Maximum Number of Zombies at one time is only 20 ?

[minich]

So in the effort to make the game more challenging while my gf and I play, I've been editing the xml files to not only add more zombies, but have more active at one time.

In the spawning.xml file I've edited the lines for - property name="TotalAlive" and property name="TotalPerWave".

I went through the entire file and basically quadrupled all the original values listed. This has given me some good results as there's a lot more zombies more often.

However, when going through the file, I noticed a line saying, <!-- TotalAlive can never be more than 20 it is hard coded -->

Does this mean there can never be more than 20 zombies coming at us at once?

I haven't actually taken the time to count the number alive as we're usually either killing or running away from them. It does seem though as it might only be 20 because some of the numbers I've punched in would be well above that.

If so, even at 20, it's really not that hard for us to handle them.

My goal was to make a true "hoard" of zombies that could spawn that we would actually have trouble dealing with.

[Nightstrasza]

In stage of what curently is game in, thy computer would explode from more zombies, that was done to preven potatos from melting down (tho belive screamer can summon unlimited amount but can be wrong). They will change it up one code is optimised...but they still add new things which would make general optimising at this moment pointless.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

I also immagine that if you could have 100 zombies in the same place the game would lag out a lot's when played over the internet , even if your computer can render all of them.

[SupposedExpert]

I don't think this is right. I guess i never counted, but once you get to like day 90+ It seems like you have 100+ come every horde night.

[SupposedExpert]

Turn zombie spawning to very high and always running. Bet it won't be as easy. Unless you got 1000's of AK rounds

[Nightstrasza]

There's 8 zombies at once only during any horde night, day 7 or 70 it will be always 8 zombies at once that will be replaced once killed untill morning.

[SupposedExpert]

That is deff wrong. I can log into my game and take a screen shot of plenty more then 8 at once

[SupposedExpert]

20 may be the most, but it is 100% not 8

[SupposedExpert]

Blood Moon Hordes[edit | edit source]
On every 7th night multiple, a large horde of zombies will spawn. Also known as a Blood Moon Horde. This horde of zombies will be able to detect the player through walls and when underground, even when no noise is being made, the heat map is low, and no odorous foods are being carried.
On the seventh night, this horde will contain only normal zombies with a small number of Hornets and Zombie Dogs. The horde on night 14 will be larger. On the 21st night, Zombie Bears, Burn Victims, Infected Police Officers, and Feral Zombies will join the horde, which will continue to grow in size every week through night 49.

They grow in size up to night 49. There you u have it

[Nightstrasza]

Thou art hardly outdated, won't debate why this is wrong, go into files or ask veterans like Yami what they have to say about this and see for thy self...

[SupposedExpert]

Even if it is outdated, more then 8 come.

[darrylhs]

I think he may be right about the 8 at a time. He isn't saying 8 per horde but 8 spawn and attack the. You kill them and eight more come and so on until morning. Seems like what I have been seeing

[kkitts]

Everything got changed up when A15 hit, and I expect it will change again when A16 hits.

[kkitts]

Besides, something is wrong with the 7-day-horde system. You get lots of zombies until about 1:30 am, then it's only two at a time until 4am (at least in my experience). I assumed that it was to allow you to go out and collect loot before it disappears, but I could be wrong.

[BioFringe]

Default settings dictate that horde zombies come in waves of 8 until an overall max number is reached then waves of 2 until dawn. The overall max number increases with gamestage. At the highest gamestage possible (2023) I stood in a field and personally killed 362 zombies over an 8 hour horde night set to 120 minute days (that's 1 zombie spawned every 6.6 seconds). They kept coming in waves of 8 the entire night.

So, at higher gamestages you will never get to the waves of 2 solo.

EDIT: Not sure on overall max alive at any given time. I once had 50-60 alive at once attacking my main base because I decided to ignore the screamers.

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[SupposedExpert]

Thank you biofringe. My original point still stands. 8 is deff not the MAX. it may be the amount of waves they spawn in. But if you're not outside instantly killing them they will gather up to a pretty large horde