Health

Stamina

30:00

Click to look around

WASD move · gun: LMB fire · RMB aim · Q gun butt · no gun: LMB/RMB left/right hand · R reload · Space hold: sprint · tap: climb / jump · stand up from a stance · C kneel · Z prone · E interact · T team · Tab backpack & nearby · 1/2 guns · M map · 4–8 supplies · hold 9 aim / release throw grenade · 0 switch grenade · H heal · 7 drink · F flashlight / low–high–off headlights · G gun's tactical light · N night vision · Enter chat · hold V talk · Y voice nearby/team · in car: L allow passengers · C seat · Q lean out · Tab backpack · E at a window: smash & climb through

Night 3 of the blackout

Blackout City

The grid went down three nights ago. You jump from the last transport over the city, and the rescue flights leave when the clock runs out. Each round opens three landing zones, a different three every time: find one, call the helicopter and hold on until it lands. Other survivors are out there doing the same. Some will join you.

Survival notes

The dead follow light and noise. Your flashlight shows them the way to you.
The long-legged things hate light. Keep the beam on them and they back away.
Shops, offices and homes can be entered. Search shelves, lockers and cabinets for weapons, armour and supplies.
Every building can be entered; doors open with E. Gun stores, precincts and some homes hold firearms. Shots carry: the dead come running.
Any parked car that isn't burnt out still runs: E to get in, WASD to drive. Engines draw the dead.
The checkpoint plaza is safe. Nothing follows you into the floodlight.
Every place has its own finds: medicine at the hospital, weapons at police headquarters, tools and hunting rifles on the farms, maps at City Hall.
The round starts in the plane, 350 m up. Space or E jumps; M shows its path. Space opens the canopy at any height (it opens by itself 120 m up); hold W in freefall to accelerate forward and descend more slowly. Under the canopy W gives the longest glide, A/D steer, and S brakes for landing. Open high and hold W to travel farther. Roofs are no place to land: the canopy carries you off them.
Each round opens three of ten landing zones: the hospital helipad, crossroads in town, the farm airstrip, meadows, a lay-by, the beach or the pier car park. Each burns green smoke. An evacuation map marks all three; the radio gives one away at 15 minutes and all of them at 5.
In Co-op other survivors never hurt you. Press T beside one to team up; your team follows you, fights with you and leaves on your helicopter.
In PvE and PvP the other survivors are hostile: once you have been on the ground a while they shoot on sight, bursts from cover, and come to look when they hear a shot. A red mark round the crosshair shows where a hit came from. Nobody fights at the checkpoint plaza. A head shot counts double on them and on you, unless your helmet takes it; their packs hold everything they carried.
A called helicopter takes a minute and the noise brings the dead. Whoever is in the zone when it lifts off gets out.
Online, everyone in a room plays the same round: the same landing zones, the same dead, the same emptied shelves. The host picks the mode. Down in co-op or PvE, Enter wakes you at the checkpoint; C watches the others; the host starts the next round with N.
St. Mercy Hospital, the FreshMart Supermarket and Police Headquarters are huge: two or three floors of rooms, with stairwells at both ends of the first cross corridor.
Every gun, the pistol too, takes both hands: left click fires, right click (held) aims, Q strikes with it. A melee weapon can go in each hand: left click uses the left, right click the right; heavy tools take both hands. Space climbs onto cars and crates.
Aim for the head: a head shot drops the dead where they stand. Leg shots stagger them; arm shots do little.
Loot lies on the ground as well as in containers: piles of guns, rounds, parts and meds on the pavements and on every floor indoors. You start with a flashlight, switched off (F). The flashlight never runs down.
Bosses glow: they are fast, armoured, hit hard and take a lot of killing, and carry valuables. A Ferris-wheel fair and an open-air lido stand by the checkpoint.
An energy drink (7) boosts you for 40 s: health creeps back and you move faster. Boosts add up.
You can swim, and the dead can't: out past your chest in the sea at Pelican Beach, or in the pool at the Aquatic Centre, a block north-east of the checkpoint. Hold Space to swim hard; it tires you fast. No weapons in the water: your gun stays slung. Swim to the edge or walk out where it gets shallow.
Carry two long guns and a pistol: 1 and 2 draw the long guns (slung one on each shoulder), 3 the pistol (in its hip holster); the same key (or X) puts the gun away. Rifles, SMGs, the sniper rifle and the shotgun take attachments: suppressors, foregrips, quickdraw and extended magazines, a red dot, a holo sight, 2×/3×/4×/6×/8× scopes or a laser sight (the shotgun takes sights only; the sniper rifle a 4×, 6× or 8× scope). Fit and remove them in the backpack (Tab), on each gun's attachment points.
A fallen player or survivor leaves a crate at their feet: E opens it at once, with every gun still loaded and fitted. Tab picks out what lies near you on the ground.