State of Decay

[Monk]

An open world zombie game:

http://undeadlabs.com/stateofdecay/

 

[canakin]

0/10 Needs more Kickstarter faggotry.

 

[Frusciante]

This game actually looks pretty interesting, it's a xbox live arcade game btw. The guy behind the company is Jeff Strain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Strain

New video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtrNXaA3XZk&feature=player_embedded

 

[Frusciante]

State of Decay was released on xbox arcade today. Unfortunately I've sold my xbox so I cant tell you if its any good. Still sounds like an interesting game though.

Review: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/05/state-of-decay-review

Snippet from the IGN review:

''It is not a game borne of this Golden Age of tutorials and hand-holding. You are no superhuman zombie slayer, armed to the teeth with a stockpile of firearms and a recharging health meter. Death is both imminent and permanent, and venturing away from the (relatively) safe confines of your home base at night is downright terrifying.''

 

[Dreaad]

The "state of decay" game looks nice, not sure if role-playing elements are actually role-playing elements, but still probably going to try this game out. Anybody know much about this game?

 

[Frusciante]

Yes I posted in general gaming about it. Unfortunately I don't have my xbox anymore so I cant try it out. I'm curious though if its any good.

It looks interesting, also looks a little rough though (graphical quality, bugs etc)

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

I've heard a tiny bit about it and it sounds pretty interesting. Reminds me a lot of Fort Zombie, actually. Apparently it's also rough around the edges and buggy but does cool things. One especially cool aspect is the game takes into account time spent not-playing it, so if you quit for a break while things are in a good position they'll likely continue being fine when you come back, but if you quit while morale and supplies are low you might find everyone/some people dead. I gather the world isn't randomly generated, but possibly the loot you find is, and I'm not sure about found survivors or not.

Still, the little bit I've read about it sounds cool. Here's hoping for a PC release.

 

[anus_pounder]

They're working on a PC release, but not gonna be released any time soon from what I hear.

 

[taxalot]

Is this Dead Island done right ?

 

[potatojohn]

So is this like, the first non-Crysis cryengine game?

 

[Zewp]

So is this like, the first non-Crysis cryengine game?

Didn't Aion use Cryengine as well?

 

[Dr Tomo]

I heard that it is actually sold well at 250,000 copies for XBLA and that they will make an mmo version of the game after the PC release. Also the game from what I heard also is mainly single player and does not multiplayer support which is why they are interested in making the mmo version of the game.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Anyone playing the PC version? It's annoyingly dark here (GTX 460), I think it's some sort of gamma issue, blacks are very crushed and high contrast lights are too bright.

 

[Metro]

MHC bought it and played it a bit. Early Access so, yes, it's going to be riddled with bugs, graphical issues, poor optimization, etc. Since there's no discount for buying early I'll just wait it out. Wonder why this guy would leave Blizzard for NCSoft... unless he was fired.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

It's annoyingly dark here (GTX 460), I think it's some sort of gamma issue, blacks are very crushed and high contrast lights are too bright.

Yeah, I get the same thing. My performance is pretty spotty as well which I'll take a wild stab and guess is CPU related because everyone on the Steam forum saying "GREAT PERFORMANCE YALL" had an I7. I swear it was like 10 fuckers all with I7s in a row, when I looked.

I'm probably going to ignore it until they get keyboard and mouse working better. Apparently you CAN use them now, it's just that all the button prompts are for the controller so you have to use a player-made guide to figure out what's what and the mouse aiming is apparently super weird. Haven't played enough to decently judge the gameplay but my gut feeling is not as sandboxy as I would've liked. Maybe the actual sandbox mode will change that once it's added. Got it for $14 from Russian pricing and I feel that was a mistake.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Performance here is pretty good, I'm running an overclocked i5 3570k and it's around 45-60fps at max settings most of the time. I'm still too early on to really form an opinion about the gameplay itself (doing my first town missions after the church), but for what it's worth I'm not impressed at all. Combat feels floaty and too easy, and resources seem too plentiful, but again, I'm way too early in to judge. I'll keep playing for awhile as the premise for the game is decent.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Performance here is pretty good, I'm running an overclocked i5 3570k and it's around 45-60fps at max settings most of the time.

Must be CPU then, 'cause I'm running a faster video card (560 TI) but much slower CPU (E6850, 3ghz core 2 duo) and I need to turn it to the lowest settings for decent performance. Max ran fine during the first few seconds of the opening when you smash those zombies near the lake, but as soon as I looked away from the lake and toward the woods it dropped like a rock.

And agreed on your gameplay points. Kinda seems like the only way combat might be an issue is if you get swarmed 'cause of finite stamina. And even then that might not be a problem because of snacks to boost stamina and guns. I do know the resources don't respawn though, so it might be you start off with lots of goodies everywhere as you loot the town but things start getting scarce after a while.

 

[DalekFlay]

Console ports either poorly done or before optimizing usually max the CPU and almost ignore the GPU. Hopefully they work on that.

The new PC I am building in November will have a kick-ass processor, because I don't expect this porting shit to get any better.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Game's out officially today, no appreciable difference from the early access version, other than properly mapped keyboard/mouse controls.

Gamma still feels very off.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Devs say they'll keep updating, including proper resolution options and stuff. Not sure why they took it out of early access, then.

 

[Dr Tomo]

Devs say they'll keep updating, including proper resolution options and stuff. Not sure why they took it out of early access, then.

Because this is a PC version and every studio gets the idea that they can patch in the fixes later after they rake in the cash. Honestly think the biggest decline in the industry is not the popamole stuff but really the Q&A.

 

[Metro]

They just dropped the Early Access tag to dupe people into thinking it's polished so they'd buy it.

 

[sser]

It seems promising, but it's really not optimized for PC gameplay yet.

 

[Zewp]

I 'demoed' it a while back and it actually seems like an alright game, but only next year. I wouldn't dare buy it now.

 

[Psquit]

Gamma still shit. They need to keep improving the game.