Techland has announced that a new Dead Island patch is now available on Steam, which fixes various issues such as playing the game in offline mode, flying zombies, save game corruption, co-op issues and other minor glitches and bugs.
The reported changelog is as follows:
* Fixed running game on Steam in offline mode
* Fixed damaged saves when a player has more than 190 items in inventory (weapon or stacked items, counting in items from Jin's storage and player inventory). Corrupted save games will be recovered when possible
* Fixed problems with unlocking "There and back again" with progress 72/72
* Fixed duplicating weapons when throwing and dropping at one time, and when dropping items from inventory
* Optimised scanning for friends-process, to decrease lobby server workload
* Fixed random freezes when playing 4 players coop no longer appear
* Fixed issues when using medkits from inventory menu
* Stacking items issue solved: miscellaneous items to 9999, medkits and alcohol to 30 instead of 10
* Added the option to disable voice chat in game
* Limited Jin's storage capacity to 150
* Fixed: disappearing items when there is no place in inventory and a player tries to get an item from Jin's storage
* Improved trading: items will be removed from the smallest stack instead of a random one
* Fixed problems with corrupted profiles, which caused the game to start with black screen and freeze
* Fixed levitating zombies after killing
* Fixed not being able to show quest details in quest menu using Xbox controller
Let us know if the patch improved the gameplay for you.
