- Frontline Zed - out NOW on Nintendo Switch! - 6 August 2020
Frontline Zed is out now on Nintendo Switch! A lot of people have been asking for a console version, and its now finally available! The Nintendo Switch version includes all of the new content released so far this year (including ZiGen Science Facility and CrimPlex Prison Complex), with a 10% launch discount for a limited time. Get it on the eShop in Europe and The Americas now: https://bit.ly/FrontlineZedSwitch
- Patch 1.51: Small optimizations and shadow improvements - 15 July 2020
Improvements: Fixed vegetation shadows not appearing correctly on Kilmore Farm level Improved the shadows on guns on the Weapon Rack. Slight optimizations to the Kilmore Farm level and Weapon Rack If you experience any bugs or need assistance with the game, please let me know on Discord or the Steam Discussion Forum. Coop partners (via Steam Remote Play Together) can also be organised on the official Discord channel. If you're an established content creator, media keys are available via Woovit. Please restart your Steam client to receive the update. Enjoy!
- Steam Ultimate Edition - Trading Cards, Achievements and more - 25 June 2020
Steam Trading Cards: Frontline Zed Trading Cards are now available! As you play through the game, you will automatically earn Trading Cards. By trading with other users to collect the whole set of six cards, you can then unlock unique Frontline Zed badges, emoticons, and profile backgrounds to enhance and level up your Steam Community profile. Optimization and Improvements: Faster Weapon Switching - Switching time reduced from 2.8 seconds to 1.8 seconds, with an updated and improved animation. Changing to a pistol is also faster than switching to a rifle. Survivor Enemy Detection - Survivors will more reliably target enemies that are attacking the barricade when not directly in front of them. Performance Optimisation - 5-10% FPS increase from improved GPU instancing. 9 New Achievements: Marksman - Get 500 Headshots Hoarder - Accumulate 4 Barrels and 4 Grenades Full Auto Full Awesome - K…
- Patch 1.41 now live - more Optimisation (+1.41A) - 6 May 2020
Update 1.41 is now live which delivers a 5-10% FPS increase. GPU Instancing functionality has been improved for many environmental objects, and zombies. If you experience any bugs or need assistance with the game, please let me know on Discord or the Steam Discussion Forum. Patch 1.41A: Fixed weapons getting stuck when rapidly switching between weapons.
- Update 1.4: CrimPlex Prison Complex - New Weapons, Extended Campaign, 21:9 - 30 April 2020
New Features: CrimPlex Prison Complex - take a new path through Stanton City and fight through the CrimPlex Prison Complex, set across two new maps. Collect two powerful new weapons, including the fully-automatic AA12 shotgun. The CrimPlex campaign path is available in both regular and NewGame+ game modes, including Coop. SCAR - Find the new SCAR weapon in CrimPlex West. The SCAR has fully automatic fire, 30 round magazine, and much higher accuracy than the AKM, but slightly lower damage. AA12 - With fully automatic fire and a 10 round magazine, this shotgun is great at clearing out hordes of weaker zombies. However, its limited accuracy will make headshots - particularly against armored zombies - more difficult. The AA12 can be found in CrimPlex East. Full UltraWide 21:9 Support - all 16 levels of the game have been updated to support UltraWidescreen 21:9 Resolution. This aspect ratio…
- Update 1.3: New Weapons, New Levels, New Enemies, NewGame+. Now Live. - 23 March 2020
Update 1.3 for Frontline Zed is now available: New Features: ZiGen Science Facility and Branching Campaign - take a detour through Georgetown and travel through the ZiGen Science Facility, split across two new maps. Collect two unique new weapons, and fight against infected HAZMAT and Scientist zombies. SPAS-15 - This new shotgun reloads and shoots fast, but at the cost of slightly lower damage. Find the SPAS-15 on ZiGen East. Vector - Find the new Vector weapon in ZiGen West. The Vector packs a 3 round burst and good accuracy, though slightly lower per-shot damage compared to the UZI and UMP. NewGame+ - Unlock this new mode after finishing the original campaign. Rapidly unlock powerful weapons, and fight against an even bigger and stronger horde. Includes an early access preview of two of the new weapons coming in Update 1.4 - see if you can find them! New Visual FX - stray bullets wil…
- Update 1.22 - Partial Ultra-Widescreen Support, Bug and Balance Fixes - 17 January 2020
Patch 1.22 is now available: New Features: Added 21:9 aspect ratio selection to Options Added 1920x800, 2560x1080, 3440x1440 resolutions Menus and Weapon Rack have been updated to work with 21:9 monitors. Ingame levels have black bars on either side to replicate 16:9 aspect ratio. An update for all levels to be viewable with 21:9 is planned for Update 1.4. Added a confirmation prompt/timer when changing graphical settings. Bug FIxes: Changed the physics setting on explodable barrels so that they are less likely to fall through the terrain. Balance Changes: Reduced zombie runner health to 90% of regular health (Zombies that start running after they have already spawned are still at full health) Slightly increased survivor weapon accuracy Increased the reload animation speed for Snub, Luger, G17, Revolver, M38, Sawn-Off, Uzi by about 10% and updated the reload sounds accordingly Reduced t…
- Update 1.21 - Balance Tweaks - 12 January 2020
This patch includes some minor balance tweaks: Reduced the number of heavy and aggro zombies that spawn on Parking map Reduced the overall number of zombies which spawn on Parking map Dynamic Difficulty spawns in Zombies more slowly after a player death Increased Survivor weapon accuracy As always please let us know via Discord or the Steam Discussion Forum if you have any feedback or need assistance.
- Update 1.2: Chainsaw, Explosive Traps, Survivor Weapons (+1.21) - 11 January 2020
Update 1.2 for Frontline Zed is now available: New Features: Chainsaw - Find the new Chainsaw weapon on Level 3, Jim's Junkyard. The chainsaw makes a useful backup weapon, for clearing out multiple enemies at your barricade. The Chainsaw cannot be equipped by survivors. Explosive Traps - as you progress through the game, you'll begin to collect explosive traps, which can be activated at the beginning of each new night. Any unused traps will be returned to your inventory. Activated traps need to be shot to explode, and take a few hits before they do - time your shots carefully to align with big zombie waves. Survivor Weapon Allocation - you can now allocate weapons to your survivors at the start of each night. When selecting your loadout from the Weapon Rack, the first two weapons you select will be yours, and the next weapons you select will be equipped by any survivors you have availab…
- Patch 1.12 now live - Balance Adjustments - 12 December 2019
Update 1.12 is now live, with the following changes: Balance: Reduced the difficulty of the beginning Forest level Easy mode is now easier: Zombie health reduced from 80% to 75% Hard mode is now easier: Zombie health reduced from 125% to 110% Luger capacity reduced from 8 to 7 Tweaks: If a reload animation has played for 2 seconds or longer, the reload will be completed even if the animation did not fully play out (eg. when switching weapon or throwing a grenade). Can view the controls from the ingame ESC menu Separated Audio and Gameplay tabs in the Options menu Update 1.2 development is proceeding well, and will be released later this month. As always, if you experience any bugs, need technical help, or have any feedback, please contact us on our Steam Discussion Forum, or Discord. Edit: we've pushed a small hotfix to fix the loading bug when joining coop. Please restart your Steam cl…
- Update 1.1 Now Available: Armored Zombies, Coop (+1.11 patch) - 29 November 2019
Update 1.1 for Frontline Zed is now available: New Features: 2-Player Coop - play through the original campaign with a friend. Play together on a local PC, or via Steam Remote Play. At least one player must use a controller. NPC survivors have been removed from this mode to increase the challenge, and make room for the second human player. Each player can choose a unique crosshair color and design. Coop Mode required a lot of technical overhauls, and there are still a few tweaks and improvements we wish to make to it - if you have any feedback on Coop mode, please check this thread in our Steam forum, Armored Zombies - as you progress through the game, you'll be faced with tough, armored opponents - aim for the unprotected head area to deal more damage! Shots to the torso will still deal some damage, albeit a reduced amount. New Achievement - Kill 10 Armored Zombies Balance Changes: Twe…
- Frontline Zed Roadmap + Patch 1.03 Details - 11 October 2019
Edit: Patch 1.03 is now live! Thanks for supporting Frontline Zed during launch week! In this announcement, we're unveiling the Roadmap, as well as detailing the 1.03 patch coming tomorrow. (Click Here for a larger image) Roadmap Details: Frontline Zed has been available for one week, and in that time we've accumulated a lot of very helpful feedback. Thanks! This Roadmap has been designed to satisfy the most requested features, whilst also being technically achievable enough that we can deliver updates as a steady pace. We're going to be working hard to deliver one of these major updates per month, starting in November for Update 1.1. However, we will be carrying out extensive testing, including beta tests, and will hold back and refine an update if it is not ready. If you would like to get a sneak-peek at these Updates as they are developed, and want to participate in beta testing, ple…
- Patch 1.02 Now Live + Patch 1.021 Languages Hotfix - 5 October 2019
Edit: Patch 1.021 is now live, with the following additional changes: Fixed Languages reverting to English when the main campaign is finished, or when the player exits back to the Menu Fixed being unable to change out of Portuguese language to another language Tweaked and improved the design of the Outro movie particularly in non-English languages (still some more to do here - we will redesign that entire section) Balanced the late-game AKM Patch 1.02 is now live on Steam - please restart your Steam client to receive the update immediately. Patch 1.02 Changelog: Features: Can choose Crosshairs and customise colour (in Options menu) Survivors have slightly more powerful weapons now Hard difficulty added to Options (game still defaults to Medium difficulty) - zombie health increased by 20% Reduced game download size by 700MB Balance: Buff to UMP damage Warehouse level made easier M16 now…
- Patch 1.02 Plans, Patch 1.01 notes + Thank you for a successful launch day! - 4 October 2019
Thanks to everyone for supporting us during launch day! We've had some great feedback, and a lot of very happy responses, but also identified areas that we need to patch and improve. Our first patch for the game went live last night: Patch 1.01 BUGFIX: The Looting Maps now show all buildings in the correct language BUGFIX: The final Outro video now has working fonts and statistics (and looks much less ugly, sorry about the bugged old version!) BALANCE: The first three levels (Forest, Farm, Junkyard) are slightly easier, to help players ease into the game And we're working now on Patch 1.02, hopefully coming today: FEATURE: Change crosshair color and design in Options menu BUGFIX: Changed 'change weapons' keys from Q+E, to Spacebar (and retained 1+2 keys, and mouse wheel) to fix problems AZERTY keyboard players had with movement changing weapons BALANCE: Added 'hard' difficulty mode, wit…
- Frontline Zed is now available on Steam! - 3 October 2019
Frontline Zed is now available on Steam! Thanks to the huge amount of interest in the game, we have been able to secure a 17% discount for launch week - taking the game to $9.99/€9.99/£7.71. To get immediate support and share strategies, please join our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/s3HjzhZ We will be standing by over the next 24 hours (and the rest of this week) to patch any critical bugs, so please bear with us if you experience any! You can also list your bug reports in our Steam Discussion Forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/915490/discussions/0/1631916887486671267/ Later this year, Frontline Zed will also receive major free updates - with NewGame+, extra languages, and a new story expansion! Stay tuned as we reveal more information about that and share our updated roadmap in the next few days. Its been a lot of work over the past two years to bring Frontline Zed to life, bu…
- Media Keys now Fully Available, Thursday October 3rd Release LOCKED IN - 1 October 2019
Hi Frontline Zed fans, Media Keys are now fully available, and the October 3rd 2019 release date has been locked in! Media keys have been sent out to all accredited users on Keymailer, additional media outlets, Steam curators, and content creators. (A final round will be sent out to content creators with large channels on launch day) To simplify pre-release support, this media version does not include non-English languages. The full version releasing on Thursday will include French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. If you want to play using those languages, please just wait for the full release (you will see 'version 1.00' at the bottom of the main menu). To assist reviewers, the game features a cheat code - press F1 once to immediately kill all enemies and finish the level. This code will be removed shortly after launch. The game will be available to purchas…
- Frontline Zed: Beta Testing + Official Discord - 23 August 2019
Good Morning Frontline Zed Followers! Interest in the game has been great, and I'm looking forward to getting it into your hands. Frontline Zed will be releasing Thursday, October 3rd 2019! The regular price will be $11.99/€11.99/£9.29, with a 10% discount for launch week. In the meantime, there is now an Official Discord: https://discord.gg/s3HjzhZ You can go there to get live support (if your question has not been covered on the Steam discussion forum), discuss the game generally, suggest improvements and new features, and share your achievements and strategies. Cheers, Richard East https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35354567%2F64adf99375c6fdf8ef627b8e919b6ce202a25e7f.jpg
