Zompiercer News

The main theme of this update is global game optimization. Most of the elements of the game world were optimized, as a result of this work, the size of the game increased by more than 5 times. This is not the last stage of optimization, in future updates even more game objects and the forest will be optimized, the quality of optimization of which does not suit me yet. In addition, the bow was introduced into the game, the player will be able to create it on the carpenter workbench. Arrows can be used repeatedly, provided that the player does not shoot at hard surfaces such as metal or stone. The rudiments of farming and cooking were also introduced. The player will also be able to find fuel cans and refuel the train if necessary. In addition, you can now fill plastic dishes with dirty water from rivers and lakes and boil it on an electric stove to clean it.

[h2]LIST OF CHANGES[/h2]

Enhancements

• Optimization.
  
• The bow is embedded in the game, you can create arrows yourself.
  
• The first elements of farming have been introduced. Now the player can find the potatoes on the shelves of the store and put them in boxes for growing vegetables.
  
• Now you can collect dirty water into plastic dishes from a river or lake.
  
• An electric stove has been introduced for boiling dirty water and cooking vegetables.
  
• Now the player can find fuel cans in abandoned cars and refuel the train.
  
• 25% increased cost of the dodge.
  
• Increased visual range of all zombies by 20%
  
• Now the character can fill in plastic dirty water from a river or lake.
  
• Implemented an electric stove on which you can boil water and cook food.
  
• 20% increased audibility of shots for zombies.
  
• Reduced the weight of all food products by 30-50%.
  
• Reduced the weight of a large first-aid kit by 50%.
  
• Reduced chance to find a large first-aid kit.
  
• Reduced the number of zombie nurses to 1 in the base in the first location.
  
• Reduced the time of poisoning from the spit of a zombie nurse from 20 to 10 seconds.
  
• The dark time of the day is reduced by 30% relative to the day.
  
• At the start of the siren at the train station, zombies no longer come to one point but are distributed throughout the station.
  
• A trap was removed from 2 fences in 3 locations where the character could fall.
  
• Increased by 20% chance to find a wood in boxes.
  
• Text elements were expanded to avoid trimming long words in localization.
  
• The workbench is closed by pressing E.
  
• Death has been removed from the game, if the fuel runs out, now the player has a chance to collect fuel at the location and get to the gas station.
  
• Increased chance to find an electric motor and mechanisms.
  
• Reduced chance of finding ammunition by 20-30% for firearms to stimulate the player to use a bow.
  

Corrected mistakes

• Items provided by the script no longer appears again after loading the game
  
• Fixed a bug where, when dividing the number of items through shift, you can separate 0 or more than there was originally, which allowed you to create an infinite number of items.
  
• Fixed a bug where the character during the dodge did not make noise.
  
• Fixed a bug when hunger and thirst did not increase during dodge.
  
• Fixed a bug where when level up stealth the player became invisible to zombies.
  
• Fixed a bug when crafting icons decreased or increased in screen resolutions other than fullHD.
  
• Fixed a bug when the amount of experience was indicated not by an integer.
  
• Fixed a bug when zombies in the police station passed through the benches.
  
• Fixed a bug where the character could creep under the fence of the locomotive on the move and fall out of it.
  
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to activate the clock and the equipman window in the main menu of the game and during a pause.
  
• Fixed a bug where the player crouched and throwing a grenade touched himself and the grenade fell next to the player.
  
• Fixed a bug where the player could open the character’s inventory in the pause menu.
  
• Fixed a bug where when using an item in a quick slot, it was possible by clicking the left mouse button to update the progress timer.
  
• Fixed a bug in 4 locations with a drawer hanging in the air.
  
• Fixed a bug in 4 locations with a hanging trash can.
  
• Fixed a bug when, when it fell into a torn arm of SWAT, a zombie constantly threw off a new torn arm.
  
• Fixed a bug where the SWAT zombie with a shield did not take off the shield if the hand that held it was torn off.
  
• Fixed a bug with a hole in the wall under the stairs in the barracks in the first location.
  

Important Topics for Future Update

Continuation of the plot story and the creation of 5 location. Refinement of the conservation system. Implementation of a system for editing control keys. Farming Development. Refinement of the character’s animation to avoid a sharp change of weapon.

A new save system has been implemented. Now the game is saved automatically every 2 minutes, this can help not to lose progress in the game in cases where the player is stuck in the game location. You can also create your own save at any time in the game. Tests were conducted and if you encounter the problem of the disappearance of interaction with the train or the immortal zombie, you can save the game and restart it to continue without losing the gameplay. A compact crafting table was also introduced on which you can make elementary tools and a carpentry table. The dagger was implemented in the game, which will allow you to apply stealth tactics by killing zombies from the back, in case you were not discovered. Other improvements and bug fixes can be found below in the list.

New "version number" system This is a version 3.0 and each next big update with new features will add +1 to number before dot, while small update with bug fixes and small improvements will add +1 to number after dot. Such approach is better than classic where 1.0 it is a final version, because I don't know how many updates required to the final version and it allows to increase version number with each update without issues with limitations.

[h2]LIST OF CHANGES[/h2]

Enhancements

• Added new save system.
  
• Removed restriction on sleep.
  
• Increased sleep time up to 12 hours.
  
• Disabled the ability to open inventories when activating the sleep panel.
  
• All inventories are automatically closed when the sleep panel is activated.
  
• The button for collecting all the loot and invoking the equipment menu changed places.
  
• Significantly reduced the number of light sources in cars.
  
• In a locomotive, the brightness of the light source is increased.
  
• Increased chance to find water.
  
• Implemented Thai language support.
  
• Changed crosshair for firearms.
  
• A small craft table has been introduced in the locomotive's interior.
  
• There was an opportunity to loot ZB van.
  
• Glock was removed from 4 locations near the gate.
  
• Increased character running speed by 20%
  
• Reduced character dodge range by 20%.
  
• Increased running speed for zombie runner.
  
• Added a list of players who participated with localization.
  

Corrected mistakes

• Fixed a bug where, when dragging an item, the right button on any other item icon was pressed and the icon hung.
  
• Disabled the ability to drag items from inventory while eating food, medicine, etc. as this led to an error.
  
• Fixed a bug when the created item did not fall into inventory due to overload.
  
• Fixed a bug where, after death and the launch of a new game, equipment and weapons remained on the player’s preview.
  
• Fixed a bug when a zombie survived after a head bang.
  
• Fixed a bug when the zombie did not see the player through the doorway.
  

Thanks to the active participation of the gaming community, screenshots with an activated debugger were obtained. This allowed me to identify and correct the error that supposedly led to the disappearance of interactivity with the train. After the correction, many hours of testing were conducted, and the error did not show itself! Test localization was also introduced, at the moment the translation was carried out by the translator, but will gradually be replaced by the literary translation.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2061316579

[h2]CHANGE LOG[/h2]

Improvements

• Added control option for AZERTY keyboard.
  
• Now character on board of train will keep the same rotation as a train and view direction relative to train will not be deviated during movement along curved railway.
  

Corrected mistakes

• Fixed a bug that caused objects to fall across the floor in the train.
  
• Fixed a bug with idle sleep if 10 hours of sleep were set.
  
• Fixed a bug in which the item icon hung when closing inventories with the ESC button.
  
• In several houses of 4 locations, various flaws were fixed.
  
• Fixed a bug when it was possible to go through the bars crouching.
  
• Fixed game quality settings that probably lowered FPS after the update.
  
• Fixed a bug with flickering shadows from trees that were behind the character’s back.
  

At the moment, the game has a serious bug that prevents the player from interacting with the train controls and the furniture inside it.
Unfortunately, this bug has not yet occurred to me either before the game was launched in early access or after it, as a result, I still cannot study it and fix it. I decided to enter a small debug console, which, as I hope, will help to detect this bug. I will post a description of using debug in the Steam group and in the discord channel. In addition, the inventory system was finalized to provide maximum usability. Other changes you can find below.

[h2]List of changes[/h2]

Bugs fixed

• Implemented debug, which should help in identifying the cause of the bug with the disappearance of interactivity with the train. After the release, a topic will be fixed with explanations of how it will be possible to use it.
  
• Fixed a bug that, when loading the game, threw off the effect on the transferred weight from pumping strength.
  
• A bug was fixed with a through wall at the railway station into which zombies could go.
  
• Fixed a bug in which if the player held the item’s icon with the mouse and pressed the "G" button, the item’s icon would hang.
  
• Burning cars did not cause damage to the player and zombies.
  
• Most bugs related to houses in the location with the city were handled. Including the missing staircase due to which the player was stuck in the courtyard of the house.
  
• Fixed a bug in which at low levels of graphics settings, at night, objects and the train had a weak glow.
  

Improvements

• Increased effect for maximum carry load with increased strength.
  
• Improved interaction with the door. Now you can close the door when you hover over it and not just at the doorway.
  
• Added 2 types of weapons and body armor.
  
• If the zombie was deprived of an attacking hand, the range of attack will be reduced.
  
• More graphics settings have been added.
  
• It was decided to abandon the player’s overload. It was difficult if the zombie burst into the room when the player was overloaded.
  
• The number of zombies in the first location was reduced to increase the threshold for entering new players.
  
• Added quick movement of items of the same type between inventories.
  
• Putting on equipment when you right-click from any inventory.
  
• Separation of items transferred from control to shift.
  
• Third-party inventory is closed by pressing the "E" button, regardless of where the mouse cursor is.
  
• Text inventory tooltips have been added to third-party inventory windows.
  
• The opportunity was realized to choose how long it would sleep.
  
• An increase or decrease in the graphical interface of the game was implemented depending on the resolution of the monitor screen.
  

It was noticed several significant bugs that to some extent broke the passing game. In this update, I tried to fix these errors. The main bug was the departure of the character from the train, in the previous update I created an emergency braking function if the character flew out of the train, but the character could get stuck in geometry under the train. Some layers that could cause a push were disabled, but this is still an assumption since I could not find this bug in my testing yet. Therefore, the physical collider of the character was additionally underestimated so that the player crouching could get out of the train and return to it. A bug was also noticed when the character lost interactivity with workbench and cabinets in the train. The interactivity system has been redesigned, I think this should help. Please let me know if the above bugs show themselves again! The remaining less important changes can be found in the list below.

[h2]LIST OF CHANGES[/h2]

• Reduced physical height of the collider when squatting. Now the Character will be able to crawl under the train.
  
• The system of character interaction with interactive objects (inventories, doors, switches) has been optimized.
  
• Optimized the physical interaction of the character with the outside world (this can fix the bug of dropping the character from the train in motion).
  
• Optimized zombie regeneration that could lead to a head blast while the zombie remained alive.
  
• Fixed a bug in which the progress of crafting hung for all workbenches.
  
• Implemented the ability to invert the Y axis for the mouse.
  
• Implemented mouse sensitivity adjustment.
  
• Increased bat attack range by 20%
  
• Improved shadows for trees.