Softlocking the Tutorial

[White Rhino PSO]

I'm not sure if that's the right term to use, but basically I found that it's possible to put the tutorial in a state where you can't progress further without restarting.

At the point of the tutorial when the game wants you to open the kitchen window, it's possible to leave the cabin and open it from outside. This will spawn the zombie outside as expected, and they can be killed. The problem is that the tutorial still wants you to either enter or exit the cabin through the window you just opened. After doing that, the game will tell you to sneak up on the zombie and take it out with a swing of your frying pan.. but it's already dead, so the tutorial can't progress.

Not sure if this is anything major or not - it's just as simple to kill yourself by falling off the second floor balcony, or even going out to piss off the zombies hiding in the shed around back, but this softlock is a bit more of an accidental thing, I think.

[Gamma Ghost]

I just killed the tutorial by filling the water bottle with water before it told me too, no empty water bottle meant frozen tutorial.


Then I did it by Intentionaly breaking the window and capturing the interest of the zombie I was supposed to stealth kill, no one to kill meant that no kill could be registered same as you.


Then I evaded the horde and ran to the edge of the map and succeded to get lost in the forest with no zombies coming after me.


I also froze the tutorial by doing something else, though I'm not quite sure what, can't remember.

Then killed myself by smashing the windows.

Then I killed myself by jumping from the top floor... repeatedly.


I suspect that you could also kill the horde but I haven't tried that one yet.


I now noticed some spelling errs in the spiffo tutorial text, specifically: "See!Told you..." Also
"Oh no!That sounds.."

I just noticed that the "ZOMBOID SURVIVAL GUIDE" #2 says:
"Survivors who run rapidly become survivors who are dead."
Instead of something like:
"Survivors who run, rapidly cease being survivors."

[White Rhino PSO]

I ran away from the horde myself, and got lost in the forest. I believe the map is fairly small, though, because I eventually found a boundry and looped around to see how things had progressed. I don't know if that counts as softlocking so much as it is just delaying the inevitable, though.

[Gamma Ghost]

Yeah, I never found my way back even after reaching the edge... I think my angle was off when I attempted to go straight back to the house.