This is not State of Decay. The UI is horrible. There is no direct interaction, like dropping purification tablets into a dirty water bottle. Nothing in the videos prepares you for the frustrating time you will have to spend fighting the UI instead of zombies, while survival itself becomes a challenge.
Everything you want to do is buried in drop-down menus. If you want to build, there is no highlighting of what you can currently craft with your items. There is no close-proximity building using items from your storage. This game and its interactions feel ancient.
There is a free demo—I have not played it. I wish I had. I can’t refund anymore. I will have to push through to get some value, or just leave it.
I wanted to look into some know-how, but it seems the only good thing is combat, which is why players mention strong support for PvP and so few mentions of the areas that are so poorly designed.
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Played some more. Camera angles are limited, I gues the reson was to limit the view so that the game would not stutter in rural areas so much as it does. Bad choice. Same as walking in front of a high building, the building does not get blended out instead you get a red silhuet and no visibility what is happening.
I would recoment you skill the broken tutorial, this was the original rage moment for me, that made me almost ban the game. It is broken, has limited functunality, can't do everything like place tent, but can't pack it up again. There is not enough explaining that an hidden interaction is possible like fress F for filling water if you are knee deep into water. Or how to lockpick, using same interaction. So once you figure this out, the game became playable mess. It's not good, same problems with item interaction exsists. If you want to install a mod to a weapon, you have to have that weapon in hand, the go right klick item mod and choose install. Withought this, you can't even do it and won't know if attachment can be placed unless the discription mentioned it.
Freindly and enemy NPC are indistinquishable till they start shooting at you or not. And then you know, alright it is now safe to approch them. In a way you can tell, by seeing agressive always carry their guns, at least this is how I spot them, but if they fight of some close by zieks, they you are left with choice to help them and see if they fight you after the zieks are dead. Also there is a spawn of a hunting party near you chosen location every view days. First a hord then they came after, look like normal friendly trader NPC ony to draw weapons and start shooting you on site.
I hope the there is some story at least I did some quest, so far no real development... hope to see something worth doing.
