Urban Dead

CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
edited December 2006 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Let's all enjoy a game of Zombie Apocalypse</div><a href="http://www.urbandead.com" target="_blank">Urban Dead</a>
For those of you who don't know, Urban Dead is a free web based MMORPG game centered around Survivors and Zombies. The game is partially text based and is played out in a city, with multiple suburbs and buildings. Survivors can buy many different skills and specializations after they earned experience points from killing zombies, healing survivors, setting up barricades...etc. Likewise, Zombies earn experience points from killing survivors, infecting humans, dragging living people out of buildings...etc. The game is <!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->VERY<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--> heavy on role playing, which is surprising for such a simplistic game. This is an example of how an average week is like:

Currently, my character is resting in a police station. Lately, we have been receiving radio transmissions from our neighbor suburb to the west that a large zombie horde will be approaching. We are expecting large numbers nearing 100+ zombies in the suburb anytime soon, so right now, everyone is gearing up for the siege by collecting ammo, medical supplies, and fuel for the generators. Teams are working across the suburb to barricade most of the buildings. The transmissions from the other suburb have stopped, so I assume that the zombies have overtaken the station there. We are starting to see trickles of survivors coming in, and our PDs and Hospitals begin filling up. The rest of the city hasn't been faring very well. The entire middle region is a dead zone, with 200+ zombies in some suburbs! The outlying other regions are now under assault, and we are trying to fight back as much as we can.

It would be very cool if some of the NS players here could join me and we could create a small survivor group. (We had an NS Urban Dead group a year ago, before the forum crash...)
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  • Speed_2_DaveSpeed_2_Dave Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8788Members
    you know, I feel like a jerk, but I just threadomancied the UD thread <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?s=1975082880893951488&showtopic=96341" target="_blank">here</a>
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    edited December 2006
    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->(We had an NS Urban Dead group a year ago, before the forum crash...)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Jesus, that was ****ing stupid. Why did you revive a one year old thread? Anyways, Does anyone here actually play anymore? Tell me your location, I am currently at Gibsonton, the northeastern suburb group. Were probably gonna have a few problems with zombie hordes coming in from the west, the entire middle of the city is infested. My handle is SOLDIER Corvus...

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Anyone still play this? I stopped bothering... has it gotten a "point" or any more "fun" since, 8 months ago?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    To answer your question, sorta. The game has added a whole slew of new features and skills since 8 months ago. There are now things like building generators, radio and cellphone communications, other stuff. Basically, the game has a point, but only if you are willing to participate. The game is now very focused on RPing, and it's actually fun. You will have to find a group to join. You meet up with your local group team leader after acceptance. Then you usually tune your radio to the group frequency and receive your team orders from there. There are many different groups around, some focused on concerted reclamation and sieges of the lost suburbs, some focused on maintaining the failing city services (communication, pubs, safehouses, labs), and some trying to ID or revive all the zombies for the NecroNet Access. Besides that, the game lacks any real "point" besides leveling up like most MMORPGs.
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    First 50 turns, got into a well defended skyscraper with a generator and a broadcast tower. Rooted around the block and found four bottles of wine, a bottle of beer, a GPS unit and a DNA extractor.


    At least I'll be going down drunk as a stone.
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    Tell me where you are man, the name of the suburb is displayed at the top of your map. What class are you? Your class pretty much determines how you will get EXP for your first few levels. Scientists usually gather DNA or heal people. Military classes just kill ish. The civilian class are kinda good, but consumer really sucks.
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    edited December 2006
    I use my 50 turns every few days but don't take the game seriously anymore. I have every skill, living and undead, +4000 xp. I'm Techno and am currently at [72,16]
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    I had 2 people with the zombie hunter skill awhile back, but it was impossible to get resurrected, so I just gave up. Nobody wanted to do anything besides shoot at zombies. Plus the zombies, naturally, have a huge advantage over the 'living' since they can get right up where they were killed...which just doesn't give the living much of a point - has that been addressed in any way? The fact zombies could speed around just as fast as humans kind of started to kill it as well - speed was the human's only chance and they took that away too. Pffft.
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    Well, for dead characters that want to be resurrected, it is relatively simple now. All it takes is one or two days patience. There are special areas around each suburb that the local governing group has defined as revive points. All one has to do is wait at these points, and eventually some scientists will arrive and revive you. Usual wait is one or two days. Check the Urban Dead wiki for location of these Revive Points. Make sure they are actually being attended to first.

    For Zombies vs Survivors though, at the current state, the game is at a tie. Survivors have the biggest advantage in the fact that they can barricade their buildings, get a generator, and group together in numbers. Zombies usually have a hard time getting around this, unless they really organize themselves. We have kill teams moving through the more infested suburbs and science teams reviving as many as they can. At the same time, zombies are now beginning to move in on "green" suburbs. So it's basically a stalemate.

    The Mall battles are really fun though, they usually involve 500+ players as they are such a hotspot for Survivors trying to scrounge up items. If you have old characters, I reccomend starting new ones, they game is alot different from before. Consumers are the hardest classes to start with, if you want a real challenge. Make sure to align yourself with a faction though, that's what gives this game any purpose.
  • PvtBonesPvtBones Join Date: 2004-04-25 Member: 28187Members
    edited December 2006
    I'm in Pegton at Cowing way PD ( I practically live there) under the name Redshirtguy (I'm disappointed by the lack of people getting the joke) been playing again for about 2 months I even took part in the recapture of the new fort creedy , it was a literal slaughter amazed we held out even that long.
  • tigersmithtigersmith Join Date: 2004-11-11 Member: 32749Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Supporter
    <!--quoteo(post=1589703:date=Dec 17 2006, 08:53 PM:name=cshank4)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cshank4 @ Dec 17 2006, 08:53 PM) [snapback]1589703[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    First 50 turns, got into a well defended skyscraper with a generator and a broadcast tower. Rooted around the block and found four bottles of wine, a bottle of beer, a GPS unit and a DNA extractor.
    At least I'll be going down drunk as a stone.
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    wow sounds fun lol
  • DroggogDroggog Random Pubber Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3293Members, Constellation
    Hehe yep <a href="http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=22356" target="_blank">i still play this</a> as well. Since July 27, 2005 apparently. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":0" border="0" alt="wow.gif" />

    But as you can see, i'm a zombie, heh. I'm a proud member of the <a href="http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/RRF" target="_blank">Ridleybank Resistance Front</a>. We're a large, fun horde that suits every playstyle, and bring chaos to the city of Malton by eating all the <i>brainbagz</i> unlucky enough to stand in our path of destruction. I fact, i led the bulk of the horde, the feared "Group 0" for three months, then recently stepped down. *proud face*

    The RRF home is obliviously the suburb of Ridleybank, right at the center of the map. But we also annexed Barrville, wich we renamed Barhahville. It is by far the most dangerous area in the game for humans, or <i>harmanbargarz</i> as we like to call them. We even have our own pro-zombie... newspaper. You can see some examples of our propaganda posters on <a href="http://www.ridleybank.org/graphics/" target="_blank">this page</a>. Did i mention everyone is welcome to join us? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> </pimp>

    About the game itself, it is boring in the long-term if you don't join such a nice community. Once you have all the skills, there's not much left to do if you don't get involved in some roleplaying. Personally, i prefer the zombie-side of the game as i find it much more challenging, and because the zombies, dare i say it, all love each others. Humans are frequently acting like retards, pking, destroying generators, and being a nuisance to their own kind. While we laugh at them and eat their brains. There are some nice human groups though.

    Zombies have their own limited language (they can only use a, b, g, h, i (using !), m, n, r, s (using z), and z letters) but while you get used to it, you'd be surprised to see what's possible to say with just that. <i>Man, mah ganna ram barragraaghz, harm harmanz anh grab bra!nz!</i> or <i>Zambahz! Harmanz arh harm!ng m!n! zambahz anh bangbang aar bra!nz, bah nah marh! B!g R!babang zambahz arh ganna br!ng marh zambahz anh zmazh harmanz !n g!bz!</i>...

    I would give you funnier examples but it would contains way too much obscenities for this forum, hehe. I maintain three characters, 2 zombies and 1 human. The human could join you guys if you start a group. I just logged him on, he's still alive with his weird inventory; one flak jacket and 25 fully loaded shotguns. Yes, he's carrying 25 shotguns...

    Oh and lastly, take care when you post your location on a public board. Hmm brains. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    What are some real good human groups to join? I want to get into some action, sitting around gathering EXP is starting to get boring. At the very least, get your group to seige Rolston Heights or Gibsonton. This place is an absolute bore, we need more action here, they are both "green" suburbs...

    Hey, were any of you guys ever a part of any of the Caiger mall sieges? I never got to participate in any of them, how many players were involved?

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Ridleybank has become one of the most infamous suburbs in Malton, largely due to the efforts of The Ridleybank Resistance Front. It, naturally, forms the heart of Greater Ridleybank.

    In September 2005, Petrosjko was inspired to rally a horde to Ridleybank, which quickly grew into one of the most effective the game has seen.

    As one of the core tenets of the Ridleybank Resistance Front, Ridleybank is considered a great zombie homeland. Most humans in the area as an invading force are quickly eliminated.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I've only been to that place once, and I was killed within 5 minutes, and I didn't even run out of AP points during this time.
  • DroggogDroggog Random Pubber Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3293Members, Constellation
    I don't really know about what human group to join. The "Channel 4 news team" maybe (check the wiki). About finding action, i'm afraid you'll have to go where the action is. There is currently a nice siege going on at Giddings mall. It's in Pitneybank not far south of Gibsonton. Take care though, there are currently 370 standing zombies and 220 corpses just outside the north-east corner of the mall and body parts are flying around.

    And yes we were part of the first Caiger mall siege. In fact, it is the only battle RRF kind of.. lost (we abandoned the siege). Peak numbers were about 1200~1300 zombies chewing on the doors or laying as corpses, i don't know/remember about human numbers but i'd guess around 2000. Only some RRF representatives and strike teams (sub-groups in the RRF wich are specialized in coordinated strikes) were at the second siege. About the same at the third siege, when Caiger finaly fell for the first time in the game.
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    Sweet! Currently, me and 10 guys at the Oram Walker PD are organizing a raid on a nearby Military Fort. We will travel in groups of 3 and will stay in contact via radios and cellphones. We plan to break into the armory, and scrounge up as much ammo as we can. The raid will be slated to begin on Friday, when everyone has restored thier action points. From there, we will move to the fort. We will have to camp out at night in middle of our journey, it's a bit far for some of our lower leveled members. Once we get there, our warriors will shoot up the undead, while we get the lower levels into the armory and protect them while they spend a day or two's Action Points on searching.
  • briktalbriktal Join Date: 2003-08-20 Member: 20021Members, Constellation
    The multi rush at DARIS was pretty annoying.
  • PvtBonesPvtBones Join Date: 2004-04-25 Member: 28187Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1590004:date=Dec 18 2006, 08:23 PM:name=Crotalus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Crotalus @ Dec 18 2006, 08:23 PM) [snapback]1590004[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Sweet! Currently, me and 10 guys at the Oram Walker PD are organizing a raid on a nearby Military Fort. We will travel in groups of 3 and will stay in contact via radios and cellphones. We plan to break into the armory, and scrounge up as much ammo as we can. The raid will be slated to begin on Friday, when everyone has restored thier action points. From there, we will move to the fort. We will have to camp out at night in middle of our journey, it's a bit far for some of our lower leveled members. Once we get there, our warriors will shoot up the undead, while we get the lower levels into the armory and protect them while they spend a day or two's Action Points on searching.
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    sounds fun, but if it's fort creedy your fooked. my intel is a little out of date but I would place the zombie horde that anywhere from 30-60 zombies at the gatehouse (only entrance now) and god knows how many inside the fort.

    Oram Walk now that brings back memories that used to be my home away from home back when UD first came out, I had a kickarsical character basically maxed out.
  • DroggogDroggog Random Pubber Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3293Members, Constellation
    Yeah last i heard the forts were not in good shape. Good luck though. Oh and Giddings mall just got ransacked, there are about 450 zombies inside so forget what i said about finding action in there cause it's over. The zombies are now decorating plastic trees with intestines.
  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Hmm. Created two characters, so I could play around on both sides of the divide right off.
    Zombie ended up wandering around, finding a guy sleeping in the street, and took him down to 6hp before running out of AP. Someone else apparently came along and killed him off, then moved on.

    Human managed to DNA sample two zombies (including one with brain rot!), run away, search a museum and a fire station... coming up with a radio and FOUR pairs of wire cutters. But no fire axe, and no jacket. Was subsequently found by a roving group of PKs and beaten to death while asleep, and dumped outside.

    So far, the zombie side has been far more rewarding and fun.
  • ZeroByteZeroByte Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3057Members
    I remember Oram Walk PD. My NecroTech was over there recovering when they implemented blockading. I went out for my daily dose of XP goodness but when I came back the blockade was too strong for me to enter >_<. Needless to say I go zombo'd. Killed my interest in the game but I might come back to try it after finals is over.
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    Oram Walk PD is pretty good now, alot of the survivors have a common barricading rule so people can get in and out safely. Our group size has increased to 15, we will begin the raid on Friday. I think if everyone got enough ammunition, we should be able to take out the gatehose zombies. We then move in and grab as much f**king ammo as we can and bail out into some building close by. We do this over and over again until we've either sustained to many loses or the zombie hordes from the west begin coming into our suburb.
  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    Just started. Totally new to the game. Iam in Cotterrell Crescent Police Dept 78, 22 - Santlerville. In 5 moves i can be at Oram Walk PD i believe. I hear you talking about it being "good" and sounds like it's "safe" for now. Also, you are planning a raid or something? Could i tag along and stuff?

    The police station iam currently sleeping in has 52 people in it - but iam told police stations are often targets of Zee' Horde, right? Am i safe?
  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    edited December 2006
    Day 2.
    Human survivor apparently was not killed off, and managed to escape the PKs. Found another heavily barricaded fire station directly next to a junkyard containing a number of sleeping zombies. DNA sampled a few of the zombies, found a metal pipe, and found a fire axe. Things are looking up. I'd like to make my way over and participate in that raid you were talking about.

    Zombie. Wandered around a bit, found a survivor sleeping in the street, took him down to 30-ish hp, then ran out of IP hits for the day. Would reconnect just to change out IPs, but with only 6AP left it really isn't worth it for now. Maybe this afternoon sometime.
  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    Arrived at Oram Walk PD. Staying for the night. Whats your ingame names? The game has got a contact list, right?
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    edited December 2006
    <b>UPDATE ON THE FORT PERRY RATE SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY:</b>

    We have moved operations and planning to "Ayliffe Street Police Department." For those currently at "Oram Walk Police Department," you need to move up 6 squares to get to the new planning site. Here is a map. We are located at the suburbs of Rolt Heights. Oram Walker PD is directly underneath us, at suburb Gibsonton. I suggest you get here soon and start resting up for the long trip.

    <!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo--><a href="http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Suburb" target="_blank">Malton City Map</a><!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec-->

    The journey to Fort Perry will take 2 to 3 days, depending on the Zombies we run into. We're not exactly sure what we plan to do when we get their, but mostly to retake the fortress and hold it long enough for reinforcements to regain the area. We will begin broadcasting to other groups in Malton to assault the fort on Friday also.

    <!--coloro:#CC0000--><span style="color:#CC0000"><!--/coloro-->LOWER LEVELS ARE ADVISED TO SAVE AS MUCH AP AS POSSIBLE. WE ARE MOVING DEEP INTO ZOMBIE TERRITORY, EXPECT LOSES. If you end up dying, consult the Urban Dead Wiki for the nearest "Revive Point."<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->



    <b>UPDATE ON "Crotalus 02," SUB CHARACTER STUCK IN MIDDLE OF SHEARBANK (Zombie Town):</b>

    <Crotalus 02 is revived, but he is subsequently infected by a zombie and is slowly dying.>
    <Crotalus 02 blunders into a Shearbank hospital, screaming obscenely at the survivors to heal him.>
    <!--coloro:#CC9933--><span style="color:#CC9933"><!--/coloro-->Crotalus 02: OMG HEAL ME I HAVE 1 HP LEFT AND AN INFECTION PLEASE!!<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
    <!--coloro:#CC9933--><span style="color:#CC9933"><!--/coloro-->Survivors: Whatever.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
    <Crotalus 02 turns into a Zombie 3 minutes later, expiring from the infection.>
    <!--coloro:#009900--><span style="color:#009900"><!--/coloro-->Crotalus 02: Graagh! Gragh.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
    <Crotalus 02 kills two survivors, especially the one who didn't heal him.>
    <Unidentified newbie builds an extremely heavy barricade, unknown to him that he has just trapped all the survivors into the building with a Crotalus Zombie.>
  • CrotalusCrotalus Join Date: 2003-12-02 Member: 23871Members
    Yeah this game has a contact list. Are you still at Oram Walk PD, Abra? I just got there, do you want to join the fortress raid? It's 12pm Eastern Time on Saturday...
  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    Well, I'm all alone in my safe house. I cut down a tree and found some lights to decorate the place, also painted a few things on the barricades just for fun. I've killed a zombie with a fire axe and no one seems to be around me at all besides the zeds...


    SOS.
  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    I'm in "Ruddlebank", but I dont remember where I last ended my game. I entered some building. I'm a doctor, and my characters name is Laastari (some evil monster has taken "Retales" nick D:).
  • ZeroByteZeroByte Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3057Members
    I've just created a new NecTech with the name "Chemical Azi". I've spawned at Kinch Heights, seems relatively safe although its crazy far from Gibsonton and heading over there means crossing zed territory. I've also got my old zombie alt "ZeroBite" back although he seems to be at a bad place for zombies. My old nectech "Pappy Smurf" is still a zombie but doing a lot better, found a group of zeds and we're tearing down some barricades.
  • ShzarShzar Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21098Members, Constellation
    I have two characters: Shzar is a level eight police officer holed up in the Gerard Crescent Police Dept. in Scarletwood. There's a large group here, seems like a good place to hang out for a bit.

    Minstrel Boy is a medic-turned zombie searching in the south-west end of Malton for a revive.
  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    edited December 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1590755:date=Dec 21 2006, 04:44 AM:name=Crotalus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Crotalus @ Dec 21 2006, 04:44 AM) [snapback]1590755[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Yeah this game has a contact list. Are you still at Oram Walk PD, Abra? I just got there, do you want to join the fortress raid? It's 12pm Eastern Time on Saturday...
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    Sure! Iam at Ayliffe Street PD at the moment. Thinking of moving down 6 blocks to Oram PD again. This PD just got smashed up by a "criminal". Some guy walked in and banged the generator and stomped our christmas tree... He also shouted out something about the whole Zombie horde knowing about the raid - finally shut' up when some guy finished emptieing shotgun rounds into his skull.

    I have heard radio transmissions about major zombie movement in the south. I don't know HOW "south" it is. South from Ayliffe PD anyway.

    Set my mind while posting this, iam comming down to Oram PD. See you there, right?
    <!--coloro:#FF0000--><span style="color:#FF0000"><!--/coloro-->Oram PD - The building has been heavily barricaded from the inside; you can see no way in.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
    ... I need that free movement skill thing, right?
    Guess that was a waste of 12 AP. Well, iam going back to Ayliffe then.
  • DroggogDroggog Random Pubber Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3293Members, Constellation
    Yeah you need free running so you can run from one building to another without stepping outside. You cannot directly enter in heavily barricaded buildings. That's why we usualy barricade such building at "very strongly" maximum, so younger characters can come inside. But most survivors doesn't care about that, they barricade at "extremely heavily barricaded". When you complain about it you usualy hear "get free running noob!" and/or get a shotgun shell in your face. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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