05Field guide · Out there

The infected

Out there5 kindsRestlessHot5 min read

Five kinds come for you. Two of them are on every run, three only when the tier lets them out. All of them hear a gunshot from further away than they can see you.

01How they find you

They see you inside their sight range, and they come to any noise they hear. A shot from the pistol carries 13 tiles, about twice as far as a walker can see. Crouching drops your footsteps to 1 tile.

How far each noise carries
Noise	Heard from	What it costs you
Footsteps: crouched · walking · running	1 · 2.5 · 6 tiles	Sneaking cuts these by 7% a level
Machete swing	2.5 tiles	Nothing past the doorway
9mm Pistol shot	13 tiles	The street
Pump Shotgun shot	19 tiles	The whole block
Assault Rifle shot	21 tiles	Everything in range, every shot
Calling an extraction	14 tiles	Then 10 tiles every 5 s while you wait
Scrap Metal · Supply Case in your pack	+4% · +30%	Your footsteps carry further

Every noise also heats the block up: the hotter it is, the sooner and bigger the next wave.

02Walkers

Most of what's out there. Slow, and easy alone; dangerous in a crowd you didn't count. Every wave is walkers and runners.

Spec 01Every tier A walker

Walker

Health: 60
Chases at: 1.15t/s
Hits for: 9–14
Sees: 7tiles

You outwalk one. Walking is 2.0 tiles a second, running 3.0.
Three pistol hits or two machete swings put one down.
Each hit can start bleeding (3 in 10) or bite (1 in 10). A bite means infection.

The tellA shamble toward the last noise it heard, then a lunge once it's close.

03Runners

Looks like any walker until it runs. Less health, much faster, and more of every wave the longer you stay out.

Spec 02Every tier A runner

Runner

Health: 40
Chases at: 2.5t/s
Hits for: 6–10
Sees: 8tiles

Faster than you walk, slower than you run. Sprint only while you have the stamina.
It gives up a chase sooner than a walker does.
12% of the infected in a wave are runners at the start, more every minute after.

The tellThe only infected that runs. If it's coming fast, it's a runner.

04Screamers

It doesn't fight much. It sees you from 9 tiles, further than a walker or a runner, keeps its distance, and calls the block in.

Spec 03Restless · Hot A screamer

Screamer

Health: 45
Sees: 9tiles
Keeps away: 4tiles
Screams: 2max

Hit it while it draws breath and the scream is stopped. It tries again 2.5 s later.
Up to three walkers on a map turn into screamers. Calm has none.
A scream sends every infected within 9 tiles that isn't busy to where it saw you.

The tellIt stops and rears back for 1.2 s before the scream.

05Radioactives

Rare and tough, and hot to stand near. Killing one isn't the end of it: it bursts, and leaves a pool that glows for half a minute.

Spec 04Restless · Hot A radioactive

Radioactive

Health: 120
Hits for: 8–13
Each hit: +5rad
XP: ×3

Shoot it from range. Within 1.4 tiles of a live one you take radiation every second.
Step back when it drops: it bursts 0.8 s later, hurting everything within 2.5 tiles.
Its body is never empty, and has the best pockets on the street. Wait out the pool.
Radiation never wears off. From 40 you're sick, from 70 you lose health, at 100 you die. Anti-Rad Meds clear 60.

The tellA green glow under it, and on the ground where one died.

06The brute

One per run at most, asleep in its lair until something wakes it: a noise close by, being seen, or being hurt. On Hot it's always out when the map has a lair, with the job "Put down the brute".

Spec 05Hot The brute

Brute

Health: 700+250 a crewmate
Slam: 24
Charge: 28
XP: ×10

Hits from the front do half damage. Flank it.
Make it charge into a wall: it's dazed for 2.5 s and takes half again from every hit.
It won't follow you more than 12 tiles from its lair.
It roars at two thirds and one third health, and the roar calls the block.

The tellIt plants its feet 1.0 s before a slam and 1.1 s before a charge.

Put it down and everyone gets paid. The job pays 5 reward items to each of you who gets out afterwards (2 more on Hot, 2 more if you went alone), and its cache holds one more find for every crewmate who did a tenth of its health.

07All five at a glance

The five kinds of infected
Kind	Health	Chases at	Hits for	Bleed · bite	Out on
Walker	60	1.15 t/s	9–14	30% · 10%	CalmRestlessHot
Runner	40	2.5 t/s	6–10	25% · 6%	CalmRestlessHot
Screamer	45	1.05 t/s	5–8	15% · 5%	RestlessHot
Radioactive	120	1.0 t/s	8–13	20% · 5%	RestlessHot
Brute	700	1.35 t/s	24 · 28	50% · none	MaybeHot

You have 100 health. You walk at 2.0 tiles a second and run at 3.0. The brute's health is for one survivor; each crewmate adds 250.