#Base Defense

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fresh oyster
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The demo version of the game is very cool with its own idea, but I think that the defense would be more epic and spectacular if it came from the face of our hero than from a drone.

twin ember
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Yeah i kind of agree that instead of the drone you should command with the soldiers stationed there

quick kelp
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Funnily enough, I wrote this in the feedback form.

I think it would be best if:

It's a FPV. You run to the front gates. You then have 1-2minutes to prepare defences (reinforce gate, station soldiers at points, put sentry turrets out [if paid for], give those who you have classified as not infected a job like repairer, etc.).

Then, at minute 0, the horde comes. You can run around shooting the zombies with a pistol/rifle/machine gun/etc. (depending what you have bought) OR go on the drone PC and use the drone. The drone has a 15-30 second reload (depending on if you upgraded it previously), that way, people don't just hold the left mouse button all day, AND it gets people off the Drone PC to repair walls, shoot zombies FPV, check if there's anything wrong around the base, retask soldiers of survivors, etc.

I think this just makes it a lot more dynamic.

shrewd star
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the wave zombie drone thing is a real miss in my opinion. @quick kelp this would be way more fun,
altough it could also be just prepare against attack a not have to fight in them, most zombie games are about fighting, let this one be the things you never get to do...

quick kelp
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Yeah - I think it just adds to the whole "you decide what you spend money on".

There could also be a mechanic where - WHAT IF one of the "survivors" is actually infected? You know - the classic "oh no the horde is here, it would be a real shame if one of us now suddenly is overcome by the infection and starts attacking people INSIDE the walls!

shrewd star
grand verge
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To throw my own two pence in
I’d like to be able to run supplies (bullets, spare barrels, frag grenades, rockets. Whatever might be) to active combatants as well as reinforce walls with extra wood chunks and stuff

ebon umbra
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i posted the same thing without checking if it was already posted lol...

I also think that it would be cool if for the evac escort, we took control of either one of the gunners or something like a Apache/Cobra gunner or an AC-130, the drone is just kinda... off idk

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Also, there could be a life system, like you get three lives. The first one, if the first checkpoint falls, and you dont get killed by a zombie, you can get to an evacuation vehicle and go to another checkpoint further back, and then once again after that. Each time the attacks get more frequent and a lot harder to fight off, considering you'd have lost a lot of supplies and personnel.

And then have it so if you yourself gets killed by an infected, youre done and you die.

granite garnet
keen walrus
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World War Z type vibes. I like it haha

hardy stirrup
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yeah give me an assault rifle maybe a mounted gun and a few thousand bullets and ill do just fine

hardy stirrup
ebon umbra
hardy stirrup
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this guy gets it

ebon umbra
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of course i do lols

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calm wren
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I played the game a couple of times and i have some thoughts regarding wall defense id like to share.

  1. So far soldiers on the walls seem completely insignificant. It doesnt feel like they contribute anything to the wall defense. It definitely requires some balance adjustment. We could add some options for arming them with different weapons, add some sort of leveling for them (proficiency in weapon they constantly use and exp as they survive more and more horde attacks). We are the leader there and they could be some sort of intractable npcs, our squad that keep watch during the day when we inspect survivors and the same guys would man the walls during the hordes.
  2. Id add some sort of customization for the layout of defense. There could be multiple layers of the wall that horde would have to breach, defense turrets with heavy machine guns and placement of soldiers. Also mines and other sorts of static defense (spikes, trenches) to slow and dmg zombies.
  3. Hordes should be getting progressively stronger and larger/longer and, as virus mutates/evolves, new kinds of zombies should appear, some attacking in range, other larger and stronger, some infected animals like dogs etc.
  4. There could be more customization for the drone. It could have different frames that could carry different weapons or number of them. Like 1st tier could carry only some heavy machine gun and 1 auxiliary weapon like bombs. 2nd tier could carry 2 main weapons and 1 auxiliary, tier 3 could carry 2 main and 2 aux etc. etc. Better engines for faster movement and higher load capacity (better weapons would weight more). Armor plates to survive more dmg from range zombies mentioned earlier.
  5. It could be an option to man the wall ourselves in case of drone being destroyed. That would require some more firearms being added to the game.

I hope i didnt repeat some ideas that have been already mentioned. Im really looking forward to how the game will develop!

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i hope i wrote in the right place tho

lapis aurora
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Love this idea. Even if extractions are controlled by drone but zombie attacks we have to defend the wall ourselves and repair as others have also said. Keep the strongest survivors to help out too👍🏻

hidden geode
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The whole base defense should in my opinion play a little more like a tower defense game where the main strength comes from what you set up and buy and the drone helping out on the fly where its needed. For the truck defense, the drone makes perfect sense and it felt a lot more intuitive than defending the walls

junior root
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I Like the Ideas here i think that would give the Defence way more depth.
when it would be made like u can pos the soldiers for a fight reinforce thing etc. it could be an option to that the Drone has some Problems and u cant use it for the fight (could get less with the Time when u upgrade it).
Also the attacks could get more or less depending on the actions u do when u gets often deliverys with the Heli (Like u buy new Ammunation but need it fast in the base or something), have to many People in the base.

Also an idea i had for the drone bc some people would like to skip the Drone missions i thought about in a playthrough u need the first time to play with it, but after this u can hire for 1 Time a Drone pilot to avoid using it by ur own (But the dude is expensive) and they have different experience(Newbie, young one with bit of expirence, Master, veteran) and skills (Speed, accuracy, etc.)

Later u can buy a Drone Room or Control Room with a Separate Drone Operation room (Extra Upgrade) and then u can hire an Drone operator as ur worker and not as one time use.
By the Option Control room with a Separate Drone Operation room could be also the main area where u manage the Soldiers (when where is working, where the soldier stand or patrol around), defence, the suplies, etc.
Like the Heart of the base where u manage most of the base and also doing the recruitment talk.

Sometimes need soldiers to go to the Training ground to hold and adjust there skills (what the player needs to manage).