re: State of Decay - Open World Post Apocalyptic Zombie Survival Game - Xbox\PC

At that point I'd rather just have co-op. I don't want one of my friends trolling me and wrecking my entire camp while I'm in bed

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ETA: Has anyone tried unplugging the internet to see if it stops offline progression?

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I think someone asks that same question in the link I posted. I don't think he got an answer, but it's worth a shot. The only problem is from what I understand, you also get projects completed, vehicles repaired, etc that wouldn't happen while you're playing b/c those happen in real time, not game time. So there's kind of a pro and con associated with literally every aspect of the game.

My guess to that is that it wont make a difference.

UNLESS when you unplug your live you go to your date and time and move it forward. Then it would advance your game however far. Because it uses the interal clock in your game. Same thing with certain iPhone games that you can cheat the system on.

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There's definitely too many missions going on at once. They all have a time limit it seems and disappear way to quick.

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The main reason I was into this game was because it was supposed to be a realistic survivor.

I love the fact that there are too many missions goin on at once. It makes you decide what to save and what to do.

If there was ever a zombie breakout bad situations wouldn't wait in line for one another it would be utter chaos with you having to make tough choices. IMHO

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I found a way to make the game stop advancing when your not playing. Since this is the only game I'm currently playing on XBox, I just pause it and keep the game on while I'm away. Sure my XBox is on for days at a time but I usually leave it on anyway.

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The old NES "save" trick huh?

It's worked so far.

I turned it off for the first time last night though so I'm sure I will have some shite to fix when I get home.

So the guy bitching about too many zombies in a zombie game has no issue with the game progressing while you aren't playing?

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Too many Zombies affects me WHILE Im playing

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And progressing the game affect while I'm NOT playing. I can deal with getting swarmed and having to fight them off if I'm there. Kinda sucks if moral gets low, folks die, and we run out of shite while I'm watching Parks and Rec with the wife.

FWIW, I'm not 100% as to what specifically will/won't happen while I'm gone. Even the devs didn't go in to great detail

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If you left:

- your community in pretty good shape, morale wise, and
- cars in parking spaces near your base and food in the kitchen,
- weapons in need of repair in the lockers near your workbench,
- and sufficient time has passed,

You will come back and find that people are happy, repaired cars and weapons, and possibly some new stuff from the things your survivors did while you weren't there. Their lives continue, as independently as you saw them living when you were online

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ok. i've read some people's experiences were a bit different

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If you left:

- Morale sliding, and
- Too many infestations (please note, we're ACTIVELY working on a change where we reduce how much square footage is considered in this calculation to make it a little less...insane...), and
- Vaguely ominous warnings about someone looking sick, and
- Not enough beds for people to sleep in,

You will come back to find the **** has hit the fan.

It continues on the path you set.

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ok. shite hit the fan. did people die? did the safehouse get swarmed? are you completely out of supplies? what?

so basically they're telling me that if I have some place to be, I better not turn the game off until everyone is happy and healthy or everyone is dead when i get back?

kinda sounds like i better not play the game unless i have a couple hours to make sure everything is gravy before i go to bed

I haven't heard but holy shite you just blow right thru games huh? I've played like 2 hours 3 hours of xbox since the game came out

First night I played, shite was hitting the fan. There were 2 growing infestations, feral zombies and I hadn't collected any building materials or established outposts. I was still figuring things out. When I got on yesterday there were 3 or 4 growing infestations, multiple feral zombies, and all my people were freaking out. When Marcus got tired I switched over to some other douche to go scouting for new place to live. In the meantime Marcus and maya and some others all went out and got themselves killed.

I was so mad I started just suiciding other people into zombie hordes. Btw it will keep spawning new people for you after you kill off your others.

Keeping the infestations down and turning those houses into safe zones and eliminating special zombies seems like the biggest priority in terms of side quests.