![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, not everyone is so mature, and when playing on less mature servers, you will see plenty of exposed male and female “private parts” and large breasts. There is nothing wrong with nudity that is tastefully used in a video game in the case of a survival game like Scum, where clothing can get wet and lead to hyperthermia, removing clothing at times is a necessity. Picture: Screenshot from the original censored trailer. While in-game clothing options are suitable for a survival game, many will struggle to look past the cringe-inducing video and its outdated and offensive portrayal of women. While the censor bars were eventually removed, it did little to improve things, revealing bare buttocks and a naughty catholic girl shirt that displayed ample flesh, and an inappropriate amount of detail was visible through the material. The announcement of player-base female characters came as part of a short video that showed a barely clothed female character dancing suggestively with censor bars over sensitive areas while this is undoubtedly all meant in good fun, it’s demeaning to female gamers and borders on offensive. While Scum launched without female characters, this lack of diversity was eventually addressed in what could be described as the most cringe-inducing display of unintentional misogyny by an established developer I have yet to encounter. This is great and unlike games such as Population Zero, where you would be required to walk past a mountain of stones while looking for a single stone that is lootable. This design philosophy extends to the game world clicking a pile of logs will allow you to gather logs, fridges containing food, cars containing car parts, scrap metal, and so on. This is a step above most survival games where you are pantless and must walk past perfectly acceptable-looking zombie pants only to loot a tin of tuna or a pair of sunglasses. When killing a puppet (zombie) in Scum, the loot drops are constant with what the puppet was seen to be wearing or carrying. While I do not expect hardened prisoners to look like catwalk models, I feel that characters having some semblance of facial muscle control and having their heads firmly attached to their necks isn’t asking too much of the developers, especially when other titles using the same engine manage to create characters which at least look human, if not attractive. While the world has been lovingly created, and there are some truly stunning locations to explore, character models, are hideous.Įven the best-looking character models are aptly described as “Butterface bob and friends”. In addition, Scum is one of the few survival games to allow for cannibalism, and a hungry survivor may not think twice about making you their lunch. While eating a dozen candy bars a day may fill you up, it will also increase your character’s physical weight, reduce your agility, make you more prone to certain illnesses, and increase your hitbox, making you an easy target for other players and the undead. Scum is a survival game like no other while games like Deadside focus more on instant gratification and DayZ combines survival with high-end PvP combat, Scum has found a niche for itself to the far left of DayZ, focusing on the experience of survival by offering players one of the most comprehensive metabolism simulators in existence.Įating too fast, too much, or too little food can result in your player becoming sickly, and while many survival games have a mechanic to flag spoiled or raw food, Scum takes this even further by requiring players to consume the correct amounts of vitamins and nutrients to stay healthy. After a promising start and a fairly productive three years, the world’s most realistic survival game is starting to show signs of losing its way. ![]()
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