Shit gets hilarious . I hope they fix the multiplayer shit before the release happens because headlines will not be kind to them if it stays that way.
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State of Decay Impressions from the Guys At Dropped Frames
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Shit gets hilarious . I hope they fix the multiplayer shit before the release happens because headlines will not be kind to them if it stays that way.
Might as well drop in Brad from Giant Bomb's impressions here too if we're doing site's impressions! Just listened to this week's Bombcast so interested to hear him talking about his experiences.
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Hype rising. Brad loves it which means I'll love it just like the first one. Giantbomb just started a livestream of the game, but I'll probably wait to watch it tomorrow. Tuesday needs to hurry up and get here.
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Its the Multiplayer bugs are super worrying but Single player seems fine from everyone who played it. Also Physics Bugs everywhere from what people are saying.
I'm confident that they will fix the bugs in this game but I'm also only going to play this single player at first anyway so it doesn't really matter to me (yet).
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Yeah the bugs aren't game breaking unless you get a car on top of a house but other than that single player seems playable and good. Multiplayer is a fucking minefield tho.
Two players is playable but jank as shit but 4 players and shit gets wild.
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Not sure. No one I watched played with Randoms so I have no Idea.
The only thing I wanted from the last game was more missions a new map. This game fits the bill and more. Excited for it, I honestly think that mechanically, it's the best zombie game out there.
Watch Brad hype it now and fall off of it in a couple of weeks, just like with the first game. This guy just falls for this kind of game all the time at first glance. The numbers going up, the hamster wheel spinning - that's really all he needs to get hooked and ignore obvious flaws.
Just like him, I was into the first game for a while too and fell off of it eventually because I found myself going through the motions about halfway through. And from what I read and have seen so far, SOD2 is basically more of the same. Coop is a nice idea but it's also limited and broken it seems which is unfortunate.
Just like him, I was into the first game for a while too and fell off of it eventually because I found myself going through the motions about halfway through. And from what I read and have seen so far, SOD2 is basically more of the same. Coop is a nice idea but it's also limited and broken it seems which is unfortunate.
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I loved the original even for all the shit it got, watched several streams and I know I'm going to enjoy this one even more.
There was also a 6.5gb patch, wonder what it fixed. Doubt reviewers will change anyway, they go up tomorrow I believe.
There was also a 6.5gb patch, wonder what it fixed. Doubt reviewers will change anyway, they go up tomorrow I believe.
Thanks for the heads-up on the stream.
I watched the Bombcast clip (above) where Brad basically called the game The Sims + Zombie Apocalypse, and now I see he's roped the team into watching him play. Now I will dutifully watch Brad play after I get done with work, too.
Well done, Brad.
Hype rising, indeed.
He straight up said on the stream "I really, really like it." which has me excited. This is very much my type of game.
Did you see the bit where he accidentally ran into some looters who killed his best guy? Then he came back in a car and ran them all over and stole all their shit? It was heart warming.
He actually brought that up and said he isn't feeling the same with SoD2 as SoD in regards to falling off after the number of hours he has played.
That's what he thinks now. He said the same about the first game after a similar amount of playtime.
How would he have said something about a prior game when there wasn't a prior game? :P
You know what I mean ;) He was very uncritical of it because he was so very into the progression, loot and crafting systems for a while. From having watched, read and listened to him since the old Gamespot days, he is just very susceptible to all that threadmill stuff and often can only truly reflect long after the fact.
I mean, he claims he has already played an exhaustive amount of hours of the game but as just evidenced on the stream, he only cleared tiny parts of the first one of three (?) large maps. Let's see what he thinks about the gameplay loop after 40+ hours more of this.
I'm just reminded of a typical Brad hype cycle here.
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Love Dropped Frames. Can't wait for their E3 stuff. They have Rami joining them as well as Bahroo and Dodger.
On topic: The multiplayer seems broken. Even if they fixed the netcode and tightened up the physics, I still think the multiplayer will have limited appeal just because the people who are not host can't do much but stand there and wait for the host to do the fun sim stuff. They can't even go out and enjoy looting because the game sections off loot to each individual player seemingly randomly.
On topic: The multiplayer seems broken. Even if they fixed the netcode and tightened up the physics, I still think the multiplayer will have limited appeal just because the people who are not host can't do much but stand there and wait for the host to do the fun sim stuff. They can't even go out and enjoy looting because the game sections off loot to each individual player seemingly randomly.
I watched them spamming the car doors live and it was the most interesting part of the multiplayer. Single player seems enjoyable though, I've been watching Dan's playthrough.