Infestation: The New Z is an official, massive re-work of Infestation: Survivor Stories (previously released as The War Z). Experience a massive open world shooter featuring a dynamic player vs player experience in different game-modes and worlds. Enjoy frequent updates, community involvement, a wide selection of skins, highly optimized anti-cheat and much more. Infestation: The New Z started out as a small project based on the original title Infestation: Survivor Stories.. A group of original players came together with the goal to re-work the entire game - creating the best infestation experience yet.
I really enjoy the game. Lots of different modes to play, I mostly play battle royale mode. great fun when you got the zombies involved. I enjoy the game so much i decided to become a mod for them. sadly the warz and iss iterations have left very black marks to be overcome. but these guys bought the rights to the game and are definitely heading it to a new era. Love the fact that they have major game trading through the official discord. Kind of a new thing having discord and a game so closely entwined. i hope more people give it a try or a second chance. i mean it's free survival with zombies. nuff said lol
I think the previous poster was being rather kind to this game, unless he meant to say negative 2. I love the genre, and really want to like this game, but it makes it impossible to do so. To begin with, this game is the most unstable game I have ever played, with glitching, freezing, and disconnects the norm. I have never seen a frame rate over 40 something. Usually, it hangs around low 20's, but usually only for a few minutes, then it drops to single digits. This seems to happen every time you get near z's. Engaging them with that low a frame rate just gets you killed, so you pause, waiting for the fps to rise above 2. Sometimes it does, sometimes you crash to the desktop. What is even more frustrating is when you actually enter the game with low, but playable, fps and, after spending a long time walking from one place to another, only to run into a z and the fps drops and the screen just freezes. It's a coin toss whether the fps rise again or you are disconnected from the server. Sometimes it just hangs there like that and you need to three-button out, something I don't like to do on a regular basis.
I will admit that I love the genre and keep coming back to this game, if for no other reason than to check it out and see if the devs have done anything to the absolute unplayability of this game. To date, I have seen nothing done. I am not an expert on pc's by any means, but it seems obvious to me that the major problems of this game (ie the abject instability of the games platform) could be dealt with by addressing the server issue. Again, my opinion only, but I feel that the devs are cheaping out in this area. They need more server space and more power. This wouldn't fix the horrible graphics, clipping, and other issues, but it might make the game at least playable. By the way, I live in the Midwest of the US, and I play the North American server.
I will say this, though. I have spent a lot of time with this game, trying my best to make this poor excuse of coding work. It seems for every five minutes of almost-decent play, I have to suffer much longer times with the disconnects and regular glitching. That said, I have not spent a single penny on this game and would urge everyone to do the same. The player base, as a whole, should send a clear message to the developers of this game that they will get no real money at all until they come out with a product that is worth it. You can put all the lipstick you want to on a pig, and it will still be a pig.