Demo Updated — New Zombie Type, Barrel Rework & Balance Pass

Survivors! A fresh update just hit the DeadTide demo — the very build we're polishing for the Early Access launch on August 24.

🧟 NEW ZOMBIE TYPE: THE SPLITTER Kill this bloated horror and it bursts into fast little runners that swarm you. Area weapons just got a lot more valuable.

☢️ RADIATION BARREL — FULL REWORK

• The radiation aura is now fully visible: a pulsing green field. What you see is exactly where the damage happens.
• Bigger base radius — a true "get close and melt them" weapon.
• Damage numbers now pop on the zombies you hit. New weapon icon too (the old one was literally a medicine bottle thanks to a fallback bug).

⚔️ BALANCE CHANGES

• Crossbow: Level 5 now fires a double bolt.
• Holy Ring: pulses faster (+10%) and grows (+8%) with every level.
• Dynamite: throws more often. Same boom, less waiting.

🈶 LOCALIZATION & FONTS

• Fixed missing □ characters in Chinese, Japanese and Korean — all 12 languages now render correctly.
• Translation fixes in Chinese, German and French.

🐛 FIXES

• Demo unlock texts corrected; the Club is now available in the demo.
• Stability and performance groundwork for bigger hordes.

The full game launches in Early Access on August 24 — wishlist DeadTide so you don't miss it. See you on the farmstead! 🌾🧟