ZERO DAY (formerly Survival and Apocalypse Catch-All)

kergguz wrote:

RPS has a list of the best survival games on PC.

That's actually a really good list. Great primer for modern takes on the genre.

I was shocked to see Darkwood and Neo Scavenger get nods.

Top 3 is pretty spot-on, but my ideal would be RimWorld at #1 and Long Dark/Subnautica sharing #2. Flip back and forth regularly between the latter two for personal pecking order. Both are just about as good as it gets either way.

Glycerine wrote:

Osiris : New Dawn
http://store.steampowered.com/app/40...

Both are early access so still in rough alpha state. Empyrion has you crash landing on a planet and then scavenging to throw together a base and build a space ship to get off world and explore others. Osiris is roughly the same thing I think, though I haven’t put a whole lot of time into yet. From what little time I played I came away very impressed. It’s kind of like a video game version of The Martian.

Osiris is in a current $10 Humble Bundle, I'm probably going to pick it up, any more thoughts on it from you or someone else here?

Yonder wrote:
Glycerine wrote:

Osiris : New Dawn
http://store.steampowered.com/app/40...

Both are early access so still in rough alpha state. Empyrion has you crash landing on a planet and then scavenging to throw together a base and build a space ship to get off world and explore others. Osiris is roughly the same thing I think, though I haven’t put a whole lot of time into yet. From what little time I played I came away very impressed. It’s kind of like a video game version of The Martian.

Osiris is in a current $10 Humble Bundle, I'm probably going to pick it up, any more thoughts on it from you or someone else here?

Looks like a more stressful No Man’s Sky... I’m tempted, too.

Yonder wrote:
Glycerine wrote:

Osiris : New Dawn
http://store.steampowered.com/app/40...

Both are early access so still in rough alpha state. Empyrion has you crash landing on a planet and then scavenging to throw together a base and build a space ship to get off world and explore others. Osiris is roughly the same thing I think, though I haven’t put a whole lot of time into yet. From what little time I played I came away very impressed. It’s kind of like a video game version of The Martian.

Osiris is in a current $10 Humble Bundle, I'm probably going to pick it up, any more thoughts on it from you or someone else here?

I haven’t played it again since that post. After spending 80 hours on Empyrion I decided to give the survival genre a rest and come back once both games are out of Early Access. I didn’t want to burn myself out before getting to experience the finished product. I have watched some Let’s Play videos and it does look like a lot of fun. I’d say in that bundle at that price it’s a steal. I think I paid $15 for Osiris alone and felt it was more than worth it.

Anyone playing State of Decay 2?

Also, got a free copy of Rust. Is this game worth installing?

How far do you want your self-esteem to drop?

Sydhart wrote:

Anyone playing State of Decay 2?

Also, got a free copy of Rust. Is this game worth installing?

Free copy of Rust? Are they charging for it now?

EDIT: I really enjoyed my time with Rust, right up until I realized I hated playing Rust. The aiming is janky (apparently on purpose) and the player base is mostly toxic. If you just want to build a cool base on a mostly empty server with some friends, it can be very fun. If you're incredible at killing people with janky mechanics and enjoy that sort of thing while also building bases and trying not to starve, you will love it.

So a big fat NO on Rust.

Any thoughts on State of Decay 2?

From what I've heard, it's only marginally less janky than the first one, and considerably more fun co-op than solo, but even then not for very long. I still fancy trying it at some point though, just, not yet.

How does the Microsoft store know what system I'm using? I wanna buy State of Decay 2 but there's no 'Buy PC Version' button. Just a buy button.

And how do I play State of Decay 2 on my PC? Do I need an app or something? An Xbox One account?

Buying digitally is the only way to play it on PC. And only the digital version is 'Play Anywhere'. There is no 'PC Only' version, but there is an 'Xbox Only' version - the physical one.

On PC, you have to be using Windows 10, which contains an Xbox App. You will need to use an Xbox account, or sign up for one in order to use it. Purchases are redirected to the Windows Store app.

omni wrote:

Buying digitally is the only way to play it on PC. And only the digital version is 'Play Anywhere'. There is no 'PC Only' version, but there is an 'Xbox Only' version - the physical one.

On PC, you have to be using Windows 10, which contains an Xbox App. You will need to use an Xbox account, or sign up for one in order to use it. Purchases are redirected to the Windows Store app.

Ooooo. Thanks.

Apparently I need to download an Xbox app. Which I can't. I also might have uninstalled it from Windows 10.

Trying to download the app from the official page does nothing. I click the 'Get' button but nope. There's way too many steps to playing this freakin' thing. I'll wait for the Steam version.

Yeah, they really really still don't get it, do they?

I found State of Decay 2 really fun. I play pretty conservatively in these sorts of games, taking forever to do anything, but it's fine. I played with my boys though, until my oldest forgot his Xbox credentials and couldn't retrieve it with the password restore thing, and there were times we were seriously tense. And then some when I was nearly crying with laughter. I still want to get back to it.

It's not nearly the resource manager game that, say, Project Zomboid (which I love) is, but there's some amount of maintaining your trade relationships and gear and vehicles and outposts.

Aaron D. wrote:
kergguz wrote:

RPS has a list of the best survival games on PC.

I was shocked to see Darkwood and Neo Scavenger get nods.

Interested, why the shock on Neo Scavenger? I'm surprised so high and it's been a few years but remember enjoying the game and the Tetris style inventory. Did you not get on with it?

I'm not sure the Xbox Play Anywhere games will ever come to Steam..

So... Green Hell on Steam.. anyone played that yet?

I've watched the guy next to me at work play at lunch a few times and talked with him about it. It looks like its got some interesting details but that there's not a ton of game there yet, just scavenging. The Forest seems to be a better version of the same thing.

I'll check it out!

Icarus delayed until November. Early access was previously scheduled to start around this time. Now there will be some weekend events to play the different biomes before November.

Anyone played Vigor on any system? I’m about to give it a go on PS4. It looks like the bastard child of PUBG, Battlefield V’s Firestorm mode, Rust and DayZ, but without zombies.

I sampled very quickly on the Switch. Not enough for a good impression, I'd say. Definitely a Dayz vibe with the loot and survive aspect, with some heavy doses of Escape from Tarkov where you're working on your offline hideout and going on the timed missions. My son was messing with it more recently and playing some sort of TDM match on it. If I was more into FPS' on consoles I'd have given it more attention I suppose.

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Stranded Deep is very janky but if you can get past that it’s a fantastic survival game. I’m playing it co-op at the moment after the developers kindly added co-op to the game.

I played Icarus this past weekend for the first time (its in Beta weekends until its Dec 4th launch) and really liked it. Its fully coop, has great survival elements that push you to stay healthy. Animals are dangerous but also relatively easy to kill if you can get head-shots, and oh boy does it have cool storms.

My sh*tty little straw shack looked like a hurricane hit it when I came back after the first storm. Really impressive and I'm looking forward to the full release in a few weeks.

polypusher wrote:

I played Icarus this past weekend for the first time (its in Beta weekends until its Dec 4th launch) and really liked it. Its fully coop, has great survival elements that push you to stay healthy. Animals are dangerous but also relatively easy to kill if you can get head-shots, and oh boy does it have cool storms.

My sh*tty little straw shack looked like a hurricane hit it when I came back after the first storm. Really impressive and I'm looking forward to the full release in a few weeks.

I've been keeping an eye on it, glad to hear you liked it!

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"There was nothing sane about Chernobyl." - Valery Legasov, Chernobyl

Everyone should play survival and post-apocalyptic games. They are good.

(Hey, burnt-out on writing makes it hard to write anything especially after 10 years away from the keyboard. There'll be more of this and my takes on dese gamez and less on broken promises of how I will write sh*t.)