Also, for me, the isometric part is like a barrier for interest. But since I’ve started it’s still very tense and immersive and I don’t think it hinders it at all
The way the game is most gamers are put off by how it doesn't fit into what they are used to. The learning curve is deep and most like just hopping in like they know it. NOPE... you're a noob like I was. You're going to find out that this game makes you face some more realistic things versus game logic. Every bullet is accounted for. You don't have every magazine full and when you shot 10 out of 20 you don't magically keep the other ten left. It's still in the last mag you just put away. Thankfully the issue going to make your character just discard it. No you keep the mag with just some bullets. You get preoccupied you fire all your ammo but don't know which mags have what left. Soon you hear the clicking and are forced to think am I completely out or is the gun jammed. Nope we are just FPS ignorant. You have 3 mags with ten left and 2 with only 3 and one completely empty. So you think okay. Load up the mags... EVERY SINGLE bullet must be hand loaded.... Yep depth of the game makes you realize man I once thought I could easily handle some zombie apocalypse. Guess i should of remember to remove the glass first. Each time you play you think "man that was stupid of me to think, this is a game." Naw it makes you realize that it's a bit more than that. You start thinking "I need to think like this as if it was me out there. Hiw would I actually be and how can I actually survive.
@@bobjohnson1096 yeah the q is death. The DEV knew 100% what they did. If you don't play the tutorial you will die too fast. It's like " oh wow great a hotbar for me attached equal. Okay hand axe at 2 and bat at 1. I got this now.... (first few zombies kills..)... oh shoot 3 of them I better use the bat for better distance... [ Q is pressed ] OVER HERE!!!!... "wait what.... no not over here." The DEVS "hey guys how can we make a gamer feel really stupid and make them learn every is new and you better play the tutorial." one of the people speaks up "hey let's make Q the yell button so when they panic to get their main weapon out they might hit it. The way to learn this is in the tutorial or checking the key bindings.... LMAO which nearly no one does until they screw up the first time.... because that how you died. By thinking you know enough to be great already from other games... YET WE AREN'T like other games."
@@Ives1776 I stopped watching after season 7 and every time I want to comeback to the show to finish it I can't. Those later seasons lack the atmosphere of the first 3. Same with Prison Break. The first 2 seasons are great, but after that it goes from great to really bad.
You know how there was this Flash game called "Dead road" or something like that, I don't know, project zomboid gives me it's vibes.. Just hopelessness.
No way to know if he was infected or not. Infection rates: Scratch - 7% Laceration - 25% Bite - 100% Yes, you could have survived, but who knows. That many injuries means that many more chances.
I just lost my character of 1 month and 8 days... I was devastated. I got so comfortable, I saw a zombie at the tree line that I was trying to cross. So I thought "Alright ill just take this one" and suddenly another one came from behind the tree and bit me. It went right through all my clothing and that one bite was it. This is how I died
That’s why you never get confortable unless you have unable the zombie spawning so you can actually clear area. But even then I still I’m careful it’s always when I think I’m too comfortable that I die by a mistake.
It would be fun if player written notes became a part of the procedural generation. It would be like a dark souls thing except they'd all spawn in randomized locations. You might find a note in a desk, or a file cabinet, etc.
A little late but Multiplayer roleplaying servers? Also devs want to put in npcs in build 43 as far as I know. So that's possible as well. Also some maps do have written text in them
Highly highly suggest going into settings and changing weapon outline to any weapon, so the outline on targeted enemies appears with melee weapons too, not just guns. Really helpful
You know that scene from the first or second episode of the walking dead, when Rick turns the corner and is swarmed by hundreds of zombies? That's every other corner in high population.
This is one of the best reviews of Zomboid I've seen, it actually shows how it feels to play your first time, instead of being some guy with 30 hours in the game who pretends like he has omnipotent knowledge of the game. Well done!
I tried zomboid for the first time a few months back after some friends convinced me to get it, played for about an hour, thought it was boring and BS so I gave up. I watched a 100 days vid while sick the other week so figured I’d give it another go, and now here I am absolutely addicted to it. Once you figure it out and the game finally clicks I think it’s became one of my favourite survival games I’ve played
@@Profeshinalbest tip I have is to always be careful and plan any looting trips you want to take. And remember you are not a zombie killing machine in this game. Also always look around you because zombies can easily sneak up on you in your blindspots
I love that this game is blowing up now, it has existed from around 2013, I discovered it through one of the messages that popped up on the menu in minecraft and I felt like only me and some friends knew the game, I was the one who told my friends about it and I was sure it was such a niche, it didn't have online play at that time Devs had to even remake the game once, since they got robbed and had no cloud backups of their source code, can't imagine the despair, yet here we are, they pushed forward and now lots of people are playing it, makes me so happy to see that
Project zomboid is a game that i truly love no matter what, Its a game where your not the main characters, or not a cool loner type who can take on anything, or not immune, your a ordinary person trying to survive the outbreak, It also the one thing i love about, the struggling, the survival aspect and more.
As someone who has put 700+ hours in this game, I'm happy to see new players having fun! Solo is challenging but its a good way to learn the game overtime. Multiplayer is the godsend of this game.
after 750 hours in this game i still have so much fun playing and am still learning new things about it and what you can do with just the base game and mods! Its such a great game and I'm glad more people seem to be getting into it recently
One of my favorite games for sure. I get tired of what games are these days but this is one you can play over and over and there's always something new and fun
i love your editing so much, as an editor myself you give me a lot of inspiration and motivation, please more of this, pz is also my favorite game so it's the perfect combination for me. idc what game you play with this quality im watching it
You can look for friends with zombie-related interests like Walking Dead fans as a sign that they may like this game. Lots of people including me play Zomboid for the roleplay.
@@imlivingunderyourbed7845 as a die hard the walking dead fan I can confirm we project zomboid closes we can ever get to a walking dead survival game and RP on it is awesome
The viedo is so well put together lmao. At first project zomboid kinda just made me depressed but after i turned the music off it was better. It was hard to get the controls down but now im pretty good at it
Firstly great video. I remember buying pz way back in 2013 I think it was super rough then but the game has done nothing but get better and better each year and I am so glad that this game is finally getting recognition the people who developed it deserve it. I think between desura and steam copies I have owned I've dumped thousands of hours into this game. This is probably the most immersive game I've ever played and that is saying a lot considering it being isometric. I will say biggest tip ever hoard water and the freezers at gas stations they weigh a bit but with a car and a fishing skill you can hoard fish in the freezer for awhile granted you'll need a generator. Once that's up I usually just go on huge rampages till I get low on food or die. I think my longest one was 3-4 ingame years. I wish I still had the save file to look at. I think my current run is going on 6 ingame months ish. My favourite parts of this game is that you can technically do whatever you want but there is always a lingering danger around every corner. A lot of luck skill and preparing and planning go a long way. Or you can down 3 bottles of whiskey and try your luck with a bat and a dream die horribly and laugh on high pop as 500-5000 zombies run your framerate into the ground. Anyways hope you have a lot of fun with this game and anyone else who's discovered it recently.
Learning to be self sufficient is fun as hell in this game. It feels like a great catharsis. Even then though, consider how much you may get complacent and comfortable. Too much comfortability can make your demise sooner. A fun underrated tip is to consider learning how to do plumbing. It pays off later game. All you need is either a rain barrel you make with wood and garbage bags or those rare open barrels. Just place it adjacently above a sink then have at it. It requires no power too!
When i played i just was sitting in home for almost a month, looted neerby houses for food, got buff, gone out to fight some zombies and died. I then respawned to avenge myself and died a couple days later. At this point i got bored and just begun respawning to seek combat. Once i fought 3 of my clones and got *69* kills in 11 hours. Just listening to *the only thing they fear is you* and an ambulance syren. Kinda fun.
Scarily addicting game. My favourite part is screwing around the map and dying 17 times before me and my mates all get together. I really hope you'll make a separate video on the mods experience. The variety is insane, from amazing QoL, through additional content (like ENTIRE NEW FUCKING CITIES) all the way to the wacky modifications you'd expect from a game like this.
the game starting off the tutorial with "this is how you died" was really cool. holding out hope that i could survive and that it was just there to be cool, just for the tutorial to threaten my life and trick me. this game is ruthless, but it isnt a liar. ...until that time it was
@@kel_ski if you’re looking for a silver lining, you can now tell it to all your clueless friends! And subsequently lose them all, but you win some and lose some
I play this game with my older brothers and since January I have spent over 280 hours playing across the few worlds and eventually the server we bought. It has become my favorite game
Your first experience is very similar to my second run! I wandered through a forest for 2 hours, before tripping and shattering my skull! So it's a bit different, wouldn't say that it's too different.
Based video. I know it would be totally different from the games you play currently, but I think it would be very interesting to see a vid on a grand strategy game like Hearts of Iron IV
Dude what the hell I found your channel today after beating Hi Fi Rush, and already you made another video about one of my favorite games!? Thanks for the laughs man this is a great time.
Play vanilla for a while and get the hang of the controls, etc. But then, after you feel like you've got a hold onto most things, investigate the workshop and get you some mods. Depending on what you want/like/find you can change the entire game's feel and play. Good luck! Stay alert! Check those corners!
how tf is this so accurate, got this game, died 3 or so times after doing nothing but walking and dying, picked it up a few months ago, now have 216 hours and counting
Im not really a zombie game person, I have quite bad phasmophobia but the way you described the game and how it gemerally looks now makes me want to force a friend or 2 to play it with me!
@@kel_ski I will definitely consider it! also keep up the great work with your content dude, you legitimately got me into TF2 with just how entertaining your videos are alone!
Great video mate, I sub'd and left a like. I brought Project Zomboid back in 2015, the very first time I played it was in multiplayer and since then the game has always been on my HDD. Good luck with your future videos and have fun with PZ.
@@kel_ski No problem. You touched briefly on mods from the Workshop. There are a lot to say the least, but if you want a modded playthrough, whilst still maintianing a vanilla experience you can't go wrong with these; 1. Filibuster Rhymes' Used Cars! Adds a lot of vehicles to the game, gives you options to use lore friendly names of vehicles or the real life equivalent. It is also a requirement for a few other mods that add different vehicles. It also has no dependencies required. 2. Pillow's Random Spawns Does exactly what you think it does. It also comes with options to spawn in a location by profession (if you're a police officer you spawn in a police station or prison etc.,). Good for role play and not over powered. 3. Brita's Weapon Pack Adds so many guns and together with the dependencies you can actually turn off or change the probabilities of finding each and every gun it adds. It is really good to have if you want to learn how to use weapons in the vanilla game. It does change the mechanics of weapons, so I can't really say it still gives you a vanilla playstyle, but it is a lot of fun. Also adds tons of attachments. Dependancies; "Arsenal(26) GunFighter Mod" "Mod Options (Build 41)" with this last one, it also gives you a lot of options to turn certain things found in other mods either on or off and many other things as well. All of these are multiplayer ready and due to how long they've been around, their reasonably well balanced for both single and multiplayer. I was going to leave links, but no one should ever click a link in a TH-cam comment lol. Good luck and have fun.
This game is the single most addicting game me and my friends have ever played. We have had so many what we call "Walking Dead" moments its unreal. We once had a convoy moving to a bigger base that consisted of a lead patrol car, a box truck and a flatbed. The only vehicle that made it was the flatbed because of all the zombies. I barely made it out of the box truck before the zombies could break my window but i tripped over a zombie and dropped my Glock, leaving me virtually defenseless (I had an M16 as well but already used all the ammo trying to clear the area around the truck enough to drive through). Not to mention it was a dark night with heavy rain. I managed to run all the way to the new base barely making it past the hordes on the road by cutting though a field nearby. Our patrol car driver tried coming back for me but ended up losing the car near a farmhouse where he held out against a large horde where he was infected. He opted to live his last few days there til he turned and spawned back at our old base.
A lot of things In this game follow a bare understanding of real life situations. Band-aids do get dirty eventually, and if you leave a sweaty, bloody band-aid on a cut it's gonna get infected. Oh hey, you can take overweight to go to 95lbs at the start, it's counted as a negative but you'll lose the trait altogether when you get back to...I think it's under 85 weight. Not sure if it's 84-80, or just 80, so don't quote me verbatim here If you sleep on a bed without a pillow propping your head up, your neck may be sore in the morning. Same thing in game, equip a pillow before beddy-bye The modding scene is a bit annoying, you take a name+number combo from the mod page (usually on the bottom), and if you're just playing, subscribe, go into the game, mods, enable those mods, and you're good to go. But if you're the server host, dear God I'm so sorry. You'll wanna find where zomboid is directly saved in your file searcher, for me it was C/users/me/Zomboid/servers then click the one file that doesn't look like the other 2. It's a text file, and you're about to change it You need only 2 lines, mod= and I think modID=, double check a Google tutorial here. The names go on the line closer to the top, I think it's modID, the lower one is for those serial number looking things, remember each;one;needs;this;weird;punctuation;symbol;between;them;no;spaces That goes for the numbers AND the names. So you've added them in, subscribed on the steam workshop, opened the mod section in-game and enabled all the mods, now when you load up the server you should be good, you might be asked to update a mod but you can click on the option shown to update (weird how easy it is WHEN it's added, but when you're ADDING the mods it's a damn nightmare) The real animation mods, and mods made by that same author, seem to work just fine. I saw 10 years later got recently updated yesterday, it makes everything look like last of us Overgrown cities, love it. There's boats, RV's with walk-around insides, weapons, skins, items, traits, map-addons, everything can be expanded upon. Everything. Check the latest updated tab in workshop for the best results
I only picked it up in the last Steam sale after randomly watching a YT vid on it. I'm addicted to it, they got so many things spot on in the game play. Some added mods make it..
Oh, I used to play this, It was fun playing with other I also cheese the negative trade for a very nice ones. Maybe I will play again once they add the npc and animals.
@@kel_ski animals/animal husbandry, skyscrapers/basements/sewers/caves, a reworked crafting system, a massive map expansion, etc all come in the next update! It’ll be a bit though, but we’re all super excited
Oh also one thing if you didnt know. To make combat easier you can make a outline appear during combat so you now when you can hit a zomboid or not. just go to display in the cursor section and make the aim outline to any weapon
I met your channel when you made a video about playing TF2 for the first time. So I'm happy to see you also tried PZ for the first time now. So... State of Decay next? Maybe The Forest? Nah, you should try Driver San Francisco, "The best game Ubisoft won't let you play". Feel like you'd like that story.
when you first started playing I would HIGHLY recommend putting on the starter kit option. You’ll start with a water bottle, baseball bat, and hammer. It’s super helpful
Im glad i found this game. Nowadays there is barely a game i like, this one is amazing. Its unique and there is alot to do and never gets boring also very interesting mods to make it even better
I remember backing this game back in idek like 2011?2012? I loved it back then. My Pc broke so I been on console recently and I didn’t play much games for like 8 years. But seeing where it’s at now makes me wanna buy a laptop. I even ordered a spiffo !!!
here's a mission that is very good to earn quick early money: The destroy ship mission. Take the hardest and most rewarding ship destruction available, go to the target until they start following you and bring them to the base where you got the mission. The turrets and other allied spaceships will do all the job for you and you'll earn a good amount of juicy credits
as someone who bought it when it came out on desura. I could see the potential then and I've never once regretted buying the game and I've actually bought the game several times for other people just to support indie stone.
*My record is 378 in-game Days survived. The game is incredibly brutal, it wasn't the zombies that got me it was the lack of supplies, I ran out of food & had neglected my farming, foliage & Fishing abilities & ended up starving to death. For starters I used guns at the beginning to alert all zombies in the area & was doing pretty good for the first few months in games, raiding houses & making bases, wasn't long before I had raided the entire neighbourhood & had to venture further & further out, with each city block having a growing number of zombies, I held up in a garage in the middle of the city, with a generator & an endless supply of Gas I thought I had it made & then I realized how short of food I was & ended up going to a mall with a horde of hundreds of zombies behind me I ended up dying in a market filled with food.*
I think my funniest death involved burning down west point myself and zombies included. This took an ingame week and I only caught fire towards the end it was hilarious.
I realised I would love project zomboid when on my first playthrough I had an infection and was looking for a bottle of disinfectant, instead found a bottle of bourbon and thought "what if I just pour the bourbon on the rag, isnt alchol a disinfectant" and it worked, I lived for about a week and then died somehow, cant remember honestly probably got ripped apart by a horde in some warehouse or something while exhausted But for the most part thats how I learned how to play the game, I didnt need a guide or anything like that I had a rudimentary understanding of survival skills and ot allowed me to learn the basics of the game and that allowed me to ask more questions and learn more things, like you can use a sledgehammer on thr stairs of a house and sheet rope out windows It is probably one of THE most immersive survival game I will ever play
I feel like a lot of people don't give Project Zomboid a try because of the controls, but once you get the hang of it it's so addicting and fun!
i honestly don’t mind the controls at all, although the UI is definitely a little tricky
Also, for me, the isometric part is like a barrier for interest. But since I’ve started it’s still very tense and immersive and I don’t think it hinders it at all
The way the game is most gamers are put off by how it doesn't fit into what they are used to. The learning curve is deep and most like just hopping in like they know it. NOPE... you're a noob like I was. You're going to find out that this game makes you face some more realistic things versus game logic. Every bullet is accounted for. You don't have every magazine full and when you shot 10 out of 20 you don't magically keep the other ten left. It's still in the last mag you just put away. Thankfully the issue going to make your character just discard it. No you keep the mag with just some bullets. You get preoccupied you fire all your ammo but don't know which mags have what left. Soon you hear the clicking and are forced to think am I completely out or is the gun jammed. Nope we are just FPS ignorant. You have 3 mags with ten left and 2 with only 3 and one completely empty. So you think okay. Load up the mags... EVERY SINGLE bullet must be hand loaded....
Yep depth of the game makes you realize man I once thought I could easily handle some zombie apocalypse. Guess i should of remember to remove the glass first. Each time you play you think "man that was stupid of me to think, this is a game." Naw it makes you realize that it's a bit more than that. You start thinking "I need to think like this as if it was me out there. Hiw would I actually be and how can I actually survive.
Yeah dude the second thing I did was change the controls. The first thing I did was die! LUL!
@@bobjohnson1096 yeah the q is death. The DEV knew 100% what they did. If you don't play the tutorial you will die too fast. It's like " oh wow great a hotbar for me attached equal. Okay hand axe at 2 and bat at 1. I got this now.... (first few zombies kills..)... oh shoot 3 of them I better use the bat for better distance... [ Q is pressed ] OVER HERE!!!!... "wait what.... no not over here."
The DEVS "hey guys how can we make a gamer feel really stupid and make them learn every is new and you better play the tutorial." one of the people speaks up "hey let's make Q the yell button so when they panic to get their main weapon out they might hit it. The way to learn this is in the tutorial or checking the key bindings.... LMAO which nearly no one does until they screw up the first time.... because that how you died. By thinking you know enough to be great already from other games... YET WE AREN'T like other games."
It has that Walking Dead first couple of seasons vibe. The best kind of zombie survival imo.
yes!! good comparison
@@kel_ski I think TWD directly inspired the devs to make the game. I remember seeing that somewhere but I don't remember where.
Those early seasons are my comfort show.
@@Ives1776 I stopped watching after season 7 and every time I want to comeback to the show to finish it I can't. Those later seasons lack the atmosphere of the first 3. Same with Prison Break. The first 2 seasons are great, but after that it goes from great to really bad.
You know how there was this Flash game called "Dead road" or something like that, I don't know, project zomboid gives me it's vibes.. Just hopelessness.
I think the most impressive part of the first playthrough is you weren't infected. If you had figured out how to bandage yourself you would of lived.
i never even noticed until after i posted this haha, the more you know i guess
No way to know if he was infected or not.
Infection rates:
Scratch - 7%
Laceration - 25%
Bite - 100%
Yes, you could have survived, but who knows. That many injuries means that many more chances.
@@kel_ski Looking forward to your playthroughs with friends! Those are always fun!
@@MyLiverismyEnemy He didn't turn after dying, i think that happens regardless of the source of infection
@@MyLiverismyEnemy The moodle that popped up after he died was Dead, not Zombified. That’s how you can tell.
7:34 the checking of the health and instant death was just comical, I lol’d bad
worst/best timing 😭
14 consecutive injuries will do that. I’m honestly amazed he was able to get that damaged without dying first
7:39 Can someone tell where this is from
"How we lookin'?" *Explodes*
@@Ring_student_yin_sang🤨
I just lost my character of 1 month and 8 days... I was devastated. I got so comfortable, I saw a zombie at the tree line that I was trying to cross. So I thought "Alright ill just take this one" and suddenly another one came from behind the tree and bit me. It went right through all my clothing and that one bite was it. This is how I died
Damn bro, a month? Good fuckin job
Them trees man them trees
That’s why you never get confortable unless you have unable the zombie spawning so you can actually clear area. But even then I still I’m careful it’s always when I think I’m too comfortable that I die by a mistake.
i lost my 20 days old character cuz me and my homie were over run while looting a restaurant :(
Rule #362 of the apocalypse: always let the zombie come to you…
Watching new players discover the beauty of this game is amazing! Great video!
thank you so much 🤝 it was a great time!
Watching people enjoy any new game is awesome. I just put my girl on papers, please and it's so nice watching her play.
Yeah except like all "hey I just discovered..." videos they are just baiting that exact reaction. He's only made 1 video about it since.
It would be fun if player written notes became a part of the procedural generation. It would be like a dark souls thing except they'd all spawn in randomized locations. You might find a note in a desk, or a file cabinet, etc.
this is an AMAZING idea
A little late but
Multiplayer roleplaying servers? Also devs want to put in npcs in build 43 as far as I know. So that's possible as well. Also some maps do have written text in them
They would lose context outside the world they’re generated in.
Imagine your old notes that you write in older runs appear in newer ones, you can also find old characters as zombies mid playthrough
Highly highly suggest going into settings and changing weapon outline to any weapon, so the outline on targeted enemies appears with melee weapons too, not just guns. Really helpful
thank you for the tip!
You know that scene from the first or second episode of the walking dead, when Rick turns the corner and is swarmed by hundreds of zombies? That's every other corner in high population.
that sounds awesome, i need to try that
I am so surprised you technically were not bit on ur first run fighting those zombies before bleeding out
holy crap i didn’t even realize. THATS why. didn’t turn into a zombie lmao
they knew Johnny’s flesh was too sacred to taste
@kel_ski my first 10 runs or so were 10 hours of survival time
“How we lookin?”
* checks health menu and immediately dies *
“…oh… :(“
This part got me lmao
The comedic timing was amazing
reminds me of when my friend got bit in his neck and he checked his status and said "terminal damage?" and his head just fucking exploded.
bro had several bites and lacerations
I literally got this game earlier today and fell in love with it. Then, I opened TH-cam and saw that you had made a video about it. Wow.
it was meant to be... you must now spend 400 hours minimum playing
@@kel_ski I'm gonna try and hit 600
Watch others play! I have learned so much! Any profession other than Engineer is trash. Tweak the abilities until you find your playstyle.
This is one of the best reviews of Zomboid I've seen, it actually shows how it feels to play your first time, instead of being some guy with 30 hours in the game who pretends like he has omnipotent knowledge of the game. Well done!
For someone with only 37.5k subs the level of detail and pure fun in this video is crazy admirable! Already subbed
thank you so much! honestly its crazy im already at that number haha
37.5 thousand is a big number idk if saying "only" does that justice
I tried zomboid for the first time a few months back after some friends convinced me to get it, played for about an hour, thought it was boring and BS so I gave up. I watched a 100 days vid while sick the other week so figured I’d give it another go, and now here I am absolutely addicted to it. Once you figure it out and the game finally clicks I think it’s became one of my favourite survival games I’ve played
definitely a high barrier to entry, but once you’re in, you’re IN lol
Any tips for ‘figuring it out?’ I want to love this game so badly but every one of my play throughs looks like the first play throughs from this video
@@Profeshinalbest tip I have is to always be careful and plan any looting trips you want to take. And remember you are not a zombie killing machine in this game. Also always look around you because zombies can easily sneak up on you in your blindspots
I love that this game is blowing up now, it has existed from around 2013, I discovered it through one of the messages that popped up on the menu in minecraft and I felt like only me and some friends knew the game, I was the one who told my friends about it and I was sure it was such a niche, it didn't have online play at that time
Devs had to even remake the game once, since they got robbed and had no cloud backups of their source code, can't imagine the despair, yet here we are, they pushed forward and now lots of people are playing it, makes me so happy to see that
I bought this game last Friday and now have 50 hours into it. 10/10 game.
totally worth it
I bought it 2 weeks ago and have 214 hours
@@allison6883 same boat, same boat. i'm losing my tiny mind over here
Project zomboid is a game that i truly love no matter what,
Its a game where your not the main characters, or not a cool loner type who can take on anything, or not immune, your a ordinary person trying to survive the outbreak,
It also the one thing i love about, the struggling, the survival aspect and more.
hardcore/realistic games will always have a place in my heart
As someone who has put 700+ hours in this game, I'm happy to see new players having fun! Solo is challenging but its a good way to learn the game overtime. Multiplayer is the godsend of this game.
As someone who has 6000+ hours in this game, I am happy to see new players having fun! :P
@@bobjohnson1096 6k hours god damn u got no life
@@bobjohnson1096 :P we should all play together sometimes~!
multiplayer is such a blast, it makes me want to host a community server!
@@kel_ski That'll be lovely for the community one day!
after 750 hours in this game i still have so much fun playing and am still learning new things about it and what you can do with just the base game and mods! Its such a great game and I'm glad more people seem to be getting into it recently
One of my favorite games for sure.
I get tired of what games are these days but this is one you can play over and over and there's always something new and fun
i love your editing so much, as an editor myself you give me a lot of inspiration and motivation, please more of this, pz is also my favorite game so it's the perfect combination for me. idc what game you play with this quality im watching it
i’m glad i could inspire! thank you for the nice words 🤝🤝
convinced me to pick up the game again, insanely good video
thank you homie 🤝🤝
I love your content Kelski! Keep it up!
thank you Chad Hoovy 👑
Best zombie game I've ever played. I'd almost even call it the best survival sandbox game I've ever played.
Awesome video man !!
I have recently started playing PZ and man its an experience.
Great video as always. Wish I knew more people who played this game with tbh
it slaps so hard, honestly underrated
Same all my friends dipped out after a week
Sadly people are playing gay ass first person shooters and other garbage. :(
You can look for friends with zombie-related interests like Walking Dead fans as a sign that they may like this game.
Lots of people including me play Zomboid for the roleplay.
@@imlivingunderyourbed7845 as a die hard the walking dead fan I can confirm we project zomboid closes we can ever get to a walking dead survival game and RP on it is awesome
The viedo is so well put together lmao. At first project zomboid kinda just made me depressed but after i turned the music off it was better. It was hard to get the controls down but now im pretty good at it
as much as i enjoy the music, sound is pretty important in this game for sure
I could tell Kelski was in Muldraugh on his first play through. You know you play Project Zomboid a lot when you recognize the streets....
correct!
Firstly great video. I remember buying pz way back in 2013 I think it was super rough then but the game has done nothing but get better and better each year and I am so glad that this game is finally getting recognition the people who developed it deserve it. I think between desura and steam copies I have owned I've dumped thousands of hours into this game. This is probably the most immersive game I've ever played and that is saying a lot considering it being isometric.
I will say biggest tip ever hoard water and the freezers at gas stations they weigh a bit but with a car and a fishing skill you can hoard fish in the freezer for awhile granted you'll need a generator. Once that's up I usually just go on huge rampages till I get low on food or die. I think my longest one was 3-4 ingame years. I wish I still had the save file to look at. I think my current run is going on 6 ingame months ish. My favourite parts of this game is that you can technically do whatever you want but there is always a lingering danger around every corner. A lot of luck skill and preparing and planning go a long way. Or you can down 3 bottles of whiskey and try your luck with a bat and a dream die horribly and laugh on high pop as 500-5000 zombies run your framerate into the ground.
Anyways hope you have a lot of fun with this game and anyone else who's discovered it recently.
Love the group dynamic and humour. You got me laughing at some parts bud.
glad you enjoyed man 🤝 yeah i got some good pals!
You all need to do a 100 day Shenigans on YT. That'll be fun to watch
My Friend died in the tutorial and i said to him you need to beat it. He tried it for an hour HAHAHAHAHAHA
Learning to be self sufficient is fun as hell in this game. It feels like a great catharsis. Even then though, consider how much you may get complacent and comfortable. Too much comfortability can make your demise sooner.
A fun underrated tip is to consider learning how to do plumbing. It pays off later game.
All you need is either a rain barrel you make with wood and garbage bags or those rare open barrels. Just place it adjacently above a sink then have at it. It requires no power too!
When i played i just was sitting in home for almost a month, looted neerby houses for food, got buff, gone out to fight some zombies and died.
I then respawned to avenge myself and died a couple days later.
At this point i got bored and just begun respawning to seek combat.
Once i fought 3 of my clones and got *69* kills in 11 hours.
Just listening to *the only thing they fear is you* and an ambulance syren.
Kinda fun.
Btw for those who're looking for the music at 1:40 it's titled " the path " from the last of us soundtrack your welcome homies.
Thank you!
@@guest.7238 your welcome 😁
Scarily addicting game. My favourite part is screwing around the map and dying 17 times before me and my mates all get together.
I really hope you'll make a separate video on the mods experience. The variety is insane, from amazing QoL, through additional content (like ENTIRE NEW FUCKING CITIES) all the way to the wacky modifications you'd expect from a game like this.
NEW CITIES WTF? i’ll definitely check it out!
Greatest W since it was a Project Zomboid vid. Great video KING!!!
that makes this the greatest W fletch comment, thank you fellow king 👑👑
I fell in love with this game a couple years ago and haven't looked back since. I'm really glad you and your friend's love the game as well. 😁
Found this channel through your drg and hunt videos. Marathoned the whole catalog and can't wait for more!
much more on the way 🤝 thank you for watching everything!
the game starting off the tutorial with "this is how you died" was really cool. holding out hope that i could survive and that it was just there to be cool, just for the tutorial to threaten my life and trick me. this game is ruthless, but it isnt a liar.
...until that time it was
yeah that press “Q” troll was diabolical 😭 i really thought i’d be able to beat it
@@kel_ski if you’re looking for a silver lining, you can now tell it to all your clueless friends! And subsequently lose them all, but you win some and lose some
I play this game with my older brothers and since January I have spent over 280 hours playing across the few worlds and eventually the server we bought. It has become my favorite game
Nice
Your first experience is very similar to my second run! I wandered through a forest for 2 hours, before tripping and shattering my skull! So it's a bit different, wouldn't say that it's too different.
Based video. I know it would be totally different from the games you play currently, but I think it would be very interesting to see a vid on a grand strategy game like Hearts of Iron IV
you know i had a really big strategy game phase a few years ago, i wouldn’t mind giving it a look 👀
Dude what the hell I found your channel today after beating Hi Fi Rush, and already you made another video about one of my favorite games!? Thanks for the laughs man this is a great time.
hell yeah dude, i appreciate the you coming back to watch another video 🤝🤝
Play vanilla for a while and get the hang of the controls, etc. But then, after you feel like you've got a hold onto most things, investigate the workshop and get you some mods. Depending on what you want/like/find you can change the entire game's feel and play. Good luck! Stay alert! Check those corners!
sounds good my man 🫡 i even heard there’s a dismemberment mod! pretty insane stuff
You're doing great with these videos. Thanks for not wasting my time!
glad you find them entertaining my man 🤝
You have a great sense of humor!
I hope you'll post more PZ, this was a pleasure to watch!
i’ll definitely love to play more :) maybe even get into that one big city area
Greetings Kelski sir, I have come forth to view “virtual entertainment”. Jester may you please begin this video.
this performance has the best form of entertainment… b e t r a y a l
Banger intro
I don't regret what I did to you
*kelski will remember that*
@@kel_ski he ain't remembering much after what I did
I don't regret feeding you bleach rat burger
I’ve been looking forward to this
did it pay off?
"I hated this game!" That was me when i started play pz and end up 800+ hour of gameplay now 😂
love hate relationship fr fr
Same then I dumped like 4k hours into it because I have brain damage, was worth it.
how tf is this so accurate, got this game, died 3 or so times after doing nothing but walking and dying, picked it up a few months ago, now have 216 hours and counting
More and more youtubers I watch getting into project zomboid makes me very happy
more need to 😎
09:14 this is why i am here.
Only i have never seen a video from this man... i am NOW a subscriber because of that moment.
LMAO, welcome my man 🤝
Im not really a zombie game person, I have quite bad phasmophobia but the way you described the game and how it gemerally looks now makes me want to force a friend or 2 to play it with me!
do it!!! it is such a great game with friends. surviving a brutal, one bite/game over world with some pals is both exhilarating and terrifying lol
@@kel_ski I will definitely consider it! also keep up the great work with your content dude, you legitimately got me into TF2 with just how entertaining your videos are alone!
you're afraid of ghosts?
@@majesticfool That And Zombies
One of the coolest PZ video i saw in a while. Keep it up!
That 'I'm still in here' bit at the end was so good
That part of the sims hits different.
the combination of this video and my friend asking me to play PZ with him in multiplayer is what really pushed me to buy it. thank you.
bro the community of this game is sick af like every video is perfect montage
there aremods that help you take care of zombifying like amputation mod and mods that add zombie cures
Great video mate, I sub'd and left a like. I brought Project Zomboid back in 2015, the very first time I played it was in multiplayer and since then the game has always been on my HDD.
Good luck with your future videos and have fun with PZ.
thank you for taking the time to watch 🤝🤝 i’ve heard the game has made leaps and bounds since then, im glad the devs never gave up on it!
@@kel_ski No problem. You touched briefly on mods from the Workshop. There are a lot to say the least, but if you want a modded playthrough, whilst still maintianing a vanilla experience you can't go wrong with these;
1. Filibuster Rhymes' Used Cars!
Adds a lot of vehicles to the game, gives you options to use lore friendly names of vehicles or the real life equivalent. It is also a requirement for a few other mods that add different vehicles. It also has no dependencies required.
2. Pillow's Random Spawns
Does exactly what you think it does. It also comes with options to spawn in a location by profession (if you're a police officer you spawn in a police station or prison etc.,). Good for role play and not over powered.
3. Brita's Weapon Pack
Adds so many guns and together with the dependencies you can actually turn off or change the probabilities of finding each and every gun it adds. It is really good to have if you want to learn how to use weapons in the vanilla game. It does change the mechanics of weapons, so I can't really say it still gives you a vanilla playstyle, but it is a lot of fun. Also adds tons of attachments.
Dependancies;
"Arsenal(26) GunFighter Mod"
"Mod Options (Build 41)" with this last one, it also gives you a lot of options to turn certain things found in other mods either on or off and many other things as well.
All of these are multiplayer ready and due to how long they've been around, their reasonably well balanced for both single and multiplayer. I was going to leave links, but no one should ever click a link in a TH-cam comment lol.
Good luck and have fun.
The quality of this video is really good I hope you can get the recognition you deserve
thank you so much!
The outro sealed the deal for SUB. Great video man!
thanks my guy:)
This game is the single most addicting game me and my friends have ever played. We have had so many what we call "Walking Dead" moments its unreal. We once had a convoy moving to a bigger base that consisted of a lead patrol car, a box truck and a flatbed. The only vehicle that made it was the flatbed because of all the zombies. I barely made it out of the box truck before the zombies could break my window but i tripped over a zombie and dropped my Glock, leaving me virtually defenseless (I had an M16 as well but already used all the ammo trying to clear the area around the truck enough to drive through). Not to mention it was a dark night with heavy rain. I managed to run all the way to the new base barely making it past the hordes on the road by cutting though a field nearby.
Our patrol car driver tried coming back for me but ended up losing the car near a farmhouse where he held out against a large horde where he was infected. He opted to live his last few days there til he turned and spawned back at our old base.
I can relate to the title ive bought it 3 days ago and I can't stop playing it one of the best early access games I've ever played
7:18 that whole sequence made me bust out laughing twice, first at the butthole joke, and second at "how we lookin'?"
Bro your content is so good.
Today I ended a run because I stood too close to the corpses I was trying to burn 😢😢😢 I had just returned from looting too.
A lot of things In this game follow a bare understanding of real life situations. Band-aids do get dirty eventually, and if you leave a sweaty, bloody band-aid on a cut it's gonna get infected.
Oh hey, you can take overweight to go to 95lbs at the start, it's counted as a negative but you'll lose the trait altogether when you get back to...I think it's under 85 weight. Not sure if it's 84-80, or just 80, so don't quote me verbatim here
If you sleep on a bed without a pillow propping your head up, your neck may be sore in the morning. Same thing in game, equip a pillow before beddy-bye
The modding scene is a bit annoying, you take a name+number combo from the mod page (usually on the bottom), and if you're just playing, subscribe, go into the game, mods, enable those mods, and you're good to go.
But if you're the server host, dear God I'm so sorry. You'll wanna find where zomboid is directly saved in your file searcher, for me it was C/users/me/Zomboid/servers then click the one file that doesn't look like the other 2. It's a text file, and you're about to change it
You need only 2 lines, mod= and I think modID=, double check a Google tutorial here. The names go on the line closer to the top, I think it's modID, the lower one is for those serial number looking things, remember each;one;needs;this;weird;punctuation;symbol;between;them;no;spaces
That goes for the numbers AND the names.
So you've added them in, subscribed on the steam workshop, opened the mod section in-game and enabled all the mods, now when you load up the server you should be good, you might be asked to update a mod but you can click on the option shown to update (weird how easy it is WHEN it's added, but when you're ADDING the mods it's a damn nightmare)
The real animation mods, and mods made by that same author, seem to work just fine. I saw 10 years later got recently updated yesterday, it makes everything look like last of us Overgrown cities, love it. There's boats, RV's with walk-around insides, weapons, skins, items, traits, map-addons, everything can be expanded upon. Everything. Check the latest updated tab in workshop for the best results
the amount of realism in this game is honestly very impressive
I only picked it up in the last Steam sale after randomly watching a YT vid on it. I'm addicted to it, they got so many things spot on in the game play. Some added mods make it..
1:54 aye that edit made me subscribe
Oh, I used to play this, It was fun playing with other I also cheese the negative trade for a very nice ones. Maybe I will play again once they add the npc and animals.
NPCs would be a massive addition! i thought a bear was gonna attack me in the woods lol
@@kel_ski animals/animal husbandry, skyscrapers/basements/sewers/caves, a reworked crafting system, a massive map expansion, etc all come in the next update! It’ll be a bit though, but we’re all super excited
Another great thing about this game is its music that i wished you talked about. it's such a banger dude
I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING RRRAAAAAAA
Bro I just found out about you and I am watching your videos one after an other. Amazing content keep it up 👍
I clicked cause I already love PZ but this made me wanna play right now! Great vid
thank you so much 🤝 good choice in going to play
I wasn’t able to game for 6 months. But I use to play with Yogi! Super cool to see this video doing well.
ayo? who u be?
@@uncleyogi420 Pretty certain we played on Discord for a bit, it’s been a while
@@Swytched i play with alot of people, gotta be more specific lol
never ever im going to play this but man u make some top tier content
i appreciate the compliment 🤝
you need to have more atention i mean this is just so much fun to watch
Oh also one thing if you didnt know. To make combat easier you can make a outline appear during combat so you now when you can hit a zomboid or not. just go to display in the cursor section and make the aim outline to any weapon
actually a good tip thank you!
I met your channel when you made a video about playing TF2 for the first time.
So I'm happy to see you also tried PZ for the first time now.
So... State of Decay next? Maybe The Forest?
Nah, you should try Driver San Francisco, "The best game Ubisoft won't let you play". Feel like you'd like that story.
i have a giant list, so many games to play 😭
kelski upload = dopamine hit
gotta try and supply the good stuff 😎
The only unrealistic part is it is literally right after the apocalypse starts and 90% of cars have no gas, even one’s parked outside peoples houses
"Are you going next door"
"No"
*cuts to one house further down the road*
holy crap your comedy is on point. subbed
when you first started playing I would HIGHLY recommend putting on the starter kit option. You’ll start with a water bottle, baseball bat, and hammer. It’s super helpful
Im glad i found this game. Nowadays there is barely a game i like, this one is amazing. Its unique and there is alot to do and never gets boring also very interesting mods to make it even better
I remember backing this game back in idek like 2011?2012? I loved it back then. My Pc broke so I been on console recently and I didn’t play much games for like 8 years. But seeing where it’s at now makes me wanna buy a laptop. I even ordered a spiffo !!!
here's a mission that is very good to earn quick early money: The destroy ship mission. Take the hardest and most rewarding ship destruction available, go to the target until they start following you and bring them to the base where you got the mission. The turrets and other allied spaceships will do all the job for you and you'll earn a good amount of juicy credits
this is the most enjoyable zomboid vid i've seen!! i'm so glad i randomly clicked on ur vid u had me laughing a lot even in the first few mins :'))
late reply but glad you enjoyed it :)
dude where the heck did you get these funny beans you eating my gosh. Subbed
07:34
"How we lookin'?"
*FUCKING DIES*
3:00 I see you're using my favorite Riverside base
as someone who bought it when it came out on desura. I could see the potential then and I've never once regretted buying the game and I've actually bought the game several times for other people just to support indie stone.
they deserve it all tbh
*My record is 378 in-game Days survived. The game is incredibly brutal, it wasn't the zombies that got me it was the lack of supplies, I ran out of food & had neglected my farming, foliage & Fishing abilities & ended up starving to death. For starters I used guns at the beginning to alert all zombies in the area & was doing pretty good for the first few months in games, raiding houses & making bases, wasn't long before I had raided the entire neighbourhood & had to venture further & further out, with each city block having a growing number of zombies, I held up in a garage in the middle of the city, with a generator & an endless supply of Gas I thought I had it made & then I realized how short of food I was & ended up going to a mall with a horde of hundreds of zombies behind me I ended up dying in a market filled with food.*
I died in country side trying cross a cornfield and got bite trapped by two zombies
I think my funniest death involved burning down west point myself and zombies included. This took an ingame week and I only caught fire towards the end it was hilarious.
"How we lookin?"
Game: hits you with the meanest left hook known to man
Played PZ for the first time two weeks ago. It's now one of my favorite games.
dude this video is great, ive also been listening to the last of us theme non stop and fanboyed and instantly subbed when i heard it LMAO amazing work
thank you so much 🤝 yes the last of us soundtrack is sooo goooood
I love this game but I don’t really have anyone else willing to play it and I’m definitely scared to try solo, great video btw
force them to
thank you though 🤝
@@kel_ski I like the way you think
The vibe u created when u put that Last Of Us song, just mashed my nostalgic feelings with masterpiece of both games, Love it!
i’m glad you enjoyed that 👑 watching the show motivated me to add that part haha, the music is just so good
I realised I would love project zomboid when on my first playthrough I had an infection and was looking for a bottle of disinfectant, instead found a bottle of bourbon and thought "what if I just pour the bourbon on the rag, isnt alchol a disinfectant" and it worked, I lived for about a week and then died somehow, cant remember honestly probably got ripped apart by a horde in some warehouse or something while exhausted
But for the most part thats how I learned how to play the game, I didnt need a guide or anything like that I had a rudimentary understanding of survival skills and ot allowed me to learn the basics of the game and that allowed me to ask more questions and learn more things, like you can use a sledgehammer on thr stairs of a house and sheet rope out windows
It is probably one of THE most immersive survival game I will ever play