State of Decay 2: 6 New Things You Can Do in Zombie Survival Sequel State of Decay 2
14,426State of Decay 2 gameplay adds a new blood plague to infect your survivor community and a much-requested online co-op mode. Discover the new things you can do in State of Decay 2, arriving on a to-be-announced release date in spring 2018, and subscribe for more on State of Decay 2 gameplay as we get it at Outside Xbox: http://www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox
As an open-world, freeform zombie survival game with an ensemble cast of characters, State of Decay would have been the perfect co-op zombie experience, except it had no co-op.
To the surprise of exactly no-one, State of Decay's most requested feature was a co-op mode, and in State of Decay 2 developer Undead Labs has provided the very thing.
The sequel has an online co-op mode in which you and up to three other players join forces. You can take a character from your community and jump into a friend’s game with them or vice versa, or you can send up a flare that signals to other players that you want co-op company.
In online co-op you can watch each other's back and collaborate on your survival but not hurt each other directly, since friendly fire is turned off. So that’s one less thing to worry about.
On the other hand, the long list of things to worry about still includes permadeath, to the extent that if you die in your friend’s game, you also die in your own.
If some random co-op partner does lead a conga line of zombies back to our base and we get perma-killed, though, that’s just what we get for trusting a stranger in a zombie apocalypse.
It’s like we learned nothing from Dawn of the Dead. Or 28 Days Later. Or literally any other zombie fiction.
Speaking of new threats, there's another new one in the shape of State of Decay 2's new blood plague: an infection spread by blood plague zombies that gradually takes hold of victims until you have to cure, execute or exile your infected survivor.
Could it be this zombie survivalism is not as much of a light-hearted, mall-raiding lark as we'd thought?
State of Decay 2 comes out on Xbox One and PC in spring 2018.
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