Dispatch 0.1.9 — 26 Jul 2026 · channel: beta
The Horde Learns to Knock
v0.1.9— your barricades finally mean something to the common dead.
Fixed
- Regular zombies could not attack barricades at all. Their entire attack test was "is the player within reach" — a barricade was never even considered. Blocked by a cade, they stood there with their arms out while the player stayed safely out of range. Only the special zombies could break wood. The common horde now looks for whatever is blocking it and swings at that, for the same damage it deals players.
- Zombies ignored anything below them. A prop underfoot or on a lower step has almost no horizontal bearing, and the "is it in front of me" test threw those out — so a cade beneath a zombie was invisible to it. Anything essentially on top of them now counts as blocking.
- Big barricades were unreachable. Attack range was measured to a prop's centre rather than its surface, so on a long plank stack or a wide crate a zombie could be pressed flat against the wood and still be "too far" to hit it — and physically unable to get closer, because the cade blocks them.
- The free arsenal crate spawned in your face. It was dropped at a fixed distance in front of the spawn point and simply seated on whatever the ground trace found — and a ground trace happily lands on the top of a prop. On Arena01 there is a waist-high prop directly ahead of the first spawn, so the crate perched on it at head height, under a metre from your eyes, while you stood on the floor a metre below. Crates now have to land on the same floor you are standing on.
- The resupply box floated in mid-air. It is placed beside its arsenal crate with no ground check of its own, so it inherited the crate's height — including when the crate was up on that prop. It now picks a side that shares the crate's floor.
- A carried crate trapped you. While shouldered it was set to "query only" collision, which stops physics but not the movement sweeps a character walks with — so you collided with the crate you were holding and slid to a halt every few steps. The crate now ignores its own carrier and nobody else, so it still blocks zombies normally.
- A carried crate blocked the whole screen. It was attached behind you at head height, which is exactly where the third-person camera looks from.
- You could not put a crate down at all. Shouldering set a state that no "place it" path ever checked, so every press fell through to the pick-up trace. There was no key in the game that could set a shouldered crate down.
- The leaderboard listed you once per run. Two runs meant two rows on a board that is supposed to rank operators, not attempts. One row per survivor now, showing their best.
- Your rank counted runs, not people. A rival logging five good runs pushed you down five places on a board that only displayed them once. Rank and table now agree.
New
- Monthly standings. The board is now a calendar-month season and rolls over on the 1st. Nothing is deleted — every run stays in your record and in the all-time totals.
- Arsenal crates place like turrets. Pick one up and it lifts off as a preview that follows your aim — green where it will sit, red where it will not. Press E to set it down. A red spot refuses and leaves the preview up so you can re-aim instead of dropping a shop kiosk inside a wall.