The Last Stand: Union City – Q&A – Part II

Hey con, I was wondering if upgrades or attachments can be made can be made to melee weapons, such as finding nails and putting them in a bat?

Not at this time, but, that’s not a bad weapon idea.
- Con

Unrelated to the game, was the Guinness thing a joke, and if not, whats the record about?

It’s the record for most questions asked about a Flash game containing zombies made by an Australian. I think I’m in with a chance!
- Con

When you upgrade your skills, will the zombies adjust to your skill level? Example: Your at skill level 1, will the zombies be weaker than at level 11.
Keep up the good work, Con.

hey um, will it be the bullets that the guns fire be what it should, like 55.6 for m16/m4 or 7.62-51 for m-60 but 7.62-39 for ak?

will there be achievements/rewards system for accomplishing things in game?

would you consider making a sequel specific to the last stand: union city, rather than just the last stand 3?

If so, I think it would be cool to have an importable character. Maybe when you beat the first one, it gives you a code that you can plug into the second one and it would contain all of your skills, weapons, etc. Just a thought, I really like all your games.

Gotta finish this one first. It all comes down to popularity.
- Con

hey con, is it possible to find an item like a shopping cart then being able to put like a machete on it so you could like, ram zombies? not saying you have to if you didn’t add it. just wanna know.

P.S. love your games ^_^

Will there be any antidotes or anything as a result of an infection from the Zombies? Or no Zombie infection risk at all?

If survivors die, will they turn into zombies?

Will there be any exotic weaponry in the game such as the Steyr AUG or something along those lines of craziness? Possibly even WWII guns?

Not really, I’m trying to keep it fairly realistic to what would be laying around a major US city.
- Con

I guess this ties into my last question: will there be other ways to die, besides zombie attacks? Like sickness or falling in an open manhole?

con how many total in game days will there be

No idea. Will depend on how you play.
- Con

Will there be fort defense at night like in the old ones?

hy con i’m a fan of your work.
so emm is there any way you will be able to attach melee wepons to gun’s eg bayonet, or chainsaw’s like gear’s of war

Off Topic Question: Does Guinness have a record for EVERYTHING!?

On Topic Question: How many weapons can a person carry at once, still two?

With the new, ammo limit, will ammo be an issue in to game as for how much you get? What I’m trying to say is I don’t want to be running on empty all the time and then using my melee most of the time. I’m not sure if this question was addressed before, so please don’t be annoyed.

will there be a custom class thing like mw2?

It’s an RPG, so yeah. Check out the previous post on characters.
- Con

I apologize if this was asked earlier but, will the game span a set period of time like the previous installments?

Check the last Q&A.
- Con

can you request guns from your fellow survivors?(you know,if I give a gun to some guy i wanna be able to get it back sometime.).

You’ll control their equipment at all times.
- Con

Con, will some of the people be special? What I mean is that are there some people in the game that are real? Such as the president in a building?

Not really, no. They’ll be relevant to the story.
- Con

Will there be certain times where if a zombie grabs you you pull out a knife or something else and have to follow the onscreen commands to avoid getting bitten in a vital place such as the neck?

I’ve got a ‘struggle’ mechanic planned. It’ll be part certain zombies AI routines that when they get close instead of bashing at you, they’ll lunge to grab you. You’ll then need to mash keys to get them to release. Plan is for this to happen to your survivors as well, in which case you can help them escape.
- Con

Hey Con just letting you know that above where you post your comment it says “THIS IS NOT A SUGGESTION BOX OR A Q&A SESSION – KEEP IT RELEVENT” Anywho heres my question will there be Cutscenes?

Yeah, hope I’m not melting brains out there. Cutscenes, not really. Most stuff will play out in game.
- Con

I love my Questions! Sorry if this was already answered but will you be able to use junk to make things like You get a Brown Paper bag and you fill it with gun powder (or any other type of explosive) and then you set it down and when zombies come you can shoot it and it can light them on fire!

Crafting? No. It opens up too many possibilities and will eat up loads of dev time creating custom animations / code for stuff like that. Adding things like guns is easy because they all basically act the same way.
- Con

Sorry for all the Q’s but will the bullets that you shoot pass through your surviviors? And the same for the survivor and you?

Yes.
- Con

The one thing i havent seen as of yet. Will there be Human enemies? We have practically seen them in every zombie movie and always changes the strategy for everything.

I have plans. They are secret.
- Con

Sorry again for all the Q’s but I only have a limited amount of time (because you said so)! Will there be Gas, Propane, Etc. cans that you can throw and shoot?

I kinda meant, one question per person. Because you’re breaking it out to seperate posts doesnt’ make much difference…
- Con

Hey Con, I would like to know if there will have any kind of special ammo or something like that? I mean, incediary bullets or explosive bullets?

Nope.
- Con

Will you be interacting with the survivors in any way other than fighting side-by-side? Maybe giving you missions, betraying you, abandoning you?

can you wear nightvision goggles?sorry for asking again but it would just be wicked(you could find them in a military outpost,or they could be awarded by beating the game):)

Yeah, they’ve been asked for before. Might be cool if I have time.
- Con

Will all the music be original?

Yes, I’ve got the composer from the Last Stand 2 working on new music as we speak.
- Con

Will dead enemies drop items?


Some will, yes.
- Con

What kind of survivors will you run into besides civs? Will there be police, soldiers, bandits etc.

No comment.
- Con

so yeah, ever play l4d2? well i was wondering, if you say shoot the arm off a zombie (if possible) will it just disappear? or come off, like in l4d2?

Check the Alpha’s, that’s already in and working.
- Con

Will there be Execution kills? I like the idea of an execution animation that gives you a bonus… like more exp or something. Similar to the system in Thing Thing Arena 3 maybe?

eg- Tripping them over and shooting them through the face.

This could also be built into the struggle system and give you bonus exp. It could also be a way to rescue a survivor.

Hoping you win whatever record you might actually be up for,

Ninjat_126

Record was a joke. Executions tailed on the end of the struggle system is a good idea though. Might look into that.
- Con

yo con just want to say big fan of your games blha blha blha (insert generic compliment here)

any way my question is will there be any like people u can trade with for supplies somehow i dont really see how it would work or if it would make much sense but alot of games do it idk if it would wreck the game or not jw about it

Check the fact sheet.
- Con

Hey con, I was wondering if there would be any bosses like in house of dead?

ok you said in one of the posts that we would control are surviers eqiment at all times so does that mean if we have alot of stuff in are bag can we put some stuff in theres so we can get a weapon,food…etc…and sorry for the spelling

Because the title is “Union City” will the entire game take place within Union City, or will there be other areas to explore?

Mostly within the city.
- Con

what combinations will be avalable with the diffferent supplies. because lots of supplies r random

None.
- Con

so will there be a map where you chose where you want to explore? or a map where you choose a road and that road is filled with zombies and entrences on the road you can jsut kill the zombies and search the trash and bodys or go into one of the one buildings

-megamanx736

The city will be divided into districts on a map. You’ll select an area to travel to and then be on the street. From there you’ll be able enter buildings etc.
- Con

Will you be able to throw melee weapons?

Nope
- Con

How will hunger work? When you have 0 food will you just drop dead? Or will you slowly die over time?

Hey Con, was wondering if there will be scripted or random events, that either deal with the story or are just random. Like you being attacked by a random gang of survivors, or if you enter a specific territory or building the local inhabitants will attack or cause a struggle event.

Hey Con
A small question
can i kill survivors for any reason ?
and then be hated by familiars,people,
merchants that will not sell me nothing,and if someone hated that person or by a favor to someone be liked by those and paid in the second option

i think that will make the game more free in a very free world

- Xai

Off topic- I must applaud your patience, con.

On topic – I’d like to ask, will certain kinds of ammo and items be exclusive to certain locations? For example, let’s say you somehow manage to find an RPG (or some other heavy weapon), will you only be able to find the ammunitions in a military outpost or something? I doubt civillians who have them, lest said weapons were scavenged.

Yeah, items are categorised into locations. For example, you won’t find stuff from a kitchen in a bedroom. Likewise, items will be zoned as well to the buildings you’re in. So stuff like RPG ammo won’t turn up in someone’s bathroom.
- Con

Hey con, not going to beat about the bush here so.

Are you going to put in any other compaions like dogmeat, or any other animals?

thanks, ewet8

will there be a morality system type thing?

Con, I have a question about food and such. Will they have bad effects on your character? Like, you find an orange in a fridge but the orange is actually bad so it lowers your stamina? Or you drink expired milk, or cheese, or whatever?

I guess, basically, will food have counter-balancing effects in some cases, or do they just satisfy the basic hunger needs?

You could probably answer the questions just by answering one: Will food add or take away from stats like accuracy, melee damage, etc, or will it just fill the character up?

will there be a morality system type thing

Duct Tape? To fasten attachments, and make makeshift bandages?

very big fan, blah blah blah (insert good compliment here).
Anyways I was looking at some other qestions and I thought, I know there are going to be no cars and stuff in this game, but will there be “strategic transportation” methods?
EX. = jumping into a shopping cart and ramming zombies for a bit, until it slows down, then you better get outta there.
sooo, yeah please anwer, bai.

No…..
- Con

Will there be special zombies ?

Will dogs be making a comeback in the sequel? If so, will any other infected animals make an appearance?

Will some weapons have selective fire? Like burst fire 3 on M16A4 and fully auto on M16A3. Both will have single shot?

I have been thinking about including a burst fire weapon because it’s a different weapon behaviour. Problem is that I don’t want to get into the complexity of having fire modes for different weapons, it is a Flash game afterall.
- Con

happy valentine conartist
will the last stand 3 has a secret weapon
? like Barret in the last stand 1? thx a lot

They’ll all be secretly hidden around the world.
- Con

Hey con, will the zombies have equipment eg bats/swords to hit you with or torch so they can see you at night like a helmet with a torch on. Thanks for the great games.

Is the Days are limited or unlimited? just like you 2 previous games. which only last long within 40 days

Forget what ive said ive missed the reading on your homepage about the ending.We could use an armor to absorb or withstand the hit or damage against the zombie

Q: Are there what someone would call “quests” or “missions” to keep the player occupied?

So, will there be a diffinitive “end” or will you be able to keep playing? (I understand it would be hard to make it go on forever, the city DOES esplode after all…)

Doh sorry for double post. We could use a hand watch to notify the time. We can clearly identify when its going to be morning or evening. If we stray tooo far to our shelter we might get killed in the night.

will you be able to give your suvoivers commands

Not sure yet.
- Con

Will money be necessary for anything in this game

WHen a character level up, will he get a perk like in Fallout?

Nope.
- Con

Seeing as how it’s Valentine’s Day and I’m all alone…

WILL THERE BE ROMANCE WITH OTHER SURVIVORS?

Are you willing to kiss your screen to achieve this?
- Con

will u give all the good weapons first kind of like fallout 3 or no?

Whaaaa?
- Con

hey con, will there be an energysystem you have to refill with sleeping or drinking coffee or using drugs? that would be cool
im really looking forward to your game greetings from germany

Check the post on Characters I did a while back: http://www.conartistgames.com/index.php/the-last-stand-union-city-characters/
Danke schön!
- Con

There being achievements adding stats to your character. Does it mean there are perks like fallout 3 or maybe like COD: MW?

No. They won’t add stats. The achievements will give new weapons / gear.
- Con

i really like your games but will you be able to upgrade the survivors if the levle up (if they levle up at all)

How many bullets will there be? such as:9mm,30-06,308,55.6,7.62-51,7.62-39,270,357 mag,44 mag,500 smith and wesson magnum? Note:just examples.

At the moment there’s 4 ammo types, but there’ll likely be more.
- Con

hey Con I just want to know, carrying too many items will slow you down? like in Fallout 3 ?

Yep. It’s in the next Alpha.
- Con

So… lets see… ah! Will day and night have any effect on the chances of zombie attacks when not in a building?

Will there be zombies of things besides humans?

Hamsters?
- Con

in the game will there be weapons that are extremely rare?

Yes.
- Con

hey con, can you find survivors who have like pets?like rottwielers or german sheperds that can attack zombies or sacrafice themselves for you?

On the fact sheet you said there would be trading but it would be rare. Nobody has metioned this except above me. ^ So how would that work would one thing have equal value to another, or will it depend on the person.

Relevant to the game, will survivors follow you the whole time, or will they stop and start shooting when the fighting starts? Because if they stop, I kinda get a picture that half the time I will be defending them from zombies, but if they follow they will be safely behind me, and all I will have to do is shoot the zombies that are running at me!

Also, sadface at the ‘zombiez grow stronger the stronger you get’. Its what I hate about most rpg’s, because it requires you to be broad with your level choices.

I didn’t say stronger, they’ll get more difficult to deal with. Their behaviour and numbers will change. Their health won’t change much.
- Con

will be mini-boss?
or
gigants zombies etc?

i am like some type nemesis from resident evil
bye

Sorry if I’m mistaken, but wasn’t sleep a status that needed to be kept in check? If so, can zombies ambush you in your sleep?

That’s the plan. Where you sleep will make a difference in terms of your security while sleeping.
- Con

Another question from out local instiable gun-nut.

Will damage be, in any way, range-specific. Becfause I hate it when rather than even TRYING to imitate realism, the make it so that a headshot from a rifle from fifty feet will be kill shot, but a shot from a pistol at 3 feet will take a dozen headshots.

Game developers never sem to know the ACTUAL physics of a bullet, nor do thay recognize that almost 90% of the time, a headshot from ANY weapon is an instant fatality.

So I’m asking and requesting, if you were not intending to, DONT GO OVERBOARD BASING EVERYTHING ON NUMBERS. I’m sure that it would be easy to code it soo that any bullet fired into the head of an zombie at less than a certain range is an instant kill.

This isnt the sort of realism level I would like from a real game developer with a huge budget, but it imitates it well enough.

PS:I’m asking because I like handguns and would likje to make a handgun-focusing charicter when it comes out. Thus, I dont want to have to ditch me favorite weapon type once it reaches a level because it becomes worthless.(Also, I’m guessing 9mm’s will be plentiful.)

if a survivor dies and had weapons on it will you be able to loot items back or is it gone forever

hay con,

will ther be ramdom suvivers wondering around the streets like not against you but not with you?

will there be storyline and non storyline missions like in fallout?

will zombies carry weapons like in the previous game?

I know you said 1 question, but I’m just saying all things that I wanna ask from other alphas. Sorry about my crap English, and any of repeated quetions (after reading so much comments on alphas is hard to remember what has been asked) Here we are the questions:

1st Are zombies going to fall from high, for example from the roof into the room that you are? Obviously you cannot access there, and just for some quest where you must go to x place, so anything, like a miniboss or so gets you making you jump off your seat suprising you.

2nd I see you are going to make some achievements. And obviously you are going to put on Newgrounds since you got the 1 and 2 LS games on Newgrounds, so are you going to make the achievements “Newgrounds-compilant”? (integrate achievements in Newgrounds, I think with that could you get on toppage xD)

3rd I see you are going to put weapons who you could found in a big city. Are you just using this idea generally or adding weapons from special forces too? Like some military common used weapons, miniguns in some specifically points (for some defending quest for example). Not too much, because there isn’t a militar base, but it should be anything from containing forces. Just the commonly used. This NOT include nades, rpgs and this, (before anyone ask who are taking a rpg or a nade to a city? For blowing yourself? xD)

4th Survivors are going to have stats and/or leveling just like you? If so, are you being able to choose their leveling upgrades? I dont remember if this questios is post already, but now I couldn’t remember (after reading all comments on alphas being like more than 75% spam…)

5th You are going to found survivors in this new Zombieland. Are you going to found some police/militar as a survivor, with the proper weapons of their job? Obviously they are the less and harder survivors to find since they are usually in first line of fire but they are better with aiming.

5th Are you going to think the effects of different ammunition of weapons? Exmple is not the same shoot with a glock with 9mm bullets, than a M4A1 with 5,56 ammunition, better to ricochet than 9mm.

6th I see you are going to add firearm attachments, but how? And how many of them are we going to be able to attach to a weapon? You found the weapon with the attachment or you need to found weapon and attachment and then join it? A flashlight is included here? Also a minishotgun as an attachment? Utility, you are surrounded by zombies and you need to take them off fast, so use attachment shotgung to help taking it out (as usually this shotgun are usually good to kill multiple zombies at once)

7th Armor?

8th (and last xD) Flashbang/smoke/stun nades? Since zombies has some senses, could be usueful. This are thing that special forces culd have, because are used to blind enemys with minimal damage.

Thanks for reading! Greetings from Spain.

Hola, everyone has to play by the rules and as such I’m not reading this. Sorry.
- Con

hey con just wondering since you earlyer talked about differnt types of modes like a mode with out the rpg stuff and a less violence mode (which i think are both great ideas) i was just wondering if their would be a sandbox type mode wher you could set the # of zombies survivors what types of weapons etc.

thnks lookin good so far

The game is pretty much going to be a sandbox anyway.
- Con

Will the beginning start out like in TLS2 with one pistol with infinite ammo,or will you have just a pistol with a certain amount of ammo, and a melee weapon, or just a melee weapon?Technically one question, after all.

You’ll start with a melee weapon.
- Con

if zombies can attack u while sleeping, how will the sleeping mode happen, like u choose to sleep the screen goes black all of a sudden its morning or fast forward threw the night untill attacked,etc.?

Don’t know yet.
- Con

will there be Molotov cocktails in the game?

Maybe.
- Con

alright I know that there’s a max ammo count in fallout (can only stack 32,000 in at once… found using Anchorage bug) so will there be a max ammo here. Overall a sort of useless question…

You won’t find so much that you’ll hit a cap. If there is one it’ll be 9,999.
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If struggle system is implemented could you lose your weapon in the struggle? ie zombie lunges at you, your M9 goes flying as you wrestle with him.

Hmm…
Since you said something about sleeping, are we going to be allowed to barricade doors, and assign watch duties to increase safety?

Thanks,
Zslayer74

This is in no way related to the game. Con in your opinion which is better Guiness or Foster?

Guinness is Irish, Fosters locally is crap. Beer you want when you’re here is Coopers and Little Creatures. If you have to, Carlton Draught.
- Con

megamanx736 back again

like in dead riseing, will there eventuly be S.W.A.T team attacknig you thinking your infected?

-megamanx736

will there be secret areas?

It’s a secret.
- Con

Well, you just said that here just only questio, so I just posted up on original fact sheet, so It-s attained to the rules> In this post 1 question, in others no specify xD I like this language twists xD Greetings

Thanks, that’s a better place for it. English is tricky, sorry! Then again soy no habla Espanol
- Con

found my laptop
okay con just to make sure for clothes is head and face added you know like
example: on my head i have a cow boy hat
and on my face i have sunglasses

Yeah, I’m setting it up that way.
- Con

in the final game can zombies jump over things and will they spawn randomly like in alpha 0.5

Climb yes, random like alpha, no. They’ll spawn from above and the sides etc.
- Con

can you equip 2mellee weapens at a time and probably there will be a bat but will there be for example: telescope, banjo etc

Melee weapons will occupy a slot the same as the firearms.
- Con

was wondering what the zone/level break up will end up looking like, you explain some of these in an earlier comment but specifically
will moving floor to floor of a building be fluid, zombies following you from one to the next, or will each one be its own little room more how it is in the beta, or something different and completely mind blowing

and because you pay homage to fallout have to ask out of curiosity, have you played 1 and 2 or just the third game?

Moving from room to room, floor to floor is something I need to look at in terms of zombies / bodies etc. I’m thinking I’ll store the positions of a bunch of zombies for a few rooms either side of the current room so that when you re-enter, they aren’t emptied out. Not sure yet.

Fallout. Yep, played the first two as well as Fallout: Tactics. Great series.
- Con

How will you be traveling? Will it be by car, or just simply by clicking on things like in the second one?

hey just wondering…will you be able to make your own barricades?

No
- Con

About the struggle system, i have a few questions about it, like, If more than one zombie pins you down, will the struggle system take effect or youll just die, and does this struggle system affects all kind of zombies? (like normal zombies, runners and dogs)

will there be like any friendly fire and if so say like you kill a teammate will your other teammates like go agaist you?

Great work con cant belive an aussi can make a game this good (im a kiwi) man people are dumb can thy not read the Q/A’s theres like 50% of the questions are what you said.

Well I didn’t mean zombie hamsters but as long as we’re on the subject, why not other animals? I mean a zombie shark would defenetly be a great distraction at the very least.

Is Bethesda helping you with this? Or the previous Fallout creators? Not a real serious question, but I thought I’d ask.

What? No.
- Con

hey con, i was wondering how the side scrolling is going to work for going up a set of stairs if theres a hallway beside it? or are the houses just going to be VERY long =P like if you look up the stairs you go up them and if you look down the hallway you move down the hallway? just wondering,

Stairs, doors and lifts will move you between levels. They’ll be activated by pressing E.
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Is there going to be a group system?

Sweet love the demo dude. Also are there going to be any cut scenes? cause if there are way too many not many people will keep playing. Too much of a good thing XD.

will there be real situations like power outage or jammed guns getting sick like common cold?

Could you give us any details at all about the plot? Even a small amount? The basics?

Your character spends 2 weeks barricaded in their apartment before the food runs out and the power in his/her building has dropped. From there, it’s finding an escape out of the city. You’ll have a friend or two in the city that you’ll initially make contact with.

There is a larger overall plot, but I don’t want to ruin any of that.
- Con

Will there be a survival mode were u have to survive as long as you can roaming the city?

Are we gonna find some soldiers in the game who will join the survivors?

will there be zombie animals? like the dogs from the first 2?

Could you give us some examples of weapon mods that will be in the game?

P.S. Did you see the Fallout:New Vegas Teaser Trailer?

Check the fact sheet and previous posts. Yes, I saw the trailer, not terribly excited by it.
- Con

Sorry but I just had to ask this you don’t have to answer either question if you’re that pissed, and this question is extremely important, (more than those “random” and “unrelated” I have seen)

Will there be a more structured main quest than the 1st/2nd, or not AND will there be side quests?

hey, con. will survivors have abilities too?like lets say if you are terrible at searching,if you had survivor that rocked at it, would that help you be better at searching?

No, they’ll be passive.
- Con

This is not a question…

Please say there will be factions, or please put factions in the games.

con, i was playing the alpha (the new one) and i noticed when switching weapons there was no animation for switching… don’t be annoyed if you’ve already said it,but will there be an animation 4 it?

Yep.
- Con

Will there be destorable surroundings? Example: breaking boxes or smashing a dresser.

will you be able to dismember zombeis like for example shoot of there legs so they are slower

Looking at that possibly, yes.
- Con

I just wanted to ask will there be more than one type of shotgun or more then one pistol because I only use shotguns in any zombie games P.S cant wait for game, great work in the alphas so far

Yep. I’ve got 4 pistols in game already and that’s just the automatics.
- Con

Do you think you´ll finish the game before april?

I hope so.
- Con

Will there be any kind of beta testing possible that i could register for the more unstable parts of the beta that are further down the line?

I am just really bored and love the game series, and would love to test out more of the game.

Yeah, I’ll progress these Alpha’s into Beta. You guys will be able to play a near final version before the end of development.
- Con