When and Where is Trumbul County likely to be?

[charwo]

The wiki says it's somewhere in the north/northwest but that doesn't narrow it down. Trumbul Valley isn't arid, but it doesn't look exactly lush. For the record I'm from Ohio which is quite well watered without being soogy. It looks like it's a part of the High Plains region, albiet in an area with mountains. There's an outside chance it could be part of the most Un-Minnesota part of western Minnisota EVER, but I don't think that there's any place in the central plains (the Dakota's Nebraska, Oklahoma) with mountains enough to create the steepness of Trumbul Valley. Wymoning is way to sparce to have a city like Danforth (which incidently, is explicilty not the capital of the state, which is where Highroad Actual is located). Wyoming has 600,000 people and Danforth needs to have at least 100,000 people to justify those sky scrappers.

I'm thinking it's not on the West Coast states. Unless the eastern, arid, parts of Washington and Oregon are total cowboy country. And while I don't know what northern California is like at all, well the inland part, I think Hill Valley, which might work. It looks like Trumbull County should be in Idaho, with other possibilities being western Montana and Colorado.

The problem though is that Trumbul County FEELS so Midwestern. I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Delphos Ohio and my grandpa lived next county over in Putnam County. This is northwestern Ohio, so it's flat as a pancake. Nonetheless Delphos+Mountains=Marshall and Putnam County+Dino Themed Tourist Trap+Mountains= Trumbul County.

Also, what time of year does the gme take place? For me, what I see is this is early fall, September. The fields where cut down early, but only slightly early and the fact that it's the elementary school that was quarintined not a local hospital says that school hadn't started yet, at least not locally. And lacking snow and being cool enough to require light down jackets on virtually everyone, it's past the dog days of summer but hasn't gotten really cold yet. I bet it gets cold, bitterly cold in a place as high as rumbul Valley, but probably very dry with the rainy season in the spring.

So what say you? Can the in game better pinpoint where Trumbull would actually be?

[Bad Aim]

Undead Labs is a part of Microsoft. Microsoft is based in Washington state. I would guess it is some part of Washington state... my guess is probebly near Spokane

[Visi]

Not familiar enough with the Northwest to speculate on that, but I agree with the season most likely being fall.

[Destroyer]

I'm from Europe, "So don't hold me to the word" but my guess for Fairfield would be "Meadville - Pennsylvania": Why?
Fairfield Reservoir could be Pymatuning Reservoir(which is Southwest from Meadville), and County Fairgrounds(potential home site) could be Crawford Country Fairgrounds(which is Northeast from Meadville).

[ACJCLIGHTNING]

Washington/Oregon. I believe they did mention this somewhere, but regardless, thats what it reminds me of. I think they may have actually mentioned on a map in game that it was in washington.
Actually, when I first started playing, I immidiatly drew comparisons to Alan Wake and Bright Falls. If I remember correctly, that was in Washington.

So yeah, Rural Washington State I would say.

Actually.... now that you mention it

Publicado originalmente por Amanda Jones:

Undead Labs is a part of Microsoft. Microsoft is based in Washington state. I would guess it is some part of Washington state... my guess is probebly near Spokane

Undead Labs and Remedy(people that made alan wake) were both funded by microsoft to produce their games(both of which were basically timed exclusives on Xbox consoles until they were ported to PCs), and both games take place in washington state......Is something going on here?

Also....Just saying, Undead labs isnt part of microsoft....microsoft just basically paid for the developement of State of Decay, they dont own the company. that is exactly the same story as Remedy.

[Bad Aim]

Publicado originalmente por ACJCLIGHTNING:

Washington/Oregon. I believe they did mention this somewhere, but regardless, thats what it reminds me of. I think they may have actually mentioned on a map in game that it was in washington.
Actually, when I first started playing, I immidiatly drew comparisons to Alan Wake and Bright Falls. If I remember correctly, that was in Washington.

So yeah, Rural Washington State I would say.

Actually.... now that you mention it

Publicado originalmente por Amanda Jones:

Undead Labs is a part of Microsoft. Microsoft is based in Washington state. I would guess it is some part of Washington state... my guess is probebly near Spokane

Undead Labs and Remedy(people that made alan wake) were both funded by microsoft to produce their games(both of which were basically timed exclusives on Xbox consoles until they were ported to PCs), and both games take place in washington state......Is something going on here?

Also....Just saying, Undead labs isnt part of microsoft....microsoft just basically paid for the developement of State of Decay, they dont own the company. that is exactly the same story as Remedy.

Sounds to me like Undead labs is no more a part of Microsoft just as Taco Bell is not a part of PepsiCo. Yes, PepsiCo released Taco Bell, and thus they no longer "own" them, but you will never see Coke being served at a Taco Bell. I believe the same thing is true with undead Labs.
This is a cut and paste from Undead Labs:

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

Did Microsoft purchase Undead Labs?

No, they just own our souls.

Kidding! Seriously, Undead Labs remains an independent studio, in full creative control of the games we make. That said, I wasn’t BSing when I said we are excited to work directly with Microsoft on this project. Over the past year we were approached by numerous publishers expressing an interest in partnering with Undead Labs. Not surprisingly, many of them were MMO industry publishers who were drawn to the team’s track record in that industry, and while they were excited to work with our team, most of them wanted us to work on yet another World of Warcraft clone.

Screw that. We’re here to do cool new things; not rehash things that literally hundreds of other companies have been trying to do for half a decade. The team at Microsoft Game Studios immediately understood where we wanted to go with this, and they’ve been enthusiastic proponents for the vision of a zombie-survival online world game from the very beginning. In short, they’re a true partner for us, and we think they’ll drive as hard as we will to get there.

Sounds to me like Microsoft does yet does not own Undead Labs. They do go on to say that it is highly unlikely that any of their games would ever be released on PS3

[ACJCLIGHTNING]

Publicado originalmente por Amanda Jones:

Sounds to me like Microsoft does yet does not own Undead Labs. They do go on to say that it is highly unlikely that any of their games would ever be released on PS3

Yep, just as I assumed. Similar story with remedy.

[¡SoloPistolas!]

I was just wondering this to myself and googled it and saw this old post. Undead Labs, while independent, is still based in Bellevue, Washington, in the Seattle metro area. To be honest I always figured they drew some inspiration from there. There is an 'area' (not sure I'd call it a city) named Tanner about 25 miles from the Undead Labs office. It sits at the foot of Snoqualmie Pass, which goes over the Cascade Mountains. Any land east of the Cascades (maybe 75 miles outside of Bellevue) is definitely more flat, and dry.

[cruinne]

Publicado originalmente por charwo:

The problem though is that Trumbul County FEELS so Midwestern. I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Delphos Ohio and my grandpa lived next county over in Putnam County. This is northwestern Ohio, so it's flat as a pancake. Nonetheless Delphos+Mountains=Marshall and Putnam County+Dino Themed Tourist Trap+Mountains= Trumbul County.

I'm with you. I'm from Ohio too, and it feels really, really Ohio to me. Ohio... 1988 or so. I'm from southern Ohio though - the Appalachian part - and it's definitely not flat, so that works out too.