Bearded Dudebro
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ZombiU |OT| Zombi Emergency! WiiU WiiU WiiU WiiU
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I'm bout to check.
dsmoke1986
Member
Got back into it last night, and the more I play, the more I like it...I think I'm one more play session away from being totally hooked.
dsmoke1986
Member
Agreed, I like it, more of the old school way of playing without contstant checkpoints, I found myself getting lost, and having to just explore to find the next trigger point.
It said...
Hello!
If you’re still alive…
Meet here next Wednesday!
Please…
ZombiU_DevTeam
I checked this morning right after 8am est and noticed the message was gone, and I looked all around that little area and never saw anything out of the ordinary. So, who knows...
Bearded Dudebro
Member
Aw man, since I beat it, I have to delete my save and start over to even see these community things, that's kinda jacked. Anyone tried backing up their save to a USB drive?
badnewsbeers
Member
Hey guys, I'm at the part where
How much would you estimate I have left?
I am loving this game. I was excited when I first saw previews, a little unnerved when I saw some of the reviews, bought it on a hunch and am absolutely loving it. I am the type of guy who moves slowly and methodically and clears everything and this game was built for me. I haven't had this much pure fun with a game in forever. The gamepad is used well. Here is hoping for more games like this on the wii u.
you need to get the second book from the flat of that fellow, Ron something if I recall. Just about to use the elevators that are side by side.
I am loving this game. I was excited when I first saw previews, a little unnerved when I saw some of the reviews, bought it on a hunch and am absolutely loving it. I am the type of guy who moves slowly and methodically and clears everything and this game was built for me. I haven't had this much pure fun with a game in forever. The gamepad is used well. Here is hoping for more games like this on the wii u.
I noticed a whole bunch of user made frown faces and skulls on that wall when I checked an hour ago, so I'm wondering if maybe the devs spawned a whole bunch of zombies on them.
Bearded Dudebro
Member
Here's what mine says in the place where the message was previously.
Here's what it says when I scan it.
Here's what it says when I scan it.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Ooooh, I bet that ZombiU zombie has some nice loot!
Captain N. Tenneal
Member
This evening I will have to track that bugger down and put him out of his misery.
KittenMaster
Member
I have no save file where I can fully explore the city, so sadly I'll have to pass.
I still hope for everyone that finds him that his loot is better than the random 0 points dude you find that only brought the 6 ammo pistol with him.
I still hope for everyone that finds him that his loot is better than the random 0 points dude you find that only brought the 6 ammo pistol with him.
I hope they drop him in the middle of a gigantic horde and when you reach him, he'll only have six chocolate bars. Bwahaha.
Really I hope they're able to patch and add weapons to the game that drop from ZombiU Dev zombies. That'd be really cool and give me a reason to go back into it over and over.
KittenMaster
Member
And planks. Don't forget planks.
Carrying 10 planks in a single backpack is very impressive. I never leave home with less than that.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Confession: I have never made use of my planks, even though I have multiple.
Haha, that's the joke. I've used them in a few cases, like I'll plank up the door near the safehouse and the fence while I'm facing the horde there. But playing through, never knowing if I'll need them, they seem like the most useless item to carry around. Not to mention the likelihood that you'll come across a bunch while you're out searching.
KittenMaster
Member
The only time I can think of planks being useful is during the first base defense super early into the game, if you can even get enough before that mission triggers.
For the rest of the game, they're pretty much useless due to the way you aggressively progress through the city.
For the rest of the game, they're pretty much useless due to the way you aggressively progress through the city.
SuperPac
Member
So I'm not that far into the game, just got to the outskirts of Buckingham palace. What's your strategy for dealing with multiple zombies rushing you at once?
I ran out of ammo at the turret when those swarms of zombies started pouring out, and then got surrounded. Maybe I should have conserved my ammo more during the shootin' gallery portion of that...
ArkkAngel007
Member
From what the word is, a lone zombie popped up with some random gear in its B.O.B. I guess it was whoever could get to the bugger first would get the gear.
It's probably the best selling third party game but well under Mario U (and Nintendo Land).
SlasherJPC
Banned
I hope it succeeds as well. I really want a sequel. I can say it being a Wii U only title doens't help but I'm hoping they realize that and set there sales expectations accordingly, especially with a launch game.
Late game spoilers:
Not done yet, but it's been a really cool game. Just wish there was a bit more to the melee combat.
I didn't realize just how much I was making use of the gamepad until going through Buckingham Palace again after collecting all of Dee's letters and having it flicker on and off repeatedly. Didn't make me panic or anything, but it made me tread more carefully than I typically do.
Not done yet, but it's been a really cool game. Just wish there was a bit more to the melee combat.
JumpJeff84
Member
Well I broke down and brought a Wii U today, mainly for ZombiU. Also picked up Mario.
Played a bit of ZombiU, like it a lot so far.
Played a bit of ZombiU, like it a lot so far.
It has the 3rd largest Miiverse community after Nintendo Land and Mario U. Not too shabby.
olimpia84
Member
I'd like to know this as well
WiiRevolution1
Member
So since I have continously posted my progress, I shall keep doing so until I beat the game. About 2/3rds in.
Areas name only spoilers for this line of text:
Edit: @ islave...or whatever your name was (sorry!) go back to where you last were at the
Areas name only spoilers for this line of text:
Nursery End/Church Beginning
I died after getting the meds from the teleporting nurse, so I backtracked, and was suprised to find zombies in places I already killed them. Luckely I drew them our one by one and eventually got back to my previous survivor, right next to an online survivor to boot.
I made my way out've the nursery and was about to exit the uh...nursery fields when a swarm of zombies started attacking me while prepper was trying to get the door open. Took a few out but died. Next time going in, there were only a couple left and I finally escaped the Nursery. Got back to the uh...Petrol Station (I don't really care to remember the names of these places.) and the guy is now a zombie and killed his son, so I killed him. One thing that bothers me was I couldn't bash the sons head in to be sure that he was dead, same with the nurse and trust me, you'll want to bash her in. Wtf game?
By this time I have a...fire grenade and a couple flares and a big health pack with me, I also find and keep a shotgun with me right about now. So I go towards the Church and use the fire grenade against a couple zombies running at me. Find a mine and keep going, killing a couple zombies here and there, when I see ten red dots on my motion sensor.
Surely these are rats...right? I get my mine out just incase and proceed with caution...when I hear the scream of a zombie. I see like twelve zombies rushing at me really fucking fast so I quickly set the mine down and back the fuck up and the mine goes off...and kills
EVERYONE
ONE
OF
THEM
Fucking awesome. I went a little further and found another warp point so I saved and quit. Almost at the end of the journey guys, its been great.
I made my way out've the nursery and was about to exit the uh...nursery fields when a swarm of zombies started attacking me while prepper was trying to get the door open. Took a few out but died. Next time going in, there were only a couple left and I finally escaped the Nursery. Got back to the uh...Petrol Station (I don't really care to remember the names of these places.) and the guy is now a zombie and killed his son, so I killed him. One thing that bothers me was I couldn't bash the sons head in to be sure that he was dead, same with the nurse and trust me, you'll want to bash her in. Wtf game?
By this time I have a...fire grenade and a couple flares and a big health pack with me, I also find and keep a shotgun with me right about now. So I go towards the Church and use the fire grenade against a couple zombies running at me. Find a mine and keep going, killing a couple zombies here and there, when I see ten red dots on my motion sensor.
Surely these are rats...right? I get my mine out just incase and proceed with caution...when I hear the scream of a zombie. I see like twelve zombies rushing at me really fucking fast so I quickly set the mine down and back the fuck up and the mine goes off...and kills
EVERYONE
ONE
OF
THEM
Fucking awesome. I went a little further and found another warp point so I saved and quit. Almost at the end of the journey guys, its been great.
Edit: @ islave...or whatever your name was (sorry!) go back to where you last were at the
swamp area, where you first get the Tower mission then go through the swamp. I had got lost at that part too.
Unfortunatly I don't remember whe the swamp area is...
Unfortunatly I don't remember whe the swamp area is...
snowdog1971
Banned
Nothing official yet, but I've seen a few posts on various forums saying that some shops had sold out, and I think someone (on here?) said that it was the third busiest game on Miiverse soon after launch.
I think it will sell over a million before Christmas. Ambitious prediction, I know, but you've got to take into account the ZombiU bundles in Europe and the fact that the survival horror genre, and zombie goodness in particular, is pretty big in Japan. The Wii U is going to fly off shelves in Japan due to having Monster Hunter Ultimate and a Beta for Dragon Quest X available on launch day, and I can see plenty of people picking up ZombiU for the reasons I've mentioned.
This could be the start of a huge franchise for Ubisoft, as long as they don't do an Activision and milk it to death.
Gamer @ Heart
Member
You find an infected zombie with the players name above it. If they died with a decent score, then they are the 'red' zombies and harder to defeat but usually carry a weapon upgrade.
also, THE LOOT. Dead players tend to have some great stuff unless they died really early.
But do they randomly appear in your game? I'm just wondering if there is a reason I haven't encountered one yet.
Projectjustice
Banned
Yup, i agree!
TriniTrin
war of titties grampa
i think you have to have friends that die and they become those named zombies.
Bearded Dudebro
Member
I don't have any friends and I get other players Zombies and notifications when someone's killed my Zombified self.
Its basically setup that if you accept miiverse functionality allowing friends to appear in game it lets any game player who dies appear in game
I read on miiverse that randoms will enter your game, even if you do no have any NNID friends. I have super spotty internet, and a connection that keeps dropping(hopefully getting new service up tonight) but I am about 8 hours in and I have yet to receive any notifications, or seen other infected survivors
Though I occasionally see messages and can leave messages.
Sanctuary
Member
It doesn't seem to have anything to do with your friends list. I'm also not sure if when a person dies, if they instantly spawn (or if there's a very short grace period for the player before their corpse is fair game to all) in everyone's game, or if it's just a cluster of random people. I've killed about six various player corpses and I don't have anyone on my friends list yet. Most of them were outside of the safe house, or below the heavy machine gun, but I killed a pinata
Also going to experiment on my current run to see if ammo types that drop are tied specifically to the weapon types that you own. So if you don't pickup a certain type, ammo other than the matching type would drop. I hope that's the case, because there's a lot of useless guns in this game and the ammo for them is way too rare. I would rather have more ammo of the gun types that I use than having a gun that has 1 round by default that you must collect 60 - 70 rounds just for it to actually be worth using at all due to it's pitiful firepower and spread.
I still say the Crossbow is the best weapon in the game hands down. Even if you don't headshot enemies (it's the easiest weapon to snipe with), you can take any enemy 1 on 1 with it, and it takes on average three shots to kill your average zombie. You simply fire anywhere on it's body, and then you can reload and fire again before it reaches you. The
. It's much faster than the annoying bat, and as long as you don't miss, you get all of your ammo back.
I'm not sure how that's actually relevant, when you consider that most of the third party launch titles are ports that people already owned for the other systems if they really wanted those games and could afford them.
in the kitchen area of the nursery.
Also going to experiment on my current run to see if ammo types that drop are tied specifically to the weapon types that you own. So if you don't pickup a certain type, ammo other than the matching type would drop. I hope that's the case, because there's a lot of useless guns in this game and the ammo for them is way too rare. I would rather have more ammo of the gun types that I use than having a gun that has 1 round by default that you must collect 60 - 70 rounds just for it to actually be worth using at all due to it's pitiful firepower and spread.
I still say the Crossbow is the best weapon in the game hands down. Even if you don't headshot enemies (it's the easiest weapon to snipe with), you can take any enemy 1 on 1 with it, and it takes on average three shots to kill your average zombie. You simply fire anywhere on it's body, and then you can reload and fire again before it reaches you. The
red aura/upgrade zombies take six shots, and the spitters take the same I believe
I'm not sure how that's actually relevant, when you consider that most of the third party launch titles are ports that people already owned for the other systems if they really wanted those games and could afford them.
JumpJeff84
Member
Played this for a few hours after buying it today. I hafta say, graphically I find it a little underwhelming.
Doesn't mean I'm not having a blast with it though- I love the design here. Games with deliberate combat are so refreshing, and I dig the rogue-like elements.
Doesn't mean I'm not having a blast with it though- I love the design here. Games with deliberate combat are so refreshing, and I dig the rogue-like elements.
Okay I cheated a little. I looked at a few minutes of video on youtube of what I had to do in
. Even with doing that there is nothing like experiencing things for yourself. Even if you know what could be coming that only helps you so much. You still feel the tension build. You still jump back and have to react in the moment. What you have for equipment is going to be different as well. Etc. Was still a fun experience and got through it alive and back to the safe house.
I noticed a item on one of the scaffolding there. I figure I have to
?
Need to gather more supplies now. Do items in certain areas respawn if the CCTV cameras show there is ammo in an area? I got items from the area before but they still show the same thing. Haven't been back to it though.
Almost afraid of going back to the
. I think there was a grenade I left and would like to get it but not sure if it's worth it (on my 4th survivor and my score is 3980 and would like to get that hire and just not die) or if that type of area respawns as well. Need to find more flares as well. Those have been working great for me.
Buckingham Palace after I reached the Doctor
I noticed a item on one of the scaffolding there. I figure I have to
go through the wall after the room with the fire to reach it. Should I expect anything there once I start crawling through? Is that the crossbow since I found bolts in the room with the fire
Need to gather more supplies now. Do items in certain areas respawn if the CCTV cameras show there is ammo in an area? I got items from the area before but they still show the same thing. Haven't been back to it though.
Almost afraid of going back to the
Buckingham Palace gates
Bearded Dudebro
Member
As far as the room with the scaffolding and fire, all levels of that should be accessible from that room except for the area that you have to come out a duct. You have to come back to that later. Take the ladder to your left when you first enter the room and you should be able to reach any other part of the room though.
Edit: I honestly wouldn't worry about the grenade. I found that as well as mines and planks to be the most useless items. I dropped them as son as I picked them up.
Hah, that's 2 of my posts that have showed up on go nintendo
WiiRevolution1
Member
Welp, thought I was done with the game but played again. Late-ish game spoilers.
Btw: is there anyway to upgrade the safe house item storage limit? I have too many items :lol
It doesn't help that one of the slots can't be used because of that placeholder glitch!
Edit: The fuck? Mines being useless items? Tell that to my mine that killed ten zombies in one shot.
Got lost in the Church Catacombs...but eventually found my way to the point of the spitter, and a whole bunch of regular zombies on the thin walkways. Shot at the spitter, and a couple zombies before I ran out've bullets and lured them off the walkways. Went through it, knocked another zombie off with the cricket bat and got through...only to be kidnapped by some fucking people.
So was it all a trap? Or was there really a girl there? Kinda having a hard time following the story. Also what happened to my kidnapper? Get eaten by a zombie? But how? I WANNA KNOW THESE THINGS.
Lost five survivors in the arena. I am glad that I could start from there...eventually thought of the explosions and got through it after running out've bullets a couple times. Then before the kidnapper...goes away he says to push the button...when theres four armored zombies behind the gate :lol
I got all of them with pistol bullets before opening the game though. I r awsum
Apparantly prepper got mad at me and says hes out? But he talked to me when I got back to the safe house? Feels like this game is losing it abit...still a great game but now I have to do what I hate to do most in games. I have to fucking search for stuff. Fucking letters...
Still a great experience and can't wait to finish it! I am nearing the end, I can feel it.
So was it all a trap? Or was there really a girl there? Kinda having a hard time following the story. Also what happened to my kidnapper? Get eaten by a zombie? But how? I WANNA KNOW THESE THINGS.
Lost five survivors in the arena. I am glad that I could start from there...eventually thought of the explosions and got through it after running out've bullets a couple times. Then before the kidnapper...goes away he says to push the button...when theres four armored zombies behind the gate :lol
I got all of them with pistol bullets before opening the game though. I r awsum
Apparantly prepper got mad at me and says hes out? But he talked to me when I got back to the safe house? Feels like this game is losing it abit...still a great game but now I have to do what I hate to do most in games. I have to fucking search for stuff. Fucking letters...
Still a great experience and can't wait to finish it! I am nearing the end, I can feel it.
Btw: is there anyway to upgrade the safe house item storage limit? I have too many items :lol
It doesn't help that one of the slots can't be used because of that placeholder glitch!
Edit: The fuck? Mines being useless items? Tell that to my mine that killed ten zombies in one shot.
Sanctuary
Member
I have no idea what you're talking about. There's literally one "oh shit" moment in Buckingham
your first time through anyway, the final time is a bit more hectic
The crossbow is right after you pick up
the XL bag. It's in the same crawlspace area, but it's in the section where you take the ladder down and walk through the revolving section of the wall that leads to the large piano/stairs room near the beginning.
Thanks. Didn't even think to look back in the other direction. Just wanted to get out and didn't bother looking around as much as I should.
The mines might be good if you know what to expect. Perhaps more useful on the second playthrough when you know you can trigger and lure a group. Using them in the middle of a fight is insanely risky. You can do it but you need to back up and 180 and keep moving as fast as you can. The blast radius seems to be big as well.
@Sanctuary It's not about the "oh shit" moment. Each person handle's horror differently and the game's atmosphere is doing a number on me. Not being a big horror fan as well normally is helping to keep me on my toes. So even when I know something could happen it's still getting to me when all I'm hearing is noise from the game, the radar on the gamepad, seeing my low ammo count, and not wanting to lose my character.
The mines might be good if you know what to expect. Perhaps more useful on the second playthrough when you know you can trigger and lure a group. Using them in the middle of a fight is insanely risky. You can do it but you need to back up and 180 and keep moving as fast as you can. The blast radius seems to be big as well.
@Sanctuary It's not about the "oh shit" moment. Each person handle's horror differently and the game's atmosphere is doing a number on me. Not being a big horror fan as well normally is helping to keep me on my toes. So even when I know something could happen it's still getting to me when all I'm hearing is noise from the game, the radar on the gamepad, seeing my low ammo count, and not wanting to lose my character.
Sanctuary
Member
I stocked up on any mines that dropped, specifically for
as well as possibly needing them later, but only found myself putting them to any good use once the entire time through my last run. Planks were okay at the beginning section while learning the game, especially
, but in general mines and planks are a waste of space.
I get you. I grew up on horror movies, and have played most Survival Horror type games (except the Fatal Frame and Deadly Premenition games), so I guess I've built up a tolerance to that kind of thing. That's not to say I wasn't startled a number of times with this game though, because I certainly was. On my initial playthrough, the tension was insane, especially once reaching
That had more to do with me psyching myself out though than anything else. It was because of all of the prerelease footage and hype suggesting that it was one of the hardest sections of the game, and that almost everyone dies there.
I didn't die until a little ways past that, due to being completely unprepared
I think I practiced that section maybe five times, learning it inside and out for my no death run attempt. It paid off too.
the post nursery event
the defending the safe house event
I get you. I grew up on horror movies, and have played most Survival Horror type games (except the Fatal Frame and Deadly Premenition games), so I guess I've built up a tolerance to that kind of thing. That's not to say I wasn't startled a number of times with this game though, because I certainly was. On my initial playthrough, the tension was insane, especially once reaching
the nursery.
I didn't actually die there, but the section right after it gave me fits, and I think I got really lucky the first time there.
for a very unexpected event.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Jesus, Tower of London is brutal. I went on a suicide 6-bullet mission to retrieve my pack from my previous survivor who happened to be stuck in the middle of a huge hoard of walkers... Lets just say it went even worse then I thought it would.