Desert Plant

City of Damned

Desert Plant

Hell Ride

Desert Plant (zsh_dustcity_pve) is the second New Zombie Shelter map in Counter-Strike Online.

Goal

Defeat Revenant within 30 days.

Release date

This map was released alongside Survival Tools Package on:

South Korea: 13 February 2014.
Taiwan/Hong Kong: 25 February 2014.
China/Japan: 26 February 2014.
Singapore/Malaysia: 13 August 2014.
Indonesia: 17 September 2014.

This map was released alongside Open Beta Test on:

CSN:Z: 23 September 2014.
Vietnam: 26 March 2015.

Zombies and Bosses

Boss	Day Appeared	Reward
	Any	N/A
	Any	$7500 $12000 $15000
	5	$20000
	7	N/A
	9	$25000
	10	$32000
	19	$32000

Tips

Gameplay

Collection of resources is the priority mission to ensure that there is sufficient wood and steel.
Buildings need electricity, build Generator in selected position.
Black market which opens daily, only at 4 places of the map, find them.
Be alert. Zombies are highly sensitive to sound, so do not shoot unless it's necessary.
Shelter provides basic necessities, however you can destroy the ATM machine to get money.
Always constant supply electricity to shelter, you can use the new added features.

Boss

You can only damage Revenant when it's in range.
Once go into the place, there is no escape.

Zombie

Different objectives on different types of zombies appear.
With Beginner Engineering skill, you can use the workstation.
Angra will retreat when a certain amount of damage is dealt to it.
Acquire money by killing infected zombies in the area.

Others

It is highly recommended to defeat Revenant as the last because he's the toughest boss from all. Furthermore, if the players haven't killed the last boss, the previous bosses will keep spawning each day that passes even though that you had killed them already.
Prior upgrading your shelter first before building unnecessary and weak sentries until your shelter is fully upgraded.
Focus on killing grenade thrower zombies first as their grenade deals a very high damage.
Ganymedes are able to destroy your shelter quickly with their dash attacks.
Juggernaut and Ganymede appear more than once in a day.

Skills

Skill Tree Menu can be opened by pressing N key. There are 3 types of Skill set which can be chosen to upgrade: Combat, Survival and Engineer. However, it is recommended that each player should upgrade 1 Skill set only, due to their best performances.

Tier	Upgrade	Description
1	Beginner Gun Mastery	Level 1: You can use submachine guns and shotguns. Level 2: Increases the damage of these types of weapons. Level 3: Additional damage increases in these types of weapons. The weapon price is reduced by 15%. Maximum carrying amount of weapons has been increased.
	Ammo Up	Increases the ammo capacity by 50% of the max that you can have.
	Health Up	Recovers health by: Level 1: 5% increase. Level 2: 10% increase. Level 3: 15% increase. Rate of increase affected by number of days.
2	Intermediate Gun Mastery	Level 1: You can use assault rifles and sniper rifles. Level 2: Increases the damage of these types of weapons. Level 3: Additional damage increases in these types of weapons, the weapon price is reduced by 20%.
	Combat Crafting	Machete can be crafted at Workstation. Press E key at the Workstation, crafting menu appears.
	Kevlar Enhancement	Increases Defense when you purchase Kevlar: Level 1: 20%. Level 2: 150%. Level 3: 200%.
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	Advanced Gun Mastery	Level 1: You can use machine guns and equipments. Level 2: Increase the damage of these types of weapons. Level 3: Additional damage increases in these types of weapons, the weapon price is reduced by 25%.
	Combat Master	When a certain amount of HP drops, you're invincible for a certain time. Level 1: HP below 14%, invincible for 4 seconds. Level 2: HP below 20%, invincible for 5 seconds.
	Special Gun Mastery	Unlocks grenades on the buy menu. Level 1: Grenade damage increased by 25%. Level 2: Grenade available +1. Level 3: Melee damage increased by 100% and the weapon price reduced by 30%.
4	Bombing Request	Request an Air Bombing to the following area. Press 5 to use.

Tier	Upgrade	Description
1	Beginner Harvest	Increases the amount of wood and steel harvest: Level 1: Harvest rate increases, the maximum carrying capacity also increases. Level 2: Harvest rate increases, the maximum carrying capacity also increases. Level 3: Collection volume increases, the maximum carrying capacity also increases.
	Speed Up	Moving speed increases by 5% in Level 1, 10% in Level 2 and 20% in Level 3.
	Explorer	Level 1: Able to find the nearby Wood easily. Level 2: Able to find the nearby Steel easily. Level 3: Able to detect the nearby enemy.
2	Advance Harvest	Removal skill: Resources and money can be collected on some specific items within the map: Level 1: Harvest rate increases, the maximum carrying capacity also increases. Level 2: Collection volume increases, the maximum carrying capacity also increases. Level 3: Harvest rate increases, the maximum carrying capacity also increases.
	Campfire	Campfire is available in Recovery Facility section. Campfire can restore hunger and HP. Only one Campfire can be built at a time.
	Survival Crafting	Crowbar available to craft at Workstation. Press the E key on the Workstation, crafting menu appears.
3	Hunter	Increases speed and damage of traps setting.
	Endurance	Decreases the rate of decline in hunger by half. When hunger rate is more than 50%, HP recovers by 1% per sec.
	Scavenger	Have the chance to loot money, woods or steel from killing zombies.
4	Cloak	Hide your body from the enemy for 15 seconds after you used it. The first attack after hiding yourself will deliver a vital damage. The hiding effect will disappear once you received an attack or damage.

Tier	Upgrade	Description
1	Auto Repair	Regenerates armor and automatic turret nearby. Auto repair takes effect only when idling. Level 1: +1% repair per sec. Level 2: +3% repair per sec. Level 3: +5% repair per sec.
	Beginner Engineer	Level 1: Able to build a Workroom. Level 2: Tier 2 Construction Speed +15%. Level 3: Tier 1 Building HP +10%.
	Improve Blueprint	Level 1: Decreases the number of required resource for construction. Level 2: Additional Decrements on the number of required resource for construction. Level 3: Additional Decrements on the number of required resource for construction.
2	Engineer Crafting	Claw Hammer can be crafted at Workstation. Press E key at the workstation, the craft menu appears.
	Intermediate Engineer	Level 1: Able to build a Communication Tower. Level 2: Tier 2 Construction Speed +15%. Level 3: Tier 2 Building HP +10%.
	Electrical Engineering	Decreases the number of required electricity for a new construction object.
3	Recycle	Allows users to collect resources from demolition of the building.
	Expert Engineer	Level 1: Able to create Concrete Refinery. Level 2: Tier 3 Construction Speed +15%. Level 3: Tier 3 Building HP +10%.
	Construction Master	Creation speed will increase when you have a certain amount of Mental Gauge.
4	Wrecking team	Able to use C4 Bomb. C4 Bomb can deliver damage to any object.

Gallery

Official Screenshots

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Trivia

According to the game files, the original name planned for this map was "Dust City".
Siege Type Phobos will advance straight to your base instead of having to be provoked to do so. Moreover, he appears more than once, just like Oberon.
In this map, Light Zombies are able to jump as high as the Sting Finger. Moreover Sting Fingers have normal jump height unlike in City of Damned, they instead use Tentacles skill.
Ganymedes appear in a dark-blue colored skin.
Once Angra appeared, it will fly to the player's shelter to throw some Venom Guards and special zombie types, which come in a dark-blue colored skin, until it reaches outside the map, specifically near the truck which blocks the way where he lands on. This means you can only see him but not face him.
In this map, Venom Guard doesn't give you money after killing him. Only the grenade type does.
Sometimes the zombies will get stuck at their spawn zones, blocked by the Juggernaut.
Juggernauts initially appear in a green colored skin. They will change to a dark blue one in later rounds.
This is the second map in Counter-Strike Online to feature a moving cloud after Illusion.
This map cannot be played in Zombie Shelter: Team Match.