Dev Log 20th of April - 24th of April 2026

[undeadsteam]

Week of 20th of April - 24th of April focused on combat system expansion (shotguns, new weapon logic), extraction feature development, audio integration, and continued stability improvements across client, server, and backend systems. Significant progress was made in gameplay polish, bug fixing, and technical systems refinement.

Game Design

In Progress

Fire gun + ice gun documentation ️
Build Task 1.5 description

Completed

Extraction mechanics GDD
Shotgun balance adjustments
Movement speed tuning ️
Camera offset radius adjustments (movement & shooting)

Sound Design

Completed

Ambient sounds integrated for the location
Lobby UI sound content created
Consumable item sound content created 🧪

In Progress

Character audio controller system design and decomposition

Client Development

Completed

Stagger effect activation
New tracers and muzzle flashes integrated
Weapon drag & drop bug fixed
“Return to lobby” button bug fixed
Subscriptions UI updated
LevelUp and experience improvements
Network battle initialization fixes
Fixed entity spawn flying issue ️
Fixed delayed network entity initialization ️
Fixed entity position updates
Remote player animation polishing
Fixed aiming after rolling (remote player)
Fixed stagger sync (remote player)
Shotgun sounds added
Shotgun multishot implementation
New shot logic implemented
Loading scene optimization
Fixed hidden cursor / hover issues in lobby ️
Fixed overlapping floating damage numbers
Fixed missing footstep and running sounds
Camera shake presets adjusted
Camera shift while aiming

In Progress

VFX pooling issues
Lobby corruption after “Something went wrong” popup ️
Achievements auto-unlock before Steam login
Audio interruption on game launch
Camera polishing and fixes

️ Game Server Development

Completed

Round start NPC count
Low HP skills ️
Damage cheats ️
Character / Bot / NPC speed configs
Fixed character stagger data
Shotgun multishot support

In Progress

Extraction points system
Loot container creation from dropped items
Adding items from backpack to loot container
Build preparation and internal testing 🧪

Backend Development

Completed

Reconnect recovery improvements
Notifications hub scaling
Reconnect issue identified
Drops migration bug fixed
Game state сохранение for reconnect to game server

In Progress

Steam error log level review

Animation

Completed

Improved left-hand weapon grip in lobby (no animation rework)
Mary Ann skeleton created 🧍

In Progress

Mary Ann skinning work

Tech Art

Completed

Chunk system implemented for the map ️
New map planning and generated items review
Art package resources preparation

In Progress

Chunk system testing in builds 🧪
Documentation preparation for chunk system research

VFX

Completed

Stagger effect
Shotgun effects
Camera shake effect
Bug fixes ️

[madtrader]

Character / Bot / NPC speed configs this one is really goood!

[JanEmil]

Nice work. Keep going.

[mendez]

more on the way!!!

[cryptoenthusiast]

Camera shift while aiming this one is goood

[bonk]

Damage cheats what is that?

[nihalsari]

@undeadsteam said in Dev Log 20th of April - 24th of April 2026:

Mary Ann

Mary Ann this one is interesting

[nihalsari]

is it woman zombie being developed huh?

[tradelikepro]

@nihalsari that is a great one

[chainsniff]

@nihalsari i dont find anything about her in roadmap, interesting!!!