With the first iteration of buffs in the game it felt necessary to do a tuning pass on the initial difficulty. My hope is to have the game quite difficult to start out with but as you earn Beans you can ease the difficulty a bit. I will be making 3 levels eventually and will be tuning each one harder than the last as well. So here is the first pass to see how buffs affect things. For now I have focused on giving the zombies a tune up.

• Zombies speed increased from 1 to 1.3
• Zombies damage increased from 10 to 30
• Zombies health increased from 20 to 25

With no buffs, it feels decently difficult. There are a few things I don’t like. For one, you could be just out of luck if ammo doesn’t drop for you. It has happened frequently enough for me that I am going to take another pass at the loot table for basic zombies. I am also adding in some loot spawners across the level. Radio and Compass will be able to help you find them, just like survivor camps.

The other thing I don’t like is that kiting is probably the best strat at the moment. With ammo at a premium you may be best just running and making huge zombie conga lines. I'm addressing this with more spawners in key areas. I have already adjusted the spawners in the church parking lot. There is a lot more pressure on the player to move and less opening for them. Hopefully I will be able to strike a balance between fighting and running.

Tomorrow I am going to be adding more survivor camps and making some improvements to the spawners that create survivor camps. Hope everyone’s Monday was swift and pleasant!I leave you with the zombie conga.