Erik Johnson

DiezelPower has released a new update for their zombie shooter Nation Red, now available for download.

The patch includes some major changes, additions and improvements to the game based on–among other things–player feedback.

Highlights include the addition of a practice mode, improvements to Free Play and a handful of new abilities and fixes to optimize the gameplay.

If you own the game, the download can be applied by restarting the Steam client. If not, it’s still available for the nice price of $10.

From the full notes:

Nation Red

• New gameplay Mode: Practice Mode. Allows you to set the number of zombies, select your weapon, set zombie strength, player damage, etc. Go to FreePlay mode to enable this.
• Free Play: greater number of powerup/weapon drops, fight several bosses at the same time, and more.
• Windowed mode options, including running the game in ‘borderless’ window
• Game is further optimized and runs at an approx. 20% faster framerate, should also allow more bodies on-screen
• Ability to set crosshair color
• Ability to ‘lock’ your current weapon so no new weapons are picked up until you ‘unlock’
• Ability to set your jump direction, either towards crosshairs or in movement direction
• Ability to choose your fighter character and associate it with your profile
• Support for lower resolutions, i.e. 800×600 with fewer particle effects for less powerful graphics cards
• Ability to set the exact number of dead bodies on screen, from 1 to 100+
• Camera controls are now bindable
• New Turbine powerup

Smaller issues/bug fixes:

• Right mouse fire empties clip bug fixed
• Player character no longer continues walk/run animation while paused
• Text overlap on Jump Direction control menu fixed