I didn't even realise there was a sequel to How to Survive. The game is still in an Early Access state with 70% off. Mostly Positive reviews. Fully enjoyed the first.
Several years have passed since the original How to Survive events on Los Riscos’ archipelago. Now the local infection has turned into a worldwide pandemic. Everyone around the world, groups of people or lone wolves, try to survive one more day among the infected, attempting to recover a semblance of normal life. You find yourself in Louisiana and your survival chance starts by building a safe camp and becoming a skilled survivalist.
Find water, food and shelter and talk to the unconventional locals to make your way around.
An eccentric masked stranger offers you help? Sure, sounds way better than zombies!
15 comments
BuzzDuraband
7 Apr 16#1
UPDATED TO APRIL 2016
• Multiplayer is here! You can invite up to 16 players to access your camp and 4 of you can play simultaneously online
- Local coop : up to 4 player simultaneously on the same PC
- Players in local Coop can join an online game (i.e. 16 players can play simultaneously)
• Teamwork: all players can contribute to a bigger, better camp and can perform co-op actions and strategies.
• New improved camera follows your character, allowing you to zoom in and out on the fly!
• New randomized environments: from the unforgiving Mississippi Delta bayous to the abandoned streets of New Orleans’ French Quarter.
• Create your own character: learn new and different skills to specialize as you level up and equip with scavenged and handcrafted armor, tools and weapons.
• A new deeper crafting system will allow you to use items and materials to create hundreds of items, tools and weapons to upgrade your character and your base camp.
• You are an expert in survival ? You want real challenges ? Elite quests are made for you !
In this special quest type, you have only one try to reach your objective. If you die, you will directly be sent back to camp and you’ll have to deal with the judgemental look of your friends...
• Set-up, upgrade and protect your camp as you want: choose from a wide upgradeable variety of traps, barricades, obstacle and workshops that will provide you new recepies and allow you to create more materials and items.
• Protect your camp and survive, alone or with your friends, to the Kovac’s Challenges ! Place your traps in a strategic way and prepare to fight hords of powerful zombies.
• Night & day cycle and weather conditions.
• Be careful when you got out by night, some nocturnal zombies are hiding in the darkness, ready to attack you.
• Meet new survivors by creating a public camp and use your special private chest to keep safe your precious objetcts.
• You can now kill zombies in a cooler way thanks to the finish moves and gory effects !
• Watch your hunger and your thirst if you want to be capable of fighting zombies.
• Watch the weight of your inventory. You don’t want to be slowed down while a horde is chasing you.
• Kovac’s more diligent students will be happy to find his precious advices in a new video format ! Paper is for losers...
NotNickCave
7 Apr 161#2
never heard of this, looked it up and looks great! nice find and thanks for posting! :sunglasses:
nomisco to NotNickCave
7 Apr 161#3
Not generally my sort of thing, but really enjoyed it.
MrCollective
8 Apr 16#4
For people looking at this game In my opinion its not worth the £3. The first one was terrible and this one is no different. A classic buggy mess.
oUkTuRkEyIII to MrCollective
8 Apr 161#5
The first one is a great game in my opinion.
therealjohnpeat
8 Apr 16#6
Mine too
It's important to realise that despite it's title, it's not a 'survival' game (ala Day Z or the 2000 other games where you bang rocks together to make toothpaste) - it's a Diablo-style ARPG with ranged/melee weapons (which you make from scrap you find) which takes place on across some islands full of zombies (and nastier night-time zombies ofc.) and crazy people/survivalists and allsorts of other stuff.
Difficulty was a bit 'all over the place' in the first one but it was mostly good fun and never really that hard - furthermore, the developers tweaked and fixed it for longer than most developers usually do (including releasing a third-person version - there standard one is Diablo-isometic style)
I can only assume the sequel continues with this judging by people's reactions to it.
Elevation
8 Apr 16#7
No single player? :disappointed:
Macdory to Elevation
8 Apr 16#14
You can play solo, but the story isn't complete yet - still early access
Allenie
8 Apr 16#8
Never heard of this game before. But worth a try for £3.29
hard123
8 Apr 16#9
I never got past the part with the poison (?) has on the first one , good game though , in fact one of the better GWG offerings on The Xbox one
NuMatic
8 Apr 16#10
This vs Project Zomboid?
Dichotomy to NuMatic
8 Apr 162#12
Different styles of game, project zomboid is a pretty deep isometric survival game, while this is an isometric action game. For me Project Zomboid is a much better overall game, but if you prefer fighting through zombies rather than trying to avoid/isolate yourself from them while scavenging for supplies then Zomboid might not be for you.
mikem1989
8 Apr 16#11
Never heard of it. Looks alright. Defo worth a punt at this price.
Kiyoshi
8 Apr 16#13
We really enjoyed the first one in co-op.
parasitemol
22 Apr 16#15
I couldn't get in to the first one on the ps4, worth trying at this price though. Cheers OP
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Opening post
Several years have passed since the original How to Survive events on Los Riscos’ archipelago. Now the local infection has turned into a worldwide pandemic. Everyone around the world, groups of people or lone wolves, try to survive one more day among the infected, attempting to recover a semblance of normal life. You find yourself in Louisiana and your survival chance starts by building a safe camp and becoming a skilled survivalist.
Find water, food and shelter and talk to the unconventional locals to make your way around.
An eccentric masked stranger offers you help? Sure, sounds way better than zombies!
15 comments
• Multiplayer is here! You can invite up to 16 players to access your camp and 4 of you can play simultaneously online
- Local coop : up to 4 player simultaneously on the same PC
- Players in local Coop can join an online game (i.e. 16 players can play simultaneously)
• Teamwork: all players can contribute to a bigger, better camp and can perform co-op actions and strategies.
• New improved camera follows your character, allowing you to zoom in and out on the fly!
• New randomized environments: from the unforgiving Mississippi Delta bayous to the abandoned streets of New Orleans’ French Quarter.
• Create your own character: learn new and different skills to specialize as you level up and equip with scavenged and handcrafted armor, tools and weapons.
• A new deeper crafting system will allow you to use items and materials to create hundreds of items, tools and weapons to upgrade your character and your base camp.
• You are an expert in survival ? You want real challenges ? Elite quests are made for you !
In this special quest type, you have only one try to reach your objective. If you die, you will directly be sent back to camp and you’ll have to deal with the judgemental look of your friends...
• Set-up, upgrade and protect your camp as you want: choose from a wide upgradeable variety of traps, barricades, obstacle and workshops that will provide you new recepies and allow you to create more materials and items.
• Protect your camp and survive, alone or with your friends, to the Kovac’s Challenges ! Place your traps in a strategic way and prepare to fight hords of powerful zombies.
• Night & day cycle and weather conditions.
• Be careful when you got out by night, some nocturnal zombies are hiding in the darkness, ready to attack you.
• Meet new survivors by creating a public camp and use your special private chest to keep safe your precious objetcts.
• You can now kill zombies in a cooler way thanks to the finish moves and gory effects !
• Watch your hunger and your thirst if you want to be capable of fighting zombies.
• Watch the weight of your inventory. You don’t want to be slowed down while a horde is chasing you.
• Kovac’s more diligent students will be happy to find his precious advices in a new video format ! Paper is for losers...
It's important to realise that despite it's title, it's not a 'survival' game (ala Day Z or the 2000 other games where you bang rocks together to make toothpaste) - it's a Diablo-style ARPG with ranged/melee weapons (which you make from scrap you find) which takes place on across some islands full of zombies (and nastier night-time zombies ofc.) and crazy people/survivalists and allsorts of other stuff.
Difficulty was a bit 'all over the place' in the first one but it was mostly good fun and never really that hard - furthermore, the developers tweaked and fixed it for longer than most developers usually do (including releasing a third-person version - there standard one is Diablo-isometic style)
I can only assume the sequel continues with this judging by people's reactions to it.