Is there any way to play the older versions of project zomboid

[Daveywbo]

When i say the older versions i mean like the really older ones back when NPC were actually in the game ( not by modding ) i just want to compare the game from then to now

[Captain Australia]

The problem with this kind of thing is that it'll always be taken as passive-aggressive baiting (which it may well be), when in fact it's wrapped around a completely legitimate grievance.

It's a pretty robust timeframe where the core team and third party volunteers and recruits have been working diligently on the game, so have a little perspective!

That said, I imagine the game in the past and the game now won't look dramatically different (despite 60 or (lots) more non-updates, quasi-updates and actual up-dates).

On reflection, over that long long long long long stretch of time, I have:

- welcomed my third son to the world (he's in primary school now)
- rebooted a complex financial-services business, recreating all technical/underwriting, legal, operational, online, commercial, shopfront aspects of the company
- been diagnosed with cancer
- gone through a year of treatment
- gone through a watchful two years monitoring for recurrence
- been cured of cancer
- played a bunch of games, from early access to AAA that have been announced, developed and launched in the interim

Forget NPCs, there was a bit of a misdirection campaign to reorient the community toward new graphics, and vehicles and whatnot ... it was pretty successful, I think people stopped counting the sands through the hourglass on NPCs and re-started the clock for the graphics .. dunno, this was a couple of years ago now, wasn't it ? The graphics are live now, arent they ? To stave off frustration, I havent checked. I would like to play the final game one-day, but these little once-every-two-year completion visits are becoming sad.

It is nice to visit, dip the toe into the toxic cesspool and run away - reminding everybody & self that poison usually gets mixed into a meal for a profound reason, and it usually takes a bunch of imprudent and unwise people to allow it to spread into an epidemic.

[Daveywbo]

i just want to see the game and how it was back in the day

[Daveywbo]

check my profile i have over 400 hours in project zomboid i love the game and i still play it to this day i just want to play it more and get more experience from it but when it back in the day

[Daveywbo]

Originally posted by Captain Australia:

The problem with this kind of thing is that it'll always be taken as passive-aggressive baiting (which it may well be), when in fact it's wrapped around a completely legitimate grievance.

It's a pretty robust timeframe where the core team and third party volunteers and recruits have been working diligently on the game, so have a little perspective!

That said, I imagine the game in the past and the game now won't look dramatically different (despite 60 or (lots) more non-updates, quasi-updates and actual up-dates).

On reflection, over that long long long long long stretch of time, I have:

- welcomed my third son to the world (he's in primary school now)
- rebooted a complex financial-services business, recreating all technical/underwriting, legal, operational, online, commercial, shopfront aspects of the company
- been diagnosed with cancer
- gone through a year of treatment
- gone through a watchful two years monitoring for recurrence
- been cured of cancer
- played a bunch of games, from early access to AAA that have been announced, developed and launched in the interim

Forget NPCs, there was a bit of a misdirection campaign to reorient the community toward new graphics, and vehicles and whatnot ... it was pretty successful, I think people stopped counting the sands through the hourglass on NPCs and re-started the clock for the graphics .. dunno, this was a couple of years ago now, wasn't it ? The graphics are live now, arent they ? To stave off frustration, I havent checked. I would like to play the final game one-day, but these little once-every-two-year completion visits are becoming sad.

It is nice to visit, dip the toe into the toxic cesspool and run away - reminding everybody & self that poison usually gets mixed into a meal for a profound reason, and it usually takes a bunch of imprudent and unwise people to allow it to spread into an epidemic.

I understand how people can see this as being baiting sorry for making the post like that

[Sergeant Giacomo]

There's a way to download an old version. I don't have the link, so i hope Nasco or Enigma can link you.

[Daveywbo]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

. . . Have no clue how a request for the old versions lead to yet another tirade against the game and the length of time it's taken. That's well off topic.

I'll post the link to the old versions when the site is back up tomorrow, along with dig out the key files from my archive. Nudge me here if I forget.

Thank you