World Battle Z has confirmed to be a strong hit, promoting over 2 million copies since its launch in April, and developer Saber Interactive is seeking to preserve the momentum going with the sport’s first massive content material replace. Untitled “The Undead Sea,” the replace provides a brand new mission set on an undead-infested cruise ship, a brand new zombie sort, personal lobbies, FOV scale slider, and extra! Try a trailer for The Undead Sea, beneath.
Listed here are your full patch notes for The Undead Sea replace:
New Content material
- Added Tokyo 3 stage.
- Added new particular zombie that can spawn on all ranges.
New Options
- Added personal lobbies.
- Added capacity to host the sport domestically in personal lobbies. (Solely on Xbox and PS4 in the meanwhile, identical performance can be accessible on PC later)
- Added capacity to disable bots in personal lobbies.
- Added UI that reveals most issue every stage was accomplished on.
- Added FOV scale slider.
- Added choice to alter PvP loadout throughout the sport.
AI
- Added characteristic that can forestall Lurker from spawning close to gamers which are becoming a member of the sport in progress.
- Tripled delay, which governs how usually Lurker can spawn in the very same place.
- Fixed sprinting will now aggro zombies from a much bigger distance.
- Reworked “zombie stagger” mechanics. When hit, zombies used to play a protracted hit animation primarily based on gun caliber and a component of randomness. Now they’ll play hit animations primarily based on gun caliber and if they’re hit repeatedly in a brief interval. This may make shotguns and quick firing weapons extra constant at staggering zombies.
- AI Director will spawn much less major weapons if gamers are already carrying tier 3 weapons.
- When AI Director decides to spawn a small wave of zombies, it would comprise extra zombies, however the wave period can be shorter.
- Made stealth extra constant throughout all ranges; executing excellent stealth will delay the primary wave of non-swarm zombies.
- Elevated probability of spawning particular zombies in idle state.
Weapons
- Compact SMG. Non-silenced model offers 8% extra harm.
- Machine Pistol. Backside department model 5 offers 6% extra harm.
- Machine Pistol. Elevated fee of fireside by 9% for all variations.
- Sporting Carbine. High department variations deal 5% extra harm.
- Sporting Carbine. Backside department variations’ magazine dimension is elevated by 3.
- Superior SMG. Non-silenced model 5 offers 5% extra harm.
- Superior SMG. Elevated accuracy of each model 4’s.
- Sniper Rifle. High department now has a much bigger journal and higher dealing with.
- Sniper Rifle. Backside department offers greater harm with extra penetration and accuracy.
- Heavy Sniper Rifle. Diminished projectile dimension to stop unintentional detonations.
- Revolver. Considerably elevated harm. It is going to be capable of kill a zombie on the very best issue with 1 shot.
- Double-Barreled Shotgun. Doubled the gap at which harm begins to cut back.
- Double-Barreled Shotgun. Diminished harm in PvP by 8%.
- Secondary Grenade Launcher. Elevated max ammo from 3 to five.
- Improved hit detection in PvP.
- C4 will not detonate in midair if hit by a pleasant fireplace (it nonetheless will be detonated after it lands on one thing).
- Fastened among the visible upgrades not exhibiting up correctly in weapon customization display.
- Fastened among the weapon variant icons not reflecting precise visible weapon upgrades on that weapon.
- Fastened Pump-Motion shotgun displaying LOD mannequin in addition to the precise mannequin.
- Fastened gun recoil reset when swapping weapons.
Perks
- Stim Pistol will now prioritize gamers in downed state when a number of targets can be found.
- If a number of gamers are utilizing “Please Stand Up” perk, just one will set off if your entire workforce is down.
- All “Spawn with a Heavy Weapon” sort perks will now correctly regulate heavy weapons which are picked up throughout gameplay.
Stability
- Improved efficiency.
- Fastened a number of gameplay crashes.
- Fastened a number of points inflicting disconnects when becoming a member of buddy’s sport in progress.
- Fastened problem that was inflicting 2 gamers showing as the identical character in sport.
Ranges
- Fastened numerous gameplay bugs that had been inflicting lack of ability to progress in ranges.
- Made some changes to AI Director that can make Moscow 3, Tokyo 2, Jerusalem 1, Jerusalem 3, and NY 3 barely tougher and Jerusalem 2 and Tokyo 1 barely simpler.
- Improved navigation on Moscow 2 stage.
- Fastened problem that was inflicting zombie well being scaling to set off incorrectly for some zombies. On the whole, this makes Very Exhausting and Insane difficulties a bit of bit tougher.
Common Fixes
- Fastened problem that was inflicting Purpose Help to work even when it was disabled in choices.
- Improved pickup choice system when a number of objects could possibly be picked up by participant.
- Fastened problem that was inflicting participant to respawn with 0 ammo.
- Fastened problem that was stopping lifeless gamers turning into zombies in some instances.
- Added backpacks for character fashions in “Assortment” display.
- Fastened crash on get together chief change throughout session begin countdown.
- Fastened problem that was inflicting pickup progress bar to not seem in some instances.
- Fastened participant and specialization stage show sync in scoreboard and in foyer.
- Fastened Barricade protection equipment icon show on HUD.
- Backstory unlocked UI indicator will not show if in case you have already unlocked the backstory video.
- Fastened problem that was inflicting some weapons to deal much less harm with explosive ammo energetic in PvP.
- Fastened pleasant/enemy participant overhead marker not showing in some instances.
- Fastened “Flooring is Lava” trophy not triggering accurately.
- Participant will not drop protection kits when selecting up C4 prices in Japan 2 stage.
Vulkan
- Improved Vulkan efficiency.
- Improved Vulkan stability.
- Fastened GPU idle calculations in benchmark mode.
- Fastened blood decals rendering when utilizing Vulkan.
- Fastened flickering on some objects when utilizing Vulkan.
Future free World Battle Z updates will embrace a brand new issue ranking, survival mode, weekly challenges, and extra. You possibly can try the sport’s Season One roadmap, proper right here.
World Battle Z is accessible now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4.