Status Chovus Jul 26, 2019
Played during free trial. Started on Hard and died in less than 1 minute as an enemy attacked me at the starting point before I could figure out how to loot the starting equipment. Tried again on Normal. I killed a random soldier early on and got a G3A3 assault rifle. Then I went to the suburbs. I ended up …
Played during free trial. Started on Hard and died in less than 1 minute as an enemy attacked me at the starting point before I could figure out how to loot the starting equipment. Tried again on Normal. I killed a random soldier early on and got a G3A3 assault rifle. Then I went to the suburbs. I ended up staying there for quite some time and killed around a dozen soldiers; being able to camp inside the houses helped a lot. Then I took a farm, and then moved into the town. I looted way too much stuff from a military stash and got shot due to being over encumbered and slow. That corpse despawned right as I got back to it because I kept dying from random soldiers and one landmine. I later lost that game when my capture points were taken.
I then hosted a multiplayer server on Easy and went to recreate my progress from before. Quite a few people joined but only 1 person actually played. I had already taken suburbs and farm, so he helped me take the town where I died last run. I completed the rest of the game on my own. After taking a few more places, the map flooded a bit. I had my first death this run from a soldier who was in a bad position; I could not see him clearly due to trees. The rest of the game after this was more or less smooth sailing, seemingly because the soldiers were too stupid to not be killed by the goo. I somehow got a bug that made me immune to goo damage, so I swam around in the stuff. Cleared out and explored all of the capture points, set up gun turrets to guard them and eventually won.
I am not a fan of early access games and only played this because of the free trial. It is not a bad game, but has quite a few bugs and some poor to mediocre design choices. The multiplayer feel of the game annoys me: no saving, no pausing, respawning after death. I would much prefer a solid, atmospheric, story-driven single player experience. The game does remind me a little of State of Decay and Stalker series, which are amazing games. It could be an amazing game too if it incorporates more elements from those games properly, or it could stay mired in mediocrity.