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Project Zomboid
« on: June 22, 2011, 02:47:58 pm »
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Project Zomboid, a survival zombie RPG currently in pre-alpha. It has crafting, barricading, weapons, zombies, npcs, scavenging, etc...

Features:
http://projectzomboid.com/blog/index.php/tldr-just-give-me-the-jist/

You can try it out for free:
http://www.fileplanet.com/220702/220000/fileinfo/Project-Zomboid-Pre-Alpha-Tech-Demo

The game has only "survival" mode currently, which counts how long you survived.
Try it out and post how long you survived! :)

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2011, 03:17:00 pm »
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1 day 6 hours, i set my house on fire :D
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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2011, 03:18:30 pm »
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Haha, common mistake :D
Oven is a hoax, you can just eat the soup. Put it in the oven and turn on and off in a few seconds.

My record is 2 days on third try, somehow I thought it was a good idea to go roaming the streets at night and I aggroed a whole zerg that ate me.
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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2011, 05:23:51 pm »
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3 days 22 hours.

It was fun at first, but it got boring quickly - dunno if it can get complex enough to really be longterm fun.

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2011, 05:42:48 pm »
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Hm yes, they certainly need to add more stuff, make more use of the sandbox concept.

UPDATE: Smothered wife with pillow, ran to a tall apartment building, got severe leg injury on the way, barricaded at top floor then died 8 days later to leg injury :D

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2011, 06:48:25 pm »
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1 day, 3 hours.

Oven cought on fire while cooking. I tried to put it out, became living torch, ran up and tried to carry the woman to safety, but she died from the human torch carrying her. I run downstairs again and I had forgotten to close the front door, tons of zombies.

If there's a real zombie apocalypse I'll just shoot myself at the start of it and get it over with.

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2011, 11:32:24 pm »
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Hm yes, they certainly need to add more stuff, make more use of the sandbox concept.

UPDATE: Smothered wife with pillow, ran to a tall apartment building, got severe leg injury on the way, barricaded at top floor then died 8 days later to leg injury :D

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You can kill the bitch? Awesome, ill give it another try  :lol:
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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2011, 02:00:15 am »
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So I found myself a nice place to stay in the woods after sitting in the starting house's bathroom for a couple of days.
It was very easy to defend, when a small group and starts hitting my door I just hit them from the window with my baseball bat.

Fast forward a few days and I have made myself a spiked-bat, gathered lots of food and random supplies which I stored in the crates, things were going swell.
I notice a lack of wooden boards so I went ahead and broke into a warehouse, and found a decent number of planks (8.)

When I back to my cabin and had a good night's sleep however, as I woke up in the middle of the night my cabin was surrounded by the largest horde I have ever seen, me hitting them by the windows didn't get rid of them fast enough, and I couldn't keep barricading it forever.
Eventually the first door fell before I was able to reach it, I stand in the doorway armed with my trusty shotgun repelling them until the second door inevitably comes crashing down.

At this point however I realized that all hope is lost, if I'm going to die I'm taking these fuckers down with me.

I scramble to the wardrobe, dangerously close to the second broken down door, and find lighters and whiskey bottle, quickly downing them I run around disoriented and shooting whatever I can, I find the crate with the fuel cans.
Making a large stash of molotovs and armed with my trusty lighters, I started throwing.
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Trapped in my now burning cabin, I lie on the floor exhausted and bleeding with severe injuries, I was also 'shit-faced' but that stopped the pain. It was not long until I succumbed to darkness.

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Welp, that was pretty good for my first game.

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2011, 07:40:46 am »
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Lovely story :)

Btw, I was a bit confused when I was trying to make a molotov. What do you need to make one?

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2011, 08:39:57 am »
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Just bought it, hope they put that money to some use (It's nothing anyway :)).

I have finally figured out what will be the biggest gameplay problem of it all:

The food/equipment raids itself are awesome, tense, etc.
What really is problematic is your safehouse: if you need nothing (got enough food, etc), you will be bored to death there. I hope they figure out a way of giving that some fun, too.

Either way, I imagine coop will be a blast.


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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2011, 08:45:25 am »
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I can already see how fun coop will be.
On the other hand, survival now is just camping a good spot for days until you run out of food, then you do the grocery/shop run to restock and back to camping.
Well, I was busy tending to my leg while hiding in my apartment the last run, so it was kind of like playing leg tamagochi meanwhile.

Also, they are adding this next patch:

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2011, 09:58:07 am »
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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2011, 04:12:07 pm »
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Same way i died :D
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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2011, 11:26:41 pm »
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I played a bit with the demo, it was fun and i was taken by the game, it looks promising with lots of potential, there should be plenty to do.

I really played a little, I have a "azerty" keyboard and it is not practical, maybe I buy it (if it is possible to configure the controls!?)

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Re: Project Zomboid
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2011, 11:41:17 pm »
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On the other hand, survival now is just camping a good spot for days until you run out of food, then you do the grocery/shop run to restock and back to camping.

If food is all you have to worry about in a zombie survival game you are winning. :P

I've been following this game for a little while and am glad to see its early success, can't wait to see where they will take it.
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