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There are both melee and ranged weapons: any character can use any weapon, but their skill with it will depend on the applicable stats and skills for each (Melee - Strength stat and Melee skill; Ranged - Perception stat and Ranged skill). Melee weapons often have multiple different attacks, which can
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The maximum level for character development is capped at 20 - by this point, the character will also have reached 170 attribute points. Players may also choose to do certain quests to gain another 30 attribute points, making the maximum points available 200. Experience can still be gained and is used
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is centered in the fictional town of
Splendid, and the gameplay area covers a significant amount of the center of the state - this ranges from Abilene (north), San Angelo (west), and Austin (southeast). The game begins sometime in the modern day, in the spring, and lasts over a period of about four
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is the Noise Meter, which sits on the upper left of the screen and measures how much of a racket is being made. Undead and humans alike are attracted to noise, and raising the Noise Meter too high will result in undead spawning on the edges of the map, and moving towards the source of the sound.
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update included a significant amount of updates and improvements, including a full combat rebalance, improved animations, better AI, new areas, new gameplay modes, and stability and pathfinding improvements. The free demo of the game was later updated with the
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do variant damage based on a character's angle of attack, and whether or not the target is human or undead. Ranged weapons often lack the multiple different attacks of melee, but some can get modifications that improve their utility in combat.
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update.) Human enemies are far more dangerous, falling into a variety of factions from frightened looters to biker gangs to rogue military - each with their own varying stat and skill levels, weapons, and items.
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This isn't just Dead State anymore - this is Dead State: Reanimated! DS:R isn't just an update - it's our definitive enhanced edition with brand-new content, full of improvements and fixes requested by you, our
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attacked while their health is low, and when killed, infected characters will reanimated as zombies themselves. (Players cannot be infected unless they choose the "Player
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with a playable demo showing, and showed there again the following year. On
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were an influence on the game design, as he intended to "work it into a broader examination of how humans deal with a crisis beyond their control."
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they appear - but combat does not initiate until the enemy either detects the player or an ally, or the player manually initiates combat.
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523:"Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Dead State"
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860:. Indie MEGABOOTH. Archived from
654:"Dead State: Reanimated is here!"
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987:Lahti, Evan (29 December 2014).
914:. Apocalypsezone. Archived from
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428:Dead State: The First Seven Days
1305:Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa
1066:O'Connor, Alice (14 May 2015).
963:"Dead State sets a launch date"
961:Chalk, Andy (31 October 2014).
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858:"Dead State - Indie MEGABOOTH"
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1094:"Dead State 2? Expansion?"
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680:"Dead State's Free Demo!"
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625:"Dead State Review"
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