Everything about Urban Dead totally explained
Urban Dead is an HTML/text-based
massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Kevan Davis. Set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton, it deals with the aftermath of a
zombie outbreak. Players enter the game either as a
human survivor or a zombie, each with different abilities and limitations. Humans become zombies when they're killed, while zombies can be "
revivified" with appropriate technology, becoming human. There are no
non-player characters in the game: all humans and zombies are controlled by players.
Urban Dead went live in July
2005. As of April 2, 2008, the game had 1,212,901 registered players, with 35,280 active. The game is in
open beta, with new features being added every few months.
Gameplay
Gameplay involves zombies breaking into safe houses and eating the inhabitants, and humans trying to defend the houses by barricading them and killing any zombies present. Zombies, often referred to as "zeds" or "zambahz" are limited to using claws, teeth, and blunt melee weapons. However, they're able to revive when killed, at the cost of several action points, rendering them effectively immortal. Higher level zombies can communicate with each other via a crude form of zombie speech, as well as through groaning noises and hand gestures. It is possible to switch sides in the conflict: a human character that's killed will rise up as a zombie, and zombie characters may be re-animated as living humans by a survivor who has the relevant skill and item.
Players receive
action points as time passes, which are used up any time they move, fight, or undertake any other sort of activity. One action point is gained every half hour of realtime, up to a maximum of fifty points. Revive points are considered neutral ground and survivors are generally discouraged from killing zombies found there. Some players and groups on both sides have also set their own distinct goals, many of which are set for purely
role-playing purposes.
Urban Dead isn't limited to survivor versus zombie combat, groups of survivors can attack other survivors, this is known as
player killing.
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