World War Z: Update liefert Verbesserungen und Fehlerkorrekturen im Horde Modus

New Features

• Added The Professionals character skin pack (included for Season Pass owners)

Horde Mode

• The goal is to have shorter but more fun and much more rewarding sessions
• Overall difficulty is greatly increased
• Rewards for beating wave 10 and higher are greatly increased
• Wave difficulty increases much faster
• The amount of resources player get is slightly reduced, especially after wave 20
• Introduced a limit to the number of defense kits of the same type that can be deployed simultaneously
• Reduced cost of equipment bags from 30 to 25
• Reduced auto turrets ammo by 25%, thus players have to reload them more often
• Wave preparation time will begin to decrease after wave 15
• Reduced the amount of resources players can get by using breaching charges from 150 to 100
• Rejoining the same session in horde mode will now not restore ammo and health to full
• Added option to restore environmental objects like gasoline pools and gas cylinders via shop
• Added new side objectives
  • Search bodies
  • Capture area

AI

• Bomber takes 20% more damage to limbs; this makes him easier to bring down
• Reduced Bomber move speed by 10%
• Fixed issue that would make Bomber explode even if player had not hit his detonator

Weapons

• Heavy Sniper Rifle
  • Increased damage by 100%
• Classic Battle Rifle
  • Increased damage by 10%
  • Increased maximum ammo carried by 1 extra mag

Perks

• Fixed issue with Thrifty perk not working as intended
• Fixer’s “Scavenger” perk (a chance to restore defense kit) is now less efficient in Horde Mode

UI

• Minor UI and localization fixes

Stability

• Fixed issue with UI not being shown after mission complete screen in rare cases
• Fixed critical issue that caused the game to spawn less zombies with more waves in Horde Mode
• Fixed issue that caused desync in zombie positions in Horde Mode
• Fixed server performance and memory degradation in Horde Mode
• Fixed several gameplay crashes

Levels

• Fixed some gameplay bugs that were causing inability to progress in levels
• Fixed issue that allowed players to clip through geometry in some places

General fixes

• Fixed issue that caused supply bags to be unusable after a while
• Fixed issue that caused flares from unbuilt Auto Turrets to appear when joining a game in progress
• Fixed issue that prevented a player from selecting a character when joining a game in progress
• Fixed issue that caused friendly fire from allied gunship on NY4 episode
• Fixed issue that prevented players from getting rewards if a party leader left the game in rare cases

PC Specific Fixes

• Fixed key binds being reset after each game launch if certain buttons were used for mapping
• Fixed issue that would cause players to get stuck in the lobby when matchmaking via Quickplay