Tabletop Simulator - Dawn of the Zeds DLC

Scripted setup and looks great, one of the better paid ones.

A fantastic solo game that works well on TTS

I blew my load after buying it and literally pressing the "scripted setup" button, me and my friend chose to end the whole game right there after the setup was completed, just the setup was worth the money and i was satisfied with my purchase, but seriously, its extremely polished and no Workshop content is even close to the quality of one cheap DLC, you can tell the developers actually spent a LOT of hours making this, everything is polished and there are so many small details that just make my schlong moist, this really makes my dingle tingle in the first minute, worth the money, its cheap AF and probably fun, havent tried it but the animations are good enough for what i paid, tho i bet the game is good too.

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Out of the many boardgames I have played with in Tabletop Simulator, Dawn of the Zeds is definitely one of the better ones. In this game of survival, you are essentially trying to maintain order as throngs of victims that have succumbed to the Zombie Epidemic Disease parade around the countryside. The game can be played at several levels - a Basic Game level that uses simple instructions to help new players learn the game, to more advanced levels that add in new rules and features to play with! There seems to be quite a bit of luck involved in the game but it is certainly tempered quite a bit with abilities to push things in your favor. I found the rules to be cumbersome - and split across several sources to read, but overall a lot easier to get through then other DLCs in Tabletop Simulator I have play, and much more indepth. For the most part they were understandable, though I did notice an issue with the Setup Instructions for the Level I: Outbreak! - which indicated certain components as being there when they are actually apart of the subsequent level Level II: Apocalypse! Somethings that I sort of dislike though is that it seems to cater more to a singleplayer then other games - you can play with game cooperatively but ultimately you don't really have any singleplayer that you specifically control as other players (with your permission of course) 'can' move your character around and make other actions. Nonetheless it is definitely a step above many other games I have played in Tabletop Simulator. It even comes with a little bit of extra scripting - making setting up a game so much less of a hassle, and letting you just play! Recommended!

I can load up the DLC but when i invite friends to play it does not seem to load. They just sit on 0%. Does anyone know what the issue is. I have tried on different computers with the same result.

This is a fantastic and lovingly detailed version of Dawn of the Zeds 3rd Edition. Personally my favorite solo/solitaire game on the market and highly worth learning. Rules start you out quick with a most basic mechanic playthrough, then drip feeds more and more mechanics with each subsequent go. Still advise watching a youtube playthrough when getting into the level 4+ just for a refresher. Have not had chance to give co-operative or versus a go here on TTS but if you're looking for an addictive tower defense style game with plenty of high octane rolls even solo, this might be for you

One of the better paid DLC options I've tried. The scripted setup is very well done. This is a pretty heavy game and the best way I've found to learn it was through the Lines42 YouTube channels tutorial series. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_JFvAsXQlYv39uvBseTCw3cUf2vTCim I've been wanting to try this game for a while. It gets a lot of praise in the solo gamer community. Learning to play it here has convinced me that I want the physical game. Haven't tried playing it co-op yet, so ymmv there. Like most co-ops, I suspect your experience will depend a lot on your play style and the group you play with. I would expect a lot of discussion about actions and a possibility of alpha gaming since actions are sort of shared between all characters on each turn. With the right group, of course, this isn't a problem. The game itself, from the limited time I've played it so far, is a big time success. Very thematic, tons of replayability and variety, lots of variation in difficulty and complexity - a defiinite winner and certainly worth the price of the DLC. Highly recommended. (Not sure why this is showing 0 hours played. I have actually played this DLC for about 3 hours total as of writing this review)

Dawn of the Zeds is an excellent and exciting game by indie board game developer Victory Point Games. Dawn sets you off against a horde of zombies attacking a small town and it's up to you (as small town roles such as sheriff, deputy and the mayor) to stop the undead horde from tearing apart the town. I never got to play the physical game because it went out of print so I was thrilled when I found the mod for it on Tabletop Simulator about a year ago. While that mod was great, the official DLC is even better with a ton of scripted content and an animated backgrounds (you are playing the game in a small shed with zombies looking through the windows), making it easier than ever before to kill some zombies! I hope more board game developers will release their content on TTS (as long as it is priced reasonably, which Dawn of the Zeds surely is!). One drawback: finding players for co-op boardgames on TTS can be a bit of a challenge so if you ever want to try this gem of a game, let me know! I am willing to take the time to teach playing it. 8/10!

[h1]Great DLC, with some caveats[/h1] [b]The game itself[/b] If you aren't familiar with Dawn of the Zeds, it's one of the best solo games ever designed (also works well coop). It's much in the vein of a tower defense video game, where you are trying to defend a small town from a relentless encroachment of zombies. The goal of the game is simply to survive a certain number of turns without losing the town to the zeds. The game provides a very cinematic experience and it's very easy to find yourself getting caught up in the story that plays out on the board. For maximum enjoyment you should really hope to get caught up in that story rather than in the relentless pursuit of victory, because while good play will certainly improve your odds, you will often lose even when playing well. If you can accept that and enjoy the ride, you will have a blast. The board game itself is also quite expensive (around $70 at time of writing), so this is an excellent way to try it out at a much reduced price. Also if you're confused about how the rulebooks are structured, the intention is that the game has 6 "levels" of play--basic game, and levels I-V, of escalating rules complexity. It's best to play at least once at each level so that you have the rules down pat before trying to add on more. You don't need to [i]win[/i] at a level before moving on--the levels are more about rules complexity than difficulty--just understand the rules. [list] [*]The Basic Game rulebook is the place to start and will teach the first level of play [*]The Level Up! rulebook guides you through each of the other levels I-V and gives you the new rules you need to add at each level [*]The Setup & Epilogue book tells you how to set up each level of play (not needed as much here as the setup is scripted, but you might want to know how the decks are built for planning purposes), and provides some thematic epilogue paragraphs explaining what happened to Farmingdale depending on the circumstances of your loss (or, rarely, win). They're not particularly well-written or exciting and pale in comparison to the stories told through gameplay, in my opinion. [*]The A to Zeds rulebook is a comprehensive list of every rule in the game, with an index at the back that you will likely refer to often to find the answer to a question [*]The Farmingdale Dossier provides more detail on specific units (heroes, super zeds, etc.) and counters. Not needed until you encounter them. [*]The No Brains! rulebook provides an even more basic version of the game than the Basic Game. As opposed to the Basic Game-Level V progression where all rules from previous levels are kept and the extra rules simply add on to what you already know, the No Brains version of the game has completely different rules that don't bear much resemblance to the real game. I wouldn't bother playing this version of the game as you'll have to forget all of its rules anyway. It seems the publisher agrees as more recent printings omit this book. [/list] [b]This DLC[/b] The DLC is very well done for the most part and the problems I do have are nitpicks. [b]The Good[/b] [list] [*]Atmosphere/background is excellent Zeds at the window, a 3d model of the superweapon token from the game, lots of nice touches here. [*]Scripted setup works perfectly (and this game is a bear to set up manually) Does a great job of walking you through setup including the different options you have to make the game easier/harder during setup. [*]Extra components needed during gameplay are easily accessible, as are the various rulebooks [*]The zeds cups are coffee cups [/list] [b]The Bad[/b] [list] [*]Snap points The spaces on the board each have one single snap point directly in their center. This is horribly unhelpful as spaces often have 4-6 counters on them, and they need to be spread out so you can see all of them, [i]and[/i] often a counter will directly relate to another counter, so keeping them together is important. It is tremendously frustrating to try to place multiple counters in a space. Even more frustrating is moving multiple counters from one space to another, something you do constantly. You might pick up 2 zed units, a modifier token for the first zed unit, a damage token for the first zed unit, and a damage token for the 2nd zed unit all at once, try to move them to the next space only to have them snap together into a giant stack in the middle of the space, after which you have to try and sort everything back out again and remember which token went with which. Just get rid of the snap points as there's no way to make them work in this game. [*]Mod was made using outdated files The game was reprinted in 2018 with some minor wording updates to some cards and rulebooks, mostly clarifications but in a couple of cases rules were corrected that were actually wrong. This mod uses the pre-2018 printing. Not sure why, maybe the publisher gave them the wrong files to work from, or maybe they only had a physical copy of the old edition? Not a huge deal, most of the changes are minor and if you want to make sure you aren't getting anything wrong you can look up the changes in [url=https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2020098/kickstarter-new-printing-changes]this thread[/url] [*]No expansions The physical game has had 3 small expansions. One of them adds 2 entirely new mechanisms so that might be a bit more work to add to this, but the other two just add new cards to shuffle into a few decks, so I'm surprised they weren't included here. Hopefully some enterprising individual (maybe me, I own the physical expansions but have never made a mod before) will add the expansion content as a workshop mod that adds on to this DLC, as it really adds some nice variety with the extra events and heroes. [/list] [b]Bottom line[/b] If you are interested in tower defense/siege style games, this is an excellent game. If you love zombie movies and want a game that will make you feel the way you do when you watch one, this is an excellent game--put on the 28 Days Later soundtrack and have a blast. There are some improvements to the DLC that could be made, and maybe they will be, but it's still well worth the price as is.