How does survivor rank affect the game?

[phob0]

Hey guys so i was wondering how this affected the game.

I thought i would screw around for abit and did the duplicate glitch to get a crazy amount of those air drop packs then i turned them in and my survivor rank went crazy (almost max).

I have noticed now the weapons the same mobs drop have higher damage, vendors sell higher damage weapons and the mobs take much longer to kill (since i am still using the same old weps) .

So am i right to assume that "survivor rank" is the games primary way to determine what level to change the game to? and that power and agility level is ignored completely? or is it the average of the 3?

Also i was wondering if survivor rank affected the amount of xp needed for other sub-category levels. Eg. I am at lvl 24 survivor rank and only lvl 8 power rank, i ran around killing those virals at night with the crazy money i got from item dupes and the buying of op items. But even after 5-6 minutes of just running around killing ♥♥♥♥ in 1 hit at night i only hit lvl 9 power rank.

I will probably have to restart the game completely (since there doesnt seem to be a seperate save or the option for that) I just wanted to clarify before i do.

[phob0]

bump

[Arndell]

The survivor level controls the strength of zombies if you are the host and level of the loot you pick up, so if you join a low level game and they open a car / van, you will still get your 1000+ damage swords from the share of it.

The power and agility levels are just really slow to level and from what I could tell the xp was constant and survivor level never changed any of it, I just spend alot of time in other peoples lower level games staying up all night killing night hunters from level 13-25, it's really slow in comparison.

[ThatBlokePaddy]

You just broke your game by reaching max survivor rank. I think its balanced if you play normal, its natural progression and then everything works fine,

Anyway way when you reach weapons ~400dmg for 13lvl its a bit boring as you one hit almost every one.

[phob0]

yea i think so too, just started a new one. Its a shame wasted 7 hours on that one then. Really just wanted to play with grapling hook, didnt realise survivor rank had a huge affect on the game.

[CyberDown]

Originally posted by phob0:

yea i think so too, just started a new one. Its a shame wasted 7 hours on that one then. Really just wanted to play with grapling hook, didnt realise survivor rank had a huge affect on the game.

In all fairness ive used the grappling hook like two times. One was just to try it. im sure theres a few exploration (flag hunting) spots you need the thing, but honestly ive been able to get everywhere with just parkour and thinking it through.