>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1465460/Infection_Free_Zone/

I've been playing this game a LOT recently. I think I really like it, even though it's still an Early Access buggy mess with lots of missing features.

The ability to allow you to play on hypothetically any part of the world is very interesting and should potentially make the replayability of the game near infinite, although currently the actual distinction between playthroughts isn't very very different from one another, since every playthough tends to almost go the same way, even if building layouts are always different from one another.

Some balance regarding tech needs to be adressed, and there's quite a few pathfinding/bug issues, but I've enjoyed it overall.
Have other Anons tried this game yet?

I was going to buy it but I saw reviews saying that the devs make self sufficiency impossible, and you have to constantly go further and further out because the manpower requirements for shit like farming is absurd.

So I still have it on my wishlist, and will probably get it when I see it for $5 at some point

>>2062012
>I was going to buy it but I saw reviews saying that the devs make self sufficiency impossible, and you have to constantly go further and further out because the manpower requirements for shit like farming is absurd.
It's not really that bad. A lot of your playthrough is dependant on the location you spawn yourself in, so a location with a lot of densely packed buildings won't let you place a lot of farms unless you demolish some buildings or rush the greenhouse techs to build indoor farms (which will help with farming being practically disabled during a third of the year in some of Earth latitudes. This only means however that alot of your early food sources will come from salvaged canned food from buildings.
Now that you can build fisheries obtaining food from nearby sources of water is also possible.

Lots of the resources you obtain depend greatly on the city you spawn in, for example, since this base was set up in a university city there's lots of science materials for you to obtain and make early researching easier, but even in rural areas you can eventually make enough labs to produce all of your own research materials you'll ever need, so there's no resource you cannot eventually produce for yourself rather than trade or scavenge for.

I've yet to try the game in harder difficulties, but I'd say that once you actually know what you're doing the game becomes noticably much easier. Fortunately you can change the difficulty of a run at any time mid-game, including the amount of resources you can obtain.

>>2062012
that is the worst complaint you can make about this game, that you cannot turtle.
The real issues are a shitty map generator, controls where you have to spam orders when exploring the buildings and the general lack of content, although i only played on release and one time after that when they added new game crashes.
The story it had was good, im looking forward to release but have doubts they will be able to finish it.

>The real issues are a shitty map generator, controls where you have to spam orders when exploring the buildings and the general lack of content.
Those are all complaints I do have about the game. I think there isn't much that can be done about the random map generation, since it's literally taken from like Google Maps data, except I do hope they improve pathfinding. As for content and QoL features, the latest major update was just this past May, and they added quite some stuff. That, and the mentioned Roadmap plus the latest player survey leads me to think that the devs do are planning to add much more stuff in the future, It just doesn't seem like they'll stop updating the game anytime soon.

tried the demo long ago at a next fest, not fun at all. I don't really have any hopes for it getting better

>>2062099
its not google, they cant just steal maps for a commercial project, its some cheap one that doesnt have elevation data

>>2062288
ive had a bunch of screenshots in an older, pre wipeout thread where giza's tombs is just a bunch of commieblocks, i think notre dame was a giant commieblock too.

>>2062008 (OP)
I binged it for close to two weeks not to long ago and ended up throwing my hands up and saying fuck this half baked garbage. Great idea, don't get me wrong. Just the execution is the worst dogshit I've seen in a good long while.

>>2062083
>that is the worst complaint you can make about this game, that you cannot turtle.
...How? Tower building strats and juking ai pathfinding or spamming sniper towers and shotgun gates with barbwire aside you can place a couple of fields (which zombies don't attack) in each direction about half way across the map and have early warning. Then stack all your squads in buildings on that side.

looks like pure slop

>>2062405
its not terrible but doesn't have any "game" to it yet

>>2062288
>>2062292
Apparently the way they do it is they use some AI program to automatically interpret satellite images of places in the world. Of course the dumb computer isn't gonna know what every place is just from looking at pictures and reading Google Reviews of the locations, which is why the custom-tailored "recommended" maps still exsist, plus some unique locations would still need custom models for the buildings (Eiffel Tower, White House, etc).

>Game developer has two other games.
>They use basically the same 'AI-Generated City' and 'Zoomed out minimalist map where you control squads' going to places.
>UI is even basically the same.

>Games are "112 Operator" and "112 Operator - The Last Duty"
>First game is about being an Emergency Services Call Center Attendant/Coordinator.
>The second game is about being Emergency Services Call Center Attendant/Coordinator, but in a Zombie Apocalypse scenario based in the same setting as "Infection Free Zone", but before the world is destroyed by the virus.

>The three as sold as a Bundle on Steam.
Is this genius writing/game development, or cheap/sleazy slop game content creation?

>>2064683
Oh, i just noticed that The Last Duty is actually DLC for 112. That's a bit more reasonable.

The 112 game has quite a few DLCs, adding different kinds of content, which I think is telling of what we can expect the Infection Free Zone game to look like in the future, since they're so similar.

>>2062083
I have been playing constantly for some time now and the devs have been very good at following up on people's opinion and updating the game, removing crashes, etc. I don't foresee this game being abandoned any time soon.

>>2062288
They included elevation in the last update

>>2064937
The only thing that accomplished is getting my truck occasionally stuck. Everything else drives or runs at full speed even up 70* incline.
Fuck me, imagine actually paying to playtest this pre alpha jank.

>>2064937
>They included elevation in the last update
IMO, it's very poorly implemented. It's somehow more conterproductive to have Terrain activated in the Edinburgh map than disabled. Somehow there's massive amount of blind spots with all the walls and buildings and elevation, and the Infected can still climb that cliff somehow, not even slowed down.

>>2064953
>Fuck me, imagine actually paying to playtest this pre alpha jank.
Lol, Lmao even. I might actually pay for it this Summer Sale just because of this radio message.

>>2065016
When you get tired of it, and it will spam, just delete the 'original' transmision and it's gone for good.

>Edinburgh
That map blows.The walls melt in seconds, the slope is useless and half of the buildings have bugged los and entry points. And if you try to repair the brick "medieval" walls it also queues up some half destroyed wall in the other corner of the map.
I did Austin texas last time and it was much more enjoyable. Dusty suburbs on one side, big city on the other and you have a nice compound surrounded by parks and nestled up against a river between two bridges. My trucks thankfully came with invisible pontoons so they could drive on the actual river as well. Bonus points for putting up your beyond pop cap enabling residence inside the Hyatt hotel.

>>2062008 (OP)
game is ai sloppa garbage and you can take your storepage shilling and shove it up your ass

>>2065083
no its an ambitious indie and you are a turbo normalfag

okay they did improve the game

>>2065239
and there is indeed some elevation now

>>2065231
nta but the game in its current state is indeed crap. My favorite examples being the pain you get trying to use the UI for precise orders or multi squad management. Zombies that bug out and stop showing up altogether. Expeditions leaving your vehicles stranded. Tiny pop cap and tiny maps. Very annoying need to restart due to memory leaks, and I got 64gbs of RAM. Pathfinding being weird af to the point of people inside a building ordered to move a different corner almost always leave the building, get into their car, drive around for a bit and then enter by the same door they just left to finally reposition.

Also what clown algorithm are they using that decides an entire row of buildings, with a goddamn bridge and overpass bundled together or the entirety of pentagon is a single building but some objectively huge buildings are split into fifty gorillion huts that all clip into eachother?

>>2065262
if you cant handle the junk dont play indies
there are plenty call of duties and football simulators released every year

seems like locations far away from the city centers are more human raider oriented, rather than zombie, interesting

speaking about jank*
that group of random wonderers just did the quest for me

Is there AI factions yet?

>>2065356
Wait, wait. You gloss over legitimate gameplay issues to tell me to play call of duty? The fuck drugs are you doing my dude. Did you make this thread to talk about the game or cirklejerk about it?

god damnit how am i supposed to save them

they've made ammo inside the towers infinite which is a bit of a bullshit imo

they did add many qol stuff
the game was much worse at release

still not a fan of the building entering pathfinding, they should just enter on collision, it would remove much pain

>>2065239
>>2065551
I still can't believe you can't actually Drag/Select squads in a groups like every single RTS in existence.
You also can't Bind a Squad/Squad Group to the 0 Hotkey, so only 1-to-9 are available to be binded for some reason.

>>2065551
>they should just enter on collision, it would remove much pain
Doors are essential for the strategy of the game because of how you can build your bases integrating buildings and doors into them. You can block the entrances to a very long building using
walls and save a lot of resources in what would've been a far longer wall for you to build, and later you can integrate that building into your base.
I just wish they allowed you to remove/add doors to buildings/walls similarily to how they now allow you to use resouces to split buildings.

>>2065475
It is. Ammo is already exhorbitantly abundant with scavenging plus raiders, and I never feel the need to make my own.

>>2065358
I think it's just that it's more common for raiders to survive areas less populated by infected than around the center of the base where they tend to converge. You can also attract more Raiders to your map by spamming the 'Invite' call, so that might have somethign to do with it.

>>2065365
There's the Player Faction, Neutral Faction, Infected Faction, and Raider Faction, but nothing like Infected nests or Raider hideouts in-map or on exploration zones, although they do have planned things like Non-Player bases outside of the playable map you can visit and trade with i think.

>>2065415
I don't think you can. As in, the quest isn't finished yet, so the only way to finish it right now is to have the raiders die eventually for the next message of the quest to appear. I've actually managed to kill the infected before they enter the raiders' hideout and then enter the hideout with my squad, only for nothing to occur, at least until the raiders eventually die to something else.

>>2062288
you can and just say you didn't nobody will ever know

>>2065616
>>2062288
Did a little searching. Apparently it uses data from a collaborative project called OpenStreetMap. You can apparently go into this service, do your own edits to the zone you want to play with for higher accuracy, and once the changes stick you can go into the game and it will load that info once you generate a map of the area.
The game does have it's own map editor though.

worst part of this game, in its colony management aspect, is the fact that the day ends faster than your peasants are able to get to their job locations. Its ridiculous, no other game has such slow units. Its especially stupid on the real life maps which you know how long it actually takes to cross.

instead of rows of commieblocks like before there are now piles of trash, kinda suiting for egypt
also pyramids are levitating

High concept that needs more time in the oven. I think it's a lot of fun and pretty revolutionary. I think there is potential in using the map generation for a tycoon game or even a more traditional rts.

>>2065262
I have literally never found any of these problems

>>2065579
>Doors are essential for the strategy of the game because of how you can build your bases integrating buildings and doors into them. You can block the entrances to a very long building using
yes, that is so reliable, truly essential part of the game

I really wish this games primary feature wasn't to just focus on procedural slop from google maps. I really would like a good colony sim in a zombie apocalypse. This is the closest I've seen, but the focus is all wrong.

>>2066151
How so? I think it's a great concept seeing how well your neighborhood would surive such an event.

>>2066151
What should be the focus, even?

>store page op
>ai sloppa
>early access
>one faggot bumping
lel

>>2066703
dont belittle yourself like that

>>2066703
>how dare you discuss games on vidya board??!!
Kys

>Thinking that it would be cool to have Pickup technicals with different kind of weapon emplacements on the back.
>This shit gets posted.

https://files.catbox.moe/cggq57.mp4

>>2067381
cool
will this prevent cars from losing half of their hp on an expedition against a single group of zombies?

>>2067399
I hate that too. The trick is telling the squad to abandon the vehicle while they fight since somehow they can avoid being damaged by the Infected far easily than the steel, motorized vehicle.
Healing them is far easier too. I hate that vehicles take fuel to repair. That shit makes no sense and is expensive as fuck. I'd rather have it require some custom vehicle parts that need complex steel production to produce or can be salvaged from mechanic shops or traded for.

is there a way to remove the stupid anti piracy message i fucking hate it so much

>>2068141
serves you right for not supporting the devs

>>2068146
pff like they did all the hard work even though they
used ai plus i aint gonna pay early access game

Figured out how to make new flags.

>>2068147
get fucked then loser

>>2068141
>steal the game
>oh no i'm being asked to stop stealing the game

>>2068149
>get fucked then loser
>implying for a dogshit game that i havent spend single cent
okay consumer faggot

>>2068157
>dogshit game
if you can't afford to support indie go back to furry flash games

>>2068163
>imagine paying for something you cant even own
>muh indie
i dont care if is indie or triple a game i will pirate that shit

sucks to be poor