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The most interesting aspect of the game is that the zombies are not the scariest factor -- the other players are.

You cannot trust any stranger simply because you do not know of their true intentions. Always a violent result whenever we run into strangers. lol

My friend and I were scavenging a barn last night -- north of the main coastal cities -- which contains majority of the action (or so we thought). We took our time to the barn and by the time we crawled to the front door, another player crawled up to the back door at the same time!

What are the chances of that? Huge map, empty little farm town, and both parties arriving at the same time.

I spotted him first while my friend was behind me, I got excited and was about to shoot the guy(we employed a shoot-on-sight policy).

But then I thought maybe the guy I spotted was my friend who may have decided to go around?

I back-tracked and verified that my friend was behind me. We then proceeded to peak at the guy and we each unloaded a clip of bullets at him.

The firing drew the attention of the zombies, so I had to ready my hatchet and handle them one at a time as they ran toward us.

Surprisingly, the guy was still alive -- he fainted from the lost of blood. I had a feeling he was not dead yet so I finished him off with the hatchet.

He had phat loots. =]

So is this literally like a country size map? Or is there multiple servers?

I'm not sure on the size of the map, but I know there are multiple servers, each with about 25-50 players max. All of them connect to one database server though, so no matter which servery you are on, when you log back in, you will be in the same location with the same gear.

The most interesting aspect of the game is that the zombies are not the scariest factor -- the other players are.

You cannot trust any stranger simply because you do not know of their true intentions. Always a violent result whenever we run into strangers. lol

My friend and I were scavenging a barn last night -- north of the main coastal cities -- which contains majority of the action (or so we thought). We took our time to the barn and by the time we crawled to the front door, another player crawled up to the back door at the same time!

What are the chances of that? Huge map, empty little farm town, and both parties arriving at the same time.

I spotted him first while my friend was behind me, I got excited and was about to shoot the guy(we employed a shoot-on-sight policy).

But then I thought maybe the guy I spotted was my friend who may have decided to go around?

I back-tracked and verified that my friend was behind me. We then proceeded to peak at the guy and we each unloaded a clip of bullets at him.

The firing drew the attention of the zombies, so I had to ready my hatchet and handle them one at a time as they ran toward us.

Surprisingly, the guy was still alive -- he fainted from the lost of blood. I had a feeling he was not dead yet so I finished him off with the hatchet.

He had phat loots. =]

so whats the objective? Kill alot of zombies? Get alot of money? TDM?

Thats pretty sweet! I imagine if we got enough SDers together we could take some shit over.

How is the party system? How many people can be together?

So is this literally like a country size map? Or is there multiple servers?

so whats the objective? Kill alot of zombies? Get alot of money? TDM?

This is why so many zombie things have that "it turns out humans are the real monsters" theme going on

I hope the stand alone game allows people to customize the look of their character (at least their clothing). When I watch videos online, people have a hard time telling the difference between who their friends are and who is an enemy.

I don't play, so I have a question about chatting in the game. I know there is a text-chat feature, but is there a voice option? Say your party comes up on another player you don't know, do you have to just type to see if he's a friendly? Or if you're within like 100ft, can you just talk into your headset they'll hear you?

The most interesting aspect of the game is that the zombies are not the scariest factor -- the other players are.

You cannot trust any stranger simply because you do not know of their true intentions. Always a violent result whenever we run into strangers. lol

My friend and I were scavenging a barn last night -- north of the main coastal cities -- which contains majority of the action (or so we thought). We took our time to the barn and by the time we crawled to the front door, another player crawled up to the back door at the same time!

What are the chances of that? Huge map, empty little farm town, and both parties arriving at the same time.

I spotted him first while my friend was behind me, I got excited and was about to shoot the guy(we employed a shoot-on-sight policy).

But then I thought maybe the guy I spotted was my friend who may have decided to go around?

I back-tracked and verified that my friend was behind me. We then proceeded to peak at the guy and we each unloaded a clip of bullets at him.

The firing drew the attention of the zombies, so I had to ready my hatchet and handle them one at a time as they ran toward us.

Surprisingly, the guy was still alive -- he fainted from the lost of blood. I had a feeling he was not dead yet so I finished him off with the hatchet.

He had phat loots. =]

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Great. Now all I can think about is the existential horror of entering into (hypothetical) cryosleep as the last conscious act of my life, deprived of even the simple awareness of my murder at the hands of some sentient digital entity during a crisis of conscience.

Which isn't quite as terrifying as the inevitable remake starring Hayden Christensen as Dave with Keanu Reeves as the voice of HAL...