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Friday the 13th: The Game is getting a new playable Jason, map, and, er, swimsuit

Friday the 13th: The Game developers IllFonic have revealed the next load of updates coming to the stab-happy horror game.

While the team's been doubling down on fixing memory leak issues, they've also revealed a new playable Jason, a new map, emotes, and, inexplicably, a $4 swimsuit DLC. Because that's what the game's been missing, of course – a string bikini.

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Friday the 13th: The Game Swimsuit DLC

Details are light and while there are no "hard dates for any of this" – for the DLC or the patch – they're in "cert right now," so we should get further confirmation pretty soon.

There's also a new bug-reporting site, so if you're spending a lot of time with Jason (and who wouldn't be, he's a dreamboat), drop your reports and bugs off at www.jasonkillsbugs.com.

For your delectation, here's the full patch notes details:

Stability

Overall stability should be drastically improved due to a number of crash fixes and a major memory leak fix.

Parties/Invites/Matchmaking

  • Disallowing party leaders to game session invites to sessions that do not (private matches). This is due to not being able to search for sessions that do not , which prevents party from following their leader into them.

  • Party leaders can now follow public game invites, bringing with them.

  • Steam Matchmaking tries harder to find lower-pinging matches.

  • Fixed a number of issues with how the game handles Party Invites and Matchmaking; there are still a few issues out there that are rare but it is much improved.

  • Fixed a number of issues on how canceling matchmaking was handled that could leave players in a state they could no longer matchmake.

  • Party now see their party leader's matchmaking status and time.

  • Various improvements to error messaging.

Maps

  • Added Small Maps for the existing maps; Packanack Small, Higgins Haven Small, and Camp Crystal Lake Small.

  • Increased the density of Kill locations on all maps.

  • Adjusted collision on Maps to prevent people from standing on water.

  • Adjusted collision on piers to prevent cars from driving on them .

  • Added a Map Icon to Campfire Kills.

  • Fixed a number of kill spots that were not functioning.

  • Fixed an issue with not being able to fix boat propellers based on boat positioning on the dock.

  • Placed collision under piers to prevent people from swimming under them.

  • Fixed a number of areas that the player could get out of the map.

  • Fixed a number of areas that Counselors could get to that Jason could not.

  • Added better collision around Boat Exits to prevent Jason from getting to areas he shouldn't be in.

Gameplay

  • Team Killing changes.

  • Team Killing is no longer possible in Public Matches.

  • Cars can still cause damage to the players if they are hit.

  • Traps can still hurt and/or kill the player but there is no longer an XP penalty for the person that placed the trap in Public Matches.

  • Private Matches have not changed.

  • Fixed an issue where the Counselors breath wouldn't start to recharge if the continued to hold the button after breath was depleted.

  • Fixed an issue with Fear being canceled if pulled out of a car.

  • Fixed an issue with the Police Objective happening when it shouldn't be.

  • Fixed a number of issues regarding objects falling through the ground.

  • Fixed an issue where Damage and Stun chance were only being calculated on the first attack.

  • Jason can no longer block through traps, firecrackers, flare guns, shotguns, and the Police.

  • Fixed reliability of perks that spawn items at the start of the match.

Misc Fixes

  • Fixed the PhD for Murder Achievement/Trophy.

  • Improved intro and outro cinematics.

  • Fixed player muted states sometimes getting "lost" after level change.

  • Can now unready in Private Match even when the countdown is low.

  • Fixed a hitch caused by the video settings savegame after g in or changing those settings.

IllFonic recently removed friendly fire from Friday the 13th: The Game after trolls abused the system.