- Reduced price of all boss revive items (now only 5-10 coins each instead of 125-200)
- Updated crash reporter to provide more details to help debug issues
- Fixed crash related to texture loading changes from previous update
- Fixed issues with backgrounds in some levels when using ultra wide resolution or high resolution sprites
- Fixed issue with Goliath eating animation when using high resolution sprites
Gibz
GIBZ Update 2023-02-26
GIBZ Update 2023-02-13
- Fixed some memory and texture issues (potential fix for "Out of Memory" errors and white texture issues)
GIBZ Update - 2022-12-20
- Updated dependencies (Potential fix for white texture issue when using high resolution sprites)
- Tweaked gatling defence tutorial message
- Added visual aid to "press start to join" message on main menu
- Removed black bars from main menu on ultra-wide resolutions
- Fixed fullscreen windowed mode on ultra-wide screens
- Fixed some perks showing wrong icons when using high resolution sprites
- Fixed rare case where "All Perks" achievement was not awarded when last perk unlocked was the "kill 4 bosses" achievement
- Fixed a few possible errors/crashes
Halloween Event
This is an automatic event that happens in-game each year. Some exclusive hats and achievements can only be earned during it!
- 4 achievements and multiple hats to unlock!
- Trick-or-Treat! - random houses appear on the overworld map, knock on the doors for chance for some loot or a fight
- Some houses give you a chance to get the exclusive Werewolf or Spitter Masks! Both with unique abilities.
- Pumpkins appear in random encounters and explode like mini tnt crates - smash enough of them to unlock the Pumpkin Head
- Candy of all sorts replaces the regular food pick-ups - Eat enough candy to unlock the Witch Nose and Witch Hat
GIBZ - Xmas 2019
The event will run until the 31st of December (UTC)
- Each day find 8 crates sitting in the church (containing coins and random hats from any zone)
- Snowy Treasure mini-game - dig in the snow for improved chances of coins and hats
- Snowy Zombie Surfing - Zombie Surfing now has a chance of being set in the snow
- Find a zombie that's getting into the holiday spirit. Then kill him and take his hat.
- Can you find the legendary Deerwolf and claim it's antlers?
- Crates containing weapons, hats, facewear or zombie repellent have coloured ribbons on them during the event
- Greatly increased the chances of the "Dynamite Pouch Expander" being in-stock at the travelling merchant during the event
GIBZ - Halloween 2019
The event runs into the 7th of November (UTC).
- 4 achievements and multiple hats to unlock!
- Trick-or-Treat! - random houses appear on the overworld map, knock on the doors for chance for some loot or a fight
- Some houses give you a chance to get the exclusive Werewolf or Spitter Masks! Both with unique abilities.
- Pumpkins appear in random encounters and explode like mini tnt crates - smash enough of them to unlock the Pumpkin Head
- Candy of all sorts replaces the regular food pick-ups - Eat enough candy to unlock the Witch Nose and Witch Hat
GIBZ - Xmas 2018
It's Xmas time in GIBZ again! Everything from previous years is back, a couple of hat buff changes were made and a rare upgrade has been added to the Travelling Merchant. Buy the "Dynamite Pouch Expander" to permanently be able to hold a total of 9 sticks of dynamite (12 with the Mining Helmet buff). The chances of it being in-stock is greatly increased during the Xmas event, so make sure to get it if you like to throw dynamite around.
- The Xmas Event is back again! Now until the 31st of December (UTC)
- Everything from previous years (including the achievements and hats) are back:
- Each day find 8 crates sitting in the church (containing coins and random hats from any zone)
- Snowy Treasure mini-game - dig in the snow for improved chances of coins and hats
- Snowy Zombie Surfing - Zombie Surfing now has a chance of being set in the snow
- Find a zombie that's getting into the holiday spirit. Then kill him and take his hat.
- Can you find the legendary Deerwolf and claim it's antlers?
- Crates containing weapons, hats, facewear or zombie repellent have coloured ribbons on them during the event
- Each day find 8 crates sitting in the church (containing coins and random hats from any zone)
- Added "Dynamite Pouch Expander" to the travelling merchant, buy it to be able to hold a total of 9 sticks of dynamite (stacks with "Mining Helmet" buff)
- Greatly increased the chances of the "Dynamite Pouch Expander" being in-stock at the travelling merchant during the Xmas Event
- Greatly increased the chances of the "Dynamite Pouch Expander" being in-stock at the travelling merchant during the Xmas Event
- Buffed the "Mining Helmet" buff to 3 extra sticks of dynamite (up from 2)
- Buffed the "Festive Hat" buff (greatly increased chance of a second hat dropping from a hat crate) + added check to make sure both hats aren't the same
- Reworked how textures are loaded (again) in attempt to fix the LoadingFailedException (Failed to load texture from memory) crashes some users get
I also did some more work on the texture loading to try and help the people who've been getting LoadingFailedException crashes. Let me know if this update causes any problems for you, though hopefully it should work better for everyone.
High Resolution Sprites/Textures
Originally the game used sprites/textures made for 1080p, which didn't look that good when you played the game at higher resolutions. So I went through a re-exported them all for 4K, added support for sprites at different resolutions and fixed a whole bunch of problems that came with it. Now the game can look nice and crisp at higher resolutions!
Patch Notes:
- Added new option for high resolution (4K) sprites/textures (default sprites/textures are 1080p) - the game now looks nice and crisp on 1440p+ resolutions
- Tweaked how textures are loaded (should fix the LoadingFailedException crashes that occurred for some people)
- Tweaked pre-loading and loading screens to fix some issues
- Fixed AI path-finding bug that could occur on some maps when zombies spawned from doorways
New and Updated Translations
The game has already done pretty well in China and France compared to other countries so I thought it was about time I actually added support for their languages.
In other news, I'm currently working on adding High Resolution (4K) sprite/texture support. Which will add a new option to use high resolution sprites that makes the game look a lot nicer on 1440p and higher resolutions. It's practically done but a weird issue came up so I'll have to take some more time to get it ready.
GIBZ - Base Defence
A new update for GIBZ that brings a new activity to enjoy! Along with a new weapon, hat, 10 new achievements and 2 new leaderboards to compete in. There is a lot of various fixes and improvements with the update as well, as you can see in the patch notes below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_2JQ-wVAyc
To celebrate GIBZ is 60% off on Steam for a limited time!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/448320/GIBZ/
If you've defeated the Wizard already, simply jump in and you'll find your new base on the Overworld map just east of the Church, near the Lumber Yard. In there you'll find a brand new upgrade tree you can throw your coins at. The first 100 waves are pre-set, afterwards they are randomly generated, getting harder and harder. Compete the in the new leaderboards to see who can reach the highest wave or who can clear the most total waves.
The Halloween event has also started! You can now earn the Halloween themed achievements and hats from previous years. Food crates stock candy and random houses are popping up around the Overworld Map, so dress-up and go trick-or-treating.
Patch Notes:
- New Activity - Base Defence!
- Build and defend your base from waves of enemies and bosses!
- Becomes available after beating the final boss - appears on the overworld map near the Lumber Yard
- Play it singleplayer or help out friends in online/local co-op (bases and their waves cleared are tied to the host)
- Spend coins at the workbench to unlock the ability to place and upgrade things such as:
- Walls
- AI Survivors
- TNT Crates
- Food Crates
- Mud Floors (slows down enemies)
- Dummies (distracts enemies)
- Weapon Racks
- Shop
- Walls
- Collect and spend Materials to build structures
- First 100 Waves are pre-set, afterwards waves are randomly generated with bosses reappearing periodically
- Every boss drops a Treasure chest that contains large amounts of coins, materials and a random hat or weapon you don't currently have unlocked
- New Primary Weapon! - Beat the boss on Wave 100 to unlock a new Special Primary Weapon
- New Hat - Combat Helmet (unlocked via Achievement related to new weapon)
- 10 New Achievements
- 2 New Leaderboards - Compete for total number of waves cleared and highest wave reached
- Halloween Event! 13th of October to the 7th of November (UTC)
- Achievements and hats from previous years are back again!
- Increased max save/character slots to 16 (up from 4) - updated the character selection UI to support this
- Balance Changes -
- Blunderbuss - 6 pellets are now loaded into the gun at the start of reloading (continues to load 3 at a time afterwards)
- Scoped Rifle - Speed is now affected by "+Single-shot firerate" perk (25% faster reload, 15% faster bolt action)
- All bosses now give 25% more coins on Normal Difficulty and 50% more on Hard
- The Treasure Chest from the Treasure Mini-game now gives 750 coins (up from 500)
- Lowered chance of finding empty crates
- Increased chance of the Treasure mini-game appearing when going for the Hardcore Achievement
- Increased Machete Slinger's attack damage during the Tower Bridge fight (to make up for the lack of bats)
- Blunderbuss - 6 pellets are now loaded into the gun at the start of reloading (continues to load 3 at a time afterwards)
- Fisherman Boss - Fixed movement speed (he will now move much faster in both phases as originally intended)
- Zombie Chickens - Improved Death Animation (feathers are now gibbed instead of part of the sprite animation)
- Skeletons - Blunt and sharp melee weapons now have the chance of removing their legs and blunt weapons can also now remove their arms
- Maggots/Shrooms -
- Maggots can now be damaged/killed while in the air after a half second delay
- Increased Maggot Health by 3x
- Reduced the amount/size of blood maggots produce when damaged
- Fixed certain player shirts going invisible when maggots were on them
- Fixed Shroom (maggot carrier) stumble/damage animation not working correctly
- Maggots can now be damaged/killed while in the air after a half second delay
- Added Randomise button to character creator and character customiser
- TNT Crates no longer get set off by thrown objects (sticks of dynamite and rocks)
- Co-op players who have not unlocked the higher perk shop tiers and player 1 has, can now unlock them simply by having defeated the corresponding bosses (instead of having to go into singleplayer to unlock the new zones for themselves)
- Weapon Racks now use the same system as other interactable objects (you now won't see multiple prompts if hats are near them)
- "press [] to start" message now shows by default on the start screen if a controller is connected
- Tweaked the look of the hat and facewear sprites when on the ground
- Removed obstacles from the beach and grassy hills levels during Mayhem
- The resolution of the decal layer is now affected by the game's resolution (decals should now look better at higher resolutions)
- Text quality is now scaled based on game's resolution (will look smoother at higher resolutions)
- Fixed various problems with 4:3 and 16:10 resolutions
- Fixed zombies not acting correctly in the Gatling Defence mini-game (not damaging the crates and being able to walk through the walls)
- Fixed boss kills credit only going to the player who got the last hit (for boss kill leaderboard)
- Fixed character and shirt customiser UI not showing the player's correct weapon + fixed hand placement
- Fixed bug that could cause the travelling merchant's zombies to go invisible
- Fixed the travelling merchant sometimes stocking the "Army Hat" which is an achievement hat (buying it prevented your from earning the achievement)
- Fixed the "Bloody Metal Mask" achievement being awarded to players who didn't attack the boss at all (in online co-op)
- Fixed bug that allowed players to have negative money
- Fixed aimline not showing for co-op players when player 1 is using mouse/keyboard
- Fixed UI buttons activating when clicking any mouse button (will only take left-clicks now)
- Fixed kill-streaks being tracked in Zombie Surfing
- Fixed profile icons not showing correct hair colour if you were using one of the newer hair colours added in a previous update
- Networking fixes and improvements -
- Game is now saved when disconnected from host
- Improved player position syncing when changing levels (stops the sliding that occurred on the Overworld map)
- Fixed projectiles sometimes colliding with the ground at different positions
- Fixed the state of some Overworld Map objects not being synced in some cases (such as the Tower Bridge)
- Fixed some cases where a player is shown lying on the ground when they are not
- Fixed case where the health of the bosses in the Tower Bridge Battle were not synced correctly
- Fixed barricade appearing after leaving Church/Pub for clients if the travelling merchant is present
- Fixed the fire in the Hospital level dissipating for clients
- Fixed Bone Chainsaw sometimes causing bullets to fire on other clients when used
- Game is now saved when disconnected from host