Scavenging in WotLD
Interesting discussion on the forum. Your opinion?
http://forum.worldofthelivingdead.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2247
With the reset approaching, we decided to do a retrospective on the infocards which have been available during closed beta. Infocards are an essential tool for making sure your survivors are as powerful as possible. Most give a hefty bonus to combat or survival skills. Others even confer a bonus on all survivors. First in the series is Infocard #9 “Stay hydrated to live”, which highlights how important it is to find liquids in World of the Living Dead.
We’ll be revealing some new infocards at random in this series, so stay tuned!
Judge Dredd vs. Zombies reviewed on The Register
2000AD readers react a little differently from the rest of the world when they see the words “Judge Dredd” in any title. Ol’ Stony Face could always be relied upon to bring the law to the living and the dead alike, and zombies are definitely within his jurisdiction, but I doubt he’d approve of modern time wasters. Check out the review over at El Reg to make up your own mind (just don’t let Psi Division catch you disagreeing with Dredd…)
WotLD closed beta update
Today’s World of the Living Dead update includes lots of bug fixes, introduces in-game chat and SCUGS Elite!
Bug fixes
- Missions problems, mostly to do with completing item missions
- Stuck squads problem should no longer happen. Please let us know if you have any stuck squads.
- Fix for squad shown as ‘moving’ when coming out of safehouse
- Cannot move items to collect mission locations. Items can only be moved to mission locations if they are a delivery location
- Fix for route planning outside visible z-density blocks
- Can enter broken safehouses regardless of original capacity
- Can’t write on the wall in private safehouse until it is either shared with faction or destroyed
- Fix for ration break bugs, although please tell us if your timers go above 24 hours! Because of the recent problems, we’ll be resetting hunger and thirst to zero for all survivors.
NECRA Operative Comms (aka chat)
There is now a small red radio to the right of the top menu. You can enable global chat with any other operatives online at the time. Be nice to each other (or don’t, that’s your choice as NECRA operatives).
SCUGS Elite
We’re introducing a new package for anyone who wants to support the game and get some bonus features. SCUGS Elite won’t give you a material advantage over other operatives, but it has some useful and fun elements - all accessible from the command page - and we’ll keep adding to it as we develop. SCUGS Elite currently gives you the following for 30 days, and we’re keeping it half price during closed beta!
- Custom larger squad icons (choose from an initial selection of over 100 icons, including flags of Europe and the Americas, and alphanumeric icons for the minimalist)
- Remove advertising (removes the top ad for the duration)
- Rename squads (rename at any time)
- Rename characters (change the full name or just add info)
- Strategic downloadable map (in KML format, for use in Google Earth)
- Downloadable spreadsheets (in csv format, can be opened in Excel or Open Office)
Find out more details about SCUGS Elite: http://worldofthelivingdead.com/account/subscriptions
New achievements
There are dozens of new achievements now available for you to unlock! Some of you will already meet the criteria for these, and you should see those unlocked already.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently set out guidelines on how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse.
There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.
Assistant Surgeon General Ali S. Khan issued the following advice to US citizens: ”sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan. This includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your door step”.
“Plan where you would go and multiple routes you would take ahead of time so that the flesh eaters don’t have a chance!”
The CDC is obviously trying to get people to think about any emergency, but it’s great to see that preparations have been made for the rise of the living dead.
If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation. This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine). It’s likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated. Not only would scientists be working to identify the cause and cure of the zombie outbreak, but CDC and other federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the young nameless disease detectives for the field work).
But it’s also clear that the CDC is far behind the National Emergency Control and Relief Agency (NECRA) in World of the Living Dead, which has much more drastic measures in place for ensuring the survival of humanity…
