While game is not bad, but it is highly frustrating to play even on normal when you are a solo player. First issue are vague objectives which pop up. They are not described clearly and you end up running through whole map. For example, I was asked to find wood. I went to that location and marker disappeared. I was going through whole map to figure out what I needed to find. In the end, it seems that quest items were not highlighted properly and I just ran through them. Why? This game is filled with zombies, you can easily miss those little details. Objectives are obscure like this. One time game started spamming never ending hordes expecting you to just run through. How I’m supposed to know that? Next time I had to light up three lights. However, they will run out then left alone. Solo player, objective which needs more people? Bots which can’t be ordered to capture it? Do you see the problem? Game becomes a frantic race between points at that point.
Game difficulty is also highly annoying. Game is not hard at any time, but it constantly tickles your resources down and bots are not efficient in clearing later stages of undead. This creates feeling that game is unplayable for melee classes as zombies will always tickle your health down. Range classes however bypasses such concerns all together. I do not think that game is balanced from design point of view.
I do not know what this game is, but it is certainly NOT a co-op game. There are ZERO mechanics to interact with each other. Even resurrection can be made as an auto ability. Everything in this game is made to compete against another player. Chests is most notorious example. In Co-op you wont be fighting zombie hordes with your fellow players. Hordes are just an annoyance. What you will be doing will be frantic exploration of map in order to hoard all the resources to yourself, especially precious upgrade books. When you are playing this game you are actively working against the other player and you do not even go together. Even elite monsters do not make collaboration necessary.
Mechanics in this game is also quite frustrating. Chests require you to explore all the map. However, zombies just keep on spamming, especially in key areas. It is extremely frustrating type of gameplay. You can’t even find a second to read ability texts and to pick what upgrade you want to go next. You will ALWAYS be attacked and zombies are NEVER a threat to you. What is a threat is their slowly tickling your health away. That is a really frustrating core gameplay experience and when developers do add a lot of zombies on screen, they simply swarm entire area to the point you cant even move or jump around. Yet, it is not even that hard. I imagine that additional difficulties levels will make it even worse as zombies will start hitting third of you hp at one shot. Game needs better mechanics which would make gameplay harder.
In the end, game feels very light on content. You don’t even have character menu to see what perks you had unlocked. How much you had achieved with that character. What builds you could go for. Maybe some auto-leveling system with some skins would be nice. However, nothing is in there. It is just playing the same over an hour long game on same maps, with same characters, but with some modifications on how they play.
Overall, quite frustrating solo experience and obtuse game when you are playing for the first time. After that, it doesn’t seem to have much more content than what you experience through your first run.
Game difficulty is also highly annoying. Game is not hard at any time, but it constantly tickles your resources down and bots are not efficient in clearing later stages of undead. This creates feeling that game is unplayable for melee classes as zombies will always tickle your health down. Range classes however bypasses such concerns all together. I do not think that game is balanced from design point of view.
I do not know what this game is, but it is certainly NOT a co-op game. There are ZERO mechanics to interact with each other. Even resurrection can be made as an auto ability. Everything in this game is made to compete against another player. Chests is most notorious example. In Co-op you wont be fighting zombie hordes with your fellow players. Hordes are just an annoyance. What you will be doing will be frantic exploration of map in order to hoard all the resources to yourself, especially precious upgrade books. When you are playing this game you are actively working against the other player and you do not even go together. Even elite monsters do not make collaboration necessary.
Mechanics in this game is also quite frustrating. Chests require you to explore all the map. However, zombies just keep on spamming, especially in key areas. It is extremely frustrating type of gameplay. You can’t even find a second to read ability texts and to pick what upgrade you want to go next. You will ALWAYS be attacked and zombies are NEVER a threat to you. What is a threat is their slowly tickling your health away. That is a really frustrating core gameplay experience and when developers do add a lot of zombies on screen, they simply swarm entire area to the point you cant even move or jump around. Yet, it is not even that hard. I imagine that additional difficulties levels will make it even worse as zombies will start hitting third of you hp at one shot. Game needs better mechanics which would make gameplay harder.
In the end, game feels very light on content. You don’t even have character menu to see what perks you had unlocked. How much you had achieved with that character. What builds you could go for. Maybe some auto-leveling system with some skins would be nice. However, nothing is in there. It is just playing the same over an hour long game on same maps, with same characters, but with some modifications on how they play.
Overall, quite frustrating solo experience and obtuse game when you are playing for the first time. After that, it doesn’t seem to have much more content than what you experience through your first run.