Game Depth and KoS

[Hero of Suburbia 40]

So you start with nothing, your hungry and thirsty. There is no time to cry about it, right now you need to survive. So that's what you do. You survive. At first you take it fast gathering essential supplies and then you take off to the woods trying to get away from the majority of people. Eventually you became great at surviving and you notice that people are not often friendly to strangers so you do not make your presence known but never hesitate to kill someone who threatens you. What have you done so far? Survive. By yourself. There was no need for others, they just make it more complicated to survive.

Where was there ever room for community based play? When is it better not to kill someone out of your own paranoid state that they might try to kill you? Never. Currently the game is new and exciting and surviving is so much fun. The first time you enter a military complex looking for weapons knowing others were before you and could still be there. After awhile you are in full commando gear and you get bored so you explore the other aspect of the game; banditry. Perhaps you join a clan or play with friends using a third party communication software and you kill the shit out of people and that's it.

I know the devs have plans for the game and I know its an alpha. But there is no need to cooperate with others and that is why people don't. This game is about survival and currently other people are your maim threat, so eliminating them is the safest thing to do. It makes sense, the game was built to do that. And that is the problem, people are the only threat really. Zombies pose no thtreat even if your barehanded there are so few of them you can punch them to death.

Additionally there needs to be a reason to work with people like gathering supplies to build forts or secure towns with walls. Collecting parts to fix cars and then be able to store them in your new fort. Until there is that level of depth and zombies are more of a threat than hmans, than people will go north great military loot and kill others without discretion.

There should be huge risks to leaving a town such as massive herds of zombies that are almost impossible to escape from unless you are really good or with a mob of other armed people.

What do you guys think?

[Verex11 95]

I think the devs are doing the best they can to try and avoid that whole "I'm fully geared with nothing to do I'm going to kill everything I see now" mentality. When the new big features start rolling out hopefully it will cut down on that. But lets be honest here, the game is turning into a giant free for all for the time being, and will probably stay that way regardless of new features.

 

Step 1: Gear up.

Step 2: Kill anything you see.

Step 3. Rinse and repeat.

 

Sad.

Edited December 22, 2013 by Verex11

[Alcyon83 1]

We know that the game needs more "depth", everybody knows it, inlcuding the dev.

 

This will come, step by step, we just have to be patient.