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Contagion: Why you should give a damn

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BotheredMe

Contagion gameplay
Contagion on Kickstarter

Most of you have seen the nice developer giveaway put up for Contagion on the main page. How many of you have seen the gameplay for it?
DasBoSchitt, a guy who makes Gary's Mod videos that are the adoration of a sizable portion of the internet and friend of the devs for Contagion, got the chance to check the game out while it is still in beta. They cover a number of key game designs that made me feel that this is a very promising game:

It's randomized, objective-based Left 4 Dead.
No monster closets. All enemies you will face are in the map prior to you aggroing them so killing zombies holds more weight.
Dead bodies don't despawn AND the frames don't (noticeably) suffer.
Environments are very dark, grim and generally have a nice appeal to them.
Fairly nice hit-detection and corresponding gore effects.
Multiple game modes.
PvP.
Zombies that look and act like zombies (no special zombies with crazy bodies and special attacks) and much more.

I'm fairly impressed by what was shown in the video and thought I'd pass it along.

Too long; Didn't read
Contagion has great game design so help kickstart it.

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VanScythe

Awesome. Hope my entry wins a copy.

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Angrenbor

Zombies? No.

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Nalgasaki

+1

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qetc

zombies, ho

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BotheredMe

It's not the quantity of the zombie games that matters, it's the quality of the zombie games.

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Aneszej

I'm pretty sure quantity also counts. They are freakin' everywhere and they're getting boring.

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chairmankao

Agreed. We need more first-person perspective games with hordes of beautiful, naked women attacking us by swinging their breasts at us.

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Aneszej

Oh God, that would be great.

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himohillo

I would just stand there, frozen in fear while my pockets couldn't hold the spaghetti anymore and I'd collapse to my knees and started sobbing. Then they all would just go home and I went back to playing with my MLP toys.

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CrashRHCP

Seven thousand and thirty two.

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Nixxi

No.

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Necroblight

So, another zombie game? for a second I thought it was survival game, but just a plain zombie game? no thanks.

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MrD

No, thanks for the offer.

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ThirdSketch

I'm not interested in zombie games anymore.

Except DayZ standalone. Of course.

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15outland

+1

Never played DayZ, but it does look quite good, all other zombie games just plain suck, plus just the whole genre of it, isn't all that appealing, to me anyway.

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Oksymoron

This, + State of Decay

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CHTonRage

I would back it up if I have the money.

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Cloonaid

rofl

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MDuh

source engine? I'd probbly find a similar gametype in gmod
Would maaaaybe backed if the price is right, but my mind says nop. sorry

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BotheredMe

A heavily modified source engine. In Left 4 Dead, zombies had to dissipate to keep the frames from suffering, they heavily optimized the engine so that bodies will stay and your frames will not suffer.

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ilborghi

We definitely needed a new zombie shooter. Thanks to the developers for bringing the innovation into a not-saturated-at-all market.

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Samhamwich

I played Zombie Panic since it was released for HL1. It's actually pretty fun. There is a Zombie Panic Source.

Not sure why you would have to pay for the new game, it looks like the same to me.

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Nox

+1 writed it almost in same time xD

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Nox

But we have such a game. Its called Zombie Panic! Source.

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TRUCKER

What I thought

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Sleeplessness

Because they are from the same developer

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qetc

but them new shiny graphics

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Bassnium

I hoped it would be similar to Plague Inc. when I looked at the title, since I've always wanted to play that game. :c

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Aeternum

I tried to give a damn, but failed.

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qetc

dunno about this smartphone shit but i trust the devs but i got a lot of games to play anyway

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Kpooch

Some of the Dev's are streaming the game right now :) http://www.twitch.tv/tatsur0

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xth3rm4lx

cool

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iamjellyman

"Fairly nice hit-detection"
That's one of the problems I noticed. That and the zombies seem to "jump" around like they did in DayZ. Sorry, but for me a shooter needs good shooting mechanics.

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ScHiLLa

i rather wait for No More Room in Hell to have some coop fun, but this game looks nice as well!

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Closed 11 years ago by BotheredMe.