If they had put an alpha out sooner - even one level would have been fine- to let the community and others know it was still alive I think it would have done far better. From the times I've played it with my friends, it has stayed at it's fairly easy level of difficulty and there hasn't been much in the way of different game modes either.
The only the NMRiH devs thing they put out a while back was the 'beta' which isn't much more improved than what you see now. NMRiH's one of main competitors at the time Zombie Panic Source and Killing floor were doing just find and demonstrated superior gameplay to what we had seen of NMRiH.Īnd now we have Contagion, the CSGO engine revamp of ZPS. Lo and behold, L4d2 rolls around, and a slew of other MP and Coop zombie survival modes from various indies and big developers in the years after. I remember posting on their forums asking how they would deal with upcoming games like L4d1, and they said that they weren't worried and that they would have it out before then. It's been in development for what, 5 years? And in that time the dev team changed up so frequently and had a number of new faces due to RL issues and other things.
I have some sad and nostalgic feelings about this mod.
