Build 42 Unstable - Project Zomboid
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Build 42 Unstable is now available to play! Important We’re aware people have built up a lot of anticipation for the first unstable release, and have done our best to make it an enjoyable experience out the gate. But as those who were present for the first b41 unstable release will attest, it’s in unstable […]

Seems B42 unstable is out!

Although it is only for single player for now, looking forward to see the new stuff - even if it might have jank

  • bossjack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    So far, so good; made a new save and the performance improvement is already very noticeable. There’s still problems - loading that save will have me stuttering for the first minute - but overall seeing the game run so smoothly on my ancient Sandy Bridge system makes me so hyped for when MP is re-enabled and some mods are ported forward.

    The changes to combat are also so obvious in hindsight. Why would working out make my arms sore, but taking the lives of a hundred boids wouldn’t? There’s going to be way, way more painkiller abuse moving forward than in my previous playthroughs now.

    • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Played a little bit and it feels fresh with the improvements here and there, although takes awhile to get use to.

      I also see that they make corpses stink stronger, or at least your character has a moodlet for it, so it requires one to disposes of corpses or at least drag them away

      Feels weird to see animals in the world, found some chickens, cows and a rat in the wild

      At least on the combat side of things, herbal remedies are probably going to be in big demand, but at least it is easier to lose zomboids as well

      Reading stuff is also better as your character reads something and has a “memory” of it, so it now doesn’t get consumed on use. Also really like the effort on giving stuff you read some character by allowing one to read pamplets and see newspaper headlines.

      I sort of have a potato with a horrible graphics card - stil, need to tweek things to find a nice balance with frames and gameplay - but at least the framerate is consistent, albeit a bit low on my side. But I will say the amount of additional details will be noticable on any machine with a decent setup( in a good way)

      Yeah, just good overall with a lot of improvements and there is a lot of things to get use to with all the new stuff to figure out.