Dread Dawn news & patch notes

Brand new “Zombie Escape” mode is now available!!!

The brand new "Escape the Zombie City" survival mode will be coming in the next update!

Mode Introduction

In "Escape the Zombie City" mode, you and your team are forced to walk through a city completely overrun by zombies after your car breaks down. Your ultimate goal: find the extraction point and escape alive.

However, the path is anything but easy—danger lurks in every corner of the city, with swarms of zombies relentlessly chasing you. Real death approaches with every step.

Core Gameplay

Weapon and Ammo Collection: Along the way, you'll find various weapons and ammo (rifles, pistols, melee weapons, etc.). Use your resources wisely to withstand the relentless zombie attacks.

Strategy and Cooperation: You will have two teammates. Properly distribute supplies and work together—teamwork is the key to survival.

Zombie Threats: Zombies come in many types, each with different threats—some have high defense, some are extremely fast and love to ambush. You need to react quickly to break through their encirclement.

Escape the Zombie City: The ultimate goal is to survive the zombie pursuit and find the extraction point to safely evacuate.

Additionally——I'm working on a new DLC. This DLC will cover what happens after the protagonist Jack escapes by boat and finds the legendary island in story mode. A unique new map will be added to the game.

This map will feature a large number of outdoor scenes never seen in the main game before, including towns, forest cabins, even farms and rivers. You will play as Jack, exploring and surviving on the mysterious island.

When harvesting crops, you can now automatically pick them up. A crop icon will flash during harvesting so you no longer need to press the E key again to collect them, making harvesting more convenient.

• Added the feature of auto-picking up leaves and wood dropped when cutting grass, making it easier for players to collect dropped items.

• For the above two features, if your inventory is full, the dropped items will remain on the ground, and players can choose whether to pick them up.

• Flares have been added in the subway station in the main city. You can use flares to burn zombies or for illumination.

• Many random events involving tentacle zombies have been added to the southeast corner of the eastern district. Passersby may transform into tentacle zombies at any time.

• Fixed the issue where autosaves would not display when the number of autosave files exceeded 20. This was due to an incorrect setting, which has now been corrected.

• Added a black screen death prompt related to using the construction box, to prevent affecting the gameplay experience due to lack of information.

• Resolved the issue where teammates would also automatically pick up crops for the protagonist when hitting crops. Constraints have now been added.

• Modified the display logic for the flashing icon when auto-picking items. Unified the code for loading, optimizing memory usage.

• Adjusted the probability of triggering the chicken trap to prevent the trigger time from being too fixed, making the triggering method more random and natural.

• Fixed an issue in Director Mode where right-clicking to clear crops or grass would leave behind seeds, leaves, and wood drops.

• The camera issue with the third mission’s street scene animation has been fixed. The camera movement has been adjusted to prevent it from going off-screen.

• A new type of high wall, the Stone High Wall, has been added. This wall cannot be climbed over and can block the movement of both zombies and humans.

• You need to use stones and nails to build this wall. The Stone High Wall has higher defense than the Wooden High Wall.

• Stones needed for crafting the Stone High Wall can be picked up from the ground outdoors, and they will have a glowing prompt when you get close.

• Several new respawn points have been added to Survival Mode, with some located in dangerous areas.

• Fixed an issue where the construction description would not update when rapidly switching the mouse while the building panel was open.

• Adjusted the probability of cups appearing in indoor toilets or bathrooms and increased the spawn rate of drinks on supermarket shelves.

• Fixed an error in Director Mode where placing a zombie horde defense and having the protagonist approach a high wall would cause the horde to attack the wall.

• Added description text for new items and their corresponding translation files.

• Modified the display logic for prompts in the building panel. Previously, prompts could display abnormally on screens with unusual aspect ratios; this has now been fixed.

• Optimized the display size of some construction images in the building panel, improving loading speed and reducing memory usage.

• Resolved an issue where some computers would display large white squares for clouds. A new method for rendering clouds has been implemented.

• Fixed a problem where dialogues could not be skipped when clicking to skip the prologue. This was caused by variables not being updated.

• Added some zombie hordes and zombies to the main road in the eastern district to increase the game’s challenge and unpredictability.

• The weather system now features dynamic clouds. You can see changing cloud shadows on the ground and buildings as the clouds move.

• Clouds will change over time, and extreme weather conditions such as overcast skies, heavy rain, or clear skies may occur.

• In the future, cloud control functionality will be added to Director Mode, allowing you to combine it with other weather controllers to create a variety of interesting weather types.

• Shadow occlusion effects have been added under trees, with shadows changing dynamically according to the weather, enhancing visual quality.

• Fishing rods can now be found in the shops within the main city’s commercial area. You can use them to fish by the riverside or seaside.

• Some aspects of the initial storyline involving the search for your sister have been modified, with certain animations removed and a prompt to press ‘M’ to open the map added.

• A feature to skip certain story parts has been added. Now, later sections of the prologue can be skipped by pressing the ESC key.

• Fixed an issue where other characters would perform a heavy attack whenever you did, which was caused by incorrectly shared variables.

• Fixed an issue where only one wooden high wall blueprint would remain and could not be dismantled. This was due to a variable not being reset properly.

• Adjusted the probability of finding repair kits, adrenaline, and enhancement pills when searching for supplies indoors or outdoors.

• Added prompts regarding story skipping and corresponding translations, and optimized some text files to improve loading speed.

• Wooden high walls have been added! You can now use them to build more complex camps.

• Wooden high walls are different from ordinary fences—they are much taller and have higher defense, blocking the movement of both zombies and humans. Humans cannot climb over high walls.

• You can construct wooden high walls from the build panel by drawing blueprints to plan the wall’s shape, then build by placing materials.

• Building wooden high walls requires wood and iron nails. Hold the middle mouse button to dismantle wooden high walls. You can also right-click to cancel blueprint drawing.

• Added a new plant: grass. This plant will be widely placed on the map in the future and, like regular shrubs, will refresh automatically.

• Added explosive one-time melee weapons in the Eastern District’s underground water pipes and subway, making exploration more interesting.

• Adjusted the probability for teammates to find items such as enhancement pills, adrenaline, and repair kits when searching for supplies.

• Some of the weather system code has been modified to prevent excessively long periods of rain or wind, increasing weather variety.

• Fixed an issue where some items were not displayed when there were insufficient items to deduct, caused by incorrect quantity code.

• Added prompts and texts related to wooden high walls, with corresponding translations.

• Fixed an issue where farmland might not be saved after being placed, caused by quantity data not being cleared.

• Resolved an issue where teammates would use lassos as melee weapons, due to lassos not being excluded from the weapon list.

• When dismantling wooden high wall blueprints, there is a chance that a white box might appear near the high wall’s location; this will automatically disappear when switching to the desktop.

About Sleep Value:

When your character is tired, you need to find a place with a bed to sleep:

Alternatively, you can craft a sleeping bag:

About Thirst Value:

You can obtain water through several types of food, such as beer, mushroom soup, vegetable soup, and more:

Or craft an empty cup to collect water near swimming pools or fire hydrants:

Future updates will include thirst levels and more comprehensive growth features to enhance the depth of survival gameplay. Stay tuned!