Undead Labs could lose 110 jobs if it were shut down, while Compulsion could lose 90 jobs, Ninja Theory could lose 135 jobs, and Double Fine Productions could lose 100 jobs.
Other developers and publishers at Microsoft also reportedly face cuts, including Blizzard, id Software and Bethesda.
Undead Labs was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, with State of Decay 3 being announced in 2020. News on the development of the game was quiet until 2024, when a new trailer was released. Updates on the game again were hard to come by until last January when then-Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan revealed that development was still very much alive. That was followed up this month with an official announcement that State of Decay 3 would be coming next year to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.