I brought this months ago, I think it was v1.5 back then?

Has it been updated since? I really want to go back to it once they have the main story/random survivor groups/multiplayer stuff added.

Would love to be able to get an Edge survivor group going.

I feel like this is sort of the spiritual successor to Urban Dead, only without being full MMO. 

Have they added much more craftable stuff/discoverable items? I think in terms of weapons all that was in when I played were the hammer, baseball bat, nailbat and shotgun. They were full of talk about stuff like craftable molotovs and torches that needed batteries and all kinds of good stuff. 

I have it on PC, will dive back in if there's been an update. 

Oh and the game really gives me a heavy UFO:Enemy unknown vibe with the isometric 2D, randomly generated maps and overall look of the sprites and scenery. This is good, because I am super duper homo for UFO.

Not sure what has changed been implemented since you guys last played it and I can't survive for very long because I'm Shit so I can't tell you what's what. I was hoping you guys would tell me what to do.

Ok, after reading up on it I'm interested. Can someone point me to a demo?

Edit: never mind I found it.

Never mind again. WASD cramp inducing shite. How the fuck do you make the sheet into bandages?

I thought wasd was a strange choice, I don't know why it's not point and click.

So not worth bothering with?

I'm really pinning my hopes on this gen giving me a zombie survival game that sinks its teeth into me the same way that Skyrim got me hooked (but obviously with co-op at the very least).

I've played this quite a bit and it shows a lot of promise.  The only problem is that updates are very rare.
The developers seem to be constantly beset by unfortunate events.  It seems to be a bit of a soap opera.

I'd advise holding off at the moment.

Does anyone fancy playing multiplayer on this? I've got a server running on my computer, will leave it on most days if it's running ok and people are playing.

Put this in as the ip:
vicinity.mooo.com

Let me know if anyone is able to join, i've tested and it works locally, just not sure I have the port forwarding set up right yet as had no external computers tried to connect.

I dunno when you last played but the only major feature it's missing at the moment is npcs, though there is still a lot of other stuff to come like hunting, fishing, vehicles and the army as well as expanding the map. The map is already very large at the moment (There are two major towns and it takes about 15-20 minutes to walk between them). I think when the npcs come out it will change the game a lot, as they have a writer who's been working on dialogue for years now and the complexity they have planned sounds like it could make the game very interesting. Right now, you mainly aim to improve various skills, keep healthy, go on supply runs but there's also building and farming.

http://pzmap.crash-override.net/

The multiplayer has been very stable for me so far considering it's the first release. I was having fun surviving and running into people on a public server but i'm pretty sure someone hacked me or something and I dropped dead randomly (definitely was in good health and hadn't been close to bitten).

Anyway, I definitely think it's already a lot of fun and it'll only get better. I was going to say I can't really know whether you should get it at this point but I need people to play with so GET IT! Fun will be had.

No

I've seen a few streamers pick it up recently, it's come a long way, albeit over a long old time. It's very close to my dream game, I hope the State of Decay 3 team are watching it closely

Be warned, it doesn't fuck about. I saw a guy on a good run climb through a broken window without clearing away the broken glass. He got a deep cut on his hand which ended up getting infected leaving him too weak to fend off the zeds or run away. All his gear lost just because of a tiny lapse in concentration. Absolutely brutal.

The gear will still be there of course, as you turn into a zombie when you die

weird that nobody with a decent budget has made this game already. the premise is surely a contender for most commonly theorised dream game of all time.

Well I am thoroughly enjoying this

maybe one and a half, but it isn't especially good and may require a lot of words. I have tried to go into this experience somewhat blind, as figuring things out seems to be where a lot of the fun is with this.

So after a couple of quickfire deaths, I found what seemed to be a decent base location on maybe my third run, in a detached medical building in the centre of an affluent suburb. It came well stocked with all sorts of pain killers, sleeping tablets, beta blockers and surgical equipment, which I thought would come in useful at some point. The streets seemed quite quiet, and as I wasn't sure what to expect, I figured the safest bet was just to start stockpiling items that I could need in future, so I spent my first week or so accumulating perishables from the counters of nearby homes, anticipating that they would be the first things to rot. I stuffed my fridge and freezer full of fresh meats and vegetables. But then suddenly I lost electricity and all my food quickly became inedible. Although I had a generator, I didn't have any fuel to run it (I presume that why it wasn't starting. I couldn't find an option to turn it on or something). 

So we move to plan B, which was now to accumulate a huge stockpile of canned food, bottled drinks, weapons, books and fuel. Over the following days I would spend my days meticulously and methodically scouring each and every property in my neighbourhood, until eventually I was having to venture so far out for new territory that it was taking too much time to venture back and forth.  But then on one such journey I found a key for a car parked nearby and a map, and with this all the plans changed. My base was getting kinda cramped with crap and many of my containers were already full, so instead of adding further layers upon this problem, I decided to pack all of my most precious belongings into the car, and head north to  find a more suitable location to secure for the long term.

At this point I realised my big mistake with the character creation tool thing. I chose the anti-perk where my character takes twice as long to transfer things between containers, and this meant transferring items from boxes into bags and then into the car took a fucking age. Seriously super monotonous. I can't recommend avoiding this modifier enough.

Anyway, eventually the day of the big move arrived, and so I headed north  via the motorway in search of a new home. A little while later I came across two cars crashed in the middle of a quiet street. I thought this is perhaps a good chance to syphon off some more fuel, just in case that becomes a problem. All good. But then suddenly out of nowhere some cunt zombie lunges from the bushes and manages to injure me. now panicking I run back to my car to try and make a getaway. Suddenly there are zombies swarming all around me. I desperately need to bandage myself up, but as soon as I try to pull over somewhere seemingly quiet I'm suddenly overrun before I have time to think. Again, this anti perk of being very slow to remove items from bags was an utter curse here. Tragically a few minutes later I bled to death.

I was absolutely gutted about this. All the items I had accumulated for my new start now lay far from town in the middle of a  motorway surrounded by zombies. However, finding a way to get back to this location still seemed a more appealing prospect than  starting again from the beginning, so that's what I set my mind to. Unfortunately I had already  syphoned off all the fuel from all the vehicles I knew about in my starting neighbourhood, so I was have to venture there on foot. And so that's what I set out to do.

Getting there took fucking ages. Like really fucking long, and it was stressful too having to sneak through so many dangerous streets without much in the way to defend myself (I needed most of my bag space for food and drink). After an arduous trek through a dense forrest, eventually I arrived at the scene of my previous death. inching forward slowly, I was able to pick off the zombies one by one as I entered their line of sight. Finally, finally, I was able to approach my car safely. I check the boot  and passenger seats-  all my goodies are still there, just as I left them. fucking wonderful. The great adventure can continue! Except it can't. My car battery is dead and my fuel has run out. I guess the car just kept on idling for days after I died until everything was depleted. 

So that's where I'm up to now; stranded in the middle of nowhere, on a dangerous stretch of road, far from civilisation, with huge quantities of supplies but no way to move them all.