I don't talk about State of Decay much, but it's my favorite open world zombie game. With 3 on the horizon and the playtest that was just announced, I wanted to do this.
Things I want in SoD3:
More customization in general; the characters, your bases, weapons, vehicles, and surroundings.
More importance to losing a member via permadeath. In SoD2 you usually just mourn the skills that person had and the group has a grief debuff for a bit, but that's it. I want it to really effect the group.
Better combat. It's just so simple and if it could even be half as good as TLOU2 combat, I'd be satisfied.
More variety in meeting other survivors or groups. Hell, more variety with characters in general; romances, besties, familial or enemy relationships.
You survive by a day by day system and I want that to be emphasized more. Have more things change over time, the world and characters.
BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE FOLLOWERS, I BEG. I'm so tired of having massive groups and only being able to attack raiders or plague hearts with only one companion. Let me bring 2 or 3 or even a whole siege!
Dynamic weather and seasons. Along with me asking for things to change over time, let there be spring, summer, fall and have us struggle in winter. General stuff like rain, fog, heat waves, snow etc. And with the different maps have different natural disasters; a hurricane in seaside maps, a tornado in great plain maps, droughts in a desert maps, floods in valley maps, etc.
More abilities not related to combat or scavenging like fishing,
More freedom with bases, let us choose us to base WHEREEVER and no limits for facilities except for resources and space.
More dynamic injuries or sicknesses aside from the plague. Permanent consequences are nothing new in these games in regards to losing people, so let some injuries have permanent consequences. Like losing a finger or whole limbs. Stayed in the toxic gas too long? Your character is blind now, etc.
If there's anything else I missed, feel free to add to this list!
