World War Z Update Today: 1.15 Patch Notes for PS4, Xbox crossplay game changes

World War Z is releasing a new game update today, bringing the latest major update to PS4, Xbox One and PC players.

World War Z Update 1.15 is now available for download across all platforms and will require (roughly) 16GB of space on your PlayStation 4 and Xbox One HDD. It's only 7GB on PC.

This is the games next big season and is titled the Crossplay update, because as you imagine, all PS4, Xbox One and PC players will soon be able to battle the undead together.

For now, Crossplay is only Xbox and PC with PS4 players “joining the fray at some point in the future”.

The game is also adding the War Heroes character skin DLC (available to buy for £7.99), the Thumper Grenade Launcher

First, here's a quick message from the developers with more details on what is being added to the game:

"A new mission objective has also been added. In every mission, a Virus Sample canister will spawn in various locations, which the player must loot and bring to the end of the mission. They can also be looted from a Bomber if it's taken down correctly. The longer you hold on to the Virus Sample, the more negative effects it will apply to you, so make sure to hurry!

"Horde Mode Z has received a host of balancing tweaks based on community feedback. More xp and currency rewards, fewer special zombies in normal mode, and a long list of further changes visible below.

"Jump into Horde Mode Z, Missions, or Multiplayer and enjoy the five new weapon variants with their unique perks as well, such as the thumper grenade launcher's incendiary explosives, or the fully automatic machine pistol!

"And that's not all! We already have a ton of future content planned, including a new location, with three new missions and new characters. We'll have more to share on this topic soon."

Read on to see the patch notes for the Crossplay update, detailing all major changes to World War Z.

World War Z Patch Notes 1.15

New Features

• Added Virus Sample functionality in Campaign
  • AI Director will randomly spawn containers with Virus Sample that players can pick up
  • Virus samples can spawn from Bombers that are taken down without them exploding.
  • The containers are fragile and they will begin to apply negative effects to players as they break.
  • If players will manage to finish the mission with containers intact, they will get increased rewards
  • AI Director can spawn several Virus Samples, Bomber will also drop them
• Added 4 new weapon variants with unique perks
  • Pistol – Increased penetration and damage vs special zombies.
  • Machine Pistol – Full auto variant, reloads primary weapon after a special zombie kill.
  • Classic Battle Rifle – Semi auto variant, no penetration but deals a lot of damage.
  • Battle Rifle – Full auto variant.
  • Thumper Grenade Launcher – Incendiary grenades.
  • War Heroes character skin pack (included for Season Pass owners)

  Horde Mode

  • Slightly reduced difficulty in Hard mode
  • Significantly reduced difficulty in Normal mode
    • Less Special Zombies will spawn in Normal mode
    • Increased preparation timer between waves by 20% in Normal mode
    • Supply points rewards will begin to scale down later in Normal mode
    • Added significantly more random pickups in Normal mode
  • Increased Auto Turret maximum ammo
  • Capped by 10 the amount of Auto Turrets that could be placed simultaneously
  • Fixed one of the shops not spawning items
  • Reduced the amount of ammo secondary weapons drain from ammo boxes by 50%
  • Reduced ammo crate cost from 100 to 70
  • Significantly increased both XP and currency rewards

  

  
  

  Difficulty

  • Tweaked Extreme difficulty settings to restore pre-patch balance (it was changed to support crossplay)
  • AI Director will spawn less secondary weapon pickups

  AI

  • Reworked Bomber drop, he will spawn better Primary and Heavy weapons when killed

  Perks

  • Fixed several issues with perks stacking

  UI

  • Minor UI and localization fixes

  Stability

  • Fixed several gameplay crashes

  Levels

  • Fixed some gameplay bugs that were causing inability to progress in levels
  • Fixed issue that allowed players to clip through geometry in some places

  PC Specific Fixes

  • Added crossplay between Xbox in PvE

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