Dead Island does allow you to invite friends into your game, but as of now it's not functioning. It also tells you when another player is adventuring in the same area as you and allows you to join their game with a button press. We eventually had to all stand in the same area of our individual games and wait to see the person's name that we wanted to host the game. It was pretty weird, but we were too determined to get our zombie killing on to think much of it.
What ensued after that was a wonderful meandering adventure that started with me insisting we should go in the exact opposite direction of where the main quests was leading us and try and get into some trouble! I chose the character named Sam B who specializes in pounding dead things with blunt weapons! Dead Island has characters are the real world zombie-apocalypse survivors of Left 4 Dead mixed with the crazy Shooter RPG archetypes in Borderlands. Each of the four characters in the game specialize in a different kind of weapon and have individual skill trees that decide their play style, but in the beginning everyone is pretty much just frantically beating things with paddles and flimsy crowbars till either the zombie or the weapon breaks!
We ended up making a huge circle around the island looting bungalows whenever we found them and eventually piling into a truck and making our way to the first or second main quest of the game. We found side quests hidden everywhere! Some led us to confrontations that ended with us getting kicked off a roof by a bulky zombie and snazzy loot, while others had us flagged down while we were cruisin' to help a man who was pinned in his car.
Eventually I was just too tired and couldn't play much more. I was starting to realize that I may enjoy things a bit more by myself because anyone in a co-op game can accept quests and I'm really picky about hearing every bit of dialogue and taking time to read all the little extra portfolios and personal I.D. cards. I was playing with a group that barrelled through the quests and never really stopped to listen. It's a rushed feeling that really dampens the experience.
I'd intended to go off to bed but I decided to hop in just one last time to check out some of the other characters statistics that I hadn't really look at yet. The game stuttered and the framerate tanked and since I hadn't yet quit fully from the client after my long session of gameplay I assumed it may be a performance killing memory leak since I'd played the game smooth as a whistle on it's max settings for over three hours.
I popped over to the Steam forums for the game and it was alive with chatting about a ton of bugs and crashes that I really hadn't experienced yet. My memory leak problem was there but also the theory that the devs accidentally submitted the dev build of the game on steam filled the board! Lines of code which supposedly only be in a dev build of the game popped up and also the statement that a debug feature that most PC players are familiar with, No Clip mode, could easily be accessed by simply pressing the Y button.
I was excited to find out if it was try or not so I recorded a video of myself attempting it, and it sure did work! Here's the video:
I had far too much fun with this game to be angered at all! I'm interested in recording a few more videos showing the fun gameplay but I couldn't resist my first new post as I'm getting back into blogging to be about this crazy situation! I'm really glad I had a blast with what is supposedly the buggy, unoptimized version of the game. I'm sure the devs will either have me redownload the whole client or there will be a crazy patch in the next few days! If they don't, imagine the scandal!!! SCANDAL!!!!
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