Seven Days to Die

[Steelgrave]

Well, there is no rush for 7 Days. It's only going to get better  :)

[-budd-]

Well, there is no rush for 7 Days. It's only going to get better  :)

Yea i know..... me like shiny new things ;D  ...... wasn't no rush for the dozens of other games i own, either. 8)

[-budd-]

Aphla 7 is out and a patch to 7.1

I've put a few hours in and this build is more to my liking for sure, its a big one.
Stealth is in, timers, smooth terrain and looks like alot of new terrain models.  Stealth is really the game changer, no more GPS zombies and you can actually get through the night without a shelter. I'm on day 3 and still haven't been able to build anything. Everything you do gives off sound waves as reflected on your mini map, there are 3 levels of detection: undetected, sensed, hunted,when you crouch and uncrouch you can see a message about your detection state. Icons on the minimap are color coded and different things in the world are different colors on the minimap, green for zombies, white for dogs, and there's a yellow one i haven't identified yet. When they go red they are hunting you and your in deep shit, you can now run and hide to lose them. there are timers and sound waves for everything you do. Searching different things take various amounts of time so far of the things i've searched the safe takes the longest at 30 seconds, crafting is the same various time to craft things. You can close out while crafting and keep moving. When your searching and waiting for that timer to run down and you have zombies that have sensed you because of the sound looking for you it defiantly gives you more of a survival feeling, if they get to close you can abort the search and run. One thing that is bothersome is that while your searching you can't look around, i'm guessing that will change. Alot of people were complaining bout the timers, i like them. Searching should take time and it forces you to make a choice, i need stuff but is it worth it to alert the zombies, dogs ect. Hence the 7.1 patch all things are settings in the option menu. Don't like the timers for searching and crafting turn them off. You can set zombie spawn levels also and what you drop when you die i.e. everything[what i use] untility belt stuff or backpack. You can set the zombies chase time too that helps if you run and can get enough distance between they will revert to a less hostile state instead of hunting you forever. I play with the drop everything on death so the first thing i do on respawn is go back for my backpack that now drops. I don't know if its a timed drop or not as i have managed to get it back every time soon after respawn. It was fun in my weakened state to stalk up on my backpack and throw rocks to lure the zombies away so i could get it back. It just feels more survival like right now. I spawned in the desert and you only have 1 water and 1 food item when you start. After a over a day of not finding any food and food meter at the bottom i decided to hell with it and used my shotgun to shoot a rabbit, which of course alerted the zombies so i got my rabbit and ran like hell and had some grilled rabbit over a fire that night. Drinking river water affects your health now in a negative way. I cant tell you about crafting with a forge yet because i don't have a safe place to craft yet. There are some irritating issues, the console pops up out of the blue when you attempt to do stuff, i was shooting a dog and it popped up and i died. Zombie spawning is better but they can still spawn in on you without showing on the map first. I have to say this version is alot better at giving you that survival feeling, there are other smaller issues as is always the case with an alpha but it's alot more fun now then it used to be. If this type of game is your thing, take a look as the timers and stealth thing changes the game alot.

Here comes the night