- Hey guys!Having played #Deadside for a few days before it's Early Access release, I wanted to answer a question I've been asked a lot in my Twitch chat latel.
- Deadside is a hardcore multiplayer shooter with survival elements. Post-Apocalypse, PvP, PvE, open world, realistic weapons, craft, base.
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Deadside is a hardcore multiplayer shooter with large open world and wide gameplay possibilities. Deadside gets you into realistic game environment full of hopelessness and despair. It tries to keep balance between the dynamics of the shooter and the hardcoreness of “survival” gameplay. The world of the game does not imply the existence of fantastic elements like zombies or anomalies, concentrating the player's attention on realistic aspects of life on the ruins of the dead civilization.
DEADSIDE WORLD
The world of Deadside is vast open spaces full of bushy forests and abandoned settlements. Players will have an area of about 225 sq.km., entangled by a network of roads and rivers (in early access the territory of the game world will be limited to an area of 25 sq.km.)
In addition to players, the game world is inhabited by various hostile and friendly NPCs. Going through the forest, you can face a gang of cannibals just about to eat lunch. Or a group of wanderers trying to survive in a hostile environment. The results of these meetings are completely dependent on your decisions and ability to get those decisions to life. Or death.
MISSIONS
It's a big world and in order to avoid getting lost and to keep themselves busy, players can use the map to see where in the world armed bandits are raiding, areas being cleared by security forces remains loyal to the ex-government or cannibals settling in abandoned villages. Anyone can take part in mass combat. It will not be an event with a limited number of players, anyone who wishes can go to the mission sector and affect the outcome of the battle. Battles with participation of NPC and players can continue for hours but the reward will go to the one who can seize the prize loot after the mission is completed.
WEAPONS
The main features of our combat system are realistic ballistics and hardcore weapon damage.
To protect their interests or piss off the other players, about 19 types of firearms and additional equipment (sights, flashlights, etc.) will be available (at the time of early access).
TRADE and “SAFE ZONES”
Among endless vast wastelands a wanderer will find places where they can buy bullets, food and chit-chat to the damned victims about life, the universe and everything. Maybe swap a story or two about hunting cannibals. Also, there are private lockers for players in Green Zones where they can keep a limited number of things they use for surviving. Green Zones will be places of trade and communication between players and friendly NPC traders.
BASE BUILDING
Simple yet effective craft system will let players to build bases and use them as shelters and to store hard-earned weapon and equipment. At the Early Access stages bases will be invulnerable, but later we're planning to implement a raiding system.
Players also will have the ability to craft small stashes and hide them almost anywhere in the world to keep a few handy things at the ready.
The new survival shooter Deadside was released on April 14, 2020 on Steam in the early access program. And apparently the release went smoother than many other survival games. Almost 2,000 players have already rated Deadside on Steam and the average is now 78 percent positive reviews.
Already many simultaneously active players: Deadside's current user peak is 8,547 (via Steam Charts). It thus achieves around half the number of players that survival competitor DayZ was last able to gather on average in March 2020.
Stronger than DayZ on Twitch: Twitch has around 3,200 deadside viewers while streaming, while DayZ can only get 1,600 fans to watch. It is of course not surprising that a new game attracts more interest from viewers than a product that has been established for years. Still a decent feat for a new early access game.
A new challenger
Deadside viewers will immediately notice the parallels to the genre forefather DayZ. We fight in Deadside also in third person or first person perspective on one Eastern European game world for survival.
We use it authentic weapons and have to ensure our food supply. Both games largely dispense with a story – players tell their stories almost by themselves, by teaming up with others, surviving together or fighting each other.
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The new DayZ competitor Deadside shows its game world in the release trailer
The big difference between Deadside and DayZ: There are no zombies in Deadside. We are instead fighting human NPCs that appear in the game world in the form of different factions. This can even lead to large PvEvP battles where groups of players join the factions.
You can also Accept missions and thereby defend an area against AI opponents, for example. In return, Deadside will reward you with money that you can invest in better equipment.
That happens in safe zoneswhere trading with NPC vendors and other players is possible. In addition, Deadside wants to offer a place to rest, tired of fighting.
Deadside – view screenshots
What do the first player reviews say?
What players like about Deadside:
Deadside is well received by the majority of Steam players who have rated it. Players often praise the smooth release and satisfactory performance of the game. Player Clone Snow, for example, writes:
Deadside Single Player
'I'm very surprised to get more than 60 FPS in an early access game.'
Especially when it comes to optimization and server functionality, survival fans are suffering from the often bumpy early access releases. We remember, for example, the problematic release of Last Oasis. Here the developers had to switch off the servers completely before the problems could be solved.
At Deadside, the Russian developer Bad Pixel has obviously done a good job in this regard, technical problems only occasionally appear in the Steam reviews. However, are often praised the attractive world design and the pretty unreal engine graphics. The general focus and combat gameplay also meet with approval and praise.
Players don't like Deadside:
Deadside Steam
However, criticism of Deadside also appears on Steam. For example, some players feel the movements as too slow and unguided. Player Kumab writes:
Deadside Steam Stats
'At first glance, the game seems to be fun, like a new breath of DayZ air. But running around and having a few shootouts just doesn't feel that great, and the interface is annoying.'
Deadside Steam Charts
Deadside Steam Chart
Despite some negative votes, the basic tenor of the majority of players remains positive. Deadside is supposed to 12 to 18 months in early access stay and cost 17 euros in the basic version, for the supporter edition with double storage capacity and a set of cosmetic items you pay 24 euros.