Beta 57: Welcome to Induction

Welcome to the company. Your induction is mandatory. Your survival remains a personal development objective.

Beta 57 gives workplace training its own Induction menu. Start with Survival Basics, then learn what to do when the office phones interrupt your shift.

Two lessons, one increasingly questionable employer

The first lesson keeps the existing hands-on survival training: weapons, ammunition, doors, Lost & Found, specialist zombies, perks and restoring the lights. Its completion screen now offers Phone call training directly, alongside the return to the main menu.

Four phones. Take your time.

The new phone lesson introduces all four calls, one at a time, at four different locations. Each new call moves you close to its handset, on the correct floor and facing the receiver. Instructions and markers guide you through the task before the next call becomes available.

• Front desk — LunchTime Over. Recover five meals from the Cafeteria, Training Room and Kitchen. Learn how collection pays gold and unlocks a Coffee Bomb slot.
• Accounts — TeamSync. Find the ringing purple desk monitor and join the call to earn a free perk ticket.
• Manager's floor — Accounts payable. Hear the company announcement. Some calls have no task; management simply has something unsettling to say.
• West wing — Mandatory Meeting. Follow the assigned-room marker, record your attendance and receive an ammunition refill.

Practice has no waves, no death, open routes and no saved rewards. Handsets keep ringing until answered. Food collection, TeamSync and meeting arrival have no deadline in this lesson. The brief meeting presentation still finishes and reopens its doors. Normal matches keep their existing event timers.

HR has reviewed the kitchen

LunchTime Over now has its own recorded announcement, using the same synthetic office voice and telephone treatment as the other calls, with matching subtitles. It plays in both normal matches and phone training.

“Human Resources is disappointed by your mess. Collect five abandoned meals per survivor from the cafeteria, training room and kitchen. Anything left behind will be classified as a colleague. You will be responsible for its onboarding.”

Download Beta 57 for Windows, Linux or macOS, then choose Induction from the main menu. Please let us know which part of your first shift still needs explaining.