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ZombiU |OT| Zombi Emergency! WiiU WiiU WiiU WiiU
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ipukespiders
Member
Had the exact same glitch from there as well.
Sanctuary
Member
And right after that, the first door you try to open that's only a few feet away gives you yet another loading screen.
There's also the entirely pointless hit B to skip prompt. Skip loading now, to double load a few seconds later!
After adding a bunch of people today, it seemed like
Victoria Garden was the hotspot for people dying for some reason. Problem is, my stash is full, and my XXL is full, so it's never been worth it for me to actually hunt anyone down. I did run into the motherload randomly though in the palace. Someone had like four flares, two grenades and two cocktails. Later on someone was nice enough to drop four crossbow bolts.
Just do Survivor. I spent a few hours dying and deleting my save every time when first learning. After reaching the palace, I pretty much had the game down, but then ended up dying at
the arena event.
abstract alien
Member
So lost trying to find
This was the last game I thought I would get lost in, but that seems to happen to me. I got lost in wind waker once trying to figure out how to unlock a door. Turns out the door was already unlocked and I had been running around aimlessly on an assumption that it wasn't :^/
fuel for the generator. I came across a door in the alley with a code lock, but I only have the first two numbers. Guess I need another upgrade or something, I have no idea.
Christberg
Member
Check
the other side of the container you found the last 2 numbers in.
Should be right there.
Sanctuary
Member
And by
"container", I think he means "wall". One of the codes is on the wall, and the other is inside of the gatehouse type thing. The one on the wall is pretty hard to miss, since there's a bunch of arrows leading you to it, so I'm assuming that's the one you have.
DeleteMyAccountThankyou
Member
Just finished my first play-through, never found the
. 
crossbow
Sanctuary
Member
Noob. (Jk)
It's in the crawlspace area that opens up after you get the book that the scientist wanted from the palace. It's around the same area where you grabbed the XL bag, right down the ladder on your way to the revolving structure in the wall. I think the only way to actually miss it is if you went out the exit where the XL bag was that leads to the dining room area instead of going through the rest of the crawlspace.
abstract alien
Member
Got it! I'll go check it out asap.
DeleteMyAccountThankyou
Member
Haha, that's exactly how I missed it. I'm pretty sure I just wanted to exit at that point... was so happy to finally have lived a decent amount of time.
IAmtheFMan
Member
Finished it at 17:38.
Great game with some glitches and flaws. Overall one of the most satisfying games I've played this year. I would love to see more games like this (i.e. big-budget titles taking chances in gameplay and pacing mechanics.)
I'll put my full thoughts down in a little bit.
Also, (end game discussion)
Great game with some glitches and flaws. Overall one of the most satisfying games I've played this year. I would love to see more games like this (i.e. big-budget titles taking chances in gameplay and pacing mechanics.)
I'll put my full thoughts down in a little bit.
Also, (end game discussion)
What was the twist? Was it that The Prepper was John? (not John Dee, the guy with the apartment.)
KittenMaster
Member
IMO, there's not a huge twist, since the game was already building up for the Prepper's outburst and you can surmise that the Prepper's personality matches how John was described. It's only a twist for people that didn't pay close attention to what the Prepper says methinks.
IAmtheFMan
Member
Yeah it didn't strike as surprising, which is why I still think it's out there.
That was my first death as well.
This happened to me, in the same place
just before you see the shadow of that zombie
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
You know, I seem to have a REAL bad habit of dying when I'm clearly not supposed to. Like, RIGHT before cutscenes. As a result, I end up respawning at the Safe House and suddenly new mission. I checked GameFAQs and sure enough there was supposed to be more after that but because I died... well... XD
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
SHIT FUCKING CUNT PISS DICK uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh eight hour survivor fucking dead at the tower of London. Sniper rifle, crossbow, bolt loading rifle, shotgun, and AK all fucking gone. Oh my god I'm so fucking livid. Didn't manage to remove the barricade either, even though I saw it, meaning to recover my stuff I need to backtrack through the entire friggen level.
How does weapon recovery work then? Because I had the rifle and shotgun equipped, so I assume they wont be in my zombified backpack. How am I supposed to get those weapons again, or is that it?
How does weapon recovery work then? Because I had the rifle and shotgun equipped, so I assume they wont be in my zombified backpack. How am I supposed to get those weapons again, or is that it?
They have seemed to activate the ability to find weapons again via searching on the cctv cameras in the safehouse to see where to go
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Okay cool. Good. Now to hunt down everything. Again.
And to whoever kills my zombie and scores my loot: fuck you.
Dude, anything "equipped" you get when you hit it up. Don't worry!
Edit: Also, anyone have any tips for grinding ammo? I'm on the hunt for
antibiotics
KittenMaster
Member
I think a corpse is treated like a single large container that has both your B.O.B items and your hotkey items (besides pistol, light, and bat), so as long as you can get to your previous survivor you should be able to get weapons that were hotkeyed.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Brilliant. Thanks guys. And if I'm correct, whenever a survivor dies it removes the previous survivor's infected corpse from the world? As in, if Survivor 3 dies Survivor 2 and their shit will disappear, replaced with Survivor 3's body?
Captain N. Tenneal
Member
Correct, it's like the bloodstains in Dark/Demon's Souls.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Cheers, and bollocks. Welp. Survivor 3 better not screw this up.
Christberg
Member
Sometimes you get lucky and they fall off the side of the tower and end up next to the entrance. Probably worth the back track from the sounds of it though, fortunately pretty much everything should be dead on the way back.
Future reference, only one weapon out at a time. Use the item box!
Heh, mine too
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Welp, I passed the point of no return. I'm glad that they still let me save at the safe house and dump off some final loot after I
removed the eyeball
I'm around 13 hours, this last survivor is about 5 or so hours deep. He's a Maitre-D and looks like an old priest in a trench coat. He's bad ass.
I hope the ending doesn't kill him
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Got my stuff back. As Christberg predicted most of the infected were dead, and the remaining stragglers were usually isolated, allowing me to bottleneck and bat. Only two situations had me shitting myself:
1) While going through that underwater tunnel area the game thought it would be hilarious to randomly spawn one
, a type I had not encountered up until this point. So I was fighting that in a waist high water quasi-maze, all the while
. I pretty much sat in a corner, like a bitch, and waited for it to come and get me.
2) My old survivor had turned into one of the red infected, which I believe gives them super speed/strength? Didn't bother risking a hand-to-hand encounter. It hadn't seen me, so I used a grenade to end Survivor 2's brief infected life.
Got back everything. Fucking ace.
EDIT: Survivor 2 was only about ~200 points off making the daily best survivors board too. She was on ~8500 and I believe the lowest is ~8700. Such a shame. Oh well. Survivor 3 will do it.
1) While going through that underwater tunnel area the game thought it would be hilarious to randomly spawn one
static, teleporting infected
its static charge blanked out my map leaving me blind
2) My old survivor had turned into one of the red infected, which I believe gives them super speed/strength? Didn't bother risking a hand-to-hand encounter. It hadn't seen me, so I used a grenade to end Survivor 2's brief infected life.
Got back everything. Fucking ace.
EDIT: Survivor 2 was only about ~200 points off making the daily best survivors board too. She was on ~8500 and I believe the lowest is ~8700. Such a shame. Oh well. Survivor 3 will do it.
DeleteMyAccountThankyou
Member
According to the manual you get speed, aim and damage. I didn't notice damage at all but I only reached level 3 max on the pistol. Seemed to be 2 head-shots with the pistol would kill a zombie. Aiming did feel slightly better but that could have just been me adjusting to the controls... has anyone checked the weapon stats before and after leveling?
I just died in the exact same area and likewise neglected to remove the barricade. On the way back to deal with my former self, I got ambushed by three zombies in a very tight space and died. Goddamnit, all my stuff gone. I knew I was too tired to keep playing. Bollox.
Glad to hear you made it though.
Sanctuary
Member
I actually didn't put it together that The Prepper was "John" that the woman writing the letters was referring to. The voice on those letters also sounded slightly different to me than the voice of Sandra. There are also three different Johns that get mentioned throughout the game, and with the magic mumbo jumo talk, it sometimes felt as if the letters you were reading were of the very distant past and that they had somehow figured out a way to extent their lives by quite a bit.
It's:
1. Weapon draw speed
2. Weapon aim speed
3. Reload speed
4. kickback reduction
None of them matter one bit aside from the reload speed for the Crossbow. It's so much work (waste of ammo) for almost no tanigble benefits. The only weapons where it kind of matters is the pistol and crossbow.
Also, the firing speed weapon mod upgrade is about the most useless mod that they could have implemented in a game based around scarce ammo.
Not so much grinding as how to conserve the majority of what you acquire through a playthrough:
USE THE CROSSBOW! Like in every single 1 on 1 situation that's not a riot zombie when you don't want to use the god awful bat. In a situation where there are two zombies, just headshot snipe the first if you can before they are aware of your presence. Since the bolts are recoverable as long as you hit your target, it's basically a ranged cricket bat that also kills a bit faster.
Christberg
Member
Finished the game tonight with just under 17 hours logged. My notes/mini review:
I generally loved the game. It nails a good sense of atmosphere, has solid core mechanics, and has a reasonable difficulty progression. Level design is excellent sans some copy/paste bits. It's clearly a low(ish) budget game with limited development time and it shows though.
At this point I really hope it gets a sequel with a decent budget because the game is pretty damn great to begin with, but given the right amount of TLC it could be something totally off the charts.
My favorite game sections are
,
and
.
Purely technically speaking, the game is a mixed bag. There are really nice particle and lighting effects in some sections and some really clean textures and modeling here and there. When everything comes together the game can be a real jaw dropper. Then there are rooms that are literally copied and pasted and sections with entirely baked lighting and dirty textures that are ugly as crud.
Plus the environments are far, far too static and in ways that make little sense. There are also clipping and scripting issues. Probably the worst culprit I ran across was
They also made some mistakes with the loading times where they string together a few rooms but the level isn't properly streamed in yet so you load, walk through a copied and pasted section, then load some more.
Wish list for the next game:
More general environmental interactivity. Give me curtains that sway, shopping carts and detritus being blown around by wind, and water that isn't a flat texture.
More TLC given to all the environments. I want Metroid Prime levels of polish on the stages. Every room should be unique.
More variety in zombie animations. I want them grabbing you through doors and chain link fences. Popping out of sewer manholes and grabbing you from above by the hair. I'd love to see these worked into more scripted sequences - there's a TON of untapped potential here.
Add enemy variety. I want zombies more like a Romero movie. Hari Krishna zombies, clown zombies, the works. I also think humans could make for some interesting enemies as well. Maybe do a stage where you have to follow a paramilitary group to retrieve an item or similar. Get too close and you get wasted, and you have to pick them off using the zombies as cover.
Add some variety to the melee. It doesn't have to be a lot, just maybe one or two additional weapons like a combat knife and maybe some kind of spear type weapon.
Ditch the multi player unless you can do something that's both online and fully featured.
For the love of God, KEEP THE CORE MECHANICS INTACT. I don't want drop in/out coop or dudebro shootering in this game. Keep it survival horror. Keep the player feeling isolated and vulnerable. Keep this, because it's what makes the game stick out among its peers.
I generally loved the game. It nails a good sense of atmosphere, has solid core mechanics, and has a reasonable difficulty progression. Level design is excellent sans some copy/paste bits. It's clearly a low(ish) budget game with limited development time and it shows though.
At this point I really hope it gets a sequel with a decent budget because the game is pretty damn great to begin with, but given the right amount of TLC it could be something totally off the charts.
My favorite game sections are
the rainy Victoria Memorial section
the Nursery part
the outdoor park section leading to the Tower of London
Purely technically speaking, the game is a mixed bag. There are really nice particle and lighting effects in some sections and some really clean textures and modeling here and there. When everything comes together the game can be a real jaw dropper. Then there are rooms that are literally copied and pasted and sections with entirely baked lighting and dirty textures that are ugly as crud.
Plus the environments are far, far too static and in ways that make little sense. There are also clipping and scripting issues. Probably the worst culprit I ran across was
the elevator heading up to Ron Friedman's flat is supposed to have an ambush with about 5 zombies attacking you in a confined space. Instead as the elevator rises they clip through the floor and get stuck in the wall in the next elevator shaft over.
Wish list for the next game:
More general environmental interactivity. Give me curtains that sway, shopping carts and detritus being blown around by wind, and water that isn't a flat texture.
More TLC given to all the environments. I want Metroid Prime levels of polish on the stages. Every room should be unique.
More variety in zombie animations. I want them grabbing you through doors and chain link fences. Popping out of sewer manholes and grabbing you from above by the hair. I'd love to see these worked into more scripted sequences - there's a TON of untapped potential here.
Add enemy variety. I want zombies more like a Romero movie. Hari Krishna zombies, clown zombies, the works. I also think humans could make for some interesting enemies as well. Maybe do a stage where you have to follow a paramilitary group to retrieve an item or similar. Get too close and you get wasted, and you have to pick them off using the zombies as cover.
Add some variety to the melee. It doesn't have to be a lot, just maybe one or two additional weapons like a combat knife and maybe some kind of spear type weapon.
Ditch the multi player unless you can do something that's both online and fully featured.
For the love of God, KEEP THE CORE MECHANICS INTACT. I don't want drop in/out coop or dudebro shootering in this game. Keep it survival horror. Keep the player feeling isolated and vulnerable. Keep this, because it's what makes the game stick out among its peers.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Technically I think the game is ugly as fuck. Well, the lightning is nice-to-gorgeous, but almost everything else about the game's technology is poor. Textures are low resolution, the texture filtering is poor, geometry count is low, slow loads, etc.
But aesthetically I think the game looks really good. It's got a lot of atmosphere and nails the dreary English film vibe almost perfectly. The screen is lathered in various filters, most I usually fucking hate, but in the context of ZombiU it makes it look like a stereotypical English film with de-saturated colours and dreary tones. The team has basically done a good job of using their technical/time limitations to make the game look as good as it can, and despite being technically outdated, ends up having a strong identity.
So yeah. If a sequel were to come along, I'd really like to see what the team could do with a fully optimised engine built from the ground up for the Wii U, with the same art direction.
Sanctuary
Member
Everything in this post is exactly how I felt about the game on my first playthrough as well, except that I still don't understand who the cameraman is supposed to be that seems to be coming from behind. It's not the CCTVs, and I doubt the survivors have cybernetic implants in their eyes. I also don't like the green tint. It alone isn't the problem as much as it just makes the aesthetics of already poor graphics look even worse. I understand why different filters are used in certain games, and I don't mind a "filmy" look, but it doesn't look like film to me as much as a dirty lens. I also find that the game more often than not looks better when you're viewing it through the Prepper pad.
Welp, I think I've found one of my game of the year contenders. I doubt it will be able to top Kid Icarus for me but this and Hotline Miami are really close for the 2 and 3 position right now. Just finished the
and I am loving the game. I died in the water maze area leading up to the
because of one of those red powerful zombies that spawned in my game and when I went back I killed my old corpse but before looting it the
appeared and I shot it stupidly and killed myself :/. Had to go search for all my weapons and stuff again in the other areas...... but that's what I freakin love about this game. One minute you have a survivor who has been alive for a long time and the next minute you are dying twice in the same spot.
Tower of London
"Ravens nerve center" or something
exploding zombie
Nihilistic Monk
Member
Just started this. Loving it so far. Had a slight issue after the
with the
where I lost 3 survivors in quick succession. Luckily it's early days so I lost some juice, planks and all my ammo. Not much really. Do the weapon upgrades persist forever? As I still have them to spend it would appear. Great atmosphere so far.
supermarket
safehouse horde fight
It's in the options menu. Kind of a strange place to put it, I was originally trying to look for it at the workbench, lol.
Died with crossbow.
Died before retrieving crossbow.
Should I assume I won't be getting it back?
Also - I died while trying to reach
... and I get the impression this changes the rest/end of the game. What did I miss, or will I miss?
Died before retrieving crossbow.
Should I assume I won't be getting it back?
Also - I died while trying to reach
the roof of the Tower of London
Yeah, my favorite part until now. It's getting really tough I must say.
Exactly my thoughts, thanks for summing them up. ^^
hahaha, I know mistle was doing it and I was at the same time. so it was rather amusing to see it keep popping up lol
thomasmahler
Member
Damn! Just played my first three hours. Just to make sure: Everyone who digs games like Dark Souls or Resident Evil 1 will have a LOT of fun with this game. It's interesting that it's such a polarizing game. If 'horror' games like Resident Evil 5, 6 turn you off, ZombiU is probably for you.
Very cool stuff so far.
Very cool stuff so far.