History VideoGame / OverkillsTheWalkingDead

* ObviousBeta: Things like ''walkers phasing through doors'' are a common occurrence, the enemy AI in general is barely competent, barricades can randomly break on their own, there is no in-game voice chat, crashes are frequent and in some cases can corrupt one's save, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading the loading times are both frequent and lengthy]], the levels are rife with invisible walls and lazy enemy spawns, the game's overall performance is poor on otherwise capable machines despite Unreal Engine 4's ease of optimisation and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking there is no option to change the target monitor]]. The game's myriad of technical problems both on release and in the months to follow almost certainly had an impact on Skybound's decision to terminate their contract with Starbreeze.

* ArtificialBrilliance: Although the game was heavily criticized for poor human enemy A.I., the A.I. actually does quite a lot of impressive actions, such as actively flanking from cover to cover, ducking or sliding sideways when shot at, moving to your flank but then staying behind cover to put pressure on you while their buddies move in instead of popping out of cover while you're aiming at them and exposing themselves, using grenades to flush you out of cover, or hanging back and providing overwatch[=/=]covering fire when other teammates charge in. On the whole, while the A.I. might be average by AAA FPS standards, the game's combat being ''extremely'' punishing due to scarce ammo and health and the noise meter makes it so that human enemies can be very effective at ruining your chances of success simply by being basically competent.

** Armored zombies are zombified U.S. soldiers wearing full heavy body armor; you need to knock their helmets off before you can destroy their brains.

* StoneWall: Aiden the Tank has the highest health in the game (5 health bars by default, compared to 4 for Grant and just 3 for Heather and Maya), and his special ability gives him damage resistance for several seconds after he takes damage. However, his other stats (i.e. stamina) are lower to compensate, and his specialization in shotguns is horrifically impractical for anything other than base defense; while they ''can'' be silenced, their range is too short to be practical for most gunfights especially if you need to be offensive rather than defensive.

* PowerfulPick: One available melee weapon is the pickaxe, which Heather the Scout specializes in. It's actually one of the game's better weapons against zombies, killing them instantly with a single light attack to the head[[note]]other weapons ''can'' kill zombies with a single light attack to the head, but require maxing out the skill tree of a character who specializes in that weapon ''and'' having a high-rarity version of that weapon, whereas the basic pickaxe does the same thing out-of-the-box even for non-specialist characters[[/note]] and having a quite fast attack rate and relatively low stamina cost. It's only real drawback is the lack of crowd control ability, since its heavy attack also is a single-target attack rather than a sweep like with many other melee weapons, and even then it's generally much more effective to eliminate several zombies with single quick light pickaxe strikes then try to sweep them all with a heavy attack from a staff or axe.

* PowerfulPick: One available melee weapon is the pickaxe, which Heather the Scout specializes in. It's actually one of the game's better weapons against zombies, killing them instantly with a single light attack to the head and having a quite fast attack rate and relatively low stamina cost. It's only real drawback is the lack of crowd control ability, since its heavy attack also is a single-target attack rather than a sweep like with many other melee weapons, and even then it's generally much more effective to eliminate several zombies with single quick light pickaxe strikes then try to sweep them all with a heavy attack from a staff or axe.

* ArmiesAreEvil: [[spoiler:It's unclear if the Brigade are actual military soldiers or just a paramilitary group that styles themselves as soldiers, but they're organized as a military and are very much evil. Given that they have the equipment and manpower to fortify and hold large portions of D.C., including the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol Hill, it seems likely they're the real deal. Their ambient dialogue seems to suggest they're a core group of military fascists who have bolstered their ranks by recruiting able-bodied survivors who share their SocialDarwinist philosophy and giving them military training and discipline. Heather, who actually used to be in the military, expresses distain at the Brigade's military affectations, although that seems to be more about their wanton slaughter of prisoners and civilians rather than their effectiveness.]]

* ArtificialBrilliance: Although the game was heavily criticized for poor human enemy A.I., the A.I. actually does quite a lot of impressive actions, such as actively flanking from cover to cover, ducking or sliding sideways when shot at, or hanging back and providing overwatch[=/=]covering fire when other teammates charge in. On the whole, while the A.I. might be average by AAA FPS standards, the game's combat being ''extremely'' punishing due to scarce ammo and health and the noise meter makes it so that human enemies can be very effective at ruining your chances of success simply by being basically competent.

* ArmiesAreEvil: [[spoiler:It's unclear if the Brigade are actual military soldiers or just a paramilitary group that styles themselves as soldiers, but they're organized as a military and are very much evil. Given that they have the equipment and manpower to fortify and hold large portions of D.C., including the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol Hill, it seems likely they're the real deal. Their ambient dialogue seems to suggest they're a core group of military fascists who have bolstered their ranks by recruiting able-bodied survivors who share their SocialDarwinist philosophy and giving them military training and discipline.]]

* SecretCharacter: Finding all the Bounty Hunter collectibles allows you to play as Bridger, a paramilitary local community leader who appears briefly in one of the story missions. She specializes in assault rifles, revolvers, and axes, uses frag mines, and gains damage resistance after being injured (the damage reduction isn't as high as Aidan's similar skill, but Bridger gets a speed boost too).

* SecretCharacter: Finding all the Bounty Hunter collectibles allows you to play as Bridger, a local community leader who appears briefly in one of the story missions.

* BreakableWeapons: Weapons have a finite number of times you can bring them into a mission before they break. You can spend scrap to repair them, or acquire new ones.

* SoloClass: Grant the Tactician seems to be the preferred character for solo players; he's the JackOfAllStats, and his Marked For Death ability allows you to do bonus damage to enemies, which is most useful for allowing you to kill human enemies with a single silenced sniper rifle shot to the torso.

* StoneWall: Aiden the Tank has the highest health in the game (5 health bars by default, compared to 4 for Grant and just 3 for Heather and Maya), and his special ability gives him damage resistance for several seconds after he takes damage. However, his other stats (i.e. stamina) are lower to compensate.

* IncrediblyDurableEnemies: The health of human enemies scales up drastically if you increase the difficulty; on hard difficulty (which the game forces you to play on about halfway through the Season 1 story missions) human enemies can shrug off multiple sniper rifle headshots before falling, until you manage to grind enough to obtain high-rarity firearms.

* SoloClass: Grant the Tactician seems to be the preferred character for solo players; he's TheMario in terms of stats, and his Marked For Death ability allows you to do bonus damage to enemies, which is most useful for allowing you to kill human enemies with a single silenced sniper rifle shot to the torso.