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POSTZ: ZOMBIES VR
- Released
- Dec 15, 2020
- Platforms
- Windows
- Last updated
Updates & announcements
- Developer postOriginal post
- Developer post
POSTZ Demo Now Available!
The POSTZ Demo is now available. The download link to the demo is on the store page for POSTZ. The demo features the POSTZ Mountain Lake location in Casual mode. Remember it is a 360 degree game so keep looking around for zombies or they might crawl up and get you. Please check i
Original postThe POSTZ Demo is now available. The download link to the demo is on the store page for POSTZ. The demo features the POSTZ Mountain Lake location in Casual mode. Remember it is a 360 degree game so keep looking around for zombies or they might crawl up and get you. Please check it out and see if you can get to the top of the Leaderboards. If you have any problems running the POSTZ Demo, please let us know on the community forum "Report Demo Bugs Here".
Thanks,
The PostZ Team - Developer post
DEMO Coming Soon!
We put together a demo showing gameplay in Forest Valley Mountain Lake . We're including Leaderboards too so you can get good while you decide whether to unlock the full version! It's almost ready, just waiting for some approvals. In the meantime, hit follow or wishlist to receiv
Original postWe put together a demo showing gameplay in
Forest ValleyMountain Lake. We're including Leaderboards too so you can get good while you decide whether to unlock the full version! It's almost ready, just waiting for some approvals. In the meantime, hit follow or wishlist to receive notifications about updates.Thanks,
The PostZ Team - Developer post
POSTZ: ZOMBIES VR Launched Dec 15 and Ready to Play!
The zombies are coming! Get your guns ready! We are happy to announce POSTZ is now available for Steam VR! POSTZ is a fast-paced zombie shooter. The zombies are fierce- one touch and you're out! Armed with just your pistol, shoot quickly and hold off the horde. Time your reloads
Original postThe zombies are coming! Get your guns ready! We are happy to announce POSTZ is now available for Steam VR!
POSTZ is a fast-paced zombie shooter. The zombies are fierce- one touch and you're out! Armed with just your pistol, shoot quickly and hold off the horde. Time your reloads and keep shooting. Headshots stop them cold - make them count! Long shots, ultra long shots and eagle eye boost your score. Headshot streaks blow your score up to new heights and will put you at the top of the leaderboards. See if you have what it takes to beat all the modes to get all of the achievements. There are 24 leaderboards, so there a are lots of places to shine.
We are excited that the game is finally released, but mostly that it is a lot of fun. We hope you enjoy playing it too!
Have fun everyone!
The POSTZ Team - Developer post
POSTZ coming to Steam VR on Dec 15!
We are happy to announce that PostZ will launch for Steam VR on Dec 15th. For a reminder, add it to your wishlist! What is POSTZ? PostZ is a VR arcade game taking place in the world after the zombie apocalypse started. PostZ will release for Steam VR on Dec 15th 2020. Why VR? We
Original postWe are happy to announce that PostZ will launch for Steam VR on Dec 15th. For a reminder, add it to your wishlist!
What is POSTZ?
PostZ is a VR arcade game taking place in the world after the zombie apocalypse started. PostZ will release for Steam VR on Dec 15th 2020.
Why VR?
We love VR and most things with zombies. We wanted to create a fun VR game reminiscent of being at the arcade that had a lot of zombies and could be played by just about anyone. We also wanted it to have a scoring system and leaderboards that separate players by skill, with the best players making it to the top.
PostZ takes the player straight to the action through a story spanning five locations. Since VR tends to make zombies way too freaky for most people, we embraced stylized art so more players could enjoy the game. However, the zombies in PostZ are still scary. In the game, they are lethal- one touch and you're out. Also their growling sounds are positional which makes their presence known before they come into sight. Finally, lifelike size in VR, combined with motion captured animation makes them even more formidable. Luckily, they are fun to shoot, with great take downs along with blood spatters to show damage or effects to show hard points like armor and helmets. Play with skill to move up the leaderboards, with chained zombie headshots providing increasing point rewards. Other skill shots like the Long Shot, the Ultra Long Shot, and the Eagle Eye provide more points, but with the added risk of focusing too long in one direction while zombies are moving in. Stats provide detail for players who really like to focus and improve their skills to become the best.
Community Forums - Report Bugs Here! and Feedback/Suggestions
We are a small independent game development studio. Know that we are ready to continue work on the game to fix anything that comes up. As VR is an ever changing platform, and PC hardware can vary widely, we are watching for feedback and bug reports for anything that we have not seen yet. If you encounter a bug, please enter it in the community forum "Report Bugs Here!". Fixing bugs will be our top priority before new features. Also, if you have feedback or suggestions on the game, please enter it in the "Feedback/Suggestions" community forum! Let us know what you'd like to see in the game. We have a roadmap, but you can help influence where the game goes next!
We look forward to seeing where we can take this game together!
Thanks!
The PostZ TeamP.S. We look forward to launching PostZ with you on on Dec 15th! To receive a reminder on launch day, add it to your wishlist!
- Developer post
POSTZ - State of the Game #1
Hey Everyone! Welcome to PostZ State of the Game #1. We list headsets verified, Steam+Oculus Link support for the Quest, new Mixed Reality Output, new languages, and 2 new forums. Community Updates We added two new Steam Community forums, one for Bug Reporting and another for Fee
Original postHey Everyone!
Welcome to PostZ State of the Game #1. We list headsets verified, Steam+Oculus Link support for the Quest, new Mixed Reality Output, new languages, and 2 new forums.
Community Updates
We added two new Steam Community forums, one for Bug Reporting and another for Feedback/Suggestions.
New Forum - Bug Reporting
If you encounter bugs or difficulties playing the game, please post in the Bug Reporting forum! We would greatly appreciate it! We’re an independent game development studio. As a very small indie studio, we ask the community to help by reporting any bugs that you may find. We will prioritize the fixing of bugs over adding new features. For fastest results, this means getting a good set of steps to reliably reproduce the problem. If you encounter a bug, and want us to be able to fix it as quickly as possible, please try to find a good set of steps to make it happen again and report anything relevant. Then we can take those repro steps and fix the problem. Sometimes screenshots can help, but most importantly we need a good set of repro steps, a description of what you expected to see, and a description of what happened. For anything graphics related, we might ask for the hardware section of the dxdiag output with the personally identifiable information removed, along with a description of your SteamVR video settings.
New Forum - Feedback/Suggestions
We care about the player experience and would love to hear your suggestions. Generally if there is community support for a feature we will probably consider it. We have a roadmap of our own that we continue to refine and we can talk about that sometime after launch. We look forward to continuing to work on the game and make it better with every update!
More Language Support
We now provide support for English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, German, Russian, French, Spanish-Spain and Portuguese-Brazil. This language support includes in-game text and story, store descriptions, as well as achievement names. All of these translations were completed by human translators and is not machine-translation, so it should be the best quality. However, since we don't speak 7 of these languages, if you find any language issues, please report them in the Bug Reporting forum or email us at the support email on our website. Also, if there is another language that you would like to see supported, please post in the Features/Suggestions forum.
Mixed Reality Video Support
We now support Mixed Reality video frame output. The results are outstanding and can be used in conjunction with streaming software to live stream gameplay with the player standing in the middle of the VR scene. If you do stream the game in mixed reality video, please post a link to your game streams in the forums! The game uses the standard approach with externalcamera.cfg. Since it's a standard approach, we won't go into details here, but let us know in the General Forum if you need more info. If there is enough interest for more information, we can add an article.
Play from Steam on Oculus Quest via Oculus Link
We verified that the game runs on PC from Steam on Oculus Quest via Oculus Link and a USB link cable (we used a similar third party unbranded cable). It worked great on an older laptop with a 980M and an i7-4720HQ CPU at 2.6GHZ. We would guess having more cores and current USB support helps with this, so it probably depends on your PC. On the Quest, the video quality was excellent and the tracking worked great. Regarding gameplay, the Oculus controller triggers did have to be squeezed pretty far in order to get them to fire the weapon, but this controller tolerance is controlled by the Steam VR input action "trigger". We can adjust the default setting for this controller's "trigger" action before we ship, but a player can also fine tune these settings for their own setup in Steam VR. The gun felt great right away, offset precisely in the ideal position for a flat shot. This weapon angle will likely be controllable in the game settings, in case a player wants to fine tune it to their preferred angle for their controller.
List of VR Headsets Tested
So far, we've played the game on Valve Index, the HTC Vive (Pre), ACER's Microsoft Mixed Reality headset, and the Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. Generally, the quality settings such as Refresh Rate and Render Resolution can be adjusted via Steam VR Settings to achieve the best results for the PC rig being used. For instance, the game plays at 144hz on Valve Index with 120% resolution on an i7-9700K CPU at 3.6ghz running a RTX 2080S. Other computers might require different game settings for best results. For slower PC video hardware, a good trick for getting better framerate is to change the game screen to windowed (with Alt+Enter) and shrink down its dimensions. This can reduce the overhead from drawing the pixels in that window and can sometimes eliminate that as a bottleneck improving refresh rate speed and consistency.
Game Launch
Game Launch is coming up in December. We will announce a specific date very soon!
That's it for this PostZ State of the Game News #1. Thanks for your support and we look forward to seeing where we can take this game together!
Best regards,
The PostZ Team. - Developer post
PostZ is coming soon to Steam VR!
Hey Everyone! We'd like to introduce PostZ, a new VR zombie survival themed arcade game. It will be coming to Steam VR in December 2020. PostZ is an arcade game designed for anyone to be able to hop in and play. It is streamlined to focus on fun gameplay and zombie shooting actio
Original postHey Everyone!
We'd like to introduce PostZ, a new VR zombie survival themed arcade game. It will be coming to Steam VR in December 2020.
PostZ is an arcade game designed for anyone to be able to hop in and play. It is streamlined to focus on fun gameplay and zombie shooting action with straightforward controls and increasingly challenging zombies. The game is easy to get into. Just point the gun downrange and shoot. There is no aim assist, adding a rewarding sense of accomplishment as the player improves their shooting skills. To reload, aim the gun straight down (or up). Night vision can be toggled by touching the visor with a controller hand.
The zombies are dangerous and one touch knocks the player out. As the game goes on, the challenge goes up. With laser and red-dot sights, the shooting is responsive and accurate. Shoot zombies and go for headshots as it only takes one to stop a zombie. Headshot streaks offer increasing bonus point rewards which can take you to the top of the Leaderboards. Sounds easy enough, right? It gets harder as more zombies appear, especially since these zombies are lethal. If they get to you, they will either bite you or scratch you and that's it, you're out.
Story mode has five immersive locations with difficulty levels from Casual mode to headshots only Expert mode. Each mode has its own set of achievements, which include tiers showing how hard each Achievement is to achieve.
We hope you enjoy playing PostZ as much as we have enjoyed working on it. That said, as we continue development, we'd love to hear your suggestions and see where we can take this game together.
Thank you!
The PostZ Team