Today’s game is Project Zomboid. The new public build of Build 42 fixed my controller problems, and i’ve been basically thirsting for Zomboid these last few months. So getting to play it again is like finding an oasis. I got my friends on too (this is why it’s a 4:3 Crop, to hide their personal info the game shows), and we made camp at the motel where we made our first ever base back when it was just Jerry and Cable.
To celebrate the return to the public branch we’re playing Jerry and Cable, who is by far my favorite "OC"s me and my best friend have made, if you can really call them that.
They changed some of the presets around i believe, because when we spawned in i was struggling to find myself a car that had gas and a key, meanwhile like every god forsaken rare item is spawning for me. I found sledge hammers, guns, even a can opener which i always struggle with. We’re on builder too which is what makes it especially confusing. I did manage to find a car and a Jerry Can to fill it with gas though so it’s not all a failure. It definitely made me feel more successful.
One of my favorite things about the new update is the animals. I found some chickens that were abandoned, and bless Jerry’s cruel heart but he found something he could actually love. I built them a coop. I read up on everything i need to keep them fed and happy, so that should keep them alive.
One of our friends wants to eat them, but i convinced him to let me take care of them because that will give us eggs which will keep us alive and fed far longer.
Anyways, i’m glad to have this back in a state i can play. I missed it and i love all the new Build 42 Stuff they added. I’ll probably see if i can get some friends on again tomorrow to play some more because i missed this.
I liked this game well enough, but it’s clearly made to play with other people, and I have no friends who would be interested in playing. The only friends who even game anymore are a couple who play among us almost exclusively.
PZ build 42 would have been perfect for my friend group of 10 years ago.
It’s definitely a different experience with friends. It really sucks because you get good experiences like these but if you don’t have people to play with (or in people like me’s case: hate playing with strangers) it’s just an awkward experience.
I’ve had Zomboid pre-Steam, it’s really nice to see how far it’s come. It’s sooooo cozy now. Especially with that mod that replaces all the arcade machines with real world ones.
I love turning the zombies down to a manageable number and playing it to build an outpost. Perfect cozy game imo. We keep helicopter events on though to keep things from getting stale. It’s really easy to dull the experience and make you feel too powerful, so it keeps us down a peg so we still have some trouble.
If it gets stale, turn on night sprinters.
I prefer day sprinters, it encourages you to take risks at night
I saw the release announcement and was thinking about pinging you about it, guess I didn’t have to!
When you mentioned Jerry finding something he could actually love, I thought you will be talking about eating chickens next 😀
Glad to see Jerry and Cable back, looking forward to their adventures.
So I kinda been interested in this game and for a long time it has been in my wishlist. But every time I added it to the cart, the feeling that it is going to require a hefty amount of time to get in as a solo player has stopped me and ended removing it from the cart :(
I say go for it. I honestly have had it since 2024 maybe and just recently reached 130 hours. You can adjust the settings to be super forgiving and can stop and pause at your pace (if singleplayer)
Oh, I didn’t knew it had difficulty settings, I thought it was hardcore only. Good to know, thanks for the heads up.
Yeah, it definitely makes it a lot more bearable. it comes stocked with a few presets too, such as it’s own “Builder” mode which is a more relaxing, chill difficulty
I’ve tried playing the game for years. I finally decided to get back to it and get gud because my biggest weakness is I haven’t learned to fight well and I hated being carried by whoever I was playing with
I restarted a few days ago and was really surprised when I saw a big update. So I went in on the “easy mode” with a focus more on homesteading and chiller zombies and got used to the ui and took the time to figure out the mechanics of killing zombies, even a small pack
They have a tutorial that is (I think) well put together to walk you through the first steps
Fun fact about the term “Jerry can”:
British gas cans in ww2 sucked and everybody knew it. German cans stacked neatly and so British soldiers would steal them, and eventually reverse engineered and produced them. A slang for Germans at the time was a “Jerry”, thus, making the stolen German gas cans and their design, “Jerry cans”.
That’s actually super interesting. WWII and WWI are probably some of the most interesting eras to me, so i love learning any facts i can about the era
The proper game to be playing yesterday and today
Excited about the announcement for stable build 42. Gonna be getting back into it.
Can’t believe build 42 is finally out! I’ve been having a blast.
I gotta try this with controller, I hate that the game is on a diagonal angle and the wasd controls are not
Exactly the same camp i’m in. The 360 degree joystick makes it a lot more bearable imo
