When we reviewed Dead Nation back in December, one of the persistent niggles that kept coming up in the comment section was the game’s lack of voice chat support. How can you expect to formulate a focused zombie cleansing run without the ability to orchestrate your moves with a fellow undead hater?
Finnish developer Housemarque did assure us they were listening (over the white noise of a felled telecommunications network no doubt), and now we know exactly when coms channels will be open. But that’s not all. Speaking over on the PS blog, Ilari Kuittinen, CEO and Co Founder of Housemarque, states:
We’re excited to report that our upcoming patch is only days away (coming Monday, March 7) and will provide players with not only online Co-op Voice Chat, but also Checkpoint saves, the ability to copy saves, and some further surprises for all the Dead Nation players out there!
There’s also a nifty (dead) developer diary.
Source: Official EU PlayStation blog
wuntunzee
Fantastic. Checkpoint saves, awesome, i’m stuck on the 2nd level on the hardest difficulty, it’s such a slog getting back to the bit I’m stuck on.
Wonder what the surprises will be?
teflon
The use of the concept art for the original designs of the characters would also imply that we’re getting to use those skins in the game after this patch. :D
TSBonyman
Checkpoint saves will help with the higher difficulty levels, sweet!
TSBonyman
incidently – points have been replaced by levels on TSA?
Raider197
Yeah, I miss points :-(
Sympozium
Points nao!! I was close to 6000 hehe
Forrest_01
Checkpoint saves!!! Whooooo!!!
Perhaps i can finally finish the game now! :)
aerobes
Took their time though they needn’t have added it at all. Nice to know gamers have a voice that gets listened to occasionally. Nice work Housemarque.
leon
Very Funny
moshi
Only several months to late,will anybody really be picking this to play again.
scavenga
I definately will, especially now with checkpoint saves! Was a right riot this game, loved it. Mashing more than 2000 zombies in one level is good fun over and over again.
jbni
Great stuff. I kind of put DN to the side but will give it another go.
Trivium44
“Woah! This is the shit” haha
Foxhound_Solid
‘Zombies … over. Eating my face … over … ‘ AWESOME LOL