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I don't want to link my Steam account with a PSN account :/

Edit: Now I don't have to :)

Still as bad as I remember it :)

Don't get this game, even if it's free. Yeah it's that bad right now.

TL;DR

The game is actually fun. Single player doesn't allow you to unlock new cards (upgrades) and skins. Special ridden (zombies with special abilities) spawn at a ridiculously high rate (even on easy). Everything I mention here-forth is only bad because of the previous statement. Easy difficulty is so easy that you can't even die. Normal difficulty and higher is straight out impossible if your party doesn't consist of 4 veterans in these types of games. 95% of the people you play with online are stupid and therefore you will wipe at the first or second stage. The bots are even more stupid. You need an infinite amount of grenades (which you don't get) to finish a stage alive.

End of TL;DR


This game was fun in the open beta. It was pretty balanced and you could play veteran (normal?) difficulty with 3 randoms online without wiping often. You could clear every stage with difficulty if they where totally new to the game, but you could still clear the stages (as you should be on a normal difficulty).

This game is not fun anymore. And the reason isn't even because of the difficulty. The reason is because of the spawn rate of special ridden. For some reason the developers must have felt that the wasn't hard enough, which I would accept if they spawned more normal ridden och made them deal more damage. But instead they increased the spawn rate of special ridden where the can spawn from a maximum of like 2-3 at a time to 3-4 at a time. And then a second wave of 3-4 can spawn directly after the first wave. These waves almost always consist of the most tankiest and heavy hitting special ridden in the game and requires heavy hitting weaponry and lots of grenades.

This in not increased difficulty. Increasing difficulty is not the same as increasing BS. It could be called increased difficulty if you had to plan better to complete a stage. But planning won't give you infinite flash bangs, grenades, molotovs or ammo. It won't give you the best weapons in the very start of the campaign.

My very first run in this game I was super lucky and played with 3 other players that were really experienced with these types of games. And we got to the second last stage of the first Act (chapter) in the story, even though we wiped our only continue on the second stage in the act. Since then I've probably wiped around 10-15 times at stage 1, 30-35 times at stage 2, and gotten past stage 2 like 1-2 times only to wipe directly after.

Now if you think that I'm playing a difficulty above my experience I'll remind you that I've cleared the first act in the open beta fairly easy so I should still be able to clear it after the full release. But if I were to lower the difficulty to recruit (super easy) difficulty the game becomes so extremely easy that I can't even come close to dying. Even players that haven't played a single video game in their life would be able to clear the whole first act without troubles. Easy is so boring that I won't even bother ever again.

The only thing I need to recommend this game is decreasing the places where and how many special ridden can spawn. That's it. I could accept everything mentioned in this review if the spawn rate is severely reduced. Simple right?

If Turtle Rock Studios really wants to keep the awful spawn rate of special ridden in this game. Then please. PLEASE for the love of whatever you believe in, add a difficulty between recruit and veteran.

about 2-3 weeks play worth (expecting you to have school/job). starting the game some months after stopping to play it will almost be just as fun as the last time.