Do Enemies Get Stronger?

[burgerbait]

I'm on the fence about buying this game. It looks very similar to the first one but with less features right now. If I didn't know SOTF was a thing you could show me gameplay and tell me it's the first game with a few mods and I'd believe it. What really bugged me in the first game was the fact that after a certain amount of days the enemy types got harder and they came in bigger numbers. To the point where it was pretty much impossible to keep a base without it being destroyed. Is that still a thing?

[lostsoul9999]

I’m on day 20 and the answer is yes and no, they do wear armor or mutants come but there’s not a lot of them 4-5 I’ve yet to have a wall broken down I’d wait for further updates

[Nee'lahn]

So to my understanding it depends on how you treat them. If you're constantly going around killing them on sight and such, or attack them and leave them alive they will come back in larger groups. Also, they are alot smarter this time around and hide in bushes, and will watch you and eventually start crafting armor and better weapons to attack you with. Now there are some tools that you can use to just scare them off and not engage in conflict which will tone them down.

[ZombieHunter]

They get more frequent, come in larger numbers and get weirder in nature. They do strange things too like steal your logs, break your stuff and in general cause a mess.

[LDLC]

There should be, the villages near me are full of mutated monsters, and even the attackers have turned into worms, but this is about 20 days later.

[Storm]

Yea they listen to that pink song on the boobbox lul

[Rootiga]

Originally they would get harder and remain hard, but now they get stronger however they don't remain that way 100% indefinitely, you get varying types and degrees of strength but instead of stronger ones you get more frequent ones it seems

[burgerbait]

I played The Forest until that giant sausage thing appeared and wiped out everything I'd built. Stopped playing after that. It seems it's the same way in this game.

[Pugman]

you can turn off damage to buiding ,they still hit it but no damage the big guys normaly a head shot does the trick

[nZ RaifalM3n]

Besides stronger and numerous , they upgrade armor. muddies get partial then full creepy armour like cannibals. I m at day53 and its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell.

[Angry_Viking]

Originally posted by lostsoul9999:

I’m on day 20 and the answer is yes and no, they do wear armor or mutants come but there’s not a lot of them 4-5 I’ve yet to have a wall broken down I’d wait for further updates

You're lucky, I constantly get that big tall cannibal with the big club and big red guys breaking down my defensive walls. I'm only on day 5!

[Dutchie]

It goes up and down for me, had the group with the 2 big red guys a lot, the caterpillar weirdos pop up every now and then, but sometimes it's just 2 scouts.

[Andy Mil]

I got mutant raid. day like 15 or 20 multiplayer save. They cannibal also wearing some armor now but armor like can tank only bout 1-2 swing of large axe and they also not full gear soo there some hole in them to let u cut through. They also hire fat man too

[Adrionic]

Most normal overworld enemies seem to just have more armor over time and come in larger numbers. But the creepy mutants can become a real threat, especially a particular one that starts spawning around day 23 ish (if I remember correctly when it started spawning). I've sunk so many arrows into those things and can't make a scratch on it with melee, it's way too fast and squiggly lol. Be prepared to make armor and fight is all I'm saying. Also, consider starting a custom game to make the enemies less difficult if it's too much. I'm considering doing that myself for my solo run LOL

[Andy Mil]

Couldnt imaging how I gonna fight John 2.0 on hardmode. They tank my gun abit but shotgun solve everything on normal

[Nearl Crews]

I spent my first 40 days building and killing every cannibal that approached my camp. I do think I accidentally made the game a little too hard by doing that, All the cannibals are heavily armored now and numerous but I don't have a shovel yet lolz. If you plan to beat the story on your playthrough, The game definitely plays much better if you act the way the character you're playing actually would. Also if you leave mylar tents all over the map or campfires it seems to produce a lot of cannibals.