Building materials in particular are used to build and upgrade facilities such as Sleeping Areas, Storage Areas, a Watch Tower, etc. The items of high value are the rucksacks filled with materials that your colony so desperately needs to stay afloat. The map itself can be traveled in just a few minutes by car, but there are hundreds of lootable locations scattered throughout.Įvery location has several different containers to search through. In between story and side missions the main goal is always to get out and scavenge for more supplies. While progressing through the story, constant attention to the resources in stock and what needs to be resupplied is always necessary. Basic human necessities like food and medicine, along with materials for survival such as ammo and building supplies, are always in demand.
In State of Decay you are responsible for micromanaging the well-being of an entire community of survivors. That only covers survival in the individual sense, though. I was sorely mistaken and I paid the price with the life of one of my survivors. But that was the result of me being too reckless in thinking that I could take on a juggernaut with a minimum amount of ammo and a vehicle as a battering ram. The reality that she was lost forever stung for quite a while. It was a failure - the community had lost a survivor and I had lost an investment of time that was spent making the character (Maya, in my case) the best she could be. This was the only character death I dealt with, but it sucked nonetheless. With just one mistake I watched as a character I’d spent time leveling up was thrown through the air by a juggernaut zombie and then swarmed by a pack of regular zombies. Everything you do in the game revolves around protecting your survivors by managing their conditions, but things don’t always work out. While snacks and painkillers can replenish stamina and health on the fly, sometimes things get a little too chaotic for it to be effective. Everything from sprinting to hacking off undead limbs takes stamina, and if that supply completely depletes then it becomes difficult to outrun or fight off zombies. Your lifeblood, aside from your actual health, is stamina. You can’t heave around a dozen weapons and hundreds of pounds of equipment. The survivors in State of Decay are not super human.
It’s very easy to get yourself surrounded, but not always a breeze to get yourself out. Going into the game with the idea that you can hack through hundreds of zombies with no problem is setting yourself up for a rude awakening. State of Decay’s permadeath makes every encounter with the undead a tense one.
This first sequence symbolizes the constant threat that the player faces throughout the entire game. You’re immediately handed control of the first player character, Marcus, and thrown a couple of zombies to deal with using the bare minimum of resources. State of Decay begins as suddenly as you’d expect from a zombie apocalypse.
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