#State of decay 1 upgrade#

The tonal issues are oddly reinforced by constant bugs and glitches that can turn any situation into absurd comedy. Playing together with a friend or two online, meanwhile, makes everything even more of a cakewalk. There are loads of cars, and gas, and weapons as for dwindling resources, I constantly had food rotting because my base didnвЂ™t have enough storage. The combat is fast and loose, and itвЂ™s pretty difficult to die. The characters quickly forget any awfulness they witness, driving donuts around zombie crowds while honking the horn. But this doesnвЂ™t feel like horror itвЂ™s more slapstick. Its intended focus on a community standing together or falling apart is the classic zombie scenario. Photograph: Undead StudiosДЄll of this gives State of Decay 2 an odd atmosphere. This guy saw his sister choke to death in front of him, and seemed fine because he had enough to eat and had scored a few gas cans.ДЇast-and-loose combat вЂ¦ State of Decay 2. Over the next few days he did repeat that line about his sister a few times, in among a load of generic repetitions, but beyond that? Nothing. Then I took him out on a good scavenging run, and he was happy as Larry.

He said a canned line about his sister вЂњsinging with the angels nowвЂќ. Stung, I took control of her brother, went straight outside, and killed her zombie form. The car killed it, and the gas killed her, right in front of her brother. Several in-game weeks later, the sister drove off the base вЂ“ and immediately ran into an exploding gas zombie. The first time someone died on me, IвЂ™d chosen a pair of siblings as starting characters. You donвЂ™t expect wild sophistication from something called State of Decay, but these characters often seem completely oblivious to the situation and the playerвЂ™s actions, and their conduct is just bizarre. But the base doesnвЂ™t feel like a community so much as a bunch of random characters ambling around, repeating the same few lines вЂ“ not so enormously different from the zombies they are fighting. This loop should be infused with meaning by the characters and their individual traits, especially when things go wrong: when a member dies, say, or food runs out.

#State of decay 1 upgrade#

From here, you head out on a mix of scripted and randomised missions that mostly boil down to scavenging runs, killing zombies, or travelling from A to B in order to bring back resources, upgrade the base, and then head out again with a different character. You choose one of three maps to start on, establishing a base where characters live when they are not under your direct control, and where the group can construct things like an infirmary or a workshop. Home is State of Decay 2вЂ™s rotting heart. But I always felt like I was supposed to care more for these ciphers than I ever did. Sometimes a characterвЂ™s trait turns out to have amusing applications, or they come out with just the right line at just the right time. They often have personal missions to follow, a lovely touch that delivers more interesting quests than the escalating waves of zombies that the gameвЂ™s story throws at you. These characters have useful skills, but peccadillos, too: my leader is a coffee fiend whose bean skills keep everyone alert, but heвЂ™s also a depressive and grumbles a lot, lowering morale. Rather than playing as some solo Bruce Campbell, you regularly switch between members of a group. but State of Decay 2вЂ™s big idea is community. Zombies have taken over the world, the desperate remnants of humanity gather together to stake out a new life.

E asy as it is to look at yet another zombie apocalypse survival game and see only the generic elements, State of Decay 2 tries hard to stand out from the groaning, flesh-hungry crowd.