It takes a very long time to get a working artillery weapon, so you’re going to have to make do with wooden spears, melee weapons, or your own fists in the beginning. It’s serviceable but nothing to write home about.
Being decked out in a full set of clothes, allowing you to carry lots of food, tools, and maybe a weapon or two, is perhaps the most satisfying thing in SCUM.Īnother area of SCUM that the developer, Gamepires, stressed was unique, is its melee combat. Just sorting your inventory is a puzzle in itself, and is very reminiscent of the system in Resident Evil 4. Different clothing and accessories will allow for more inventory slots, and different items will take up varying amounts of slots. It all works pretty great, especially the inventory system. Most of your time will be spent pilfering abandoned villages, securing compounds and so forth for food, tools, and weapons to fend off hostile players or NPC puppets (SCUM’s version of zombies). Establishing a more direct link between the gameplay and the narrative in the future would certainly be nice.īut the main reason most people pick up survival games is for the gameplay, and SCUM has everything that a good survival game needs. A certain level of fame is rewarded for performing most actions (it may relate to how you’re perceived by the viewers or something), but it is currently only used for respawning your character. One small tie-in is with the game’s fame system. It’s a cool setup that you’ll occasionally be reminded of, with the random drones that are flying around, but it doesn’t play into the gameplay much as of right now. The twist is that, in Hunger Games style, the whole thing is being broadcast to television. The framing device is pretty neat you play as a prisoner who has been thrown into a grand arena and must fight for survival. SCUM doesn’t stray too far from its inspiration. While it does stick very closely to the tropes established by those before it, it definitely has a few interesting features that warrant at least a look from fans of the genre. SCUM, a game which is currently in early access, is the latest contender in the genre. They all have their similarities, but each one does a decent job of incorporating fresh concepts that make them stand out. DayZ, H1Z1, Rust, ARK: Survival Evolved: These are all games from the relatively new survival genre.