Howdy, survivors!
Welcome to another thrilling update. A huge shoutout to all of you braving the unforgiving wastelands—your feedback has been incredible along our journey. In this update, we're releasing features and enhancements that promise to redefine your survival experience.
Get ready to explore like never before as we spring into action with v0.4.8.0! Oh, and don’t miss out on the Steam Spring Sale!
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- World Settings Manager: Customize your game with settings for loot (W00T W00T!), day/night cycles, PvP (player vs. player), raid settings and more!
- Revamped Questline: The questline has been completely overhauled for a new experience.
- New Resource - Radium: Discover (the hard way) and utilize radium in your crafting endevours.
- AI Behavior Adjustments: The AI now behaves differently and all zeds have been moved over to our new spawning system (see last update or vlogs for more technical information). This will continue to get upgrades with time.
- Resource Nodes Restructured: Resources are now biome-specific, adding depth to resource gathering.
- Mob-Specific Item Spawns: Certain items will now only drop from specific enemies.
Highlights
- Game Settings Customization: Introduced a widget for in-game customization of settings, with changes saved across sessions. World Settings Manager Documentation World Settings Manager Video Walkthrough
- Player Stat Modifiers: Adjustments to player stats like stamina, hunger, thirst, and damage based on settings.
- In-Game Settings Adjustment: Players can now change settings mid-game from the pause menu. You may be required to restart the level via MainMenu and back.
- Death Loot Settings: Added an option to control whether players keep their loot upon death.
- Enhanced AI and Spawn Management: Improved the AI's search behavior and the way enemies spawn, making encounters more dynamic. AI Spawn Manager Documentation AI Spawn Manager Video
- FPS Limit for Zombie Spawns: Introduced a frame rate limit that prevents zombie spawns if the game's performance drops below a certain threshold.
- Quest Item Indicator: Items related to quests are now clearly marked in your inventory.
- Added Foliage Interactables: There are now 5 new foliage types scattered around MainLevel that can be harvested for various resources (wood, sticks, stone, plasi, and iron).
- Various Bug Fixes: Addressed issues with control bindings, zombie spawning, and more to improve gameplay.
- UI Improvements: Fixed visual issues with menus and item tooltips for a smoother experience. (added ammo type to item tooltip widget so when you mouse over a gun it shows which ammo it takes fixed an issue with the item tooltip where weapons would display a blank equip slot widget)
- Combat and Interaction Fixes: Adjusted combat mechanics and fixed bugs with item interactions, including a fix for zombies not always applying the blood screen effect when hit.
- Performance Enhancements: Solved crashes and optimized the game's performance, especially during intense scenes.
We can’t wait to see you all back out there survivors! If you are interested in joining the ZSGO Discord community we would love to chat with you and hear your ideas. As always, more to come!
Good luck out there survivors!
