One of the things that indie survival game Project Zomboid does phenomenally well is tension, proving you don't need a first-person perspective or ray-traced lighting effects to scare someone. The latest Project Zomboid update, version 41.71, adds a new dynamic music system that will dial up the tension during your ultimately futile fights against Kentucky's ravenous dead.
With update 41.71, Project Zomboid gets a new 'action music system.' Developer The Indie Stone says that rather than simply switching tracks during combat, you'll now hear a reactive musical score that can "increase and decrease in intensity during combat and other dramatic moments." So from now on, the score will crank up the tension as more zombies head your way when you're waylaid by a couple stragglers behind a liquor store or out in a field.
The patch adds some more nice additions and tweaks, too: there's a "compilation" of new hair types, plus an option for stubble in the hair and beard sections of the character creator - terrific for that 1950s comic strip tough guy look.
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