Romero's Aftermath | Infestation: Survivor Stories | Infestation World | The War Z

[Insanecyclone]

http://www.thewarz.com/index.html
http://www.thewarz.com/faq.html

100k beta signups in less than 24 hours.

Curious how this will turn out.

I want PAY FOR WIN! I have lots of money to spend!
Sorry pal, but this is the wrong game. Like in a real-world, post apocalyptic scenario, your money will mean much less than your natural survival skills, training and wits.

Perfect

[Lazaruz]

Yea cant wait to try this out

[Lucavi]

So you've got this and Day Z, and this looks far superior to Day Z in the graphics department. I'm hyped for both, but this one'll be in a finished state sooner, so my attention turns to it.

[Kuishen]

Competition between two games like this and DayZ is a good thing because it makes the devs work harder to make the game better than their opponent.

[Insanecyclone]

pic someone posted

[Botosi]

90 bucks for 60 days is quite a lot in my opinion. Yeah you have your own server, but any other game I've paid for (to keep playing) has been ~25 cents per day. I'm very interested in this game so i'd probably just buy the game for 30 bucks and play on someone else's server.

[Deadgye]

Interesting. I couldn't find anything about how death was handled though. I'd prefer losing everything if possible. Signed up for closed beta, hopefully I'll get in.

[Insanecyclone]

[Insanecyclone]

[Insanecyclone]

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/09...-lost-forever/

The War Z allows cash shop items to be lost forever

Imagine that you're playing the hot new zombie MMO, and you decide to splurge a few bucks on that shiny weapon you've been eying. You get your grubby mitts on it and go to town on a few living undead, only to find yourself over your head and quickly killed. When you wake up, your gun -- and the rest of your stuff -- is gone. Forever.

And the devs are totally OK with that.

This is about to become reality for players of the upcoming The War Z, as even cash shop-purchased items are not safe from being lost due to death. In a recent interview with Gaming Blend, Hammerpoint Marketing Director Alex Josef was unapologetic about that point: "You'll lose what you have in your backpack when you die in both in normal and hardcore modes. And yes, if you bought something using real money, you'll lose that item as well. This is a price you'll have to pay."

According to Josef, this level of item loss was a deliberate decision by the team to cause player to treat the game more seriously. "We've discussed that a lot," he said, "and at the end decided that this will provide a pretty good incentive for players to either be extra cautious while playing or just not spend too much money in the game and instead try to procure all items by finding them in the game world."

[guartz]

Mmm sexy

[Mellema]

"You'll lose what you have in your backpack when you die in both in normal and hardcore modes. And yes, if you bought something using real money, you'll lose that item as well. This is a price you'll have to pay."

Will other players be able to loot your corpse? Might add incentive to have some friends playing with you. But I could see it being an incentive to just kill other players also.

[Insanecyclone]

Asked them on twitter

https://twitter.com/The_War_Z/status/245669867221569536

When you die you drop everything you have on you.

[guartz]

Ok the reason we like MMOs like this is because these are sandbox MMOs with full pvp, not because you get to shoot zombies. Right?

[BaneTheBrawler]

Yes. I actually generally dislike zombies as a theme, but this and DayZ both look interesting as hell.

[Insanecyclone]

Hardcore mode = Character is literally gone after death. Regular = can respawn in other servers.

[TacoTaru]

Day Z, The War Z, and the yet to be named Class 4. Next year is going to be a clustered year of sandbox zombie games.

[Insanecyclone]

[Kuishen]

Looks promising.

[Rulke]

I'm still interested, if BG rolls on a server together I might give this a shot.