Infection Free Zone

Greetings, Survivors!

New Features and Content

• Indoor Movement has been added to the game, allowing the squads to pass through buildings or go to a specific place in large buildings.
  
  
• A new squad member's Skill System has been added to the game.
  
  
• Vehicle Scavenging has been reworked, allowing the squads to be permanently assigned to a vehicle.
  
• Map Info Panel has been added to the game.
  
  
• A "Repair All" button has been added to adapted buildings and structures. Clicking on this button will order repair work on all the buildings/structures of the same type.
  
• A new Polearm weapon has been added. Polearms deal more damage than the default Machetes, have a higher range, and can be found in Museums or produced.
  
• The HP of Wood and Metal Walls has been increased by 50%.
  
• The HP of Brick and Fortified Walls has been increased by 25%.
  
• Kindergarten building and Kindergarten related mood modifiers have been added,
  
• Bar building and Bar related mood modifiers have been added.
  
• Current Game Customization has been added to the Escape Menu. Now you can adjust your game's difficulty without starting a new game.
  
• Workers' logic behind production and resource transportation has been improved to ensure higher work effectiveness.
  
• Gear Production and its corresponding researches and buildings have been added to the game.
  
• New Gear models for Squad Members have been added to the game.
  
• A new Mood visualization, which also informs about the current Mood trending tendency, has been added.
  
• Double tapping on the hotkey assigned to a specific squad by the player (CTRL+number) will now move the camera to this group.
  
• SUV and Compact Car Vehicles have been added to the game.
  
• Icons with the HP for walls, towers, and gates are now displayed if their HP is lower than 100%.
  
• Research has been rebalanced. The researches available further in the Research Tree require more Scientific Materials and time now.
  
• A new Daytime Music Theme has been added.
  
• Plate Armor has been rebalanced and is now causing -20% movement speed for the squad.
  
• A new recommended map has been added to the game - Washington.
  
• A new Low Memory Warning has been added to the game to inform the player when the game might be about to crash due to insufficient memory.
  
• An ability to deadapt HQs (while having more than one) has been added.
  
• The possible difference in strength between the following swarms of infected has been reduced.
  
• The biomes in South Korea and North Korea have been updated to include Korean names.
  
• Edge Scrolling Checkbox has been added to the Settings.
  
• New hotkeys have been added for actions like Repair, Repair All, Deadapt, Deconstruct, Cancel,
• Replenish, Exchange, Split, Go to HQ, Disband, and for changing stances.
  
• The barn and fertilizers have been rebalanced to reduce their impact on food production.
  
• All the new content has been translated into supported languages.
  

Bug Fixes

• An issue with corrupted saves caused by pausing the game and instantly adapting buildings in deconstruction/repair has been fixed.
  
• An issue that caused some units to get stuck on the corners of buildings has been fixed.
  
• An issue that sometimes caused the hordes to stay in buildings during the day has been fixed.
  
• An issue with some events not starting has been fixed.
  
• An issue that affected the line of sight of some towers and gates has been fixed.
  
• An issue with vehicles sometimes not responding to input has been fixed.
  
• An issue that caused some infected not to get pushed by the vehicle has been fixed.
  
• An issue with bug reports not going through due to large size has been fixed.
  
• An issue with an expedition mission not completing upon reaching its marker has been fixed.
  
• An issue that caused the hordes to sometimes focus on structures, instead of the squads, has been fixed.
  
• An issue with some achievements tracking progress across all save files instead of one specific game has been fixed.
  
• An issue with the Alpha Infected not burying underground has been fixed.
  
• An issue with the Alpha Infected having incorrect movement speed parameters has been fixed.
  
• An issue with buried infected being sometimes visible has been fixed.
  
• An issue that caused the smoke particles to render inside the buildings has been fixed.
  
• An issue with some animations not launching properly has been fixed.
  
• An issue with the bandits dealing higher damage than intended, has been fixed.
  
• An issue that resulted in the squads not returning to the nearest HQ has been fixed.
  
• An issue with the squad list scrollbar having very low sensitivity has been fixed.
  
• An issue with partial adaptation not being visible during the winter nights has been fixed.
  
• A new set of optimization changes has been introduced to improve the average FPS during gameplay.
  

Upcoming Changes

Greetings, Survivors!

Changelog

New changes

• A missing Warehouse POI Filter option has been added,
  
• Construction site terrain texture and debris generation have been updated,
  
• Expanded Error Messages in the Bug Reporter have been added,
  
• The Traditional Chinese font size in the Research panel has been increased,
  
• The Emblem material and outline have been updated.
  

Bug Fixes

• An issue with towers not dealing damage in some specific cases has been fixed,
  
• An issue that caused the grown-up children not to have the proper adult stats (like movement speed) has been fixed,
  
• The Snow and Rain VFX has been optimized to reduce the impact on the player's average FPS,
  
• An issue that caused the shotguns not to appear during the scavenge has been fixed,
  
• An issue with default emblems displaying incorrectly on older saves has been fixed,
  
• An issue with the zone name displaying incorrectly as Testing_Zone on older saves has been fixed,
  
• An issue with the zone name displaying a value from previous games in radio transmissions has been fixed,
  
• An issue with errors appearing when clicking on a squad after an exchange has been fixed,
  
• An issue with walls being locked from placing from certain directions has been fixed.
  
• An issue that caused the game to crash/freeze upon exiting the game or entering the Main Menu after longer sessions of gameplay has been fixed,
  
• An issue that caused errors upon entering the expedition has been fixed,
  
• An issue that caused the infected dogs to spawn less often than intended has been fixed,
  
• An issue that caused the workers to not correctly use the building entrances has been fixed,
  
• An issue that caused the squad to get stuck in the loop of moving between the vehicle and the building has been fixed.
  
• An issue with some locations spawning an excessive number of aircraft wrecks has been fixed,
  
• An issue with cookhouses not working when being adapted from very small buildings has been fixed,
  
• An issue with infected dogs not having the animation for burying underground has been fixed,
  
• An issue that made it possible to place a greenhouse on a farm has been fixed,
  
• A rare issue that resulted in workers still working in the building, even if they weren't assigned to it, has been fixed,
  
• A number of stability changes have been introduced to reduce the number of crashes.
  

Indoor Movement

Greetings Survivors

New Features and Content

• Gear System has been added to the game, including Sport Protector, Riot Gear and Plate Armor. Those will allow extra protection for your squad members.
  
• Two new types of POI have been added - Museums and Sports Shops where you can find the Gear.
  
• Emblem customization has been added. Now you can both change your zone's name and its emblem. It's also possible to upload custom images to the Infection Free Zone_Data\StreamingAssets\Emblem\Logo folder and use them as emblems in the game.
  
• A tree regrowth system has been added. The trees will grow back by themself now.
  
• Greenhouses have been added to the game. They cost 4 wood, 8 metal, and 1 tool to build, but are immune to negative modifiers from the weather.
  
• The Citizen Reproduction System has been added. When specific conditions are met (enough food, available housing, proper mood level), children will appear in the Zone. Children consume 50% as much as adults, use the house/shelter living slots, and take 12 in-game days to grow up.
  
• A resource discard feature has been added (right-click on the resource in your storage to discard the resources).
  
• Additional entrances have been added to the buildings to improve the overall scavenging experience.
  
• A new Megastorm and Supermoon music themes have been added.
  
• The Citizen Housing logic has been reworked. The citizens will now get back to sleep at the closest shelter/house, which should help with running outposts.
  
• The Building System has been improved to allow structures to be placed on gatherable objects. The workers will remove the gatherable object first and then proceed with the original task.
  
• POI Filters have been added to the View Layers section. Players can now look for specific POIs like guns or gear on the map.
  
• Heavy Rain animation for the Megastorm event has been added.
  
• New shrub models have been added to the game.
  
• Damaged structure models have been added to the game,
  
• Snow particles and snow animation have been updated.
  
• Beijing Map has been updated.
  
• Mast visuals have been updated.
  
• It is now possible to select an empty production cycle in the Medbay building to keep on attending to the wounded in the beds but refrain from manufacturing unwanted first aid kits. The UI of this solution will receive an update in the future.
  

Balance changes

• The day/night length has been increased by 20%.
  
• Default Warehouse capacity has been increased by 20%.
  
• The number of potential immigrants wandering around our Zone has been slightly increased.
  
• The Globetrotter achievement logic has been updated.
  
• Hordes will now attack the encountered farm crops. Farms won't get destroyed, but the production progress will go down.
  
• Biome regions have been updated to fix issues with excessively low temperatures in some areas.
  
• The Assault Rifle base damage has been decreased by around 50%, but the attack speed has been vastly increased. This should result in the weapon being very strong, but consuming significant amounts of ammo.
  
• The Shotgun base damage has been increased by around 25%. The attack speed has been slightly decreased.
  
• The Shotguns have been added to the pool of scavengable items in the game.
  
• The maximum available angle when placing walls has been increased.
  
• The maximum available camera zoom-in has been increased.
  
• The camera angle change during zoom-in and zoom-out has been readjusted.
  
• The density of trees has been increased.
  

Bug Fixes

• An issue with tooltips displaying incorrect information for buildings that are unlocked by multiple technologies has been fixed.
  
• An issue with hordes attacking structures resetting their position upon death of one of the infected has been fixed.
  
• An issue with the military medbay storyline causing errors has been fixed.
  
• An issue with non-infected NPC groups attacking Infected who were buried down has been fixed.
  
• An issue that caused the Research Tree to not properly refresh all the available researches has been fixed.
  
• An issue with errors happening with partially adapted buildings getting fully adapted has been fixed.
  
• Issues that were caused by the Zone name not having a character limit have been fixed. Now the maximum character limit for the Zone name is 32 characters.
  
• A number of other minor issues have been fixed.
  

Greetings, Survivors!

New Features:

• Beijing added to recommended cities
  
• New events for you to encounter
  
• Bandits will now target the structures and will have a slight chance to wound the people inside before building HP drops to 0
  
• Hordes hiding underground during the day cannot be targetted now
  
• Zone Name customization enabled
  
• Swarms rebalanced and less random
  
• New night music track added
  
• Low disk space warnings added - low disk space and memory cause a lot of errors
  
• Multiple autosave are disabled when disk space runs low
  
• Workers optimized - fps should drop less with hundreds of workers.
  
• Barns can be deadapted now
  
• CheatsEnabled tracking - We know when you cheat now!
  
• Savegames changed to allow future trees regrowing (soon to be added)
  

Visual tweaks:

• Trees are more green to avoid blending with grass
  
• Snow and rain upgraded
  
• Temples now have a custom visual style
  
• Many new graphics added to story events
  

Bugs fixed:

• Shotguns rebalanced
  
• Fixed repair cost for partially adapted buildings
  
• Squad do not return to a vehicle taken by another squad
  
• Hordes spawning on water fixed
  
• Randomly destroyed buildings on reloads
  
• Workers stuck between structures - now they can ignore them to return
  
• Globetrotter achievement fixed (hopefully). This one will be split into multiple achievements soon
  
• POIs are limited to max 200 biggest of each type on overloaded maps for performance reasons
  
• Load of minor bugs fixed
  

Known Major Bugs - we are working on them!

• Some tooltip translations are missing - we will add them soon
  
• Crashes on low memory - make sure your RAM and VRAM are free while playing
  
• Windows Account permissions might cause downloading and saving errors
  

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Coming Next

Greetings, Survivors!

What's next?

Bugfixing

Gears

Renewable Wood/Trees

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Changelog

Critical Issues

• An issue with disappearing buildings which were potentially causing corrupted saves has been fixed,
  
• An issue with tiles full of water which were potentially causing corrupted saves has been fixed,
  
• An issue with crashes occurring after screen resolution change has been fixed,
  
• An issue with crashes occurring after encountering new events has been fixed,
  
• An issue with workers getting stuck in buildings and not finishing adaptation has been fixed.
  

Other Issues

• An issue that allowed changing time speed with the opened research panel has been fixed,
  
• An issue that displayed an incorrect squad count has been fixed,
  
• An issue with small buildings' deconstruction time being longer than expected has been fixed.
  
• OSM-generated walls that were overlapping roads are now removed to ensure that entrances to certain locations are accessible,
  
• An issue with navigation after deconstruction has been fixed,
  
• Issues with camera after zoom-in and zoom-out during map loading have been fixed,
  
• An issue with the military refueling from the player-controlled HQ has been fixed,
  
• An issue with the clock image showing an inappropriate season has been fixed.
  

Added to the game

• A new POI Color scheme has been added,
  
• An ability to zoom out to the Map Expedition View during HQ Selection has been added,
  
• We have added the map data to the set of data that is being sent to us from Bug Reports. It should help us a lot with the analysis of the issues you report to us.
  

Balance changes

• The squad's scavenging speed has been increased by 30%,
  
• The swarm spawning mechanic has been rebalanced. The first swarm won't be coming to the player on day 7/8 by default but will start spawning after the player reaches a certain Zone size.
  
• The farm building cost has been changed from 4 wood/2 tool to 4 wood/1 tool,
  

Greetings, Survivors!

Changelog:

• No Story Mode has been added to the game - you can play the game without transmissions interrupting your gameplay now,
  
• New Van cars have been added,
  
• Vehicle repair time has been unified,
  
• Vehicle movement logic and the way they turn back have been updated,
  
• The damage of the hordes in the water has been reduced by 50%,
  
• The building adaptation and repair time has been decreased by 50%,
  
• An issue with workers getting stuck in metal towers has been fixed,
  
• An issue with weather becoming wrongly calculated after longer sessions of gameplay has been fixed,
  
• An issue with Raiders going through the walls has been fixed,
  
• An issue with the Tank Truck moving faster than intended has been fixed,
  
• An issue with an error appearing after finishing deconstruction has been fixed.
  

Our current focus:

• The biggest issue that we are currently aware of is the save files going corrupted after longer sessions of gameplay. We are extremely thankful for the huge number of Bug Reports with this issue, as it will make it easier for us to analyze them and find the source of this problem.
  
• Water - we are working on changing the Hordes' pathing prioritization to discourage them from moving through the water and encourage them to move through the nearby roads more.
  

Greetings, Survivors!

Major balance tweaks:

• number of hordes and swarms lowered for normal and easy mode
  
• more migrants and answers to your invites
  
• food is easier to find and faster to produce
  
• construction costs are lowered
  
• constructions and deconstructions are now faster
  
• deconstructions give more wood and metal
  
• more types of riders groups added
  
• fewer buildings are required to start the game in some regions
  
• Some achievements are easier to achieve
  

Bugfixes:

• The game should crash far less often when loading maps
  
• Squads on foot should properly start fire when hordes are spotted
  
• Squads should properly enter Expeditions now
  
• Workers should now enter towers properly
  
• Events and markers should cause less problems
  
• Dozen of minor UI and animations bugfixes
  

Known issues (unresolved yet, work in progress!)

• Weather might get weird after multiple reloads. Better reload near April!
  
• The game might not assume optimal performance automatically. Try lowering the settings manually
  
• The game still crashes in some regions or small squares of the map might be inaccessible
  

Greetings, Survivors!

Changelog:

• The issue with Chinese fonts getting bigger every time settings are changed has been fixed,
  
• The issue that prevented the vehicles from entering expeditions has been fixed,
  
• The issue that made the Transmission log display the events in non-chronological order has been fixed,
  
• New POI icons have been added,
  
• The amount of the Warehouse building HP has been increased,
  
• A number of other small changes and fixes have been introduced.
  

Greetings, Survivors!

Want to test the newest build?

1. Right-click on Infection Free Zone in your library,
   
2. Click on "Properties..." on the list,
   
3. Choose the "Betas" tab,
   
4. Select the "open_beta" branch from the list.
   
5. The newest build should start downloading. Enjoy!