All equipment types are created by using Salvage at a Crafting Table.
Tactical Equipment
Tacticals offer the use of an additional, non-lethal advantage to partner with a more devastating attack (from a Lethal or another Weapon). Current Loadout Tacticals include Concussion or Decoy Grenades, or the ever useful Stim Shot.
Once in-game, you can use Salvage you’ve acquired from dropped zombies (Ground Loot) to construct a wide variety of Tactical Equipment, each with a different cost (in Salvage). Craft as many as you like until your Inventory is full, or a lack of Salvage prevents you:
- Concussion: Grenade that slows victim’s movement and aiming.
- Stim Shot: Combat stim that heals wounds and refreshes Tactical Sprint.
- Smoke: Deploys a smoke screen that blocks vision and automated targeting systems.
- Decoy Grenade: Attracts nearby zombies for a short duration.
- Shock Charge: Electrical trap that sticks to surfaces and electrocutes enemies, stunning them.
- Cymbal Monkey: Attracts zombies for a short duration before exploding.
- LT53 Kazimir: Creates a small singularity that pulls in and kills enemies.
Lethal Equipment
Lethals are usually utilized when masses of writhing undead appendages are threatening to overwhelm you or your team. Choose Frag, Sticky, or Thermo Grenades, the Combat Axe, or the new Blast Trap, a small missile strapped with an improvised explosive.
During a match, gather Salvage from dropped zombies (Ground Loot) to increase your pool of Lethal Equipment, each with a different cost (in Salvage). Craft as many as you like until your Inventory is full, or a lack of Salvage prevents you:
- Frag: Cookable fragmentation grenade.
- Sticky: Timed sticky grenade.
- Molotov: Thrown incendiary weapon creates a patch of flames.
- C4: Sticky explosive with large damage radius. Detonate remotely.
- Combat Axe: Thrown axe that kills enemies in one hit. Bounces off surfaces.
- Impact Grenade: Precision grenade that explodes on impact.
- Thermo Grenade: Creates a large fuel-air cloud that explodes after a duration.
- Blast Trap: Planted explosive device detonates when enemies come near.
In-Game Access
- Some Tacticals and Lethals are intermittently dropped by Zombies to be gathered as ground loot.
- A full complement of Tacticals and Lethals can be constructed at Crafting Tables, along with more powerful ordnance, such as Scorestreaks.
Support Equipment
Between bouts of undead culling, access the Crafting Table and you’ll be able to spend Salvage to construct an impressive array of Support equipment, which also occasionally drops as ground loot. Some examples include:
- Self-Revive: Use when downed to revive yourself.
- ARC-XD: Explosive RC car that emits small Aether Blasts.
- Sentry Turret: Automated turret that scans for and attacks nearby enemies in a forward-facing cone.
- Mutant Injection: Temporarily transforms you into a Mangler… with all the bells and whistles.
New Support Equipment
One of the Support items you can craft is the Mutant Injection which allows you to transform into, and temporarily wreak havoc as a Mangler! Once you inject yourself with the serum, you grow an additional three feet taller, become clad in plated armor, and can throw your weight about with a vicious Melee Swipe, ranged Mangler Cannon attack, and a zombie-killing barging sprint, all with some seriously impressive damage upgrades. Your new form even allows REDACTED.