Snowbreak: Containment Zone

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Snowbreak: Containment Zone

Developers
	Amazing Seasun Games
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	December 25, 2023
Taxonomy
Monetization	Free-to-play
Microtransactions	Currency, Free-to-grind
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Genres	Action, Adventure, RPG
Art styles	Anime
Themes	Fantasy

Snowbreak: Containment Zone is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action, adventure and RPG game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Official Website

Official Discord server

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Steam
Epic Games Store
Publisher website

Monetization

No monetization information; you can edit this page to add it.

Microtransactions

No microtransactions information; you can edit this page to add it.

Essential improvements

Skip Splash Screen

Add SplashScreen=false to Game.ini
Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Game\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor Open Game.ini with a text editor. Add SplashScreen=false to the bottom of the config file. Save and close the file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Steam	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Game\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor
Epic Games Launcher	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Game\Saved\Config\
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2668080/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		The default FOV is 90°.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Only Borderless Fullscreen available.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Off, FXAA and TAA.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		On and Off.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		You can choose from 60, 90 and 120. With Custom the max frame rate is 300.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity		Standard, Aim Down Sight and Sniper Scope.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Disable mouse acceleration

Add bEnableMouseSmoothing=False to Input.ini
Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Game\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor Open Input.ini with a text editor. Add bEnableMouseSmoothing=False to the bottom of the config file. Save and close the file.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master Volume, Music, Sound Effects and Voice.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic				Fan translation, download.
French
German
Japanese
Simplified Chinese
Korean
Indonesian
Traditional Chinese
Latin American Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play

Issues Unresolved

Shader compilation stutter

The game suffers from severe shader compilation related stutters during gameplay, this occurs whenever a new effect is displayed and thus whenever a new shader has to be compiled.

Install dxvk-gplasync into the game directory or Proton prefix

Download the latest version of dxvk-gplasync, which is usually the link in a dxvk-gplasync-v2.4-1.zip format. Extract the contents of the .zip file, and on Windows, and copy the contents of the x64 folder (or more specifically, the d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll to <path-to-game>\Game\Binaries\Win64. Create a new file in <path-to-game>\Game\Binaries\Win64 named dxvk.conf and insert the following contents: dxvk.enableAsync = true dxvk.gplAsyncCache = true Alternatively, on Linux, you can set DXVK_ASYNC=1 DXVK_GPLASYNCCACHE=1 %command% in the command line arguments in the game's properties on Steam to avoid needing to create the dxvk.conf file. On Linux or the Steam Deck (through Proton), instead of copying the dll files to the game's install folder (like on Windows), these two steps need to be done: Copy all of the extracted .dll files in the x64 folder to <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2668080/pfx/drive_c/windows/system32. Copy all of the extracted .dll files in the x32 folder to <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/2668080/pfx/drive_c/windows/syswow64.

Other information

Restore original character skins

By default, the game uses the character skins from the Chinese and Google Play versions of the game. Seasun has provided a way to restore the original versions of the character skins.

Change localization.txt file
Go to <path-to-game>. Go up one directory. In the scenario of using the Steam version, this would be lead to "<Steam-folder>/steamapps/common". Open localization.txt in a text editor (Like Notepad). Change the localization = 0 section to localization = 1. Save the file.

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	8.1 (64 bit)		11 (64 bit)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2320/7th Gen Intel Core i5 AMD A4-6320		Intel Core i5-3470/9th Gen Intel Core i5 AMD Epyc 7502P
System memory (RAM)	8 GB		16
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	20 GB
Video card (GPU)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 AMD Radeon HD 7750/5830 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible		NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 580 4 GB (NVIDIA), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM
Other	Broadband Internet connection

A 64-bit operating system is required.