About zombies.

[Equalizer]

Do the zombies or the night wave gain power every day? Or maybe life points? I imagine it's getting harder and harder, how does it work?

Does the difficulty level change anything in loot? I saw in the guide that we loot less, but maybe better quality?

[AK615]

At least the Day Waves increase in zombie amount, but the zombies seem to remain kind of "easy zombies". By day 48, I've never seen a Medium Zombie in the wave and all of the zombies seem to be central/eastern grassland types.

Night waves get harder and harder zombies, but I'm not too sure about the amount. If it changes or not, maybe the spawning is just a timed event. There is a setting for wave size, but I believe it only limits the amount, how many zombies are spawned in at the same time. (for example, if the value is 200, then there are initially 200 spawned in. And if one of those gets killed, only then another zombie is spawned in. I believe, this is meant as a method to prevent too many zombies and thus lag. Keep in mind, that I might as well be completely wrong on this topic.)

I don't know about the loot.

[Shadowrun]

the wave zombies get harder but the field zombies stay the same.

wave zombies come in more frequently during the wave but i don't think they grow in strength or HP or life or health or defense or whatever. i think they just grow in numbers.

the farther you get, you will eventually get less and less light zombies and more and more heavy ones in the wave. by day 100 you're dealing with a thousand heavies each wave. the strongest ones and they're so bulky that they keep blocking the entryway

as for the loot, the loot stays the same too although there might be some hidden clause where you have to reach day 10 before you start seeing a lot of graduate zombies, for example. but i'm pretty sure loot drops stay the same.

we played past day 100 a few times and farming david each time, he always drops the same stuff no matter what day it was.

the only way to affect how much loot you get is with the difficulty setting in your game, you can select up to 3x items.

the wave however, will bring more loot as you progress. more zombies = more loot bags. but you already know what's inside of those. :)

[Equalizer]

Ok I see thanks. I'm on day 40 and yes during the day there is a small easy wave, then at night there is everything. I had tried the shockers on the small zombies but it's not exceptional, and on the giants it seems like it tickles them :D I tried the ballista on them and it itches them >< I will try the missile launcher as you had mentioned but it consumes ammunition which requires sulfur so it's a bit complicated.

[AK615]

Those day waves are after 3 hours. Guillotines for damage and Pendulums (for smalls) and Treadmills for giants, to push them off.

[Shadowrun]

yea shockers are more for dramatic effect. they used to be more useful early in the development but i think that over time the devs made them weaker overall.

gunpowder can be easy if you get used to always doing melee fighting to save ammo. i usually melee everything except bosses (and heavies early on) and save that gunpowder for the giants (MRL).

ballista won't do much, you['re better off with a minigun, but then you consume too much ammo.

and as for the waves, the day waves get harder too, more and more zombies come. after day 100 it gets ridiculous. you can't farm at a farm site without having a small maze there to take care of them.

[Equalizer]

I thought that at some point I would have to make bases around the farm sites, given the waves during the day ><

[Shadowrun]

it helps, so you don't have to keep fighting while trying to work.

just a small one, just enough to take care of a few critters. a few traps, a looping element and it's enough

you don't have to though, you can just keep fighting them when they come :D