Saw this indie game available on Steam for early access and couldn't resist. I've played it for a couple hours now and it has potential. I can already see how it would be a lot cooler playing with a crew of 5-10 people.

http://projectzomboid.com/





What I like about it so far:
- Sandbox mode allows you to mess with a lot of settings
- Walking around breaking into homes/garages and looting them is pretty fun
- Seems like a cool system with plenty of options to potentially craft a lot of items. I spent a while gathering wood planks, nails, and a hammer and was able to build a section of fence. Doing this by yourself takes a long time so it would be cool to be working with a group and you could build a secure compound.
- I haven't gotten to mess with this yet but there is gardening stuff in the game and I think you could turn part of your compound into a farm and make it sustainable
- The game borrows several aspects from The Sims. For instance, in the homes you're looting you can find books on carpentry, cooking, gardening and so forth and read them, thereby giving yourself skills needed to do more things. Also, like in The Sims you have to be mindful of your character's needs for food, water, and rest.

What I don't like so far:
- The music kind of annoys me. They did a good job of integrating it so that it gets more intense when zombies come after you, but some of the music they used is that generic moaning Middle Eastern lady music.
- The interface needs work
- I'm not sure if there are vehicles or if they are planning on adding them, but that would add a lot to the game.


So, in conclusion, for an indie game in development stage, PZ shows a lot of promise. If some of y'all end up getting it let me know and we can form a team.

I think this is the game where the devs had "their laptop stolen" that had all the updates/source code/whatever on it. It's a shady bunch.

What are you talking about dude?

I went and read about the incident you're referring to. Not sure why it makes you shady to have some laptops stolen.

Fun game, though.

You solicit donations to make a game and then, after a stint of no updates, all your work is suddenly "stolen" off "your laptops".

I dunno about you, but I have four backups off-site with anything important. The lady friend has her research backed up off-site all over creation.

They are either liars or insanely irresponsible. Either way, they aren't getting any money from me.

I donated like 8 bucks to get access to the alpha last year and enjoyed the game. Took them a while to add in all the new base-building stuff but they did eventually finish it, so credit to them for that.

I'm trying to convert my alpha donation over to the early access on steam, but i cant figure out how.

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I bought it but just didn't have much fun. Maybe MP is better? Teacher_Ag whats your steam id?

I think I'm ' EconAg '

Anyone still playing or try this since 2014? Recently circled back to it after the latest build (42). Much different game now. Has vehicles, wildlife, farming, ranching with livestock, very deep crafting system. I escaped to a farm and made it 3 months in game. Tried to raise sheep for milk and as soon as I released a capture ram into my pen it gored me and I bled out. Wild way to die after killing hordes of zombies for 3 months.

Mod scene is great too. One is brand accurate real world vehicles (game is set in early 90's). Running around in a black trans am with a gold eagle on the hood is fun.

I'm committed to trying this again.

Teslag said:

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Anyone still playing or try this since 2014? Recently circled back to it after the latest build (42). Much different game now. Has vehicles, wildlife, farming, ranching with livestock, very deep crafting system. I escaped to a farm and made it 3 months in game. Tried to raise sheep for milk and as soon as I released a capture ram into my pen it gored me and I bled out. Wild way to die after killing hordes of zombies for 3 months.

Mod scene is great too. One is brand accurate real world vehicles (game is set in early 90's). Running around in a black trans am with a gold eagle on the hood is fun.

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Do you play with controller or K&M? It's an intimidating game that seems like controller just wouldn't work well?

Teslag said:

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Anyone still playing or try this since 2014? Recently circled back to it after the latest build (42). Much different game now. Has vehicles, wildlife, farming, ranching with livestock, very deep crafting system. I escaped to a farm and made it 3 months in game. Tried to raise sheep for milk and as soon as I released a capture ram into my pen it gored me and I bled out. Wild way to die after killing hordes of zombies for 3 months.

Mod scene is great too. One is brand accurate real world vehicles (game is set in early 90's). Running around in a black trans am with a gold eagle on the hood is fun.

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I load up a run occasionally. Try to skill up survival, hotwire a car and make it to the campsite. Farm and fish. Make runs for guns.

Always loved the idea of this game since it released.

K&M even though I prefer controller for most games. Controller is too cumbersome and gets you killed. Also, select transmission to saliva only in sandbox settings. I don't like scratch transmission because you don't know if you're infected a few days and can ruin a run.

The map is huge now too. Tons of places to check out.

https://b42map.com/