Play Style

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In Urban Dead, Play Style refers to the actions and intentions of groups and individuals. These actions generally place groups or individuals into one or more generalized categories of play style.

Common Play Styles

Pro-Survivor

Main Article: Survivor

A survivor (or human) is any character that is not a zombie. Survivors include civilians trapped in the city, military forces sent to enforce the evacuation, and scientists studying or supporting the effort.

Pro-Survivors are individuals or groups whose in-game objective is to keep survivors and suburbs safe from zombie attacks. This is accomplished through repairing and barricading buildings, healing and revivifying other survivors, and combating zombies.

Player Killer

Main Article: Player Killer

PKer (a contraction of Player Killer) is a term borrowed from other MMORPGs, typically ones where the monsters are NPCs, and refers to players attacking other players.

In the context of Urban Dead, where both humans and zombies are controlled by players, a PKer is a human character who kills other human characters (the zombie equivalent is ZKer).

PKers are often called the "third" side in Malton, the other two being zombies and survivors. Although PKing is frowned upon by pro-survivors, this "frowning upon" of PKers is a role playing feeling, and not a genuine dislike for PKers. PKers are welcomed in the Urban Dead community as they bring an interesting extra challenge to the game - in fact, the game's creator, Kevan, has stated that, "psycho survivors are a vibrant part of any post-apocalypse".