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State of Decay Year One Survival Edition
10 years ago
I'm sure plenty of you that have Steam or Xbox live have heard of this game. Frankly it is an under-rated zombie survival game that is pretty fun to play.
I would like to describe each of the 3 versions, cause they are all about the same but have slight different features to it.
Story mode: You start off in a park Forest, eventually moving onto the nearby town. There you learn the backstory a little, learn how to gather supplies that you need to survive, basically a nice tutorial but if your not careful and your characters gets killed, that's it....Your dead for good. That person aint coming back. Its pretty simple, story missions, random missions, leveling skills and killing zeds. Fun times.
Breakdown mode: This mode is different from story mode cause the only real objective is find and fix an RV, then move onto the next difficulty. Your primary focus here, is surviving. You start with a small group, have to gather and build it up by finding and recruiting other survivors. But the difference from story mode is that there are challenges at each difficulty, you finish a challenge you get a hero character (one that you can reset from scratch with if you want). Each hero having different traits and weapons, a good mix for people to choose from. One problem is that one you go to the next difficulty, you can only take 5 people with you. So you have to really find your best core 5 to take. I will list good ones later on.
Lifeline: This takes place in a city and your main characters are mostly soldiers. Your priority is getting VIPS and civilians out while surviving zombie sieges on your base. This one is a bit different from the other two cause you can use guns a lot easier do to the fact that you can call in a chopper to drop off supplies. Its a lot of fun, but wouldnt say there is much replay value there if you do all the missions and save everyone.
Pro's and con's
Pro's
Base building and having to use your brain a bit
Challenges, some easy and others a bit time consuming but fun
Killing zombies with all kinds of melee weapons or homemade explosives
Con's
Perma-death, sucks if you have to kill a sick and valued team member or they get ambushed and eaten
Juggernauts, as the name says...big strong motherfuckers that take forever to kill but can almost one shot you
Guns, plenty of them laying around but ammo is in short supply in the first two games
Helpful times
These tips will help you mostly in Breakdown since a lot of that stuff is completely random and you just have to adjust to it:
Best starting hero: Amelia Crassman (Unlocked in Breakdown lvl 3), she starts with max fighting and cardio, also is a powerhouse (killing blow skill). A good character that you can mold how you want and not have to waste time lvling to much.
Gurubani Kaur is another good one max fighting and cardio, also medicine and research, but only if you previously owned state of decay (I only owned it on PC, not xbox one...)
Best community members to find: Ones with medicine, Horticulture, research, fitness guru for facilities. Abilities, you want powerhouse and reflexes too.
A character that I came across with medicine and horticulture was a male survivor, slightly bald head with a very full, thick mustache. His name is random but he is quite unique looking.
Edged weapons are great but in short supply, especially ones of top durability. A character with max powerhouse and edged weapons can pretty much one shot zombies in rapid secession.
Best vehicle to get, modern trucks and SUVs, they can carry 4-6 people, 6 rucksacks in the trunk, also decent speed and durability. Easy way to get stuff back to base without much worries
I would like to describe each of the 3 versions, cause they are all about the same but have slight different features to it.
Story mode: You start off in a park Forest, eventually moving onto the nearby town. There you learn the backstory a little, learn how to gather supplies that you need to survive, basically a nice tutorial but if your not careful and your characters gets killed, that's it....Your dead for good. That person aint coming back. Its pretty simple, story missions, random missions, leveling skills and killing zeds. Fun times.
Breakdown mode: This mode is different from story mode cause the only real objective is find and fix an RV, then move onto the next difficulty. Your primary focus here, is surviving. You start with a small group, have to gather and build it up by finding and recruiting other survivors. But the difference from story mode is that there are challenges at each difficulty, you finish a challenge you get a hero character (one that you can reset from scratch with if you want). Each hero having different traits and weapons, a good mix for people to choose from. One problem is that one you go to the next difficulty, you can only take 5 people with you. So you have to really find your best core 5 to take. I will list good ones later on.
Lifeline: This takes place in a city and your main characters are mostly soldiers. Your priority is getting VIPS and civilians out while surviving zombie sieges on your base. This one is a bit different from the other two cause you can use guns a lot easier do to the fact that you can call in a chopper to drop off supplies. Its a lot of fun, but wouldnt say there is much replay value there if you do all the missions and save everyone.
Pro's and con's
Pro's
Base building and having to use your brain a bit
Challenges, some easy and others a bit time consuming but fun
Killing zombies with all kinds of melee weapons or homemade explosives
Con's
Perma-death, sucks if you have to kill a sick and valued team member or they get ambushed and eaten
Juggernauts, as the name says...big strong motherfuckers that take forever to kill but can almost one shot you
Guns, plenty of them laying around but ammo is in short supply in the first two games
Helpful times
These tips will help you mostly in Breakdown since a lot of that stuff is completely random and you just have to adjust to it:
Best starting hero: Amelia Crassman (Unlocked in Breakdown lvl 3), she starts with max fighting and cardio, also is a powerhouse (killing blow skill). A good character that you can mold how you want and not have to waste time lvling to much.
Gurubani Kaur is another good one max fighting and cardio, also medicine and research, but only if you previously owned state of decay (I only owned it on PC, not xbox one...)
Best community members to find: Ones with medicine, Horticulture, research, fitness guru for facilities. Abilities, you want powerhouse and reflexes too.
A character that I came across with medicine and horticulture was a male survivor, slightly bald head with a very full, thick mustache. His name is random but he is quite unique looking.
Edged weapons are great but in short supply, especially ones of top durability. A character with max powerhouse and edged weapons can pretty much one shot zombies in rapid secession.
Best vehicle to get, modern trucks and SUVs, they can carry 4-6 people, 6 rucksacks in the trunk, also decent speed and durability. Easy way to get stuff back to base without much worries
I plan to post some fan art here eventually
And yeah, this is a game that should get more attention.
I'd also like to see more done with vehicles, we always see them do things like modify buss's in the movies. Yet the closest that we have come in a game is the bank truck in Dead Island. And that's only for a little bit.
Doesn't mean a juggernaut probably wouldn't wreck house in that scenario. But it would have a lot of close knit opposition.