Current Events > Project Zomboid just gets better and better.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I found Zomboid maybe 5 years ago. I played a LOT including some multiplayer (when it was done by mods.) I just came back for the first time in 3 years and oh man is this game even better than it was. Having cars and a map is great and it kind of totally changes how the game is played.

Took me a while to get back into the swing of things with combat. I kept dying to groups of 2 or 3 zombies. But after some practice I'm back to where I'm not dying from stupid combat mistakes all the time. I've taken over the gated community in Riverside and am building the log walls at the gaps in the metal fence. Should have it sealed up within a few days and then I can go house to house clearing out the zombies and pick up the few roaming packs I've seen inside the gates.

This game is worth every penny of 15 bucks.

Newest trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPbsDmzZ3Oc

Wooden palisades go in the corners where there's circles. I put an X where I'm currently based but it's actually one house to the right. Also I plan on building my farm and rain collectors in the central park.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/1/AAdVIJAACyrV.jpg

This was me building the first log wall before I logged off last night. It's at corner 1.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/2/AAdVIJAACyrW.jpg

I watch a lot of YouTube and I swear 90% of the time Im binge watching PZ cause the game looks addicting asf. Only thing stopping me from getting it is the lack of a good computer to play it on.....

Game is pretty sick. My friends and I got it, and now we have a pretty consistent like 10-12 man squad that rolls up. The chaos is so fun and there's like an "old school Runscape" esque feel about it.

Zergrush80 posted...

I watch a lot of YouTube and I swear 90% of the time Im binge watching PZ cause the game looks addicting asf. Only thing stopping me from getting it is the lack of a good computer to play it on.....

Are the requirements kinda heavy? I never really noticed or paid attention.

NightMarishPie posted...

Game is pretty sick. My friends and I got it, and now we have a pretty consistent like 10-12 man squad that rolls up. The chaos is so fun and there's like an "old school Runscape" esque feel about it.

Yeah I love it. I won't have that many people playing but I got a buddy to buy it and my brother is intrigued by it and may pick it up. I think I'm going to rent a small 4 to 6 person sever for us to fool around on.

Also in my OP I said it was 15 bucks, it was before the sale. It appears they may have raised the price to 20 after the Steam sales. During the sale it was 10. Somehow when I got it years ago I got it for 8 and some change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUEiVI019U

any idea when it will leave Early Access?

KFHEWUI posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUEiVI019U

GG to them.

refmon posted...

any idea when it will leave Early Access?

No clue. When I quit 3 or so years ago I marked it off as a dying game. They said they were still working on it but the progress was really small chunks.

Now they have relased some of the stuff they said they have been working on for a while so I feel it's actively worked on now and maybe this latest release and the explosion in player count will help them speed things up.

They added Louisville Kentucky to the game lol

AngelicRadiance posted...

They added Louisville Kentucky to the game lol

Yep! Haven't been there yet. It's huge and has the largest number of zombies because it's the biggest city.

On the map it's the big city on the right side with no POI yet.
https://map.projectzomboid.com/

All the town names are supposedly real towns in Kentucky. I've never been there so I have no idea.

It's alright. The combat is kinda dull to me. Some of the inventory micromanagement gets annoying after a while, too.

It's extremely detailed, though, and for a difficult survival experience, it's pretty satisfying.

As an alternative for people who don't like the isometric view of PZ, I recommend 7 Days to Die... granted it's kind of a glitchy, semi-sloppy affair in places, but man do I love it when I'm in a zombie mood.

I'll actually agree with you on some of that. The inventory and available loot windows are bad and should totally be redone. The right click contextual menus are decent but could do with some finessing to make them a little better.

Inventory management is just done kind of weird. I'd love to see an update in the future for it. However, I can look past the poor way it's done because the rest of the game is solid.

Combat is also kind of weird but I don't know how much I would change it. One thing I didn't know until this most recent time back is that when you push a zombie down you can stand over them at their torso or so and they can't get back up and they won't attack you. So you kind of try to get overtop the one you knocked down and not give an inch to other zombies coming at you still or you have to move and the downed one can get back up. It's weird, but it's simple and it kind of makes sense. Once you get the hang of it it's actually relatively easy. If you're just walking normally you'll outpace the zeds and that's the important thing to remember. It's super easy to get away from zombies as long as they aren't circling you. But you're right, it is simple because it's mostly just kiting zombies around in a circle trying to pick them off.

It's different when you bring guns into it but that's a whole other can of worms you have to deal with like pulling zombies who heard the gunshots and now you have a swarm.

Just started playing it two weeks ago and love it. Definitely a bit of a learning curve with it. Glad to see CE into it too. I also came across this clip and couldnt stop laughing.

https://clips.twitch.tv/ShortCogentCasetteSquadGoals-hALnlkfItOU6aVv3

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

Just started playing it two weeks ago and love it. Definitely a bit of a learning curve with it. Glad to see CE into it too. I also came across this clip and couldnt stop laughing.

https://clips.twitch.tv/ShortCogentCasetteSquadGoals-hALnlkfItOU6aVv3

That's one is funny.

I saw this on on Reddit the other day. It's relates it to Of Mice and Men so there's spoilers for that book/movie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/ryku6v/im_sorry_old_friend/