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[King Zultan]

Well that's depressing, supposedly development isn't dead and that they've switched to making a spin off multiplayer game and once it's finished they'll go back to Nearly Dead.

Which seems like some bullshit because if they can't finish a single player game I doubt they can finish a multiplayer one.


Also how much different is the demo from the Steam version?

[heydude6]

Overambitious devs make me irrationally angry. A particularly painful example are all the failed Space Station 13 remakes that tried to be 3D. Priorities people!

[Egan_BW]

Well, Zomboid seems to still be chugging along if you want a top down real time zombie survival game with building and skills and stuff?

[MaxTheFox]

Isn't the lead dev that guy who made the UDP tileset and then had a meltdown over DDA adding the ability to change gender identity mid-game, and abandoned his tileset? lmao.

Also yeah if I wanted to play CDDA but real-time I'd play Zomboid.

[Egan_BW]

Had a dream a few days ago about fighting xcom mutons but in either cata or zomboid. That might be an entertaining mod.

[Random_Dragon]

Isn't the lead dev that guy who made the UDP tileset and then had a meltdown over DDA adding the ability to change gender identity mid-game, and abandoned his tileset? lmao.

Also yeah if I wanted to play CDDA but real-time I'd play Zomboid.

That would be the guy who stole the tileset from the Nearly Dead devs actually.

Well, I say stole but more like continue a long tradition of people bumbling their way into continuing work on the MShock tileset series. Before SDG glommed onto it it was Xotto (the aforementioned dev of Nearly Dead), then before that I'd worked on it as MShock Modded, and before that it was MShock's. Then it was other people before my time I'm less familiar with the history of.

[King Zultan]

Also yeah if I wanted to play CDDA but real-time I'd play Zomboid.

Last time I thought thoughts similar to that I just played Cataclysm as Zomboid lacks the features I really like that Cataclysm has.

[Egan_BW]

Just turn on that setting which advances a few ticks if you make no input. :3

[King Zultan]

Oh man I forgot all about that option, I really should give it a try one day.

[Robsoie]

Anyone played long enough with that option ?
I'm wondering if it's worth playing this way to change the gameplay or if it's just broken ?

[MaxTheFox]

Anyone played long enough with that option ?
I'm wondering if it's worth playing this way to change the gameplay or if it's just broken ?

The UI isn't made for that style of controls, like at all, so unless you have catlike reflexes and the typing speed of a professional typist, then you will just die horribly. Zomboid is a simpler game that was actually built for real-time which is why it works there. That option is mostly there as an experiment.

[Egan_BW]

I'd probably keep it at a fairly low setting and use it as a way to ratchet up tension in decision making rather than to make the game really real-time.

[Random_Dragon]

Last I'd checked it was very janky, in particular if you leave basically any menu open, time pauses while it's open before suddenly taking EVERY TURN that had passed all at once right after you close that menu. No idea if that's ever been fixed since.

[Egan_BW]

Yeah, seems like the sort of option which is left in a janky unfinished state because nobody uses it because it's too janky. :p

[Random_Dragon]

I mean, no one uses it because any implementation is going to be contrary to how you play a rougelike too so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯