All Hallows' Eve is almost upon us. Time to get in the mood and celebrate by expanding the Dead Zone a little. 

 

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Additions 

Brookvale North - Level 20 to 23 Area 
- New suburb to explore 
- 4 new location types 
- Construction Sites 
- Subway Stations 
- Suburban Streets 
- Parks 

Weapons 
- Mini-Chainsaw 
- Chainsaw 
- TMP-9 
- Sportshot .45 
- AKS-74U 
- FAL 
- DRS-12 
- M-27 
- The Harvester (premium) 
- Ash's Right Hand (premium) 

Ammo System 
- All users have been given a starting amount of ammunition appropriate for their level 
- Ammunition has been added to the game 
- Ammo will drops as items and is a resource like food / water 
- Ammo drop offs at your compound will produce a stream of ammo 
- Ammo is craftable 
- Each weapon has a cost for using ammunition per mission 
- Ammo is not used while defending 
- More information see here: https://getsatisfaction.com/deadzone/... 

Buildings 
- Added Ammunition Storage buildings 
- Added Ammunition Drop-Off buildings 

Offensive and Defensive Loadouts 
- Two loadouts per survivor 
- Loadouts assigned at assignable buildings are saved as defensive 
- Loadouts assigned for missions are saved as offensive 
- Ability to toggle between the two loadouts from the survivor screen 

Halloween Features 
- Halloween decorations added to Misc in the construction menu 
- Decorations are permanent 
- Trick or Treat Trunks 
- A few other surprises 

Interaction 
- Added ability to Hold Shift + Click to attack without moving 
- Added ability to manually reload by pressing R or clicking survivors weapon icon 

Interface 
- Added ammo bars to survivors when selected 
- Extended survivors health bars 
- Added survivor information to weapon and gear selection screens 

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Changes 

Zombies 
- Changed zombies to a rarity system 
- Police, Military, HERC and Bruiser zombies are now less common 
- Police, Military, HERC and Bruiser zombies are now MUCH stronger 

Basic Range Mechanics 
- Range has been changed to Effective Range 
- The ring surrounding survivors shows their Effective Range 
- Survivors will still attack automatically within that ring 
- Force attacking no longer moves your survivor into range 
- Survivors who are force attacking will attack the target from where they stand 
- Survivors still need line of sight to attack targets 
- The greater the distance OVER the weapon's effective range the less accurate the shot 
- Suppression effects from weapons are also decreased outside of Effective Range 
- Force targeting works in PvE as well, so you can manually snipe zombies across the map

PvP and AI Mechanics 
- Enemy survivors that are under suppression will now return fire regardless of distance 
- They suffer the same accuracy loss when firing outside the effective range 
- They will continue to fire on their attacker until they have cleared their suppression 
- Defending survivors will respond to nearby allies being attacked by attacking the aggressors 

Item Drops 
- Increased likelihood of getting 3 or more items from individual containers 

Auto Protection 
- 4 hour automated protection when 30% of survivors are injured during a raid 
- Reduced threshold for 16 hr protection to 2 attacks in 23 hrs 
- Removed protection for 6 or more attacks in 24 hrs 

Raiding 
- Increased loot amounts for Raiders from 30% to 50% of resources 
- Increased resource lost amount to 50% of what is taken (25% net loss) 

Buildings 
- Increased minimum range on Watchtowers 
- Changed Wheel of Misfortune to take ammo for repairs & upgrades 

Weapon Balance 
- Increased damage on Venom 
- Reduced suppression rating on M-24 

Gear Balance 
- Increased speed bonus from Fighter Boots 

City Map 
- Added resources and changed filter locations on map UI 
- Moved map processing to hardware accelerated 
- Staggered loading of the map to enhance performance 

Mission Scenes 
- All mission locations have been heavily optimized to reduce LOS checks 

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Fixes 

Zombie AI 
- Fixed the zombie love for barricades 

Survivor Interaction 
- Fixed not being able to break scavenging and healing by force targeting 

Chat 
- Now acknowledges interaction so your connection won't time out 

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