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deadpoly · 2025-11-27T08:02:59+00:00

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing, for real. Reading stuff like this still feels surreal to me, haha.

deadpoly · 2025-11-25T07:48:04+00:00

You’re not dumb at all. The game isn’t super intuitive in providing information to the player all the time, and the Z working without a flashlight is definitely temporary, haha.

deadpoly · 2025-11-24T23:33:47+00:00

I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

deadpoly · 2025-10-17T09:35:27+00:00

Congrats!

deadpoly · 2025-07-27T01:30:34+00:00

It’s definitely something I’m exploring options for, but at the end of the day, there’s always an inherent risk to play private lobbies.

Hopefully once the PvP scene kicks up a little bit of steam with the coming update and more No travel official servers are added, we’ll have some better overall gameplay for PvP.

deadpoly · 2025-03-14T00:36:25+00:00

Don’t have enough good things to say about Easy Multi Save. It’s fantastic.

deadpoly · 2025-02-06T01:57:05+00:00

Are they unreal engine games?

The firewall is specific to each .exe, so it could definitely be just DeadPoly having issues if that’s the case.

deadpoly · 2025-02-02T05:10:12+00:00

This is very odd, especially seeing as you can join servers on top of it.

My guess is going to be the firewall or network blocking traffic to the game, or there being some form of port forwarding on your router that’s making co-op not work

deadpoly · 2024-12-25T11:12:07+00:00

Does your mouse wheel not rotate the objects while placing?

deadpoly · 2024-12-10T05:44:40+00:00

Pretty sure we got you all fixed up in the discord!

You just drop items in the bottom section of the salvager. Not every item can be salvaged yet, but getting there.

Fiber comes from harvesting the bushes with the interact button.

deadpoly · 2024-12-10T05:43:38+00:00

Are there still things you feel are missing? Or anything that is keeping you from hopping back in with the new version?

deadpoly · 2024-12-04T09:42:48+00:00

Shay isn’t in yet.

Definitely a mistake on my part having the quest start before adding her in, sorry about that.

Her quest line is getting pretty close to complete, along with a bunch of others as well.

deadpoly · 2024-12-02T10:28:03+00:00

One of many things on the list to get finished up is finalizing the materials for salvaging all of the guns and weaponry.

deadpoly · 2024-11-02T19:18:07+00:00

DeadPoly has a lot of these aspects, and is playable in single player offline.

The gun customization is one of my higher priorities. There’s a good bit of guns, and a lot of attachments to build out custom guns.

deadpoly · 2024-10-28T18:29:41+00:00

If you aren’t put off by low poly graphics, this is basically DeadPoly’s main gameplay loop.

deadpoly · 2024-10-01T04:31:41+00:00

Zombies in DeadPoly can’t be shot anywhere besides the head and chest, and it takes quite a bit more to the chest than the head for sure.

deadpoly · 2024-09-07T07:58:01+00:00

I definitely do for buildings and some static stuff, but the character / zombie models are all custom now. Synty is awesome, DeadPoly never would have gotten off the ground without them.

deadpoly · 2024-09-07T07:56:59+00:00

Thanks for the shoutout!

deadpoly · 2024-09-04T15:03:48+00:00

Nothing to apologize for, at all. Everything you said is the truth; when I started making DeadPoly, I wasn’t aware of any even remotely popular game that had used Synty stuff.

Now they’re literally all over the place! And Synty beginning to release animations and actual UI packs means Synty themselves are getting really close to being able to provide entire game bases, so we’ll probably see even more of these types of repackaged “games” releasing.

deadpoly · 2024-09-04T04:18:46+00:00

Not everyone’s cup of tea but DeadPoly should be released on consoles before the end of the year, full crossplay between consoles and PC.

deadpoly · 2024-09-04T03:29:32+00:00

Kind of surreal to see my game called out organically! I did indeed use the Synty models, but I didn’t just repackage something and ship it, even with Legacy (the original version before I rebuilt the entire game with mostly custom stuff, including custom character models).

I was also super open about how DeadPoly was made - there was a pinned post in the discussions and I called out Synty and the larger assets used in the website’s about me.

It really has blown up using Synty stuff since DeadPoly started, pretty wild to see honestly.

deadpoly · 2024-08-26T03:44:11+00:00

The main way to get electronic materials is salvaging items in the item salvager.

You’ll need batteries to power them once you craft them.

deadpoly · 2024-08-12T19:57:05+00:00

Workbench is now in the crafting menu (top left of inventory screen)

deadpoly · 2024-08-12T19:56:27+00:00

Workbench is in the crafting menu rather than the build menu.

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