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About Zombie Panic:

   The basic idea of the Zombie Panic is to create solid game play that is based on a classic zombie outbreak scenario, the living dead are coming for the last remaining humans, and these survivors must fight them off and live through the day.

The game works like this:

   Everyone joins a server, in the beginning you can either choose to join the human team or you can volunteer to be the first zombie. If no one volunteers the game will pick one human randomly and the game begins. The starter zombie's goal is to, of course kill the humans while the human goal is to stay alive as long as possible, complete objectives, or even wipe out all the zombies. The catch is that when a human is slayed he will simply join the ranks of the undead, now ready to finish off his old living teammates.
   The humans can't tell by the player list who's alive and who's not, eventually there will only be one survivor still standing if all goes wrong, facing all the zombies which use to be allies, with his back to a wall. The zombies only have a certain number of reinforcements (lives), when a zombie is killed they lose 1 life from the counter. However, when a human is killed they gain 1 life. If the zombies only have 1 respawn left the humans can win the round by killing off the remaining undead left on the map.

This is the main concept of how the game works but of course, but with additional game modes there is a bit more variety to it.

Human Advantages:

Speed - A zombie can only run at about 80% of the top speed of a human player. Though, the more weaponry and ammo a human picks up, the more it will slow him down tremendously, making him an easy target for the undead. If carrying nothing a human can easily outrun a zombie. Watch out so you don't get cornered...

Weapons - The humans will have a wide selection of different weapons to use for defending themselves, like firearms, explosives and melee weapons. It is essential for humans to locate weapons and ammo around the map in order to survive, since you only spawn with a random melee weapon and handgun scavenging is a must. Remember that your inventory is limited and hogging weapons will slow you down, so sharing with your teammates is a must which also promotes teamwork.

Numbers - At the beginning of the round, there is only one zombie and everyone else is a Survivor. This means that they can easily watch each others backs and provide cover fire. However, once their ammo starts to run dry and they begin to squabble amongst themselves for the few precious clips of ammo available...

Communication - Instead of typing messages to each other (occupying busy hands), which can be really dangerous when the zombies are lurking in the shadows, the humans will have the ability to communicate by voice commands. There will be a menu with several commands that can help the humans to organize a defense, trade ammunition and request help.


Zombie abilities and advantages:

Regeneration - Zombies will over time regenerate hit points making it more difficult for survivors to make dead the undead.

Carrier - The first Zombie of the round will differ a lot from the other undead, he will look different, sound different and have abilities that the average zombie can only dream of. He is the Carrier! More info on this will come later.

Persistence - Zombies may seem to die often, but they won't give up. They just keep re-spawning over and over until your pistol runs out of bullets, your back is to the wall, and there is no escape.

Numbers - Later on in the game, as the undead ranks swell with the freshly dead, the last few humans will find their superior weaponry small compensation for the hordes of zombies that close in.

Zombie Vision - With the zombies not being able to use a flashlight, we have given them the ability to use Zombie Vision. Z-vision works in a way that it brightens up any possible light source in a room to make it more viewable. More importantly, humans that keep active will slowly begin to glow red making it easier for a zombie to track their prey. To prevent games of hide and seek a survivor over a period of time of sitting still will also start to glow red by fear of the unknown.

We want the mod to feel creepy and give you a sense of desperation, and yet not take itself so seriously that you can't laugh at the way you got slayed. Overall fun and playability is the priority, where is realism and horror while important are just a bonus when possible. We want a mod that you can easily play with any number of people, even with small numbers or uneven numbers. Plus, there's a certain sense of satisfaction in tearing apart the heartless survivors who failed to protect you while you were alive, limb from limb.

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No workee.

Whatever happened to Left4Dead again? I know for sure it's still under development since Yahtzee got to play a newer build of it when he went to Valve's HQ, but I haven't heard a peep.

Probably because the first gameplay footage didn't live up to all the previews that came out. It was pretty much a spray fest where you run up and heal people after they get "bit". It looks awful. Hopefully they make some changes to it, but it looked like the core of the game was based around the idea of hoping you make it to the end.

All the good servers are full. Lots of people with mics. YOU MUST PLAY THIS.

You hate fun, don't you? :oh_i_see:

Hm. Not only does their shitty installer NOT autoscan for your steam install, but even when you browse it to your actual steam install, it unpacks all it's shit into C:\Program Files\steam\steamapps\sourcemods\ZPS anyway.

Dragging the unpacked stuff across to my steam folder now. It better fucking work.

So far it's been really fun, especially hiding out as the last survivor - it reminds me of going and hiding in some impossible to see spot as the last skulk in Natural selection. The biggest problems so far are:

1)Each of the maps seem to have a room that is impossible for the zombies to get into if there are more than 2 or 3 survivors guarding it. That may change as people get more experience, but so far 3 survivors+Kitchen+breadracks=autowin.

2)The automatic weapons are way too powerful. Like one guy can kill the whole team of zombies following him powerful. Nothing is more annoying than being kited. Now I know how those Kerrans felt all those years ago.

Players can actually choose sides at the beginning in the waiting room. There were three of us who started as zombies every time on the first server I played on.

Yeah, there were definitely more than one of us at the start of the actual round. Sometimes we would even spawn next to each other. It would randomly pick one of us to be the uber-zombie, the rest of us were vanilla zombies.