Build5: closed test update
New
- Pick where you come in: after you pick your character, choose a camp, your own base, or where you left off. Scroll through them on the new home screen.
- Make your survivor: six bodies, with faces, hair, beards, tops, bottoms and shoes, each in several colours.
- The battle arena: queue from the Arena card or an arena board in camp. Play free-for-all or team deathmatch, or climb the weapon ladder from a pistol to the machete. Matches are their own place: your gear and your character wait for you outside.
- Swap hands: swap the items in your main hand and your off hand. It's on the middle mouse button by default, and you can rebind it.
- New places: Thornwood Research Campus, Fort Kestrel, Coldwater Dam, Lake Ashmere and its quarantine ship, Jubilee Park, Fallow County Raceway, Site Z, the Subway, the Bloom, and the walled town of Halden Cross.
- Play the infected: make a zombie character and play the other side. Pick a strain with its own powers, make your home in the nests, and find the way back.
- Adventures: runs made for you underground and outdoors, alone or with your party, and vehicle runs on the roads.
- Driving: drive cars, trucks, motorcycles and trailers, and dig, push, lift and carry with the heavy machines. Vehicles take damage, and you can repair and armour them.
- Classes and abilities: choose a survivor class, then fill your ability bar from the ability book.
- Survival: draw water from wells and hand pumps, light campfires, pitch shelters, skin game, fish, craft and pick locks.
- Bases: build bases with garages and bunkers, and hire survivors to guard them and follow you.
- A living world: day and night, weather, outbreaks you fix before they fail, races at the Raceway, rides at Jubilee Park, swimming and ladders, and travel between maps by road, air and the Subway.
- Zombies: new special zombies with their own abilities, bosses, and zombie hives that grow.
- Live music: play the instruments you find. Everyone nearby hears you.
- Voice chat: talk to your group and to anyone nearby. Push to talk is Scroll Lock or your mouse's back button.
Changes
- Your keys: rebind every key in the Controls window. The hints on screen show your own keys.
- Chat: text chat has filters, blocking and reports.
- Driving and digging are back.
- This update is a larger download than Build4. The launcher fetches it for you.