Any suggestions for survival/sandbox games?

[Bison]

I think what would be fun is a grogheads team game.  Where you have 2 enemy survivor teams and the zombies for ultimate chaos. 

[bbmike]

Just had my colony wiped out by a herd of deer that got pissed I was hunting them! 

Your colony must be on the same planet that Dominions 3 is on.

[ArizonaTank]

unless you turned it off, the zombie will RUN your ass down at night. just remember there's no hiding from the 7th day hoard they find you no matter how quiet you are, so have an escape plan. the 7th day hoards get progressively bigger.

You can switch zombie running to: "never"  That is what I do. 

But the zombie dogs that start to show up around day 15 or so, can still run you down.  A pack of them is terrifying.  Best way I have found to deal with them is iron armor, some ready first aid kits, coffee so you can run far, and a spiked club.  They also have trouble with barbed wire fences.

[BanzaiCat]

I have 7 Days to Die too and would love to give it a shot in MP, though I have no idea what I'm doing in game. I haven't played it in months though; I figured they'd get it updated to something more engaging sooner or later. No offense to those of you playing it for hundreds of hours to date - it just never sank its claws into me.

[ArizonaTank]

I have 7 Days to Die too and would love to give it a shot in MP, though I have no idea what I'm doing in game. I haven't played it in months though; I figured they'd get it updated to something more engaging sooner or later. No offense to those of you playing it for hundreds of hours to date - it just never sank its claws into me.

Maybe after the next big update (hopefully in a few weeks), I will rent a server for Grogheads invite.

[ArizonaTank]

A few pics from my most advanced game of 7 days to die....

Home sweet castle....  Put a reinforced concrete shell around a drug store.  Door is elevated, with removable bridge to keep the bad things out...


After a bad zombie horde attack...  Gore piles everywhere....


after cleanup...

[BanzaiCat]

Damn, AT.

Every building or cluster of buildings I ever found were just a few houses. And I never could keep the hordes out. I could hide on the roof but it got very boring very quickly. I didn't know they added more buildings and/or indications of civilization.

[Huw the Poo]

Good work AT!  How do you keep the zombies from spawning inside?

[ArizonaTank]

Damn, AT.

Every building or cluster of buildings I ever found were just a few houses. And I never could keep the hordes out. I could hide on the roof but it got very boring very quickly. I didn't know they added more buildings and/or indications of civilization.

The zombies will eventually smash through anything...even reinforced concrete...but it does take them a while. 

So standing on the "ramparts", firing down at them is the only thing I have found that consistently works.  A good strong wall just slows them down.  Once you can make gunpowder, pipe bombs also clear away the clumps of attacking hordes.  A field of spikes, easy to make, weakens them before they get to your wall.

Zombies also go after doors.  I always have ramp ups to elevated entrances with removable bridges.  The zombies (with the exception of the late game "spider"), don't know how to jump across a two cube gap.  Of course when they attack...and you start killing them, the gore piles up...and eventually they can climb over the bodies of their fallen comrades...but that is another problem.

Still, I've learned that even the strongest shelter needs a good escape route.  Make certain you can get out and run when you have to....  Keep an emergency bottle of coffee around just for this purpose.

I usually play on random generated maps.  I don't know if it matters much, but it sounds like the saved game name acts as the random gen seed.  So I usually give it a nice long complicated one. 

I think there are three cities / towns on each map.  But they are far apart, and it can take a long time (many game days) to find them.  Following main roads helps. 

When exploring, I load up on coffee so I can run along roads forever, and I don't stop for anything...  Eventually I bump into former civilization.  There are bookstores, drug stores, grocery stores, gun shops, among others...

There is a large dead city...that is probably best left alone early in the game.  Very deadly place.

[ArizonaTank]

Good work AT!  How do you keep the zombies from spawning inside?

I haven't seen one in my place yet...but I think it is because I have torches lighting the place up.  I've read they only spawn in darkness.  Also, I have a few locked doors inside...so I will hear if one of them is around.  Then I would go after him with a club.

[Swatter]

This GH thread got me to do some research and I will be buying this today. It seems pretty hardcore and unforgiving, traits I enjoy. Perhaps that is a personality defect?

[Huw the Poo]

ARK: Survival Evolved is free to play on Steam through the weekend.

[Huw the Poo]

It seems pretty hardcore and unforgiving, traits I enjoy. Perhaps that is a personality defect?

Have you ever played VVVVVV? ;)