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France

## History

Before wwz,There were reports of a new rabies virus with cases rising into the thousands as many people who are healthy became very ill due to the virus.The french government began a state of quarantine to decrease the virus cases.Before wwz,Both the french and other world governments succeeded into creating a cure for the rabies virus.

A few months after the pandemic has ended (there were new reports of the victims of the original rabies virus causing corpses to rise from the dead and being reanimated causing panic for the french population.During the panic,The infected began attacking civilians alerting the governemnt to call the armed forces to halt the advance of the infected (which inevetibely failed).The french government later evacuated to the guernsey islands with the capital moved to saint peter port.Several years after,The french government planned to retake the french mainland by lunching an amphibious landing in the coast of Brittany which shockingly succeeded (due to the fact that over operations to liberate France failed with the cost of the bloodshed and the infection of some of the militaries troops.The french Government soon ordered the safe zone of corsica to invade the southern regions of France to reconnect their armies to push the infected out of France.

By the time the French mainland has been liberated,The French government began planning to capture Belgium and Luxembourg from the infected.When french forces manage to capture the countries of Luxembourg and Belgium when it was discovered that the Belgian and Luxembourgish governments were found dead (which might be possible because there was no specific mention of what happened to the two countries during the war).The french government later decided to annex the 2 countries and appoint Governors since they believed that the inhabitants of the 2 countries were leaderless and powerless.

## Current status

After wwz,France has became a major power in the European continent and just like the other countries they setup repopulation and reconstruction plans to rebuild the country to its pre-war state.
Bunko Tatsumi

### Relationship

• Isabelle Tatsumi (mother)• Angel, Tashaun, Arnetta (fellow New York survivors, alive)

### Status

Alive

**Bunko Tatsumi** (Japanese: 辰巳文庫 Tatsumi Bunko) is one of the four playable survivors in the New York episode. She hacked the government computers and discovered the virus before other people in New York.

## Trivia

* Bunko's last name and backstory are based off Kondo Tatsumi from the book. Both of them are Japanese, introverts, and skilled hackers who learned about the outbreak before everyone else.
Classes

There are several **classes** to choose from in World War Z.

## Overview

Choosing the class you want to play as is an important choice. Every class that players can choose from are designed to fit different needs for the team when fighting the zekes as well as enemy survivors. Classes are defined by their attributes, equipment, perks, and even weapon preferences.

Classes are not restricted or tied down to specific survivor characters in any way. Players are free to play any class as any survivor characters.

## Classes

There are two different sets of classes depending on whether you are playing Co-op Campaign or Multiplayer, and both sets are separate from each other.
C4

The **C4** is equipment used by classes in World War Z.

The C4 is used by the Hellraiser class in Co-op Campaign, and the Demolisher class in Multiplayer.

## Overview

The C4 is a remote-detonated explosive. This makes it the only explosive in the game that does not automatically explode on its own, giving the user a greater sense of control and timing for when it blows. (However, like all the explosives in the game, it will explode when hit with bullets.) This is especially important during zombie swarms, as it allows users to time their detonation to catch as many zekes as possible within its radius. Contrary to other throwing equipment, it does not have a line of trajectory when holding down the equipment button as that function is used to detonate the C4.

In the real world, C4 is an extremely stable explosive that can only be denoted with a blasting cap. In fact, the C4 is so stable that it won't explode even when lit on fire, stomped, or even shot with an rifle incendiary round.

When deployed, it will be highlighted in blue and will be marked with the C4 icon.

## Design

The C4 is based on the M112 demolition block, which is one of the most common forms for C-4 plastic explosives to take shape and be packaged in. Two pairs of blocks form the C4 equipment seen in-game, strapped together on opposite ends by black Velcro straps with sticky backs to allow it to cling onto virtually any surface. The detonator is strapped down to the blocks by black cable ties.

When manually detonated, a firing device is very briefly pulled out and used to remotely activate all thrown explosives.

## Notes

* Unlike real-world C-4, the C4 in-game is highly unstable as any damage ranging from a small puff of fire to a single gunshot can trigger the C4 into prematurely exploding.
* Oddly, despite the LED display of the detonator being red, a blue light shines from the C4 when it is set in place. There is nothing on the C4 that appears to shine this light individually from the detonator. Because the color blue is used to represent friendly objects, the blue light is incorrectly shone on purpose for the sake of visual clarity for both the player who threw the equipment out and for their teammates.

## Trivia

* The detonator on the C4 has "00:13:37" on the red LED display, a reference to leet or leetspeak.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
Israel

Israel was a country in the middle east before the zombie war Bordering Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon As well as the Palestinian territories of the Gaza strip and the West bank founded in 1948.

Israel was the only country to enact a successful quarantine as the start of the zombie outbreak. The Israels withdrew from the disputed settlements on the west bank and the city of Jerusalem and contracted an enormous border wall sealing themselves off from the rest of the world. The Israelies offered sanctuary to anyone of any jew or Israeli abroad as well as anyone who lived in Palestine. Through the border wall and the use of sniffer dogs and quarantining of new arrivals they were the only country to avoid the zombie plague entirely. They offered warnings to the rest of the world before the Great Panic but few listened. After the zombie war Israel would reincorporate the disputed lands having made peace with the Palestinians during the war and then becoming that nation of Unifed Palestine.
Challenge Mode

**Challenge Mode** is a special game mode in Co-op Campaign.

## Overview

In Challenge Mode, a unique challenge can be attempted by players to earn a lot of Challenge Coins. The challenge changes at the end of every week. Each challenge takes place in a random chapter and gameplay is altered with different preset rules.

### Mutators

**Mutators** are the rule modifiers that shake up gameplay in a variety of different ways. In Challenge Mode, three predetermined mutators are chosen to direct how the challenge is played.

\**Check the List of Mutators for details on each individual rule modifier.*

### Difficulties & Rewards

Similar to Horde Mode, there are only two difficulty levels to choose from: **Normal** () and **Hard** ().

Despite what difficulties have been listed, each difficulty level **plays like the one above it**. This means that playing on normal actually means playing on **hard difficulty**, and playing on hard means playing on **insane difficulty**. To better prepare yourself for Challenge Mode, play a few rounds of hard difficulty and insane difficulty respectively to better understand the true intensity of each difficulty level.

Depending on the selected difficulty, the rewards you earn upon completion of the challenge will be different. Completing the Challenge Mode on normal difficulty first will automatically deduct 100 Challenge Coins from the completion of the challenge on hard difficulty. This means the typical amount of Challenge Coins earned through the mode is 350 Challenge Coins.

 Hard  | 550
 Hard  (After completing normal difficulty first)
250

#### Virus Sample Rewards

Collecting Virus Samples in Challenge Mode will reward players with the same bonuses as the regular campaigns on completion.

70
120
 2
140
240
 3
350
600
10
Algeria

Algeria (Otherwise known as French North Africa) is a large country in Africa which is mainly composed of desert with a few cities and grassland located at the coastal north next to Morocco. It is mentioned in The Zombie Survival Guide.

## 140-41AD Zombie Outbreaks

Roman officials recorded six outbreaks in the area numbering 133 zombies. Roman forces killed them all and lost around 5 soldiers doing so. The records note that the psychological damage by the zombies drove a local family insane.

## 1893 Zombie Outbreak

The largest zombie siege in history was recorded here after a horde of zombies from a nearby village attacked them. The local French Foreign Legion unit stationed there ran out of ammunition trying to shoot the zombies as they didn't know to shoot them in the head. They were able to get water from the local wells and had enough food to last a few years, eventually resorting to slaughtering their horses and camels to ration the meat. They used explosives, fire and stones to kill the zombies, before eventually inviting them in to trap them and escaping on their own. Upon the soldiers reporting this incident to the French Foreign Legion, The French troops jailed all zombies which they fled to Greece

## 1943 Zombie Outbreak

After a US Army warplane was forced to land for fuel, soldiers investigated a nearby abandoned fort which turned out to be the same one from 1893. They saw hundreds of skeletons but raided the place for some supplies. They asked the local population about it but they refused to talk. After getting fuel from a town 50 kilometers away, they returned to their plane and continued their missions.
Jurgen Warmbrunn's 2nd Interview

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

 [We finish our lunch as Jurgen aggressively snatches the bill from my hand.]

 Please, my choice of food, my treat. I used to hate this stuff, thought
 it looked like a buffet of vomit. My staff had to drag me here one
afternoon, these young Sabras with their exotic tastes. “Just try it,
you old yekke,” they’d say. That’s what they called me, a “yekke.” It
means tight ass, but the official definition is German Jew. They were
right on both counts.

 I was in the “Kindertransport,” the last chance to get Jewish children
out of Germany. That was the last time I saw any of my family alive.
There’s a little pond, in a small town in Poland, where they used to
dump the ashes. The pond is still gray, even half a century later.

 I’ve heard it said that the Holocaust has no survivors, that even those
 who managed to remain technically alive were so irreparably damaged,
that their spirit, their soul, the person that they were supposed to be,
 was gone forever. I’d like to think that’s not true. But if it is, then
 no one on Earth survived this war.
Bullpup Rifle

The Bullpup Rifle (XTAR-95) is a tier III primary weapon featured in World War Z.

## Overview

The tier 3 **Bullpup Rifle**, or **XTAR-95**, is one of the 3 burst fire rifles in the game. Other burst fire rifles are the Classic Bullpup Rifle (referred to as "**Le Clairon**") and the Sniper Rifle with the unique "**Two-Rounds Burst**" perk equipped.

It is one of the most accurate weapons in the game, capable of achieving an "**Accuracy**" score of **9** without any extra perks. It is also one of the few weapons that have **penetration** power of **2** by default.

The tier 3 **Bullpup Rifle** is the only weapon that can be equipped with a fire mode selector. When the unique "**Selective Fire**" perk is equipped, the rifle becomes fully automatic by default. A switch to the burst fire mode is performed by simply zooming in, and zooming out switches back to full-auto.

With the "**Selective Fire**" perk equipped, it becomes the only fully automatic weapon in the game to receive the extra penetration bonus from the Fixer's "**Power Shot**" perk. When both of these bonuses are applied, it also becomes the only fully automatic rifle with consistent **penetration** power of **3**. In full-auto, its rate of fire surpasses that of the Advanced SMG, making it one of the fastest-firing weapons.

Since it is a tier 3 rifle, it cannot be chosen as a starting weapon in PvE modes.

## Performance

The Bullpup Rifle is a tier III burst-fire rifle, with low damage per bullet (for a tier III weapon), high accuracy, a moderate rate of fire, and a penetration value of 2. It is an upgraded version of the Classic Bullpup rifle.

## Perks

### Unique perks

 Biathlete
 On Edge

## Weapon Progression

### Unlock requirements by level

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
Classic Battle Rifle

The **Classic Battle Rifle**, also known as the **LAR**, is a Tier II primary weapon in World War Z.

## Overview

The Classic Battle Rifle is one of the 4 fully automatic primaries in the game that can have +2 max penetration without any class bonuses. Others are:

* Battle Rifle (with the "Full-Auto" perk)
* Advanced SMG (with the "FMJ Rounds I" perk)
* Light Automatic Weapon (with the "Bull's Horns" perk)

## Perks

### Unique perks

 HP Rounds II
 Fresh Mag

## Design

The weapon itself is based on the Belgian FN FAL ("Fusil Automatique Léger" or "Light Automatic Rifle", hence in-game lore name: LAR). Its physical appearance seems to be based on the G-series variant as noted by its wooden furniture. Unlike the real-life FN FAL G-Series, the in-game version is fully automatic.

Its upgrades can outfit the rifle with varying furniture mainly based on the DS Arms SA58.

## Legacy

Before the Horde Mode XL update (released on January 24, 2023) that redesigned the game's weapon system, the Classic Battle Rifle's progression model looked as follows.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
Equipment Bags

**Equipment bags** are abandoned gear bags containing useful supplies in World War Z.

Equipment bags are necessary to restore equipment charges. If you are low or completely out of equipment, take one that you find on the way for a refill.

## Overview

### Co-op Campaign

When near an equipment bag, a button must be held to take it. When collecting one, players will fully restore any expended equipment charges. Since the bag always brings you back to full capacity, you should try to use up any remaining charges if possible. The best use of an equipment bag is when you are completely out of equipment as this will maximize their use. In higher difficulties, they appear less and less frequently, meaning their contents must be stretched out to the fullest when they appear to make them the most effective.

Equipment such as the C4, Claymore Mine, Supply Bag, and Stim Pistol are great examples of following this mindset. C4s can be detonated at a specific time or place, mines can be set in desired locations for perimeter defense, bags will remain stationary until all of its explosive ammo has been used up, and stims will last for a decent amount of time until it fully wears off.

Consider the classes before collecting an equipment bag. If there is a Fixer, Medic, or Dronemaster within your group, direct their attention towards the bag and give them the first chance to take it instead. If a fight against a large wave of zekes is imminent, consider letting the Hellraiser or Exterminator in your team take it to refill their explosives. Have good judgment and consider the current situation to decide whether you should take the equipment bag for yourself or let someone else take it.

### Multiplayer

In every game mode in Multiplayer, equipment bags spawn frequently all over the map in specific spots. They can be picked up by both teams. There are a couple of differences with how equipment bags function in Multiplayer.

Firstly, equipment bags can be collected simply by walking on them. Secondly, equipment is only recharged in increments. This means that with equipment bags alone, four are necessary to gain a single equipment charge. Third and lastly, the bags also provide ammo for primary and secondary weapons.
Mia Sanchez

Mia Sanchez is one of the four playable survivors in the Phoenix episode.

## Biography

Joining Arizona Fish and Game was not Mia's favorite option, but after resigning from the Phoenix Police Department under questionable circumstances, she was lucky to have a job at all. Though her career was cut short by the outbreak, she did have impressive marksmanship scores at the academy.
Crossplay Update

On March 23rd, 2020, the **Crossplay Update** was released for World War Z on all platforms.

TheCrossplay Updatewas a major content update as part of the Season 2 Content Roadmap. It was preceded by the Kill It With Fire Update and the Horde Mode Z Update.

The most notable additions to this update were crossplay between PC and Xbox One players, and the Virus Sample.

## Patch Notes

#### New Features

* Added Virus Sample functionality in Campaign
	+ AI Director will randomly spawn containers with Virus Sample that players can pick up
	+ Virus samples can spawn from Bombers that are taken down without them exploding.
	+ The containers are fragile and they will begin to apply negative effects to players as they break.
	+ If players will manage to finish the mission with containers intact, they will get increased rewards
	+ AI Director can spawn several Virus Samples, Bomber will also drop them
* Added 4 new weapon variants with unique perks
	+ Pistol - Increased penetration and damage vs special zombies.
	+ Machine Pistol - Full auto variant, reloads primary weapon after a special zombie kill.
	+ Classic Battle Rifle - Semi auto variant, no penetration but deals a lot of damage.
	+ Battle Rifle - Full auto variant.
	+ Thumper Grenade Launcher - Incendiary grenades.
* War Heroes character skin pack (included for Season Pass owners)

#### Horde Mode

* Slightly reduced difficulty in Hard mode
* Significantly reduced difficulty in Normal mode
	+ Less Special Zombies will spawn in Normal mode
	+ Increased preparation timer between waves by 20% in Normal mode
	+ Supply points rewards will begin to scale down later in Normal mode
	+ Added significantly more random pickups in Normal mode
* Increased Auto Turret maximum ammo
* Capped by 10 the amount of Auto Turrets that could be placed simultaneously
* Fixed one of the shops not spawning items
* Reduced the amount of ammo secondary weapons drain from ammo boxes by 50%
* Reduced ammo crate cost from 100 to 70
* Significantly increased both XP and currency rewards

#### Difficulty

* Tweaked Extreme difficulty settings to restore pre-patch balance (it was changed to support crossplay)
* AI Director will spawn less secondary weapon pickups

#### AI

* Reworked Bomber drop, he will spawn better Primary and Heavy weapons when killed

#### Perks

* Fixed several issues with perks stacking

#### Levels

* Fixed some gameplay bugs that were causing inability to progress in levels
* Fixed issue that allowed players to clip through geometry in some places

## Gallery

Kimiko carrying a Virus Sample on her backpack
## Reference

* https://forums.focus-entmt.com/topic/44179/the-crossplay-update-is-live
Sho Sugiyama

* Tokyo
* Kamchatka

**Sho Sugiyama** (Japanese: 杉山翔 *Sugiyama Sho*) is one of the four playable survivors in the Tokyo and Kamchatka episode.

## Biography

Sho always knew his life would be dedicated to saving others. At 19, he enlisted in the Coast Guard. When the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, he joined the Disaster Rescue Team to save survivors. But when the outbreak hit, Sho knew it was different; the only survivors would be those who left.
Japan

Japan is a large island country located off the coast of Asia, noted for its rich cultural history, beautiful landscape, advanced technology, pop culture and rich economy. It was formely an isolationist nation which refused contact with the outside world, but opened itself up after the USA forced it to and became an empire which expanded into China and the Pacific. It was conquered by the USA and slowly rebuilt itself into an extremely rich nation, known for its incredible technology and culture. Japan is mentioned in The Zombie Survival Guide and the World War Z novel.

## World War Z

On 2011, a passenger ship carrying an infected person arrived to Japan in Kansai. Japan was quickly overrun in just a few months. As Japanese Forces and citizens evacuated to the Mountainous areas of the country. By the late 2010s, Japanese Forces began a sweep and clear operation in the Island, Recapturing Tokyo.

## Current Status

Japan has been remilitarised. And is currently rebuilding their country. Many of Japan‘s cities are left for recolonisation and it is believed that the recolonisation process will finish by 2043.

## People

Kondo Tatsumi

Tomonaga Ijiro

## Locations

• Kyoto - former imperial capital and also the cultural capital of Japan, Kyoto was one of Japanese largest cities prewar. It's mentioned as the location of a presumably large outbreak.

• Kokura - a Japanese city located in the island of Kyushu, it's the original hometown of Kondo Tatsumi before the war. Kokura eventually was overrun, with fires break out across the city.

• Osaka - Japan's second largest city and an important port of the country, it's also apparently the location of a serious, presumably large zombie outbreak.

• Sendai - the capital of the Miyagi prefecture, it was described as overrun during the war, with siafus flowing out from the city's Tohoku University Hospital as per Tatsumi's friend last post indicates.

• Nagoya - one of Japanese largest cities and a major port. It's mentioned as a location of an outbreak.

• Hirosaki - a city in northern Honshu, mentioned as a location of an outbreak.

• Sapporo - a major Japanese city and the capital of Hokkaido. It is the location of the Akakaze, a hotel where Tomonaga Ijiro used to work before the war. The city was mentioned as being the location of an outbreak and presumably overrun.

• Hidaka Mountains - spelled as "Hiddaka mountains" in the book, it's a mountain range located in southeastern Hokkaido, and is also the location of a national park.

• Nemuro - a Japanese port located in the northern island of Hokkaido, it was apparently either the last or northernmost port of evacution.

## Mentioned-In

Kondo Tatsumi's First Interview and Second Interview

Tomonaga Ijiro's Interview
Light Automatic Weapon

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## Light Automatic Weapon

### Challenge Coins Version

✗

The **Light Automatic Weapon**, also known as the **Paladin LMG**, is a Tier II primary weapon in World War Z.

## Performance

Reaching level 6 and prestiging the Vanguard class 2 times unlocks a unique perk that increases the weapon's max penetration value by 1 after 5 seconds of continuous fire ("Bull's Horns"). With this perk activated, the Light Automatic Weapon becomes one of the 4 fully automatic primaries in the game that can have +2 max penetration without any class bonuses. Others are:

* Classic Battle Rifle (without the "HP Rounds II" perk)
* Battle Rifle (with the "Full-Auto" perk)
* Advanced SMG (with the "FMJ Rounds I" perk)

## Perks

### Unique perks

 Custom Mag II
 Boat Tail Rounds
 CQB Specialist

## Trivia

The text on the side of the weapon says "Paladin MFG, Titusville, FL" which is a reference to Knights Armament Company. The Sporting Carbine displays the same set of text.

## Legacy

Before the Horde Mode XL update (released on January 24, 2023) that redesigned the game's weapon system, the Light Automatic Weapon's progression model looked as follows.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
Slasher

> "*There's nothing like cold steel to put the enemy down*"
> ― Slasher class description
>
>

The **Slasher** is one of eight playable classes for Co-op Campaign in World War Z.

## Overview

The Slasher is a class with superior melee prowess, giving them the upper hand in close-quarters combat scenarios.

As expected, most of the Slasher's perks are centered around melee weapons and melee combat. There are also a small handful of perks that can benefit an up-close and personal fighting style. Given some of the limitations that come with melee, the Slasher class aims to eliminate such drawbacks to make the prospect of engaging in hand-to-hand combat a more appealing and viable option for fighting zekes. Choosing the Slasher gives you an edge in an aspect of zombie killing that other classes cannot achieve to any similar degree. The close combat weapon you wield becomes a valued instrument of eradication and it must be integrated into your arsenal to play effectively, whether it be light and fast-swinging, heavy and slow-swinging, or somewhere just down the middle.

The Slasher's starting core perk grants two passive buffs. The first allows melee attacks to hit two targets at a time (three for heavy melee weapons) while also doing twice as much damage while unfatigued. The second allows you to continue swinging your melee weapon at the same rate even while fatigued, although this will disable the first buff until you are no longer fatigued. These buffs are what give the Slasher a stronger and superior melee game that makes it slightly more encouraged to use melee in more situations.

The equipment of choice for the Slasher is the Stun Gun. This electrifying tool shocks nearby enemies in place for a short time, allowing you to rip and tear into them with little repercussions, make a hasty retreat, or free teammates that get pinned down.

## Perks List

### Prestige Rank Perks

**Juiced Up II**
**Zeus II**
**Executioner III**
**Nimble II**

## Gallery

Bunko as a Slasher
World War Z - Slasher Class

 **Slasher** •  Exterminator •  Dronemaster •  Vanguard

 Demolisher •  Striker •  Support •  Assassin •  Shadow
Quadrocopter

The **Quadrocopter** is equipment used by classes in World War Z.

The Quadrocopter is used by the Dronemaster class in Co-op Campaign.

## Overview

When deployed, the Quadrocopter will take a second to deploy where it will then follow its user around. By default, the Quadrocopter is armed with a Stun Gun, zapping any singular zombie that gets too close to prevent them from attacking you. With select perks, the Stun Gun can be replaced with a Pistol, shooting zekes from a distance and assist in killing more efficiently instead.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
(06/11/2020) Stability Patch

On June 11th, 2020, a patch was released for World War Z on all platforms.

This patch was made as an announcement and did not come with a patch notes page.

## Patch Notes

"Survivors! A small stability patch has just been released on all platforms, resolving some rendering issues, as well as a number of crashes on the Marseille maps."
Kwang Jingshu's 2nd Interview

**Chongqing, China**

 **[Kwang Jingshu does his final house call for the day, a little boy with some kind of respiratory illness. The mother fears it’s another case of tuberculosis. The color returns to her face when the doctor assures her**
**it’s just a chest cold. Her tears and gratitude follow us down the**
**dusty street.]**

 It’s comforting to see children again, I mean those who were born after
 the war, real children who know nothing but a world that includes the
living dead. They know not to play near water, not to go out alone or
after dark in the spring or summer. They don’t know to be afraid, and
that is the greatest gift, the only gift we can leave to them.

 Sometimes I think of that old woman at New Dachang, what she lived
through, the seemingly unending upheaval that defined her generation.
Now that’s me, an old man who’s seen his country torn to shreds many
times over. And yet, every time, we’ve managed to pull ourselves
together, to rebuild and renew our nation. And so we will again—China,
and the world. I don’t really believe in an afterlife—the old
revolutionary to the end—but if there is, I can imagine my old comrade
Gu laughing down at me when I say, with all honesty, that everything’s
going to be all right.
Canada

**Canada** is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver

## World War Z

Canada was one of the most affected countries during the “Great Panic“ when the solanum virus began causing the undead to rise. During World Wr Z, Western Canada became a major Safe Zone against the infected while the hordes began overrunning Eastern Canada leaving only a few pockets of Human survivors. By the late 2020s, a major sweep and clear operation began where hordes of Zombies would be pushed back to the Canadian Atlantic Coast.

## Current Status

Canada is one of the affected countries in the world. The country managed to rebuild after a few years post-wwz.

## Locations

Sand Lakes Provincial Wildness Park

Manitoba

## Mentioned-In

Jesika Hendrick's First Interview and Second Interview
The Great Panic

The Great Panic was a global spread of chaos, government collapse, violence and general paranoia that ensued after the Phalanx vaccine was exposed to be a fraud. In almost every country, people fled by car or boat. Whilst many governments tried to stage a massive battle with zombies on Live Television to restore confidence (all of which failed, backfiring and worsening the panic).

## Major Events

### Exodus By Land

All over the world, people who did not live near the coast desperately tried to flee via car. However, this massive effect created huge gridlocks, trapping people in their cars so tightly that they couldn't open their doors. This created an extremely vulnerable area for people as they were swarmed and eaten alive by hordes of zombies. People had no idea where to go as population centers were being overrun and there were no areas that were really safe.

### Wars

Given that the Great Panic caused the largest refugee crisis in history, several countries were overwhelmed with zombified refugees. One such country - Iran - blew up its bridge with neighboring Pakistan, in order to stop a massive influx of refugees from India. This was seen as an act of war, leading to a gradually escelating conflict that culminated in the use of nuclear weapons, annihilating both countries - which are implied to be radioactive wastelands.

## Mentioned-In

* Gavin Blaire's Interview
* Ajay Shah's Interview
* Sharon's Interview
* Maria Zhugonava's Interview
* Sean Collins' Interview
* Ahmed Farahnakian's Interview
* Todd Wainio's first Interview

## References

1. ↑ Also mentioned by Gavin Blaire, a witness to this carnage, are: Sedans (Normal Cars), Trucks, Buses, RVs (Motorhomes), Cement-Mixers and Flatbeds.
Heavy Assault Shotgun

The **Heavy Assault Shotgun** is a heavy weapon featured in World War Z.

## Overview

The **Heavy Assault Shotgun** or the **Taiga-12** is a modified version of the Tier 3 Assault Shotgun of the same name, with higher damage and a 50 rounds drum mag. Effective at close range and cannot be silenced, it is equipped with a visible muzzle brake, which is weird considering it is not a medium nor long-range weapon and the game automatically recovers from recoil for the player.

## Design

As stated above, the weapon is a heavily modified version of the Tier 3 Taiga-12 in the game, which is a hybrid of the Saiga-12 and the Origin-12 in real life. The Modification consisted of : A longer front barrel; A 50 rounds drum mag; A modern folding stock; And a muzzle brake.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
Kwang Jing-Shu

Kwang Jing-Shu is a Chinese doctor, war veteran, grandfather, chairman of the Chongqing security council and treater of Patient Zero of the global Solanum outbreak. He is also the first person interviewed by Max Brooks in World War Z.

## Early Life

In his late teens on early 20s, he served with the People's Liberation Army and became a dedicated communist who memorized quotes by Mao. He served with Gu Wen Kuei as medics in the Chinese-Russian border clashes in 1969. He was a highly successful medic and after leaving the army became a civilian doctor working in rural areas. He was very cynical about Chinese society, very distrustful of the Ministry of State Security and felt Chinese people had lost touched, were obsessed with money and status and had become very arrogant.

## Later Life

He became the first person to be sent to investigate One of the First infected after a zombie boy had attacked seven people in a small village. He went to the small house the boy was in and restrained him, observing his wounds which filled him with fear. He contacted his friend Gu Wen Kuei at the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Chongqing University, and his friend notified the government and told him to stay away. After the Ministry of State Security arrived at the scene, they arrested all witnesses. As China became more and more unstable and outbreaks became more common, he escaped from prison. At some point, he returned the Chongqing and helped form a local security council in charge of cleaning the streets of rubble and stopping zombie outbreaks.
Rome

> "*In small groups of twelve or twenty, 75 decibels resulted in an 84% attraction rate. 100 decibels resulted in 97%. We performed the test six times at these numbers. Luca is confident that larger groups of 1,000 or more at consistent coverage of 100 decibels will produce commensurate attraction rates, perhaps reaching 100% due to the infected's tendency to move in herds.*"
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Rome is a city that is in Italy visited in *World War Z*.
Repeating Rifle

The **Repeating Rifle (1877 SBL)** is a tier III primary weapon featured in World War Z.

## History

October 25, 2023 patch:

* Weapon level 5 and above: the base "Power" stat got increased from 7 to 9.
* 2 rounds get reloaded at a time instead of 1 by default.
* The "Hand dexterity" perk reloads 3 rounds at a time instead of 2.
* New sound effects.
* Fixed a bug when the bolt-cycling animation did not play when multiple shots were fired in a quick succession.
* Fixed a bug when the rifle's laser was not displayed.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
Brazil

## Locations

• The Amazon Rainforest - the home of the Yanomami, fierce people who built their village suspended from the tallest trees, and where Fernando Oliviera currently resides in. The rainforest is also mentioned as serving as a wartime refuge for survivors throughout South America.

• Rio de Janeiro - prewar Brazil's second largest city, it was known for its idyllic setting and its carnivals. The city is indicated as suffering from some sort of an outbreak at the beginning of the war.
Kondo Tatsumi

Kondo Tatsumi is a fictional character in the World War Z novel. He lived in the 19th story of an apartment in the city of Kokura, Japan and before the outbreak he was an 'otaku' who spent his life avoiding school, friendships, his parents and spending his life researching things on the internet and talking on anonymous internet forums. Eventually, he meets Tomonaga Ijiro and the two form the 'Tatenokai', a group of martial artists trained in killing zombies.

## Early Life

Born in the either the late 1980s or early 1990s in Japan, he lived his teenage years in the 19th story of an apartment building in Kokura. He felt alienated by Japanese society, especially the education system, and sought escape on the internet through forums and articles. He became obsessed with information, hacking obscure pieces of information like the tax codes of Japanese stand-up comedians and the blood types of leading politicians.

## Later Life

When news of zombie outbreaks hit Japan, he became obsessed with finding out information, he hacked a medical database and found in advance that Japan was planning to be evacuated. However, he noticed that servers across the country were shutting down and less people were responding to his forum posts, angering him. Eventually, his internet cut off, and he looked around his apartment and noticed through the windows that Kokura was in chaos, on fire and his parents were long gone. He began screaming and crying, suffering a mental breakdown at the idea that he might never use his computer again. After this, he tied bed sheets together to scale down balconies in the apartments, avoiding zombies, finding several people who committed suicide and gathering supplies. He eventually made it to street level and fled the city.

He soon found himself in a mountain range national park in Hokkaido, scared and confused, he wandered in the dark. Where he was attacked by Tomonaga Ijiro who thought he was an intruder. The two became friends and had a mentor/student relationship, and they formed the Tatenokai, a group dedicated towards preserving Japan's cultural traditionals and using martial arts to fight zombies. At the start of the outbreak, he is described as a skinny, acne-covered teenager with unkempt hair. But by the time he became a warrior monk with the Tatenokai, he has become fairly athletic, clean-shaven, bald and tanned. He does not share Ijiro's spiritual or traditional beliefs, but believes they motivate people and give them something to care about, so they are fundamentally good.
Singapore

Singapore is one of the smallest countries. Located to the South East of Asia, West of the Pacific and East of Africa. It is extremely wealthy and has a high-population density. In 1819, British statesman Stamford Raffles negotiated a treaty whereby Johor will allow the British to locate a trading port on the island, ultimately leading to the establishment of the Crown colony of Singapore in 1867. It is briefly discussed in WWZ.

## World War Z

Singapore was hit hard by the zombie outbreak, Singapore suffered a 80% population drop in the first few months, with the government being forced to relocate to the East Malaysian island. However, it apparently survived the global zombie outbreak with its wealth relatively intact, as its mentioned that it has constructed the one of the best tanks since 1995.

## Current Status

Singapore survived the global zombie outbreak with some of its wealth intact, as its mentioned that it has constructed one of the best tanks since 1995.

## People

* Yang Chi Wei David - A Police officer in The Port of Singapore

## Locations

* Port of Singapore - A Port in Singapore that was initially hit by missile strikes by the Singaporean military.
* Singapore Changi Airport - An airport that was initially overrun by zombies hordes.

## Mentioned-In

* Singapore’s only mention in the World War Z book is when a Singapore-flagged ship that is beached in India gets snapped in two by another ship that was towing it.
Egypt

Egypt is a largely coastal country located in the Africa-Asia border, it is mostly desert and is noted for its rich history with some of the first civilisations. It borders Israel and is near Greece and Algeria. It is mentioned in The Zombie Survival Guide and indirectly mentioned in World War Z.

## 3,000BC - Zombie Remains

In 1892, a British archaeology dig near Hieraconpolis found a tomb with what remains of a zombie. The surface of the tomb was filled with scratches made over several years (confirmed by forensic analysis) and the zombie remains had a bite mark. The brain structure matches the symptoms of Solanum and contains traces of the virus. This discovery sparked debate over whether or not the removal of brain from mummies was to prevent zombification.

## World War Z

Although the country is never mentioned in the novel, the Suez Canal is mentioned to be closed or blocked by Ernesto Olguin.
Jesika Hendricks' 2nd Interview

SAND LAKES PROVINCIAL WILDERNESS PARK, MANITOBA, CANADA

 [Jesika Hendricks loads the last of the day’s “catch” into the sled, fifteen bodies and a mound of dismembered parts.]

 I try not to be angry, bitter at the unfairness of it all. I wish I
could make sense of it. I once met an ex-Iranian pilot who was traveling
 through Canada looking for a place to settle down. He said that
Americans are the only people he’s ever met who just can’t accept that
bad things can happen to good people. Maybe he’s right. Last week I was
listening to the radio and just happened to hear [name withheld for
legal reasons]. He was doing his usual thing—fart jokes and insults and
adolescent sexuality—and I remember thinking, “This man survived and my
parents didn’t.” No, I try not to be bitter.
05/07/2019 PC Hotfix 1.06

On May 7th, 2019, a patch was released for World War Z on PC.

## Patch Notes

* Fixed issue with friend list not working for some of the players
* Fixed issue with party invites not working if they were sent from inside of the actual game
* Fixed issue with party members not joining party leader’s session some cases
* Fixed UI textures corruption when using Vulkan

## Reference

https://forums.focus-entmt.com/topic/38887/05-07-2019-pc-hotfix-1-06
Achievements

**Achievements** are available to earn in both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions World War Z. The PC version of the game does not have any achievements for players to unlock.

Both Xbox and PlayStation share the same 35 achievements for the game. However, the Playstation version, where the achievements are known as "trophies," has one additional achievement for when all other achievements have been unlocked, totaling the achievement (or trophy) count to 36.
Democratic Republic of Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a war-torn country located in the heart of Africa, it is known for its many jungles, mountains and rivers. The Katanda region is mentioned in The Zombie Survival Guide.

## 60,000BC - Possible Zombie Evidence

Archaeological expeditions in the banks of the Upper Semliki river in the Katanda Region have revealed a mysterious cave. This cave contains thirteen crushed skulls, a large pile of fossilised ash (confirmed in a lab to be human remains) and cave paintings depicting human figures with evil eyes engaging in cannibalism. Scientists are currently searching the area for traces of fossilised Solanum. This is the first reported case of zombies in human history, despite it being unconfirmed.
Mobile Shield

The **Mobile Shield** (simply, the **Shield**) is equipment used by classes in World War Z.

The Mobile Shield is used by the Vanguard class in Co-op Campaign.

## Design

The Mobile Shield is based on the arm shield. The capabilities of the Mobile Shield is an amalgamation drawn from various different shield designs. The Mobile Shield is durable enough to protect against bullets and explosions, making it a ballistic arm shield at its core. The shield is foldable with two differently-sized spring-loaded folds. Interestingly, the shield seems to be capable of automatically unfolding and refolding without the need for the straps. The middle shield portion is electrified, powered by a battery located on the back side at the top. A pair of window-breaking steel heads on the top and a pair of steel caps on the bottom appear on the middle portion and each pair are shown to conduct electricity.

Unlike most other pieces of equipment, the Mobile Shield shows signs of heavy usage with many scratches, chipped paint, and dried blood all over it.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • Barbed Wire • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun
Mary Jo Miller's 2nd Interview

TROY, MONTANA, USA

[Mrs. Miller and I stand on the back deck, above the children playing in the central courtyard.]

You can blame the politicians, the businessmen, the generals, the “machine,” but really, if you’re looking to blame someone, blame me. I’m the American system, I’m the machine. That’s the price of living in a democracy; we all gotta take the rap. I can see why it took so long for China to finally embrace it, and why Russia just said “fuck it” and went back to whatever they call their system now. Nice to be able to say, “Hey, don’t look at me, it’s not my fault.” Well, it is. It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation.

[She looks down at the children.]

I wonder what future generations will say about us. My grandparents suffered through the Depression, World War II, then came home to build the greatest middle class in human history. Lord knows they weren’t perfect, but they sure came closest to the American dream. Then my parents’ generation came along and fucked it all up—the baby boomers, the “me” generation. And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we’re the ones who let it become a menace in the first place. At least we’re cleaning up our own mess, and maybe that’s the best epitaph to hope for. “Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.”
Battle of Yonkers

The Battle of Yonkers was an offensive undertaken by the United States during the war, planned to be a great success recorded by the media. The actual battle resulted in a massive defeat for the U.S. military, resulting in thousands of casualties as they were overrun by millions of zombies.

### Overview

Yonkers is a suburb of New York, and was subsequently filled with the unfortunate that failed to evacuate when the outbreak began. The United States planned an offensive at Yonkers, mainly aimed to raise morale and prove the government could handle the war against the dead.

The military was placed on the Saw Mill River Parkway in northern Yonkers, along with thousands of Humvees armed with .50 caliber Browning machine guns, M2 Bradley APCs, M1 Abrams tank, various artillery pieces, not to mention the air support of RAH-66 Comanche helicopters, F-35 fighters, and many more.

The battle failed due to a large amount of unnecessary equipment and weapons, and underestimating the zombies, leading to not preparing enough soldiers and ammunition to fight the bulk of New York's infection.
Barbed Wire

Barbed Wire is a defense kit.

There are two versions of barbed wire (one that is slightly taller than the other) but functionally they do the same thing.

After placing it down it acts as a trap for the zeke to run into. Sometimes they will fall into the wire, wriggle around for a bit, and then die because they cannot escape. As zombies pile up into the wire, the durability decreases and zombies will be able to use the corpses already in the wire as a bridge to climb over it completely.

It is important to note that Bulls completely ignore Barbed Wire when jogging at you, as they always climb over it no matter what, and when charging you, as they will stampede their way through.

 **Heavy Weapons**
 **Equipment**
 **Defense Systems**
Autoturret • **Barbed Wire** • Fence • High Voltage Grid • Mortar • Sound Trap • Stationary Machinegun