Community Announcements - OVERKILL_Almir


Survivors!

Tune in at 6pm CEST tomorrow for our third Developer Update where we will talk about the Closed PC Beta that starts at 7pm CEST!

The stream will be hosted at our channel as usual at https://www.twitch.tv/starbreeze.

Tomorrow on Tuesday October 9th we start our Closed PC Beta for OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead! The beta will open and close at specified intervals throughout October. We do this to give us time to go through players opinions, analyze and make adjustments for future builds.

Here are the time-slots for when the closed beta will be available:

Closed PC Beta
Period 1
  • PST 9th 10:00 - 10th 23:59
  • EST 9th 13:00 - 11th 03:00
  • CEST 9th 19:00 - 11th 09:00

Period 2
  • PST 12th 10:00 - 15th 09:00
  • EST 12th 13:00 - 15th 12:00
  • CEST 12th 19:00 - 15th 18:00

Period 3
  • PST 19th 10:00 - 22nd 09:00
  • EST 19th 13:00 - 22nd 12:00
  • CEST 19th 19:00 - 22nd 18:00

Regarding Keys and Pre-Loading Content
To get instant access to the closed PC beta, you can pre-order OVERKILL's The Walking Dead.
If you have pre-ordered a Deluxe Edition, you get three extra beta keys to give to your friends.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/717690/OVERKILLs_The_Walking_Dead/

The keys will become available in your Steam inventory just before the beta becomes available. We are also looking into pre-loading the beta content together with Valve to save you time and make sure you can jump straight into the game when it starts. We will inform you as soon as we know.

If you have any questions or comments you want us to have a look at before the stream, post them below!

See you tomorrow!

OVERKILL_Almir
Community Announcements - OVERKILL_Almir

Hey everyone,

Tune in tomorrow at 5pm CEST for our second Developer Update stream where we will talk about the Meta Game Loop for OVERKILL's The Walking Dead!

The stream will be hosted tomorrow at our channel as usual at https://www.twitch.tv/starbreeze

If you have any questions or comments you want us to have a look at before the stream, post them below!

See you tomorrow!

OVERKILL_Almir
Serious Sam 4 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Katharine Castle)

Last week, the first of three shiny new Nvidia Turing cards finally pitched up on shop shelves – the RTX 2080. You can head over to my Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 review to find out more on what I thought of the card as a general pixel pusher, but the long and short of it is that you’re probably not looking at much of a raw performance increase over the current Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti.

That’s probably not the most ringing endorsement you’ve ever seen – especially when the RTX 2080 is currently more expensive than the GTX 1080Ti – but the main attraction of Nvidia’s new RTX 2080 graphics card is something I haven’t actually been able to test yet. Namely, its nifty real-time ray-tracing reflection tech and its clever AI-driven bits and bobs like DLSS (deep learning super sampling), which you can also read more about by clicking that there Nvidia Turing link above. This may well turn the tables in the RTX 2080’s favour once said ray-tracing and DLSS games actually come out or are updated to support said nifty and clever features, but right now all we have is a list of confirmed games that will, at some point, receive ray-tracing and DLSS updates in the future – which thankfully has just got a bit longer and, more importantly, more specific about exactly which features they’ll be taking advantage of.

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Eurogamer

Overkill's The Walking Dead will be playable before release via a closed PC beta going live on 9th October 2018.

The PayDay 2 developer revealed the news by way of a livestream (thanks, VG24/7) and right now, the only way to guarantee a spot in the beta is to pre-order the game.

A standard edition pre-order will secure you a single beta key, while pre-orders of the Deluxe Edition will net you four codes to divvy up amongst your pals.

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Community Announcements - OVERKILL_Almir

Hey everyone,

Almir here at OVERKILL, hope you all are doing great. We just got back from a super intense Gamescom where we had thousands of people visiting our booth. Our developers on site had their minds blown-away when seeing that gamers lined up for up to 5 hours to play OVERKILL's The Walking Dead, and some even lined up several times! That made our show!

On the 6th of September at 7pm CET we are going to host a developer stream where we will talk - and show - more about OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead. Make sure you tune in to this one!

The stream will be hosted at our channel twitch.com/starbreeze.

If you have any questions or comments you want us to have a look at before the stream, feel free to post them below.

Enjoy your weekend and see you Thursday!

OVERKILL_Almir
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Hey everyone,

Thanks for the AMA last time, great talking to you all and getting to know you better.

This year marks the 15 year anniversary for The Walking Dead universe, so our partner Skybound invited us to come to San Diego Comic Con and talk about our upcoming game.

In just two hours Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead, Sean Mackiewicz who is the editor-in-chief and myself are sitting down to talk about how we bring The Walking Dead universe alive in OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead, and we’d like to invite you to come and participate.

Watch the Stream live from San Diego Comic Con at 1:15 PM PT Today
We’re live streaming the event today on Twitch.tv at 1:15 PM PT. Watch the stream at http://twitch.tv/gammaray_tv, twitch.tv/skybound or twitch.com/starbreeze.

If you’re at San Diego Comic Con and want to talk OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead or say just say hi, we’ll be hanging around the Skybound Harbor House near the show.

Have a great weekend and see you in a few hours at the stream!

See you soon,

OVERKILL_Almir
Community Announcements - OVERKILL_Almir


Hey everyone,

Almir here at OVERKILL. We just came back from E3 and are busy at work on both OVERKILL's The Walking Dead, as well as our upcoming events where more people will be able to try their luck as survivors in the game.

Developer AMA Tomorrow 6pm CET
Tomorrow at 6pm CET we are hosting an AMA on the subreddit of OVERKILL's The Walking Dead. With this AMA we want to wrap up E3 together with the members of our community and take an opportunity to answer any questions you might have and talk about anything OVERKILL'S The Walking Dead. Saul Gascon the executive producer of the game will join me in answering your questions.

Join the Discussion
We have created the reddit thread where we will host the AMA. Thank you to the OTWD subreddit for taking the time to moderate our first community AMA. We will host more Q&A's in the future, especially here in the community hub. We figured the subreddit would be a good place to start. We will start answering questions at 6pm CET Thursday the 28th, which is tomorrow. Until then, feel free to post any questions you have there. We will do our best to answer as many questions as possible tomorrow, looking forward to talking to you more then.

Here's a link to the subreddit. Go ahead and feel free to ask any question there that you'd like about OVERKILL's The Walking Dead and we'll do our best to give you an answer tomorrow when we start.

Learn more about the game at www.overkillsthewalkingdead.com

See you tomorrow!

Saul and Almir - OVERKILL Software
Eurogamer

Payday developer Overkill's The Walking Dead game was given a release date at E3 2018's PC Gaming Show.

It's coming November 8th in Europe and November 6th in North America, with pre-orders opening on June 12th.

We assume it'll be available on PS4 and Xbox One at the same time.

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