While I wasn't as blown away with SoD2 as I was the first game, that's still an incredible achievement!!
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State of Decay 2 hits 5 million players and what's next for SoD!!
- Thread starter MilesQ
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While I wasn't as blown away with SoD2 as I was the first game, that's still an incredible achievement!!
Good for Undead Labs.. They've been hiring a lot lately.. probably prepping for their next project.
I'm one of those 5 million thanks to gamepass . Im really enjoyin the game so far with its flaws and all
Man, i dropped off hard the first time I played this with my friends. Maybe I should ask them if they want to play again.
Gamepass is really the saving grace for Xbox titles. I couldn't see this game doing nearly as well without it. People are way more likely to jump into a 6/10-7/10 game if they already have it due to a subscription service.
They keep neglecting to go all the way on elements that their games already have. Let items take up space by size, a bag of seeds shouldn't take as much space in a trunk as a duffel. Work on horde sizes. Have the different character background types really affect how they play and respond to threats and danger. The game doesn't need to look better and it runs very well on PC, they just need to really take the leap and make it a really sim type game.
Still love it and the first one either way. I'll gladly take more.
Still love it and the first one either way. I'll gladly take more.
The looks of the game didn't bother me much, but the animations and the jank. Oof. Haha.
Agree that they should take the sim part even further. Hope they'll add a lot more depth (also in game settings, variable sim options) for their next title. They've really got something going with this game.
Hell I don't even mind the animation and I embrace the jank, but when they are taking out functionalities that were already present previously it feels weird.
Like in the first you would actually place your bags in the beds of the trunk, taking away a spot for a survivor. I don't like that you can't tag bags for pickup by other peeps either. Like, that was a pretty prime function of the survivors, that they actually did some thing for your camp besides call you to let you know that they sneezed on a bag of chips so they threw all your food out.
I hope they get to do that MMO at some point and move past this janky open world zombie formula they've done for two games now.
Let's hope that SoD3 is the proper AAA State of Decay game we've been hoping for after they misled us into thinking SoD2 would be.
I'm pretty excited to see what they'll come out with next. I think most of the issues I had with their first and second titles are likely related to the budget and size of the team behind them, and the fact that the scope of the title was likely beyond what they could realistically pull off without concessions or jank.
So...Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2 proved to be successful on Gamepass.
Crackdown 3 is dead.
Crackdown 3 is dead.
SOD2 was also top of NPD in its release month last year iirc, they made bank on it too
I need to try this out again. I played it the day it came out, but haven't touched it since. It seems like the dev's have made a lot of changes and improvements to the game, so maybe I'll boot it up again in the next few days and see if I can actually get into it this time.
You're wrong on the truck thing. The Rucks in Trucks update added the ability to add things in trunks. it never took the spot for passengers though. you could have a full trunk space truck with full passengers.
There aren't really any other games like Sea of Thieves and SoD. Crackdown 3 was just a worse Saints Row 4.
Sorry I meant in the truck bed. Like they actually swing the ruck over and place it in the bed physically.
EDIT: Just reinstalled SoD on Steam and you can't put rucks in the pickup bed, I mean you have the option to select Vehicle Storage so functionally it is exactly the same, but I could swear that you could actually place them. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, though.
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The same thing happened with me. We had a brief moment of fun but it just didn't click the way it should have. I have high hopes for the sequel, but I don't think they can do enough with the current game to make me want to play it again.
I definitely had a great time with both titles. When you look past the buggy layer, there's definitely a great game there. Here's to hoping they knock it out of the park with 3.
That's selling Crackdown 3 short. Plus it's not a superhero game.
This comment is funny, but I don't know why. I can't quite put my finger in it, I mean on it.
I love State of Decay 2! I also love that it's a play anywhere title. I've definitely switched between One X and PC a lot with it.
If State of Decay 3 is actually AAA I can see it exploding. What I played of 2 at launch, that extra level of polish, scope, and detail in game design would seriously push the franchise to incredible heights. It's all there, just needs more money.
I played Crackdown 3. It was pretty much the same experience as SR4, Infamous and Protoype. Just because you want to call those abilities something else, doesn't mean they weren't superhero.
State of decay is much more popular than people on era think, the first one sold between 2-3 milion copies and it wasn't on game pass.
It's not a perfect game, but I've had a lot of fun with it. I wish Heartland took place on the new maps, though. The story driven survival was my favorite part of the first game, and it was disappointing that the addition of story stuff was tied to the old map that I've already played a ton of.
Overall, it's a fun game and I'm glad I played it.
Overall, it's a fun game and I'm glad I played it.
Happy for their success. SoD 1 was a really good foundation and I felt like 2 didn't build upon that quite as much as I'd hoped, so here's hoping that a sequel is able to surprise me.
Yeah it's actually a somewhat big franchise. CD3 bombing shows that people really do like SoD as a game and not because it's just on GamePass.
Now that they have Microsoft money behind them I think the next game is gonna be huge hit for them.
Me too. State of Decay 2 (and the first game) are games that I love the idea of in theory but have just never been able to get into at all.
SoD 2 actually charted at NPD despite being a lower priced title (NPD is revenue based). The original didn't do too bad either. Zombie games still have some draw it seems.
Side note, SoD2 hit over 2m players in 2 weeks, so it managed the additional 3m in around 1 year and 3 months. Not sure what percentage of that 5m would be actual sales.
I picked the game day one and didn't really play much of it, but didn't disliked it. I started playing it again just like a week ago and I've already put in close to 40 hours. It's a fun game.
Gonna retry it, didn't really get into it at first, like Horizon Zero Dawn, but replayed it out of my backlog and enjoyed it...is Heartland a story mode?
Yeah, it has an actual narrative while keeping the survival elements of the game. Less run based than the rest of the mode.
So basically like the scavengin and fixing and eating and stuff like that?
Literally started playing it again like 2 days ago and I still have the feeling that stuff still feels like a missed opportunity.
The coop was easily the biggest disappointment for me with the lack of any sort of persistence. That and the incredibly annoying settlement missions that are constantly thrown at you every second.
The coop was easily the biggest disappointment for me with the lack of any sort of persistence. That and the incredibly annoying settlement missions that are constantly thrown at you every second.
I knew it's been improved but haven't really played it since the 1st cpl months. I liked it then but got distracted and needed disk space.
Guess it's time to dust it off.
Guess it's time to dust it off.
Yeah. You have to manage gas as well. That can get tricky if you're trying to get around fast.