World of the Living Dead

Something a little different for the player who prefers to focus on zombie hunting…

Log in and check out the unique Zed Hunter Bug-out Bag.

http://worldofthelivingdead.com/event/zedhunter

And 25% off the USD price of NECRA Credits bought with PayPal all weekend!

Chat was also completely overhauled for this release, so it should work for everyone.

We’ve added a SCUGS indicator on the map PDA. It will flash yellow when connecting and stay solid green if your survivors have a good connection to SCUGS. If green it means that the map is auto-refreshing and you don’t need to refresh. If red or yellow, please give it some time before reporting it as a bug.

In an effort to make the extra two servers pay for themselves, I’ve added Amazon affiliate links on the left. We probably won’t make much from these but if you’re considering a book or DVD anyway, please consider buying through the WotLD link. All links are hand-picked and are titles I’ve enjoyed myself. You might find something you like.

There’s also going to be a bug-fixing release going out tonight or tomorrow morning, so I’ll add the details of that separately when it goes out.

Thanks for your patience with the server problems we had last week. Good luck out there!

176,594 #zombies put down; 477 survivors bitten; 4,980 survivors eaten http://wotld.com

First edition of LA Deadly News published by tireless player and forum moderator Rapace (aka Twan). Essential reading to keep up with the zombocalypse. Interviews with top players, updates on where - and who - to avoid, cautionary tales from the field, and lots more to come. The LA Deadly News is also running a competition with some very special prizes, so check it out today! http://www.wotld-ladeadly.info/

WotLD has been restarted. Los Angeles County is overrun with zombies and the survivors need your help! Go to http://worldofthelivingdead.com and register for free to start playing the toughest survival strategy zombie game around. Closed beta testers will receive their codes for reward items or outstanding NC balances by email over the next few days.

Interesting discussion on the forum. Your opinion?
http://forum.worldofthelivingdead.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2247

Hunger and thirst deaths are back, but the two of us have done extensive testing to make sure there won’t be a repeat of the widespread carnage that resulted last time. We’ve also made some other small tweaks and changes to other areas based on our tests - including missions, the tutorial and visibility - and tried to deal with the main bugs that have been interfering with play.

To cushion the hardship of survivors again facing death from starvation and dehydration, we’re resetting all health (injury points) to max and also resetting Hunger and Thirst levels to zero. This gives everyone a chance to find supplies and assess the situation.

• Survivors will suffer an injury point loss after 24 hours at max Thirst, or 96 hours at max Hunger.
• Hunger and Thirst will no longer penalize injury recovery rate, but being at max Hunger or max Thirst will completely prevent injury recovery. The error which was making Fatigue and Fear not recover due to max Hunger or Thirst has already been removed.
• Only a single notification will display when one or more of your characters is at max Hunger and/or Thirst and you click to check recovery status.
• Test subject delivery missions are now only specific as to the Blood Type required by NECRA researchers.
• Scavenge location visibility has been increased to 750 meters for all users.
• Only one scavenge location - the Red Cross Tent - is created for the tutorial. This now has its own map marker and the yellow exclamation marks are no longer used.
• A bug which was generating NECRA missions at excessive distances has been fixed - however, some missions are still being generated with errors and we’ll try to deal with these soon.
• New player squad icons are hidden from the map until they are level 5 (at which time they can be attacked). Lower level players can see squads belonging to players over level 5.
• An existing route on map load was showing incorrect end marker - a standard Google maps marker. This should be fixed.
• Armor filter should now work on the manage inventory pages.
• PvP attacks should now generate a notification as well as incrementing the attacks count and adding the yellow border if no existing attacks.
• All membership options removed and replaced with “SCUGS Upgrade”.

After listening to your feedback, we took the decision to remove the three membership options. We agreed that the SP boost and other features of the membership packages were too powerful so have replaced them with a single SCUGS Upgrade option which lasts 30 days. 

The SCUGS Upgrade can be bought with NC. This makes it possible for players who complete offers to get the most important aspects of the interface upgrades. Thanks to everyone who supports development of WotLD by buying NECRA Credits - we really couldn’t have made it this far without you!

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