What Undead Labs need to add to State of Decay 2!

[Skylight]

If they will ever make a state of decay 2, they should add:

-A larger map with suburbs, city areas and forest.
-You can go beyond friendship and love other survivors, so when they die the other survivor can be upset and possibly take it out on the group.
-Enemy survivors such as the governor from The Walking Dead. This could also links to the fact that they could make it so if you approach an enclave they may ask you to step away, or start shooting you.
-I know lots of people want this, however its not possible with the current game, but in the future, they should make it an MMO. Other state of decay players could join eachother and then their would be more use for guns.
-Be able to radio back at base if you're in trouble.
-More weapons
-More survivors.
-Improved AI, so you don't have to always help someone out.
-Zombies can't climb over barbed wire fences, this is quite unrealistic.
-Cars shouldn't exploded if they turn upside down.
-When collecting a bag of ammo, for example, when you deliver it home, ammo should be added to your supply locker.
-When you are injured, you limp.
-Less missions about killing special infected (SO ANNOYING)
-Customize characters
-Books can be found (put in library to research new items)
-More items able to be crafted.
-Strangers can drive cars (can be hostile)
-Every locations on the map can be made into a base.
-Remove traps from outposts (add a lookout instead)
-Buildings should be able to be built in outposts such as an infirmary or garden.
-If a survivor dies, it comes back as a zombie.
-More dialogue added (Lilly always says the same thing)
-Able to attack other survivors.
-Be able to loot zombies
-Be able to build walls and upgrade them.
-Better potential base locations (could include prisons etc)
-Cars use fuel and take less damage (So annoying how a car blows up whenever you go on a supply run!)
-Undead labs should hire better writers such as The Walking Dead telltale writers to improve story (The ending to state of decay was really bad)

Despite the fact that this is a very long list, I think this game is amazing. But seeing as this game isn't very popular, I think this list could make the game the best zombie game going. Keep up the good work, Undead labs! If you think more could be added to this list, reply about what things should added and hopefully Undead Labs will see this :)

[JKacala127]

Couple of this-

Guns do play a major role in YOSE, crafting your ammo in breakdown adds that element of gun play.

Looting zombies: Though it sort of makes sense, even on the walking dead you hardly see them digging around a zombies pocket. With the massive amounts of zombies you kill would be annoying. Maybe some special zombies have drops that you don't have to actually search.

Outposts- they should have some more usage. You mentioned calling for help from your base, which you can with characters with special abilities. Perhaps Where you set up outposts sort of acts a measure of time how fast they can get there?

Having an infirimary off base prolly isn't the best idea, your base is going to be more secure and that's where you want to keep your meds. A garden however may not be a bad idea, but how state of decay is now, there is no need for a Garden. If there is one resource you never have to worry about in the game, it's food.

The "go kill this zombie missions" Is really just put in place for breakdown as a point booster.

When you do bring ammo crates home, you do get a few various bullets

Not sure if you played YOSE, but the government SUV's are like tanks and fast. But I like the fuel idea.

I think books are an interesting idea that can give you perks, or at least make a character improve in an area such as building.

Pretty good idea's, I like the whole concept of running into bad people. Not everyone is going to work together.

More than likely this is the Walking Dead game we never got, so I do like the idea of your characters becoming zombies which could be an interesting side mission.

[Skylight]

Thanks for the feedback, however I was aiming towards the main game, excluding the DLCs involved. I also thought it would be a good idea for Undead Labs to add a few more missions such as helping other communities to build. I don't know if you can, but while playing State of Decay (the original) on xbox 360, I realised the fact that trust with other enclaves is very difficult to build on and would be nice to see if other enclaves asked for help more. Another idea is the fact that there should be more zombies. I know what you're thinking, "it's already hard enough as it is", however with more zombies in certain areas, such as a whole town infested with infestations, it would make it more intense and again, create more usage for guns in the normal mode. A few more various different finishers would be nice too as some people who play zombie games like the gore and the satisfaction of killing a zombie in such a bad ass way. More options for speach would be nice, also. This could include something like "How are you feeling?" or "Are you happy with this base?". I know these aren't great examples, but you know what I mean. This could give you an understanding as to what your base needs for it to become stronger! And lastly, there should be more voice actors. I don't know if I'm the only one but it gets quite annoying when your group always sounds the same and most of the time the voicers are kind of irratating such as Sam Hoffman's.

[JKacala127]

The main story has very little replay, the idea of the game being harder in story mode makes sense. I think for state of decay 2 for story mode, you should be able to chose your level. In fact if you beat it on the hardest setting it should unlock a "unreal mode". On the flip side of that I play breakdown level 28 or something like that and still hardly get killed.

The dialouge isn't a big thing for me, but I see what your saying. I know you are talking about the main game, but when you spent hundreds of hours on breakdown, you can pretty much recite everything that is going to be said. They did add new dialouge in YOSE for breakdown which is good, it shows that the dev's are thinking along the lines of yourself, myself, and other gamers.

I laughed at the Sam Hoffman line, sometimes her dialouge by the voice actor is given to another character, however the voice actor rarely tells the story about finding the "Foot" unlike the voice actor is always telling you have Steve the biker.

My fear is that they will turn the game into Dead rising. Which I liked the first 2 games, though number 3 was impressive graphic wise and really was well optimized, I couldn't get into it due to the pathfinding.

There is a lot of talk about state of decay 2 or class 4 being a MMO only, though I want to work with other people and even fight other people, I'm worried about the game being a free for all

[Iron Monkey]

I hope class 4 is it's own thing and not something that actually becomes an official State of Decay 2. I hate MMO and want nothing to do with them. People simply just want some form of co op in the next State of Decay, not full on MMO.

Other than that I agree with most of your ideas. Especially the idea of potential hostile Enclaves that could have a chance to trigger over the course of the game.

For Outposts it would be nice if you could drop rucksacks at them like at home base, but maybe make it so there is a time delay or something before the home base gets it added to the resource pool. So it's like you drop it off but another person from the group has to retrieve and bring it back like they would one their random scavanging runs. It would also indeed be nice if they let you build at least one facility on it. Maybe make it so any outpost can build a watchtower on it. But if an outpost is connected to the circle radius of your home base you can build one of the other facility on it.

I never really had a problem with the kill special infected missions, except for killing the big guys because it's a waste of time. But besides that it makes sense to want to thin out the numbers of them. The beseiged ones were the ones I found annoying and out of place. It would make perfect sense if it was your home base or one of your outposts. But for random enclaves it's just dumb to me.

[Skylight]

At the moment my computer crashes whenever I play a game for about 15-20 minutes, meaning i am unable to play state of decay. It freezes and then restarts and sometimes, rarely however, goes black and restarts. Do you know how to fix this? I got my PC last christmas and has been upgraded frequently. I am able to run GTAV on 60fps on very high settings, meaning it's the low quality of my PC. It also says in the bottom right hand corner of my screen, in the taskbar, a flag with a red cross on it, saying there is a problem with my graphics card? Is this the reason why? I've already sent it off to my local PC repair shop and they said they fixed it, however they didn't. If you could help, that would be nice :)

[Iron Monkey]

I think its your card overheating and failing. Same thing happened to me except for the pc crashing. But one day I went to play this and it ran like crap after just a few minutes of play, as did all my other games that I tried after. I got the same thing with the red icon in the taskbar about the graphics card driver not responding. Tried updating the driver with no luck, after opening the pc case we saw that my fans on the card were shot and wen not turning so the card was oveheating.

Try updating or reinstalling the drivers. Other than that I don't know. I just ended up buying a new card since it was that time for me to upgrade anyway.

[Skylight]

Ok thanks, I'll send it off to my nearest computer repair soon, would it be better repairing my graphics card or getting a new one, its a geforce gtx 960 600w PSU 2MB. If i should get a better one, what one would you suggest that is compatable with an AMD R7 Radeon CPU?

[Iron Monkey]

I wouldnt know, don't know much about pc stuff myself. Someone else fixes/udates for me. But the card I had before with the problem was a AMD r6950, and the one I got now is Nvidia geforce gtx 970. So it's not a problem specifically related to AMD/Nvidia.

I haven't had any problems yet with this card but I make sure not to play more than an hour or two at a time with this game. Searching on the Original games forum you can see others have had similar issues.

[Prometheus]

Postat inițial de SergeantSkylight:

At the moment my computer crashes whenever I play a game for about 15-20 minutes, meaning i am unable to play state of decay. It freezes and then restarts and sometimes, rarely however, goes black and restarts. Do you know how to fix this? I got my PC last christmas and has been upgraded frequently. I am able to run GTAV on 60fps on very high settings, meaning it's the low quality of my PC. It also says in the bottom right hand corner of my screen, in the taskbar, a flag with a red cross on it, saying there is a problem with my graphics card? Is this the reason why? I've already sent it off to my local PC repair shop and they said they fixed it, however they didn't. If you could help, that would be nice :)

While we won't get patches any time soon, or ever, UL still does offer technical support AFIAK. So head over to Undead Labs forums and post this issue. Include a DXdiag file and get the crash dump logs. They are located in the "State of Decay YOSE" ---> USER folder. They are named with date of crash followed by DMP, as in "crash dump". This file won't tell you anything, but it will allow UL to see what the game has to say about why it is crashing.

My best guess is that your drivers are not installed properly.

Postat inițial de SergeantSkylight:

Ok thanks, I'll send it off to my nearest computer repair soon, would it be better repairing my graphics card or getting a new one, its a geforce gtx 960 600w PSU 2MB. If i should get a better one, what one would you suggest that is compatable with an AMD R7 Radeon CPU?

You are mixing up the technical details here. PSU is your power supply and it is seperate from the GFX card. Your rig will demand a certain amount of wattage, but unless you are running dual GFX cards 600 watts is more than you will ever need. A gtx 960 should be more than enough to run at 1920x1080 resolution on medium if not high, with ultra giving some stutter during load points on the map. AMD R7 Radeon is not a CPU but a GPU (GFX card) that is inferior to what you already have.

[Skylight]

Thanks, but now I am confused af XD. I'll just send off the pc and tell them that there is something wrong with the graphics card or something that causes my pc to freeze and then restart :/. Is this correct? Or am I still saying the complete wrong thing XD?

[Prometheus]

Well, if you want to pay some tech dude to (maybe) fix the problem, then yes, I think so. But I would prefer to get some input on the problem first. UL can give you that, and if it is something as simple as drivers, then you can find easy "how to guides" on the internet. Then again, it could be something much more tricky... In any case the more info you have on the issue the better. Perhaps you could relate exactly what the error message the flag in the taskbar says? I find it odd considering that you can play GTAV with no issues.

[JKacala127]

Postat inițial de SergeantSkylight:

Ok thanks, I'll send it off to my nearest computer repair soon, would it be better repairing my graphics card or getting a new one, its a geforce gtx 960 600w PSU 2MB. If i should get a better one, what one would you suggest that is compatable with an AMD R7 Radeon CPU?

You got something backwards,. The 960 is better. Some people aren't going to like to hear this or disagree, but most developers actually say to use a nvidia card. Most games start off saying Nvidia, even go as far as to say "best to play on".

a gtx 960 is a great card, probably only a Titan is worth the upgrade, I guessing your card has 2-6 gigs. If you have 2 gig, don't get it fixex. You can can get an overclock 4gb gtx960 from microcenter for 224.99.

I never really hard of a graphics card being fixed honestly, but I checked it out and it can run 50-200 bucks. Even if your going to pay 100 to get it fixed, it's just better to get a new card, even if it's the same.

Honestly you should be able to slide that right in without taking it to the shop.

As someone pointed out it's strange that you can play GTA with no issues but state of decay is giving you some issues... I'm not saying your lying, but there has to be something else going on, and it's prolly software based.

[Skylight]

In case you're wondering, the flag says "Solve a problem with NVIDIA Graphics Driver" and then when I click it, it says "This solution could not be downloaded". And again, games run fine, its just after a few minutes, the pc crashes. D:

[Prometheus]

Yeah most likely a problem with driver installation. You really don't need to pay a tech dude to fix that, and you certainly do not need to buy a new GFX card. If you do, then what's gonna happen when you try to install drivers for that card? Seriously, just go research driver installation. Google is your friend and you will figure it out. You won't break the computer if you mess up a few times, and the lessons learned will serve you well for years to come.

[Hans Blitz]

If they do a second game, have the player be able to lock npcs in to specific roles, I'd like my medic to stay in the infirmary and my mechanic in the garage, not have them run around on scavenging missions. I'd like to be able to set what group does what tasks, so skilled npcs stick to doing one job while others with less skill can do low priortiy tasks like go on scavenger hunts, patrols and general base protection.

I liked the idea of Breakdown picking up and moving to the next place, a change of maps would be nice instead of just playing the same map over and over, Would be perfect if maps would randomaly generate so your never playing the same map twice. That shouldn't be that hard to do, just create lots for farms, cabins houses and larger commercial buildings and have then randomly assemble on a map, so you may have the same buildings but there in different locations due to random placement. Even if the whole map doesn't randomize just parts of it, Say you have a set area for a farm, you might make multiple types of farms or structures that will fit that space on the map, an airport for example, so the road structure may be the same but each lot randomizes every game. You might have different road and real estate layouts to make randomization of maps more interesting.