Infection Free Zone

[Sennex 1,965]

I've had this one on my backlog for a while now, and I have no idea why I haven't played it before now, because DAMN

 

Okay, so its a Zombie apocalypse/ City Builder type game. It takes Google Maps data to create your play area.....

 

I started a map, with my house as the HQ, and it has been amazing so far. You can create any location in the world. The game uses the map data to sort out how difficult of a time you will have. Cities obviously are the worst locations.  The maps are not perfect, in that it assumes the sizes of the houses based off of google footprint. So in my case it has my house slightly smaller than it actually is, because the google map image isn't current. (See the screenshots below)

 

You can dismantle houses for resources, and you find settlers all over the place. 

 

There is a story, that I won't spoil because I think I am about a third of the way through it, I could be wrong there though. I am way to busy farming resources to build a fortress to worry about other survivors in DC and Baltimore.

 

Two gripes people have about the game:

Zombies can cross any body of water, so can your squads. The Dev's did this for pathing reasons, as the game is still in Early Access, and I guess trying to differentiate water on a google map is hard when importing data. IDK, it doesn't' phase me, I just build more walls

 

Radio transmissions are frequent, and can't be ignored. You have to choose an option, but luckily it does pause the game for you. That being said if you don't choose an option quickly the npc's will get grumpy.

 

 

 

So the screenshots I am attaching are of my play area. The "Star" is my house, the HQ, the rest are shelters, and warehouses I am setting up, along with some build orders, etc. I zoomed really far out for these so you could see the street names and more of the play area.

[Sennex 1,965]

I forgot to say that those pics are at night, I need to get some day time pics, but thats why they are so dark and washed out.

[Sennex 1,965]

Changed over to Edinburgh to build and it forced me to use the Castle.... Oh No! whatever will I do with massive stone walls and insanely huge buildings to use as shelter and warehouses...

Honestly I am loving this game, let me know if you all have places you want me to check out

[Sennex 1,965]

Okay..... Edinburgh might have been a mistake..... apparently the scots really like to turn zombie. I've never seen hordes this big in game before. 

[GazzaGarratt 11,214]

Looks great, definitely feels like a spin of Command & Conquer a little bit too.

 

How do you create more soldiers for your side, or do you have a set amount and it can only go down?

[Sennex 1,965]

So its a population control game, so every time you need another squad of soldiers, you need to have 4 people sitting around unemployed. 

 

Survivors wander around and they either attack you, join you, or run away from you. Your citizens can have kids, which grow pretty fast, I think a full year (12 days) gets them to where they can have jobs, this is helped by having a school set up. The most I have had so far is around 300 people, which took around 80 in game years. I am well on my way to more, but the swarms of zombies hitting me are slowing me down a lot

[phil bottle 10,039]

I've seen some gameplay and it looks like a lot of fun. Like Project Zomboid on steroids 🙂

[ChaosGladiator 822]

@Sennex have you ran into the military yet and managed to get on their bad side? 😂 While I don’t recommend it, it’s definetly an experience 🤣

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2 hours ago, ChaosGladiator said:

@Sennex have you ran into the military yet and managed to get on their bad side? 😂 While I don’t recommend it, it’s definetly an experience 🤣

So I sort of did, but then I got overrun by swarms, so I restarted and that storyline hasn't progressed.

 

Basically I am currently solidifying my gains, and looting every possible building in my build area. I've started demoing all buildings that are in sniper range of my towers as well. Its a process, and once its done, I will then go back to pissing off the military lol

 

Post pics though, I would love to see your build

[ChaosGladiator 822]

1 hour ago, Sennex said:

So I sort of did, but then I got overrun by swarms, so I restarted and that storyline hasn't progressed.

 

Basically I am currently solidifying my gains, and looting every possible building in my build area. I've started demoing all buildings that are in sniper range of my towers as well. Its a process, and once its done, I will then go back to pissing off the military lol

 

Post pics though, I would love to see your build

Oh the one I progressed the most with was the one where I pissed off the military, they killed everyone and destroyed the whole camp 😂

 

Been a while since I played, got pretty far doing a save in my home town but I’ve now exhausted all resources as it’s not got that many buildings and my looting crews keep getting destroyed by zombie bears…