More zombies!

[pingdrew]

There's gotta be more zombies. I want a thicker woods biome so that zombies can actually hide from you while chasing you. I want a scarier city where zombies line the streets and stealth being a more important perk to pick up.

Not only would building be that more dangerous and important, but you would see the effects of the zombies on the environment especially if you get a whole horde to chase you through a city.

I just wanna feel like the zombies aren't spawned in and come at me in max waves of like almost 10.... It would be nice to see triple digit hordes for immersion, difficulty, and scare.

[ElDudorino]

The devs unfortunately are afraid of zombies. My understanding is that the game used to have a lot of zombies but I guess it was too traumatic.

Fortunately it's very easy to mod zombies back into the game! I'm not at my computer to look at the code but I know Khaine has a modlet called something like Dangerous Cities that increases the zombie spawn count in cities while reducing it in the wilderness. Just pop in that modlet and modify the file in a text editor to put new numbers. They're pretty clearly labeled so with no expertise you could go in and change the values easily. If you need guidance I can tell you the exact code to change later.

And don't hold back! Increasing the numbers by 30% won't even be that noticeable. If you literally quadruple the number of zombies allowed alive at one time and cut the respawn time down by 85% then you're going to start seeing some real zombie situations.

[ElDudorino]

I just reread where you said triple digit horde sizes and maybe 100+ zombies is going to be too much for the game to handle... But you can definitely go several times over the max count currently in the game which is a tiny number.

[VideogameAddiction]

Originally posted by ElDudorino:

I just reread where you said triple digit horde sizes and maybe 100+ zombies is going to be too much for the game to handle... But you can definitely go several times over the max count currently in the game which is a tiny number.

Hopefully OPs specs can handle it.

[pApA^LeGBa]

Triple digit hordes would play with like 10FPS. No matter wich specs you have on your PC. Look at youtube, You will see that even streamers with a high end systems have lag on a 64 zombies bloodmoon.

For what you want you need to play Project Zomboid. No problem at all there. Way harder, way deeper game mechanics and always permadeath though (the world still exists, also everything you build, you just start again with a brand new character). Still a lot of fun as you can have 500 zombies chasing you at once.