Back in the glorious month of September, I was putting about 10 hours a day into this game until I got the awesome loading freeze glitch that would cause me to have to turn of my XBOX just to try again or play another game. It wasn’t till around the time that Bloodbath Arena launched where they fixed my game and I was back into the action. After playing a few arenas, I put down the game and focused on others while Dead Island just pleasantly sat on my shelf. Well, this past week I have picked it back up, and it is now as glitchy as ever online.
The game was glitched to begin with, and still is, but after joining a few online matches to try to get some achievements from the arenas, I found myself getting blown up every time I joined. Why was this happening? The mods have entered the Island of Banoi.
After playing Borderlands for weeks at a time, and then joining the fun a year later, people started dropping weird weapons I have never seen before. I ended up picking up a shotgun that does a billion damage and that could take out Cramerax in just 5 shots. Don’t get me wrong, I have enjoyed this quite a bit, but trying to play the game legit becomes a huge challenge unless you have friends to play with.
Seeing zombies getting shot across the map with modded shotguns is hilarious. What’s not hilarious about it is that the game will lag so bad, that it will stay laggy and sometimes freeze until you restart your game, or system. Joining random people in co-op will never be the same again, unless you have some dedicated friends to play with. I entered a match to try to get some XP and immediately I was killed as soon as I joined. I then again died a few more times until I realized that this guy or girl and a grenade launched waiting on spawns to enter so they can get put down as soon as they join. Sometimes I do childish things like this, but when you have a lot of money saved up in your inventory, and it keeps taking big chunks out when you die, then there’s my problem.
Dead Island is one of my top 5 games of 2011, and just because the mods have entered, it doesn’t change my opinion one bit. It just makes me a little more cautious joining random matches. The game plays identical to Borderlands and I knew the mods would enter the game eventually, so this was expected. If you get your hands on any of these modded weapons, try them out when you’re just out exploring. You will enjoy several laughs along the way.
Here is a perfect example of some my friends and I having a great time with these fine weapons of destruction.
