State of Decay

Hm. Sounds interesting. Come on PC release...

Actually ever since I moved to the Alamo things have gone downhill. Almost all my peeps are missing with no clue where they might be holed up.

Stele wrote:

Hm. Sounds interesting. Come on PC release...

Why not 360, Stele?

TheHipGamer wrote:
Stele wrote:

Hm. Sounds interesting. Come on PC release...

Why not 360, Stele?

Just don't have one, and wouldn't want to pay Live fees. Between PC, PS3, and Wii I played every game I could have wanted the last several years, except for Shadow Complex. :p

AcidCat wrote:

Actually ever since I moved to the Alamo things have gone downhill. Almost all my peeps are missing with no clue where they might be holed up.

After i moved was when I had to really start figuring out all the system. Everything went downhill for me too. It took me awhile to get my morale up after moving. I had to build up the base, especially enough sleeping space for everyone and a medical facility. They are patching the "too many infestations" warnings, which drives down morale. Right now it tracks them on the whole map. They are moving it so it only gives you that warning for a closer area around your base. Building outposts can help. I think with lower morale people are more likely to head out and without outposts and infestations cleared up, more likely to get stuck.

It also took me awhile to realize I could choose specializations and skills for my people. Once they reach certain levels in skills you can choose special moves and weapons they can specialize in.

Thing is my morale was high, base was progressing well, then folks just started going missing. I think the Infestation bug is what's causing this more than anything else.

Stele wrote:
TheHipGamer wrote:
Stele wrote:

Hm. Sounds interesting. Come on PC release...

Why not 360, Stele?

Just don't have one, and wouldn't want to pay Live fees. Between PC, PS3, and Wii I played every game I could have wanted the last several years, except for Shadow Complex. :p

Ah. Saw the XBL name in your sig and was deceived. DECEIVED!

That's for GFWL games only right now. Dawn of War 2, and other multiplayer stuff on PC.

Bleh, my game is broke until the patch, almost everyone missing, as soon as i get the opportunity and rescue someone, they go missing again after just a few minutes back at base.

I'm pretty choked that I lost my starting character while I wasn't playing. He was missing when I stopped my game last night and he was dead when I turned it on this morning. Boo-urns.

One of my missing friend quests is also bugging out. The first time, the survivor just stopped moving as I returned her to the base. I restarted. The next time, the survivor was invisible. The checkpoints updated until I got back the base and then nothing happened. Both times, the quest wouldn't complete.

Ugh! I've lost two survivors already in the "Getting Doc Hanson" mission. Think I may let the Doc hang out for a while.

I was wondering what the F* was happening with the "Too many infestations" notices when I had solidly searched and outposted an area around my base.

So do I have to worry about high level, playable chars dying if I don't sign in for a day or two? That's no fun.

I made a point to give every playable character 2 strong melee weapons a gun and heath packs. Not sure if this improves their surviveability when I'm offline but can't hurt.

Wish there was a way to carry extra rucksacks in the back of a pickup because the "send for scavengers" thing has always been bad news for me. The one time a scavenger made it out to me, it triggered a besieged mini-game and we both almost bought it.

Yell0kid wrote:

I was wondering what the F* was happening with the "Too many infestations" notices when I had solidly searched and outposted an area around my base.

So do I have to worry about high level, playable chars dying if I don't sign in for a day or two? That's no fun.

Patch is on the way

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...

I'm going to restart post-patch, I think - between my ineptitude and the "people dying while your XBox is off" issues, I'm just not having much luck, even if I'm having fun. I love the roguelike feeling, and Losing Is Fun here, but I want at least a fair go at the zombie apocalyse.

Definitely on my short list of best games of 2013 so far, however.

I had another Find the Missing Survivor bug yesterday where I rescued the survivor, drove her to our base, and she proceeded to run not into the base but several hundred meters away to a farm in the middle of the map, where she stood and wouldn't move except to fight the odd zombie that came her way.

Yep, I think I'll wait for the patch, too, especially since I lost another one of my main characters yesterday while not playing.

I should reiterate, though, that the game is really, really good -- and for $20-25 it's amazing.

Despite the pending patch I can't stop playing (and will be destroyed if one of my better characters dies while I'm offline).

I just made an edged weapon specialist and selected a chop-off-zombie-legs special move. It's fairly awesome. The zombies lay there sort of confused and then either bleed out or take a nap. Not sure I get experience for the kill though.

Based in the warehouse and finally have space for most of the facilities.

God, this game is good.

I really wish only two things: that it was first person, and that it had co-op.

Had a great ship-in-a-bottle moment when one of the titan Bubba zombies spawned in a shed that he could never have fit in. I called in an air strike out of sympathy

Yell0kid wrote:

Despite the pending patch I can't stop playing (and will be destroyed if one of my better characters dies while I'm offline).

I just made an edged weapon specialist and selected a chop-off-zombie-legs special move. It's fairly awesome. The zombies lay there sort of confused and then either bleed out or take a nap. Not sure I get experience for the kill though.

Based in the warehouse and finally have space for most of the facilities.

I have a move like that. After you down them, just press lb+y to finish the kill.

I have a move like that. After you down them, just press lb+y to finish the kill.[/quote]

I kind of like just letting them lie there (and it's faster) but if it's not giving me XP I guess I can be bothered to shove a Kukri into their brain.

I also think I saw a character do a drop kick (though I couldn't seem to repeat it). He must have had some native wrestling skills because he wasn't leveled up enough to select special moves.

Well my xbox live account is apparently locked for some reason from purchases and a support call Sunday is supposed to have begun a process to figure out why for sure and get it usable again but i have no faith not having heard back yet. Since they just charged me for a re-up of live in May i'm a lil pissed. I havn't really used my xbox during the last year much. guess i'm just gonna cancel my live account from re-upping again and sell the xbox. Much as i'd love to play a few console only games. I think MS and Sony have done a great job of making me a pc gamer only lately.

So, waitin eagerly for this thing to come out on PC! I wants to play it! GRRRRR!

Fuzzballx wrote:

Well my xbox live account is apparently locked for some reason from purchases and a support call Sunday is supposed to have begun a process to figure out why for sure and get it usable again but i have no faith not having heard back yet. Since they just charged me for a re-up of live in May i'm a lil pissed. I havn't really used my xbox during the last year much. guess i'm just gonna cancel my live account from re-upping again and sell the xbox. Much as i'd love to play a few console only games. I think MS and Sony have done a great job of making me a pc gamer only lately.

So, waitin eagerly for this thing to come out on PC! I wants to play it! GRRRRR!

If you have a PS3, The Last of Us comes out tomorrow!

93_confirmed wrote:
Fuzzballx wrote:

Well my xbox live account is apparently locked for some reason from purchases and a support call Sunday is supposed to have begun a process to figure out why for sure and get it usable again but i have no faith not having heard back yet. Since they just charged me for a re-up of live in May i'm a lil pissed. I havn't really used my xbox during the last year much. guess i'm just gonna cancel my live account from re-upping again and sell the xbox. Much as i'd love to play a few console only games. I think MS and Sony have done a great job of making me a pc gamer only lately.

So, waitin eagerly for this thing to come out on PC! I wants to play it! GRRRRR!

If you have a PS3, The Last of Us comes out tomorrow!

I wish i did, and for a while i was considering buying a ps3 just for it. But with the price of a PS3 still at 229 or greater, i can't afford it right now just for 1 game. So i think i'm gonna go consoleless:(

Yell0kid wrote:

I have a move like that. After you down them, just press lb+y to finish the kill.

I kind of like just letting them lie there (and it's faster) but if it's not giving me XP I guess I can be bothered to shove a Kukri into their brain.

I also think I saw a character do a drop kick (though I couldn't seem to repeat it). He must have had some native wrestling skills because he wasn't leveled up enough to select special moves.[/quote]

Lb+A is dropkick I believe.

Well the patch hit, and yet I'm still getting messages about too many Infestations. They don't show up on my map. How do I get rid of them? At least my people aren't going missing quite as frequently.

AcidCat wrote:

Well the patch hit, and yet I'm still getting messages about too many Infestations. They don't show up on my map. How do I get rid of them? At least my people aren't going missing quite as frequently.

It sounds like the fix is that you will get notifications about infestations but only for infestations within 500 metres of your base.

I was confused because I didn't get a patch when I played last night. So I went to the website and found this little gem:

Note: In order to get the game out to our players in Germany as quickly as possible, we had to release a “new” version of the game. Due to a mistake made during publication, the new version was sold all over the world instead of just in Germany. That means that everyone who bought State of Decay on or after Wednesday June 12 has the newer version, and will get TU1 in about a week. (Each Title Update has to be certified for each version.)

Because I bought the game on Thursday, now I have to wait a week... what a weird mixup.

Ah, Class 3, eh? Finally out? Cool. I hadn't been tracking it closely so knew nothing of it between the first reports of a game described as Class 3 and now hearing Certis ejaculate all over it on the CC.

So very tempted to buy now, but their website says there's some new-game title-update confusion nonsense, so my understanding is if I buy now, my game will be all buggy? Also, what do you think they mean by "Playable characters can no longer be killed by the simulation"....I assume this only means while you are offline?

Keithustus wrote:

Ah, Class 3, eh? Finally out? Cool. I hadn't been tracking it closely so knew nothing of it between the first reports of a game described as Class 3 and now hearing Certis ejaculate all over it on the CC.

So very tempted to buy now, but their website says there's some new-game title-update confusion nonsense, so my understanding is if I buy now, my game will be all buggy? Also, what do you think they mean by "Playable characters can no longer be killed by the simulation"....I assume this only means while you are offline?

Yes, playable characters can still die while you are playing. Very much so!

EDIT: Actually I'm not sure about being killed BY THE SIMULATION. I was thinking about death by wandering into hordes of zombies and being foolhardy enough to stand and fight, rather than run. Which I have done. As I was playing, I never had a playable character die when I wasn't in control. I've had them get sick and hurt while I was playing a different character, but never dead.

There are a lot of bug fixes incoming with the next patch, but I can tell you I've been playing the completely unpatched version since last Thursday pretty much nonstop, and haven't hit any major problems.

I downloaded the demo and played just enough to know I want to pay full price... on PC.