Horde - Build 0.21 Release Notes

We’re excited to bring you the latest update for Horde! Build 0.21 includes a wide range of fixes, improvements, and new features to enhance your gameplay experience. Here’s what’s new:

General Updates:
Scoring Overhaul: Changed scoring system from Kills to Total Score.
Objective System: Added new objective system for level transitioning (UNRELEASED).
Civilians: Added Civilians to rescue! They now run from players and provide health when rescued.
Turtle Shells Powerup: Added a new powerup to protect players from zombies.

Gameplay Adjustments:
Zombie Run Speed: Adjusted the run speed of zombies.
Zombie Ragdoll: Enabled ragdoll physics for certain zombie types.
Zombie Despawn: Added logic to despawn zombies that spawn on top of each other.
Zombie Adjustments: Adjusted seek weight for tighter turning and re-enabled all avoidance and collision behaviors.

Spawn Adjustments:
Adjusted civilian spawn chance and zombie counts (25 and 50 respectively).
Adjusted spawn speed in Horde mode.
Added random spawn chance for spawners to introduce variety.
Updated zombie spawn locations to prevent spawning outside the level.
Reduced civilian spawn chance.

UI and Audio Enhancements:
HelpMe Text: Added text above civilians to prompt players to save them.
UI Changes:
Hid objectives in the UI for the release.
Changed game over screen text to “Score.”
Audio Tweaks: Added audio adjustments and tweening for music.
Steam Integration: Added Steam friends interface when not using the app, integrated Steam API for overlay, and hid the mouse cursor on controller connection or button press.

Performance and Bug Fixes:
Particle Systems: Adjusted banana and blood particle systems to improve FPS. Reduced particle counts for blood and made general tweaks to particle effects.
FPS Improvements:
Turned off player gravity to enhance FPS.
Increased BFG cooldown to mitigate FPS dips from successive uses.

Collision and Logic Fixes:
Fixed zombies and player helpers getting stuck between buildings.
Added logic to make zombies outside of close range start chasing again.
Fixed null exceptions.
Loot Drops: Added missing loot drops and adjusted global item drop rates with a threshold modifier setting.

HUD Fixes:
Fixed powerup HUD anchor issues similar to scene changer problems.
Added logic and collision area for auto-killing zombies in front of the player.
Additional Improvements:
Camera Shake: Increased camera shake on all weapons.
Shrink Ray Bullet: Adjusted the duration of the shrink ray bullet.
Weapon Fire Rate: Increased fire rate for most weapons.
Despawn Logic: Optimized despawner for bullets.


Thank you for playing Horde! We hope these updates make your experience even better. Keep the feedback coming, and stay tuned for more exciting developments!

Happy gaming!

This build contains numerous changes and fixes! Including but not limited to:

• Fixed In game music and playlist
  
• Updated loading image
  
• Fixed various performance issues related to collision detection and monitoring
  
• Increased minimum separation distance of zombies when flocking
  
• Reduced particle counts for optimization for weapons and menus
  
• Update to Blood pop particle style to be less memory intensive
  
• Adjusted speed of gravity gun
  
• Fixed issue with Restart not resetting Horde
  
• Added Start as a shortcut on a controller from the Enter Initials screen
  
• Reduced blood and size of particles on main menu to help with jitter
  
• Spawn rate adjustments for: Medpack (increased), banana gun (decreased), Stamina boost (increased), Double firepower (increased)
  
• Tweaks and Optimizations for zombie, powerup, and bullet spawn/despawn
  
• Fixed bug BFG to allow it to hit all zombies
  
• Increased cooldown time on BFG
  
• Adjustments to zombie-bullet collision detection for better close range accuracy
  
• Zombie minimum spawn distance added to prevent them from spawning right next to player
  
• Adjustment to popup text size for visibility
  
• Disabled ragdoll until more optimizations can be made