Horde night was too easy, how should I tweak it

[YOR]

Just started a 3 person play-through. I have blood-moon set to every 4th night. After our first one, I can say that it was not challenging at all. Our xp was set to 100% so we weren't over leveled, 60 minute days, and we aren't playing efficiently at all because we don't remember much.

We holed up in a firehouse and threw a few spikes outside the doors. The door was gone so we threw up a wood door and upgraded it 1 or 2 times and then made an inner defense area made of wood and cobblestone (basically just an inner box with an escape up the stairs incase we got breached.

The last time I played this game was in 2016 and I remember hordes basically taking down structures I was holed up. ALL he was doing was repairing the door... I've seen hordes bust through walls so fast you couldn't repair them enough even as concrete.

Do I just have the settings set too low? We are on Nomad, which is one above what it says the default is.. Is that still too low? I wouldn't mind going up just one more but our group doesn't want the zombies to take forever to kill (it does kind of ruin the immersion when you have to sink 30 arrows or 10 sledge swings to kill a zed.

I think the real problem was that there just weren't enough spawned zombies. I have the server settings to 64 max zombies on bloodmoon (which is the highest it would let me go) but if I had to guess I would say it was more like 15 total and by 1:30am we had cleaned them and were getting the peaceful music outside, even though it was full bloodmoon.

I do remember when we used to play back then that the third and fourth bloodmoons got a lot harder and zombie cops started showing up (they were minibosses back then, but don't seem that way now?) ..

Anyway to get more zombies to spawn? Should I crank up the difficulty to warrior (and will that make them unrealistically hard to kill)? Are there any other settings I should tweak?

[Artos25977]

Wanna tweak it? OK!

1. Go to game installation folder ...steam/steamapps/common/7 days to die/data/config) and back up gamestages.xml.
2. Download https://files.fm/f/mwxxekwux (it is my modified 19.5 gamestages file for the game to be more challenging)
3. Place the downloaded file to game installation folder ...steam/steamapps/common/7 days to die/data/config)
4. Continue your world (you don't have to restart your world).
5. ♥♥♥♥ yourself during bloodmoon ;-)

[Artos25977]

p.s. I suggest you play at least 16-24 zombies per player ;-)

[!ElwoOOod!]

hi,
as 7dtd is a long play, the first bloodmoon are really easy. the difficulty and number of spawn depend of your gamestage only and not the number of day/blood (if you set blood everyday, they will still easy until high gamestage). So your first one at dat 4, I presume you were level 4-5 (gamestage 7-8) so only 1x15 zombie max, and no fat one, only commun.
You start to get a 2 wave after gs 10 and 3 wave after gs 20.
The first really challenging zombie (cop) appear at gs 45+ and the big one (demo) at 95+.

to increase early blood difficulty, first is to up your difficulty level as zombie will made more damage to you and block. Warrior is the minimum as at this level zombie had no damage malus (and you got no damage bonus too) (you can up the movespeed runing blood too). second, give you some xp, by console command or set upper xp in game prefs. third, set the ai block damage during blood moon to 200 or 300% in game pref. and if your blood is too short and you finish before 4am, all players disconnect from your server and the blood will restart when you reconnect...

if you know about xml, you can edit the file gamestages.xml and only change the value of the difficultybonus to higher value (this will make you have a greater gamestage)

try this but keep in mind that 7dtd is a longplay and you will see no difficulty at early game (I play insane with blood everynight and 100 first gamestage still easy

[Ghostlight]

Hordes are not difficult till Demolishers start appearing in their numbers. Get back to us once that occurs. Used to be around day 60ish with normal exp progression but I haven't played for some time so it might be different now.

[Tanyon]

引用自 Ghostlight：

Hordes are not difficult till Demolishers start appearing in their numbers. Get back to us once that occurs. Used to be around day 60ish with normal exp progression but I haven't played for some time so it might be different now.

I disabled these zombies on my server with friends.. they are nothing more than bullet sponges that even after you take them down tend to sometimes explode.. I don't mind hundreds of zombies but these are so cheap they make the game "in my opinion" very miserable and not fun. I don't enjoy repairing 2/3 of my base after 1 or 2 of them make their way to the front lines.

[Tanaka Khan]

I always play Ironman rules. If you die, game over. Adds a whole new level to the game when you may lose everything.

[[-=O=-]^FightinCock]

Yes... permi-death i feel is the only way to play solo.

Making it random horde nights and turning horde warnings off is a fun way to keep you on your toes... thunder and lighting after 6 pm is enough of a warning so long as your prepped.

Turn off loot respawning.... and air drop markings off to add more realism.

Other difficulties can be stepped up to your preference...
eg : zombies run during daytime is fairly easy once you got your zombie bashing basics sorted.
And 64 x insane level zombies is the only way I play now. ;)

[Shane]

Is it wrong to want an update on this LOL

[YOR]

引用自 Shane：

Is it wrong to want an update on this LOL

4 years later? haha

Update on how it went or what I tweaked?

[Gank]

Go into your settings and increase the number of zombies in total, also the number that spawn per round in horde night (default 8). You can also make zombies break things much faster if you want. So just play with the settings till your all happy. I agree with your friends I do not want them to take forever to kill, however I like there to be a lot of them.