FIELD MANUAL // CO-OP ZOMBIE SURVIVAL // ALPHA 0.9.69

Hold the line.
Fish the dark.

Barricade, scavenge and fight through the waves with your squad — with guns built from broken televisions, a lake that is still full of fish, and things in the dark that are not zombies.

Free alpha · Windows 64-bit · Co-op & Versus · 18+ (self-declared)

What's new — 0.9.69

  • No more 1–2 second freezes (02 Nov hotfix, fetched by the launcher).
  • Reconnect: drop out alive and your character waits 3 minutes for you, same health, gear and position.
  • Lobby map vote, random map rotation and difficulty tiers from EASY to ELITE.
  • Astris Site 02 is a four-level biolab inside a mountain; six more maps reworked.
  • Siege your way: LIMITED (12, 25 or 50 waves) or ENDLESS, with an extraction after wave 30.
  • Heavier enemies: planted feet, leg staggers, the grab (mash F), real wounds; the Sower, the Sapper and the Writhe.
  • Squads raid together, parties of up to 5, up to 12 players a game, and the squad ledger with rank and MMR.
  • Real sound only: the synthetic voices are gone.
  • Known: online trading cannot reach the server in this build; the fix is in the next update.

Full patch notes →

Features

Everything below is in the current build.

Wonder weapons built from TV parts

Wonder weapons

Rabbit Ears, the Signal Scrambler, the Tesla Tuner — guns wired out of dead televisions. Chain lightning, plasma waves, beams. Locked until wave 5.

The arsenal lineup

A real arsenal

Rifles, shotguns, revolvers and sidearms with full first-person handling, attachments and pack-a-punch tiers. See the arsenal →

The requisition order sheet

Order it in

Weapons, attachments, ammo, turrets, gear and medicine — requisitioned from the field manual and air-dropped near you.

An operator casting a line

Fishing

Eight rods, bait and tackle, and ponds and cisterns on every map. Hook it, fight the line, land it — then cook it.

Six of the fish species

Thirty-odd species

Crappie, bluegill, trout, carp, sturgeon — and a few that did not come from any lake on this Earth.

The Crawler's split jaw

Something worse

The Crawler sneaks. The Stalker freezes when watched. The Maw takes an arm. Fight on one-handed — or find DVP-1 Mk2.

Lore

Documents are scattered on tables across every map. This is the short version.

  • 1949
    A dredge on the Columbia finds a hull at marker 41. It goes into Basin 2 at Hanford, under twenty feet of water.
  • 1953
    COLD HARVEST: tissue from the hull's occupant — "the Tenant" — is grafted into volunteers.
  • 1991
    Subject 14 walks out of Basin 2, dry. Six tanks are opened from the inside.
  • 1992
    The programme goes private as ASTRIS BIOSYSTEMS. CLEARDAY keeps the sickness silent — by licensing it.
  • R+0 — The Relapse
    The licence fails in a single week. You know the rest.

DRG MEMO // DVP-1 MK2

1. The Mk2 dose regrows a severed limb in the field. 2. Expected cost: acute cholesterol synthesis load; the patient will feel it. 3. Administer one-handed if necessary. 4. Do not administer to anyone who has heard the counting.

— Distal Regeneration Group, __ MAR 20__