Devias
Shared on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 12:31I play Urban Dead, which is a "low tech" web-based MMO that reminds me of those old BBS text games. You are either a zombie or a survivor in a quarantined city, made up of suburbs which have various building types.
If you're a survivor, your main goal is to loot the police departments and hospitals for weapons and medical supplies. There are many different types of buildings, so you can find portable generators, GPS radios, fire axes, all sorts of things. You barricade yourselves into buildings and join loose coalitions of other survivors. Some buildings are overbarricaded, meaning you can't get to them from the street level - you have to have the Free Running skill (which lets you enter over barricaded buildings from adjacent buildings which may be less barricaded). You gain EXP for healing others, killing zombies, etc.
All the zombies roaming the city are player controlled. They have a different skill tree, and if you die as a human you can just stand up as a zombie and join the shambling horde. You can't communicate or use weapons, but you can bite and sense wounded survivors and smash apart the barricades. Or, you can attempt to find a player-sponsed "Revive point", where well-meaning survivor scientists can convert you out of your zombie state and back into a human.
All in all it's great fun, you only have 50 action points a day to spend, and it's not a huge time investment to play every day. I would suggest checking it out, I usually play during my lunch break. When I'm a survivor my main goal is hoarding ammunition, and every few days I go outside to hunt zombies, making sure I always have enough AP left to find a barricaded building to sleep in for the rest of the day. Of course there's guilds you can join who have home bases, and perform their own activities.
When I'm a zombie it's fun to go to different suburbs and rampage through buildings, killing survivors, or joining up with the huge roaming hordes that regularly assaults the larger buildings in the game such as the Malls and the Army Forts.
Beware if you try to play in the next couple of days, as the zombies have really gone apeshit in the past week along the western suburbs. There's massive 50+ zombie hordes roaming everywhere, which makes it very difficult to survive or even to find barricaded shelters to spend the night in. This goes in phases, eventually the survivors will start fighting back along the warzones.
But for now, if you start playing as a survivor, I would suggest moving East as quickly as possible or you'll be overcome by the zombies. If you start as a zombie, I would also suggest heading East, because many of the western suburbs are ravaged, meaning there's no survivors or barricades left to attack in order to gain EXP.
Finally, the game won't let you play more than a couple of characters at once. It'll recognize your IP address and restrict you to 150 or so total APs in any given 24 hour period. Your best bet is to create a survivor and a zombie and play them separately in different areas of the city.
Anyway, here's the game link: urbandead.com
If you're a survivor, your main goal is to loot the police departments and hospitals for weapons and medical supplies. There are many different types of buildings, so you can find portable generators, GPS radios, fire axes, all sorts of things. You barricade yourselves into buildings and join loose coalitions of other survivors. Some buildings are overbarricaded, meaning you can't get to them from the street level - you have to have the Free Running skill (which lets you enter over barricaded buildings from adjacent buildings which may be less barricaded). You gain EXP for healing others, killing zombies, etc.
All the zombies roaming the city are player controlled. They have a different skill tree, and if you die as a human you can just stand up as a zombie and join the shambling horde. You can't communicate or use weapons, but you can bite and sense wounded survivors and smash apart the barricades. Or, you can attempt to find a player-sponsed "Revive point", where well-meaning survivor scientists can convert you out of your zombie state and back into a human.
All in all it's great fun, you only have 50 action points a day to spend, and it's not a huge time investment to play every day. I would suggest checking it out, I usually play during my lunch break. When I'm a survivor my main goal is hoarding ammunition, and every few days I go outside to hunt zombies, making sure I always have enough AP left to find a barricaded building to sleep in for the rest of the day. Of course there's guilds you can join who have home bases, and perform their own activities.
When I'm a zombie it's fun to go to different suburbs and rampage through buildings, killing survivors, or joining up with the huge roaming hordes that regularly assaults the larger buildings in the game such as the Malls and the Army Forts.
Beware if you try to play in the next couple of days, as the zombies have really gone apeshit in the past week along the western suburbs. There's massive 50+ zombie hordes roaming everywhere, which makes it very difficult to survive or even to find barricaded shelters to spend the night in. This goes in phases, eventually the survivors will start fighting back along the warzones.
But for now, if you start playing as a survivor, I would suggest moving East as quickly as possible or you'll be overcome by the zombies. If you start as a zombie, I would also suggest heading East, because many of the western suburbs are ravaged, meaning there's no survivors or barricades left to attack in order to gain EXP.
Finally, the game won't let you play more than a couple of characters at once. It'll recognize your IP address and restrict you to 150 or so total APs in any given 24 hour period. Your best bet is to create a survivor and a zombie and play them separately in different areas of the city.
Anyway, here's the game link: urbandead.com
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