"How am I does make work metal chests?"

[Mister Musashi]

Alright, thinking time. How in the bloody flooded hell do locked metal weapon chests work this time around? For the most part, you loot them once and then that's it, regardless of loading areas, exiting the game, etc. (which is complete crap with points invested in Lockpick). However, I have had a few cases where they reset so they became lootable again, but I need help determining exactly what caused that. Furthermore, I've had cases of chests in co-op not being openable by me in someone else's game, but they can open it (while I still can't loot what's inside). There's also the wonky issue of having chests lootable in my game, joining co-op where I find that they've already been looted or, for whatever reason, I can't open them, and returning to my own game to discover I can't loot them despite having never opened them.

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

I haven't found any of them yet, and i'm on my second playthrough

[Mister Musashi]

Originally posted by Guyver:

I haven't found any of them yet, and i'm on my second playthrough

I... d-... wh-... d-what?! You haven't found a single open or locked chest?! What the hell, man, do you literally just walk a straight path from main quest to main quest wearing horse blinders? Hell, there are still a bunch that are directly next to main quest objectives anyway, even in the dang prologue!

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

Originally posted by Mister Musashi:

Originally posted by Guyver:

I haven't found any of them yet, and i'm on my second playthrough

I... d-... wh-... d-what?! You haven't found a single open or locked chest?! What the hell, man, do you literally just walk a straight path from main quest to main quest wearing horse blinders? Hell, there are still a bunch that are directly next to main quest objectives anyway, even in the dang prologue!

I thought you meant special chests, those ones i've opened before lol

[Mister Musashi]

I've had a few more cases of some chests resetting, while some remain looted and empty, as well as chests I've never opened before on a new character being closed and not lootable, chests appearing not lootable to me while a co-op player can open and loot it, etc.

I've done my damn best trying to figure out the logic and programming behind all this, and I can't think of jack squat.

[norker77]

I've noticed that if I've opened a chest, but did not actually loot it, that it would reset. Only other way to get chests to reset seems to be new game.

[Mister Musashi]

Originally posted by norker77:

I've noticed that if I've opened a chest, but did not actually loot it, that it would reset. Only other way to get chests to reset seems to be new game.

That's what you'd think, right? Except I have experienced multiple occassions of all chests resetting, some chests resetting, etc, and then instances of chests not resetting even when creating a completely new character.

[Tagger]

They tend to reset if gone from them a while..

I'ev had chests reset on me, just to get back to them ~5 minutes later and then they are "as new" again :)

IMO that's a bit weird.
It is massively exploitable (as many other things in this game).

...but its not only the chests. Its pretty much everything.
The first place I noticed it, was when getting off the ship. The small shack at the beach.
3-5 molotovs on the table, a few baskets and a chest.
These reset as soon as you go to "Paradise". You can then go back to it and loot everything (molotovs, baskets - everything).

Seems as items respawning, are almost the same as zombies respawning - which is pretty much fail.

[norker77]

Originally posted by NG Tagger:

Seems as items respawning, are almost the same as zombies respawning - which is pretty much fail.

There is a difference between baskets and items lying around, and metal chests. I've never had a metal chest that I had looted ever be available for opening/looting again. Even with changing maps or new play sessions. The other stuff respawns rather quickly (several minutes).

[Avenger1324]

Placed items are easy to respawn - leave the area for a short while and come back and they are back, but I've yet to see a metal chest respawn - I've mostly been playing in someone elses coop game, but what gets looted in that also seems to save into my game too.

[NobodysLaw]

They have a reset time of ca. 1-2 hours.

[Tagger]

Originally posted by norker77:

Originally posted by NG Tagger:

Seems as items respawning, are almost the same as zombies respawning - which is pretty much fail.

There is a difference between baskets and items lying around, and metal chests. I've never had a metal chest that I had looted ever be available for opening/looting again. Even with changing maps or new play sessions. The other stuff respawns rather quickly (several minutes).

...but that's what I'm telling you, I'm noticing.
Seeing the chest (The metal chests this thread is all about) all respawning as quickly as baskets and what not, for me..
Only played coop so far, so dont know if thats whats doing it.

Just did a quick "test":
Left my game idle for ~20 minutes near a metal chest - that actually respawned and I was able to collect yet another item from it.

[norker77]

Originally posted by NG Tagger:

Originally posted by norker77:

There is a difference between baskets and items lying around, and metal chests. I've never had a metal chest that I had looted ever be available for opening/looting again. Even with changing maps or new play sessions. The other stuff respawns rather quickly (several minutes).

...but that's what I'm telling you, I'm noticing.
Seeing the chest (The metal chests this thread is all about) all respawning as quickly as baskets and what not, for me..
Only played coop so far, so dont know if thats whats doing it.

Just did a quick "test":
Left my game idle for ~20 minutes near a metal chest - that actually respawned and I was able to collect yet another item from it.

That's totally weird?! I'm assuming you haven't edited any files or are using any mods.

Seems that some values (especially those for respawn timers) can get screwed up. I have chests not respawn after 30 hours, so somehow my game and yours are behaving differently. No idea what's causing this, pretty weird though (Now I get the zombies respawn too quickly issues, I though the rate was just fine. Maybe that value can get screwed up as well).

Anyone have an explanation for the same game behaving differently on different computers?

[Beamydeffgunz]

I can confirm that metal chests do respawn, timers seem to vary depending on the chest. For example... There are 3 chests in the jungle ruins, one that spaws pistols no matter the level. After a hour of playing and doing other things i can go back and loot another pistol. Another one is a chest near the beach, leave paradise and instead of taking a right twards the beach take a left, kill a zombie and there is a small stream that veers left on that same path and it contains 4 deo-bombs.

I use the chest just outside paradise as a point of referance. I will loot that one first, then go to the ruins and loot the pistol one. As a quest and whatnot, i will check that chest outside of paradise from time to time. When it respawns, i know im good to loot another pistol chest.

[SaveTheZombies]

Originally posted by norker77:

Originally posted by NG Tagger:

...but that's what I'm telling you, I'm noticing.
Seeing the chest (The metal chests this thread is all about) all respawning as quickly as baskets and what not, for me..
Only played coop so far, so dont know if thats whats doing it.

Just did a quick "test":
Left my game idle for ~20 minutes near a metal chest - that actually respawned and I was able to collect yet another item from it.

That's totally weird?! I'm assuming you haven't edited any files or are using any mods.

Seems that some values (especially those for respawn timers) can get screwed up. I have chests not respawn after 30 hours, so somehow my game and yours are behaving differently. No idea what's causing this, pretty weird though (Now I get the zombies respawn too quickly issues, I though the rate was just fine. Maybe that value can get screwed up as well).

Anyone have an explanation for the same game behaving differently on different computers?

Wow. So I guess this is never getting fixed then.
I have same problem as above: lockpick points wasted as when I find a lockbox, 85% of the time, I do not get any sort of prompt to open, loot or anything.
Did they change the way the lockboxes work or do they just not work?

I'm playing in someone else's game in co op, does that make a diff?

[✨Plague ㋡f Happiness✨]

i love this ablity more than 'good condition' and 'upgraded condition' skill...
you have higher chance to find rare weapon on locked chest than normal chest...
their locations aren't random afaik...