5 August

WWAUT - Fleshing Out SWAT

Hello everyone!

For those who may have missed the news last week, we are working our way towards an opt in beta. This will include a great deal of balance work for existing perks (see last week's post) as well as the new SWAT perk. So what exactly is the SWAT perk?

The skills for the SWAT perk are set up so players can choose between a more tanking/supporting build or a build that focuses on fast reactions and slowing zeds down. This is what the perk tree currently looks like (subject to change before the beta):

Passives:

• Perk Weapon Damage
  
• Bullet Resistance
  
• Increased Mag Size
  
• Weapon Switch Speed

• Heavy Armor Training - While you still have armor, you do not take health damage, clots can’t grab you and you start the game with 50% armor
  
• Tactical Movement - No movement penalty for using iron sights or crouched movement

• Close Combat Training - Increase damage with your 9mm pistol and knife by 100%. Begin each game with dual 9mm pistols
  
• Tactical Reload - Increase reload speed with perk weapons

• Suppression Rounds - Increase stumble power 100% with all perk weapons
  
• Ammo Vest - Carry up to 30% more ammo for each perk weapon

• Assault Armor - Maximum Armor increased by 50%. Begin each game with 50% more armor (stacks with heavy armor training)
  
• Cripple - Multiple hits with perk weapons will slow down zeds up to 30%. Hitting the legs is most effective

• Battering Ram - During Zed time, you move in real-time and have massive knockdown power when you run into a zed
  
• Rapid Assault - During Zed time, perk weapons have unlimited ammo, shoot in near real time and have increased stumble power by 100%

• Flashbang Grenade
  
• Tactical Knife
  
• MP7
  
• MP5
  
• P90
  
• Kriss Vector

29 July

WWAUT - Heading Towards (an opt-in) Beta

Hello everyone!


I want to talk about some upcoming perk changes we have in the pipe! With the last update we took a pass at some of the older perks and brought them more in line with some of the more recent additions and incorporating community feedback. Below you’ll find the changes we are working on and the reasons we are making them!


Now to help test these changes, as well as the new content we’ve been working on, we are gearing up for another opt in beta. This means internally we are wiping our staging branch (no more QoL updates until the next content release) and instead making it our beta/RC branch for that update. We expect we will have the beta ready in approximately 2 to 3 weeks. We will have more information as we get closer!


We also have some Zedconomy changes that are going live today. We’ve re-balanced the drop tables so players should see much more variation in the items they see as well as increased the odds on weapon skins and cosmetic items dropping. We have also increased the drop rate so that players should receive a new drop daily.


Changelog:

Berserker

We've collected lots of data since we released the latest Berserker perk and have decided to buff some of the skills that were not getting selected very much and made them a much more enticing.


Perk Changes

LvL5 Dreadnaught

• Increase total Health 75%. (was 50%)

• Heal 4 points of Health for every Zed you kill with perk weapons. Attack 20% faster with perk melee weapons. (was 15%)

• Parry an attack will now reduce incoming damage an additional 75% on top of weapons base parry resistance.

• Light attacks do 30% more damage (was 20%)
  
• all attacks are 5% faster (was only light attacks)

• Zeds close to you will try to flee because you're so scary with your berserker rage

• 9mm and knife now do 2.1x more damage (was 0.6x)

• Get 20% extra ammo (previously was 2 mags)

• Mag capacity increased to 100% (was 50%)

• Zedtime reload: 2% increase in zedtime reload speed per level max 50%

• Movement speed: gain 4% every 5 levels to max 20% (was max 25%)

• No recoil penalty for shooting in hip while moving.
  
• Move 5% faster

• every head shot you get increases damage by 10% up to 5 head hits maxing at 50% extra damage. Now if you miss a shot the counter doesn't go down, as long as you get another head shot every 2 sec your counter will keep going up.

• arms and legs now take additional 30% extra damage on top of the 20% general extra damage.

• no damage reduction for shooting through any zed.

• Head shots on zeds will slow their speed by 30%

• Shooting zeds in the legs while sprinting will knock them down and chest shots massively increase stumble.

• Reactive armor: when you take your killing blow your armor explodes doing massive damage and leaving you with 1 health.

• you reload your weapons faster and also increase Stumble and knockdown power by 25%

• We fixed this skill and had to rework it. The Nuke still does the same amount of direct damage but damage over time has been fixed so it doesn't wreck big zeds and the boss like it did before. Also your rounds will explode at any range.

• The skill remains the same, but with the added benefit of your rounds exploding at any range.

• 8% faster syringe recharge rate per level (max 200%)
  
• 2% more potent medical injections per level (max 50%)
  
• 2% less damage from poison per level (max 50%) (with reduced visual effect – uses the light effect)
  
• 2% increased movement speed every 5 levels (max 10%)
  
• 3% more armor each level (max 75%)

• Increase your total Health by 25%. When you heal a teammate, you also heal yourself 10% of your maximum Health.

• Increase your damage resistance by 1% per Health point lost, max out at 50% resistant to damage

• Healing your teammates increases their movement speed by 10% for five seconds. This can stack up to 3 times for a 30% movement speed bonus

• Increase the magazine capacity of your Medic weapons by 50% and your movement speed by 10%.

• Healing your teammates increases their damage by 5% for five seconds. This can stack up to 4 times for a 20% damage bonus.

• Your Medic weapons can poison Zeds, doing damage over time

• Healing your teammates increases their damage resistance by 10% for 5 sec. This can stack 3 times for a 30% damage resistance bonus.

• Increase your damage with your Medic weapons by 20%.

• You release a healing gas from your location During Zed time, healing teammates close by.

• Damaging Zeds during Zed time with Medic weapons will slow their movement speed by 30% and do massive amounts of poison damage.

• 0.8% increased Perk weapon damage per level (max 20%)
  
• 0.8% faster reload for firebug wep (max 20%)
  
• 30% resistance to fire, additional 2% resistance per level (max 80%)
  
• 25% resistance to personal fire damage, additional 3% resistance per level (Max 100%)
  
• 10% more starting ammo for every 5 levels (max 50%)

• Increase the damage you inflict with fire weapons by 35% more damage

• Increase the fuel tank and ammo capacity for your Firebug weapons by 100%.

• Your Firebug weapons’ burn effect lingers 2.5x longer, inflicting more damage over the extended duration.

• When you shoot the floor, the ground fire does massive more damage and reduces Zed movement speeds by 30%.

• Zeds that are burning will set other Zeds on fire when they make contact with them, burn effect lingers 2.5x longer

• Any Zed you kill with fire has a 20% chance to explode, causing damage to and knocking down nearby Zeds

• Enemies struck at point blank range with Fire will stumble back.

• Increase the range of your Firebug weapons.

• During Zed time you attack with Firebug weapons in close to real time and never run out of flame

• During Zed time the movement speed of any Zeds hit with fire is reduced 30% and those Zeds suffer 50% more damage

• 2% increase in ammo per level (Max 50%)
  
• 3% increase in welding speed per level (Max 75%)
  
• 1% increase in shotgun damage every level (max 25%)
  
• 25% increase in shotgun penetration every level (max 625%)
  
• Every 5 levels get one extra weight block to carry more weapons
  
• Fix destroyed doors
  
• Once per wave players can get ammo from you

• Increase the magazine capacity of your Support weapons by 50%.

• You reload Support weapons faster and look more elite while you're at it.

• Increase your total Health by 50%.

• Increase the damage of your Support weapons by 30%. .

• Greatly increase the penetration of your Support weapons.

• Decrease in the shot spread of your Support weapons by 50%

• Your teammates can get 30% of their ammo and 20% of their armor restored by interacting with you once per wave. You also can carry 20% more ammo for yourself

• Increase stumble power for all Support weapons by 150%.

• During Zed time, your Support weapons penetrate through any targets they hit.

• During Zed time, your Support weapons shoot in near real-time

• Increase your damage by 30%, your movement speed by 50%, and your reload speed by 20% while crouching and using Sharpshooter weapons.

• Each consecutive headshot with a Sharpshooter weapon increases your damage by 10%, up to a maximum of 50%
  
  • When you miss a head shot the bonus is no longer lost. It's on a 2 sec timer now, so as long as you get another head shot every 2 seconds, it will keep going up to a max of 50%

• Any head shots with Sharpshooter weapons have a 5% chance to trigger Zed time. During Zed time, increase head shot damage with Sharpshooter weapons by 35%