

Thankfully, death, as mentioned earlier, doesn't mean the end of the game. As a note, after 3 days, your character disappears from the map, but will reappear as soon as you log back in. Finding shelter is fairly easy, as you just need to find a barricaded building to enter, and then you should be fairly safe. This means that logging off while standing outside is almost sure to get you killed within a few hours. When you log off, your character doesn't: it stays in the game in the same place on the map that you left it in. It's when you get low on APs and are about to log off that the game really gets interesting. You begin the game with 50, and regain one every half an hour. Every action costs APs, from barricading a building to spray-painting a wall.

Game play is governed by Action Points (APs). Once you have at least 100 XP, then you can purchase a new skill and move up to the next level (which doesn't really mean anything special). If you're a doctor, then it's easiest to heal as many people as you can find. If you're a NecroTech employee, then the best thing to do is to use your DNA Extractor on every zombie in sight. Unfortunately, when beginning the game this option isn't really available to you. The most obvious is to damage (and hopefully kill) zombies. There are several ways to gain experience in the game. (Hospitals carry first aid kits, Police Stations carry guns and ammo etc.) For most classes, the best thing to do is to go searching for supplies in the right sorts of buildings. Many a newbie have started the game as a cop with 12 bullets, used them on the first zombie they saw, and then were forced to create a new character. Once you start the game, your first turns can be crucial. Each suburb contains a 10 X 10 grid of buildings inside of it, making a total of 10,000 buildings to explore (it's a big game). This means achieving higher levels very quickly, and then, as soon as you get Melee Weapons Training and Body Building, you will be practically unstoppable.Īfter the extremely speedy character creation process, you're introduced to the city of Malton ( link to map), which consists of 100 suburbs. Doing so allows you to begin fast and effective zombie slaughter immediately. I recommend choosing a Fireman (Civilian class) to start with. The class you pick determines the skills you begin with, and the cost to acquire other skills later on. There are a few different character classes to choose from: Military, Science, Civilian, or simply begin the game as a zombie. To start the game, you first have to create a character (obviously). To put it simply: it is a text-based zombie survival game that runs in any browser. Urban Dead is a fantastic and superbly original MMOG that was created a few months ago by Kevan Davis, and which currently has around 85,000 registered players.
