Does it get boring? Single player

[Inflames]

i'm only playing single player so i was wondering does it get boring and repetitive after a while? KIll zombie eat sleep loot... repeat?

[Darkon]

Now you can't even kill zombie or loot anymore, otherwise the horde will spawn behind you to take your loot and your life...and no, they won't stop spawning because you are making too much noise while killing them unless a random beeper spawn in the horde then good night

[Inflames]

Publicado originalmente por Darkon:

Now you can't even kill zombie or loot anymore, otherwise the horde will spawn behind you to take your loot and your life...and no, they won't stop spawning because you are making too much noise while killing them unless a random beeper spawn in the horde then good night

not good... and no story nothing? wonder how some people can play 100+ hours of doing the same thing over and over? no buy from me for now i guess

[fatesdeath]

Publicado originalmente por Inflames:

Publicado originalmente por Darkon:

Now you can't even kill zombie or loot anymore, otherwise the horde will spawn behind you to take your loot and your life...and no, they won't stop spawning because you are making too much noise while killing them unless a random beeper spawn in the horde then good night

not good... and no story nothing? wonder how some people can play 100+ hours of doing the same thing over and over? no buy from me for now i guess

theres a large number of people that can
i personally dont know how they do it for HOURS alone.... i did 1000 hours alone but i was on official multiplayer servers

base building can sink a ton of time still
the metabolisim people try different things with different builds
some people just wanna see 20 boxes filled with loot
or explore the map EXTREMELY slowly
theres "abandoned bunkers that have some more npcs in there but they use the same ai as te puppets just inside a military place i dont wanna spoil too much on the bunkers though

i will say the shooting npc/ai ATM is lacking will only be fun for so long without the threat of other players..
i mean if you personally struggle with puppets and the npcs then they might never make you bored but if you know how to adapt they wont be a struggle for too long

then theres no real threats after... other than players... and its single player....
you would be playing the game IMO with half the threats takenout...aka players


theres TON of lore and the building blocks for DEEEP lore
you just need to look for it.. the devs have put out "story" lore you just need to go looking

theres lore in both supporter pack PDF's
theres movie scripts
you can watch the trailers
not to mention in world lore when playing

MISSIONS will come later as the devs have stated

[Ulferus]

Publicado originalmente por Inflames:

i'm only playing single player so i was wondering does it get boring and repetitive after a while? KIll zombie eat sleep loot... repeat?

yes - the only way is multiplayer and single for testing

[Darkon]

Publicado originalmente por fatesdeath:

then theres no real threats after... other than players... and its single player....
you would be playing the game IMO with half the threats takenout...aka players

Yes, please, I would, I did and I want to do it again but I can't because "horde" system, if it was a proper horde system (something like Project Zomboid hordes) where you can see the horde moving in a city or as a nasty surprise in a warehouse/shopping centre I would love it but this magical spawn system that makes zombies to appear next to you with the siderwinder tracking system with you as their objetive if you dare to sneeze? No thank you I prefer the good old sleepers and roamers like we had before this update

[Draft Lottery 72]

Opinions are like A**holes... everybody's got one. Don't put down people who enjoy the survival aspect of this game (the most detailed in the genre). Not everybody wants to collect the biggest weapon and shoot other players over, and over again (Just my OPINION).

[Yria]

Publicado originalmente por Inflames:

i'm only playing single player so i was wondering does it get boring and repetitive after a while? KIll zombie eat sleep loot... repeat?

yes it does
most beautiful environment with not much to do
i am thinking the devs do not love their SP game because they are hard core pvpers at first
there are many rules in SP that make no sense because they come from MP

[eighthwonderbeeton8]

This is all a matter of whether it suits the player or not, so you'll never know until you play it.

I have already played 1,000 hours in single player mode.

I have always loved RPGs and simulation games.
SCUM, at this point in time, has no RPG elements.But I enjoy SCUM.

Perhaps SCUM is rich in simulation game elements.
SCUM is very good at giving players a lot of choices, trial and error, and finding ways to survive.

It's not only the game, but the community is growing and the developers are actively participating in the threads, which is better than most games.

[grocus93]

Yes, singleplayer is quite boring (but when your OS is Linux ... no choice).
You have to make your own trip. It was cool with the 0.95v as this upgrade give a boost with pupetts but they seems to have slowdown the spawn, quiet again since last patches :-(

Nevermind ! Devs are clever and do an excellent job; They gradually bring their will and the future promises to be bright !
So don't give up, come back in several months if you are bored, the best is coming now they have nearly all the underlying mechanics up and running !!!

[Arthur_Dent]

Publicado originalmente por Inflames:

i'm only playing single player so i was wondering does it get boring and repetitive after a while? KIll zombie eat sleep loot... repeat?

I got bored after a while and started playing on servers. I've been on mostly PVE servers but I was on a couple of PVPVE servers. I've played with mechs enabled and disabled. I prefer them disabled. Currently I'm on a what I think is a good PVE server. I normally build my base around the B2 airport. Most of the time I don't see anyone. There's a base a little past my base and haven't ever seen the owner. I know people are there and I sometimes talk to them in Discord and sometimes I help them with things in the game or they'll help me. I also like being on a server because time doesn't stop like it does on a single player save. IMO it's a lot better if you're going to have a garden. I even shut the game down at times when I don't want to be in the game at night and wait for daylight to load the game back.

[The Collector]

I have 800+ hours on SP 😅. This is currently my second longest I've kept a character and I have survived 12 SCUM days without a death/respawn and my character is 33 days old since created. I miss the days where we could make "big boned" character and then run around to become a skinny athlete or vise versa. Now everyone is forced to be the same body type.

There is a lot of loot that I have never been able to find, so I explore and survive until I have managed to collect all (or at least most) of the weapons. I have build several bases around the map because it is too big to stay in one place and it can become tedious to constantly loot the same areas when staying in one place.

I've changed my settings to such that it makes me still enjoy the game according to my play style but the horde system is unbalanced and for this reason I have set my settings for the horde on "0"

If only they still had the "interior and exterior" spawn settings or the time it should take for the corpse to disappear as this is the only thing that is making my game a little unbalanced.

The PVP is nice once a while but SCUM is more of a slow game than a fast pace game since the loot is not always great, unless you make a bow and some arrows which makes you feel forced to get it ASAP..

I enjoy the time fishing in the game or tending to the small garden from time to time whenever I want a slow/chilled game. Other than that, I find ways to keep myself entertained with SCUM.

I will not convince people how "good" or "bad" the game is because it is simply one of those games where everyone has their own opinion based on how they play the game and their expectations of what they think the game should be. Personally, I have fun in SP and MP because I make the best of what I have.

[Sr. Morajsakom]

It may get boring, MAY.
Do some research on whats available to you, you may get 500+ hours on just exploring the wonders of the island. Even better if you first enter the island without research as there is a nice new beginner guidance system recently introduced to the game.

[Agent X ™]

It is a sandbox. You have to make your own fun. The new horde mechanics makes it a bit more challenging. Most zombie games have the same game loop.

[Jack Jester]

If you've never learned how to keep yourself busy, it gets boring. There are no quests and so on integrated yet but that will definitely happen.

Until then, survival and base building are a lot of fun and of course you can play around in multiplayer. There are not only PvP servers.