History VideoGame / DecayingWinter

--> '''AGENT:''' Alert. Heavily armoured hostile detected.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Long Ammo-using weapons, such as snipers, have massive damage on headshots... At the expense of low rate of fire. As such, with the exception of the Dragunov and Wolfsbane, they're pretty much only useful for clearing out scavs on the scavenging phase, and god forbid you use them against the Sickler and the Sledge Queen...

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: The Koldera Black auxiliary equipment is a cigarette that, alongside granting you minor buffs, also reduces the effect of Morale.

* GenreShift: The main game is a FirstPersonShooter with some emphasis on melee combat. ''Last Strandeds'', on the other hand, is an endless survival game with a higher emphasis on gunplay and a faster, arcade-style pace.

* SuperSerum: Stimulants are items that apply a very strong buff, but inflict tinnitus once their effects run out. The Berserker also has the Calamity Serum as their ability, which lets them engage a SuperMode.
* ThePlague: Every player in the base game mode starts off with a permanent debuff called Infection, which progresses every 7 minutes and can only be suppressed with either Amoxicillin Tablets or Augmentin Antibiotics. As it progresses, you get increasingly worse effects, from absolutely nothing at Stage 1 to instant death at Stage 5.

* GenreShift: The main game is a FirstPersonShooter with some emphasis on melee combat. ''Last Strandeds'', on the other hand, is an endless survival game with a higher emphasis on gunplay.

* MoraleMechanic: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Morale]], obviously. It's inflicted when one of the Agents die, causing a debuff to all of your stats, and it can stack all the way up to 4. It's effects can be mitigated with the Koldera Black's buff and using BL1 (Neloprephine) removes a stack of it.

* DropTheHammer: Hammers fall under the bludgeon weapon class, from the [[ImprovisedWeapon Construction Hammer]] to [[AmmoUsingMeleeWeapon The Decimator]].

* NotCompletelyUseless: The Damned is obviously meant to be the game's JokeCharacter, with the only redeeming factor that it does give an experience buff. However, the Damned is immune to the Morale debuff, meaning that the surviving members except the Damned can suicide after the end of a wave, then respawn and get their equipment back. [[SchmuckBait Just be sure they don't try to steal each other's equipment]].

* NotCompletelyUseless: The Damned is obviously meant to be the game's JokeCharacter, with the only redeeming factor that it does give an experience buff. However, the Damned is immune to the Morale debuff, meaning that the surviving members except the Damned can suicide after the end of a wave, then respawn and get their equipment back. [[SchmuckBait Just be sure they don't try to grab their equipment]].

* [[BFS]]: The Executioner Sword, capable of dishing out an OneHitKill with it's heavy attack.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Regardless of the blood everyone has spilled, ultimately, every faction is doing what they have to to survive the apocalyptic conditions of the planet the game takes place on.

In the base game mode, you play in a group of up to 4 other Agents, members of the high-tech faction ULACYLON. The objective is to survive 10 nights of two segments each: scavenging for any loot that may help your team survive, and defending your base from other scavs.

--> AGENT: Tropes secure.

* AmmoUsingMeleeWeapon: The Decimator blasts enemies with a shotgun shell explosion on a heavy attack. It never requires you to load it, however.

* ThatOneDisadvantage: Having the Damned perk makes you a lot worse at ''everything''. Your melee stats are awful, decreasing weapon damage and making all your swings feel half as fast, your durability is awful, enough so that taking a shot from a Cheytac sniper deals 85, and your firearm stats are horrendous, since the perk doesn't let you aim and even with an accuracy trait your shots will spread too much for comfort. The only weapons a Damned is good at using are bows while standing still. However, in return for all of this, you don't get Morale.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: You're given a shield if you select the Zealot perk. Holding the perk button will allow to hold it in front of yourself and tank massive amounts of damage, but the button can be tapped to deploy it with its own little [[SentryGun turret]].