Breakdown

Overview

"You've survived State of Decay. Now it's time to move forward and tell your own story. Take on an endless campaign with twists and turns based entirely on your own choices. Build up your score in the face of an ever-escalating zombie threat, and compete with survivors around the world. Complete challenges to unlock new heroes with unique weapons and skills. The deeper you go, the tougher it gets, and every choice is yours."

Breakdown is State of Decay's first DLC, which was released on both Steam and XBLA, on 29th November 2013. It adds a new game mode, Breakdown, featuring new melee weapons, firearms, playable characters, and being an infinite sandbox mode, in which one could play the game (in theory) forever.

Features

Our first expansion comes largely from you and your dreams. Less story, more survival. Long-term survival. More difficulty. New achievements, survivors, and weapons. We hope you have as much fun with it as we have.

In Breakdown, no storyline exists, the only goal is to survive for as long as possible. When resources become depleted, players will be given the choice to advance to the next level, using an RV which they must previously locate, repair and refuel. Only 6 people (excluding Lily) can be chosen. All levels are set in Trumbull Valley and all the locations are the same; however, the map reverts to unexplored, containers become unlooted and the zombies get more dangerous.

At first, players will start a new game with a random character. After completing specific challenges, they will unlock and can choose to play as hero characters, each has with their own unique abilities and starting weapons. Players can also set the difficulty when starting a new game, ranging on a scale from 1 to 10. They can only select difficulty levels up to what they have unlocked (each difficulty level can only be unlocked by completing the previous one).

Differences between Breakdown and Story mode

Notes: The differences listed below are pulled by inspecting .xml files of State of Decay and Breakdown. They are only partial and need more testing.

Missions

• All storyline-related missions are removed
• New Breakdown missions are introduced, including Repairing the RV and Leaving the Valley

Enclaves

• All storyline-related enclaves are removed and containers appear in their buildings.

Characters

• 34 Heroes, 101 recruitable characters and 9 NPCs (including Lily Ritter and characters recruited with radio calls).
• Most NPCs in State of Decay become playable, either as heroes or random enclave members.

Skills

• Improving basic skills and specialization skills now adds 4 Fame per level instead of 1
• New skill: Tattoo Artist
• New skill effect for Jurisprudence: Trust gain +10%

Facilities

• New facility: Recreational Vehicle
• New ability for Medical Area: Get Matching Tattoos
• Medical Area ability Create Homemade Painkillers cost increased from 2 to 5 Medicine
• More generous Fame rewards for facility completion (without checking Advice text)

Home sites

• New temporary home site: Busted RV
• Homesite requirements changed
  • Tiny homesite: no requirement (5 survivors in SoD)
  • Small homesite: 5 survivors (8 in SoD)
  • Medium homesite: 10 survivors (12 in SoD)

Items

• New firearms
• New melee weapons
• Tweaked various weapons (mainly weight and durability)

Search

• New ammo list Ammo.Hunter (ammo for hunting rifles and shotguns)
• Removed Notes from most containers
• Added Notes and Junk to some containers
  
• Added new firearms to search item lists: Guns.Military, Guns.Sidearm, Guns.Swat, Guns.Police, Guns.Hunter, Guns.Enthusiast, Guns.Civilian, Guns.Case
• Added new melee weapons to search item lists: Melee.Martial, Melee.Home, Melee.Garden, Melee.Tool, Melee.Industry, Melee.Police, Melee.Axe, Melee.Camping
• Ammo.Hunter is added to a few more containers
• Ammo.Launcher is added to a few more containers
• Added list of component needed for refueling the RV

Events

• "New day" event does not put ammo in Supply Locker
• "New day" event does not put matching ammo in each survivor's inventory

Radio Option

• New radio call: Settle Home Base
• New radio call: Added Words of Encouragement

• Removed Construction Advice

• Text description changed for a few calls

Difficulty multiplier

Notes: Below is untested data taken from the sandbox.xml file.

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Note (speculation)
Max Cars	70	60	55	50	45	40	35	30	25	20	15	total number of vehicles that spawn in the level
Score Multiplier	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Survivors.Cap	80	60	50	40	30	20	20	20	20	20	20	total number of survivors that spawn in the level
Survivors.Rare	40	30	30	25	20	15	15	15	15	15	15	number of of "rare" survivors (?) that spawn in the level
Fast Zombie %	16	20	26	33	40	50	60	70	80	100	100	% of fast zombies relative to the number of normal zombies
Slow Zombie %	77	73	67	60	53	43	33	23	13	0	0	% of slow zombies relative to the number of normal zombies
Dormant Zombie %	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	% of dormant zombies relative to the number of normal zombies
Army %	5	8	10	13	15	15	16	17	18	20	20	% of Army zombies relative to the total number of all zombies (including normal)
Screamer %	1	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	5	% of Screamers relative to the total number of all zombies (including normal)
Bloater %	1	1	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	4	5	% of Bloaters relative to the total number of all zombies (including normal)
Juggernaut %	1	1	2	2	3	4	4	5	5	7	8	% of Juggernauts relative to the total number of all zombies (including normal)
Feral %	1	1	1	2	2	3	4	4	5	6	8	% of Ferals relative to the total number of all zombies (including normal)
Density Multiplier	1	1.15	1.3	1.45	1.6	1.8	2	2	2	2	2
Max Hordes	8	10	11	12	14	16	18	20	22	24	24	Maximum number of Hordes that can exist at the same time
Max Infestations	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22	24	24	Maximum number of Infestations that can exist at the same time

Video

File:State of Decay Breakdown Trailer

Official State of Decay: Breakdown trailer.

1. Easter Eggs

The police cars license plates say POPO50