1.4.0 Biggest update ever! New experience, upgrades and new map: Highway.

Biggest update ever – Zombie Uprising: Experience Evolution!

Hello survivors!

It's been an incredible year since "Around Us: Zombie Shooter" launched in Early Access. We have some thrilling news to share!

$ Price Update

First, a heads-up: with this update, at version 1.4.0, the game's price will increase from $2.99 to $4.99.

Major Update: Version 1.4.0

We're excited to announce that our next big update, version 1.4.0, is now released.

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1. Challenge System

• Old System: Easy/Normal/Hard had all waves, with harder difficulties featuring higher damage/health multipliers.
• New Challenges: Each map now features various challenges, such as double health, boss rush, one-hit kills, etc.
• Unlocking Challenges: Each challenge require different number of badges (badge = number of challenges won) to unlock, default challenges which doesn't require any badge are Easy, Normal and Hard.
• Rewards: Winning challenges grants rewards and world records.

2. New Map: Highway

• Highway The fourth map of the game, Zombies can appoarches mainly two ways.

3. New Zombies

• Armored Jumper Can jump and stomp to you, just like jumper, but a lot stronger.
• Stone zombie Very tough zombie, has high resistance to almost everything.
• Spike zombie Has spike skin. Better not to contact them.

4. New Boss: Crystal Boss

• Wave 70: A new boss, the Crystal Boss, will appear at wave 70.

5. Perk Tree System

• Perk Books: Players can now gain "Perk Books" through rewards or loot boxes to upgrade unique passive abilities in the perk tree. Now with 12 first perks.
• First 12 Perks Critical Strke, Fast Learner, Spike Bat, Metal Bat, Safety Helmet, It's ok if no luck, Lucky One, Start Pack, Atleast A Pistol, Ghost Energy, Meaningful Death, Baby With A Gun.

6. New Super Cards

• Big heart: +50 max HP.
• Electromagnetics: Mines also release wide range of electo wave on explodes.
• Fire blessing: Inflict fire to anyone touch you.
• Auto shield: Give some amount of armor overtime.
• Woodoo doll: There's someone get hurt for you.
• All direction: Shotgun shoots all direction every 4th hit.
• Big arm: Change melee weapon to Big golem arms.
• Bounce shot: Sniper rifle bullet can bounce and automatically find enemy nearby.
• Grenade launcher: Change from bombs to grenade launcher.
• (Rework) Blast shot: Add blast explosion effect instead of ordinary bomb effect and now needs to be charged for 1.5 s to shoot out blast shot.
• (Rework) Explosive Proof: Instead of 100% self explosion resistance to reduce 50% explosion damage from allies. (include from yourself).

7. Skills can be upgrade

• Fireball: can be upgrade to Hellfire, Phoenix.
• Freeze: can be upgrade to Bigger Freeze, Ice Age.
• Heal: can be upgrade to Greater heal, Massive heal.
• Air Break: can be upgrade to Air Shake, World Break.
• Lightning Step: can be upgrade to Electric field, Phoenix.
• Light Beam: can be upgrade to Light Impact, Light Form.

8. Style System

• Customization Unlocks: Customizations will now be unlocked by opening loot boxes.
• New Customizations: 5 new colors added: Latte, Magenta, Lime, Light Pink, Inverse

9. Reward System

• Achievement Rewards: Earn coins, perk books, and loot boxes by completing achievements.
• Add new 10+ acheivements according to the update.

10. Improved UI

• Enhancements to the user interface for a better gameplay experience.

11. Improved Experience

• Aiming: now you can aim using right stick on gamepad, and hold "SHIFT" on keyboard. This would make you play easier!
• Camera mode: now you can change camera mode to third person shooter view. This will give you whole new experience.

12. General update & rebalances

• Reduced all zombie HP by 10-50%.
• Shortened wave times for faster, easier gameplay.
• Fewer zombies per wave.
• Change how zombie wave in maps work. Now each map has the same zombie set but different in map rule.
• Sightly improve stats of turrets.
• Now there's limit number of player who can choose the same upgrade card.
• Now player can't change choosing when selected an upgrade card.
• Add guard to reposition player to center of the map when going out too far (For case where player got bug and go outside the walls).
• After upgrade selection now only restore HP based on player count (instead of fully heal).
• Heart gift restores 75 HP instead of 50.
• On singleplayer now penalty waves has 30% shorter duration.
• On singleplayer now has 40% bonus score multiplier.
• Increase time before reduce stack from 3s to 4s.
• Increase stack bonus score by approx 5% per steps.
• Reduce zombie dmg, speed and amount multiplier.
• Now zombies won't spawn during pause.
• Add sound effect change hover buttons.
• Increase zombie score by about 5%
• Increase healing effectiveness of heart tower by 50%
• Increase most upgrade card value (e.g. from +20% to 25%)
• Reduce coin reward from casual plays.
• Fix bugs.

We hope you're as excited about these updates as we are. Thank you for your continued support, and we'll see you in the game!

Note: For DEMO and mobile version will be scheduled to get 1.4.0 update in following weeks.

Best,
The "Around Us: Zombie Shooter" Team