What to play while Salem will be offline!

[vienradzis]

As Salem patch come closer and probably salem servers will be offline for some time. I can suggest you Nidhogg to play. Bought yesterday at launch and had lots of fun.

http://youtu.be/0hM6_CAurlg

http://store.steampowered.com/app/94400/

[Tylan]

DayZ also confirmed entertaining and hilarious.

[vienradzis]

DayZ also confirmed entertaining and hilarious.

Yes. heard that too. But dayz ask lots of time. So less time for Salem so dayz only if salem is shutdown forever.

[ZtyX]

Awesome. Wish I had the time, but I think I'll keep playing Salem instead. It's more rewarding.

[Tylan]

Actually I was thinking about this earlier, and there is a very big difference between the two. Since DayZ, at the moment, does not allow for persistent change to the game world, I don't think it inherently requires as much time as Salem. I played for maybe 3 hours over the past two days and acquired a ton of excellent gear by looting two towns. It's not like Salem where there are humours (attributes) or skills. You just find gear, learn the game mechanics (not necessarily in that order) and explore.

So, yes, DayZ did pull me away from Salem for 3 hours, but any similar game would have effectively done the same. There is no grind (again, atm) other than exploration out of necessity, curiosity, greed, or blood lust. A trip to the airstrip could earn me the big guns and gear that would situate me on the top, but a bullet to the head fixes that and then it's back down to empty pockets. No base to worry about. No upkeep concerns. Clean wipe and a fresh gear climb.

This is where I feel Salem in hindered in a lot of ways, and others have expressed this too. Months of work trashed in a few hours does not constitute a game with great replay value. Yes the experience will be fresh and new the second time around, but when you factor in the time it takes between skill/humours and digging (***** digging) and building and material gathering etc etc it makes rerolling very frustrating. But a game like DayZ, which also features permadeath, climb high, sit at the top for a week until someone gets lucky or you let your guard down, take a break for a day, and you're back in it because you can attain that level with a moderate amount of skill and patience in exploring ruins for gear again.

[vienradzis]

Havent played dayz. Yes its permadeath some nice adrelin rush while playing. But i think i would get bored from such shooter pretty soon. Becouse i have feeling that in the end its tactical shooter. Just long griding before you start just shoot.

[aprevite]

Has anyone tried Rust yet?

[Tylan]

Has anyone tried Rust yet?

Rust is cool, similar to DayZ but with the ability to build. It's a large world but everyone seems clustered. Either way, it's ruthless and you can expect to die many times, over and over.

[Claeyt]

I spent 2 weeks on DayZ around Xmas and it's good but pretty shallow on content here at the beginning. Only 4 guns and they're still polishing the game. There are very few bugs, it's mostly stuff like bodies de-spawning too fast and stuff like that. That said it is tons of fun and a steal at $30 for the alpha. It'll easily be $60 when then get all the vehicles and camp stuff and multitude of guns ready by summer. It's not hard to get geared up right now. Since there's no respawn of stuff yet until they reboot servers every 4 hrs many people just server hop the night servers to gear up. Do that for an hour and you're golden.

All skill in the game isn't farmed but learned and there isn't a more realistic shooting game out there. They've also upped the zombie spawns I think so they're tougher now to.

[Tylan]

All skill in the game isn't farmed but learned and there isn't a more realistic shooting game out there. They've also upped the zombie spawns I think so they're tougher now to.

When it is released it will be amazing. Compared to the Arma mod with graphics, AI, everything, this shows that it will be so far superior. But it won't be in beta until at least end 2014 so there's plenty of time to forget about it and enjoy Salem.