JohnSpartan117

Forgive me if this has been brought up before. (It probably has)

But why is there no United States? I have no read the book, but it seems like they play a major role throughout the story, and still exist when WWZ is over...so why are they absent in this game?


Anyways this is my first post, and I really like World War Z. I usually play as the United Kingdom. I only started playing a few days ago

It seems like NO matter what you do, the Zombies will win. Period. Maybe if you do good, youll hold em off for a long time, but they will soon upgrade their guys because they are cheap, and they make so much money off upgrades, and because your guys are expensive...

Even if you somehow united EVERYONE in the game against them, everyone needs to know exactly What they are doing.

My strategy usually is to fortify the UK, take nearby islands, then send Helicopters, filled with Combis and the Allied Commander and send reinforcements to Europeon countries attacked, and destroy unguarded Zombie cities behind enemy lines, while at the same time using Eagles as air support.

I seem to never get a chance to get Advanced Tech, cause I feel like if I stop spending and save, ill die...

So whats a good strategy as the humans?

The-King

Humans firstly require teamwork. I actually have never lost when I'm a human against zombies. I suggest if you want a real grasp of the game try france. France is my favourite since their general has a good aura (i think its unholy or endurance(unholy is best because it increases health and run speed which is both important especially health since most units have ****-all health so it goes up really fast). But when your france, build some priests and some of those gunners (not the el cheapo ones those 7 gold ones). then actually confront the zombies yourself in the catacombs. Make sure that all your guys are close together and then start fighting. Generally at this time in the game, most zombies are melee. You can abuse this with your unholy aura, since unholy makes you attack faster, whenever your being charged at, retreat your front-line units to the back line and retreat your new front line to the back. Gradually retreating - this both reduces the amount of deaths which is crucial. Basically keep going forward into the catacombs until you eventually eradicate the zombies from that side.

As for whatever else you asked, im not sure :P

TheRussianLord

Get version 1.19X from the downloads section on this site. My best bet is that you're playing some of the pirated versions on b.net so they certainly have balance issues.

There is a guides thread somewhere in this forum, search for it. It has great advice on strategies and tips.

That's the way it usually needs to work.

Eagles?

Again, find the thread in this forum which is dedicated to strategies.

JohnSpartan117

By the way, I managed to pick up a copy of the book, and read most of it.
Um...actually I played the version here.

Eagles...you know the fighters with the napalm.

Also you never answered my question.

Why is there no USA?

Also, Travis D'Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander is an American.

Why does the United Kingdom get them? That makes no sense.

Also... wouldnt it be a good idea to employ the new weapons brought by the zombie war?

Such as the new rifles they used perhaps? The specially trained dogs?

And why is Russia called the Soviet Union. (They arent in the actual game, but during the lobby screen, of course you gave them the correct Russian Federation name, assuming they changed to Holy Russian Empire after WWZ. ).

Also, I thought it might be a good idea to put in...I dont know...Loyalist China and Rebel China.

Because a Civil War...did go on.

TheRussianLord

World War Zombie is set in Europe which is why it has no China or USA. Now in the lobby screen it's still USSR? I'm going to try and fix that for the next version. Yes I know the F-16, with the napalm strike. The SIR rifle is most likely going to replace tesla troopers (their stats will probably be unchanged, just a cosmetic change).

JohnSpartan117

Um...I read the book and a lot of it takes place in the United States....

Also, why is Phalanx a tower? That makes no sense, it was a placebo for the zombie disease.

My humble suggestion, is that you get rid of the (No one cares about) countries like Sweeden, Poland, Greece, etc and replace them with more important countries in the game like the USA, China, etc...

Serenity

Because it is a world war.
The United States would not come in at all because they are pushed back to the rockies after they lose the battle of Yonkers.
China is decimated by the zombies because of their conuscription tactics and not properly training soldiers to fight the zombies
The phalax tower is a gattling gun system that was originaly adapted for anti air but not currently used to my knowledge.
Also useing the US and China would make the map too large or too low detail for what TRL wants, also the scope of it would be so large you would need to cut down the human players and add zombies just to keep up with the spread.

TheRussianLord

The map is more of an exploration of what European politics and warfare would be like in the advent of a zombie invasion, and loos of communications with the States, and most of the rest of the world. Africa and Eastern Russia are overrun with zombies pouring into Europe, a crisis, and at the same time a chance for an abitious leader to rise. The book was more of a context in which this takes place, rather then a story that provides the narrative to the map.

Though once again this brings about the idea of a World War Zombie World Map version. This would not be too hard to do, if someone could make a world map. I wouldn't mind transferring the models and cities and changing nation names to accomodate.

Serenity

Erm... Russian, no offense but it is not a very good war simulator.
And politics it has about none.
Also, to say they are pouring out with them there should be more then can be killed with very little gold.

If you want to go for war simulation add in more armored vehicles, add in random zombie start locations. Add in a miss chance for all ranged attacks.
And make air craft take gold to refuel >.>
Anyways I think that is off topic but not 100% on that.

TheRussianLord

More zombies are being added (northern sweden and hungary). Though hopefully you can help me test things out maybe this Saturday? balancing out zombies in the middle of Europe is going to be hard. As for more armored vehicles, what do you have in mind? We have an APC, a self-prop artillery, a SPAAG, a tank, a specialized tank (flamer)....... making aircraft cost gold to refuel would mean working that into the game balance. The way I see is that a 75-gold aircraft already paid for all it's weapon loads.

JohnSpartan117

I am making it my personal mission to find that World Map!

TheRussianLord

Are you a map maker by any chance.

JohnSpartan117

Unfortunately no, I am not.

However, I really want to help out with World War Z, because its really fun and I want to do whatever I can to improve it.

Have you tried getting in contact with the people who made Risk? Like the ones with the World map? After several hours of googling to no avail for a blank world map, perhaps thats our only option for a world map.

TheRussianLord

No I haven't contacted them. I've been extremely busy with college and stuff. I really need to post a progress update so you guys know where I am with stuff right now.

Serenity

World maps with have each square equal to a 91 mile by 91 mile square of land. And that is only if you change the map to be max size.

King Stubby

send up the halak signal! :P he's made continents before!

NutManIV

I played one world war z map that had USA terrain a few months ago. It was in beta then and I havent heard anything about it since.

Are you planning a USA wwz map? I think an official one would be awesome.

Serenity

Actually, I am thinking about making it, a few people have asked me to, so I have started setting things up for it, editing the terrain, writing up unit ideas mostly.

NutManIV

Awesome. I hope you are able to do it.

Serenity

Thank you, it is quite a bit of work, but I am hopeing what I figure out for unit and zombie stats might also be useful to make this world war z map more interesting, at the moment I am calculateing unit speed vrs weapon range based on their real life counter parts. A few weapons I am useing as bases are the SAW, the M4, and a few others. And if these translate well I plan to offer them to Russian to hopefuly make the game more interesting.

TheRussianLord

Serenity I fully support your decision to go ahead with a WWZ USA. I'll pm you with the details.

JohnSpartan117

Any progress on a World Map yet? I havent found one as of now.

NutManIV

I hope the USA map is going well.

Serenity do you think you could update us every now and then?

Serenity

Hey, it is going kind of slow sorry, I do not have enough hours in the day.

King Stubby

in summer will you begin having hours every day?