Dead Epidemic Mod for Land Of The Dead Dead Epidemic Trailer news

those zombies are less than zero threat :-/

I agree i dident seen crapiest ai on zombies:/ and these poping heads...:P

Kadish and Veron made valid points, don't snap back at them just because you didn't like what they had to say. Your mod will become much better by listening to feedback. Good to see you're working on it.

Actually, i do have my own zombie mod :)

And while i didn't do the majority of the AI coding, i can tell you for certain that putting enemy spawn points in key locations to encircle the player, and making sure that he is never safe, is the best way to make a tense zombie game.

Your game may be tense, but from the footage i just saw it looked pretty laid back, and boring. I think what excites me, is when i have to really struggle, to stay alive.

I mean , come on. You had to commit suicide at the end, just to die. That pretty much says it all ¬_¬

Game looks great, only concern I have is when comparing your zombie mod to the zombie game you're modding it's hard to point out where your work comes in. A lot of what I saw in the trailer comes from the original game, there was the blood overlays that were yours and I don't remember vehicles so... awesome... As for the complaints about zombie ai/speeds. Since we started Zombie Panic back forever again and after releasing both for HL1 and HL2 people have complained about zombies being too smart, dumb, fast, and slow. If people can complain they will complain and thats because everyone has their image of the perfect zombie. They're both right and wrong and arguing it is pointless, you either like it or you don't and thus have a choice to play.

Keep up the good work.

Tats...

The mod looks good with nice level design from what I see and I like the idea of using the car as well in parts. Not on offer in the original game. So nice one guys. Now for some negative feedback. I hope the music in the trailer isn't in the game as it isn't very good IMO. The music is all I am worried about as far as the game is concerned. I have no doubt what so ever that the gameplay will be top stuff. Could we have some demos of the music from ingame so we know or have an idea of what we're in for. Cheers guys.

Now that is what I am talking about. The ambient music is top stuff so it is. The main theme [Gore] sounds like something from an early Morbid Angel record. I like the ambient music though. Any chance of sending me a copy of the game to test hehe. I'd love it now that I know the music matches the gameplay HAHAHAHAHA.

CJ pal is there a way to download the tracks that doesn't require a lot of patience?. Please tell me there is. I tried to follow the set by step guide on the thread in the forum in the link you gave above. But I lost the plot and started using colourful language that would make Happy Gilmore blush. I seem to be doing something wrong with the steps shown in the forum, tell me there is an easier way FFS I swear if I don't get those tracks soon I will go postal. Neurological stated in the topic on the forum there was an easier way, but never let us know of it. Please help.

Dont forget New zombie animations as well as skins ;)

Oh and if you have a Complaint about the AI please post your opinion on why it sucks or whatever dont just tell us then leave it at that.

This looks like it could be a lot of fun. It may not be the best ever and there may be things which could be better, but I don't care so long as I have fun.

I'm with Mr Kadish on this one, all his comments are spot on.

And instead of getting frustrated, I'll just say that vash, I haven't seen one single constructive comment from you yet, so please, if you have nothing good to say, don't say it at all ;)
Hypocracy is something I can't stand.

CJundead, perhaps take some advice from someone who made an excellent and famous zombie mod, just like you should have taken my advice on your trailer instead of just burying my comments and eventually deleting them.

Now for my constructive crits (which are pretty much the same as mr Kadish's), the game DOES seem very easy...run around, find a gun laying randomly on the street with some ammo, and just shoot zombies without feeling threatened. The idea of zombies is to feel overwhelmed, not to have cannon fodder to blow to bits.

Since I think your mod is a semi-freeform mod, you should place guns in appropriate places, create a story as to why those guns are in their spots. If you have an m16 laying down perfectly on a box with a few clips, it feels more arcade like than you'd probably like, there is no reason for the gun to be there, there is no blood to say that a military person was attacked and dropped the gun there, there is no blood around to say someone was killed and dropped the gun on the box, there is nothing...just a gun on a box, and really, you don't see guns laying on random boxes out in the street do you?
So my suggestion is that if you want to make it a bit more intense you could possibly put the gun in a partially barricaded building, or where there is a building with a locked door, but you can access the building by going through a window or some other access point that the player has to use a melee attack on to get into.
If you do this, It will take a small amount of time to break into the building, but this also creates suspense since it also gives time for the zombies to catch up to you and surround you just as you get in the door. You can then grab the gun and blast the crap out of them, or you can unlock that other door and exit the building and shut the door behind you which would give you some freetime to go do whatever else.

It's just the little things that can create a whole new experience, I know the mod is WIP, so hopefully you will sort the issue out of having random guns layed about the level.

(Sorry for triple post, i wrote a whole lot, but there was a 2000 character limit)

As with the AI, perhaps you should take the advice of MR Kadish with the surrounding zombies, I've seen how it works, and it works damn well, instead of a stream of zombies attacking from one direction, they come at you from all sides, and this can get really tense really fast. Maybe if you asked for some help on the AI coding part to see how to do this, Mr Kadish could probably get you in contact with his mods AI programmer ;)

Now I hope you take that on board rather than trying to bite heads off.

All I can say is don't bite the hand the feeds you, or it may never feed you again.

Well people tell me all the time(usualy free developers) that i am mean bastard poking bad stuff in their work but on end that helps develop something better no harm done bad words work on me as complements.

Would sugest something interesting but people already mencioned most of cool stuff but i could sugest when you get bitten you get infected:) and you got 1-3mins to find cure somwhere in city if you dont you die it may seam little hardcore 1bite you die but most of best zombie games i ever played were those who you die from first bite it adds alot of tension and makes you panic weaste last ammo to not get bitten and such:)

Thankyou CJundead for your professionalism in your comments :)

That is a far better attitude, and for that, you get my respect.

I will check out the new video, I thought maybe that was the case since ALL of the comments were deleted, so I'll take a look now and comment on the video :) (I'll try to be less harsh if I don't like it though :P )

It's funny what AI does during development, different games and different AI functionalities can do different random things, the main thing though with AI is that they attack one another for no apparent reason...but obviously there is a reason and thats what testing is for :)

Keep at your mod and thankyou again for your more professional attitude, I like that attitude :)

Hey i'd like to Apologize for getting frustrated, as you can tell i dont take critisizm very well, lol, nor do i like it when people talk down to me. but its all good. i can see your just trying to help.
but honestly i dont see anything wrong with the AI lol just the spawn placement which was random at the moment for shooting that video. Zombies generally are stupid lol and slow moving and may bump into each other and such, so i think it works with it. but they do get a little too stupid sometimes. what i'd like to see sometime is when you get ontop of somthing about just there height they try to grab at your feet instead of standing there looking at the car, trashcan, etc lol

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