Hello All Survivors!

Today we have had a massive look at the new future updates and the current progression the Devs are making with the game. There is a little controversy around the Live Stream that they did, apparently some people couldn’t see it and they have deleted all previous announcements of it. It seems a bit strange and I am not totally sure what has gone on, but there is a video out there from the stream! I’m going to take a detailed look at the video and make a few comments on what they had to show off.

The stream was similar to their previous one. They released a vlog style stream where someone walked around the office and were showing off some of the Devs pretending to work on their computers. Great acting guys, better than your boss seeing you’re not working right? I’ll be including a few screenshots of the parts within the video so that you have a reference as to what I am talking about. The first part of interest within the stream is the large “complex” style area. It resembles a sort of large industrial warehouse or bunker with multiple rooms and areas to explore. This looks like a really interesting new style of Zone for the game and will be a lot more challenging than your regular zone. As you might be able to see in the picture, there are a large number of tougher enemies here, mostly toxic ones including the “Toxic Bloater”. Due to this it will more than likely generate a lot of decent loot to be had. I am speculating but this could be some form of Raid Instance where you can go with your clan in multiplayer in the future. Ever played WoW? (of course you have, everyone has) I imagine it would be similar to one of their dungeons, maybe getting to a lobby and then “teleporting” to the zone to be able to take it on as a team.

The next exciting part of the office that we are shown are the Monster Developers. That’s a cool job, just drawing and designing the weirdest and grossest creatures you could imagine – I wonder if there will be a Donald Trump Zombie? I’m pretty sure that most of the art that we can see here is Concept Art, but that doesn’t mean that the pictured monsters won’t be in the game. (Just on a side note, the screenshots I’ve taken are potato quality, but at least I tried!) In the first screen we can see that there are two rows of monsters, some weird one in a long ragged red robe, another type of bloater that’s wearing a very in style jacket etc. But the one that I like the most is the bottom middle one (next to The Elephant Man). It’s some creepy chest burster style zombie, reminiscent of Alien. I really love the fact that the Devs are adapting the zombies by making them harder, giving them different styles of attack, defence and looks. It adds a lot more variety to the game and will make you switch up your tactics regularly. This first screen of monsters looks like it will be more than just Concept Art and almost appears as if they are going towards another stage of design. Whereas the next screenie looks like these might just be ideas of new ones. I can’t really tell what the first one is, it looks like 5 zombies have run full force towards one another and merged into a mangled mess of arms and legs. Zombie Starfish! They’ve decided to make the “Bloater” a possible love interest in the future (time to start writing some LDOE Fan Fiction) by making a female version. And then you have this dude on the right that is just all fucking teeth! But not just any teeth, giant dinosaur style teeth! He’s like a walking Venus Fly Trap! Looks pretty epic. But there is a little part of me thinking “Are the Devs going too far?” I mean, yeah its great planning all these Zombies, but I just hope that they can pull it off and do it properly. I’d rather have 10 decent, well thought out and challenging Zombies than 30 different types just for the sake of saying “Here look at this dude that is just a bunch of tongues”.

The next part of the video shows the player walking around the dungeon area and exploring through a few electronic doors. It may not seem like much but I think that this is a pretty awesome part of the video as they are starting to show off dynamic lighting. You have the player enter a dark room that gives you just a small radius of light that you cannot see past. I’m hoping that it would work by taking a torch to the area and in turn that this would expand the radius of light and you could see further. They also show the blue flashing light in one part of it, now I don’t know if this is going to be some form of illegal zombie rave or an alarm activation. I’m happy to throw down some shapes with the undead.

Next we’ve got a “detailed” look at what looks to be a Military Zone. This may well be part of the previous dungeon that they had shown us, or it could be something else. It could be both to be honest! But, they showed us a rack of AK47’s which I hope we can take for ourselves. There was also a mounted gatling style machine gun on a tripod that we’ll be able to make the most of and tear down a horde of approaching Zombs. Whether this is something that we will be able to craft and place in our own bases is a different matter. Another idea of mine would be that if we were to join a clan, we might be able to have a joint base with all our buddies. This could then be in turn attacked by other rival clans and we would have to defend. I think that a mounted machine gun may prove useful here.

In this screenshot we can see that not only have they created a whole new zone, they have made a whole new environment, snow! Time to make some snow angels! But this is also a great update to have. It will keep things fresh and different compared to the same old grassy areas. This should hopefully bring along new items, clothes and wildlife. Who knows, it may turn into Lost and we’ll start fighting Polar Bears. Finally the last part of the video that is worth noting is the Chopper! Yes! At last we will be able to collect all the parts and build our beloved motorcycle. However, that’s not the main thing to take away from this very short clip. What we need to look at is that it will actually be viewable and rideable within the Zones! This hopefully means that we can load it up with resources as well as our own backpack/pockets and take them back to our base. Obviously I don’t know what the capacity will be, but anything extra is a bonus when collecting that precious Limestone and Pine…

Thanks for reading guys and girls. Quite a hefty update and wall of text here, I hope that I made it a little enjoyable. Leave a comment below with your thoughts and opinions.