Zombies spawning and despawning near players!

[Swato85]

This is what I would call a critical problem. Initialy we thought it was just coincidence, or that we simply missed a zombie, or maybe that they simply moved to the area when we were bussy with other thongs but no.


The problem:

1. A small horde 6-9 zombies is spawned apx 4m from player.
We had a sniper looking at us from a parked truck while we were walking backwards to him while fighting incoming horde when he starts shouting that a horde was spawned behind us literaly from nowhere we turned around and what was originaly already cleared area now had a horde dividing us from our truck. It spawned so close that two seconds more and we would walk our back directly into it.
Occurance: 3 times so far

2. Zombies spawning apx 3-5 m from players.
While standing still suddenly a zombie appears directly in front of players. No obstacles, just grass with clean sight.
Walking towards a shop, suddenly a zombie appears directly in front of character and immediately tries to go for the player.
Upon killing the last zombie from a horde, two more get spawned directly in plain sight.
Occurance: 5times reported

To me personaly it happened once and it looked as if the character was blind to right half of the vission cone. I killed the last visible enemy when suddenly one more appears behind him and when the character turned a bit to the right tonface him, three more zombies were suddenly visible. Nothing on my head, but I noticed that his hair grew so long that it is covering the right eye - Can this affect perception and visibility?

3. Zombies disappearing - dead
Killed zombies drop to the ground and disappear.
Happens very often but must be tied to multiplayer as so far it happens only if players are fighting near each other.
It is very stressfull as the zomb drops and vanishes, leaves olayers wandering whether they wont get attacked from the ground suddenly or simply wtf is happening.

4. Zombies disappearing - undead
Backpedaling from hordes while fighting and suddenly some zombies from the horde vanish/despawn. Dont know if they were pulled to far or something, but its strange when part of the horde goes poof.
Occurence: every major fight, big hordes or when calling in several hordes into battle and then walking backwards and fighting.


Is this a know issue or just us.
Should I consider it a bug or can it be cured per adjusting the settings?

Server is vanila, no mods.
No lags or any other issues, game runs fluently allways.

[★Rainmaker★]

Known vanilla issue. You'll need the No 'Mo Culling mod installed both on each client and serverside to fix it.

It's a really silly, really dumb system that PZ uses to delete "excess" zombies that will *poof* in and out of existence at extremely inopportune times, especially when dealing with hordes.

[Swato85]

Originally posted by ★Rainmaker★:

Known vanilla issue. You'll need the No 'Mo Culling mod installed both on each client and serverside to fix it.

It's a really silly, really dumb system that PZ uses to delete "excess" zombies that will *poof* in and out of existence at extremely inopportune times, especially when dealing with hordes.

Thanks, will take look although despawning is not as critical as spawning since the other is directly life threatening.

[Death]

"When we were bussy with other thongs" is an unfortunate set of typos. Lol

To the point, it could be the culling, that is causing this along with some desync because that should not happen. The zombies do not spawn like that.

[Swato85]

Originally posted by Death:

"When we were bussy with other thongs" is an unfortunate set of typos. Lol

To the point, it could be the culling, that is causing this along with some desync because that should not happen. The zombies do not spawn like that.

thats quite regular mistake with the I being next to O and when zou are fast tzping. Or forget to switch kezboard lazout, LOL :-D

[Death]

Originally posted by Swato85:

Originally posted by Death:

"When we were bussy with other thongs" is an unfortunate set of typos. Lol

To the point, it could be the culling, that is causing this along with some desync because that should not happen. The zombies do not spawn like that.

thats quite regular mistake with the I being next to O and when zou are fast tzping. Or forget to switch kezboard lazout, LOL :-D

For sure. Just for the record, I wasn't mocking you, I just found the typos to be funny.

[hardy_conrad]

Just be sure to not accidentally insert a space between the e and the r when you're talking about therapists ;)

[Swato85]

Originally posted by Death:

Originally posted by Swato85:

thats quite regular mistake with the I being next to O and when zou are fast tzping. Or forget to switch kezboard lazout, LOL :-D

For sure. Just for the record, I wasn't mocking you, I just found the typos to be funny.

Dont worry, I dont care for my writing mistakes, also find them hilarious 😁. If someone wants to debate seriously he will understand the point, if someone just wants to be iritating, meh... Not a care 😎.
Things - thongs is among the best, the better when even the alternative can have a point in given setup 😂.

[Swato85]

Originally posted by hardy_conrad:

Just be sure to not accidentally insert a space between the e and the r when you're talking about therapists ;)

Yeah, that one is good. Also depends on the game you play as in some the accident would be if you not put the space there 😂. Yep, steam is full of "strange" games too.

[Mopop]

Classic Stale zombies. As someone stated above get that mod. I'm the co-creator of it so if you have any questions let me know.

Though you only need it on the server tbh, client is optional.

[Mopop]

Also I should add the only system they added was culling which was to save server resources, but I've been running servers without culling just fine.

Stales on the other hand is an actual bug in the code.

[Sooner535{UFIP}]

Oh the memories

[Mopop]

Originally posted by Sooner535{UFIP}:

Oh the memories

A true OG that got the ball rolling on zombies not vanishing in games!

[Sooner535{UFIP}]

Originally posted by Mopop:

Originally posted by Sooner535{UFIP}:

Oh the memories

A true OG that got the ball rolling on zombies not vanishing in games!

We all played our part. Especially our friend Enigma :). Always a pleasure Mopop.

[~ Diviad ~]

I've had zeds disappearing so I found this thread.
What happens to the zeds that disappeared in the past? Do they reset or respawn in their original location? How long does it take?
I bait them with sirens and horns and have had them disappear several times. I've even had only 20 or so agro'd one time and saw them despawn too. I will be distraught if I can't count those undead on my kill list!