Zombies!, Outbreak

• Theme: High speed zombie shootup game
• Grid: OS Grid
• Owner: Total Sorbet
• Maturity rating: M
• Rating (1-6):
• Lag: 5
• Design: 5
• Scripting: 6
• Experience: 6
• Address (Copy and paste into map search box):
• Local: Outbreak
• Hypergrid: hg.osgrid.org:80:Outbreak

 A high speed shootup game on the hypergrid? Is that even possible???
No, of course it isn't but Total Sorbet made one anyway. She's a master scripter after all so impossible is no hindrance.

The instructions are simple:

She should have added:

• Always run! and...
• Wear a low lag avatar

Yes, that is important. Total Sorbet may be able to do the impossible but only if we help her. Keep the lag down.
No slow loading mesh avatars or mesh clothing. Nobody has time to see how gorgeous you look anyway.

A simple system avatar with a few essential attachments is all you need. That's more like it!

This is not only for your own sake but for other players too because:

 

That's right! The zombies are all NPC clones of former players. Next time you play, yu may even have to kill yourself in there. I once shot OS Grid Head Honcho Dan Banner and only seconds later the whole game crashed. They say it was just a coincidence but I don't kow...

Once you're in, accept the gun and the HUD, go into mouselook mode and run to the central plaza.

The zombies are few, slow and easy to kill at first so in the open space and with a bit of luck (and if you rememebr to watch your back) you shold be able to finish off a few even on your first run.

But don't get too cocky, they are growing tougher and faster as the game progresses. And they start to gang up to. When the game runs full tilt, there are no less than 40 zombies out to get you!

The zombies sometimes drop items and you can pick them up by running over them. It's the health package (restoring all your health point), the speed package (increasing your speed) and above all, the bomb that clear the entire area for zombies in one go. You really, really, really want those.

And then there are those orange OS Grid symbols that give you a few extra points (only go for them when it's safe) and the shotgun - slow to reload and it wears out after a minute or so but it backs a much heavier punch than your little handgun.
I didn't get pictures of those - I was too busy trying to survive - but you get the point.

So head over for an exciting experience. OS Grid is the grid, Outbreak is the sim, zombies are the game.