a heads up warning about this game: it comes with a force installed Chinese spyware posing as anti cheat software. uninstalling the game wont remove the spyware, you have to find it and manually uninstall it.
@@Valcorian the spyware program is called ACE, its developed and maintained by Tencent, the devs is false flagging posts on the subject on steam to silence people from spreading awareness, the game was also caught red handed altering your PC serttings, to be specific, in the GPU.bat file that launch with the game there is a single line, "powercfg -s 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c" what this means is that it sets your power settings to high performance, meaning your PC will go all in for maximum performance, not specifically a inherently bad setting, the issue here is that the game changes this setting without your permission and without informing you, after getting caught they may or may not have removed this from the game by now, dont know and dont have any plans to instal to find out. not so "unfounded bs" now is it?
Damn, an MMO with sessions lasting for a day or two that covers the zombie apocalypse from start to finish would be awesome. A server of a few thousand people being whittled a down to a handful of survivors. That's be cool.
I love this uncanny state like in between the outbreak and the total apocalypse, I don't know any games set in that transition period and it could be really cool!
Class 3 Outbreak. You can start at the very beginning of the epidemic. And most cool feature about this game is that its map based on google maps so you can kill zombies in your own city.
Pretty much Dying Light 1's setting and premise. "zombie apocalypse" contained and occurring in a third-world city. Everyone inside it struggle for survival while the world outside watch. Brushed on the story how the government of that country(and the 'humanitarian' group that partnered with them) is just making sh*t up for the masses about what's really going on, much to the frustration of the people inside who could intercept/witness the b.s. narrative, being played for the outside audience. It's that interesting position where everything has gone to shit, but it's not really the end of the world. It's a frightening, extraordinary thing, happening at such unknown city, of some unimportant country. SO yeah, it's bad, but it's "not a big deal" to the world at large. one of my favorite little detail in the game is the random NPC merchants; while usual merchants around the game's world are locals, some of the sellers are outsiders who found a way to break in, dragging bags of kitchen utensils and home-depot/d.i.y. tools of varying quality, reselling them to survivors at ludicrous prices, because hey; "this brand new hammer and crowbar is incredible at bashing z-heads, compared to that rusty kitchen knife and wood plank you just picked up from the floor. Me? stuck here? Sure, so I'm just gonna hide somewhere later and let this thing blow over..." I really like the sidequests in the game for how it paints a picture at alot of different people, on how they get by and deal/live with the situation. It's that state and mood where people(from the citizens to the government, to the outside world) are treating the zombie outbreak the same way as an ongoing natural calamity or a military occupation. And with the hindsight of what happened in 2021, it's now more relatable than ever.
i dont even think this in the full game at all, theres spose to be a custom character creation, this they stacked this up quite fast to show off their game.
Zomboid has been out for nearly 15+ years now and it has had all the time in the world to realize it's full potential. But no, they've been piggy backing off of people who make mods for their games in order to make it even fun. I know dread dawn will be different but also very similar to zomboid but if they play their cards right, it could be what zomboid was supposed to be. Zomboid would be so much nicer if they had better crafting, animals that live in the world with you, other NPC survivors, some sort of end game. It's just a sandbox that gets boring if you've been playing long enough and it's always a good game to come back to once in a while. But I always end up asking myself about an hour after playing "Why am i playing this boring game again?".
I wouldn't compare this game to Project Zomboid at all, PZ is a simulator game the perfectly shows how surviving an apocalypse would actually be for you (your in game character). Not trying to diss Dread Dawn at all, but PZ is the best survival zombie game anyone could ask for.
If only it looked better. "The best survival zombie game anyone could ask for" is not what Zomboid is. I'd kill for something with the survival of Zomboid, looks at minimum like State of Decay 2, and is actually on consoles too so I can play it with friends.
I have heard many people talk about how project zomboid looks like, I know a lot of people want it to look "better" but keep in mind that PZ looks the way that it does because the way the world acts makes it work. It would be extremely hard to replicate PZ into a first person game for example, or even something like State of Decay 2. The graphics aren't the prettiest and they are definitely a preference to some, but if PZ had gameplay like State of Decay 2 then it wouldn't be PZ anymore. PZ can only work the way the game is already, there have been many games where they have tried to make a realistic zombie survival game with 3rd or 1st person but it never works as well as PZ, simply because the atmosphere of PZ makes it such a good game.@@PersonMcHuman
Sometimes better graphics doesn't mean better game, I think a lot of people forget this fact. I'm not saying you are one of these people at all, but I'm saying that sometimes the best games are the ones that don't look so realistic on the eyes but instead make the world you are playing in feel realistic.@@PersonMcHuman
@@violarodrigueza I like how you’re over here talking at me like I’m some moron that hasn’t played Project Zomboid. I’ve played it. It’s fine. I’d like it more if it looked better. Hell, it being top down already makes me generally like it less than I would if it was just third person.
To be true I don’t want a game with “too many zombies” but a game with just enough for them to be a threat and personally Project zombiod did a amazing job on bringing that and from the looks of it Dread Dawn had a little too much so I’m hoping the devs will make a mode where you can play with fewer zombies. (I don’t want the game to be too focused about killing zombies and running away 24/7 but rather want the “Survive in the dead city”look for rations and accommodations and stuff like that)
A lil' warning that this game looks hella suspicious, several people on Steam claim the game opens something in the background and a lot of them can't uninstall the game without uninstalling something called ZC.exe, the company that made this game is Chinese and literally came out of nowhere, the devs did make an also suspicious reponse to these accusations but it doesn't help that they later on deleted it, also, the weird as hell banners in the school were made via AI and it's not even indicated anywhere. Personally? I'd stick with Project Zomboid on this one, while it might be paid, atleast you don't take the risk of downloading a potential malware.
I used Sandboxie with the game. It's not a fully ready product, and it's only been released as a demo from what I know so far. The game seems to have several other names - likely because of improper translation or that they were indecisive with the name. Regardless, it's not really malware, it's just badly coded. First off, it seems like it tries to turn on high performance mode in power options, which is indeed interesting, but I don't think they planned that to be malicious. The game also remaining in background is also most likely because it does not close properly. All in all, not a final product, not that great, but it does look interesting and I hope something great is made with that concept, even with all these "errs" that appeared since the release of the demo. I just hope I was right in my judgement and that this was not something malicious meant to harm people's computers.
i played the demo... during the time when you go to the city to find someone... it's very chaotic there was one instance that the an npc who had a gun(you cannot talk to him though) just blasting then later a car exploded spawn a butt load of zombies swarming me and the guy who just blasting any zombies there are npcs just running and escaping from zombies locked door with npcs' inside later some got swarmed i don't know if its scripted or not but it feels not scripted but it just feel immersive btw when you access a computer it's a LEGIT working Internet Browser i kid you not. then later the zombie defense section it feels like those tower defense you play on the phone create a long winding corridor the melee is just janky i don't understand if its the hitbox or i need to aim with my crosshair it got potential
Post-Demo Thoughts +3 / -3 / =3 from steam Pro's: - The NPC's spread throughout the world make it feel alive unlike most zombie games. - The ability to loot just about any object is nice, unlike many games that have artificial scarcity. - The story driven element is a nice touch, most zombie games just drop the player into the world like a sandbox. Con's: - The hit boxes on enemies when using weapons or shooting is not very clear. - The Demo's building system was very bare bones, expected but still disappointing. - It would be nice if the U.I. better explained how to open menu's instead of having to read through the control options, Preferences: - I can't say I am a fan of durability systems since they are just time wasters, a option to play the game without it would be greatly preferred. - It would be nice if the hunger system was simplified. As in, you just need to have X amount of food in a base food storage. Like a colony sim, the game would let you know how much food you need per week based on how many survivors you have instead of having to micro-manage survivors. - The ability to have survivors go out and gather supplies for you from zones already explored would also be very nice. So you don't have to run back and forth carrying supplies which could just be handled by the NPCs.
They banned you out of their forum for the negative criticism right ? I was looking for some sort of review recently. From what ive heard they ban those who leave behind any sort of negative-ish inspired criticism, especially if its not written in chinese.
@@STRYKER1467 yeah got banned after 15 hours of posting this in the forum, they also banned those who criticize their dialog and story telling. Im having poor expectation for the future development of this game because they cant take criticism😔
A crowbar is the best first option as it offers not just its use as a weapoj but also can use it to break in or break out of a room ,imagine you are at the start and then have a horde come in and steamroll everyone you go to run only to find a loked door at the far end. Everyone without a crowbar or and axe(though it wouldnt be that efective against a steel door ) would have no chance of escaping in time. Later on you want something like a machete since its small enough to swing indoors and it wont get stuck in the zombies head like a axe will,going back to why the axe isnt my first pick.
This 2D, fast huge horde, run and gun style is more comparable to The last stand: Union City by Con Artist, with the upgrade of being able to move up and down instead of just sideway. Looks pretty cool!
you saying oh more money made me laugh because it reminded me of peter trapping james woods in family guy, him folowing a line of candy and everytime he spots one he goes oh a peice of candy.
I think in the beginning, the most likely reason for all of the mats on the ice, tents, and destruction before the zombies is probably just a pre release thing and they will add a transition later.
I personally would stay put at home. 🤷🏾♂️. I thimk it's personally fine to be still be evacuating people over 30 days. I would have stayed put at the school if it was secure. Clearly it wasn't tho. But yeah i would stay home where i already have things i would need plus my neighborhood isn't that densely populated.
It's generally always best in these kind of end state scenarios to not trust any governmental organised plan, the reason being you are simply a liability for military or federalised police forces and to simply go your own way. You're just another mouth to feed, another person liable to becoming sick amongst a crowd of people exactly the same as you. For anyone crying that I'm wrong look at how federal authorities handled Katrina - no better example as that. 1. Stick with your family. 2. Have a plan. 3. Do not trust anyone else.
First melee weapon would be a maul with a 4lb head. Blunt weapons are easier to use and more effective at inflicting head trauma, and with a lighter head it wouldn’t tire you out so quick.
Weapon would be a good club, like a nice round mace. Something to break skulls, not get stuck, and easy to use. Tool would be a crowbar. Get's you in homes to loot, can be used 100 ways and as a weapon in a pinch. Then probably crossbow. Somewhat recoverable ammo, and best of all quiet.
Wow, if they had this kind of Half Life style 'My life was this way and now it is that way' intro in Project Zomboids open ended open world game, it'd be like the perfect zombie game. All zomboid is missing is some narrative structure. Just enough to not destroy the feeling.
Way better than PZ to me I stoped playing PZ because of how slow they are with their updates Npc and base raid with defenses in a survival game is what I am looking for This comes the closest
@@kuchukboromdebbarma2117 not only slow, it also becomes quite unstable after playing for a long time in the same savegame i lost my 30 hour savegame because it got so laggy beyond unplayable, it seems like this doesnt happen here as they use a better engine.
The game's graphics look like they were made by an AI. It has this weird lettering and the uncanny vibe of someone recreating a college dorm from other people's descriptions.
@@rickesmallsim hoping these are placeholders, but something tells me they will be a permanent thing in the game. idk im just very pessimistic about ai generated assets in games becoming more prevalent.
People were reall p*ssed off with the steam demo for this game because it installed some sort of software that wasnt removed when uninstalling the game. Very sketchy stuff. The game looked sweet and I really wanted to play it but that spyware made me hold off.
This is a hack 'n slash arcade, Zomboid is a simulator. You can't compare games from different genres, what you can compare are the personal experience each game left in YOU, and wich game suits best for YOU.
State of decay possibly the only zombie game that can hold a candle ip to Project Zomboid.. Dread dawn looks fun and super addictive. Hope it's controller friendly
The only thing that Project Zomboid is missing to be the best zombie game ever is the return of NPC, and build 43 will bring them back maybe in one year. :)
Bro students would not be that calm when a zombie apocalypse is happening who knows maybe some students may barricade them selfs some may become psychopaths thinking their actions wont catch up to them now and im sure someone will try to be the hero.
I genuinely think its great that a game that has been put on so much dedication and real. Passion by a group of 5-6 devs from 2013 like project zomboid is amazing❤
my 1st weapon would be a makeshift spear (curtain pole/kitchen knife/duct tape) . Has a good range to it. my first armor will be cardboard box with duct tapes. to protect my arms from zombie bites.
12:20 might just be me but the text on the flags looks like what happens when AI tries making words, i could be wrong just saying i think some of the assets might be AI generated.
Visually the game looks great, I love the aesthetics and the graphics it has, but there are still things to polish and I also don't think it is the killer of project zomboid because they are very different games
Looks cool and is a specific kind of game to be honest bro i dont think its a zomboid killer though hoping to see more work done to the game! Greetings from Belgium and thx for the share... Btw srr for my fractured English ;)
@@T.V-001 Fr it’s so annoying when people say something is an (insert game name here) killer because every single time those games flop horrendously not long after, as if it’s a curse to call them that lmfao. Like I remember Anthem being hailed as the “Destiny Killer” & I think everyone knows how that went 💀💀💀
this one seems more like a shooter/tower defense, while Zomboid is an absolute ball stompingly dreadful survival where each day you stray further from god.
I would pay an arm and a leg for an isometric college simulator game set in a uni like the one in the start of the video, that's really an untapped niche in the vidya market, we only have what? Bully and persona for decent school life sims
Ranged? An overcharged paintball gun might work if you use lead balls. You can shoot and carry a lot of ammo and recharging the gun can be done with a solar-powered compressor. It depends on how tough zombie skulls are (and if it requires headshots to kill them). Barring that, a .22LR rifle isn't bad for non--CQC. The ammo is super-plentiful, you can again carry a lot, and it's surprisingly long-range - not that I can reliably hit things beyond 10m. A close-up weapon would be one of the chunky calibers with (hopefully) hollow-point ammo. .357, 10mm, .40 calier, or .45ACP. That last one was technically made for zombies after a fashion. The army switched from a .38 round to the .45ACP in the Colt 1911 during the Phillipines war. The Moro combatants did not have much in the way of firearms. They did, however, have tight cloth wraps and a local combat drug. The combination meant that a Moro warrior could run up on a trench while taking fire and still engage in melee combat for a bit before dying. The heavier, and slower, .45ACP round transferred most of its force into the person it hit, shattering bones, pulping muscles, and knocking the opponent down. If zombification relies on the presence of tissues to animate, blowing chunks out of a zombie will reduce its ability to threaten even without a headshot. Melee? My favorite antizombie melee weapon is a trained buddy with some kind of polearm, even a crutch will do. Half the time, their job would be to keep approaching zombies shoved back and knocking the zombie we're targeting down. The other job would be to use whatever skull-breaking weapon we can swing to, well, break the skulls of downed zombies. Task switches would happen regularly to reduce fatigue. This tactic really only works best when your fighters are only outnumbered 3-4/1 at any given time, but it should work.
IDk dude this one is still a bit rough for some reason, also I find the world/items/menus on PZ more clear than this one.. combat somehow seems more dauting than PZ, I dont really like much the story or art so far, im not sure why tbh... PZ models after the big update actually looks similar to this.. also is not a good sign if your PZ killer makes you think about playing PZ, that run to the pointer stuff is a no go for me, and the tiger noises... That said, I hope it does well and gets better
It could have been but I don't think so. I played it for a bit, wasn't too happy that you have to play as a premade character who respawns if killed. In Project Zomboid, you create your character and if you're killed, you're dead, you make a new character you can find your dead character as a zombie or corpse, you can make as many characters as you wish, kill them off, populate your world as you want, explore the aftermath with a new character, that is what is great about PZ. I can't look at other zombie survival games anymore, especially if you respawn instead of being dead permanently. Other zombie games need to take notes from PZ. This game right here has potential, it just needs some tweaks.
Also when you stoped fighting the zombies was a pretty good idea if you would also use the fuking shove option and killing the one or two zombies that kept chasing you even after you lost most of the horse. At the end the sprinter basically got a free meal out of you cuz you just ran like headless chicken, thats on you not the game.
okay ngl this game beats zomboid in graphics and animations and its smooth also at the same time it has the acrade feeling that can make you play it multiple times, but when it comes to realism nothing beats zomboid, just imagine if zomboid just gets this type of graphics and animations with all the content and of course the npcs this game has.
@@itmightbecool1478 I think so too, if we talk about "realism" and the absurd amount of details, clearly PZ still have way more, but this game looks interesting, I'd want to play the full ver
It dependes on what kind zombies you have to deal with. If they slow walkers like in TWD I would choose a small axe, if they were fast zmobies then i would most likely use my Cold Steel Tanto and connect it to some solid steel pipe to make something like spear, even keeping a relative distance in this situation can increase the chance of survival. Later on if it was possible to get a firearm then the most optimal choice would be pump-action shotgin or a bolt-action rifle/
@@app_manifestation yeah i was talking about zomboid, i read in a dev post they want to up the number an cull less meaning you will see more in optimizations once the 42 build is out due to the gpu handling more processes, right now they have more then a million monsters on map but cull at 500 so you do not need to suffer an mess with configs for severs in mp an pc's in sp. you can turn off culling in commands but ram goes up in use so we can several thousand warm you in theory if its optimized right. so i wounder how this game will solve the many floors problems in builds to come an seeing insane numbers without major hits to fps an ram with zombies since its a nightmare in coding to do so i wish these devs good luck.
@@app_manifestation yes i was talking zomboid, map has over a million zombies on map but it culls at 500 mobs entities on screen. i heard they want to up both max an cull max in optimizations when 42 is out and optimized, the nightmare that is dealing with the mass of monsters in progresses, when you do not cull the zombies leads to ram an fps drops. some severs turn off culling in 41 servers but lowers the max to solve the slow down. the update they sated they should be able to up the zombies count from 10-30 during internal testing what i am taking into account, this means we might be-able to see swarms of an easy 1000 plus not culled, without an fps hit. thus this makes me wish these games devs good luck on how they will solve this in future builds they might be forced to cull the mass of zombies back down to 500 as the builds become more developed with cc. along with wishing them luck on how they might solve showing skyscrapers an basements.
@@app_manifestation yes i was talking about zomboid, they have 1 million on map but cull at 500, i read with the new optimizations they could up the max on map an max culling limits. the more zombies= more ram use an processes. this due to the optimizations its possible to see in 42 have over 1000+ zombies not culled. which means due to how the devs of this game they have solve same fps drop issues so they might be forced to reduce cull zombies limit since they will be faced with similar problems to what game zomboid faced among other things.
@@app_manifestation yes i was talking about zomboid, they have 1 million on map but cull at 500, i read with the new optimizations they could up the max on map an max culling limits. the more zombies= more ram use an processes. this due to the optimizations its possible to see in 42 have over 1000+ zombies not culled. which means due to how the devs of this game they have solve same fps drop issues so they might be forced to reduce cull zombies limit since they will be faced with similar problems to what game zomboid faced among other things.
Damn man, this looks really good, but i hate thinking this would kill zomboid. It was fun and has a charm but damn this looks very smooth and pleasing to the eye.
The freaking school already looks post apocalyptic or so even before the zeds arrived there, what is up with the tiles and such as well as litter everywhere? At least the dorms are clean enough I suppose so.
Zomboid is great, but it is very vague. Some may see it as a strength, and it does allow you to really use your imagination, but no matter what you choose as your career you always just start in one of a few RNG locations, with no setting or story for your character. If you selected fast food chef, and now you start in a fast food joint, wearing a server's uniform, with a few NPCs alive and eating right as the zombies start coming, then it'd give your character's story a firm immersive root in the world. And to their story. Do you grab a knife and start trying to help people? Do you succeed and the burger joint + the customers and your boss become your first safe home and group?? Or do you run out the back door and run for your life? Do you kill your boss???? Steal his sports car keys and drive as far away as possible?? It could also use more endgamey sorts of things. Like what if you could find a military radio, and call in the military? And after a while, the army rolls in to try to kill all the zombies?
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a heads up warning about this game: it comes with a force installed Chinese spyware posing as anti cheat software.
uninstalling the game wont remove the spyware, you have to find it and manually uninstall it.
If your going to say this then post the name of the Spyware instead of stoking unfounded BS....
@@Valcorian the spyware program is called ACE, its developed and maintained by Tencent, the devs is false flagging posts on the subject on steam to silence people from spreading awareness, the game was also caught red handed altering your PC serttings, to be specific, in the GPU.bat file that launch with the game there is a single line, "powercfg -s 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c" what this means is that it sets your power settings to high performance, meaning your PC will go all in for maximum performance, not specifically a inherently bad setting, the issue here is that the game changes this setting without your permission and without informing you, after getting caught they may or may not have removed this from the game by now, dont know and dont have any plans to instal to find out.
not so "unfounded bs" now is it?
Better destroy your cell phones, computers and anything china made because it's all Chinese spyware.
@@Valcoriannext thing ur going to say is that China doesnt install spyware
@johnfranktullo3463 never said that just you say it's got Spyware and yet you omitted the name of said Spyware.... feel free to say the name...
Damn, an MMO with sessions lasting for a day or two that covers the zombie apocalypse from start to finish would be awesome.
A server of a few thousand people being whittled a down to a handful of survivors. That's be cool.
and when u turn u play as a zombie
@@EvilNecroid nah it will probably just have the player make a new guy
That sounds cool except for the day or 2 long session. Who has a life where they can just game for 48 straight hours?
@@bpdmf2798 Safe houses for breaks/offline activity? There's way to get around that. And ways to encourage activity, as well.
@@bpdmf2798 Have safe houses or something where you can log off. Never said you had to be on the whole time
I love this uncanny state like in between the outbreak and the total apocalypse, I don't know any games set in that transition period and it could be really cool!
Yeah Zombie games always starts with After the Outbreak or in Apocalyptic setting.
@@aoihitori I kinda wanna see a game do the humanity clinging to the established civilized order while zombies are literally next door
theres sometning really cool about the chaos and the rediculousness of it
Class 3 Outbreak. You can start at the very beginning of the epidemic. And most cool feature about this game is that its map based on google maps so you can kill zombies in your own city.
Pretty much Dying Light 1's setting and premise. "zombie apocalypse" contained and occurring in a third-world city. Everyone inside it struggle for survival while the world outside watch. Brushed on the story how the government of that country(and the 'humanitarian' group that partnered with them) is just making sh*t up for the masses about what's really going on, much to the frustration of the people inside who could intercept/witness the b.s. narrative, being played for the outside audience.
It's that interesting position where everything has gone to shit, but it's not really the end of the world. It's a frightening, extraordinary thing, happening at such unknown city, of some unimportant country. SO yeah, it's bad, but it's "not a big deal" to the world at large.
one of my favorite little detail in the game is the random NPC merchants; while usual merchants around the game's world are locals, some of the sellers are outsiders who found a way to break in, dragging bags of kitchen utensils and home-depot/d.i.y. tools of varying quality, reselling them to survivors at ludicrous prices, because hey; "this brand new hammer and crowbar is incredible at bashing z-heads, compared to that rusty kitchen knife and wood plank you just picked up from the floor. Me? stuck here? Sure, so I'm just gonna hide somewhere later and let this thing blow over..."
I really like the sidequests in the game for how it paints a picture at alot of different people, on how they get by and deal/live with the situation.
It's that state and mood where people(from the citizens to the government, to the outside world) are treating the zombie outbreak the same way as an ongoing natural calamity or a military occupation. And with the hindsight of what happened in 2021, it's now more relatable than ever.
I hope all of this is skippable. Imagine going through all of this everytime you want to start a new game.
I forgot to count of how many games had that.
no that is the game...
i dont even think this in the full game at all, theres spose to be a custom character creation, this they stacked this up quite fast to show off their game.
Just make a separate save file that skips the hassling stuff
This game was a demo at one point in time, I got so bored I didnt even get to the infected.
I wouldn't dare say its anywhere near as better as Project Zomboid, but it is interesting and pretty fast-paced.
Zomboid has been out for nearly 15+ years now and it has had all the time in the world to realize it's full potential. But no, they've been piggy backing off of people who make mods for their games in order to make it even fun. I know dread dawn will be different but also very similar to zomboid but if they play their cards right, it could be what zomboid was supposed to be. Zomboid would be so much nicer if they had better crafting, animals that live in the world with you, other NPC survivors, some sort of end game. It's just a sandbox that gets boring if you've been playing long enough and it's always a good game to come back to once in a while. But I always end up asking myself about an hour after playing "Why am i playing this boring game again?".
everything you said the game would be better with is stuff coming in upcoming updates dude..@@fyregus
@@fyregusMandatory for me to say this: Have heard Cataclysm: DDA? The game solos Zomboid on all fronts.
Nothings better than Zomboid
Nah
@@fyregus
I wouldn't compare this game to Project Zomboid at all, PZ is a simulator game the perfectly shows how surviving an apocalypse would actually be for you (your in game character). Not trying to diss Dread Dawn at all, but PZ is the best survival zombie game anyone could ask for.
If only it looked better. "The best survival zombie game anyone could ask for" is not what Zomboid is. I'd kill for something with the survival of Zomboid, looks at minimum like State of Decay 2, and is actually on consoles too so I can play it with friends.
I have heard many people talk about how project zomboid looks like, I know a lot of people want it to look "better" but keep in mind that PZ looks the way that it does because the way the world acts makes it work. It would be extremely hard to replicate PZ into a first person game for example, or even something like State of Decay 2. The graphics aren't the prettiest and they are definitely a preference to some, but if PZ had gameplay like State of Decay 2 then it wouldn't be PZ anymore. PZ can only work the way the game is already, there have been many games where they have tried to make a realistic zombie survival game with 3rd or 1st person but it never works as well as PZ, simply because the atmosphere of PZ makes it such a good game.@@PersonMcHuman
Sometimes better graphics doesn't mean better game, I think a lot of people forget this fact. I'm not saying you are one of these people at all, but I'm saying that sometimes the best games are the ones that don't look so realistic on the eyes but instead make the world you are playing in feel realistic.@@PersonMcHuman
And project zomboid does a great job making the world around you feel real as long as you let it feel that way.
@@violarodrigueza I like how you’re over here talking at me like I’m some moron that hasn’t played Project Zomboid. I’ve played it. It’s fine. I’d like it more if it looked better. Hell, it being top down already makes me generally like it less than I would if it was just third person.
To be true I don’t want a game with “too many zombies” but a game with just enough for them to be a threat and personally Project zombiod did a amazing job on bringing that and from the looks of it Dread Dawn had a little too much so I’m hoping the devs will make a mode where you can play with fewer zombies.
(I don’t want the game to be too focused about killing zombies and running away 24/7 but rather want the “Survive in the dead city”look for rations and accommodations and stuff like that)
play 7 days to die! i got 200h in there.
I’ve played the demo, and trust me you can do some serious butt kicking lmao
@@patrickismumbojumbo8645 Really? so it might actually not be an alternative of zombiod but rather a different type of game?
me play zomboid in apocalypse mode west town.... that rookie number!!
Stop whining, the game is following a logical standpoint. Cities are crowded
Yea... looks like Zomboid will be keeping the throne for now.
For Now....
And for a long time.
@@stor3a long time actually, better overall except slightly lose on easy on eye graphics
Yeah, because Zomboid is almost 12 years and this game is not even 1 year, so yeah, "For Now" is a great assessment.
You know a game is good when its used as a metric fo other games in the genre.
You made it PZ!
its give me vibe of last stand union city
EXACTLY!!!
HOLY SHIT SOMeONe KNOWS THAT GAMe, YOU FUCKIN GIGA CHAd I LOVe YOU!
the good old days on armorgames
Helll yeaaa
Still remember playing that in armorgames and being the top 1 most played game
A lil' warning that this game looks hella suspicious, several people on Steam claim the game opens something in the background and a lot of them can't uninstall the game without uninstalling something called ZC.exe, the company that made this game is Chinese and literally came out of nowhere, the devs did make an also suspicious reponse to these accusations but it doesn't help that they later on deleted it, also, the weird as hell banners in the school were made via AI and it's not even indicated anywhere.
Personally? I'd stick with Project Zomboid on this one, while it might be paid, atleast you don't take the risk of downloading a potential malware.
I used Sandboxie with the game. It's not a fully ready product, and it's only been released as a demo from what I know so far. The game seems to have several other names - likely because of improper translation or that they were indecisive with the name. Regardless, it's not really malware, it's just badly coded. First off, it seems like it tries to turn on high performance mode in power options, which is indeed interesting, but I don't think they planned that to be malicious. The game also remaining in background is also most likely because it does not close properly. All in all, not a final product, not that great, but it does look interesting and I hope something great is made with that concept, even with all these "errs" that appeared since the release of the demo. I just hope I was right in my judgement and that this was not something malicious meant to harm people's computers.
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not to mention this game uses a bunch of AI assets.
Dang Raptor, you straight up pulled the "You don't gotta be fast, you just gotta be faster than the slowest guy" to your friend.
Slowest guy is also strong enough holding your leg long enough for double KO.
He also died more times than the "Fatty."
i played the demo...
during the time when you go to the city to find someone...
it's very chaotic
there was one instance that the an npc who had a gun(you cannot talk to him though) just blasting then later a car exploded spawn a butt load of zombies swarming me and the guy who just blasting any zombies
there are npcs just running and escaping from zombies locked door with npcs' inside
later some got swarmed
i don't know if its scripted or not but it feels not scripted but it just feel immersive
btw when you access a computer it's a LEGIT working Internet Browser i kid you not.
then later the zombie defense section it feels like those tower defense you play on the phone create a long winding corridor
the melee is just janky i don't understand if its the hitbox or i need to aim with my crosshair
it got potential
Post-Demo Thoughts +3 / -3 / =3 from steam
Pro's:
- The NPC's spread throughout the world make it feel alive unlike most zombie games.
- The ability to loot just about any object is nice, unlike many games that have artificial scarcity.
- The story driven element is a nice touch, most zombie games just drop the player into the world like a sandbox.
Con's:
- The hit boxes on enemies when using weapons or shooting is not very clear.
- The Demo's building system was very bare bones, expected but still disappointing.
- It would be nice if the U.I. better explained how to open menu's instead of having to read through the control options,
Preferences:
- I can't say I am a fan of durability systems since they are just time wasters, a option to play the game without it would be greatly preferred.
- It would be nice if the hunger system was simplified. As in, you just need to have X amount of food in a base food storage. Like a colony sim, the game would let you know how much food you need per week based on how many survivors you have instead of having to micro-manage survivors.
- The ability to have survivors go out and gather supplies for you from zones already explored would also be very nice. So you don't have to run back and forth carrying supplies which could just be handled by the NPCs.
They banned you out of their forum for the negative criticism right ? I was looking for some sort of review recently. From what ive heard they ban those who leave behind any sort of negative-ish inspired criticism, especially if its not written in chinese.
@@STRYKER1467 yeah got banned after 15 hours of posting this in the forum, they also banned those who criticize their dialog and story telling. Im having poor expectation for the future development of this game because they cant take criticism😔
@@JohnDoe10r12 back to zomboid and the world of free speech then :D
There is a NPC named Ivy who can tag along with you after you get "friendly" with her. Gave her a list of items and she was able to go back with them
@@JohnDoe10r12 Developer who can't take criticisms, sounds like the first sign of incompetence and impending failure.
watching this guy play is so painful 😂 it's like watching one of those game journalist
A crowbar is the best first option as it offers not just its use as a weapoj but also can use it to break in or break out of a room ,imagine you are at the start and then have a horde come in and steamroll everyone you go to run only to find a loked door at the far end. Everyone without a crowbar or and axe(though it wouldnt be that efective against a steel door ) would have no chance of escaping in time. Later on you want something like a machete since its small enough to swing indoors and it wont get stuck in the zombies head like a axe will,going back to why the axe isnt my first pick.
Zomboid if it was a bad flash game with no soul:
Oh wow yeah it does have that old flash-site vibe to it. I actually miss those games.
How many zombie games and movies must you have watched, and you raise the question... "How has it taken 30 days to get everyone the hell outta here?"
Hmm, interesting.
15:44 I don't know, go to an evacuation zone? My first weapon of choice would be a makeshift spear.
This 2D, fast huge horde, run and gun style is more comparable to The last stand: Union City by Con Artist, with the upgrade of being able to move up and down instead of just sideway. Looks pretty cool!
you saying oh more money made me laugh because it reminded me of peter trapping james woods in family guy, him folowing a line of candy and everytime he spots one he goes oh a peice of candy.
25:02 hey! it's Claire Redfield
its gotta be hella optimized to be able to run all of those zombies
The writing is "AI-nese".
I think in the beginning, the most likely reason for all of the mats on the ice, tents, and destruction before the zombies is probably just a pre release thing and they will add a transition later.
hope when this game comes out it has coop cause this looks like a lot of fun with friends
Zomboid will always be a gem
Your characters portrait looks like it's about to destroy zombies with FACTS and LOGIC
Wow xD more games to buy! Raptor previews always good. I always end up buying those games
I personally would stay put at home. 🤷🏾♂️. I thimk it's personally fine to be still be evacuating people over 30 days. I would have stayed put at the school if it was secure. Clearly it wasn't tho. But yeah i would stay home where i already have things i would need plus my neighborhood isn't that densely populated.
It's generally always best in these kind of end state scenarios to not trust any governmental organised plan, the reason being you are simply a liability for military or federalised police forces and to simply go your own way.
You're just another mouth to feed, another person liable to becoming sick amongst a crowd of people exactly the same as you.
For anyone crying that I'm wrong look at how federal authorities handled Katrina - no better example as that.
1. Stick with your family.
2. Have a plan.
3. Do not trust anyone else.
Why does everything look so rundown before the outbreak even starts?
Well, if the game was set in Detroit, it'd look normal lmao.
Maybe they couldn’t make enough assets lol
The outbreak most likely happened far away originally and only just reached the setting of the game.
They are in the school because of the outbreak dude
They are POOR
First melee weapon would be a maul with a 4lb head. Blunt weapons are easier to use and more effective at inflicting head trauma, and with a lighter head it wouldn’t tire you out so quick.
The Knox Event did spread worldwide.
Weapon would be a good club, like a nice round mace. Something to break skulls, not get stuck, and easy to use. Tool would be a crowbar. Get's you in homes to loot, can be used 100 ways and as a weapon in a pinch. Then probably crossbow. Somewhat recoverable ammo, and best of all quiet.
Zomboid killer? Doubt it but, could it find some success? Perhaps
This is like that game called Postal but updated and all about the zombies now..Looks really good. 💯💛👍
i really love the background art pieces - like some of it is static 2d
It looks like an arcade, lighter and more grounded version of PZ, without such a large map, vehicles and complicated mechanics.
The atmosphere is amazing. Weapon of choice 2 machete and a full body hockey gear Jason style.
I really love how this game start and have some story in it we want story mode for project zomboid
Mac-10.
Quickly take care of a small number, lightweight to move quick with after firing, and tons of ammo in the clips.
This looks like something out of newgrounds while Zomboid looks like a polished game with +10 years of work in it (because it has).
This is like when Zombie HQ and Zomboid combined to make this game.
Wow, if they had this kind of Half Life style 'My life was this way and now it is that way' intro in Project Zomboids open ended open world game, it'd be like the perfect zombie game. All zomboid is missing is some narrative structure. Just enough to not destroy the feeling.
better than zomboid? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣nice story bro
At least it looks nice and better animation.
this has become the normal title when youtubers review zombie games these days and i am still waiting for a game better than pz..
Way better than PZ to me
I stoped playing PZ because of how slow they are with their updates
Npc and base raid with defenses in a survival game is what I am looking for
This comes the closest
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@@kuchukboromdebbarma2117 not only slow, it also becomes quite unstable after playing for a long time in the same savegame i lost my 30 hour savegame because it got so laggy beyond unplayable, it seems like this doesnt happen here as they use a better engine.
Holding sprint is so damn annoying in this game. Full release needs an option to chance from hold to toggle to sprint.
The game's graphics look like they were made by an AI. It has this weird lettering and the uncanny vibe of someone recreating a college dorm from other people's descriptions.
The posters are definitely ai
@@rickesmallsim hoping these are placeholders, but something tells me they will be a permanent thing in the game. idk im just very pessimistic about ai generated assets in games becoming more prevalent.
PZB all day. Once they get NPC’s into that game it’s over. I probably wouldn’t play anything else
This game will never kill project zomboid
More like project zomboid Will kill this Game
HumanitZ already killed da trashed PZ
People were reall p*ssed off with the steam demo for this game because it installed some sort of software that wasnt removed when uninstalling the game. Very sketchy stuff. The game looked sweet and I really wanted to play it but that spyware made me hold off.
What I'd do during a zombie apocalypse? Crunches
dont forget leg. thick thighs save lives
Never skip leg day.
PZ forever
This is a hack 'n slash arcade, Zomboid is a simulator. You can't compare games from different genres, what you can compare are the personal experience each game left in YOU, and wich game suits best for YOU.
Actually it's more of a tower defense game. It's pretty hard to emphasize it on hack n slash as the numbers of zombies will overwhelm you. 😊
State of decay possibly the only zombie game that can hold a candle ip to Project Zomboid..
Dread dawn looks fun and super addictive. Hope it's controller friendly
Bro this game is insane!!!
its more like last stand than project zomboid.
The umbrellas all have a very specific color scheme. Reminds me of something.
The only thing that Project Zomboid is missing to be the best zombie game ever is the return of NPC, and build 43 will bring them back maybe in one year. :)
Bro students would not be that calm when a zombie apocalypse is happening who knows maybe some students may barricade them selfs some may become psychopaths thinking their actions wont catch up to them now and im sure someone will try to be the hero.
id defo baracad my self in my room Espley after that first girl got killed by a zombie in a safe zone yea not taking no risk
There is a curse where if a game call itself a ' killer' that game failed... ex. Haze(Halo killer)
But there are few games broke that curse. 🧙♂️
I genuinely think its great that a game that has been put on so much dedication and real. Passion by a group of 5-6 devs from 2013 like project zomboid is amazing❤
38:00 the zombie actually clipped into the wall, that's why the guy was shooting it. there was no one else but him in that room.
my 1st weapon would be a makeshift spear (curtain pole/kitchen knife/duct tape) . Has a good range to it. my first armor will be cardboard box with duct tapes. to protect my arms from zombie bites.
YES, i was looking for this game and thanks to your video i found it
a zombie game where you play as ben shapiro
12:20 might just be me but the text on the flags looks like what happens when AI tries making words, i could be wrong just saying i think some of the assets might be AI generated.
It’s pretty obvious the developers used AI for the text and posters
Visually the game looks great, I love the aesthetics and the graphics it has, but there are still things to polish and I also don't think it is the killer of project zomboid because they are very different games
Nice game
Looks cool and is a specific kind of game to be honest bro i dont think its a zomboid killer though hoping to see more work done to the game! Greetings from Belgium and thx for the share... Btw srr for my fractured English ;)
Fr you’re right I like zomboid Bc of the traits and more complicated systems that’s what makes it pretty unique
@@T.V-001 Fr it’s so annoying when people say something is an (insert game name here) killer because every single time those games flop horrendously not long after, as if it’s a curse to call them that lmfao. Like I remember Anthem being hailed as the “Destiny Killer” & I think everyone knows how that went 💀💀💀
If you can clear out the zombies from an area without them popping into existence in your cleared area then it might be ok. Except the spyware.
this one seems more like a shooter/tower defense, while Zomboid is an absolute ball stompingly dreadful survival where each day you stray further from god.
Kinda gives me childhood nostalgia of The Last Stand : Union City
very interesting character rendering for a 2d-ish background
I'm not a huge fan of the fact that a lot of the assets look very AI generated, like you can easily tell from the test in the posters that it's AI.
My melee weapon would prolly be a metal bat covered in wire, and my range would prolly be a shotgun with a Deagle for the side piece
The Steam release trailer ends at 2:33.
I would pay an arm and a leg for an isometric college simulator game set in a uni like the one in the start of the video, that's really an untapped niche in the vidya market, we only have what? Bully and persona for decent school life sims
Ranged? An overcharged paintball gun might work if you use lead balls. You can shoot and carry a lot of ammo and recharging the gun can be done with a solar-powered compressor. It depends on how tough zombie skulls are (and if it requires headshots to kill them). Barring that, a .22LR rifle isn't bad for non--CQC. The ammo is super-plentiful, you can again carry a lot, and it's surprisingly long-range - not that I can reliably hit things beyond 10m.
A close-up weapon would be one of the chunky calibers with (hopefully) hollow-point ammo. .357, 10mm, .40 calier, or .45ACP. That last one was technically made for zombies after a fashion. The army switched from a .38 round to the .45ACP in the Colt 1911 during the Phillipines war. The Moro combatants did not have much in the way of firearms. They did, however, have tight cloth wraps and a local combat drug. The combination meant that a Moro warrior could run up on a trench while taking fire and still engage in melee combat for a bit before dying. The heavier, and slower, .45ACP round transferred most of its force into the person it hit, shattering bones, pulping muscles, and knocking the opponent down.
If zombification relies on the presence of tissues to animate, blowing chunks out of a zombie will reduce its ability to threaten even without a headshot.
Melee? My favorite antizombie melee weapon is a trained buddy with some kind of polearm, even a crutch will do. Half the time, their job would be to keep approaching zombies shoved back and knocking the zombie we're targeting down. The other job would be to use whatever skull-breaking weapon we can swing to, well, break the skulls of downed zombies. Task switches would happen regularly to reduce fatigue. This tactic really only works best when your fighters are only outnumbered 3-4/1 at any given time, but it should work.
Project zomboid is a great game. one of the best games of all time. but this game has some potential. its kinda like prison architect with zombies.
IDk dude this one is still a bit rough for some reason, also I find the world/items/menus on PZ more clear than this one.. combat somehow seems more dauting than PZ, I dont really like much the story or art so far, im not sure why tbh... PZ models after the big update actually looks similar to this.. also is not a good sign if your PZ killer makes you think about playing PZ, that run to the pointer stuff is a no go for me, and the tiger noises... That said, I hope it does well and gets better
im literally screaming at him to protect chubby boi 😭😭
It could have been but I don't think so. I played it for a bit, wasn't too happy that you have to play as a premade character who respawns if killed. In Project Zomboid, you create your character and if you're killed, you're dead, you make a new character you can find your dead character as a zombie or corpse, you can make as many characters as you wish, kill them off, populate your world as you want, explore the aftermath with a new character, that is what is great about PZ. I can't look at other zombie survival games anymore, especially if you respawn instead of being dead permanently. Other zombie games need to take notes from PZ. This game right here has potential, it just needs some tweaks.
Fatty is the main character, he not only did the most kills but he somehow dodged bullets too. He has more plot armour than you 😂
Also when you stoped fighting the zombies was a pretty good idea if you would also use the fuking shove option and killing the one or two zombies that kept chasing you even after you lost most of the horse. At the end the sprinter basically got a free meal out of you cuz you just ran like headless chicken, thats on you not the game.
Yeah he was running out of time and didn't care
The reason why the place looked so dystopian even before the zombie outbreak is because this game's events happen in Detroit.
39:23
-"You're going to die soon!"
Fatty: "Good." **dodges bullets**
okay ngl this game beats zomboid in graphics and animations and its smooth also at the same time it has the acrade feeling that can make you play it multiple times, but when it comes to realism nothing beats zomboid, just imagine if zomboid just gets this type of graphics and animations with all the content and of course the npcs this game has.
only thing this game beats PZ in is graphics, everything else is nothing close
game reminds me of bitcoin miner ( i played the demo)
@@itmightbecool1478 I think so too, if we talk about "realism" and the absurd amount of details, clearly PZ still have way more, but this game looks interesting, I'd want to play the full ver
@@arifasatria7704 true and I forgot to add that there human ai beats PZ because they don’t have that yet
And I don't think this wants to be zomboid at all, this is a lot more arcady and a lot less realistic which makes it more casual.
You aren't utilizing your pushes. Try to push then attack if youre trying to kill. They probably won't hurt you as they try to stand back up.
He doesn't care he's just gonna move on to the next game
This reminds me of the early stages of pz in 5 years this game will be amazing
It dependes on what kind zombies you have to deal with. If they slow walkers like in TWD I would choose a small axe, if they were fast zmobies then i would most likely use my Cold Steel Tanto and connect it to some solid steel pipe to make something like spear, even keeping a relative distance in this situation can increase the chance of survival. Later on if it was possible to get a firearm then the most optimal choice would be pump-action shotgin or a bolt-action rifle/
with 42 in testing phase the game max zombies are supposed to be upped when it comes up from reading news.
build 42 for project zomboid?
@@app_manifestation yeah i was talking about zomboid, i read in a dev post they want to up the number an cull less meaning you will see more in optimizations once the 42 build is out due to the gpu handling more processes, right now they have more then a million monsters on map but cull at 500 so you do not need to suffer an mess with configs for severs in mp an pc's in sp. you can turn off culling in commands but ram goes up in use so we can several thousand warm you in theory if its optimized right. so i wounder how this game will solve the many floors problems in builds to come an seeing insane numbers without major hits to fps an ram with zombies since its a nightmare in coding to do so i wish these devs good luck.
@@app_manifestation yes i was talking zomboid, map has over a million zombies on map but it culls at 500 mobs entities on screen. i heard they want to up both max an cull max in optimizations when 42 is out and optimized, the nightmare that is dealing with the mass of monsters in progresses, when you do not cull the zombies leads to ram an fps drops. some severs turn off culling in 41 servers but lowers the max to solve the slow down. the update they sated they should be able to up the zombies count from 10-30 during internal testing what i am taking into account, this means we might be-able to see swarms of an easy 1000 plus not culled, without an fps hit.
thus this makes me wish these games devs good luck on how they will solve this in future builds they might be forced to cull the mass of zombies back down to 500 as the builds become more developed with cc. along with wishing them luck on how they might solve showing skyscrapers an basements.
@@app_manifestation yes i was talking about zomboid, they have 1 million on map but cull at 500, i read with the new optimizations they could up the max on map an max culling limits. the more zombies= more ram use an processes. this due to the optimizations its possible to see in 42 have over 1000+ zombies not culled. which means due to how the devs of this game they have solve same fps drop issues so they might be forced to reduce cull zombies limit since they will be faced with similar problems to what game zomboid faced among other things.
@@app_manifestation yes i was talking about zomboid, they have 1 million on map but cull at 500, i read with the new optimizations they could up the max on map an max culling limits. the more zombies= more ram use an processes. this due to the optimizations its possible to see in 42 have over 1000+ zombies not culled. which means due to how the devs of this game they have solve same fps drop issues so they might be forced to reduce cull zombies limit since they will be faced with similar problems to what game zomboid faced among other things.
Damn man, this looks really good, but i hate thinking this would kill zomboid. It was fun and has a charm but damn this looks very smooth and pleasing to the eye.
The freaking school already looks post apocalyptic or so even before the zeds arrived there, what is up with the tiles and such as well as litter everywhere? At least the dorms are clean enough I suppose so.
Zomboid is great, but it is very vague. Some may see it as a strength, and it does allow you to really use your imagination, but no matter what you choose as your career you always just start in one of a few RNG locations, with no setting or story for your character. If you selected fast food chef, and now you start in a fast food joint, wearing a server's uniform, with a few NPCs alive and eating right as the zombies start coming, then it'd give your character's story a firm immersive root in the world. And to their story. Do you grab a knife and start trying to help people? Do you succeed and the burger joint + the customers and your boss become your first safe home and group?? Or do you run out the back door and run for your life? Do you kill your boss???? Steal his sports car keys and drive as far away as possible??
It could also use more endgamey sorts of things. Like what if you could find a military radio, and call in the military? And after a while, the army rolls in to try to kill all the zombies?
Daam the cenario reminded me of Original Resident evil 3, thats not bad : ) !!!
Build 42 be kinda crazy NGL.
i bought zomboid and never played it but this looks lit af
This kinda reminds me of love death and robot night of mini dead vibes
this looks dope af here's to hoping they add a sandbox with npcs as well that would be lit