whats the point of killing zombies if they always come back?

[Sehkh]

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[Gigadesu!]

The objective of the game isn't to exterminate the zombies, It's to survive.

[Andy Mil]

You must have reason before kill them
perhaps for weapon skill?
clear your soon to be safe zone for you?

[Sehkh]

Originally posted by Mi:

You must have reason before kill them
perhaps for weapon skill?
clear your soon to safe zone for you?

im trying to build a base but every time i build some walls one or two zombies appear from nowhere, not to mention the areas i already literally cleared are now full of zombies again, 700 kills and counting...

[Cracktober]

There is a sandbox setting to turn respawn off, or change the respawn rate in hours (700 = 1 month, 4380 = 6 months, up to a maximum of 8766 = 1 year)

[Øc]

Turn respawns off. Respawns are icky.

[Rincewind]

migrating settings.... i posted it so often that i ask myself now if anybody ever read that. Maybe i will stop that soon and let ppl just complain that don´t see the problem right in front of the pc, lol

[Shinden]

depends on if you have respawns disabled or not.

[Vogelmaster]

set the blood effects to maximum and enjoy lots of red painting everywhere :3

[Andy Mil]

The way the zeds ambush you is like this (dont super trust me on this)
in game
they zombie have sort of rader map and tracking what zone and how many they in. They will travel/teleport/not actually walking in to the zone that are clear so if you clearing zombie here then in another zone there might be less zeds and they also like water. they spread after huge drop but slower than water and then
There is respawn.. basically they respawn in empty zone/no player in.
I heard that if you close off all your building and all entrance stuff then there wont be any zeds "spawn" in there
I got boredom back then so quit before finish close off the zone but now multiplayer is here so I plan to finally build a large safe area in town

my old playthrough with copy of apocalypse but zeds respawn to 1 month was still full of zeds in city but they number can be reduce and actually clear

I found nice many houses spot on muldraugh and wanna try that

[ambi]

did you disable respawn

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Mi:

The way the zeds ambush you is like this (dont super trust me on this)
in game
they zombie have sort of rader map and tracking what zone and how many they in. They will travel/teleport/not actually walking in to the zone that are clear so if you clearing zombie here then in another zone there might be less zeds and they also like water. they spread after huge drop but slower than water and then
There is respawn.. basically they respawn in empty zone/no player in.
I heard that if you close off all your building and all entrance stuff then there wont be any zeds "spawn" in there
I got boredom back then so quit before finish close off the zone but now multiplayer is here so I plan to finally build a large safe area in town

my old playthrough with copy of apocalypse but zeds respawn to 1 month was still full of zeds in city but they number can be reduce and actually clear

I found nice many houses spot on muldraugh and wanna try that

Actually the zombies do migrate, aka travel there. (Quite often you can run into huge wandering bands!)
Teleport is when they respawn, however should not happen while you are there.
At least in single player, my knowledge regarding multi is very very limited.

[Pure Hostility]

On top of what Nordil said, zombies cannot respawn in a place they have no access to from an edge of the map.

AFAIK, the respawn mechanic works in a way that game will draw a potential navigation path from an edge of the map to the point it wants to spawn a zombie in. If said path is clear zombie can be spawned but if it is unreachable (blocked), it won't spawn any new zombies in said area.
Respawn is basically a migration of completely new zombies from an off map area. Slightly "simplified" for the gameplay and probably optimization side of things.
Migration is just a movement of zombies already present on the map.

[intorpere]

Even with respawn turned off or down, you'll have to clear the same areas repeatedly. Each time you clear a spot, others nearby will wander in to fill the vacant area. If you keep clearing them, they stop showing up eventually. Depending on respawn settings. I have mine configured to every ten days, instead of the default three.

[-=EDF=- Kouta Seto]

It would be interesting if the "outside of map migration" (That btw. cant happen as this is a restricted area with WALL around it etc. as far as i know) would cease if you basicaly kill the population of america (entire america, not just the US)

[Pure Hostility]

Originally posted by -=EDF=- Kouta Seto:

It would be interesting if the "outside of map migration" (That btw. cant happen as this is a restricted area with WALL around it etc. as far as i know) would cease if you basicaly kill the population of america (entire america, not just the US)

Well, you can roleplay Trump and just build a wall around the "country" to stop illegal immigrants from stealing your vacant jobs.