Our first big content update comes with a brand new Co-Op map, the Engine Update and a lot of other improvements. Let's jump straight into the patch notes of version 0.62:
New Co-Op Map: Urban Suburbs
This new map provides a setting which takes place in an urban environment between the Bloody Island and Balsam Retirements map. It provides some wide open spaces combined with some smaller areas. As always we implemented a lot of cutscenes and a new boss. Have fun beating him he can be quite hard to kill ;-)
Engine Update
With version 0.62 we also updated the engine to UE4 version 4.21 which comes with a lot of improvements for us devs but also provides some performance improvements when it comes to gameplay.
Other improvements
Balsam Retirements
- Improved lighting for PvP map
- Improved lighting for Co-Op map
- Overhaul of the intro cutscene to fit to the outro cutscene of the new map
UI improvements
- Replaced a lot of text with graphics for a cleaner UI
- Added Kills/Deaths & HP to player screen in Co-Op mode
- Resized all UI elements in Co-Op and PvP mode
- Added amount of Zombies which are currently alive
- Implemented some minor fixes regarding menu navigation with controller
- Added version number in main menu
- Fixed some problems where objective text was not updated properly
Gameplay improvements
- Added arrows for the last three Zombies alive in Co-Op mode
- Improved AI blueprints to increase performance
We hope you like the content, and we wish you good luck out there while killing Zombies!
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