Coming from humble beginnings as a hobbyist project just to play with a few friends, to over 2 million activations and an 82% positive feedback rating on PC’s largest gaming platform is quite an amazing achievement. I would like to thank those who supported (and pushed for) the steam launch, all who contributed, have given feedback, up rated and even simply enjoyed their time playing.
The game has come a long way since its initial early access release back in 2015, and has been a big learning experience, not only in game design/development but also in feedback, iteration and ultimate release to a sizeable community. Although this project is now at an end, all of this experience will now go to benefit future projects going forward.
Some of the more noteworthy improvements that have taken place since the games first early access release include:
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- Additional game modes, including:
Survival, a mode whereby players face-off indefinite waves of ever increasing difficulty, unlocking random weapons and barricade areas as they progress.
Player vs Player, whereby players take on one another in both deathmatch and gun game scenarios.
Custom modes, mappers can manipulate the rules of the modes to create unique co-op or PvP maps, with win/lose scenarios of their choosing.
Training mode, to help introduce new players to the games mechanics.
- Workshop support, where modders can share their maps and cosmetics for the community to download and play.
- New bots built from the ground up, to play the game more effectively, either co-operating with players or taking them on in PvP modes.
- All official maps have received high quality remakes with cinematic escapes, as well as additional maps for aforementioned new modes.
- In-game vote system, for kicking abusive players, or changing difficulty / maps.
- Teamkill autokick system, to heavily reduce this type of trolling the game used to be plagued with.
- Player and weapon skins, selectable via skin selection UI.
- New zombie animations.
- New game icons, logos, trailer and soundtrack, to better match the games look and feel.
- Many, many fixes, tweaks and balances, far to great in number to list, but still worth making mention of.
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Enjoy all, have fun, and happy halloween!
