The Alcoholic: They have a poor habit of going into dangerous situations while nearly blackout drunk (on multiple occasions), which causes no amount of consternation for you when you try to team up with them.Big Damn Heroes: The rookie group member who left the group earlier due to poor treatment from the leader ends up returning during the final zombie siege to help everyone fight the zombies off.Sole Survivor: The Soldier and the Doctor are the last members of the army camp from the tutorial, everyone else having pulled out a while ago.

Hell-Bent for Leather: The female member of the Odd Couple wears a black biker jacket.He/She saved you from a horde with covering fire during the tutorial and joins your group before the zombies overrun the army camp. Friendly Sniper: The Soldier is this, equipped with an Arctic Warfare Magnum rifle.Developers' Foresight: If you manage to keep any of them alive till the end of a map, they'll have unique dialogue for after you defeat the Blood Plague.Battle Couple: The Perpetual Breakup and Odd Couple have managed to survive a good few years into the zombie apocalypse together.During the tutorial, you also recruit a Soldier and a Doctor with different appearances depending on the selected group and randomly generated names and traits. These four groups have fixed appearances, but randomly generated names and traits. In GeneralWhen you first start a new game, you can select from four different pairs of survivors to be your two starting survivors (The Surly Siblings, Perpetual Breakup, Old Buddies, and Odd Couple).

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