Like the shambling rotters it loves, State of Decay 2 is rising from its slumber as soon as extra. To put it properly, Undead Labs’ zombie sandbox acquired a little bit of a battering when it launched on the Windows Store again in 2018. With a Steam debut due subsequent month, the devs have taken State of Decay again to the store for some contemporary paint. Next month brings the Juggernaut Edition to Steam, including a model new map, some hefty new weapons, graphical touch-ups and a horde of bug fixes.
Gotta make an excellent first impression, eh?
Juggernaut Edition introduces an enormous new map referred to as Providence Ridge. This large house ought to assist exhibit a few of the lighting enhancements and basic graphical touch-ups Undead Labs have given the game. They’ve reworked the post-tutorial expertise in an try to raised clarify State of Decay’s workings. The replace additionally features a new class of heavy melee weapons, and features a slew of mission and gameplay bug-fixes.
Squashing bugs has nearly been extra essential than splatting zombies for Undead Labs, actually. State of Decay 2 launched in, nicely, a proper state. Post-launch noticed the devs racing to patch up a few of the game’s worst holes.
But shoddy technical polish wasn’t State of Decay 2’s sole drawback. Brendy wasn’t taken by the check-listing tedium in his State of Decay 2 review, discovering a repetitive open-world apocalypse the place doubtlessly fascinating administration techniques solely ever led to chores, chores and extra chores. “Even as a story generator, it’s limited,” he defined. “If I was to scour my brain for anecdotes about my time with these people, 9 out of 10 stories would start: ‘This one time, we attacked some zombies.’”
Juggernaut Edition would be the model of State of Decay 2 that hits Steam on March 13th. Folks who picked it up on the Windows Store will get all of Juggernaut’s goodies as a free replace.
