Hi everyone!

This week I've been catching up on little tasks that needed to be done to support recent updates, mainly to do with Control Mode.

Players can now use the Loot button to arm themselves with a melee weapon, and are able to use it to defend themselves from zombies.

I've also added the Barricade button so players can manually barricade regions if they are able.

One other change I have made is for civilians to automatically change to the Alerted state when they are manually controlled, as this makes the most sense as otherwise when the player relinquishes control they will act as if nothing has happened.

I also changed the mouseover text on the melee chance bar to more accurately show how it now works.

Thanks for playing as always and see you in the next update!

Hi everyone! I've added something that I know a lot of you have been waiting for:

Civilians now can weird melee weapons!

When they become alarmed and turn magenta they will arm themselves with anything they can find before they start searching for a place to barricade.

I've rearranged this original hardly used melee chance stat for this new update. Alarmed citizens will no longer flee in panic from zombies and will instead try to get to their objective, whether it's leaving the building or getting to safety and will fight the zombies if they come within range. I've upped the chance to hit from a measly 10% to 75% so that their bravery in combat isn't always in vain.

This is a huge buff for survivors as now zombies have a much tougher time when someone is infected in a large group. It's not a complete buff for them though as fighting zombies often leaves them infected and continues the infection cycle.

At the moment civilians don't need to find weapons to arm themselves like they do with firearms, I take it as them simply grabbing whatever is close to hand.

I've also fixed a few bugs and tweaked some things:

• Fixed a bug in the last chopper update where military units sometimes weren't getting dropped off
  
• Helicopters are now correctly synced with the time bar at the bottom of the screen and don't run independently of game speed
  
• Survivors no longer block up rooms when they are hiding from threats in their strongholds, they have a bit more freedom of movement to go through some doors.
  
• Survivors were incorrectly determining that military were safety when the military were set to kill them. They will now flee as they should.

This crosses another big thing off my todo list for this project! Thanks for playing as always and see you in the next update!