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WITHERING SOULS (Outdated, read description)

If you want more features and bugfixes, the Pre-Release build is actively in development. If you're experiencing bugs, first check this build out to see if they are already fixed before reporting them.






Withering Souls is a challenging mod for Barotrauma inspired by games such as Left 4 Dead, Project Zomboid, and GTFO, with an emphasis on co-operative horror gameplay. Ghouls will be encountered at various stages in the game, staggering towards you with open jaws. The concept of infectious enemies is at the core of this mod, which is constantly rebalanced and adjusted with the goal of an unforgiving experience.

Withering Souls contains a selection of interesting features, each designed to bring a new terror to your crew:

• The living dead can infest your submarine or outpost, shambling and staggering around to find and consume any sign of human life, afflicted by a plague called Hadal Rot.
  
• Infection incubation time varies, but a bite is certain death.
  
• Ghouls can mutate, be it at random or upon certain conditions being met. Play around with the various chemicals in the base-game before turning, and you'll think of the husk infection as a case of the sniffles.
  
• A rare treatment method for infection that requires you undergo a severe risk.

Hadal Rot has no commercially available cure. Doctors will have to get a bit risky to treat it:

• Step 0: Diagnosis. It is important to first ensure the patient is infected. You can tell if someone is infected by a dark-ish smoke pouring out from their face.
  
• Step 1: Poisoning. Neurotoxic poisoning has shown to prevent zombie reanimation in all recorded cases.
  
• Step 2: Smiting. Deusizine can completely destroy Hadal Rot after neurotoxin binds to it.

You'll have to experiment and find out :)
If you go digging around in the files or find out about a certain zombie type, I only ask that you try and keep details as vague as possible.

Withering Souls has been through a years-long development process. Finding its roots as a simple 'Zombies' mod about the Rage virus from 28 Days Later, the mod eventually grew to be known throughout multiple communities under the name Functional Necrosis. Without feedback from the community, it couldn't have gotten as big as it is today. I hope you've all enjoyed it, even through all the admittedly questionable design choices in the past.
Here's to another 3 years!