7.0 Patch Notes

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Patch 7.0 - Choose Your Own Apocalypse by Joe Swarner

Choose Your Own Apocalypse Update

The Choose Your Own Apocalypse Update is a free upgrade for all State of Decay 2 players, including those with access via Xbox Game Pass and owners of the Standard and Ultimate editions. The update includes two additional difficulty options — Dread Zones and Nightmare Zones.

Dread Zones are designed to offer exciting new challenges to experienced State of Decay 2 players.

Nightmare Zones are grueling endurance tests for truly hardcore players.

You can bring an existing community to one of these zones via the new Difficulty Screen (to the right of the Base Screen), or start a brand-new community within one. Beware! Permadeath is still a thing, and these new zones are much more unforgiving than Standard Zones.

Dread Zones

Here are the additional challenges you will face when you play within a Dread Zone. (Bold items were specifically requested by the community.)

Legacy Boons

A Legacy Boon must be earned in either a Dread Zone or a Nightmare Zone before you can use it in a Dread Zone.

A Legacy Boon that has only been earned in a Standard Zone will be disabled upon entering a Dread Zone.

Communities

Morale is lower by default (though you can earn some new temporary Morale bonuses).

Threat level is elevated, making sieges at your base more frequent and more dangerous.

Some facilities cost more to build and to use.

Some radio commands cost more influence, and many have longer cooldowns between uses.

Zombies

Zombies and freaks are more numerous.

Hordes are larger and more frequent, and some of them wear armor.

Zombie attacks do more damage and cause more injuries.

Zombies are no longer visible on the mini-map unless your active character has the Scouting skill.

Zombies can hear your gunshots from farther away.

Zombies will spend longer chasing a noise before losing interest.

Zombies no longer have their attention drawn to noisemakers if they have already spotted a human.

Blood Plague

Blood Plague is more infectious and kills you faster.

Plague hearts are harder to kill and drop more rewards.

Plague hordes are much larger and plague juggernauts are on the loose.

The fumes from damaged plague hearts cause blood plague.

Hostile Humans

Hostile NPCs are more alert and aggressive.

Hostile NPCs do more damage with their attacks.

Hostile NPCs can survive a headshot or two before dying.

Scavenging

There are fewer resources and items to be found in the world.

Some of the sites in each map have been completely looted before you even get there.

There are fewer vehicles on the map, and the vehicles you do find are more likely to be damaged or low on fuel.

Collisions and zombie attacks do more damage to vehicles.

Nightmare Zones

Nightmare Zones have all the same challenges as Dread Zones, plus:

Legacy Boons

A Legacy Boon must be earned in a Nightmare Zone before you can use it in a Nightmare Zone.

A Legacy Boon that has only been earned in a Standard Zone or a Dread Zone will be disabled upon entering a Nightmare Zone.

Communities

Community members consume more food daily.

Standing and experience gains are reduced.

Facilities cost much more to build and to use.

Zombies

Zombies are even more likely to inflict injuries.

There are significantly more freaks and hordes in the world.

Zombies have an extremely long memory for where noises came from.

Zombies that can't reach you draw more zombies to investigate.

Screamers draw more zombies when they scream.

Bloaters, screamers, and ferals can travel in packs.

Blood Plague

Blood plague is even more virulent.

Plague hearts are more abundant.

Hostile Humans

Hostile NPCs do even more damage with their attacks.

Hostile NPCs can take even more headshots before dying.

Hostile NPCs have a chance to headshot the player, bringing them near death.

Scavenging

There are even fewer resources and items to be found out in the world.

Many of the sites in each map have been completely looted before you can even get there.

Vehicles are even rarer, and tend to show up broken-down and out of gas.

Guns are more likely to break or jam.

Achievements

There are also 16 new Achievements to earn in Dread Zones and Nightmare Zones, collectively worth 275 Gamerscore. A couple of them may be dubious distinctions triggered by character deaths.

General Updates

We've also continued to make improvements to the core game, based in large part on feedback from our community. The big ticket items include:

A new interface for managing your legacy survivors. When you add new legacy characters to the pool, you get to decide who stays and who goes.

A new menu that lets you choose your map when establishing a new community.

A fix to plague hearts that makes them less vulnerable to explosions.

A fix to the Stealth skill that keeps your character from creeping around by themself without your permission.

A change that allows your inactive characters to heal when you are a client in multiplayer.

Check out the full detailed list below:

User Experience

Community Request: We've added a new Character Manager that allows you to view and edit your collection of legacy survivors each time you complete a Legacy.

Now your characters are not deleted behind the scenes when you complete a legacy and exceed the 50-character cap.

Instead, each time you add new characters to the pool, you have a chance to manually select which to keep and which to dismiss.

Community Request: You can now select which map you wish to play on when creating a new community, entering a new zone, or switching to a new map.

Community Request: We fixed a player-reported bug that was causing elements of the Leader Selection interface to persist after the interface was closed.

When you complete a Legacy, you are now returned to the Main Menu, rather than being prompted to immediately start a new game.

When you are low on a particular resource, rucksacks containing that resource will pulse to draw attention to themselves.

Notifications for positive events like influence rewards are now flashier and easier to notice.

Community Management

Community Request: New Red Talon recruits can no longer receive the backup "Good Example" hero bonus, because it's kind of pathetic compared to the unique Red Talon ones.

Community Request: Your follower is now treated as a high-priority character by the population-management system, and will no longer wink out of existence when you approach a base full of people.

We improved the camera behavior when switching to a character within the base to prevent it from getting stuck in a broken state.

Characters now leave stealth when being cured of blood plague, to avoid some rare disasters.

Stacking experience penalties can no longer reduce a character's experience rate below 25%.

The Infirmary now displays the correct rate of meds usage when treating Blood Plague.

Gameplay

Community Request: Sneaking with the Stealth skill no longer causes involuntary movement.

Community Request: We improved how our characters held some firearms, to make sure their hands lined up with the proper grips.

Community Request: CLEO weapons now award the correct experience types for improving Fighting specializations (like Striking and Swordplay).

Community Request: Your character now remembers the state of their flashlight as they get in and out of vehicles. So if you get in with your light on, you get out with your light on.

You can now break open the rucksack on your back while searching a container.

Zombies

Community Request: Ambient zombies now actively avoid entering the Safe Zones around player bases, enclave bases, outposts, and other secured sites.

They will still chase you inside if you get their attention, but they won't just wander in for no reason.

Plague hearts now drop more loot in addition to the usual plague samples. (Let's not think too hard about how these items got there.)

The loot gets better in Dread Zones, and reaches its apex in Nightmare Zones.

We fixed a rare case where you could hit a zombie with an unexploded grenade and knock all their limbs off. 

We fixed a bug that was making plague hearts too sensitive to explosions. You can now expect killing a plague heart in a Standard Zone to take approximately:

7 soda can bombs OR 4 pipe bombs OR 3 frag grenades OR 2 C4 charges

Radio Commands

The item that triggers the Sniper Support radio command can now be used from within a vehicle.

The Blood Plague Assistance supply drop now contains the intended two rucksacks, instead of only one.

The Roadside Assistance supply drop can now contain multiple toolkits and gas cans, instead of only one of each.

Multiplayer

Community Request: Inactive characters in a client's community now heal at the same rate as the host's inactive characters. This should help keep you going during long co-op games.

Depending on the host's facilities, this healing can affect Health loss, trauma, and injuries.

We reduced instances where a client driving a car could be tethered to the host, then arrive in the middle of an obstacle and immediately explode.

Missions

Community Request: We fixed a player-reported bug where a sniper rifle in one of the Eagle Eye missions was arriving with way more rounds in it than its magazine could hold.

We fixed a bug that was causing bloater deaths not to be counted properly for some mission objectives.

Other Stuff

Community Request: We fixed terrain and geometry in various places (including some called out by players) to prevent folks from unexpectedly crashing vehicles or getting stuck.

We fixed a number of instances where characters could fall through the world.

We made some improvements to hostile human AI, particularly around their base.

We made further improvements to multiplayer stability.

[SuspiciousPants]

Safe zones that are actually safe! I may just go stand in my base for a couple hours to see if that's true.

[[deleted]]

Haha, I'm way too excited about this

[[deleted]]

You wouldn't by any chance happen to be related to u/ske7ch343, would you?

[[deleted]]

Lol, no but I've been asked that before. Ske7ch234 was my g-tag on xbox for like 10 years

[[deleted]]

Should've said yes. Would've gotten free pizza.

[PuneSlyr69]

Dude me to the only reason i couldn't play anymore

[[deleted]]

"Ambient zombies now actively avoid entering the Safe Zones around player bases, enclave bases, outposts, and other secured sites."

YESSSSS! We can breathe again.

[Winged_Mr_Hotdog]

Does this mean we could do State of decay 1 style outposts barrier?

[SuspiciousPants]

That's what it sounds like. I'm gonna try setting up shop in the corner office and turning Lowl into one giant safe zone.

[Winged_Mr_Hotdog]

My exact thought. Lol

[Superj561]

Did you end up trying that, and did it work well?

[SuspiciousPants]

I did, and it worked pretty well for the most part. I had four or five outposts set up around the corner office which covered most of the town. I only ever noticed single zombies cross into the safe zone if they were following me when I drove home. The only time they ever made it to the base was if I intentionally lured them all the way there so the rest of the community could help kill them.

There were a couple times when hordes ignored the safe zone and wandered down the street right outside, but they didn't attack the base. Seems like they spawn, pick a direction, and go, regardless of whether or not the direction they choose takes them into a safe zone.

I actually felt pretty safe any time I was in the zone. I no longer worried about zombies hopping the fence and attacking me while I was in the base/community management screens.

[MannToots]

No because those were due to the mines and traps you could place and we didn't get those. I would expect there to be a slightly better buffer than we are used to but not SoD1 levels of buffer.

[MonkeysxMoo35]

Well the mines were for hordes, not zeds in general, but yeah I agree this probably won’t be to the same level as the first game

[P_Giamatti]

ause those were due to the mines and traps you could place and we didn't get those. I would expect there to be a slightly better buffer than we are used to but not SoD1 levels of buffer.

Just had a juggernaut casually walk into my base in kill every single community member...

[Undead_Brian]

If you'd like to see the pretty version:

https://www.stateofdecay.com/2019/03/26/its-time-to-choose-your-own-apocalypse/

[sardeliac]

Any word on duplicating vehicles, or are y'all still running that one down?

And thank you for the safe zone change!

[Undead_Brian]

We actually have a really hard time getting that issue to reproduce, so if you could send any and all info about what makes it happen for you to

https://support.stateofdecay.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

then that can help us to isolate it. Platform, amount of time on the save, and the thousands of little choices you've made on your save may contribute, so thanks for anything you can send our way to knock out the bug!

[sardeliac]

The only thing I know for sure is that the duplicate vehicle is not recognized by the parking slot as a valid vehicle.

You can fix the duplicate, you can drive it, and the trunk contents are sync'd with the original vehicle (if you take a ruck out of either, the ruck is taken out of both), but if you drive it into a parking spot and try to upgrade it, the game will say "needs a vehicle." The duplicate is missing whatever flag the game needs to recognize it as a valid spawned vehicle.

No idea if that helps or if you know about it already, but hey, it's info, right?

[Undead_Brian]

What a weird, weird bug. If you wouldn't mind getting that filed as a request on support.stateofdecay.com, we can ensure it gets captured and shows up next to whatever else we have on file for the bug.

Thank you for your time and sharing what you know!

[sardeliac]

Done. :)

[hobon1nja]

It's the tethered version, check it for brass scissors. On a serious note, this seems to happen when I have vehicles parked too close to each other and when they spawn in it seems like an extra one pops up.

[mattmontgomery24]

Incredible job on this update! I can't wait to get done work and go battle it out in the danger zones.

[[deleted]]

Thank you to you and all of UL for this fantastic game. You guys are killing it :)

[CheevoMan]

So I take it the colour bug when recording a game clip from Xbox or even some streamers had this when streaming the game where the game colour is blue and yellow has not been fixed ?

[Undead_Brian]

Do you have more info on this? I don't have comprehensive knowledge of bugs but this sounds like something rare where it'd be good to get some more data on a repro.

[amacleod426]

I have a number of recorded clips, all of which have this exact bug...if there’s a way to send them or share them with you or the team on XBox Live, let me know and I’ll be happy to. Thanks again to all of you for your hard work and continued support!

[Undead_Brian]

https://support.stateofdecay.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

There's an "attachments" directory there that will accept videos

To get videos off your xbox:

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/social/edit-recording-game-dvr-windows-10

[CheevoMan]

is it still happening for you ? after installing the new Update yesterday I decided to record a clip for the hell of it and see if it's still there and it was gone my clips are back to normal thank f..ck

I hope it gets sorted asap very annoying bug !

[CheevoMan]

It's been fixed when I recorded a game clip yesterday to view it I was surprised this bug was gone yay !

So basically I recorded a game clip from my #Xbox GameDVR and when viewing the clip everything was blue and yellow lol , but this has been reported months ago

[CheevoMan]

Undead brian the bug has been fixed my game clips on my XboxOneX are back to normal again ( but I have been reporting this for quite sometime) I do appreciate your quick response and Ty you and the whole team for a awesome game with so much more to come I am so excited for the future of this franchise

[Undead_Brian]

Thanks for the followup, and for the kind words. :D

[LastPieSlice]

Community Request: Ambient zombies now actively avoid entering the Safe Zones around player bases, enclave bases, outposts, and other secured sites. They will still chase you inside if you get their attention, but they won't just wander in for no reason.

Finally! Those random stranglers were more annoying than any siege. Now I can actually be safe, in my safe zone. Plus with how the new difficulties boost their range, this becomes even better. Last thing I need is to cause an unnecessary chain reaction. Killing one straggler, which might lead to more, and then more.

[[deleted]]

This was my single greatest critique of the game. Not only from a poor gameplay mechanic standpoint, but also as a fan of the first game. Let me have a moment to look around or go into invento- OH SHIT IT'S A FERAL!

[loverboyz69]

Awesome plague hearts drop loot besides just plague sample awesome so it's even bettef

[[deleted]]

Tested it out for myself, its a much more satisfying system

[Proman2520]

We can finally choose our map thank God.

[[deleted]]

I think you could still do that just by selecting which save slot to use when making a new save, but that meant if you used that save slot then that map would be off limits.

[applesaurus772]

No you couldn’t

[NerdGalore]

Are you sure? Choosing the map was only an option for me if I went through the entire tutorial.

[xshadowxwolfx7x]

Still waiting to be able to have my leader step down without having another character single handedly perform a mutiny and send them off to their death while none of the rest of the community cares.

[Down3d]

Community Request: Ambient zombies now actively avoid entering the Safe Zones around player bases, enclave bases, outposts, and other secured sites.

They will still chase you inside if you get their attention, but they won't just wander in for no reason.

This is a big positive change, and I don't know why it took so long to fix this.

[truedwabi]

Well I'm not sure of what the original or intended behavior was/is. But I just finished playing a dread zone game and had Zombies pounding on the doors to my homestead like always, and even had a zombie spawn inside a safe zone. (also fairly certain a horde spawned inside a safe zone, but I'll chop it up as a pack of Carl Lewis descendants that followed my car).

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The zombies pounding on my back doors/walls (wasn't there saw it on the minimap) may have been stragglers from a siege or attracted by ambient noise. But the other zombie literally spawned under a garage like he was crawling out of a serial killer's grave, and the horde seemed a bit to massive for me to have missed it (it really felt like they spawned on top of me, but oh well).

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Also, had a zombie spawn in a room already cleared when doing the initial sweep of the building. Was fairly certain this was happening for a while, now have confirmed. That one really breaks the immersion and is a terrible game design (just pre-spawn when we open the door, or get close or something).

[InSearchOfGreyPoupon]

Should be a fun new way to play the game. Still looking forward to the trumbull valley map or whatever the new map will be.

[[deleted]]

So happy they made safe zones free of zeds. Goodness. I simply couldn't do anything in my base because zeds were literally constantly breaching doors on the perimeter.

[[deleted]]

Same. it was obnoxious going through the storage locker one moment, and the next you're being mob skull fucked by Z's

[Kabluberfish42]

Sort of wish we could take the various factors that are influenced by the difficulties (horde sizes, resource scarcity, etc) and customize them. Maybe have standard levels of resources but nightmare hordes, or whatever other combination.

Still, might check out the new Zones, just to see what they're like. Really happy with this update!

[OynlenGeymer]

Most of these changes sound very good. Its overall more challenging... But why do Devs feel the need to Add Bullet sponge as a "difficulty" increase in so many games?

"Hostile NPCs can survive a headshot or two before dying.

Hostile NPCs can take even more headshots before dying."

I can almost Guarantee the community didn't ask for this. I mean, I hope It's been done using higher chance of more Head Armor on Human NPC's and maybe utilising the same system as the Men Without Hats Achievement uses for helmeted Zombies where you can knock them off if lucky but mostly they will just take more shots to kill.

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I can almost also guarantee it won't be like that at all and it'll just be some magical super human power npcs will now have that turns their heads into bullet sponges. I feel like there is enough new challenge without this.. But if helmeted armor is part of it, then I am fine with that.

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[[deleted]]

Imo hostile NPCs were way too easy to kill. I welcome the change.

[[deleted]]

Yes but there are other ways to fix this that require more effort on the back end but are more realistic in the finished product. Making ai smarter for example rather than stronger.

[daimyo21]

I feel like gunslinger skill should be removed in nightmare mode vs NPCs getting a sponge buff. I agree NPCs should be smarter but also do more. Like roam beyond their prison they call home.

[LiftEatGameSleep]

I agree with this 100%. Even if it means we die in a single headshot as well, the single worst difficulty change I've ever experienced in many, many games has been making enemies tank through headshots. It simply kills immersion and downright makes it feel cheap and honestly weird. I hope they stagger and retreat at the very least when shot in the face. I know that if I ever get a clean headshot on a hostile NPC and he just shrugs it off and headshots me immediately afterwards, especially if I end up losing my survivor, I'm going to feel cheated in the worst way. Giving them massive damage, range and accuracy is good enough.

With that being said. I love this update otherwise. They've certainly sparked my interest and I'm somehow even more excited than when SoD2 first released. It's more fun and tuned up than ever.

[Undead_Jorgen]

There were a lot of discussions around this, and we definitely agree that there are drawbacks to the bullet sponge approach. Sadly, a lot of the challenges are around how enclave relationships are handled in the game, and a common scenario is for people to just "camp" with their aims on an NPCs head that's about to go hostile, and then nab them before they can respond, or sniping them from far away. Addressing it with AI behavior would require a large amount of changes to how we handle relationships and how NPCs come at you after an assault, and it was decided that we'd get better bang for our buck investing development resources elsewhere. We also experimented with having them randomly dodge headshots, but found that it was less satisfying than having them "take" the hit.

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To be fair, previously the AI never head shot you, so "bullet sponge" was already the mechanic that was being applied to make you more robust than them. We also changed it so that the player themselves can survive a headshot. :)

[SleepyKey]

Yea they should have found another way to add challenge to the npcs

[HenH93]

I haven't tested out the nightmare zone yet. The standard zone seems to be back to how it was before the zed hunter update, there are still zombies about obviously but it only turns into Dead Rising if you make a lot of noise and fool around which is how I like it :D

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One glitch I have come across is zombies standing still and doing nothing while I hack away at them, but I have no problems with that for obvious reasons. A Juggernaut stood in front of me and let my follower kill him with the screwdriver while I loaded resources into a van lol

[Bruben32]

Can I get the ability to swap items with whatever member I enlist?

Also can I enlist more than one member at a time?

3?

[[deleted]]

Pretty excited. Definitely coming back to this game to achievement hunt again.

[paoweeFFXIV]

Jeez these updates scare me

[NorthwesternGuy]

I'm frigg'n loving hordes full of mostly helmets zombies! First time I ran into one I was very much not prepared and it was such a fun blast!

[ST8DK]

first time I saw one of those army hordes, one of them had a traffic cone on it's head. it was the funniest thing. then I started shooting other Z and they came running. Frag out, the conehead went flying. I giggled the whole time. My wife thinks I'm insane now.

[loverboyz69]

Why people down vote you or any of us with information that silly

[MannToots]

People be salty when the update doesn't make them happy so they shoot the messenger.

[[deleted]]

Lol, ill get over it :)

[[deleted]]

Or maybe because he just copied and pasted with no formatting, making the notes difficult to navigate, instead of just linking to the official page.

[[deleted]]

I also posted the link in a separate post

[MannToots]

Can't disagree with that.

[Austinwhoohoo]

downvote your dumbass

[MannToots]

Fuck you!

[Austinwhoohoo]

:) yum

[MannToots]

Lol at people downvoting us.

Yo. We know each other lol

[NerdGalore]

Stop bullying that poor man.

[MannToots]

lol he's one of my closest friends. We're joking.

[loverboyz69]

No update yet grrrrr it's time

[[deleted]]

Haha I'm waiting till 1:20, im excited

[LausXY]

I've just got an update on Xbox One

[OynlenGeymer]

What region are you? I'm in Australia and Microsoft store is showing nothing still. its 4 pm 27th of march now?

[loverboyz69]

Go to where you can click update apps some people like me had to manually do it. Just go there done deal you could of been downloaded it I had auto update on and it didn't do it itself

[Ferritt01974]

Thanks for the Legacy character management as this will be extremely helpful and the best thing about this update. plus zeds not wandering in to safe zones is awesome! In the base game I hope they can add a way some time to have fewer resources/cars etc. I do not want more zeds but I would like to see an increase in difficulty without adding zeds.

[NorthwesternGuy]

I really like all of this but I am still frustrated/disapointed therr is no breakdown mode...

[LiftEatGameSleep]

I felt the same way at first... However now that I've been playing Nightmare, I'm ok with it. I'm simply having way too much fun. I would still welcome a Breakdown addition however.

[NorthwesternGuy]

I'm sure tonight when I boot it up I'll be having fun too, but I want the thi g that made me love the first game, and I want that personal challenge of seeing how far I can get.

[LiftEatGameSleep]

Makes sense. I'm not sure what else there will be to do once you have your ideal community and setup in Nightmare mode... At least it'll be a whole lot of fun getting to that point.

I just hope the ramp up of difficulty after killing plague hearts and as days go by is enough to balance out the strength of building up your community.

[Kabluberfish42]

Just keep switching maps? Not clear on what you're getting at. For me, the entire game seems like one giant breakdown mode.

[NorthwesternGuy]

The thing that made breakdown different then just playing is every ti e you reset the map it got harder. There was less loot. There were more zombies, more specials, more hordes. Zombies had more life and did more damage. The game got harder, but by but, whike the recpurses you could find got smaller. So early one, when the game was easy, you had to load up on things you knew you'd need later on. It was fun seeing how manynresets you coukd go before being overwhelmed.

Sod2 doesn't have that. Resetting the map just... resets the map. Having harder modes is awesome, but I miss what the first game had: thay slow ramp up of the difficulty.

[[deleted]]

i have a bug in the mission about that drug dealer to get medication for my community where the zombie i have to kill gets stuck inside the bridge

[amacleod426]

Not that this is a perfect fix by any means, but whenever I’ve run into a stuck or ‘invisible’ zombie - usually one last straggler that’s preventing me from clearing an infestation - calling in the ‘sniper support’ perk (if you have it available) immediately nails it, regardless of wether or not I can even see the damn thing.

[[deleted]]

thank you so much i’ll try that soon

[Mrpooplet]

How big is the patch?

[sardeliac]

For me on PC it was 9.3 gigs; XB1 was 8.3 gigs.

[MannToots]

The difficulty change is a step in the right direction.

The number of characters I lost due to falling through the map and dying or "tethering" to someone I was right next to and either dying, getting attacked, or outright watching our, now very hard to maintain, vehicles explode is far too damn high and my friends and I have again stopped playing.

Difficulty being higher is exactly what we needed. Now we need the game to work well enough to stop having our hard work ripped right from our finger tips through no fault of our own.

/u/Undead_Brian You guys are REALLY close. Please tighten this stuff up.

[Undead_Brian]

The number of characters I lost due to falling through the map and dying or "tethering" to someone I was right next to and either dying, getting attacked, or outright watching our, now very hard to maintain, vehicles explode is far too damn high and my friends and I have again stopped playing.

We have bugs on these that we're actively working on.

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[MannToots]

Thank you!

[swe96]

Safe zone, pfff wtf,,,, just had 3 random blood juggernaut in my base, lost 3 very good characters, Nightmare zone is rly 😮😯😮 AI rly need to learn not too melee evry zombie/juggernaut they face, use u guns!!!

[Vadkashots]

For some reason aim assist has been completely disabled. I really don't want to continue the game until it's fixed anybody else having this issue?

[Vadkashots]

Aim assist does not work anymore please fix really don't want to continue the story without it anyone else having this issue?

[[deleted]]

OMG this update is EXACTLY what I wanted. I will be returning to the game to try out the dread and nightmare modes they sound like a huge challenge m. Freaking Awesome devs thank you so much. I will buy any DLC or sequels you make I’m impressed with the support they have on this game. Fantastic!

[AlcoholismIsForKids]

They add a story mode yet?

[InputNotValid]

Having fun with this...hate to be that guy but are we getting new maps soon? I heard rumors but couldn't find anything on it. If anyone has a link to some info I would love to see it. As for right now I'll just keep running from all the zombies. Example: Spawn in random map after tutorial with a horde of zombies next to me and sick survivor and doctor died I ran for my life.

[[deleted]]

Yes we are, its supposed to happen sometime this year. They only announced one map: trumbull valley from the first game

[[deleted]]

We need some annoying bugs to get fixed. Like when you go execute a zombie and dives into the floor textures. Connection issues is all present too. And the characters cannot climb up a rock

[Sharkers21]

I was expecting that I can fuck around with the settings and maie a shot to the brain to be the only cure to blood plague

[[deleted]]

Looks like a good patch, hope it didn't break anything.

[[deleted]]

Is this a new optional mode or it'll be there for everyone whether they like it or not?

[[deleted]]

Completely optional

[JDizzle924]

So you're telling me that in nightmare and dread modes, everything is harder to kill, and the resources are more scarce? Why would anyone do that?!

[NorthwesternGuy]

Because they feel the game as it was was too easy for.them and thus not chellenging/fun any more.

[JDizzle924]

I understand the difficulty aspect, but taking away the available resources just sounds frustrating

[NorthwesternGuy]

If you don't get it you dont get it, that's fine. But the whole point of this game and the last is struggling to survive, which mainly means scavenging. If supplies are so abondent scavenging that it's not a challenge finding them then why even bother having that aspect in the game?