It's a great idea but it's a bloody mission. The true 24 hour cycle means I can only really ever play it in the dark; it's much more playable in daylight.

Great concept though; I wish there were more +12hour servers.

There are now 'reverse time' servers which allows people who have a job to come home and play in the daylight.

Watched a few vids of this on YouTube (there's a series called 'The Days Ahead' that's weirdly compelling, for videogame footage) and it looks incredible. I'm on my phone otherwise I'd post some of them up.

My shitty PC and poor connection couldn't handle it unfortunately, but it's intriguing just watching other people play. Although being videogames, most players seem to be viciously slaughtering each other left, right and centre purely for lols. The chaotic nature of it is appealing though.

I think it was mentioned in the PC games thread a week or two ago.

This strikes me as a good idea that'll be ruined by videogame players.  I can think of no group of people less likely to want to share and develop the co-operative nature of this sort of game, rather everyone'll just kill everyone they think they have a chance with.

Lovely idea though, but I can't see the execution working.  I doubt it'll play nicely on my iMac but I might try the ArmA 2 demo to find out.  

Why someone hasn't tried out something like this on the console market I don't know.  Dead Island, but not shit and with a persistent online world?

So what are the consequences of death vs survival.

If you die you'll lose that character, completely, plus all the weapons and equipment (and food & drink) that you've looted/stole/robbed from the dead. 

You'll get booted back with a new avatar somewhere randomly on the map, at the mercy of highway robbers and the undead.

I think your character is synced across all servers, disconnect on one and log into another and you'll be in the same place with the same stuff. Until you die obviously, average in-game life expectancy is 27 minutes according the development site. 

People who've actually played the damn thing could probably explain better than me.

Oh okay, cheers.

Any good? Impressions etc?

It's clearly brilliant when it's.... well, brilliant. 

I've only really played at night but as Rossi pointed out to me it's a very different game during the day. I wish the day/night cycle moved at a more GTA like pace. 1:1 is just crazy. 

Fantastic concept though; you immediately feel on the back foot and it feels terrifyingly great.

The game that ended when you failed came up as a concept a few times on the old forum, this does look like a very nice implementation of the idea. People being dicks is going to cause a problem, but I suppose playing with friends on the same server could counter that a bit.

I'm not likely to get a PC that can play this, but I hope some of the bigger developers are looking at this as inspiration for where to go with the persistent shooters that appear to be on the horizon for next gen, much more appealing than an uninterrupted grind to level 100.

Drunk musing: Would co-op be increased if the high score table was based on days survived rather than kdr etc? If you want to survive then you need to co-op? Or would people just try to hunt down the longer term survivors?

Wow, that looks pretty amazing. Good shout to, I_R, re a game where you die properly. Seems like a brilliant idea all round. Consoles please.

I'm keen.

Carbon_Altered wrote:

Nice example of a day in the game

FFS.  I really, REALLY want to play this now.  Is it a free download?  I feel an "acquisition" of ArmA 2 to try it out on Bootcamp coming.

What do I need other than ArmA?

wow!!!

Please let something like this see a release on consoles.