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== | ==April 21== | ||
The Urban Dead wiki is updated to MediaWiki software [[Special:Version|version 1.16.4]]. Significant features and security updates were included with the update. | * The Urban Dead wiki is updated to MediaWiki software [[Special:Version|version 1.16.4]]. Significant features and security updates were included with the update. | ||
== | ==April 1== | ||
;Unofficial Notes | |||
* For two years in a row, there was no [[April Fools]] joke. | |||
For two years in a row, there was no [[April Fools]] joke. | *: Unless you count the fact that the stats page now shows [[The Dead]] having more than 1000 members. | ||
:Unless you count the fact that the stats page now shows [[The Dead]] having more than 1000 members. | |||
=2010= | =2010= | ||
== | ==December 22== | ||
* As the year ends, survivors take up their seasonal traditions of dragging [[Christmas Tree|pine trees]] through the cold streets, and leaving footprints and blood in the [[snow]] as the undead trail them to their decorated safehouses. | * As the year ends, survivors take up their seasonal traditions of dragging [[Christmas Tree|pine trees]] through the cold streets, and leaving footprints and blood in the [[snow]] as the undead trail them to their decorated safehouses. | ||
* Although it's freezing in [[Monroeville]] and [[Borehamwood]], the snow isn't heavy enough to leave footprints there. | * Although it's freezing in [[Monroeville]] and [[Borehamwood]], the snow isn't heavy enough to leave footprints there. | ||
== | ==October 29== | ||
* [[Halloween]] just doesn't have that old pre-apocalypse atmosphere, in a city of walking corpses, but survivors continue to harvest and carve [[pumpkin]]s, and wear unconvincing plastic [[Halloween#2010_Mask|mask]]s. | * [[Halloween]] just doesn't have that old pre-apocalypse atmosphere, in a city of walking corpses, but survivors continue to harvest and carve [[pumpkin]]s, and wear unconvincing plastic [[Halloween#2010_Mask|mask]]s. | ||
* If zombies [[knock]] at your safehouse door over the weekend and you don't give them any [[stale candy]], they might use their advancing [[Zombie Skills/Memories of Life|memories of life]] to [[defile]] any [[graffiti]] you've written outside. | * If zombies [[knock]] at your safehouse door over the weekend and you don't give them any [[stale candy]], they might use their advancing [[Zombie Skills/Memories of Life|memories of life]] to [[defile]] any [[graffiti]] you've written outside. | ||
== | ==October 6== | ||
;Unofficial Notes | |||
* [http://xkcd.com xkcd's] second edition of the [http://xkcd.com/802/ Map of Online Communities] has been released, and Urban Dead is there. Check it out. | |||
==August 16== | |||
* Survivors and zombies alike are finding it easier to navigate the familiar wreckage of the city streets. Survivors can get directions to a nominated [[safehouse]]; zombies automatically focus on the most recent groan or scent trail. | |||
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* Survivors and zombies alike are finding it easier to navigate the familiar wreckage of the city streets. Survivors can get directions to a nominated [[ | |||
* Settling in for the long haul, some survivors have been modifying and memorising their safehouses. Those able to scout a safehouse can spend 30AP to survey the building, giving them approximately 5 extra AP per day within their nominated safehouse, until they die or the safehouse is ruined. | * Settling in for the long haul, some survivors have been modifying and memorising their safehouses. Those able to scout a safehouse can spend 30AP to survey the building, giving them approximately 5 extra AP per day within their nominated safehouse, until they die or the safehouse is ruined. | ||
* A few zombies have been heard bellowing with rage when faced with large numbers of survivors, issuing a [[bellow|louder feeding groan]] which attracts the dead from further afield. | * A few zombies have been heard bellowing with rage when faced with large numbers of survivors, issuing a [[bellow|louder feeding groan]] which attracts the dead from further afield. | ||
* Zombies are lurching into the deepest shadows of dark buildings, making it harder to escape their tangling grasp in the dark. | * Zombies are lurching into the deepest shadows of dark buildings, making it harder to escape their tangling grasp in the dark. | ||
== | ==July 3== | ||
'''Five full years''' of quarantine since the first outbreak in 2005, and the world still ends. New game mechanics are coming <strike>later this month</strike> in early August, but for today, and today only, zombies and survivors can scavenge '''cardboard crowns''' from the floors of the city's [[Club|nightclubs]]. | * '''Five full years''' of quarantine since the first outbreak in 2005, and the world still ends. New game mechanics are coming <strike>later this month</strike> in early August, but for today, and today only, zombies and survivors can scavenge '''cardboard crowns''' from the floors of the city's [[Club|nightclubs]]. | ||
;Unofficial Notes | |||
* While inside a club survivors can equip the new hat and zombies can press a button "''Wear a cardboard crown''" so that {{udspan|With careful deliberation, you manage to pick up and wear one of the discarded cardboard crowns.}} | |||
==April 1== | |||
;Unofficial Notes | |||
== | * For the first time in Malton's history, there was no [[April Fools]] joke. | ||
For the first time in Malton's history, there was no [[April Fools]] joke. | |||
==21st January== | ==21st January== | ||
;Unofficial Notes | |||
* The snow which covered Malton during the festive season has now melted. | |||
The snow which covered Malton during the festive season has now melted. | |||
=Archive= | =Archive= | ||
Revision as of 09:25, 4 June 2011
Note: Just because you notice something does not mean it has recently been implemented. Check the official news archives to see if it has already been implemented, and check the talk page for other players observations.
2011
April 21
- The Urban Dead wiki is updated to MediaWiki software version 1.16.4. Significant features and security updates were included with the update.
April 1
- Unofficial Notes
- For two years in a row, there was no April Fools joke.
- Unless you count the fact that the stats page now shows The Dead having more than 1000 members.
2010
December 22
- As the year ends, survivors take up their seasonal traditions of dragging pine trees through the cold streets, and leaving footprints and blood in the snow as the undead trail them to their decorated safehouses.
- Although it's freezing in Monroeville and Borehamwood, the snow isn't heavy enough to leave footprints there.
October 29
- Halloween just doesn't have that old pre-apocalypse atmosphere, in a city of walking corpses, but survivors continue to harvest and carve pumpkins, and wear unconvincing plastic masks.
- If zombies knock at your safehouse door over the weekend and you don't give them any stale candy, they might use their advancing memories of life to defile any graffiti you've written outside.
October 6
- Unofficial Notes
- xkcd's second edition of the Map of Online Communities has been released, and Urban Dead is there. Check it out.
August 16
- Survivors and zombies alike are finding it easier to navigate the familiar wreckage of the city streets. Survivors can get directions to a nominated safehouse; zombies automatically focus on the most recent groan or scent trail.
- Settling in for the long haul, some survivors have been modifying and memorising their safehouses. Those able to scout a safehouse can spend 30AP to survey the building, giving them approximately 5 extra AP per day within their nominated safehouse, until they die or the safehouse is ruined.
- A few zombies have been heard bellowing with rage when faced with large numbers of survivors, issuing a louder feeding groan which attracts the dead from further afield.
- Zombies are lurching into the deepest shadows of dark buildings, making it harder to escape their tangling grasp in the dark.
July 3
- Five full years of quarantine since the first outbreak in 2005, and the world still ends. New game mechanics are coming
later this monthin early August, but for today, and today only, zombies and survivors can scavenge cardboard crowns from the floors of the city's nightclubs.
- Unofficial Notes
- While inside a club survivors can equip the new hat and zombies can press a button "Wear a cardboard crown" so that With careful deliberation, you manage to pick up and wear one of the discarded cardboard crowns.
April 1
- Unofficial Notes
- For the first time in Malton's history, there was no April Fools joke.
21st January
- Unofficial Notes
- The snow which covered Malton during the festive season has now melted.
