short answer: it's been dead for years and the developer put it on life support rather than addressing its numerous core issues, it's just that trading bots and degenerates have been inflating player numbers and trying to keep the marketplace stable for personal gains.
im confused, i have 2000 hrs in unturned, ive yet to watch the video but i cant actually think of a single issue with the game apart from the fact its dead
@@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87 i mean theres a lack of updates but i havent experienced any problems with bots and rarely find cheaters only thing i dislike is that nelson fixed getting under the map
An aspect I find that disinterested me from playing Unturned much is the lack of Vanilla additions. Almost every new major update is a curated map that hardly uses any of the vanilla systems. Hell, the weapon skin system is no longer unique because half of the popular servers and curated maps don't even use the vanilla weapons. "Ooh I unboxed/crafted a cool weapon skin; I sure hope I find the weapon on the new map :)". I used to get really interested when a new vanilla map was coming out or new vanilla items, now I just see a new curated map and see if they make use of vanilla stuff. Also the heavy focus on PvP in this game really soured the original concept of being a Zombie Survival game. Oh I wish for an update that adds even more zombie types or even enhancing how the zombies work.
I myself dont have a problem with curated maps being well curated but they should improve the whole Zombie Apocalypse part of the game, Zombies are just a loot drop and not a danger at all in this game
@@markom7841 in my opinion curated maps have higher quality than whatever official unturned stuff that comes out, i however still dislike the heavy PVP focus
well the game is just flawed in general, normally losing progress in games is actually a fun mechanic because it gives tension to every fight but in here its just stress. Its fun to lose minutes to an hour of progress in a roguelike but its not fun to lose days or even weeks worth of progress no matter what so any fights are just super stressful and not fun and that coupled with the VERY small time to kill in this game AND the fact there is no where on the map you can put your items where they will be safe because offline raiding is a thing and you get a recipe for disaster, I dont know how you never saw any exploiters during your playtime but anytime I tried to play it it was completelly infested with cheaters. The only time I ever had fun with this game was when modders put in a battle royale gamemode but that gamemode is completelly dead now so I cant even play it anymore...
Yeah, personally I had most fun in vanilla unturned server when in holidays. In normal days its impossible to play it due to offline raids, which imo is kind of part of the fun as me and my friends take turn in guarding base. But idk if other games have addressed these issue in a way where its both fair for the base owner / raider.
This was my fav game back then, I used to play this with the boys back then in 2020, Built a small base from hour to hour turning into huge base. Til one day each of my friend stopped playing this game, soon, I stopped playing it, one of best memories for my life
5k hour player here, the game has a huge amount of core problems and nelson doesn't want to work on the game anymore, but he still wants to make money from it
Played a disgusting amount of Unturned back in the day and I can honestly attest to the RP servers being a large part of the downfall for Unturned as well. Largest part of responsibility falls for sure on the donor kit servers starting to get more and more popular but it was also the RP servers that were taking player base out of the proper servers. I miss semi-vanilla servers quite a bit, a simple kit or two with very basic gear and tpa access. It gave servers a slight bias towards pvp without tipping the scales too far into the madness, just enough to keep things active and competitive.
Last time I played was about a year ago and I could scroll through the server list and find less than 10 "vanilla" unturned servers while everything else has kits and vaults and TPA and all the stuff that completely negates the survival aspect of the game and turns it into a sort of BR game.
@@zachgaines8349 2 months back i had a vanilla server and sometimes it got players but rarely. At the height it was only 7 players at one time. I had no reason to keep paying hosting so i abandoned it.
I remember that too, I haven’t played the game for years but I used to run a small private server with friends in unturned 2.0 and 3.0. I remember trying to get back into the game after a long break and I couldn’t find any populated vanilla servers which pretty much killed my desire to play the game on public servers
No new maps with proper Lore, all new maps are curated maps centered on PvP ... Miss the old days of descovering what happend with this virus, how every country or state reacted to the outbreak. I thing that the map making community should start focusing on LORE much more.
I quit because the new curated maps are so PVP Focused, the only maps i enjoyed would be Kuwait, Arid and the european town thing? They were unique, but in the end, its like a hotel. They had something new or unique, but in the end, it doesn't feel new or better. The zombies felt repetitive, there was little to no challenge at all and you didn't have the same feeling of the threat of death in games like Project Zomboid
TBH the reason why i haven't came back to the game is because how the game has become bloated and unoptimized that i can't even play it comfortably in single player.
Is that so? That explains the terrible experience I had when I tried to replay the game last year. Could barely run it at 5fps even though I was getting 40+ fps a four years prior. Thought my PC just got worse
@@KalakCZ of course. It's a simple work pc that I've been running for 6 years. Good enough to play most of my games so I never bothered upgrading it. But I did increase the ram and changed the hdd. Any more upgrades would require me to buy a whole new pc
@@KalakCZ used to get around 230 fps on medium setting 6 years ago, now i barely get 45, i was playing on russia and actively get lag spike, it honestly so sad seeing the state of the game. Something that i put nearly 4k hours in of my childhood.
Escalation is the best map we've gotten in a while, but at the same time, I wish Nelson would drop official updates and maps like he used to do back in the day. I also saw someone comment about how Unturned's lore was a more critical part of the game and how they miss "discovering what happened with this virus, how every country or state reacted to the outbreak." I agree; after Elver came out, Unturned got a lot more fantasy stories and maps. That's not a bad thing at all, and I like it, but I can see how it became too much of a departure from what Unturned was initially for some people. If Nelson tried, he could revive his franchise, but honestly, he doesn't have an incentive to do so. He makes enough money. I think the announcement of Unturned 4.0 killed this game; everyone left the community because they were waiting for Nelson's new game, which would eventually be postponed indefinitely.
@@zman1064 I completely agree, a lot of the curated maps feel detached from the lore which nelson set out regarding the outbreak but also I feel that official support to the multiplayer such as dedicated official servers with no plugins and a complete redesign of the server browser would greatly help as in my 200 something hours I only just found out about how to sort by descending player sizes something which would definitely be hard for new players
I got a copy of Unturned II before I had enough hours to qualify for a ticket. I just emailed Nelson asking how many in-game hours I needed and he just gave me it.
Its dying because unturned ISNT a survival game at all, atleast not on most servers. Hunger and thirst are not a concern, because food is everywhere. All of the servers feature cheap shit like /teleport to friends, are on easy mode, and the loot is so abundant you are never in need of anything... I dont see any hardcore servers... But however you tweak the game, i think the issue is just with its design. With time this game has devolved into a watered down hybrid of Day-Z and Rust, when it should've just tried to be unique on it's own right. Its not a survival game in its current state, its more of an arcade or "lite" version of the two aformentioned games; But everything is SO so much faster... You can go from naked on the shore to full spec-ops gear in 30 minutes if you know what to do... Its too easy and its just stale. Needs more beefy progression, you can "beat" unturned and see everything there is to see in a matter of hours. You can experience low end, mid, and high end PvP gunfights all in that short time, that it hardly feels like an accomplishment to reach those peaks.
For anyone here for information about why the game is dying and not boring information about it's mechanics: Starting from 2022 Nelson (dev) starting to make a lot of changes community didn't wanted. Here's some examples: Forced grass graphic parameter that destroyed fps for people on bad PCs (according to some of my folks). 3rd person nerf (everybody wanted maplestrike to be nerfed, not the 3rd person. Also, this change killed some modded maps balance, like France that had guns with pretty balanced guns (like herstal)) Besides all that, he also did anti pay to win policy and after a month completely abandoned it (I even made a huge list of p2w servers that I reported back in the days, and only thing I've got was the message saying "you've miss understood the rules" (Even though most of the servers were EVEN SELLING /ITEM AND /VEHICLE)) All these changes made people quit and helped p2w servers to become swarmed with kids willing to pay money for kits and chat commands to gain stuff. So, should you go and play unturned? No, not in its current state. I wish if there would be some independent project that would start developing this game starting from the movement update, because it was one of the last good updates we gained. I have more than 5k hours in this game, trust me, it's not worth it anymore.
I was 12 when I started this game now I do videos on it lmao, it's an honest shame that this game is dying cause I've loved it for 8 years. I still continue to support the game and creators any way i can
there is, i made a server for me and my friend only which you can join only through a code, and which was literally hosted on my computer you could check, the methods i used can be found in game (that being SDS's article about making servers)..
the thing imo is that it became a low budget robloxed 2019 fortnite, no one cares about the actual survival part which is the whole point of the game, the game itself IS fun, it is very good, it's just that the community ruins it i played yesterday with my friends (both new to unturned), gathering loot together, helping each other and slowly progressing is very fun, a lot of people say that "Unturned isn't fun the way it is supposed to play, PvP is much better", idk about that, because coordinating your friends to explore the tunnels on Russia and having everyone turning the lights off by accident and shooting pistols blindly for a couple of seconds was one of the most fun moments i've had in my 20 years of gaming, the game itself is good (in fact, we are going to play tomorrow with 4 more friends) you just gotta play it right btw PvP in this game is also very fun on PvP oriented servers, but the way PvE is underapreciated is just unfair
My 2 cents are these: It died because of the server admins and the pvp focused community As for the server, admin abuse was rampant in the few servers i used to play, and things got to a point where that limited the fun. Only being able to have one base, unable to build on vehicles, which used to be so fun as people would have vehicle base pvp. The fact that the owner of a server liked a group made it so they could teleport into places and ignore rules. Fun fact, the admin turned out to cheat on his wife with a minor he had recluited as an admin. And then the pvp. The game i feel like is best without hypercompetitive players wiping the entire place just because they feel like it. The game is so focused into pvp in fact you'll won't find a server where you can't start playing at all. Back when a group of mine had dominance on server, we wouldn't raid anyone until they had a certain progress, like metal bases, helis. Now you can't even make a wooden base larger than 1x1 because it WILL get raided. In short, s**t admins, and the community focusing on pvp. I'll forever miss the times where me and my peeps would try to loot a city on a rainy night irl and in game, or host pvps and talks in our makeshift gun store
waiting on people to build better bases is so true... I remeber raiding every base with my friend and we would have to legit have to wait on people to build stuff for us to raid. All you needed was a heartbreaker on washington and the game was complete
I was excited an waiting for the new Unturned because it was going to bring the game up to date. Then Nelson just dipped. That's the biggest reason no one plays anymore, he just stopped updating it.
You triggered my nostalgia. Choke on my subscribe. I will instal that thing again and make my friends play it. Will come back to yell at you if it sucks!
unturned was like one of the games I played very back then. The memories I have are good that the Memory Reboot moment in this video was soo well fitting
my answer: my friends and I played it a lot (I even have 1,300 hours in the game from running servers), but we grew out of the game. We want to make a new server soon, but in the testing phase trying to find a map, the game just felt stale. I kinda wish they continued dev on Unturned 2.
For some reason, I would always return after a few years. I play on a totally random server, accidentally become friends with some random dudes. We start grinding, gaming and of course, goofin´ around. We form a deep friendship, I tell them they can join my huge friend group. _Cycle repeats_ _(That's why I have 940 Hours in the game, and I still absolutely suck at PVP. )_
Unturned's PvE is great and singleplayer can be a lot of fun. Having long quest lines make the game really enjoyable and more stuff like that would be welcome. More water vehicles would be nice, and the stacking features on maps like Arid and Escalation would be welcome additions to the baee game, but that can be fixed with mods. I dont play anything other than singleplayer, so i cant speak on the multiplayer and PvP aspects. If anyone knows of any good maps with lots of quests and locations, I'd be happy to hear them.
i believe what led to this is the game losing its identity, catering more to pubby kids who dont know anything about advanced game mechanics who's main focus is PVP rather than being an actual survival game where you need to fight against hordes of zombies luckily though since the game is free and can be played offline its still quite fun solo and you can create your own server for free that caters to the survival aspect of it one thing I would love to be added here is AI Bot Bandits
Something that I think made me like unturned more is that it was repetitive. I only played singleplayer and I never used any kind of mods. As an autistic person I think it was because I liked the routine.
I HATE 3RD PERSON SO MUUUUUCH it is so unbalanced! It is camper gameplay sitting behind the wall and peeking it easy to shoot in 3rd person because you actually can zoom in 3rd person without opening the scope and shooting in 3rd person close range is 100 times easier than fpp, fpp is true survival gameplay. Also I hate non vannila survival servers, like tpa/home/kits/?x more loot because it is mega casual and easy people go and play those trash servers instead of real vannila experience. Also I hate melee pvp and shotguns cuz they are mega OP u can 1 shot full geared player using db. And I hate this game's community, people dont play old good curated maps, they play same maps for all the time, there are so much good maps, but people dont want to play them. I also hate full builded cars which are more like apc or even more armored than them! I also hate 1 sleeping bag idea and how building are getting raided, splash in raiding is very big. If your sleeping bag gets destroyed and u die 1 time u just spawn on spawn and u can do nothing from this moment. So overral I love this game, but some of mechanics and community of casuals are trash. (5k hrs player opinion)
Quick answer is that, the game was much better on literal release, by adding so many weird stuff, including those giant zombies that run at you with the speed of flash, if ur online, people just fight each other, it's like Rust but worse becauase everything is blocky and weird, servers aren't exactly high quality and it's just overall messy.
I've been playing Unturned since ~2015 and have ~500 hours in it. Well, let's just say that the game has lots of problems. First of all, the only part that's kinda good is solo PvE. It has its caveats, but we'll dive into it later. If you want to play online, you'll mostly get RP servers which have almost none to all PvE / PvP aspects. There's also PvP servers too... but they're mostly plagued with kits so you'll have lots of stuff quickly, which makes the game boring. You just can't find a good vanilla server that will have more than 5 players. And even if you find it, there's no gurantee that it wouldn't have a bunch of tryhards that constantly remove the competition. The second problem is solo replayability. You can get lots of good stuff in a hour or two - and then all the game has to offer is you working as a loot goblin. You build a small base and then stash supplies. That's it. There's no random events. There's no traveling zombie hordes. There's no bandits that will raid your base. All you have is zombies that are restricted to their respective locations. There are also animals which actually can fight you and roam around, but they're so rare (and aren't even present on most maps!) which makes them irrelevant. Third is the amount of vanilla content. It's almost nonexistant. The main focus right now is curated content (which don't get me wrong, it's actually sick as hell, Arid for example feels like the entirely different game), but it still feels... wrong. Like if you've downloaded lots of Minecraft mods; sure, it IS Minecraft, but it feels a bit weird now and then.
644.5 hours on singleplayer only according to steam and i never play multiplayer yet i have been playing for years just not constantly idk why it came to this but i love workshop maps and doing quests the fucked up community and lack of survival elements is the reason for the game downfall just look how much potentiol gone to waste in buak i play singleplayer because its the only sense of survival this game brings to me and finding every secret and finishing every quest on the workshop maps is what brings me joy in this game and btw i am pretty sure i have over 3k+ hours and steam is just fucked
my personal opinion on the matter is that pvp games suck and nelson turned it from what i believe was meant to be a survival game (possibly with team aspects) into another shooter clone. like if people wanted to shoot kids in video games for a couple hours, just play cod. maybe even rust if you really still want the survival aspects. don't say they can't because i can see the mythicals these kids wear so we all know damn well they can afford to play other games. like you said, elver is a great map because the progression is inherently difficult and to fully 100% the map, even just in singleplayer, will take hours of effort and grinding to complete the just the face-value material. there is a lot of secret work put into the map, world-building, and supposedly universe-building (see kuwait) and having the game be a simple loop of "find gun, kill person, repeat" is a major downside for the game in my opinion. there is a lot of effort put into these maps, their story and their mechanics and all of them are brushed over and the secret achievements are listed in guides (often as instructions on how to cheat them) tl;dr people play this game for the wrong reasons, pvp sucks
i dropped the game as soon my computer was able to run other survival game this game is ugly, low effort, full of cheaters, and simply boring af and almost every other survival game can be alternative to unturned
I started playing Unturned back in 2015 and have bit over 2000 hours on it. It will always have a special place in my heart. To this day I sometimes play it. I also met my best mate on it.
I play unturned to this day since 2016, its on my most loved games list :) Edit: it seems that the game maps sadly wont get lore anymore since some years back... (I don't remember when it happened right now, but it was announced some years ago)
Unturned is genuinely one of the most fun games for me with its social chaos, and also one of the most played too. Albeit haven't played as much recently and don't know about alot of the current problems. but as others pointed out some of the RP servers are quite problematic currently especially the ones leech off people's money. Absolutely loved some RP servers though the chaos was unmatched. Nelson really needs to bring back the official content updates that added so much stuff with new maps and Unturned's ingame lore should be continued upon as well. It was fun to piece together the story and see people's theories. (Curator maps like Elver and Escelation are great though). The wave of P2W servers, smaller and sometimes negative changes suck, but lets keep hoping and even try to keep this gem of a franchise alive.
Unturned is just too easy imho. I can just go onto servers and easily get the materials I need to raid the majority of the bases on the server (not actually have enough to raid them all but most bases can be raided with the equipment) in a few hours of playing. Getting a full metal base that is well defended is so difficult. The only way to guarantee your base not being raided is to be online when it happens but then they will just gather their supplies and come back when you are offline as they know who you are now. This applies to vanilla as I don't enjoy modded servers. Tldr: too easy to get raiding supplies and too difficult to make a strong base
Problem with unturned is that it attracts a few new players and even after they decide to try it out there's a huge chance they'll just bail because the game has a fuckton of quit moments for example seeing the atrocious UI in which a new player has million ways to lose where tf are they. that's a part in which almost any survival game bests unturned in cuz if you open rust or dayz let alone minecraft you will be able to navigate the ui smoothly after like 4-10 hours and the ui doesn't overwhelm you, also the graphic style doesn't appeal to everyone because it's a weird hybrid of minecraft and idk
Honestly i think it alot down to the server managers alot of good servers have fallen off due to bad management take deapse now known as hypase it fell from having thousands of players spanning multiple maps and modes now it can barley pull 20 across all of the servers it was the main reason i quite the game
Unturned just isn't as good as it used to be. The main reason for It's downfall is the rise of more generic servers (mostly RP). I miss the old days when there was a good amount of semi-modded servers. Enough mods to make the game more fun but now enough so it's not Unturned anymore. Also all the recent maps have just been about PVP and appeals to only that side of the playerbase (The toxic one) and completely forgets about the whole other part of the playerbase. We still don't even have a structured lore of everything in the game (To my knowledge) and these new maps aren't giving us anything to go off of. I miss just trying to put together the AWSOME LORE with my friends while screwing around with tanks. I have over 3,000 hours in the game (not to brag) but I can confirm that none of those are recent because of the state of the game.
Unturned is far from the best, and it's not even a survival game. The survival aspect of the game is incredibly mundane and boring, it's just a pvp game with survival elements, mostly just a cesspit of hackers and megasweats.
11:31 if there was servers like that...now days no one opens Vanilla servers cuz its not worth the money for the host, so insted they open p2w pvp servers. I hope that one day, Nelson himself will expend the server browser and will add Vanilla/Official Tab like in rust, so then players will know that in that Tab there will be only pure vanilla servers
Its dying cuz unturned became a banger as ZOMBIE SURVIVAL game not this bullshit pvp.. I never understood the joy of looting 10h of loot just to lose it all in a instant by dying server resets getting raided etc... Its not fun.. Unturned 2.0 was flawless u hopped on press host and there u go easy fun with your friends... After untruned 3.0 release the multiplayer became shit u could no longer host a server in the meniu u needed that untruned server bullshit WHICH IS WACK AS HELL spent tons of hours trying to make it work just for another inconvenience to happen... Some friends could not join... The server would brake randomly.... The configuration was cancerous wasting 2h everytime.... The game did not work properly loot would dispawn on all map without every respawning meaning we would need to restart the server.... Zombies also would random spawn after we ve cleared a zone and so goes on.... AND AGAIN UNTURNED 2.0 was just HOST BUTTON and INSTANT PLAY. the lack of content pve based like we ve wanted.... We only recieved the sprint zombie fire one acid one raid beacon and a gigant zombie.... He could've added much more to improve the survival aspect of the game... But no we ve only got tons of new weapons and a new map to pvp and that was it... Thats why unturned died its should've improved on being a zombie survival not a shit dayz/rust. AMEN
In my opinion, its because there arent any good servers anymore (most of them are ultra modded russian only servers) and 2 rediculous game mechanics.1. the mechanic where when you leave the server ur body with all your loot disappears and 2. THE GOD DAMN BED SYSTEM, I cant even count anymore how many times Ive had to restart a skybase build because of me accidentally unclaiming a bed.
i have about 2k hours in this game which is wild for a free game with poor graphich i think, but throughout i gained so much experience about the gameplay, servers and the playerbase. and the answer is yes, the game is dying. you ofc see new players but back when i started servers were full with them and there were no green tryhards, so people could get to learn the game and have some basic knowledge about it. nowadays noobs get killed, trash talked on chat and leave the game. Also lots of great players leave the game, for example syntale servers were one of the biggest like 3years ago with loads of players and pvp, but now syntale has shut down due to no players. the steam charts are full of bots. nelson tries to bring something with new updates, a very good change i liked was the removal of the green skin and the car rewamp. in conclusion i guess the game will die bc its not as popular as it was and simply there arent many good servers with strong communities as before.
the problem with vanilla is the skill system It needs to be completely re-hauled or removed entirely, it ruins the game and the feeling If he did that, and then maybe made progression feel a bit more fun, it would work out
I can say first hand that rp servers that I played give or take like 4 years ago were so horrendously boring/cringe I got banned from a server for WALKING ON A MODS LAWN not even like a joke ban for like 30 minutes it was perm non appealable this games community is and was infested quickly with annoying children
Donor kits and gold accounts just logging with all the loot mixed with the 3rd person tactics in a short time to kill environment make it undesirable to do anything but play pvp. A base building game with little incentive to build means no one wants to stay besides on rp servers. I love unturned and the possibilities it presents but it’s just a shooter with botted player counts now.
He coulda made Unturned 2 and get some players back that way, I am very uninterested in this game otherwise, no matter what update or mods come out. Unless sequel is released. Also, previous versions of Unturned were filled with cheaters 1.0, 2.0 and beginning of 3.0, I myself even cheated on unturned for a long time. I do remember when they added anti-cheat and it was kinda all over. Before you could just edit assembly.dll and get on with your no-spreads, aimbots, and whole cheat menu. Good thing he added that anti-cheat, it was annoying losing your whole loot to a cheater all the time, it pushed more people to cheating after dying a couple of times like that or leaving the game all together. It really was rampant. You could still buy some private cheats, but not many people were making them back, atleast 5-6 years ago when I was checking. Now? Idk, don't care about this game. Now I'm 23 and don't give a damn.
The last time I played this game was a few months back, the nostalgic memories of playing a game I sunk thousands of hours into both on both pc and Xbox. Unfortunately my Xbox broke in a move but my pc was still working so I booted up unturned and got a decent 3 hour session on.....or I would have if 20 minutes into a game, unturned decided my Made by me pc with damn near God specs wasn't enough to handle the game. My 4000 dollar gaming rig now sits up in my closet.....collecting dust as it can't even turn on anymore
I stream this game quite often but I do agree with you the amount of degenerates playing this game sickens me. This is not the Unturned I played when I was young. Not to mention a bunch of creators often kill the servers that are around. Content Creators imo should be aware of how trolling a server or publishing content that is bringing an audience that encourages trolling can kill a server that isn't toxic or does not encourage that behavior. I also notice that server owners are quick to give up on a project instead of working with the project and trying to work with it to keep it going.
Its got Zombies Looting Map editor Sweet threads to combine and make outfits with Racism (gotta have that) Base building Lore Overall i think it doesnt have enough homophobia
Ty for bringing back a memory. I used to play it with my friends when I was younger and man, it was fun. I tried to come back but the game was full of RP servers, pvp, creative and the most vanilla thing were servers with x5 or just straight pvp kits, when I finally find one of course the server was dominated by a ten man clan always online camping military base, we manage to raid their base but it was pointless some of them had donator kits so we decided just to quit the game. I loved playing on vanilla or semivanilla with starter kits and tp, but right now it is almost impossible to find a server like this with active players. At least I have good memories, I miss the earlier unturned days but sadly its over I dont want to come back.
i really miss old unturned when i would have fun with friends now i barely play anymore because the game just got boring and most servers are just p2w. but you did describe unturned really well.
i have 3500 hours of gameplay on unturned, i fell in love with the 2.0 game in 2014, and i've been playing on and off ever since. It's a kind of free version of rust with zombies pretty much. I'm not very into pvp oddly enough (and the game seems to have shifted towards a full pvp style), but the way you can build on cars and design bases opens lots of doors for fun gameplay
Some of the people in the comments give such random answers. People need to stop acting like the playerbase wanted the same thing. Some people liked rp, some people liked PVP, some wanted a survival game. If he would have added an actual gameplay mechanic instead of some garbage maps in the last 7 years the game might actually be popular. It's so stupid that all 3 of these groups can be made happy without compromising another yet he did nothing. Maybe washington + tpa or pvp-oriented servers being the most popular wasn't a clear enough sign for him. By now most of the players have had years to upgrade their pcs to play rust or tarkov
1500 hours, The ammount of Fun i had with my friends sometimes playing 7 hours straight, i dont consider those Hours wasted. Loved this game, still play it sometimes but sadly we are proablly getting GTA-7 before Unturned 2.
main issue are community commucation, there's quite a lots of good project/mod didn't get a good way to being noticed. plus the main game has content support issue(kinda) so things are not going totally ok sofar
but again, nelson tried to makes some features for creators. and some a bit of game tweak. if he didn't turns back in 2019 the this game gonna died earlier than today
I liked Unturned alot but the game wasn't welcoming enough. there were 8 player gangs just ruining the server, one time one of them got betrayed and we helped him out, took em down but then i got bored.
Did you know there was actually also a single developer porting it to android for a couple months? He got it running on super low end hardware too. sadly he got sent a cease and desist and had to stop working on it.
this brings back memories. I usually use to play on creative servers since im not the most keen on pvp stuff but I loved making big manacial things or flying planes and the game just had that charm to it, blocky, simple and fun. this was a while ago though, long enough for my mythic hat to plummit from 20ish eur to 7
I started playing Unturned again a few days ago because of Buak, which add enough content to make it a unique experience, but as a PvE player who plays with friends on private servers, it might be the last time I play it, because the game is just dead. There is nothing new except random fixes. Even Buak - which I feel is a more PvE oriented map - is way too easy (I died like once, and it's because I ate explosive candies), food isn't a threat, water isn't a threat, zombies are even less of a threat and even mega are easy to deal with because zombies can't leave an area since 3.0. The game has a lots of issues since 3.0/its release that won't ever get fixed (the terrible inventory system which is just confusing with big inventories since you can't sort it, the crafting interface that gets cluttered a lot when you play with mods and the search feature is pretty much useless, and the vehicles physics - especially they have 2 wheels). I've also seen some people criticize its optimisation, but I've had no problem with it (my integrated gpu is around a GTX 1050 Ti / GTX 1060, which is quite old and with almost everything ultra it's not quite 60 fps but it still feels smooth). But for PvE, you're better off playing Project Zomboid (which may not be free but it's really worth it, even though it as its flaws it has better gameplay and mods)
aint no way he said unturned is like minecraft or rust. it's like dayz but roblox. it really do just be apoclypse rising standalone edition lmao. its not like minecraft besides how it looks. its not like rust besides it being like survival. its like dayz as you spend much more time looting > crafting or harvesting (like in rust, which is a lot more harvesting > looting, not that you don't loot its just not as important or like unturned or dayz)
Unturned gameplay: Spawn in, loot, die from a player out of nowhere, respawn. Loot, build a base, log off for a few hours, log back on into your raided base, repeat
i use to play this game on an old hp laptop. it made me get a job in high school so I could afford to build a budget PC back in 2016. would've been a good game if they kept updates coming
loved the game for years and almost 2k hours but due to lag or a glitch in the game i was vacc banned by anti-cheat for fly hacking ( i was not hacking or cheating in anyway), never opened the game again
Didn't expect this to blow up, thank you so much for 600 subscribers !!!💗💗
More videos to come 😉😉
short answer: it's been dead for years and the developer put it on life support rather than addressing its numerous core issues, it's just that trading bots and degenerates have been inflating player numbers and trying to keep the marketplace stable for personal gains.
im confused, i have 2000 hrs in unturned, ive yet to watch the video but i cant actually think of a single issue with the game apart from the fact its dead
a marisad fan talking in short answers.
how fitting☕
Literally TF2
@@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87 i mean theres a lack of updates but i havent experienced any problems with bots and rarely find cheaters only thing i dislike is that nelson fixed getting under the map
Needs more optimization
An aspect I find that disinterested me from playing Unturned much is the lack of Vanilla additions.
Almost every new major update is a curated map that hardly uses any of the vanilla systems. Hell, the weapon skin system is no longer unique because half of the popular servers and curated maps don't even use the vanilla weapons. "Ooh I unboxed/crafted a cool weapon skin; I sure hope I find the weapon on the new map :)".
I used to get really interested when a new vanilla map was coming out or new vanilla items, now I just see a new curated map and see if they make use of vanilla stuff.
Also the heavy focus on PvP in this game really soured the original concept of being a Zombie Survival game. Oh I wish for an update that adds even more zombie types or even enhancing how the zombies work.
YES
I myself dont have a problem with curated maps being well curated but they should improve the whole Zombie Apocalypse part of the game, Zombies are just a loot drop and not a danger at all in this game
Try Ural mountains it's a workshop map with vanilla crafting and more zombie types and it's full of lore
@@markom7841 in my opinion curated maps have higher quality than whatever official unturned stuff that comes out, i however still dislike the heavy PVP focus
to be fair man, a LOT of people still play old vanillas, they rarely play curated except for a few masterpieces (arid, polaris, escalation)
well the game is just flawed in general, normally losing progress in games is actually a fun mechanic because it gives tension to every fight but in here its just stress. Its fun to lose minutes to an hour of progress in a roguelike but its not fun to lose days or even weeks worth of progress no matter what so any fights are just super stressful and not fun and that coupled with the VERY small time to kill in this game AND the fact there is no where on the map you can put your items where they will be safe because offline raiding is a thing and you get a recipe for disaster, I dont know how you never saw any exploiters during your playtime but anytime I tried to play it it was completelly infested with cheaters.
The only time I ever had fun with this game was when modders put in a battle royale gamemode but that gamemode is completelly dead now so I cant even play it anymore...
the battle royale mode unturned had was not modded
Yeah, personally I had most fun in vanilla unturned server when in holidays. In normal days its impossible to play it due to offline raids, which imo is kind of part of the fun as me and my friends take turn in guarding base. But idk if other games have addressed these issue in a way where its both fair for the base owner / raider.
This was my fav game back then, I used to play this with the boys back then in 2020, Built a small base from hour to hour turning into huge base. Til one day each of my friend stopped playing this game, soon, I stopped playing it, one of best memories for my life
5k hour player here, the game has a huge amount of core problems and nelson doesn't want to work on the game anymore, but he still wants to make money from it
I played the game years ago and liked it but stopped playing it once and then forgot about it. Maybe I should give it another try...
as a 1.250 hours unturned vanilla player that this game is gonna keep growing no matter what you throw at it it fact
This game is the reason I got steam. Do not let the flame die out.
I hope with this video more people play it
fire can’t burn forever.
man that hurt😢 @@bodhi1762
@@bodhi1762Unless you feed it forever
Same, and that was back in like 2015
Played a disgusting amount of Unturned back in the day and I can honestly attest to the RP servers being a large part of the downfall for Unturned as well. Largest part of responsibility falls for sure on the donor kit servers starting to get more and more popular but it was also the RP servers that were taking player base out of the proper servers. I miss semi-vanilla servers quite a bit, a simple kit or two with very basic gear and tpa access. It gave servers a slight bias towards pvp without tipping the scales too far into the madness, just enough to keep things active and competitive.
funny enough theres only currently 3-5 rp servers i know of that have above 10 to 80 players. (i have 2000+ hours on rp LMFAO)
Last time I played was about a year ago and I could scroll through the server list and find less than 10 "vanilla" unturned servers while everything else has kits and vaults and TPA and all the stuff that completely negates the survival aspect of the game and turns it into a sort of BR game.
@@zachgaines8349 missing them as well :(
@@zachgaines8349 2 months back i had a vanilla server and sometimes it got players but rarely. At the height it was only 7 players at one time. I had no reason to keep paying hosting so i abandoned it.
I remember that too, I haven’t played the game for years but I used to run a small private server with friends in unturned 2.0 and 3.0. I remember trying to get back into the game after a long break and I couldn’t find any populated vanilla servers which pretty much killed my desire to play the game on public servers
No new maps with proper Lore, all new maps are curated maps centered on PvP ... Miss the old days of descovering what happend with this virus, how every country or state reacted to the outbreak. I thing that the map making community should start focusing on LORE much more.
There is new maps Buak,Polaris,Esclation
I agree, most of Unturned's Lore is still not fully known/complete, was really hoping for new maps to cover lore or more survival aspected maps.
@@dudukill1007 all of them curated bruh.
I quit because the new curated maps are so PVP Focused, the only maps i enjoyed would be Kuwait, Arid and the european town thing? They were unique, but in the end, its like a hotel. They had something new or unique, but in the end, it doesn't feel new or better. The zombies felt repetitive, there was little to no challenge at all and you didn't have the same feeling of the threat of death in games like Project Zomboid
@@noobplaye1218 fr fr, I miss the more lore-survival aimed maps.
TBH the reason why i haven't came back to the game is because how the game has become bloated and unoptimized that i can't even play it comfortably in single player.
Is that so? That explains the terrible experience I had when I tried to replay the game last year. Could barely run it at 5fps even though I was getting 40+ fps a four years prior. Thought my PC just got worse
@@dreadfulman5191 Maybe it's time to upgrade your PC if you had 40fps on unturned 4 years ago 💀
@@KalakCZ of course. It's a simple work pc that I've been running for 6 years. Good enough to play most of my games so I never bothered upgrading it. But I did increase the ram and changed the hdd. Any more upgrades would require me to buy a whole new pc
@@KalakCZ used to get around 230 fps on medium setting 6 years ago, now i barely get 45, i was playing on russia and actively get lag spike, it honestly so sad seeing the state of the game. Something that i put nearly 4k hours in of my childhood.
@@dreadfulman5191u need a gpu
Escalation is the best map we've gotten in a while, but at the same time, I wish Nelson would drop official updates and maps like he used to do back in the day. I also saw someone comment about how Unturned's lore was a more critical part of the game and how they miss "discovering what happened with this virus, how every country or state reacted to the outbreak." I agree; after Elver came out, Unturned got a lot more fantasy stories and maps. That's not a bad thing at all, and I like it, but I can see how it became too much of a departure from what Unturned was initially for some people. If Nelson tried, he could revive his franchise, but honestly, he doesn't have an incentive to do so. He makes enough money. I think the announcement of Unturned 4.0 killed this game; everyone left the community because they were waiting for Nelson's new game, which would eventually be postponed indefinitely.
@@zman1064 no way the goat commented
@@zman1064 I completely agree, a lot of the curated maps feel detached from the lore which nelson set out regarding the outbreak but also I feel that official support to the multiplayer such as dedicated official servers with no plugins and a complete redesign of the server browser would greatly help as in my 200 something hours I only just found out about how to sort by descending player sizes something which would definitely be hard for new players
Didn’t expect to see zman here
sup @Zman
I got a copy of Unturned II before I had enough hours to qualify for a ticket. I just emailed Nelson asking how many in-game hours I needed and he just gave me it.
Its dying because unturned ISNT a survival game at all, atleast not on most servers. Hunger and thirst are not a concern, because food is everywhere. All of the servers feature cheap shit like /teleport to friends, are on easy mode, and the loot is so abundant you are never in need of anything... I dont see any hardcore servers... But however you tweak the game, i think the issue is just with its design. With time this game has devolved into a watered down hybrid of Day-Z and Rust, when it should've just tried to be unique on it's own right. Its not a survival game in its current state, its more of an arcade or "lite" version of the two aformentioned games; But everything is SO so much faster... You can go from naked on the shore to full spec-ops gear in 30 minutes if you know what to do... Its too easy and its just stale. Needs more beefy progression, you can "beat" unturned and see everything there is to see in a matter of hours. You can experience low end, mid, and high end PvP gunfights all in that short time, that it hardly feels like an accomplishment to reach those peaks.
play buak map on sod server
@@asukaayanami exactly
if u play vanillaa its not
For anyone here for information about why the game is dying and not boring information about it's mechanics:
Starting from 2022 Nelson (dev) starting to make a lot of changes community didn't wanted. Here's some examples:
Forced grass graphic parameter that destroyed fps for people on bad PCs (according to some of my folks). 3rd person nerf (everybody wanted maplestrike to be nerfed, not the 3rd person. Also, this change killed some modded maps balance, like France that had guns with pretty balanced guns (like herstal))
Besides all that, he also did anti pay to win policy and after a month completely abandoned it (I even made a huge list of p2w servers that I reported back in the days, and only thing I've got was the message saying "you've miss understood the rules" (Even though most of the servers were EVEN SELLING /ITEM AND /VEHICLE))
All these changes made people quit and helped p2w servers to become swarmed with kids willing to pay money for kits and chat commands to gain stuff.
So, should you go and play unturned? No, not in its current state. I wish if there would be some independent project that would start developing this game starting from the movement update, because it was one of the last good updates we gained.
I have more than 5k hours in this game, trust me, it's not worth it anymore.
I should hire you to write scripts fr
Unturned is the one that even made me interested in gaming, now it's not even enjoyable
Honestly, my love for Unturned morphed into my love for Project Zomboid lol.
Project zomboid is amazing game man i love the heck out of its one of the best zombie survival games ever man
AND THE BIGGEST REASON OF THEM ALL, THEY REMOVED THE GREEN SKIN COLOR LITERALLY RACIST
ah yes, yearly ''unturned is dying'' video. well the truth is, its acctually right this time
I was 12 when I started this game now I do videos on it lmao, it's an honest shame that this game is dying cause I've loved it for 8 years. I still continue to support the game and creators any way i can
(I'm a chronic box gambler)
Can relate unturned is what started my gambling addiction
I’ve discovered your channel recently and have been loving the videos. Nice seeing you in the comments
@@inf3rnis984 I forgot to mention, if you ever do a part 2 I'm down to help with it
2500 hours on the game, met 1 cheater and he was chill, gave me some free gear. Good dude
7750+ here man
The Good Ending
@@MaxXrQuinn 10k+ here😭
100k+ here🔥
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 bs
For me a big problem with unturned is the fact that there isnt an ingame method of setting up a private server for a couple of players.
There was on the console version, however the devs stopped updating the console version 💀
There is a dedicated tool on steam
there is, i made a server for me and my friend only which you can join only through a code, and which was literally hosted on my computer
you could check, the methods i used can be found in game (that being SDS's article about making servers)..
@@moeck7342 Yes, it's very easy to set up mods too!
Like ridiculously easy
@@dotheflip4706 That's not in-game, and it barely works. We need e4mc or Essential but for Unturned.
the thing imo is that it became a low budget robloxed 2019 fortnite, no one cares about the actual survival part which is the whole point of the game, the game itself IS fun, it is very good, it's just that the community ruins it
i played yesterday with my friends (both new to unturned), gathering loot together, helping each other and slowly progressing is very fun, a lot of people say that "Unturned isn't fun the way it is supposed to play, PvP is much better", idk about that, because coordinating your friends to explore the tunnels on Russia and having everyone turning the lights off by accident and shooting pistols blindly for a couple of seconds was one of the most fun moments i've had in my 20 years of gaming, the game itself is good (in fact, we are going to play tomorrow with 4 more friends) you just gotta play it right
btw PvP in this game is also very fun on PvP oriented servers, but the way PvE is underapreciated is just unfair
Funny to think of it as Robloxed 2019 Fortnite
Considered Unturned started from a Roblox game
@@Mac33299 lol true
My 2 cents are these: It died because of the server admins and the pvp focused community
As for the server, admin abuse was rampant in the few servers i used to play, and things got to a point where that limited the fun. Only being able to have one base, unable to build on vehicles, which used to be so fun as people would have vehicle base pvp. The fact that the owner of a server liked a group made it so they could teleport into places and ignore rules. Fun fact, the admin turned out to cheat on his wife with a minor he had recluited as an admin.
And then the pvp. The game i feel like is best without hypercompetitive players wiping the entire place just because they feel like it. The game is so focused into pvp in fact you'll won't find a server where you can't start playing at all. Back when a group of mine had dominance on server, we wouldn't raid anyone until they had a certain progress, like metal bases, helis. Now you can't even make a wooden base larger than 1x1 because it WILL get raided.
In short, s**t admins, and the community focusing on pvp. I'll forever miss the times where me and my peeps would try to loot a city on a rainy night irl and in game, or host pvps and talks in our makeshift gun store
waiting on people to build better bases is so true... I remeber raiding every base with my friend and we would have to legit have to wait on people to build stuff for us to raid. All you needed was a heartbreaker on washington and the game was complete
I was excited an waiting for the new Unturned because it was going to bring the game up to date. Then Nelson just dipped. That's the biggest reason no one plays anymore, he just stopped updating it.
You triggered my nostalgia. Choke on my subscribe. I will instal that thing again and make my friends play it. Will come back to yell at you if it sucks!
unturned was like one of the games I played very back then. The memories I have are good that the Memory Reboot moment in this video was soo well fitting
my answer: my friends and I played it a lot (I even have 1,300 hours in the game from running servers), but we grew out of the game. We want to make a new server soon, but in the testing phase trying to find a map, the game just felt stale. I kinda wish they continued dev on Unturned 2.
For some reason, I would always return after a few years. I play on a totally random server, accidentally become friends with some random dudes. We start grinding, gaming and of course, goofin´ around. We form a deep friendship, I tell them they can join my huge friend group. _Cycle repeats_
_(That's why I have 940 Hours in the game, and I still absolutely suck at PVP. )_
Unturned nowadays are super PvP centric, Escalation is just a giant PvP arena with barely any serious survival elements
Unturned's PvE is great and singleplayer can be a lot of fun. Having long quest lines make the game really enjoyable and more stuff like that would be welcome. More water vehicles would be nice, and the stacking features on maps like Arid and Escalation would be welcome additions to the baee game, but that can be fixed with mods.
I dont play anything other than singleplayer, so i cant speak on the multiplayer and PvP aspects.
If anyone knows of any good maps with lots of quests and locations, I'd be happy to hear them.
i believe what led to this is the game losing its identity, catering more to pubby kids who dont know anything about advanced game mechanics who's main focus is PVP rather than being an actual survival game where you need to fight against hordes of zombies
luckily though since the game is free and can be played offline its still quite fun solo and you can create your own server for free that caters to the survival aspect of it
one thing I would love to be added here is AI Bot Bandits
As a youtuber who plays Unturned, I find the game to be very good - and its even free!
Something that I think made me like unturned more is that it was repetitive. I only played singleplayer and I never used any kind of mods. As an autistic person I think it was because I liked the routine.
I HATE 3RD PERSON SO MUUUUUCH it is so unbalanced! It is camper gameplay sitting behind the wall and peeking it easy to shoot in 3rd person because you actually can zoom in 3rd person without opening the scope and shooting in 3rd person close range is 100 times easier than fpp, fpp is true survival gameplay. Also I hate non vannila survival servers, like tpa/home/kits/?x more loot because it is mega casual and easy people go and play those trash servers instead of real vannila experience. Also I hate melee pvp and shotguns cuz they are mega OP u can 1 shot full geared player using db. And I hate this game's community, people dont play old good curated maps, they play same maps for all the time, there are so much good maps, but people dont want to play them. I also hate full builded cars which are more like apc or even more armored than them! I also hate 1 sleeping bag idea and how building are getting raided, splash in raiding is very big. If your sleeping bag gets destroyed and u die 1 time u just spawn on spawn and u can do nothing from this moment. So overral I love this game, but some of mechanics and community of casuals are trash. (5k hrs player opinion)
spunds like minecraft fr
Used to play THIS way to much and I would switch between this and rust.
I have 800+ turtle shirts and you won't make me sell them!!! Never!
Quick answer is that, the game was much better on literal release, by adding so many weird stuff, including those giant zombies that run at you with the speed of flash, if ur online, people just fight each other, it's like Rust but worse becauase everything is blocky and weird, servers aren't exactly high quality and it's just overall messy.
I've been playing Unturned since ~2015 and have ~500 hours in it. Well, let's just say that the game has lots of problems.
First of all, the only part that's kinda good is solo PvE. It has its caveats, but we'll dive into it later. If you want to play online, you'll mostly get RP servers which have almost none to all PvE / PvP aspects. There's also PvP servers too... but they're mostly plagued with kits so you'll have lots of stuff quickly, which makes the game boring.
You just can't find a good vanilla server that will have more than 5 players. And even if you find it, there's no gurantee that it wouldn't have a bunch of tryhards that constantly remove the competition.
The second problem is solo replayability. You can get lots of good stuff in a hour or two - and then all the game has to offer is you working as a loot goblin. You build a small base and then stash supplies. That's it.
There's no random events. There's no traveling zombie hordes. There's no bandits that will raid your base. All you have is zombies that are restricted to their respective locations. There are also animals which actually can fight you and roam around, but they're so rare (and aren't even present on most maps!) which makes them irrelevant.
Third is the amount of vanilla content. It's almost nonexistant. The main focus right now is curated content (which don't get me wrong, it's actually sick as hell, Arid for example feels like the entirely different game), but it still feels... wrong. Like if you've downloaded lots of Minecraft mods; sure, it IS Minecraft, but it feels a bit weird now and then.
644.5 hours on singleplayer only according to steam and i never play multiplayer yet i have been playing for years just not constantly
idk why it came to this but i love workshop maps and doing quests
the fucked up community and lack of survival elements is the reason for the game downfall just look how much potentiol gone to waste in buak
i play singleplayer because its the only sense of survival this game brings to me and finding every secret and finishing every quest on the workshop maps is what brings me joy in this game
and btw i am pretty sure i have over 3k+ hours and steam is just fucked
my personal opinion on the matter is that pvp games suck and nelson turned it from what i believe was meant to be a survival game (possibly with team aspects) into another shooter clone. like if people wanted to shoot kids in video games for a couple hours, just play cod. maybe even rust if you really still want the survival aspects. don't say they can't because i can see the mythicals these kids wear so we all know damn well they can afford to play other games.
like you said, elver is a great map because the progression is inherently difficult and to fully 100% the map, even just in singleplayer, will take hours of effort and grinding to complete the just the face-value material. there is a lot of secret work put into the map, world-building, and supposedly universe-building (see kuwait) and having the game be a simple loop of "find gun, kill person, repeat" is a major downside for the game in my opinion. there is a lot of effort put into these maps, their story and their mechanics and all of them are brushed over and the secret achievements are listed in guides (often as instructions on how to cheat them)
tl;dr people play this game for the wrong reasons, pvp sucks
10x loot and enough people on a Server can make your day more than commiting tax fraud for the first time.
i dropped the game as soon my computer was able to run other survival game
this game is ugly, low effort, full of cheaters, and simply boring af and almost every other survival game can be alternative to unturned
Unturned could easily be better quality but the creator of the game wants it to be easily accecible
Look, I have over 2500 hours. And I really think k that unturned is just dead. Until 4.0 releases or a miracle happens it will stay dead.
I started playing Unturned back in 2015 and have bit over 2000 hours on it. It will always have a special place in my heart.
To this day I sometimes play it. I also met my best mate on it.
Multiplayer just sucks with the kits and RP servers and singleplayer is just boring
I play unturned to this day since 2016, its on my most loved games list :)
Edit: it seems that the game maps sadly wont get lore anymore since some years back... (I don't remember when it happened right now, but it was announced some years ago)
Unturned is genuinely one of the most fun games for me with its social chaos, and also one of the most played too. Albeit haven't played as much recently and don't know about alot of the current problems. but as others pointed out some of the RP servers are quite problematic currently especially the ones leech off people's money. Absolutely loved some RP servers though the chaos was unmatched. Nelson really needs to bring back the official content updates that added so much stuff with new maps and Unturned's ingame lore should be continued upon as well. It was fun to piece together the story and see people's theories. (Curator maps like Elver and Escelation are great though). The wave of P2W servers, smaller and sometimes negative changes suck, but lets keep hoping and even try to keep this gem of a franchise alive.
I stopped playing because it stopped working on my pc sadge
Unturned is just too easy imho. I can just go onto servers and easily get the materials I need to raid the majority of the bases on the server (not actually have enough to raid them all but most bases can be raided with the equipment) in a few hours of playing. Getting a full metal base that is well defended is so difficult. The only way to guarantee your base not being raided is to be online when it happens but then they will just gather their supplies and come back when you are offline as they know who you are now. This applies to vanilla as I don't enjoy modded servers.
Tldr: too easy to get raiding supplies and too difficult to make a strong base
Problem with unturned is that it attracts a few new players
and even after they decide to try it out there's a huge chance they'll just bail because the game has a fuckton of quit moments
for example seeing the atrocious UI in which a new player has million ways to lose where tf are they. that's a part in which almost any survival game bests unturned in cuz if you open rust or dayz let alone minecraft you will be able to navigate the ui smoothly after like 4-10 hours and the ui doesn't overwhelm you, also the graphic style doesn't appeal to everyone because it's a weird hybrid of minecraft and idk
Honestly i think it alot down to the server managers alot of good servers have fallen off due to bad management take deapse now known as hypase it fell from having thousands of players spanning multiple maps and modes now it can barley pull 20 across all of the servers it was the main reason i quite the game
Unturned just isn't as good as it used to be. The main reason for It's downfall is the rise of more generic servers (mostly RP). I miss the old days when there was a good amount of semi-modded servers. Enough mods to make the game more fun but now enough so it's not Unturned anymore. Also all the recent maps have just been about PVP and appeals to only that side of the playerbase (The toxic one) and completely forgets about the whole other part of the playerbase. We still don't even have a structured lore of everything in the game (To my knowledge) and these new maps aren't giving us anything to go off of. I miss just trying to put together the AWSOME LORE with my friends while screwing around with tanks. I have over 3,000 hours in the game (not to brag) but I can confirm that none of those are recent because of the state of the game.
I just hosted a server. A6 Polaris as the map and its semi-vanilla. (Tpa, Home,Kits)
sounds great always wanted to play polaris will check it out for sure
Unturned is far from the best, and it's not even a survival game. The survival aspect of the game is incredibly mundane and boring, it's just a pvp game with survival elements, mostly just a cesspit of hackers and megasweats.
I would play it if I could make my own servers with friends without having to port forward, the current servers are terrible for me and my friends.
11:31 if there was servers like that...now days no one opens Vanilla servers cuz its not worth the money for the host, so insted they open p2w pvp servers.
I hope that one day, Nelson himself will expend the server browser and will add Vanilla/Official Tab like in rust, so then players will know that in that Tab there will be only pure vanilla servers
Its dying cuz unturned became a banger as ZOMBIE SURVIVAL game not this bullshit pvp.. I never understood the joy of looting 10h of loot just to lose it all in a instant by dying server resets getting raided etc... Its not fun.. Unturned 2.0 was flawless u hopped on press host and there u go easy fun with your friends... After untruned 3.0 release the multiplayer became shit u could no longer host a server in the meniu u needed that untruned server bullshit WHICH IS WACK AS HELL spent tons of hours trying to make it work just for another inconvenience to happen... Some friends could not join... The server would brake randomly.... The configuration was cancerous wasting 2h everytime.... The game did not work properly loot would dispawn on all map without every respawning meaning we would need to restart the server.... Zombies also would random spawn after we ve cleared a zone and so goes on.... AND AGAIN UNTURNED 2.0 was just HOST BUTTON and INSTANT PLAY. the lack of content pve based like we ve wanted.... We only recieved the sprint zombie fire one acid one raid beacon and a gigant zombie.... He could've added much more to improve the survival aspect of the game... But no we ve only got tons of new weapons and a new map to pvp and that was it...
Thats why unturned died its should've improved on being a zombie survival not a shit dayz/rust.
AMEN
In my opinion, its because there arent any good servers anymore (most of them are ultra modded russian only servers) and 2 rediculous game mechanics.1. the mechanic where when you leave the server ur body with all your loot disappears and 2. THE GOD DAMN BED SYSTEM, I cant even count anymore how many times Ive had to restart a skybase build because of me accidentally unclaiming a bed.
i have about 2k hours in this game which is wild for a free game with poor graphich i think, but throughout i gained so much experience about the gameplay, servers and the playerbase.
and the answer is yes, the game is dying. you ofc see new players but back when i started servers were full with them and there were no green tryhards, so people could get to learn the game and have some basic knowledge about it. nowadays noobs get killed, trash talked on chat and leave the game. Also lots of great players leave the game, for example syntale servers were one of the biggest like 3years ago with loads of players and pvp, but now syntale has shut down due to no players. the steam charts are full of bots. nelson tries to bring something with new updates, a very good change i liked was the removal of the green skin and the car rewamp. in conclusion i guess the game will die bc its not as popular as it was and simply there arent many good servers with strong communities as before.
the problem with vanilla is the skill system
It needs to be completely re-hauled or removed entirely, it ruins the game and the feeling
If he did that, and then maybe made progression feel a bit more fun, it would work out
I can say first hand that rp servers that I played give or take like 4 years ago were so horrendously boring/cringe I got banned from a server for WALKING ON A MODS LAWN not even like a joke ban for like 30 minutes it was perm non appealable this games community is and was infested quickly with annoying children
Donor kits and gold accounts just logging with all the loot mixed with the 3rd person tactics in a short time to kill environment make it undesirable to do anything but play pvp. A base building game with little incentive to build means no one wants to stay besides on rp servers. I love unturned and the possibilities it presents but it’s just a shooter with botted player counts now.
He coulda made Unturned 2 and get some players back that way, I am very uninterested in this game otherwise, no matter what update or mods come out. Unless sequel is released.
Also, previous versions of Unturned were filled with cheaters 1.0, 2.0 and beginning of 3.0, I myself even cheated on unturned for a long time. I do remember when they added anti-cheat and it was kinda all over. Before you could just edit assembly.dll and get on with your no-spreads, aimbots, and whole cheat menu.
Good thing he added that anti-cheat, it was annoying losing your whole loot to a cheater all the time, it pushed more people to cheating after dying a couple of times like that or leaving the game all together. It really was rampant.
You could still buy some private cheats, but not many people were making them back, atleast 5-6 years ago when I was checking. Now? Idk, don't care about this game.
Now I'm 23 and don't give a damn.
The last time I played this game was a few months back, the nostalgic memories of playing a game I sunk thousands of hours into both on both pc and Xbox. Unfortunately my Xbox broke in a move but my pc was still working so I booted up unturned and got a decent 3 hour session on.....or I would have if 20 minutes into a game, unturned decided my Made by me pc with damn near God specs wasn't enough to handle the game.
My 4000 dollar gaming rig now sits up in my closet.....collecting dust as it can't even turn on anymore
5.4k hours
This game sucks
So only high geared players can get the good loot. Thats snowballing af ???
I stream this game quite often but I do agree with you the amount of degenerates playing this game sickens me. This is not the Unturned I played when I was young. Not to mention a bunch of creators often kill the servers that are around. Content Creators imo should be aware of how trolling a server or publishing content that is bringing an audience that encourages trolling can kill a server that isn't toxic or does not encourage that behavior. I also notice that server owners are quick to give up on a project instead of working with the project and trying to work with it to keep it going.
Its got
Zombies
Looting
Map editor
Sweet threads to combine and make outfits with
Racism (gotta have that)
Base building
Lore
Overall i think it doesnt have enough homophobia
i don't see the appeal tbh
maybe i played too mutch minecraft
Ty for bringing back a memory. I used to play it with my friends when I was younger and man, it was fun. I tried to come back but the game was full of RP servers, pvp, creative and the most vanilla thing were servers with x5 or just straight pvp kits, when I finally find one of course the server was dominated by a ten man clan always online camping military base, we manage to raid their base but it was pointless some of them had donator kits so we decided just to quit the game. I loved playing on vanilla or semivanilla with starter kits and tp, but right now it is almost impossible to find a server like this with active players. At least I have good memories, I miss the earlier unturned days but sadly its over I dont want to come back.
i really miss old unturned when i would have fun with friends now i barely play anymore because the game just got boring and most servers are just p2w. but you did describe unturned really well.
Underrated video, deserves more attention.
I sinked way to many hours into this game. Some of my favourite gaming memories were from unturned
Man I always try to get one but sadly I don't have PC
here before ur famous!
i have 3500 hours of gameplay on unturned, i fell in love with the 2.0 game in 2014, and i've been playing on and off ever since. It's a kind of free version of rust with zombies pretty much. I'm not very into pvp oddly enough (and the game seems to have shifted towards a full pvp style), but the way you can build on cars and design bases opens lots of doors for fun gameplay
you literally made me open steam and reinstal the game while watching
Some of the people in the comments give such random answers. People need to stop acting like the playerbase wanted the same thing. Some people liked rp, some people liked PVP, some wanted a survival game.
If he would have added an actual gameplay mechanic instead of some garbage maps in the last 7 years the game might actually be popular. It's so stupid that all 3 of these groups can be made happy without compromising another yet he did nothing. Maybe washington + tpa or pvp-oriented servers being the most popular wasn't a clear enough sign for him.
By now most of the players have had years to upgrade their pcs to play rust or tarkov
also he had to be drunk when he decided unturned 2 was a good idea
1500 hours, The ammount of Fun i had with my friends sometimes playing 7 hours straight, i dont consider those Hours wasted.
Loved this game, still play it sometimes but sadly we are proablly getting GTA-7 before Unturned 2.
(ps your gonna run nothing more then 100 fps cause for some reason the game takes a fuck ton of fps)
My fps has not been that bad lately however I did witness fps drops before. The worst thing ive seen was extreme server lag
main issue are community commucation, there's quite a lots of good project/mod didn't get a good way to being noticed. plus the main game has content support issue(kinda) so things are not going totally ok sofar
but again, nelson tried to makes some features for creators. and some a bit of game tweak. if he didn't turns back in 2019 the this game gonna died earlier than today
I liked Unturned alot but the game wasn't welcoming enough. there were 8 player gangs just ruining the server, one time one of them got betrayed and we helped him out, took em down but then i got bored.
because unturned sucks and its not the best free survival game
Exactly
Legendary video for a legendary game from a legend of a developer
Epic video brother🥐🥐
Did you know there was actually also a single developer porting it to android for a couple months? He got it running on super low end hardware too. sadly he got sent a cease and desist and had to stop working on it.
this brings back memories. I usually use to play on creative servers since im not the most keen on pvp stuff but I loved making big manacial things or flying planes and the game just had that charm to it, blocky, simple and fun. this was a while ago though, long enough for my mythic hat to plummit from 20ish eur to 7
meh, I hate pixel games.
Becuase its a complete shit game thats why
Yeah, I didn’t like it
I started playing Unturned again a few days ago because of Buak, which add enough content to make it a unique experience, but as a PvE player who plays with friends on private servers, it might be the last time I play it, because the game is just dead. There is nothing new except random fixes. Even Buak - which I feel is a more PvE oriented map - is way too easy (I died like once, and it's because I ate explosive candies), food isn't a threat, water isn't a threat, zombies are even less of a threat and even mega are easy to deal with because zombies can't leave an area since 3.0.
The game has a lots of issues since 3.0/its release that won't ever get fixed (the terrible inventory system which is just confusing with big inventories since you can't sort it, the crafting interface that gets cluttered a lot when you play with mods and the search feature is pretty much useless, and the vehicles physics - especially they have 2 wheels).
I've also seen some people criticize its optimisation, but I've had no problem with it (my integrated gpu is around a GTX 1050 Ti / GTX 1060, which is quite old and with almost everything ultra it's not quite 60 fps but it still feels smooth).
But for PvE, you're better off playing Project Zomboid (which may not be free but it's really worth it, even though it as its flaws it has better gameplay and mods)
200 hrs is rookie numbers son.
I know 😔
As a 6900 hour player,i'd say you aren't wrong
aint no way he said unturned is like minecraft or rust. it's like dayz but roblox. it really do just be apoclypse rising standalone edition lmao. its not like minecraft besides how it looks. its not like rust besides it being like survival. its like dayz as you spend much more time looting > crafting or harvesting (like in rust, which is a lot more harvesting > looting, not that you don't loot its just not as important or like unturned or dayz)
Unturned gameplay: Spawn in, loot, die from a player out of nowhere, respawn. Loot, build a base, log off for a few hours, log back on into your raided base, repeat
i use to play this game on an old hp laptop. it made me get a job in high school so I could afford to build a budget PC back in 2016. would've been a good game if they kept updates coming
me who plays everyday I AM ABOVE ALL OF YOU HATERS
The game also has an incredibly easy to learn level editor
That intro goes hard xD
thanks man took me forever to make it
loved the game for years and almost 2k hours but due to lag or a glitch in the game i was vacc banned by anti-cheat for fly hacking ( i was not hacking or cheating in anyway), never opened the game again
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no this is not real this is not real this is not real why are you giving me ptsd
I have horrifying 2k hours in Unturned and that's the game of my childhood. I still have hope that Unturned 4.0 will released at some point
Man my childhood game.. for fucks sake :(
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