Can I fix the endless hordes by editing the .xml?

[Marstil]

I can read enough code to make some edits, but I can't seem to find anything that would help with this bug. If anyone knows how to fix this, please give me a discription of how.

[Danimal360]

I saw somebody post on the 7D2D sites forum that they reset the day to Day 1 and entered the killall comand and it took care of it. I'm kinda waiting to hear someone else try it and see what happens lol...

[Cavasurcos]

People are also talking about downgrade the game to 14.4 to solve this. I'll try it... but later... I'm sick of this game for now. Waiting for solutions.

[ZorTheCruel]

i reset the day (but not to 1) and used killall until the hordes stopped. But only worked for a couple of in-game hours, then another 7-day horde spawned just like usual. :(

[Kaivian]

go to spawning.xml

Problems with night screamers?
search for HordeMeterDynamicSpawnNight

Change totalperwave to 0. THat's the number that are spawned in total, so 0 will turn it off. Totalalive is how mnay can be attacking you at once. (in other words, 25 will be attacking you, and continually replaced until you've killed 35 zombies. Then the remaining 25 will not respawn.)

Problems with day screamers?
search for HordeMeterDynamicSpawnDay
Keep one early day that you feel is reasonable, delete the rest, eg

		<day value="1">
			<property name="EntityGroupName"    value="ZombiesAll" />
			<property name="Time"               value="Any" />
			<property name="DelayBetweenSpawns" value="1" />
			<property name="TotalAlive"         value="1" />
			<property name="TotalPerWave"       value="1" />
		</day>

But change <dayvalue="1"> to an asterisk <dayvalue="*">

If it it's another type of spawn, let me know and I'll try and help.

[Kaivian]

Originally posted by ZorTheCruel:

i reset the day (but not to 1) and used killall until the hordes stopped. But only worked for a couple of in-game hours, then another 7-day horde spawned just like usual. :(

go to spawning.xml
search for name="NightHorde"

delete this phrase:
wrapMode="wrap"

Also, are you sure it was a 7day horde and not a screamer horde? They've got the exact same spawn list around day ~60 and on.

[Marstil]

Thank you for your help. I decided to go back to v14.4 and that fixed the problem.

As for being sure it's the 7 day horde, as soon as you log into the game, hit the ` key and read the command consold for the info on the spawn...It will say 'day x horde' if it's a day 7 horde and not a different type. It can be hard to get it not to scroll too fast so you need to be kind of quick, but that line will be before any of the zombies spawn.

[Electric_Assassin]

Same thing here. Day 31 and the 28th day horde is chasing me across the wasteland. I'm running low on gas and can't get enough from car wrecks to sustain me. I get a little into scavenging a building when they show up again. Food and medical supplies are running low. My armour will give out soon as well. If they get my bike I'm borked.

I'll delete the wrap from spawning.xml and see if that clears it up.

[bumpastu]

read my post for god sake about horde lag i fixed mine im not explaining it agian read

[Nyasha]

After defending from endless horde few days in a row after 7 night I suspect there is something wrong lol

[Electric_Assassin]

There still coming.

[Kaivian]

make a backup of spawning xml

in spawning.xml, search for name="NightHorde"
Delete everything from

<day value="7">
			<property name="ResetToday"         value="true" />
			<property name="EntityGroupName"    value="ZombiesNight" />
			<property name="DelayBetweenSpawns" value="1" />
			<property name="TotalAlive"         value="15" />
			<property name="TotalPerWave"       value="50" />
		</day>		

to

		<day value="56">
			<property name="ResetToday"         value="true" />
			<property name="EntityGroupName"    value="ZombiesHordeT2" />
			<property name="DelayBetweenSpawns" value="1" />
			<property name="TotalAlive"         value="30" />
			<property name="TotalPerWave"       value="300" />
		</day>	

7 day Night hordes will not happen, but at least they are not endless. You can use the command console (tilde ~) to type "killall" to eliminate any remaining zombies.

[Kaivian]

Here's some files https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5txP0gCprUjTkFLbDQ1ZThDbDA&usp=sharing

[Electric_Assassin]

Deleting "wrap" worked. It only took 48 hours for the ai director to stop spawning the horde. On the 3rd day all was quiet.

[Remy]

https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?37165-Unofficial-XML-Fixes/page44