Damn, Zombies/Database

Every number, written down

The compendium: every weapon, every archetype, every perk, every boss round and every phase of the sky, with the figures the game actually plays by. Nothing here is rounded for effect, and none of it is final — the game is in beta and these numbers move.

Weapons

Fourteen, in the wire's own index order — which is also the order of the server's price tables. A wall price of “Crate” means it is not chalked up anywhere.

#	Weapon	Type	Damage	Interval	Range	Mag / reserve	Wall
0	Security Pistol	Ranged	12	0.15s	30 m	16 / 96	1,500
1	Exec Revolver	Ranged	40	0.35s	40 m	6 / 64	2,500
2	Nail Gun	Ranged	7	0.10s	18 m	50 / 300	3,000
3	Swag Blaster	Ranged	24	0.60s	25 m	4 / 40	3,500
4	Fire Safety Axe	Melee	35	0.90s	1.4 m	—	750
5	Golf Club	Melee	22	0.60s	1.6 m	—	Crate
6	Employee of the Year	Melee	15	0.45s	1.25 m	—	Crate
7	Facilities Shotgun	Ranged	70	0.85s	6 m	6 / 48	Crate
8	IT Support PDW	Ranged	11	0.07s	22 m	40 / 320	Crate
9	Sales Rifle	Ranged	23	0.11s	34 m	30 / 240	Crate
10	Performance Review Rifle	Ranged	53	0.54s	48 m	20 / 140	Crate
11	Synergy Beam	Ranged	30	0.30s	90 m	40 / 738	Crate
12	Intern SMG	Ranged	15	0.09s	26 m	32 / 256	Crate
13	Executive Letter Opener	Melee	62	0.50s	1.3 m	—	Crate

The undead

Eight archetypes. Four are rolled by the round director; four exist only because something else makes them — a summoner, or a special round. Health is the base figure, before the round multiplier. “Per blow” is the share of everything a survivor has that one hit takes off them.

Grade 1/General staff

The Employee

Health: 40
Speed: 0.85 m/s
Per blow: 36%

Clock In

Weak alone, and it knows it. Arrives at 70% strength in round 1 and is not up to full until round 6 — the only body in the game that warms up.

Grade 4/Line management

The Middle Manager

Health: 70
Speed: 0.7 m/s
Per blow: 48%

The all-hands

Every 90 seconds he stops and calls a meeting. The nearest five staff within ten metres come out of it 20% harder to kill and 20% angrier, for forty-five seconds. He will not address an empty car park.

Grade 5/People & Culture

HR

Health: 65
Speed: 0.65 m/s
Per blow: 44%

New Hire Orientation

When the field thins out she raises a requisition, and two or three new starters arrive beside her. One in twenty comes in at management grade. She is why the horde never quite ends.

Grade 10/Senior leadership

The Executive

Health: 200
Speed: 0.55 m/s
Per blow: 54%

Return to Office

Hurt it badly and it heals, runs, and puts a Scapegoat between you and it. Its eyes burn yellow while it does — which is the tell, and the only warning you get.

Off payroll/Nothing rolls one

The Scapegoat

Health: 40
Speed: 0.85 m/s
Per blow: —

Rigged

The body the Executive puts in front of itself. It only ever runs, swings once, and dies. Every Scapegoat is rigged to blow the moment it does.

Round 7/Special round only

The Executive (boss)

Health: 1,470
Speed: 0.61 m/s
Per blow: 54%

Sends Scapegoats

×7.35 health, ×1.4 scale, moon-blue eyes

The whole of round 7. No employees, no managers, no HR walk in — what fills the compound is what the boss itself sends, two Scapegoats every fifteen to twenty seconds, aimed at whoever last shot it.

Round 15/Special round only

Head of People

Health: 293
Speed: 0.68 m/s
Per blow: 44%

Seven starters at a time

×4.5 health, ×1.4 scale, moon-blue eyes

HR's routine with both its gates taken off: a clock instead of a cooldown, seven at a time, and no field test. Three of them at once, and a Head of Department beside them.

Round 23/Special round only

The Chairman

Health: 580
Speed: 0.61 m/s
Per blow: 54%

Golden Parachute, Take Credit

×2.9 health, ×1.4 scale, dies twice

Return to Office kept as its dying routine rather than its panic one, plus two abilities no ordinary Executive has. A bar you have to break twice, that the queue keeps mending, in the dark.

Perks

Six vending machines at 7,500 points each, one of each per survivor ever. They stand apart in six different parts of the compound, and every one of them is past at least one bought door.

Speed Boost

MOVE FASTER

+20% movement

The same figure as Health Boost on purpose, so the choice is fast or hard to kill rather than arithmetic.

Health Boost

STAY UP

+20% maximum health

And the difference handed over immediately, rather than left for you to heal into.

Fanny Pack

CARRY MORE

Double reserve ammo, every gun

It changes the gun's capacity, not the rounds in hand — so it holds through a restock and applies to every gun bought after it.

Performance Bonus

HIT HARDER

+25% weapon damage

Applied at the one place every point of damage passes through, so it is the same figure for the shot, the swing and the blast.

Just-In-Time

JUST IN TIME

Every reload, twice as fast

A rate, not a capacity: it halves the reload on the next magazine and on every weapon you pick up afterwards.

Ninja Certification

BLACK BELT

Double swing speed, +20% melee

Stacks with Performance Bonus for ×1.5 on a swing. It is the reason to take an axe into round 20.

Special rounds

Three of them, eight rounds apart, and no two are the same encounter. All three replace the round's whole roster with a fixed handful of named bodies put down indoors, near a survivor, at one and a half times scale with moon-blue eyes lit from the first frame. Health totals below are solo; every figure rises to +40% at four players.

Round

The Executive

Bodies: 1
Solo health: ~2,705

One very long health bar

One body, and nothing else walks in. What fills the compound is what the boss itself sends: two Scapegoats every fifteen to twenty seconds, aimed at whoever last put a round into it.

Round

The Heads of People

Bodies: 4
Solo health: ~3,300

One very long queue

Three Heads of People and a Head of Department, each raising seven new starters at a time. Nothing here is hard to kill. There is simply always more of it.

Round

The Chairman

Bodies: 3
Solo health: ~4,670

A bar you break twice

A Chairman and two Heads of People, under the eclipse. The Chairman's dying routine puts it back up once — and the queue the other two keep feeding is still arriving while you do it again.

From round 24, ordinary rounds start carrying one to three of those same bodies as elites, rising to three by round 36. It is the game’s last difficulty ramp: the sky and the field’s empowerment both finish at 24, and health alone is a round that takes longer rather than one that is harder.

Moon phases

The sky is on a schedule, and the schedule is the round number. Four fixed stops, everything between them a fade — and every stop is harder than the last. Health multipliers are the game's own: 1 + 0.1 × (round − 1), applied to every body on the field.

01
Midday
The sun, 62° up
Zombie health
×1.0
Changes
Baseline
It is the only stretch of a run where you can afford to walk somewhere rather than work out whether you have time to.
08
The sun goes
The sun, on the horizon
Zombie health
×1.7
Changes
The lights start going
The office wiring begins to fail here. Ceiling panels go out for good — not on a timer you can learn, and not ones that come back — so you are holding the same rooms with less of them lit, and the first boss round is already behind you.
16
Blood moon
The moon, full and red
Zombie health
×2.5
Changes
The whole field turns
Their eyes come on with it: red for the staff, orange for the Executive. Once everything is glowing that colour is the only way left to pick the thing worth running from out of a car park full of them.
24
Eclipse
The sun, behind the moon
Zombie health
×3.3
Changes
Elites in ordinary rounds
This is the last difficulty ramp the game has. Past it, more health only buys a round that takes longer rather than one that is harder: the danger stops climbing and the attrition does not.