The Maps & Shop Update

Three maps. Pick your night.

• The Block is still free and still the original: four gates, a dead fountain, burnt-out cars and a failed checkpoint.
• Gravewood unlocks for 1,200 coins and The Rail Yard for 2,000 coins, in the new Shop.
• Pick your map from the map card on the title screen, or on the Play Solo and Host Co-op screens. In a co-op lobby the host picks, and friends who join play it even if they haven't unlocked it.
• Every map has its own leaderboards, solo and co-op, for each difficulty. The high scores on the title screen follow the map you're looking at.

 

 

Gravewood: the dead don't stay buried here

• Crypts burst open: from wave 2, one of the four crypts blows its doors off mid-wave and a pack of the dead pours out. From wave 8 it happens twice a wave. The doors are back in place by the next wave.
• The dead rise from open graves: a lot of the horde claws its way up out of the dug-up graves scattered between the rows.
• The undead come early: skeleton packs from wave 3 and mummies from wave 5, instead of waves 6 and 7.
• Headstones you can shoot over: they're low enough for your bullets to pass over, but nothing walks through them, so the rows become lanes.
• The chapel bell tolls at the start of every wave.

 

 

The Rail Yard: mind the night train

• The night train tears through every minute or so. You get about four and a half seconds of warning: TRAIN INCOMING on screen, flashing crossing lights, barriers coming down, bells and the horn.
• Anything on the tracks gets hit. Zombies are flattened. Survivors take a big hit and are knocked flying off the line. Gadgets left on the tracks are smashed or set off.
• Use it. Lure the horde onto the tracks just before it arrives and let the train do the work.
• Explosive fuel barrels stand around the yard, and they're put back at the start of every wave.

 

 

The Shop

• Every zombie you kill pays coins, and when a match ends half of the coins you earned go into your bank. That bank is what you spend.
• The Maps tab unlocks Gravewood and The Rail Yard. A new map becomes your selected map straight away.
• The Weapon Skins tab has a skin of every rarity for every weapon, gadget and grenade. A new skin is equipped straight away, and you can switch back to the standard look any time.
• Buying takes a second click to confirm, so nothing gets bought by accident.

 

 

50 weapon skins

From Cool to Legendary

• Cool (ice blue, 150 coins): a fresh paint job.
• Rad (toxic green, 300 coins): paint plus a pattern: stripes, camo, checks, drips, runes or flames.
• Wicked (violet, 600 coins): glowing accents that light up the weapon.
• Savage (blood orange, 1,000 coins): the glow pulses like a heartbeat, and your tracers and muzzle flash take its colour.
• Legendary (gold, 1,800 coins): a particle aura of embers, sparks, void or gold, special shots, and a shimmer on its card in the Shop.

 

 

Your coins, spinning

Also in this update

• Join Discord: a button on the title screen takes you to the Dead Blocks Discord.
• Gunshot volume: gunfire has its own volume setting in Settings.
• Cleaner HUD: the logo is gone from the top left, and the wave, zombies, time and team score moved up.