How much zombies do you kill? [B41]

[Triangular Brick]

Hey just a little topic for the fun and comparing with other people:

How much zombies do you kill a month in average? Or per day?
It's hard for me to tell if I kill very little or a lot so here's how much I killed in a month:
250 .
Avoiding fight as much as possible, only 1 nightmare so far, no kill with fire nor car and best weapon: bare hands.

I know there are some Z Terminators out there but maybe some of you are more... "Peaceful" ? :P

[Verudez01]

About 20 in game days and I killed a little less than 1500 zeds. I kill every zed I see in a set radius around my fort. I hate having roamers in my own back yard. Many times a single zed we leave behind can be our undoing by ambushing us from a hidden spot. I too have the 'Bare hands' as preferred weapon, stomping them or using a car saves weapon durability. Just make sure your character isn't too tired and you use a car you won't be sorry for wrecking while running over zombies.

[Ghosting Initiate]

I usually neutralize stragglers and any I happen to find in houses or structures I clear of resources (except the mall, but I've cleared a majority of zombies there before just because it was something to do and I just wanted to kill stuff).
I also kill small groups (up to 8 or so) near my base. Finally, once per in-game week I'll spend most of the day clearing the area of zombies to keep things managed up to the point where hordes pretty much represent a swarm of ants.
Large and helicopter event hordes are always avoided or diverted if doable. While travelling a fair distance or a couple of other situations, I don't bother engaging them unless they're in or will be in my way,

[derp12332112]

I do a crap-ton of clearing early-game while they're relatively sparse to get rid of weight (I like to start overweight to get more trait points) and get some skill with weapons. After the first month or so, it becomes the routine "kill stragglers on sight" that everyone else tends to do around their base. I also go out and kill to get rid of boredom.

All in all, I usually kill a good thousand zeds through fire, feet, and bats in the first month or two.

[Triangular Brick]

@Verudez01
1500 lol I think your way of playing the game is very different from mine. So a zombie is a threat and you want to be as close as 0 threat which means killing them around your base.
When I played 6 months later mode in build 40 I stopped doing that because fighting just one would attract the whole street. I prefer to gain time by avoiding fights (I play with feeble by the way right now but I might try weak) and sneaking around and after playing as a nomadic person I'm now ok with having a lot around me but I still have just enough to make a sheet rope and escape while the furnitures are blocking them enough time to flee.
We have different ways to approach things but it's cool to see how people find their own solutions! ^^

So for now it seems you are killing thousands in 1 or 2 months, that's good to know lol!

[westrud]

I had over 9700 on the character I lost last night. I hit Q instead of A and before I realized my mistake a stupid radial menu popped up. Three zombies grabbed me and before I could close the menu and break free they caused fatal damage. Words can't describe how happy I am that they included that menu so people playing multiplayer, which isn't even enabled right now, can wave to each other.

[Triangular Brick]

I feel your pain bro! If I can reassure you on build 40 I once died because while going through a window where a sheet rope just got mauled exactly just before I use it. Fatal fall.
How long did you survive after 9700 Z kills?

[westrud]

It was a about a year and two months, late September year two, with respawn off and no zombification, so not the hardest settings. I had cleared West Point, cleared the mall, made good progress in Maldraugh and just set up a base in Riverside. I had planned to spend the winter clearing Riverside before moving on to Rosewood or March Ridge. Oh well, I always knew how the game would end, just thought it would be more glorious then three zombies and a silly menu popup.

[Verudez01]

@Triangular Brick

I'm confirming 1356 Zs killed in my latest run after 19 days and 17 hours. No zombie was killed in the last day at 23:something hours and the character is at home.

What I do (playing from the beginning of the outbreak) is set shop, then stuff and barricade it. I find a layered fortification works wonders, if you set spamming and repopulating properly to avoid teleporters and such, the zeds are redirected everywhere due to many tactical obstacles shattering their group and making them easy picking. That of course include default buildings, walls fences and whatnot. Not to mention if I don't go out for days, once I leave never if rarely I encounter a solitary zombie in the nearest perimeter of my main fort.

NOTE that I play in an urban area on purpose, with urban zombie population, normal count, though I lowered the multiplier but raised the maximum count of peak population to mimic the effect of a growing outbreak.

I sneak attack when I can, otherwise I attract the ones I plan to kill to my killing zone, away from the others's line of sight, just barely so you keep your tabs on the others. They are basically waiting for their turn in line to get axed or batted then stomped one by one as you thin them out. It's a chore, yes, but it pays off.

I play aggressively my first month, then once I have all I wanted, I slow down, go out camping. Fishing, trapping... There's nothing like having baked rabbit and potatoes or grilled fish near a river or lake (I'd prefer it to be sea personally but any water will do). If you survived 30+ days then you should be set for basically indefinite survival, until you get too careless and lazy one day that is.

[Nordil(Hun)]

My starting guys usually have a chance of 25-40 per day. Since they start with 0/0 in str and endurance.
Of course if there is a supply of weapons:) (I have checked it in the past, when everything was as to say going optimal about 40 zombies was quite okay. Kill 6 zombies, sit down to rest and so on:D)

But with str 3 and endurance 2 It becomes a lot easier.
Currently i am on level 2 str and 1 endurance, but i already killed about 35 today. (Takes a while since i kill usually 8-10 of them)

[_TheBunnymaster_]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

My starting guys usually have a chance of 25-40 per day. Since they start with 0/0 in str and endurance.
Of course if there is a supply of weapons:) (I have checked it in the past, when everything was as to say going optimal about 40 zombies was quite okay. Kill 6 zombies, sit down to rest and so on:D)

But with str 3 and endurance 2 It becomes a lot easier.
Currently i am on level 2 str and 1 endurance, but i already killed about 35 today. (Takes a while since i kill usually 8-10 of them)

Sounds like you need a fitness plan ASAP lol. Two sets, ten minutes each of squats, sit-ups and burpees, then go run the beach for awhile (not a lot of spawns there).

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by _TheBunnymaster_:

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

My starting guys usually have a chance of 25-40 per day. Since they start with 0/0 in str and endurance.
Of course if there is a supply of weapons:) (I have checked it in the past, when everything was as to say going optimal about 40 zombies was quite okay. Kill 6 zombies, sit down to rest and so on:D)

But with str 3 and endurance 2 It becomes a lot easier.
Currently i am on level 2 str and 1 endurance, but i already killed about 35 today. (Takes a while since i kill usually 8-10 of them)

Sounds like you need a fitness plan ASAP lol. Two sets, ten minutes each of squats, sit-ups and burpees, then go run the beach for awhile (not a lot of spawns there).

I know. But actually the muscle fever can come during the worst time:)
For now I am in need of two books, and at least one more generator. Once i get those, i can finally focus on enhancing my guy physicially.

In 2 months time, where i am now, i would usually be already around 3/2 or 4/3 str end wise. Now i am still 2/1. Did not have time to make excersizes:) (Too far away base currently)

[Triangular Brick]

@westrud

- A year and 2 months = 14 months.
- You killed 9700 zombies in total within this time frame.

9700 / 14 ~= 693. You killed 693 per month in average. Much less than other people posting here it seems. I guess it's because of your game settings with respawn off, did you see a lot of zombies after killing say 500 of them in an area?


@Verudez01

What you describe is a chore I try to avoid as much as possible haha! ^^
It pays off for tranquility indeed but I prefer to sneak through them! :P
Maybe you should go to the mall when you have enough of camping!
Being set in 30+ days well it depends. If you eat only non perrishable food and use water sources in houses you can still live for a while without a backup plan to get a sustainable source of food, but I get what you mean.


@Nordil(Hun)

Now I want to take weak trait even more lol it sounds fun! I am exercising everyday with barbels and I now have Strength 5 so my character has lost the feeble trait, that was worth it.
Can you use barbels with 0 strength and how much xp do you get from that?

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Triangular Brick:

@Nordil(Hun)

Now I want to take weak trait even more lol it sounds fun! I am exercising everyday with barbels and I now have Strength 5 so my character has lost the feeble trait, that was worth it.
Can you use barbels with 0 strength and how much xp do you get from that?

Never done it actually. I never had enough space/weight to carry a dumbbell or barbell with the char. I allways left them behind.
i usually did squats, burpees or pushups. Even so was quite solid. (Did 40 minutes from the focused one and 10-10 minutes of others i regularly shifted focus depending what i needed str or end.)
But usually even without the excercizes usually my chars were able to achieve level 1 str in 3 days. Level 2 str 11 days thereafter, and level 3 usually took a month.
But for now i play more carefully since there were so many changes i need to readapt for now. (Though luckily seems my fighting skills are still not that rusty!:)

But for now i need to improve my carpentry, whichafter i need to increase the guy's strength then I can finally set my plan in motion....though will be damn boring with all them back and forth cruising to transport my stuff to the new main base:P

Hm maybe i should level up meanwhile my gun skills. As a police officer it should go fairly fast. Especially with the 200 shotgun shells:D

[westrud]

@Triangular Brick

My game had far fewer zombies then others games. My goal is to try to find what I consider a "realistic" setting on the zombies. I think I had too few zombies in my game and will probably adjust that up a little next time. I turn zombie transmission off because I am just not that hardcore and enjoy a longer run focused more on survival and exploration and don't want to lose it to a small mistake. I turned zombie respawn off so that when I clear an area I feel like I have made some progress. Also I turn off zombie migration, this is so that they do not repopulate cleared areas but also so when I travel to a new area it still has the full zombie population. The way I understand zombie migration it will pull from higher populated cells to fill lower populated ones, which will even out the population across the map, and I want to keep the population high in areas I haven't visited yet.
To answer your question, of the zombies I killed 5000 were probably in West Point, and it was clear to the point rarely a zombie would be seen wondering out of the woods but effectively you could go anywhere without worrying about them. I would say along the road to the mall and the mall itself I probably killed 2000, the mall was safe to stay in and loot, but they were still wandering in from around it, but not enough to be a threat. Another 2000 were probably killed in Muldraugh although it was not clear. I set up in the warehouse at the edge of town and built walls around it. Building the walls drew in most of the zombies within earshot, so it was pretty safe. The town itself was clear enough to wander around and loot but still had enough zombies to be on the lookout. The rest were along the roads, mostly at the trailer park and the crossroads between Muldraugh and West Point. When I would see zombies I would stop a take care of them to avoid hitting them with my car so driving that well traveled stretch of road was clear.
If you play this style you will need to set goals for yourself to avoid getting bored. I tried to find as many of the rarer items in the game as I could and collect them. I also tried to increase my skills as high as I could across the board. I did a lot of building also which kept me occupied. Some people enjoy a zombie slaughter all the time, some don't, which is what makes this game so great, it caters to so many different playstyles.

[_TheBunnymaster_]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by _TheBunnymaster_:

Sounds like you need a fitness plan ASAP lol. Two sets, ten minutes each of squats, sit-ups and burpees, then go run the beach for awhile (not a lot of spawns there).

I know. But actually the muscle fever can come during the worst time:)
For now I am in need of two books, and at least one more generator. Once i get those, i can finally focus on enhancing my guy physicially.

In 2 months time, where i am now, i would usually be already around 3/2 or 4/3 str end wise. Now i am still 2/1. Did not have time to make excersizes:) (Too far away base currently)

If you take longer days (I do 12 hours, but I understand why a lot of peeps wouldn't like that) and start the day really early (somewhere between 0500-0630) and do the workout and run, then make sure I'm done with stuff outside the base area before 1800 hrs or so (when the fatigue kicks in...about 12 hours afterwards). So far it's working for me, but your mileage may vary.