So...Is This Really Supposed to Happen on Day 5?

[Psychodabble]

Looked like good gameplay to me.

 

Stuff like this is necessary to keep a survival game fresh, IMO.

 

Sure a warning sound might be nice, but experience in this game teaches you that death often comes without warning and that's the biggest part of the challenge.

 

You swiftly reach a point where you can handle just about anything that doesn't catch you unprepared, so...always be prepared!

 

A player might call a death from such an attack unfair, I'd say it's just unlucky. That's the whole point of permadeath games...get that heart pounding when you have a close call. On my current game I was down to 1, 5, and 12 HP from various attacks/bad situations, but I always made it out with a huge smile on my face from the thrill of victory. You don't get that unless you're willing to give it all up, no matter how "unfair" the death was.

[EZ2Remember]

I got hit with the "day 5" dog pack, Luckily I was indoors when they showed up. I did get a zombie bear AND a dog pack come at me but that was later in the game.