Update #17 - Holiday Update

Hi there!

I'm excited to release an update that adds a new area to the map and brings several quality of life features.

[Map] Outskirts

The Outskirts District is a new area west of the Residential District.

Here you will find a burger restaurant, supermarket, ambulance and a military area. Have fun exploring and looting!

[Game] Clearable Barricades

• These are items in the map that take time to remove.

• Once they are cleared, you can access previously blocked off areas.

• The salvage faster ability also increases the speed a survivor will clear objects.

[Quality of Life] Automated Actions

• Survivors will automatically progress actions to completion when scavenging, salvaging, or clearing objects.

• You can see that a survivor is automated as they have different action point icons.

• You can cancel the automation by moving the survivor or by using equipment.

• You will still see all regular camera events while automated, so for example, if a zombie gets too close, you can move away or attack it as you normally would.

• This setting can be disabled in the options menu under 'Options => Game => Automate Survivor Actions'

• In future updates, this will also be applied to healing in the Medical Bay and completing tasks in the Workshop.

Patch Notes

• [Audio] Added sound effects to looting.

• [Audio] Added a new night-time music track 'Shadows and Dust' from Scott Buckley.

• [Quality of Life] The inventory menu will automatically open when a survivor has finished scavenging or salvaging a container and it is still their turn.

• [Quality of Life] Added a warning when loading saves which are potentially too old for the current version of the game.

• [Balance] Reduced the spawn rate of putrid zombies outside of the Putrid Den. (12% => 8%)

• [Bug] Fixed a bug where salvage faster would not apply its benefit in some cases.

• [Bug] Fixed a bug where multiple hazards of the same type could incorrectly be added to a unit in some cases.

As always, be sure to drop any feedback in the Discord server or the in game feedback tool.

I appreciate your time and attention!

Thanks, ːsteamthumbsupː Ryan