State of Decay: Lifeline Expansion Gets Fresh Details

State of Decay: Lifeline Expansion Gets Fresh Details

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Richard Walker

Undead Labs has revealed more details on the upcoming Lifeline DLC for State of Decay, following the expansion's initial announcement earlier this month. Lifeline is billed as "an expansion that explores the military side of the zombie apocalypse."

As well as adding a new map, the add-on will portray another side to usual bad guy role of the military in other zombie games, a view that Undead Labs considers "fairly one-sided and naïve". The State of Decay team will be looking to show a divergent military perspective, depicting the "many good men and women who stand on the line that divides safety and civilization from chaos and war," posing a number of "life-atering choices".

Playing as part of surviving military unit Greyhound One, you'll be sent to the fallen city of Danforth where you'll have to rescue scientists and salvage research that could prove critical in fighting the zombie outbreak. You'll begin as a well-equipped unit with plenty of resources, and have to improvise as those resources steadily and permanently deplete.

You'll set up a Landing Zone from which you'll be able to obtain supplies and extract civilians, forming a base that you'll have to defend from the undead hordes. Lose too many civilians to the slavering zombies and your mission will come to an unceremonious end. A perimeter of minefields and other defences will be available to build and upgrade, and you'll also be able to call in artillery and deploy trained soldiers to guard weak points and deal with imminent zombie threats.

Should the zombies break through your defences and into your base, a fraught battle of "tooth versus blade" will ensue, ultimately deciding whether your base will survive or fall. Undead Labs is promising more details on State of Decay's upcoming Lifeline DLC in the run up to its release, which is yet to be dated. Sounds pretty good so far though, right?

[Via Undead Labs]

Comments
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  • Just bought the Breakdown DLC today on Steam, it's 50% off, and State Of Decay is my Arcade Game Of The Year 2013, bought it on Xbox and Steam, and will definitely be purchasing this DLC.
  • Can't wait for this. Really enjoyed this game so far. I hope their MMO is in the works as well.
  • Not what i expected but what more can they do, ready and waiting on the XB1 MMO
  • Can never have enough of this game, love it
  • Sounds better than I was expecting
  • Another reason to play this game again; that's a plus for me.
  • Waiting for a sale on this game (again).
  • Dead rising 3 take note, this is DLC
  • Sounds kind of like tower defense game that you manage from 3rd person view. There were 2 games like that on arcade a while ago. Could be fun, if done right definitely picked my interest=)
  • SWEET! Looking forward to this.
  • Sounds like an interesting idea. I reckon it will be fun to play as the military vs Zombies. As said in the article, the military is often depicted as the bad guys or massively inadequate in a zombie apocalypse situation. It usually seems to be your average civilian that is the protagonist. It is refreshing to see a alternate story, and one that I personally believe would be more accurate as to how the military would operate under such an event.
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