Urban Dead

I <s>hate</s>love how it cost you points to look at a wall.

The best part of Urban Dead;

*you see "WEST SIDE BOYZ" graffiti on random wall, you spend 2 points for moving your eyeballs*
*you find a flare, you don't want to pick it up, but just thinking about picking it up has already cost you 2 points, so you might as well*
*Pop flare, interestingly, this costs less points than scratching your nuts, you promise yourself that you'll horde every flare you ever find if you make it out of this God-awful shitty mess*
*someone said "ths zomby borke into a chrch and nfekted me, gai" on your radio channel, you've been charged 2 points for using your basic hearing ability*
*you see four zombies in cemetary #213, stop noticing things goddammit, you're losing points*
*you fire one shot, zombie is unphased by your weak capitalist bullets that can't penetrate human skin, you feel drained of energy all-of-the-sudden*
*you load more ammuntion into your gun, hoping the zombie will die after about fifty rounds in the head*
*you miss again, you wonder how you could ever have passed rifleman training with your damn lousy marksmanship skills, you filthy capitalist pig*
*you search your inventory for more items, but the government doesn't like members of the military enough to give them anything other than a pair of white socks, some mismatched clothes, a pistol made by Somali child labourers during their lunch break from political reeducation programme, and two bullets, oh and that knife you spent half your energy picking up and pocketing the other day*
*you spend 2 points on wondering why you volunteered to be the military's go-to guy during zombie outbreaks, since you're apparently the only person they seem to ever deploy in situations like these, perhaps it has something to do with your piss-poor marskmanship, welcome to the Suck, you now have 2 points left, for the love of God, don't stare at anymore goddamn walls*
*you equip weak capitalist knife you found in a school desk some time ago*
*you aim for the head*
*oops, you're out of points, come back in a few hours when one or two points will be replenished so you'll have enough points to stare at your cock while wondering how much fucking longer it'll take before you can move your leg*

two days later...

*you have been infected, you shouldn't have slept outside*

Rinse and repeat, because that's all there is to do. If the game didn't have such a shitty points-per hour-system, I'd probably have played it more. While the intention for such a system is admirable, it's horribly executed. Instead of limiting a player ridiculously the way Urban Dead does, they should rather incorporate a sort of energy/adrenaline simulation where players can only do so much before fatigue sets in and they begin to slow down, lose focus, and get weaker (which is what they say the points system is supposed to do). But no, instead, all players instant-freeze in place after about fifteen minutes of activity. That's not because they want to simulate fatigue, it's so they can attempt to sucker you into returning the next day, hoping you won't get wise on how boring the game actually is.

It's a great cliche of the zombie survival game, though. Just find a big building that hasn't been ransacked and lock yourself in. Maybe you'll find a lighter or some black pants. Nevermind that on my first playthrough, I attempted to find a way out of the city, only to realise the entire city is blocked off by a giant zombie-survivor barrier those damn corporate bastards put in place before unleashing the living-dead onto the city. Damn you, Umbrella Corp-wannabes!

Oh well, I don't hate it, but it was boring. But I appreciate it for what it is, a free web-browser text-box zombie survival game. I just got tired of the stupid points system, you only get so many, and are charged a lot for the simplest of tasks, such as staring at a wall.

*you used 2 points to notice there is a wall in front of you, it's a nice looking wall, though*

Good luck on finding party members, too. Most of the time, everyone is frozen in place or is too busy spending half their points on trying to figure out what colour the church wall is painted. It was nice finding random items, though.

The only real class that has any point to it is the researcher or doctor, or whatever else has the possibility for finding the anti-virus, which doesn't stop the zombies from randomly regenerating out of thin air, unfortunately.

Anyways, I'd say play it for a few times if you haven't already. After all, it's free and it's a zombie game!

I checked on the site today, and noticed this;

Monroeville is now locked down in full quarantine - no new characters can be created there, characters will no longer idle out, all idle characters have been reactivated, and zombies in the city can now be killed permanently by removing the head or destroying the brain using the "Headshot" skill.
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Oh thank the Divine, it only took a few years before the god-powers finally wore-off the zombies, but now you can finally kill a zombie the way you're supposed to kill a zombie in a zombie survival game. Goodies!
 
I played it some years ago until I died... so, let's say, a few minutes.

The idea is really nice, but yes, the points system sucks like hell.
 
<,,< Screw you all, I'm gona go play ET on my Atari. You all just don't know good design when you see it.

:P
Paladin, thank you for that description. it made my night.

I at first was bothered by the point system. Just rubbed me the wrong way. Then I started thinking of it like a board game.

Then again my happiest moments are when I'm using the speak function and I'm spouting some retarded nonsense and roleplay.
 
Got to admit, that after this thread I picked it up. Kind of fun having multiple characters and trying out each one. Kind of addictive after awhile.

Might be fun to create a No Mutants Allowed group.
 
Yeah, I kinda picked up on it too, I'm a sucker for browser games and whatnot, however I burn those points faster than a drunken adolescent with their parent's car when the light turns green.
 
these PK'ers are becoming a pain in the ass. I think when my characters get strong enough, I am going to start a bounty hunting group that goes after PK'ers and zeds.
 
NMA Urban Dead group

Just curious-

How many of you guys interested in Urban Dead and how many are interested in forming an NMA survivor or zombie group?
 
I got a couple accounts.

I'm semi-retired in the MPD.

But my alt Secret Agent has been on Ice for awhile.
 
I played that last year, played until my sweet sweet home(hell, i even belonged to a group there) got hoarded into rubble, then i quit out of frustration. I even got some badass police clothing.

If you guys really form a group, maybe i'll come back. But now i'm enjoying Victoria Revolutions+VIP mod too much.
 
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