Once the game settles into its pace you’ll be growing potatoes and keeping goats, collecting rainwater and managing medical supplies for a whole team of people all while heading out on more and more unforgiving runs into toxic, dust-infused wastelands. Like in most survival games the zombie managing and base building ramps up constantly and it’ll be your limit for the demands this makes of you, against the increasing work it requires, to decide when you’ve had enough.
There’s also a hint of COD Zombies to it all where you get too involved in one area and miss the other crowd of monsters gathering elsewhere. Like O2 management, failure here (while annoying) can usually be traced back to a poor decision more than anything else. The kind of stupid that’s consistent and easy to plan around. It’s worth mentioning that the Wanderers are really dumb, herding around a single fence in an otherwise open field for example, but it’s an exploitable dumb. It’s an extremely active crisis management where you’re thinking on your feet and dropping barricades as much as you are smashing in neck stumps with a crowbar. In single player that means a test of resource and strategy management as you run about placing obstructions and stabbing things through chainlinks, while in multiplayer it’s much the same, except there are three other people to shout at when things go wrong.īecause you essentially teleport in the items you build, you can drop fences in an instant - dealing with perimeter breaches and holding off one problem while you manage another in a very instant and reactive way. These use all the items you can craft back at your base things like chain link fences and barricades, as well as claymore mines and molotov cocktails. However, doing certain things, like activating wormhole teleporters and diggers (that harvest energy), calls them in swarms far too large to take on toe-to-toe.ĭealing with these larger numbers is where one of the game’s biggest features comes in: building fences and managing a defence line to hold back waves of enemies. As a rule they mainly stagger around the plains to avoid or attack as you see fit. This introduces a horde mechanic with the Wanderer enemies feral zombies with crystalline neck stumps for a head (although, helpfully, with just enough of a mouth to still bite). Using these you can jump to specific points once they’ve been reactivated. The further out you get, the more important using wormhole teleporters becomes. As you progress you set out on longer and longer forays into the world to seek out animals to kill, energy to power a return home, survivors to staff your base and memory boards to find (a plot device that has you upgrading an AI to unlock stuff).
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