Build v0.018 — HUD rewrite, navigation gear and difficulty settings
A large rewrite of the HUD, three new navigation items — compass, GPS and minimap — plus difficulty settings that change both what you can see and what you are fighting.
The headline for 0.018 is a large HUD rewrite, and most of the new features hang off it. Navigation is now a set of items you have to actually be carrying rather than information you get for free, and difficulty is no longer a single number.
Navigation is now something you carry
Three linked additions:
- Compass item added
- GPS device item added
- Minimap functionality added, with icons for zombies, special zombies and NPCs
The important part is the dependency. The compass item is required for the compass, and the GPS device is required for the minimap. Lose them, leave them behind, or fail to pick them up, and you navigate without them.
Difficulty affects what you see, not just what hits you
Two new difficulty settings:
- Zombie health is multiplied by the difficulty level
- On the hardest setting, enemies no longer appear on the minimap at all
That second one turns the GPS from a convenience into a comfort you have chosen to give up. Difficulty level is now also visible in the inventory so you can check what you signed up for.
Added
- Large HUD rewrite
- Different crosshair when zooming with weapons other than sniper rifles
- Shooting range mission
- Ability to put the camera over the left or right shoulder
- Intro screen act music
- Difficulty level visibility in the inventory
Fixed
- Minimap sometimes displaying for the wrong player
- Take all / double click not picking up leftover items when all inventory slots were used
- Items with 0 amount taking up inventory slots
- Not being able to drop more than the allowed amount back into a container
- Player moonwalking, by adjusting animation rate scales
- Zombies moonwalking, by adjusting animation rate scales
- Zombie crawl speed, now more aggressive
- Magazine reload not updating total ammo correctly on the HUD
- Mission descriptions not supporting multiple lines
- Firing modes being on the wrong weapon
- Menu settings reverting to older settings
- Player name and uniform type no longer visible in the inventory
- Animation transition from combat into non-combat areas
- Animation synchronisation in non-combat areas in multiplayer
Changed
- Gunshot attenuation set to 50/180 metres