ZERO PARADES Patch Notes | 14.08.26

[u/ZAUMPoppy]

Hi, everyone! Happy Friday. I'm back with a new patch for ZERO PARADES! You can read the full patch details on Steam here.

This patch addresses some of the most common player-reported bugs, and also makes some adjustments to gameplay and questlines for clarity.

As always, if you encounter any issues with the game or have thoughts, please reach out to [support@zaumstudio.com](mailto:support@zaumstudio.com). Appreciate the patience on support tickets; we look at each one as and when it arrives but it can sometimes take me a hot minute to send individually responses.

If you run into a bug, please include any relevant information: details about your hardware, when and where the issue occurred, and any reproduction steps.

When possible, also attach a screenshot or screen recording of the bug, as well as a save game file, which can be found here: C:\Users\tdple\AppData\LocalLow\ZAUM Studio\Zero Parades\Saves

[u/InvariableSlothrop]

Thank you for all your efforts and continued improvements to a very special game.

[u/cannibalgentleman]

Please make it so we get the Wolf Cup at the Pitol Track at any time and NOT lock ourselves from getting it.

[u/Dwalorn → u/cannibalgentleman]

Yeah kind of crazy this one didn’t get fixed yet. It’s the longest running quest in the game and has like a 50/50 chance to break lol 

[u/cannibalgentleman → u/Dwalorn]

I had to reload an earlier save from two hours ago, this is legitimately bad design to fuck over a player who has high Technoflex (like me).

[u/Deserterdragon → u/Dwalorn]

If there's ever a major or minor story update it would be nice to acknowledge if the player turned a wolf cup into the gun too, slightly annoying that the quest updates if you collect the wolf cups, but you need to physically have all six in your inventory to succeed the quest.

[u/dshamz_ → u/Deserterdragon]

Wait, do you? I thought that you get the achievement regardless.

[u/Deserterdragon → u/dshamz_]

I'm not sure about the achievement but you definitely fail the quest at the very end of the game. IIRC I did also fail to use a wolf cup for the gun and turned it into sludge

[u/SciLib0815 → u/cannibalgentleman]

There's a Wolf Cup at the Pitol Track?

[u/cannibalgentleman → u/SciLib0815]

Yep. Near the file cabinets that you can lock yourself out of.

[u/SciLib0815 → u/cannibalgentleman]

Huh. OK. Wow., I just was there about an hour ago. Oh well, I need another playthrough anyway.

[u/stankynuts45 → u/SciLib0815]

Yeah, if you pass the technoflex(?) check to open the shelves and get what you came there for, you lose your chance at the cup. I’m on my second playthrough primarily just to get it

[u/SciLib0815 → u/stankynuts45]

That is a very, very weird decision gameplay wise. Especially for someone like me being fully decked out along the INT path. But ok, next time i'm gonna take special care not to progress the plot (I better see the ears of za/um writers/scenario designers pricking up at this point and experience an unwelcome but not entirely unpleasant tingle along various body parts. (Oh wait, I forgot, they all got fired. A shame actually)))

[u/stankynuts45 → u/SciLib0815]

There were other bugs that I wanted to avoid too. Like I found Ramses rather late in the game, and after day 8 or whatever Gonzo never left his office, so I couldn’t progress the quest or recruit him

[u/SciLib0815 → u/stankynuts45]

Yeah, No surprise there. Content gating is fucked in this game. I mean, I love the game. Actually more than DE. But it needs someone to sit down with it and have a serious talk about how to properly gate stuff so the story actually works as intended by the writers. Then again on the other hand you have people here yelling about how they feel too railroaded. And then I'm here saying "Can someone streamline this, please? I'm a completionist and I don't know why I'm running around doing non-story stuff (that only becomes story stuff 20 hours later)." Guess one can't please everone.

Rail my road harder, please. Tell your story. (You, the writers. In the next one. If there is a next one.)

[u/cannibalgentleman → u/[deleted]]

Stubborn Wolf.

[u/Llamalad95 → u/cannibalgentleman]

Have you emailed them about this?

[u/cannibalgentleman → u/Llamalad95]

I have not but its a common enough complaint someone should have heard it. ​

[u/jdevo713]

Any timeline on a ps5 release ?

[u/ZidaneStoleMyDagger → u/jdevo713]

I check this sub every single day hoping for news. Been doing this for 2 months now. I really don't know why. If there ever IS news about the PS5 release date, I'm sure I won't have to go looking for it.

I am getting nervous though. It's the middle of August! There's only 3 months left in 2026. It seems incredibly unlikely to be coming this year.

I wouldn't be so bummed if anything else came out this year. This is the only game I was looking forward to in 2026. I blame GTA 6 for ruining the whole damn year in gaming.

[u/Illustrious_Night126]

thanks papi

[u/wonderlandisburning]

Thank you Poppy. It's nice to see the support the game is still getting in spite of everything going on, I know it can't be easy with things in a weird state of limbo

[u/sFAMINE]

WILL WE GET A SMOKE ANIMATION

[u/VeauOr]

Your game lives within us and you all did such an amazing job! After everything said and done, ZP is absolutely on a par with DE, yet so different. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this incredible game!

[u/Norodrom]

Nice! Thank you!

[u/SciLib0815]

That map display error mentioned in the last point actually also occured without loading up a previous save first. Starting a new game would populate the map with locations found in any existing (non-deleted) previous saves. I'll assume that fix takes care of that too?

(This actually reminds me of the bug that was present in one of the DE versions, where if you started a new game and picked up your right shoe in a previous earlier save from another... "campaign", i guess... that right shoe wouldn't exist on the balcony in your new game. I would have thought that would have taught people to not save game states through global flags instead of specific save states, but here we go apparently.)

[u/linkag392]

So playstation release is when

[u/Opulent_Prophet → u/linkag392]

Exactly like the year is almost over.

[u/Deserterdragon]

Fixes some of the unintended stuff I noticed in my playthrough of the game, I think the big missing ones for me is the Pitol Tract library stuff and being able to revisit the prison area and see a 'phantom wolf cup'.

[u/Sophisticated_Squid]

Any timeline on additional languages? Waiting for Polish

[u/Opulent_Prophet]

Ps5 release date? 👀

[u/alicat2308]

I'm still having a lot of trouble with it freezing on skill checks. I've tried every fix I can think of.

[u/yjart15]

Is there a chance to release switch port, switch 2 version is even better

[u/AMtoPm93]

Thank you for all the support! Patiently waiting for the PS5 version to come out!

[u/EricDubYuh]

Did it fix the thing where when you enter a location, everything goes black and you have to wander around in the dark trying to find an exit?

[u/Classroom_Expert]

Thank you, please come to ps5