Zombasite

spelk · October 13, 2015, 05:13:39 PM

Soldak's new title Zombasite has gone early access

http://store.steampowered.com/app/408960/

Or from Soldak's Site
http://www.soldak.com/Company/Buy-Games.html

Nefaro · October 13, 2015, 07:46:21 PM

Looks like the one they did before Din's Curse, but with updated graphics and Zombie added to the title.

Not to say I won't check it out. ^-^

Huw the Poo · October 14, 2015, 12:44:08 AM

Yeah, it does look like Depths of Peril 2, really, doesn't it? I'll probably pick it up at some point but after seeing that trailer I'm less excited than I was. Soldak need to start branching out a bit.

spelk · October 14, 2015, 01:52:51 AM

My concern is that there didn't seem to be that many Zombies in it. Apart from its name and title screen.

Nefaro · October 14, 2015, 05:54:22 AM

Quote from: spelk on October 14, 2015, 01:52:51 AM
My concern is that there didn't seem to be that many Zombies in it. Apart from its name and title screen.

I'm glad it's not just packs of zombies. Especially in an Action RPG. Having a whole range of undead is a big improvement in any situation, and more developers should get off this zombie fad and diversify that shit.

Obviously the Zombie tag was used to attract some extra attention.

I enjoyed Din's Curse. Partly due to it's wide range of options that let you tailor the style you wanted to play, it's heavy procedural generation, and being very focused on dungeon crawling.

Didn't play Depths of Peril (2?) until after Din's Curse and didn't like it so much. From what I can tell this looks to be the same thing in a different package. Maybe the updated stuff will be more enticing than the original.

FarAway Sooner · October 14, 2015, 10:23:07 PM

I enjoyed Din's Curse and played Drox Operative even more. I liked the more varied strategic issues that came up during a given scenario of Drox (e.g., "Do I go the easy route and help the AI who really resents me to win this one time, or do I do everything I can to help the underdogs who sponsored me in the last quadrant? And what about the evil bad guys who seem to want to destroy everybody? How do I balance those trade-offs versus the need to put a crimp in their plans?")

Their games can get a little repetitive after a while. I hope they find a way to keep this one fresh, a la Drox' strategic layer or some such...

Nefaro · October 15, 2015, 09:55:29 AM

I didn't get in Drox Operative. Still prefer Din's over that one, myself. :-\

Tpek · October 15, 2015, 12:41:22 PM

This game is certainly annoying in many ways.

1) There are no vendors that I could find, and pretty much nothing to do with unneeded equipment and items other than salvaging them back in hometown.

2) Your town gets attacked every friggin second. You can't actually go on exploring or questing because of it.

3) No map quest markers, making it annoyingly time consuming to search for your quest objectives.

4) Because of problem 1, you have so very little money that you can never actually level up skills, as they cost A LOT of money to level.

Huw the Poo · October 15, 2015, 01:02:20 PM

Well, it is early access. I own all of Soldak's previous games, so based on experience I imagine each of those points will be addressed. What's of more concern to me is the similarity between this and previous titles. Don't see any reason to buy Zombasite so far.