State of Decay developer Undead Sanya has come up on NeoGAF, thanks to a post in the official forums explaining how the game will be transitioned over from console to PC via Steam.
In the post, he alludes to their preview of the game on PAX. He describes the demo PC as a normal machine, with two year old parts and all the settings placed on medium. The game will first show up on PC via Steam Early Access. This version of the game will be controller only, and no release date can be announced yet because it is entirely up to Valve.
After this will be Sandbox Mode, which is currently under testing. For this reason, like Early Access, Undead Labs is unable to provide an exact date yet. Before the year ends, however, they intend to get a proper PC version of the game, with mouse and keyboard support, out on Steam. Sanya ends by explaining they are still in talks regarding future games.
As observed by NeoGAF user Miles Quaritch using the Xbox 360 leaderboards, sales of the game have gone above 938,000 units. Miles last observed this at 938,498 units.
Undead Labs’ choice to display the game at medium settings is an interesting one. They say they did it to demonstrate that the game is playable on a range of tech specs. However, as many forum replies pointed out, the Xbox 360 version of the game suffers from screen tearing, so maybe they are implicitly suggesting PC players deliberately keep their settings low? Either way, State of Decay has been receiving rave reviews, so it’s good to know you do not need a state of the art computer to play this game when it finally comes out.
Source: NeoGAF
