Dead Island

[FatalT]

PC gamers, press Y while you're playing. You all of a sudden turn into a ghost and you can no clip anywhere around the world. Press Y again and you plop back into existence wherever you ghost flew to. I can't believe this made it into the game. PATCH THIS SHIT ASAP BEFORE I ABUSE IT TO DEATH!

[MrAngryFace]

This game's awesome. I'm snatching and grabbing loot left and right, hitting zombies with an oar, and drinking Coke on a tropical island.

Its a tropical island so its probably REAL cane sugar in that coke!

[Great Rumbler]

This game's awesome. I'm snatching and grabbing loot left and right, hitting zombies with an oar, and drinking Coke on a tropical island.

Its a tropical island so its probably REAL cane sugar in that coke!

zomg!

So, yeah, this game pretty much owns my soul. Even though the controls feels kind of weird, there's little glitches all over [though nothing major that I've seen so far], and kind of that general feel of a lack of polish, I love this game. There's tons of stuff to do everywhere, tons of loot to snatch up, and running over zombies with a car is pretty dang awesome. But none of that compares to kicking zombies in the face, which is the most awesome thing ever.

[pilonv1]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2101559

lol pc

[naff]

wow. Someone's in trouble

[The Sceneman]

sounds like the hottest title. Lets all pre-order 

[chronovore]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2101559

lol pc

OM f'ing G

[pilonv1]

GreenManGaming Green Man Gaming
Rumors are circulating that the PC version of Dead Island is actually a 360 debug hence the amount of bugs. Nothing GMG can do right now /R

http://www.next-gen.biz/reviews/dead-island-review

glad I skipped this

[pilonv1]

[Joe Molotov]

Euro Devs

[demi]

Uh oh, is pilnov projecting again?

"I never played Dead Rising 1"

[Great Rumbler]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2101559

lol pc

I played for nearly two hours and wasn't bothered too much by anything, but that's still hilarious.

Edit: Okay, I've played for four hours now. Nothing I've come across is broken, there aren't gaping holes in the code that you can easily fall through and ruin your game forever. I've seen some weird glitches here and there, twice the minimap has messed up and gone completely blank, but that's about it. Heck, it's probably less buggy/more optomised than the average Obsidian game.

Edit 2: There was a 117MB download at midnight last night and another 76MB download just a few minutes ago. Patches!

Edit 3: Okay, now I'm mad. That latest patch broke my savegame [with its four hours of playtime], I've still got my items but the quests are all completely gone. Yeah, that's wonderful.

[fistfulofmetal]

game is completely unplayable for me. tons of stuttering and frame hiccups. it's holding at around 80-100fps but the stuttering is unbearable. also the game locks up every few seconds.

there doesn't seem to be a way to lock the FPS as well.

[Great Rumbler]

That's weird. It's running fairly smoothly for me and I haven't noticed any stuttering [certainly nothing on the level of certain parts of Deus Ex]. What kind of setup are you running it on?

[Sho Nuff]

Thanks for the warnings. Will hold off for Steam Sale

[Great Rumbler]

They're supposed to shove out the real version of the game sometime today, so it might be [mostly] problem-free this afternoon or tomorrow.

[Great Rumbler]

Turns out I lost all my progress through the story, but it's put me back at the beginning of the prologue with my levels and items intact. Basically, I'm on New Game+ now despite having not finished the game. That's something, I guess.

Edit: Spoke too soon. It took all my weapons away after that little opening bit. *le sigh*

[MrAngryFace]

Why are doors so annoying to open, gotta twiddle sticks n shit to turn a knob

[demi]

Man these PC issues sure sound bad.... lol

[Brehvolution]

Glad I read this first. I'm just going to wait til next week when I get paid. Maybe things will get ironed out by then.

[fistfulofmetal]

i'm not too worried about it. it'll get patched and become playable. i only paid 33 bucks for it so whatevs.

[Great Rumbler]

I think the latest patch actually made the performance WORSE.

Edit: Yep, it's almost completely unplayable now. It stutters constantly and, after about 10-15 minutes, starts freezing up for seconds at a time that gets worse and worse the longer you play. This is biggest "good jon" I've seen in a long time.

[Brehvolution]

Are you using a controller, GR?

[Great Rumbler]

KB&M, it works okay.

[fistfulofmetal]

got a decent 20 minute session in before it started hitching up. it plays pretty good. i'm gonna remap some of the controls because middle click to swap weapons is retardo.

[Brehvolution]

KB&M, it works okay.

Good since that's all I have. 

[MrAngryFace]

I was doing keyboard mouse, but then this happened last night-



Couldnt find the analogue stick on my keyboard so I quit the game for the night.

(actually I have a 360 pad hooked up but it wasnt responding except at the main menu which was weird)

[naff]

I hope the 360 version is cool

[MrAngryFace]

I think as long as you get the ACTUAL RELEASE VERSION its probably a lot of fun- my experience last night was janky so im giving it a week for patches then ill give it another go

[BobFromPikeCreek]

hahahahahahahahahaha

oh man. what a fuck up. someone's fired.

[Great Rumbler]

Meanwhile, at Techland's offices:

[youtube=560,345]-2ZkJd4u0Us[/youtube]

[pilonv1]

Uh oh, is pilnov projecting again?

"I never played Dead Rising 1"

I played it, just never finished it.

[Eel O'Brian]

what's the word on the ps3 version?  my irl red dead redemption buddy (he only owns warhawk and rdr ) is interested in it, i might pop that version just to play with him

[Brehvolution]

what's the word on the ps3 version?  my irl red dead redemption buddy (he only owns warhawk and rdr ) is interested in it, i might pop that version just to play with him

You will be missed on Steam.  :'(

[Joe Molotov]

hahahahahahahahahaha

oh man. what a fuck up. someone's fired.

Nah. At most companies accidentally releasing a broken, pre-alpha build of a game to retail would be a catastrophe but in Poland, it's a Tuesday.

[fistfulofmetal]

wtf is this? it's moves like the surface of water.


edit: worst thing about the PC version is that there are no analog controls for m/k. you only get that when you use a controller. that is really dumb because the melee combat is the same as how it's done in Mount and Blade and it works fine with mouse/keyboard.

[Eel O'Brian]

what's the word on the ps3 version?  my irl red dead redemption buddy (he only owns warhawk and rdr ) is interested in it, i might pop that version just to play with him

You will be missed on Steam.  :'(

well, if he doesn't buy it first i am not going to, hahaha

[MrAngryFace]

correct version is apparently now on steam?- I assume they just patched all the versions already out there?

[cool breeze]

[img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/542904147902664979/1261CA91806C937E81F625A2C6E747124723F493/[/img

wtf is this? it's moves like the surface of water.


edit: worst thing about the PC version is that there are no analog controls for m/k. you only get that when you use a controller. that is really dumb because the melee combat is the same as how it's done in Mount and Blade and it works fine with mouse/keyboard.

by analog control do you mean like Daggerfall where you drag and make gestures to attack?

I read you could do it on the consoles, AitD or RAD style.  Does the PC at least have 360 pad support?

[Great Rumbler]

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wtf is this? it's moves like the surface of water.

I think that's quest-related, to show you that the goal is somewhere within that ring.

[Great Rumbler]

According to Techland, the final version of the game is now on Steam. Yeah, I guess the massive memory leak that makes the game freeze up for several seconds all the time is just a FEATURE. 

[fistfulofmetal]

by analog control do you mean like Daggerfall where you drag and make gestures to attack?

I read you could do it on the consoles, AitD or RAD style.  Does the PC at least have 360 pad support?

more or less, yeah. that is, if it was adapted to mouse and keyboard it would be. like i said it's the same combat system as in Mount and Blade.
and yes, the game supports a 360 controller. with the controller you press L2 to ready your weapon then flick the right analog stick from left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up, and diagonals. and your weapon will swipe accordingly. it's a good system that allows you to target specific limbs for dismemberment.

[Great Rumbler]

Okay, for the people experiencing really bad stuttering and freezes: go into the options and set the online component to "LAN". That seems to fix it. Of course, now you can't play online.

Edit: Played for nearly an hour and half with the online component turned off, ran just fine. SMH

[MrAngryFace]

Patch made things better for me- things seem fine now: cept NO NATIVE V-SYNC OPTION WTF IS THIS 2005?!?!?!? :***(( now I gotta force it lame stupid F-

That aside, game seems cool

[Great Rumbler]

When the developer isn't actively sabotaging their own game, it's actually really fun.

[Sho Nuff]

Please tell me that 3rd person camera mode is not an actual mode you can activate without some debug commands

[pilonv1]

@ the arm swinging while jumping

[Great Rumbler]

Please tell me that 3rd person camera mode is not an actual mode you can activate without some debug commands

It's not supposed to be in there, same as the noclip mode.

[AdmiralViscen]

Maf and rumbler

[Brehvolution]

I don't believe this is really good.

[youtube=560,345][youtube]

[Eel O'Brian]

not a pc problem, a shitty dev problem, warhammer looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet and runs fantastic maxed out at 1600x900 60+fps

[fistfulofmetal]

being able to run the game at 1080p at 100fps is worth some minor technical hiccups.

[Stoney Mason]

Intrigued to try out this title although I won't have any time for a few months probably.

[chronovore]

not a pc problem, a shitty dev problem, warhammer looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet and runs fantastic maxed out at 1600x900 60+fps

This is true, and I'm maybe I'm being unfair, but every time one of these clusterfucks ships it discourages people from buying other games on PC. Stick a disc in a console, and the damned thing is running inside two minutes. Manufacturer/Publisher QA is a PITA but it's there for a reason.

[MrAngryFace]

Dead Island honestly runs fine for me aside from having to force vsync which is, at most, annoying. I'm having a lot of fun with the level up/explore/quest approach to zombie gaming- Question though- how do I figure out where to go for quests on the map. I can set waypoints and I see fast travel points- but am I supposed to just use the information provided by the quest giver to find the place? For example I wandered around looking for the lifeguard tower didnt see it on the map and didnt see any kind of indicator. I assume the grey arrow indicates North?

[Eel O'Brian]

not a pc problem, a shitty dev problem, warhammer looks sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet and runs fantastic maxed out at 1600x900 60+fps

This is true, and I'm maybe I'm being unfair, but every time one of these clusterfucks ships it discourages people from buying other games on PC. Stick a disc in a console, and the damned thing is running inside two minutes. Manufacturer/Publisher QA is a PITA but it's there for a reason.

that's a fair point, and there have been a few times (fallout new vegas, black ops) where the pc launch problems were bad enough to make me think "why didn't i just buy this on 360/ps3?"

[Great Rumbler]

Dead Island honestly runs fine for me aside from having to force vsync which is, at most, annoying. I'm having a lot of fun with the level up/explore/quest approach to zombie gaming- Question though- how do I figure out where to go for quests on the map. I can set waypoints and I see fast travel points- but am I supposed to just use the information provided by the quest giver to find the place? For example I wandered around looking for the lifeguard tower didnt see it on the map and didnt see any kind of indicator. I assume the grey arrow indicates North?

Uh, yeah, [nearly] every quest gives you a line on the mini-map to follow.

[MrAngryFace]

Maybe im not tracking them right- I select the quest and try to click track and nothing happens. Ill try again

[demi]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-08-dead-island-developer-techland-disturbed-by-feminist-whore-skill

Dead Island

[Great Rumbler]

I'm having fun and really enjoying it, but I'm kind of annoyed by how easy it is. Even the quests that are supposed to be "VERY HARD" are the same as the easy ones just longer and take up more distance.

It gets a lot harder once you make it to the city.