Day 743 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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Today’s game is Project Zomboid. The new public build of Build 42 fixed my controller problems, and i’ve been basically thirsting for Zomboid these last few months. So getting to play it again is like finding an oasis. I got my friends on too (this is why it’s a 4:3 Crop, to hide their personal info the game shows), and we made camp at the motel where we made our first ever base back when it was just Jerry and Cable.

To celebrate the return to the public branch we’re playing Jerry and Cable, who is by far my favorite "OC"s me and my best friend have made, if you can really call them that.

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They changed some of the presets around i believe, because when we spawned in i was struggling to find myself a car that had gas and a key, meanwhile like every god forsaken rare item is spawning for me. I found sledge hammers, guns, even a can opener which i always struggle with. We’re on builder too which is what makes it especially confusing. I did manage to find a car and a Jerry Can to fill it with gas though so it’s not all a failure. It definitely made me feel more successful.

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One of my favorite things about the new update is the animals. I found some chickens that were abandoned, and bless Jerry’s cruel heart but he found something he could actually love. I built them a coop. I read up on everything i need to keep them fed and happy, so that should keep them alive.

One of our friends wants to eat them, but i convinced him to let me take care of them because that will give us eggs which will keep us alive and fed far longer.

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Anyways, i’m glad to have this back in a state i can play. I missed it and i love all the new Build 42 Stuff they added. I’ll probably see if i can get some friends on again tomorrow to play some more because i missed this.

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mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So I kinda been interested in this game and for a long time it has been in my wishlist. But every time I added it to the cart the feeling that it is going to require a hefty amount time to get in as a solo player has stopped me and ended removing it from the cart :(

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- tpyo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve tried playing the game for years. I finally decided to get back to it and get gud because my biggest weakness is I haven’t learned to fight well and I hated being carried by whoever I was playing with
  
  I restarted a few days ago and was really surprised when I saw a big update. So I went in on the “easy mode” with a focus more on homesteading and chiller zombies and got used to the ui and took the time to figure out the mechanics of killing zombies, even a small pack
  
  They have a tutorial that is (I think) well put together to walk you through the first steps
  
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EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I liked this game well enough, but it’s clearly made to play with other people, and I have no friends who would be interested in playing. The only friends who even game anymore are a couple who play among us almost exclusively.

PZ build 42 would have been perfect for my friend group of 10 years ago.

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- TheMetaleek@jlai.lu ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I couldn’t disagree more, I love the game and think it’s first and foremost a solo experience. I have around 500 hours in, and about 400 are exclusively solo, in various games since build 38. It’s in single player where the truth of the apocalypse hits you, the dread of being alone against the world knowing you will fail but not knowing how and when… Even the sleep mechanic is exclusive to single player and drastically changes how you can approach the game, sticking closer to the gritty realism themes. Multiplayer, even in really harsh settings, often ends up with a somewhat trivialised survival, and sort of a devaluation of defeat. Unless you want to play it hardcore and reset if anyone dies (which can be understandably upsetting to some), you’ll just respawn a character, get your stuff back, and you’ll only have lost some xp and time which your mates can help you power through, instead of a entire “life” you really cared about.
  
  Don’t get me wrong, multiplayer can be heaps of fun, but I truly don’t think it’s the core of the game, and I’d really encourage you to try your hand at some solo play if you can be convinced :)
  
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  - slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    where the truth of the apocalypse hits you, the dread of being alone against the world knowing you will fail but not knowing how and when
    
    That’s a pretty interesting take.
    
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  - EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I actually had never heard about it until someone on lemmy posted a screenshot. Probably op lol
    
    Bought it on sale when build 42 was released, and I put about 50 hours in before I started modding the game. Then around 250-300 hours with various QOL mods and a couple that add different military vehicles.
    
    Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great game! I love it. I just can’t really see myself playing another 300 hours without multi-player, or at least some kind of companion bot.
    
    I’m sure there are tons of people who prefer solo experience, I just think that I would prefer a multi-player run with friends, or at least people who prefer being relatively close to other players for group defense while still doing their own thing…
    
    It’s a solid 10/10 game for sure, whether you play solo or multiplayer
    
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  - Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Even the sleep mechanic is exclusive to single player
    
    It’s actually not, it’s only disabled by default. The speed up will only take affect the moment every single player is sleeping, so it’s not something you’d want in a massive public server with 73 players online, but for a small group of friends it works fine. Highly recommended, unless you like sitting around for 30 IRL minutes reading in the dark every night. Speaking of, one thing that IS exclusive to singleplayer is unfortunately the fast forward button, so reading really sucks and I always turn up skill gain speeds in MP.
    
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- fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It was originally made with NPCs in it, which made it play better as a single player game - but they took them out and focused on multiplayer (amongst other stuff) for… 10-15 years…
  
  As in your case, I think 10-15 years ago, I probably had enough game-playing friends and enough “lack of responsibilities” to play multiplayer things (before it had any multiplayer) but not nowadays.
  
  There have been a few reasonable NPC mods over the years (and probably there still is?) - but we’re still waiting for NPCs to be put back in “properly”.
  
  In theory, version 43 is the NPC one, which I’m looking forward to.
  
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SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve had Zomboid pre-Steam, it’s really nice to see how far it’s come. It’s sooooo cozy now. Especially with that mod that replaces all the arcade machines with real world ones.

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vrek@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I understand saving the chickens but if they added barbecue sauce I got bad news for you…

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slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I saw the release announcement and was thinking about pinging you about it, guess I didn’t have to!

When you mentioned Jerry finding something he could actually love, I thought you will be talking about eating chickens next 😀

Glad to see Jerry and Cable back, looking forward to their adventures.

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Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Excited about the announcement for stable build 42.

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Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The proper game to be playing yesterday and today

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