Overkill’s The Walking Dead: Neues Update liefert neue Inhalte, Funktionen und Verbesserungen.

Autor des Artikels: Steven Wilcken

Overkill’s The Walking Dead wurde mit einem umfangreiche Update bedacht. Das ist 5,4 GB groß und bringt eine Menge Verbesserung und neue Inhalte mit sich. Freuen darf man sich Beispielsweise auf eine neue Mission „No Sanctuary“.

Darüber hinaus wurde ein neuer NPC, neue Lore Items und Archievements integriert. Über Details klärt ein Patchlog auf, der allerdings nur in englischer Sprach vorliegt. Overkills The Walking Dead ist für PC erhältlichm, soll am 5 Februar 2019 jedoch auch für PS4 und Xbox One erscheinen.

New Content

  • Added new mission ‘No Sanctuary’
  • Added new camp NPC, the deserter
  • Added new lore items
  • Added new achievements

Requested Features

  • Added VOIP. „Push to talk“ is default, the key is unbound
  • Adding OVERKILL and Night Raid skins for the secret characters
  • Improved Steam Packaging for quicker patch installation – this will cause today’s update to appear larger than it really is as the game will need to be reorganized to work with the new update system
  • Matchmaking now prioritizes „new games“ if you never completed that mission before

Loading

  • Added loading screen tips and lore
  • Added loading bars showing the progress of other players
  • Improved the speed at which connections to other players are established

Difficulty Balancing

Walkers

  • Adjusted walker grapple distance to scale with difficulty
  • Adjusted Walker AI pathfinding, there should be fewer “safe corners” to hide in now

Human Enemies

  • Adjusted aggressiveness and damage to scale with difficulty
  • Brigade defense maps have been rebalanced, and should now be easier

Friendly AI

  • Made several improvements to their AI to avoid getting „lost“ in the levels

Tutorials

  • Added a new tutorial video explaining the game mechanics
  • Added skippable Tutorials for menus and metagame such as camp upgrades and character skills

HUD

  • Added ‘low health’ visual effect
  • Visual screen effect when you are on fire

Stability Improvements

  • Fixed various stability issues and crashes
  • Optimization of missions for a smoother experience
  • Added additional failsafes against corruption of save files, we now store local failsafe files which will update once per game session. If you’re still experiencing save issues after the update, please let us know and check out this guide on how to restore your progress