1.9 Update

Overview[]

John, a brand-new Bystander character, has joined The Walking Dead: All-Stars.
- John can be added to your Survivor Wish List.
- Once acquired, he can be set as your profile icon.
- You can meet John in Hidden Survivor, Unexpected Help, and other parts of the game.
- John has been added to the Growth Pack and he can be selected from a character slot for a Perk item.

You can purchase Kate’s Snow Hunter skin after the v1.9 update.
Once equipped, your character will sport a new look as well as different skill animations.
The new skin can be set as your profile icon.
The Snow Hunter skin will be available at an early offer discount for 2 weeks.

The Benefit system has been added to give Mythical characters additional stat boosts.
Benefits can be crafted and managed in Town > Workshop once you clear World Stage 17-40 and have at least 1 Mythical character.
Benefits can be obtained through crafting, which requires Benefit Materials.
- Benefit Materials can be obtained in Bonded Warehouse, Auto Search, Trading Post, Perks, and Total War.
- Unused Benefits can be retrieved and returned as Benefit Materials.
Benefits have three grades—Epic/Unique/Legendary. Grades are assigned randomly.
- You can add Alignment/Class/Character tags to Benefits based on their grade. Benefits can gain better effects if they are equipped with their corresponding tag types.
Obtained Benefits can be equipped and enhanced in the Manage menu.
If you have at least 1 Benefit equipped, you are eligible for Benefit Daily Rewards.
- You can obtain up to 3 Benefit Daily Rewards per day. Rewards are reset at 00:00 (Server Time) every day.
You can check grades and how many Benefits your opponent has in the Character Info screen.
Benefit Materials have been added to Total War Rank Rewards.
New quests—Obtain Benefit Daily Rewards and Craft Benefits—have been added to Daily/Weekly Quests.
Ally/Neutral character Benefits have been added in the v1.9 update.
- Benefits for other alignments—Bystander, Predator, Warlord, and Overseer—are planned to roll out in future updates.

The Facility Management system has been added to grant additional buffs, including increased rewards from content as well as Guaranteed Survivors.
Facility Management can be accessed in Town > Administration once you clear World Stage 11-40.
There are a total of 47 facilities in 5 buildings. After you activate a facility, you will receive its buff effects.
- You can unlock a facility by spending Canned Food. However, you need to wait 10 hours before the effects are activated.
- All effects will be active when their corresponding facilities are unlocked. You can instantly activate facilities by using Gold Bars.

The Guaranteed Survivor system has been added. This system allows you to obtain characters you've selected when an Epic character appears in Recruit.
Guaranteed Survivor is unlocked after the Communication Vehicle > Generator is activated in Facility Management.
- Guaranteed Survivors can be recruited as long as you have enough Guaranteed Survivor Attempts.
- Attempts increase when more Antennas are activated or your VIP Level increases.
- Available attempts are reset every 30 days.
- If you fail to recruit your desired character up until your 29th attempt, they will be guaranteed on your 30th attempt.

When there are rewards available from Winner’s Loot, a red dot will now be displayed.
When Normal Gear is unequipped, all stat changes other than HP/ATK/DEF will now be displayed.
When Normal Gear is unequipped, it now displays up to the nearest tenths of the changed stats.
Gear Select Chests (Legendary) with the designated Alignment and Type now have type icons displayed in addition to alignment icons.
A character’s detailed stats now display Basic Attack SPD, CRIT DMG UP/DOWN, MISS, Restoration UP, and Received Restoration UP.

The 2x Total War Reward event has been added where you can receive double the amount of Conduct Manuals and Benefit Materials as Total War Rank Rewards.
- During the 2x Total War Reward Event, you earn 3 points of Community EXP for every 1 Community AP.
- Every time you engage in a battle, you can earn 100 Community EXP.
For Version 1.9, we've revamped the rewards for the 7-Day Login Event and Town Management Event.
To celebrate the new survivor update, the Mysterious Survivor John event has been added.
- You can try out the new character, John, in this event.
The 14-Day Growth Support Event and 7-Day Survival Support Event rewards have been updated.
The Warehouse Clearance Event Rewards have been revamped, where you flip matching pairs of cards.

Special Perk Packs have been added.
More offers have been added to Limited Pack and Weekly Perk.
- Any items with Benefit Materials are limited-time special offers to celebrate the Benefit update.
- Please note that they will no longer be available after the March update.
After the v1.9 update, 1 item in the Beginner Pack has been replaced with 6 new items.
- New packs can be purchased by all users.

You can now select a character that Sophia follows in the combat prep screen.
- Tap the Speech Bubble icon on the right side of Sophia and select the character for her to follow.
- If you don’t select a character, she will follow a comrade with the highest CP.
The issue has been fixed where Small Support’s skill effects were sometimes not applied.

[Game System Update]

An issue has been fixed where the 5th digit of CP was hidden behind the Personal Gear icon, showing only 4 digits in the Survival Record’s combat prep screen.
An issue has been fixed where a display was not shown when a character was obtained for the first time through Headhunt, Mail, or Main Quests.
Character levels in the Mercenary Request pop-up will now be the same levels as when a request is accepted as intended.
An issue has been fixed where the CP of characters not registered to the Training Grounds was shown to other users without effects from Bond/Tactics Research applied.
An issue has been fixed where Survivors would appear in the "Used By the Following Characters" gear list even when they already have the gear equipped.
An issue has been fixed where a red dot appeared in your previous VIP information when you checked a VIP Level 2 levels higher than your current one even when there were no available rewards.
An issue has been fixed where CP was incorrectly displayed on devices that had the language set as French.
An issue has been fixed where new Survival Record stories could not be accessed or played on devices set to certain countries/languages.