Overkills The Walking Dead

[Average Cardboard Consumer /|\]

Cant even think of a second disaster like OTWD... i hope this situation shakes a bit and wakes up the compnay cuz jeeeesus christ...

if PD3 was made by a different company and had a different like: "Four Guys One Bank" belive me it wouldnt even sell good...

[Vael]

I don't remember but didn't that game have a troubled launch too ? I did play it and the game didn't seems to have that many issues servers wise.. But oh god, its did have many crash for me.

[Sunday Driver]

This is even worse than Overkill's The Walking Dead as that game was actually playable on launch. This is clearly made and operated by the B-team....or C-team. Wonder now how much was outsourced or bought from asset stores to cram it all together as a game?

OTWD only fully died and removed from the store on Steam because it wasn't as good as promised (big surprise from this company...) and the licence holders cancelled their agreement upon seeing the poor quality so the company had no right to sell or even update/patch it on Steam.

As a game it was ironically more playable than PD3 on launch by far. This launch is way way worse and if it was the same licence holders in control now it'd have been removed from Steam stores already, most likely.

[SirJackal]

nah overkill walking dead was ♥♥♥♥ full stop it was a cash grab.

[iBee]

Well, OTWD started all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ we know.

[SonicUnleashedXY]

Originally posted by SirJackal:

nah overkill walking dead was ♥♥♥♥ full stop it was a cash grab.

Played it a few months ago, still runs like ♥♥♥♥ on my setup but otherwise there's still players playing it. Although since it's abandon ware, I don't think they're legit players. Matchmaking seems to be running through Steam & all works fine. Honestly, it would have been in a good place if Skybound didn't pull the rug so quick. Each update was sorting out the issues the game had but given they kept delaying the game & console release. I kinda understand but don't agree with their decision. Mainly due to Season 2 not getting all the episodes released for Deluxe holders.

[Sunday Driver]

Originally posted by SonicUnleashedXY:

Originally posted by SirJackal:

nah overkill walking dead was ♥♥♥♥ full stop it was a cash grab.

Played it a few months ago, still runs like ♥♥♥♥ on my setup but otherwise there's still players playing it. Although since it's abandon ware, I don't think they're legit players. Matchmaking seems to be running through Steam & all works fine. Honestly, it would have been in a good place if Skybound didn't pull the rug so quick. Each update was sorting out the issues the game had but given they kept delaying the game & console release. I kinda understand but don't agree with their decision. Mainly due to Season 2 not getting all the episodes releases for Deluxe holders.

Almost all the game you got to play was actually made in less than a year too, fun fact! The development of technically took many years but they restarted several times due to engine changes (very expensive costing millions) and their final engine choice only left them with that short time span to rush something out to sell in a panic as there were no more funding extensions for development. Development pressure and crunch was so bad there were people fainting at the job, sleeping in the office and therapists offered to keep them going. Crazy stuff.

[Vael]

Originally posted by SonicUnleashedXY:

Originally posted by SirJackal:

nah overkill walking dead was ♥♥♥♥ full stop it was a cash grab.

Played it a few months ago, still runs like ♥♥♥♥ on my setup but otherwise there's still players playing it. Although since it's abandon ware, I don't think they're legit players. Matchmaking seems to be running through Steam & all works fine. Honestly, it would have been in a good place if Skybound didn't pull the rug so quick. Each update was sorting out the issues the game had but given they kept delaying the game & console release. I kinda understand but don't agree with their decision. Mainly due to Season 2 not getting all the episodes released for Deluxe holders.

Oh wait, you can "still play" the game right NOW ? I tough we couldn't.

[SonicUnleashedXY]

Originally posted by Sunday Driver:

Originally posted by SonicUnleashedXY:

Played it a few months ago, still runs like ♥♥♥♥ on my setup but otherwise there's still players playing it. Although since it's abandon ware, I don't think they're legit players. Matchmaking seems to be running through Steam & all works fine. Honestly, it would have been in a good place if Skybound didn't pull the rug so quick. Each update was sorting out the issues the game had but given they kept delaying the game & console release. I kinda understand but don't agree with their decision. Mainly due to Season 2 not getting all the episodes releases for Deluxe holders.

Almost all the game you got to play was actually made in less than a year too, fun fact! The development of technically took many years but they restarted several times due to engine changes (very expensive costing millions) and their final engine choice only left them with that short time span to rush something out to sell in a panic as there were no more funding extensions for development. Development pressure and crunch was so bad there were people fainting at the job, sleeping in the office and therapists offered to keep them going. Crazy stuff.

I did hear all that too which is why I was impressed the amount they got done in such short time. Big ♥♥♥♥ up on the former CEO. Kinda sad all that effort went down the drain as well. Now thinking about it, OTWD had better customisation for weapons than Payday 3.

[Where'sMySupersuit!!]

OTWD was one the worst games of all time so there's no way they could of topped that.

[SonicUnleashedXY]

Originally posted by Vael:

Originally posted by SonicUnleashedXY:

Played it a few months ago, still runs like ♥♥♥♥ on my setup but otherwise there's still players playing it. Although since it's abandon ware, I don't think they're legit players. Matchmaking seems to be running through Steam & all works fine. Honestly, it would have been in a good place if Skybound didn't pull the rug so quick. Each update was sorting out the issues the game had but given they kept delaying the game & console release. I kinda understand but don't agree with their decision. Mainly due to Season 2 not getting all the episodes released for Deluxe holders.

Oh wait, you can "still play" the game right NOW ? I tough we couldn't.

The servers should still be up last time I played. The Skybound Insiders is the only content re-locked for some reason, likely due to their back end getting removed on their site.

[SonicUnleashedXY]

Originally posted by Where'sMySupersuit!!:

OTWD was one the worst games of all time so there's no way they could of topped that.

Eh, it was different than what I was used too & the lack of content didn't help. Mainly any camp missions which you got put into like 3 almost back to back sucked. The mission where you got to sneak into a mall or enemy camp with zombies was quite fun & required good co-op if any. But the human AI gameplay was ♥♥♥♥. Anytime they get alerted then it's likely a level 2 or 3 horde. In fact they had to rebalance the second camp defence against the military people cause it was literally a progression blocker due to difficulty.

The game was also unoptimised like PD3 which I think was to do with Texture Streaming on my PC. I might try that fix on there if I ever reinstall it.

[Where'sMySupersuit!!]

Originally posted by SonicUnleashedXY:

It wasn't doing anything different than other games did before it, just extremely generic and surprising the studio didn't just outright shutdown due to it.

The beta for it was downright horrendous like my god... you've given me ptsd from that terrible ass game.

[Sunday Driver]

OTWD wasn't actually the worst game. It wasn't good, but the launch for it was better than this one for sure and the game itself was perhaps mediocre, I'd say. Hardly a ringing endorsement but I've seen worse. It was clearly hastily put together into a game and I wouldn't have recommended it if it survived. Raid:WW2 was better and that wasn't as good as the competition (then or now) either.

When a game is pulled from Steam the policy is that people who bought it before get to keep it and still play it. I've got a bunch of games that you can't buy any more and still play them now and then. GOG does the same.

[Where'sMySupersuit!!]

Originally posted by Sunday Driver:

Raid:WW2

NVM that was worse, both forgot about that game and that I own it.

[Sunday Driver]

Originally posted by Where'sMySupersuit!!:

Originally posted by Sunday Driver:

Raid:WW2

NVM that was worse, both forgot about that game and that I own it.

LOL! I remember seeing it dwindle to so few players globally online you could have them all meet inside any family car.