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I Haven't Wrote A Review In A While On Steam, But The ONLY Reason I'm Going To Is The Bad Reviews Are Outstanding For This Game Page.. That Said, I Took The Opportunity To Use Free Weekend To Download And Test The Game Out Before i Decided On Buying It At Discount Rate.. I Was Hesitant At First Because Of The Bad Reviews.. But.. As An Honest Reviewer On Products, I Can Say This, It's An Old Game, So Really Doesn't Require High Demanding System Requirements Just Basic Hardware Requirements, My Only Complaint Is They Alienated The Steam Deck Base, Bc If You Plan To Buy This For The Steam Deck.. DON'T.. The Game Comes Up As Of This Writing Of This Review Which Who Knows May Or May Not Change Later In The Years, But It Gives Off Error (Wine Not Supported.) So It Won't Even Recognize The EXE Support On SteamOS At All Which Is A Dev Issue On EA, However.. I Have A Great Gaming Desktop Rig.. So Figured I Test It Out There.. Once Installed, It Booted Up At First, But Couldn't Get Past The Cannot Connect Error Message, Short Story, It Ended Up Being The EA Desktop App On My End And I Had To Exit Out Of Their EA Desktop App Entirely For The Steam Version To Work Properly Via - Network Side. And Thus Having To Ensure The Windows UAC Pops Up For The Firewall Exceptions, To Allow The Game To Go Online,, Thus Worked Afterwards.. Therefore, The Game Booted Past The Error Screen, Launched Into Game, Ran Fine, Smooth, With No Internet Issues Thereafter, And Servers Were Fantastic, Friendly People, Didn't Encounter Cheaters On My End, As Some Claim, I Just Saw Good Great Players That Played For Years, If You Are Like Me Doing LAN Parties Back In The Day With Halo And Battlefield 2, You'd Know How People Play And How They Strategize, Bc I Didn't Encounter These Alleged Aim-Botters As Some Say.. At Least For The Short Of Amount Of Time Of My Play-Testing Experience. In The End Result.. I Saw Nothing But Basic Hardware System Requirements, Bc The Game Isn't All That Bad Lookin Just Old In My Opinion, Just Ensure Your System Does Have The Basic Requirements Before Buying It.. But.. Keep In Mind, EA Can't Predict How The Game Will And Can Run On The User-End.. It's Always Going To Be Unpredictable, Which Is Why I Think In My opinion They Should Rethink Steam Deck Support, Bc Steam Deck Makes It Literally Way More Simpler For Simple Folks That Aren't Tech Savy And You Can't Rely On Their Link To Really Find Your Direct Problem Solver, More Of Guidelines On Where To Start.. Overall, I Enjoyed The Combat System, The Re-Spawn System Is Funny, I Died A Lot Killed A Lot, And Had Fun, I Just Hated No One Tea Bagged Me! So If Your Lookin For A Great Battlefield Game To Add To Your Collection, Don't Let The Bad Reviews Scare You Away.. The Game Itself Is Fantastic, It Brought Back My Battlefield 2 Day Weekends With My Friends On LAN Parties. After Testing This Game, I Bought It On Sale. Worth The Discount.

I bought the Original Version at launch date, That Said, I technically got the steam version for free but not really, The game was riddled with bugs all throughout my game time years back, but I decided to activate the steam version and update to the newest patch, Big Changes since I stopped playing, I deleted my old Toon and started over, bc I couldnt Enjoy the newest patches without starting over, the perk cards are more organized, bugs have been fixed in major situations, The Game is still fun, even with the bugs I still enjoyed the game since the start, but, I only wished the devs would give a free LAN Private Server for free rather charge Loyal Customers that stuck with them since the beginning and bought the full original. I am confused why they would charge for a Private Server, makes no sense, If you can get passed the greed Bethesda has become the game can be enjoyed rightly so, I do recommend the game, but Don't recommend giving them anymore money other than paying for the game itself, dont support Micro-Transactions, it will only give them more power in the long run, refuse to pay for things that should be free. My play time is far, far larger than what Steam Shows, bc I started out from the original launcher of the Bethesda Launcher.

So far, this Game is Incredible, In my Opinion,

Turn your music on in your music player before playing this game, will make you enjoy it so much more killing Zombies!

So far, It requires Patience, Little Slight Skill, and Basic Know Hows, It has many difficulty settings for All people, I play more in Multiplayer than anything else, My server will be known as New World Order All Welcome!

For those new people, Craft a Compass for your Crafted Base, before going out to explore, so you can find your way back to your base on the compass, I don't play like most, I Build on top of Buildings of their roofs, quickly as possible on Legendary Mode, or Custom Settings, the best thing to do in hardest settings, is to craft as quickly as possible, otherwise, you will NOT survive from the Hordes.

With my strategy, after crafting my base safely on top of a roof, is I explore for weapons, my main priority is finding a Gun, and finding the ammo, until I can craft the ammo, once I can craft ammo, it becomes easier, using Flamethrowers and the Giant Crossbow Torrents makes the game easier no matter what setting you are on.

For my priority is finding safety first, crafting basic food, and hunting for more Chocolate bars, building those up as much as possible, while main priority for me, is to find an AK and upgrade it little by little, I have found using the AK, as I like to call it, really fun to Headshot Zombies!, from a distance, drawing them out one by one and crafting as many dynamites as I can for taking out groups in buildings using them like flash bangs to explore areas, I prefer the game to be really hard for better enjoyment on my part, this game is set apart from others, to me, It's addictive if you love crafting and defending off your base, while looking for journals.

It Is much easier to explore to my perspective using the flamethrower and AK combined with the baseball bat, But everyone has a different style of playing this game, Melee is a great option in the beginning, I just wish they didn't force the Basic Knife on you when you die, I wish you could setup your primary default weapon and store your knife, this gets in the way and wastes a perfectly good spot in your inventory.

Although, I haven't been actually looking for the journals quite yet, I found it so much more thrilling to just craft, craft, craft. I have created a Mansion so far, I started crafting on Day One Of 0 Days. I am having a much easier time surviving than most are, due to me using the Roofs in the Cities, which allows me to enjoy the game much more rather repairing structures all the time, which allows me to explore for weapons and collecting them for other online friends that join me. I am doing no different in this game than what I do in Fallout 76 and that's sitting in several spots crafting buildings.

And Yes, You do have some characters to choose from before you start a New Game, you start a new game And a Character Selection Screen Shows, I know some women that love the idea you can finally be a woman in a Zombie infested world!

And yes, to me, I didn't feel like I was ripped off from the price, to me, It's worth every cent payed for, and I thank the devs for their time creating this game.

Please devs give us the ability to store the knife and allow us to choose a preferred weapon of choice for when we die. I hate the knife stuck in my inventory all the time, after I have new weapons to use.

I will add more later as I keep playing

I bought this game at a discount of 6 bucks on a Steam sale.

I don't and still don't understand all the negative feedback's on this game, this game to me is similar to dead island, and fact yes its not dead island, but I think its worth the money I spent on it, its a time killer game, it has similar missions as Dead Island, instead of crafting weapons you find Hidden Workshop Benches and on top of those you have a single weapon, from what I've seen so far, the game was better than what most people led on. if you are willing to play a unique type of game then play this, its just a game no reason to hate it anymore than what it is lol. I almost didn't buy this due to the bad feedback and I can ensure you don't listen to most of the feedback's mostly just trolls who hate anything that doesn't meet to their perspective. The game is Cartoonish, you do need a decent Rig to play this at high Graphics, The Graphics isn't bad considering its cartoonish, its like Team fortress 2 Graphics. But in a good way to me, I love the Comic like details put in place of this game, some people will love it, some people will hate it forever, similar to the Cartoonish Zelda game also. It has basic Weapon Schematics in the game, basic Shoot em up and Melee'r weapons nothing fancy, But love the Upgraded Weapons. The game isn't easy, But once you get the hang of the controls, which I customized mine, your good to go, So don't listen to all the haters if your willing to add this game to your Dead Island Franchise, To me I think its worth the add-on, and I think its a fun game.

If you like Fallout and STALKER, then this game is for you, this game is mostly based in gameplay not graphical, but still has STALKER graphics, decent, it has First person, 3rd Person. Its similiar to Fallout, find missions, Find weapons and armor, but this game has a pretty dynamic view of recipe creations, incredible Gamemasters, which help prevent spammers from annoying you or harrassing you In-game. Although help is limited unless you buy at least one Store item, which isnt a bad thing, Its Free2Play why complain, if you plan on keep playing than buy something from the Marketplace to unlock You're Certain limits In-game. When creating Recipes, some take minutes while some take hours to days. So this game isnt for the faint of heart, if you can't read and follow through quickly and comprehend well, then this game is not for you.

Certain Armor and Gear, are only available through PVP, which is recommended with Teams. This game has well endored people playing so its best to keep you're Manners at hand, you tick one person off and you're name is pretty much Kill on sight, game is comprehensive when it comes to recipes, FE is hard to play through without recipes, but isnt impossible since it has a similiar concept as Amazon sellers or Ebay Auctions, since this game has its Own Auction House, mail box which you can send and recieve mail just as real life with packaging.

If you follow through the beginning Tutorial you will recieve free gear and a Vehicle. Easiest ways to make Chips as in cash, is to collect and farm and Auction off items, but keep an amount of items for yourself.
The game is quite simple when it comes to making a clan or joining a clan, you also get a Help channel with Region and local, But Global Chats are unlocked with a single item bought from the Marketplace.

The Devs, do their best at updating but at times can be slow, just like most any other games, the current level from this review is lvl55, since they take their sweet time when updating higher lvls.

If you plan on playing this game keep in mind, DON'T rush the game, take you're time, customize you're controls, set you're Window Panels in-game best to you're level. Don't forget you get basic Training abilities with Mutations that disapear at a certain level. Max chip limits are all 9 chips in every chip collor for now. Don't Skip levels, if you play all missions you'll have more than enough chips to buy whatever suits you. I dont recommend Power-Leveling unless you already played all the missions on another Alternative Character AKA Alt. Its best to stay within the lines of all Factions until you know which Faction is best for you.

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Update 1/13/14

Auction House: Used to sell whatever Items that are tradable, though most people I have noticed that are new to this game even older members tend to get two things confused at times, first.
Remember that theres differences between Not Tradable and Not sellable. Not tradable means exactly what it means, you can't trade it with other members of the game like yourself, and Cannot be sold, means you can't sell that item to the Merchants in-game. This doesnt mean you can't place this in the AH unless it states its both Not Tradable and can't be sold. If it just says cant be sold, you can trade the item with players but cant sell it to the merchants. if the item says it cant be traded but doesnt say it cant be sold, that means you cant trade with Players but you can sell it to Mercs. If both are displayed, best th8ing to do is either two things, stash it somewhere or right click the item to delete or Scrap it for parts, if given that Option.

Most players have a hard time figuring out where best to scavenge loot, whether its for crafting or selling. Try looking in the outskirts of Embry, Oilvile, Pass Chris and other towns, Oilvile contains alot of Copper and Lead deposits for example.

Waypoints.
Waypoints is VERY important in this game if you have a hard time keeping track of where your favorite spots are, rather its for looting and killing. To use Waypoints go to your Menu and locate the name Waypoints click it to open another window you can create a Waypoint or Add another. To create your own you can locate your Radar and click the globe icon to bring up your strategic map, from there, you can uncheckmark the Overhead to view detailed Information of where your at, and you can right click where ur Marker is at to add a waypoint, you can edit name to easily find it in your Waypoints Manager Window.

Copy recipe Links or AH links to Chat Windows

If you are near a AH or chatting in a Chat Bar, you can link recipes by going to Menu locating your Recipes and find the desired recipe and look at the bottom of your recipe, you will see an icon that looks like Shuffled cards, next to that icon is a chat bubble you click that to add it to any Recently Active Chat windows, then Enter it to show Full recipe to someone, But NEVER shout out recipes in the HELP section, since this will get you muted or possibly banned from Help for Spamming in the Help channel. Just like Adding Recipes you can also just directly link the Item itself rather the full recipe which is useful in the Auction Channel so you dont spam and make anyone mad. To do so, locate any recipe, find the actual item you want to craft, look at the Icon of the Item point your cursor to the thumbnail of it and you will see a Red pin like picture in the picture of it, you will then notice it will show a detail information of it, when it does that, hold down your Ctrl Button down on your keyboard and click your left click on your mouse to see it directly link to your active Chat Window. Works great for asking in the Auction Channel when saying WTB or Wanting/Willing To Sell

Update: 7/17/2014

Some have been using the word Pay2win and thinking that just because you clear an area of enemies they respawn too quickly that it needs improvement, truth be told, yes the game does need improvement... but Name one game you played that doesnt need it. People that use the word Pay2win, you dont pay2win in this game, if you are refering to using In-Game Chips that are free in the game then its not Pay2win, its Working2win, you have to work to get money within the game to buy/make weapons etc. sure you can use the AH to buy weapons, but you arent using RL money to do so, unless you are paying RL money for Chips which isnt legal within the game, and yes the Marketplace have decent items that you can buy to trade off for chips within the game if you choose so, but you dont need Chips, you need Intellegence and good manners. Befriend the right people within the clans and you will always most likly get free help or get free items just for being Pendant and friendly. Karma goes a long ways. Now as far as Enemies appearing too quickly after death, think of this as the Prison in Kingman in Sector 1, its designed this way to give you more of an edge, which opens up the ability of having to rely on Friends/Team Work. Social Skills at best. If you are a loney, best advise check your build make a good power build for Solo Missions. Skip Hard missions for a low end Toon and go back later and beat that mission when your Character is stronger in the level.

Best of luck and happy playing.

This game is worth playing at least once

Exciting game to play with friends, been playing on insane setting and very fun with friends. must strategize alot. love the slo-mo shots