Difficulty recommendation?

[Nemmy]

Curious what's other people sweet spot for "challenging but still able to do other things" setting.

[Andi]

I find warrior difficulty a good...no, decent enough balanced setting. One might change to higher difficulty mid-or lategame, but that's personal preference.

[Ray Garraty]

25% loot abundance

[Khissi]

This is going to change multiple times if you keep playing the game. Depending on how you like to play, what you're looking for in a game, what keeps your interest, what excites or bores you, or even your physical abilities. That's what makes 7 Days so much fun! You can change all of that, difficulty, zombies, horde nights and more at any time during your game, so why not?

My first few thousand hours were spent exploring all the different possibilities changing the settings, including difficulty. I tried them all, worked with others and solo, and found my sweet spot, Nomad, though with the changes from A17 to A19, that actually switched to
Warrior than back down to Nomad. However, keep in mind that the game is unfinished! A21 will bring even more changes which will affect all these things once more.

In A20, I'm enjoying being very laid back in difficulty because I'm playing with a lot of mods that I'm not familiar with. I'm just fine with Scavenger and find it really fun to crack a zombie's head wide open with one hit, though I can play vanilla at any difficulty. It just depends on my level of masochistic needs at the time. However, It's more fun to explore and build and loot without having to worry about whether I'm going to be ganked by a wandering horde of insanity in the next moment when exploring an unfamiliar mod. Some of the mods are more... em, harsh, let's say, and send interesting things your way (looking at you, killer bunnies and flaming chickens!) These mods offer the challenges I need after playing for so long. I'm old, so... yeah, hands don't always work as intended so I still have to keep changing things up.

Keep exploring and playing and you will find what works best for you. Everyone does.

[Nemmy]

Originally posted by Khissi:

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Didn't know there was a upcoming update. Is it anytime soon? Because if it is i would prefer to wait for it.

Usually i waste several days on modding but for this game i just want to play vanilla.

The way i like to play is what's making finding the right difficulty so hard for me. I hate playing on loot abundance that's lower than the default, i hate going house to house only to find some scraps (saying that i don't raise loot abundance higher than the default)

Currently im playing on these settings: Survivalist / Sprinters D+N / Feral Sense All / Nightmare speed for ferals and blood moon / 2 hours per day / Xp multiplier 150% / Loot respawn 30 days / Blood moon count 12

Which is fun n all but the real problem is eventually game just becomes easy no matter what because there isn't a real threat for character that's over level 15. I wish this game had it's own volatiles (from dying light) but yeah...

[Khissi]

There is a thread made sticky at the top of General Discussions that will give you insight into Alpha 21. I'm not sure I've ever played 7 Days, even on lowest settings, where I felt no threat for any character over level 15. What's the highest level you've played? What's the highest gamestage you've run a horde night on? Have you spent any time at all in the Wasteland? Have you experienced both multi-player and solo?

The game does, indeed, become less challenging depending on what you're looking for, once you have highest level armor and weapons, you're familiar with how zombies move and know what to expect, and you've built a horde base that stands up to GS170+ hordes.... Most open ended survival games will always get to that point and once I get bored and feel uber, that's when I go find a new game to play for a bit, change 7 Days vanilla using different settings, or, go play a mod.

[SkepticJoker]

Nomad used to be the default difficulty. It's a good place to start for a new player.
But Warrior is my favorite difficulty setting.

[pApA^LeGBa]

In Vanilla it´s Survivalist for me. Not using traders besides maybe things like acid here and there but no selling everything i loot and also not doing quests at all, no lootrespawn, Hordenight with 64 zombies, bloodmoon every 4-7 days and setting the warning to late afternoon.

If playing mods it depends. For Darkness Falls i go warrior and everything else at default. Generally going nomad for playing a mod the first time.

[admos]

In Vanilla:

15 Minute days with 12h day/night
Feral Sense Always On
Sprint Speed in the Morning
Nightmare Speed at Night
Blood Moon Every 1 Day
Blood Moon Range 1~7 Days
Blood Moon Warning Night

Permadeath, no sneaking, no nerdpole, no Parkour, no dedicated hordebase.

I find that tweaking the "difficulty" setting to Insane is pointless and just makes for bullet sponge zombies and takes no skill.

Fast zombies that are easy to kill need to be spotted ASAP which takes just a bit more skill to play against. Also because some of them are ninja zombies because the sounds suck in this game.

[Nemmy]

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

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May i ask your specs? I feel like my cpu will set on fire if i played with 64 zombies

I wanna raise the horde zombie count but im worried about it

[Brevan]

I play Warrior (higher than this didn't make much difference, just an extra hit to down a Z and less a hit to down me, but I'm usually not hit so it just felt like dragging out fights).

Lately I've been playing with Feral Sense at night. I like the variety of Z's being pushovers (day) and dangerous (night).

Horde is day 7 (sometimes I'll vary the day), 16 or 24 Zs per wave. I've been a little disappointed with Horde in A19 & A20, since it feels like I'm either skipping it (I won't see a Z the entire night), or farming exp (using Molotovs, explosives, Bladetraps, etc). I used to enjoy it when melee was less squishy (before critical injuries after a couple hits), but now it feels like if the Zs have any chance at all then I'll be immediately lamed to crits regardless of armor and buffs.

[pApA^LeGBa]

Originally posted by Nemmy:

Originally posted by pApA^LeGBa:

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May i ask your specs? I feel like my cpu will set on fire if i played with 64 zombies

I wanna raise the horde zombie count but im worried about it

R5 3600 with 32GB of RAM and a RX6600XT. It does lag. 30FPS sometimes 20. But hey, everything for a challenge. :D

[SkepticJoker]

The game doesn't use enough CPU threads to cause fires.

[SkepticJoker]

I guess if you are using a quad core with a very bad cooler and a modded BIOS. Then maybe you should be worried. Wait a sec here, that kind of describes laptops.

[Dester]

I recommend the 25% experience setting... otherwise you level up too quickly and catapult to fast into top weapons and items.

Loot respawn should also be turned off... even on a small map there will always be more than enough places to visit and loot. The only reason to have loot respawn would be if you're hosting a server with lots of active players which will last over a month.


I would not recommend feral sense unless you want the game to be more like Dying Light... where you're constantly getting ready to fight more zombies.... which some people enjoy.

[Slainpessimist]

Warrior difficulty, loot drops every 14 days, no loot respawn, jogging zombies during the day (perfect speed for me, walking is way to slow, running isn't bad unless it's a horde, 64 zombie horde nights. 90 minute days. Everything else is normal I think.
I usually set some kind of arbitrary rule/s like don't use traders, or use only what I can make, get to level 10 in a stat before putting points in another, that sort of thing.