Hi, Apocalypse survivors!
Halloween was few days ago. What is better for the day of terror than a zombie-themed game?


Today marks officially the last big patch before the global level reset!
And with that, a lot of new things :

Mechanics

• A new element has been added : The fuel. Try to burn an oil-covered Infected and see what happens!
• A new type of Infected appears : the Avenger! This new guy, seemingly docile, fights back for his allies if you attack them. Trying to get rid of his friends first, will get him progressively madder and madder, going through several level of anger, getting better, faster and stronger with each level until he gets enraged. At this point, he’ll attack everything close to him, including other Infecteds

The Avenger at the 2nd and 3rd rage level

Quests

• The blocking bug on “Defend” quests preventing enemies from spawning has been fixed.
• The scripting system has been reworked. Small mishaps may happen during your quests. Please do report them!
• The Adventures are now available! These multiplayer quests take place on new maps. You can start one with your actual team or search for a group from the table near Murphy in Lakeview. You will need a minimum of 4 players to enter an adventure. Actually, there are two adventures available but more will be added in further patches.
• Expeditions are available as well! These are 4-player quests also accessible from the table in Lakeview. Unlike Adventures, you can start an Expedition alone. An Expedition is a succession of 4 random maps different map with each, a random objective. Currently, there are 8 maps and 3 different type of objectives :
  - Kill a certain amount of Infecteds.
  - Find a specific container.
  - Kill the map’s boss.


From these two type of quests, you will earn two types of medals that you can use to buy weapons, food, skills and buildings from each faction leader: Sekou Iwume, Henry Collins, Mei Lee and Lynn Durand.

Maps

• Loots on several maps have been rebalanced. Also, elemental areas have been added. Some background elements are now elemental sources. If you or an Infected step on it, you’ll be afflicted with an elemental status. For instance, if you walk on an electrical wire, you’ll get the “electrified” status.

The concerned maps are : Sacramento suburbs, Bodega Bay, Downtown Santa Rosa, Mazon College, Sunset Mall.

Items and skills

• New items, like ranged weapons and guns have been added.
• A lot of items have been reworked and the “item skill” system has been implemented. Some weapons, like books and guns, have lost their combo which have been replaced by those skills. The item skill can be found on top of your usual skill bar and will change depending on the weapon. Also, their use will consume your weapon’s durability.
• Subsequently, new skills have been added!

Some of the new skills

Visuals and sounds

• Several texts issues have been fixed and some not translated texts have been translated.
• New animations for the player and the Infecteds have been added.
• Themed Infecteds - like the firefighter- got a face-lift, their outfits being newly redrawn!
• New skill icons have been added.
• Sounds have been added on some background element.

And here you go for this patch! Thank you very much for the wait since the last update, we worked on a lot of new things and got some more for you in the next updates!

Patchnote 7.8
03/11/2017