You heard about Life after? Most likely not. Despite the fact that I dare to call the game the best in my genre for mobile platforms, you will not see the advertising of this game anywhere! Even on all of our favorite StopGame site (not to mention the channel on YouTube), the search did not give out anything. It seems to me that a year and a half after the release of this game, it is worth filling the gaps! In this review, I will examine in detail all the most important aspects of the game and summarize everything at the end, and even with an assessment of me.
LifeAFter -Game in the action genre of MMORPG with elements of survival in a populated zombie and mutants of a post-apocalyptic world. According to official figures, the game was released on April 18, 2019 under the publishing house of the Chinese company X.D. Global. Developers, as you probably already understood, are also the Chinese – Netease Games. The game is available completely free for users Android OS, iOS And Windows.
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We will start far from the best side of this game. There was a disaster in the game universe, which – it is not entirely clear. Based on what we can see at the very beginning of the game, the disaster occurred due to the development of the virus, which somehow escaped from scientific laboratories, turning the majority of the world’s population into zombies. Someone was lucky a little less, because of which there are mutants of various sizes and shapes in the game, which suggests that the work was also conducted to create super-people. But these are more my guesses, since the developers, if I am not mistaken, have not disclosed the cause of all troubles. You can say – "Template, I saw it a thousand times" And you will be completely right! As I said above, the plot is not the best side of the game, it is here to endow the world with Loro and meaning. I will not say that he is too bad, he is passing, but I do not want to spit from him, that’s what.
The beginning of the game
The game is quite heavy, at the time of writing this text (21.10.20) the weight of the game is 5.70 GB, which is very fat for mobile games. In addition to the fact that the main part needs to be downloaded in the application store, the client himself is more likely gigabyta two if I am not mistaken. Before you start playing, you need to choose a server, of which there are 5 pieces. How they differ from each other – I do not know, but those who started playing last year entered mainly on FallForest, and therefore I play there. By the way, one Google Play account is enough to maintain progress, that is, you do not need to record somewhere somewhere.
Further, the game will offer a beginner to create his character, choosing gender, appearance and initial clothes. We can also choose one of the three dogs proposed. Yes, the dog will be our faithful companion in this terrible world. The editor of the characters is quite simple, so do not be surprised if you meet a player with a similar appearance. The game begins with the fact that we, as part of a small group of survivors, go on a truck from the zombies overtaking hordes. Having shot several pieces, the truck breaks into the abyss and turns over, only our character survives. This is an introductory training mission, in which we are given the opportunity to shoot a little from different weapons (which will naturally be taken away after passing the quest), tell you how to extract resources and learn the skills of quick craft of weapons, tools and subjects. After passing the introductory mission, we are transferred to the main hub-collection of the game-the city of Hope 101, introduce the characters and give a ticket to the Hope valley, where they already show how to create their first home.
The main mechanics of the game
Since the observed game has elements of survival, that is, the corresponding mechanics. Most of the gaming process we have to engage in collecting and craft. The locations have four main types of resource that we can collect: hemp, wood and stone. Moreover, different secondary resources can fall on different locations.
The gathering mechanics consists of a quick craft that allows you to make some simplest sprats with your own hands, as well as from craft on machines in our house, with which you can make weapons, clothes, details to create and improve the house, etc.D.
The house in the game is called a mansion, often quite justified, since some players erect huge locks, because all the tools are for this. The level of pumping depends on the level of the house and vice versa, therefore, the improvement of a living space should be engaged not only for aesthetic considerations.
The pumping is divided into 4 main branches: gathering, craft, battle and profession. The player chooses the profession to himself, for example, the gunsmith can make exclusive parts for weapons, the shooter can get an advantage in battle (especially in PVP modes), and the lumberjack receive exclusive resources from trees. There are not many professions, but in principle, everyone has enough for all the needs, although I personally did not have enough Hill with treatment skills.
The game world
The game is quite spacious in terms of the game world. We are represented by 18 different locations, each with its climate, features, inhabitants, resources and various difficulty: from autumn forest to the winter mountains, from swamps to tropical islands, from large urban territories to the open spaces of the Wild West. In this regard, the developers can be praised for a long time, since the locations are really large and worked out. Locations are divided into locations with the open world, PVP-Location, Habs and Dange.
Moving between locations is https://playcrococasino.co.uk/ carried out using a helicopter (a strange solution for such a setting). On each location with the open world, you need to do tasks daily, mostly the same thing: find the sources of resources, kill such an animal, collect a certain amount of resources of some type, etc.D. As I said above, locations have various features, for example, it rains in the forest, a sandstone sometimes begins in the desert, and there may be real tornado on the tropical islands! Naturally, all locations are dynamic change of day and night, as well as dynamic weather.
Social interaction
Social interaction is an important component of the game. You can play as you want: you can be a loner, rebuild the shack to the gorge, go for supplies, occasionally meeting other players on common locations, or you can apply to the camp, run in a team with friends and go in a complete cooperative.
Entering the camp, it is worth remembering that certain responsibilities will be entrusted to you: the daily passage of the patrol, special tasks of the camp, beat off the attacks of the infected and go to the clan boss, as well as replenishment of the treasury by various resources twice a week. However, there is also enough benefits, while there are also camps where there is no obligation, it all depends on the camp’s policy.
I entered just in the camp where there is no obligation and everyone plays as they want.
There is one interesting feature in the camp that has not previously met in any such game. We are talking about the proximity: you can enter into the neighborhood with one of the camp players, help each other to take care of the house, garden, share some resources and even live together in the same house!
Graphics and interface
As for the graphics, then, as they say, "RTX beats from all the cracks". Seriously, the rays of the sun are made very well and realistically break through between various barriers. The effects of various weather conditions, illumination, shadows – everything looks very good.
Naturally, not every smartphone or tablet can pull such graphics. At the same time, the graphics with almost every update improves, loading the gaming devices. However, the graphics can be completely configured for almost any smartphone or tablet. Below screenshots of graphics settings, in addition, you can change the range of visibility, personnel frequency, resolution and other thin settings parameters.
Those settings that you see on the screen are best suited for my Realme XT in terms of the ratio of a pleasant eye and smoothness of gameplay. Previously, this smartphone pulled out full ultra, however, the graphics on the ultra were then worse. Below under the spoiler you will see the difference in the graph, for those who are interested in.
Low (with reduced resolution)
As you can see, the GPU is loaded almost completely with the ultra settings in the area where there are many people, as a result – 15 FPS.
As you have already noticed, the interface in this game is very overloaded, despite the fact that the size of the buttons and their transparency can be adjusted independently, you cannot completely remove some elements, so if you make, for example, the chat is completely transparent, you will sometimes accidentally poke it into it. Okay, buttons, but notifications and designations sometimes overlap the gameplay, since the game has notifications that the new player chose a profession (with this random, from another camp), another player took some place in some top, and the third passes the invitation to his camp. Rupor is a separate topic, the ability to write a message for a donat that will come to the center of the screen for all players! So it’s not uncommon to read the srach of random schoolchildren, sometimes even with obscenities. All this would be turned off, but you can’t. And complaints about the mat to developers do not reach.
Updates and new content
As you already understood, this is a standard game-service that has a huge plus of games of this category-constant support of developers. Every month something new comes to the game, sometimes even very large-scale. For example: since February, 3 city locations were added to the game, one of which was quite large, expanded the camp location, held several interesting events, and at the moment they made an update on the topic Resident Evil. I remembered most of all how we raked the railroad blocks to the outskirts of the city location with the whole camp, and then fought together with a large monster, as well as an update on the topic of an abnormal heat, which brought a temporary plot event related to the choice of a certain plot branch.
Donat and trade
Oooh, well, this is the most delicious … for developers. Want to pump weapons, armor, skills faster? Or maybe you still want to buy some exclusive rare resources? Maybe buy a bike? (By the way, it is available to everything for free at the city location. It does not stand donat at all, since the bike management is terrible.) And you can want to dress stylishly or buy a piano for your mansion (they really made a fully working piano on which you can play) or unusual furniture? All this can be bought without problems for the currency – “sun” that are bought for your real money. For example, you can buy 50 sun for 75 rubles or 5900 sun for 7490 rubles.
There are actually a lot of currencies in the game. Let’s start with the fact that you have local dollars and gold bars (hello RDR Online). At first, they go a lot and for everything, but do not rush to spend without thinking, then there will be very little and you will have to get acquainted with trade (more on that later). Sunny is a donation currency, although 637 sun is poured from the start and you can buy something donated to yourself, although the prices are such that this is not enough for something useful. Also during the events there are temporary currencies that can be spent on the market. In addition, there are various medals for the contribution to the camp, debt glasses, formulas, etc.D. At first it is not so easy to figure it out, and why understand the currencies, when money and gold generously fall from any task, even from any activity. And then at one point you pump so much that for further pumping you need more gold, money and other exchange currency. And then you have to trade. Camp characters can sell some resources for money, and if you need gold, then welcome to the trading platform. On it you can buy/sell various resources, unique armor and weapons for gold, and the prices change dynamically, since trade occurs with real players.
We go to the minuses
It can be rightly noted that Donat is the only earnings of developers, since the game is completely free and has no advertising. Okay, I do not mind, especially if you do not go into the PVP location, then you will not feel the impact of the donat on this regime on yourself. BUT! In the game about post -apocalypse, you can meet the players in such costumes.
I will return to this topic in the results. We continue to scold the developers. Now, at the entrance to the game, at the time of loading, you can catch a sign of the server with the “cross -cut” button, which certainly will not let you down. The developers have not corrected this bug for 3 months already. Sometimes during the game you can catch a bug of the server shutdown, various sagging, and so on. On some locations with an increased level of complexity, it is difficult to survive even the most pumped pro-players, since some enemies (monsters, zombies, enemy soldiers) may have a failure and they return to the place of their spavna with full health. Walking around the city of Levin often ends in burning the asses of most players because of this bug. The zombie has a certain radius of movement, after which, they lag behind and return to their point. In Levin, they run for you through the entire map, and when you decide to kill the pursuer of the 71 levels that have taken you, spend all the cartridges and your health on an almost complete HP enemy scale, he can fail and he will run back with a full HP scale … I don’t know if this is a bug or so conceived, but this certainly does not make a hardcore location, even the veterans will be heated a lot under the place passing the quests on such locations. This breaks the balance and kills the desire to return to this location, which is why it loses the interest of the players and simply idle.
Results and assessment
Neteasy Games They certainly made a grand game that gives such opportunities for a mobile game that you will not always find on a PC and consoles. A huge world that is available for research in coopeous, great opportunities for interaction with different real players, beautiful graphics and again – opportunities! At first, you pour into the game without noticing the time and the sewn interest of charging your smartphone, and not every mobile game is capable of this.
But along with a large number of advantages we see a lot of bugs and disputed solutions. For example, the above example with costumes, this completely kills the atmosphere of mankind, which is trying to survive in a new evil world. The movement between locations on a helicopter also looks rather strange, a bunch of various weapons and body armor with properties from some distant future. As one player said: “It was good when at the very beginning we chopped trees in the forest, created bows, hunted deer and fried meat at the stake, and now all this has already gone. " Of course, we can say that if humanity has survived the apocalypse and adapted to new conditions, then it may well repeat and even surpass development, which was to the so -called end of the world. And this is also a true opinion, but those who are waiting for the traditional post -apocalypse will be a little unusual in the game.
In addition to bugs and problems of network code, the game suffers from a typical disease of any game-service. No matter how many opportunities the game would give you, no matter how many free and worked out locations, the game will get tired of you, especially if you are quite hard to stick in it in the first time. And here, in principle, much contributes to the boring: monotonous quests, camp obligation, all the same bugs and a lot of grinds.
As a result, on the one hand, the game is really good, diverse and thoughtful, on the other hand, it is not devoid of minuses, which sometimes very unexpectedly arise before the player and spoil the impression of the game. I will still take a chance to put the game "Booking"(In the system of evaluation from Stopgame) or 7 out of 10 (according to the evaluation system for my vaccination). Just like a mobile game, LifeAFter I surpassed many hits of portable platforms and showed that you can combine many elements from various genres and get a good game.