State of Decay PC Steam patch sorts physics, shooting and more

The Lifeline DLC for State of Decay isn’t with us yet but there is a new patch for the PC on Steam this morning. The update brings fixes to game physics, a smoothed framerate, and zombies even prefer tasty NPCs. Yum!

The game should update on Steam adding the following changes.

Physics and Pathing

• Made vehicles less flippy
• Improved vehicle entry distances
• Added a physics test when a vehicle flips to avoid throwing you out of the environment
• Fixed glass failing to break properly
• Fixed potential crash when zombies try to path outside of the playable area
• Fixed zombies occasionally running in straight line towards target through collision
• Fixed zombies getting stuck facing each other
• Fixed dead zombies running in place
• Reduced instances of zombies walking through doors
• Radius is now proper on aggro range (fireworks, talking dolls, etc. now only pull nearby zombies)
• Hordes no longer target buildings they can’t infest
• Changed the floor height on industrial warehouses to fix pathing

Shooting

• Increased snap distance of all guns
• Removed rotation spread penalty on all assault rifles and SMGs
• Tuned aim friction

Graphics and Sound

• Smoothed framerate
• Increased range for the home base audio loading
• Fixed base environment audio preload

Zombies and AI

• Zombies prefer tasty NPCs (taunting, blazing, cowering NPCs)
• Zombies prefer tasty targets (fireworks, talking dolls, etc. over echos and disturbances)
• Cleaned up zombie distribution

Outposts and Resources

• Corrected the daily resource calculations on asset page of journal
• Capped the number of resources you can receive on subsequent offline days at 15
• New outpost resource model
  • Each outpost costs 1 material for upkeep for the first day you’re offline
  • All resource outpost types now correctly generate resources
  • If an outpost contains resources it generates 3 of that resource

Cleaning up Under the Hood

• Fixed bug preventing the Steam leaderboard score from maintaining your highest scores
• Retroactively award Breakdown achievements for unlocked characters
• Implemented fix for crashes if an NPC is trying to enter a vehicle and you exit and continue
• Fixed an issue with button substitutions
• Changed main menu selection to support upcoming Lifeline DLC
• Fixed world-reset issue when switching from the base game to Breakdown and vice versa