Urban Dead is in trouble.

nedthezed

This is not a game on thread. This is a plea.

http://urbandead.com/stats.html

The survivors far outnumber the zombies since the shacknews horde retired. I'm issuing a general plea for more zombie players. I know that Penny Arcade had an important group in the past. I'm aware of how some other groups fucked you over. This is a second chance to become something great. You guys have the power to help save this game, and make the survivors tremble in fear. I've said all that needs to be said. I hope that some of you take up the call to undead arms (or what remains of them anyway). Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Anyone interested in finding out more about this game can go here. http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Main_Page

chaossoldier

Well, that was something bound to happen. I'm sure there'd be more zombies if something was done to balance things out a bit better.

Other than that, this thread kinda counts as sitewhoring unless you got a mod's permission

Der Waffle Mous

Zombies are in trouble?

Is this some bizzarro universe UD?

jothki

So there's this game called Nexus War. You should try it out.

hoodie13

nedthezed wrote:

This is not a game on thread. This is a plea.

http://urbandead.com/stats.html

The survivors far outnumber the zombies since the shacknews horde retired. I'm issuing a general plea for more zombie players. I know that Penny Arcade had an important group in the past. I'm aware of how some other groups fucked you over. This is a second chance to become something great. You guys have the power to help save this game, and make the survivors tremble in fear. I've said all that needs to be said. I hope that some of you take up the call to undead arms (or what remains of them anyway). Thank you for taking the time to read this.

No, you haven't. What about all the people who have never played this game before? There's no info for them to go on.

To be honest, Urban Dead is on its way out. It was fun while it lasted, but there are faster, more exciting games out there now. Most of the old Urban Dead players play Nexus War now. If you've never heard of it, why don't you check out our thread?

-SPI-

The zombies deserve it.

edit- And Nexus war is an exponentially better game in the format. But even that got boring after a while.

nedthezed

I'm not trying to sitewhore...I dont see how this is any different than recruitment in the EVE thread. the fact is that zombies are now an endangered species in malton. I agree that there need to be some balance issues addressed...but without more zombies, what good does that balance do?

AbsoluteZero

WHY wrote:

Zombies are in trouble?

Is this some bizzarro universe UD?

That is an excellent concept for a game.

You must lead a small band of zombies to overtake the world. It could be like a squad based 3rd person... uh.. biter.

MiSTieOtaku

AbsoluteZero wrote:

WHY wrote:

Zombies are in trouble?

Is this some bizzarro universe UD?

That is an excellent concept for a game.

You must lead a small band of zombies to overtake the world. It could be like a squad based 3rd person... uh.. biter.

Doesn't that basically sum up the first half of Stubbs the Zombie?

Edit: Mwahaha! My first time beating someone to a post.

Zetetic Elench

AbsoluteZero wrote:

WHY wrote:

Zombies are in trouble?

Is this some bizzarro universe UD?

That is an excellent concept for a game.

You must lead a small band of zombies to overtake the world. It could be like a squad based 3rd person... uh.. biter.

Stubbs the Zombie.

chaossoldier

nedthezed wrote:

I'm not trying to sitewhore...I dont see how this is any different than recruitment in the EVE thread. the fact is that zombies are now an endangered species in malton. I agree that there need to be some balance issues addressed...but without more zombies, what good does that balance do?

Well then it sounds like you have a circular problem.

Zombies are unbalanced so people don't want to play them, but because people won't play them, they won't be balanced.

And this is different from the Eve thread because there's actually a lot more information given about Eve to act as recruitment and it's not just a literal cry for help.

That is an excellent concept for a game.

You must lead a small band of zombies to overtake the world. It could be like a squad based 3rd person... uh.. biter.

I could have sworn there is a game being developed for either the PS3 or the 360 where you control a head zombie leading a small army of zombies to increase your numbers.

hoodie13

-SPI- wrote:

The zombies deserve it.

edit- And Nexus war is an exponentially better game in the format. But even that got boring after a while.

I agree, things got a little stale after a while. If you haven't played in a couple weeks/months, check it out now though. The update on the horizon has something really nifty: cults. Being able to worship and dedicate things to your own chosen Elder Power, and in turn being granted with nifty spiffy "gifts". Also, the PA clan is getting back into the big game. No more sitting around doing nothing, raiding little groups for honor. No. We're gonna be suicidal.

Remember The Shining Ones? Oblivion Squadron? The Pirates of R'lyeh? Yeah. We're gonna see what we can't do about taking them all down a peg or two.

By ourselves.

Suicidal? Hell yes. Fun? You betcha.

nedthezed

hoodie13 wrote:

nedthezed wrote:

This is not a game on thread. This is a plea.

http://urbandead.com/stats.html
I've said all that needs to be said. .

No, you haven't. What about all the people who have never played this game before? There's no info for them to go on.

nedthezed wrote:

this is not a game on thread

Anyone interested in playing can find all the info they need on the wiki...which I guess I'll edit into the first post.

Iago_KoA

Kevan hates zombies, end of story.

No, really. I've taken up UD after a long sting in NW, and zombies never average the 50% to-hit that I supposedly have. Either the RNG system is messed up, or some zombie in Dulston is hitting at 98% and I'm just getting shafted.

Zetetic Elench

nedthezed wrote:

hoodie13 wrote:

nedthezed wrote:

This is not a game on thread. This is a plea.

http://urbandead.com/stats.html
I've said all that needs to be said. .

No, you haven't. What about all the people who have never played this game before? There's no info for them to go on.

nedthezed wrote:

this is not a game on thread

Anyone interested in playing can find all the info they need on the wiki...which I guess I'll edit into the first post.

So you're posting on a forum to tell people to play a game without talking about playing the game?

nedthezed

man...if it's that big of a deal I'll edit the first post into something resembling a game on tomorrow.

Nexus Wars is alright and all but...come on...can we let zombies become an endangered species?

chaossoldier

nedthezed wrote:

come on...can we let zombies become an endangered species?

Yeah, we can. Very easily.

You're really not doing a good job convincing any of us to play, honestly.

We're not trying to be asses or anything...at least I don't think, but you gave us a very barebones post saying you're not doing a game on (Which are intended as threads to encourage the community to play with/against each other at some sort of game), yet begging us to play this game just because of a low population of zombies.

nedthezed

fuck it. I give up. don't play. lock the thread. whatever. I'm gonna go listen to Linkin Park

randombattle

chaossoldier wrote:

nedthezed wrote:

come on...can we let zombies become an endangered species?

Yeah, we can. Very easily.

You're really not doing a good job convincing any of us to play, honestly.

We're not trying to be asses or anything...at least I don't think, but you gave us a very barebones post saying you're not doing a game on (Which are intended as threads to encourage the community to play with/against each other at some sort of game), yet begging us to play this game just because of a low population of zombies.

Not to mention the game isn't even that much fun. And theres way better games like it.

TalonSE

Urban Dead has been in trouble for quite a while. Surprised the game is still running to be honest. There's a reason most PAers quit playing. In my case, it was because I got entirely fed up with the whining zombie players who'd rather complain about how everything was just so unbalanced against them because they were unable to kill everyone inside a structure that was defended nearly 24/7 by extremely coordinated survivors groups but would then turn around and taunt the hell out of them when the defenses finally fell and the survivors had to flee. Yeah, nothing like having the "poor oppressed" zombies acting like huge cocks to entice people to join their side...

robosagogo

Can't the humans just attack each other? It'll give them something to do and create more zombies.

MiSTieOtaku

nedthezed wrote:

petulant, nonsensical whining

Seriously, if this is the way you're going to act when people ask you to put a little effort into something, then good riddance.

No Great Name

Fuck you zombie scum.

I'll do to you what I did to all the zombies in the goon squad.

Sceptre

All shit aside though, does anyone remember the Defense of Giddings Mall? Man, that shit was epic. I remember all the fall back plans we had, and the escape routes, all the while hearing rumors of "The Many" sweeping across the land in our direction..

'Twas a sad day when Giddings finally fell.

A sad day indeed.

Zetetic Elench

Sceptre wrote:

All shit aside though, does anyone remember the Defense of Giddings Mall? Man, that shit was epic. I remember all the fall back plans we had, and the escape routes, all the while hearing rumors of "The Many" sweeping across the land in our direction..

'Twas a sad day when Giddings finally fell.

A sad day indeed.

I was around Giddings when that shit went down, though not a part of the PA alliance.

Glorious.

AlphaTwo

Sceptre wrote:

All shit aside though, does anyone remember the Defense of Giddings Mall? Man, that shit was epic. I remember all the fall back plans we had, and the escape routes, all the while hearing rumors of "The Many" sweeping across the land in our direction..

'Twas a sad day when Giddings finally fell.

A sad day indeed.

8/12 NEVAR FORGET!!

PikaPuff

I joined up. Headed towards giddings and died. no one ever revived me. made another account and tried again. died. no one ever revived him either.

after two weeks of logging in for a revive, I gave up.

AlphaTwo

PikaPuff wrote:

I joined up. Headed towards giddings and died. no one ever revived me. made another account and tried again. died. no one ever revived him either.

after two weeks of logging in for a revive, I gave up.

IIRC, you were one of the guys that joined up much later, when the waves of attack on Giddings began, which was why it was hard for us to revive you.

nedthezed

guys...I'd just like to apologize for my behavior. my doctor keeps switching my meds on me and it puts me in a fucked up state emotionally sometimes.

hoodie13

PikaPuff wrote:

I joined up. Headed towards giddings and died. no one ever revived me. made another account and tried again. died. no one ever revived him either.

after two weeks of logging in for a revive, I gave up.

This is pretty much why I stopped playing. That, and only being able to play maybe once a day.

Nexus War, from what I've been told, was created by an ex-player of UD to take the things that it did right and make them better, and fix what he thought were big problems with the game. Two of them were apparently the "being dead" and "not enough to do in a day" stuff. Jorm (the creator of NW) fixed these by giving players the ability to respawn by themselves when killed and putting a total of 96 action points in a single day, as opposed to (I think it was?) 24 for UD.

Makes the game faster and more exciting, in my mind.

Urban Dead has its place, but from what I can tell that place is cut off from the rest of the world, barricaded, and filled with the walking dead.

JJ

I still play once every week or two.

I have a dead guy who kills people and I have an alive guy who kills zombies.

I like balance.

Though I created the account months apart so the 2nd account was to be a zombie character but now they have switched rolls.

Synthetic Orange

nedthezed wrote:

fuck it. I give up. don't play. lock the thread. whatever. I'm gonna go listen to Linkin Park

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Archonex

To get off-topic here for a second, the Xbox360 game where you play as a zombie overlord mentioned earlier is called Possession. It's being worked on, albeit very slowly, and with almost no press releases (At least it was last I heard.). The game is supposed to allow you to control up to a thousand zombies of varying types (Ranging from standard "Shoot'em in the head" zombies, to Aliens-esque runners/wall crawlers, to WoW abomination-esque types.) in SP mode, and allow you to play as a survivor in a VERY large city and coordinate defences with the military and stuff in MP. It looks like a bit of a pipe dream to me, but I guess it's possible. Obviously it's possible to play as an overlord in MP as well. Basically the game is like GTA with apocalyptic zombie armies and whatnot.

Also, as much as I used to love UD and warring over one of the power plants in the city, it's just not that much fun for me anymore. It takes a day and a half to do anything.

Cymoro

nedthezed wrote:

guys...I'd just like to apologize for my behavior. my doctor keeps switching my meds on me and it puts me in a fucked up state emotionally sometimes.

What the hell are you doing posting threads?

And last I played, I got fed up after my AP got wasted in 5 minutes, and I couldn't do anything for a day. Not my kind of game.

Orikaeshigitae

If you guys want to start a UD discussion or game-on thread, that's cool.

This thread doesn't seem to be going a whole lot of places.