Zombie Panic! Source getting a massive update

[Shoomonger]

I just found out about this. ZPS is getting a pretty meaty update and a modeling contest. Good stuff: http://www.zombiepanic.org/site/index.php

The ZP Development team has been hard at work for the past few months, working on a major milestone in ZPS development. This update will include several new maps, new features, and a new game mode.

But first, I want to talk about a new competition that we are hosting.

That's right. In honor of Halloween and Zombie Panic's (HL1 Mod) 5 year anniversary, we will be hosting a prop modeling contest! The duration of this contest will be 2 weeks starting now and ending October 17th of this year, and the rules can be found here.


Now, with that out of the way, we can talk about ZPS 2.0, which we hope to release on October 31, 2009! That's right, we're aiming for a Halloween release! Included is a new game mode, which is currently codenamed as "ZPA". As we get closer to release, we will detail more about this game mode. But we aim to release ZPA with *two* new maps, as well as a slew of features and enhancements that are ZPA-exclusive.

zpo_shreddingfield

zps_clubzombo

zpa_town

...and Objective beacons


That's not all though. We've got a list of major and minor features, which you will see us post as we get closer to release. Here's our changelog with some items hidden allowing you all to ponder what else we might have going in game:

=====Zombie Panic! Source v2.0=====

- Added ZPA gamemode.
- *****
- Added Objective list for levels.
- Added Phong shader to models (All characters, hands, some guns, some props).
- Grenade cooking added.
- *****
- *****
- Added Zpo_Shreddingfield
- Added Zps_Clubzombo.
- *****
- Added Zpa_Town
- *****
- Updated Policestation.
- *****
- Updated Asylum.
- *****
- *****
- Updated Tanker.
- *****
- *****
- Removed Deadblock (ZPS version).
- *****
- *****
- Fixed Unload weapon bug.
- *****

So get excited! Get in-game to see more weekly sneak peek screenshots and twitter updates! And get ready for a massive update to ZPS!

-ZP Development Team

 

[Nutomic]

Played this already, but i didnt like the whole gameplay, way too slow compared to other games (Left 4 Dead).

The pictures look nice though.

 

[Psy]

The light being cast by those lampposts look like overlays. o0

 

[JoshuaC]

Are they seriously using that many env_projectedtexture's? Unless they've changed something about them, I can't see anybody getting good performance at all.

 

[SiniStarR]

So is this basicly the poormans l4d versus mode?

 

[grazr]

I was briefly on the zombie mod team HoldOut as a level designer before the lead coder decided he wanted to concentrate on University and the whole thing went down the drain mid development.

It's a shame that most of their good maps (and weapon models) were donations from said mod. I'd have liked to see better stuff by now.

I still had a map i wanted to release for HO and promised Tatsuro i'd donate it to ZP when it was finished (when i was reminded about the mod when steam had a big hoohaa about it). But my motivations continued to lie with TF2. I should pull my finger out and pass it over since the half finished vmf still looks of better quality than these maps.

 

[Randdalf]

Zombie Panic is incredible fun if you play it with a group of people you vaguely know, and alltalk on, about 3 times a year.

 

[owly-oop]

Zombie Panic is incredible fun if you play it with a group of people you vaguely know, and alltalk on, about 3 times a year.

Same with any other game. I had fun playing CSS with my friends. For like 5 mins

 

[Freyja]

Zombie panic is okay but I find it really...buggy with no help.