No loot is dropping?

[Twelfth Night]

So I just bought this game and I'm now on day 3? not a single zombie is dropping any loot. What is going on?

[DthBlayde]

Zed loot was adjusted to get rid of all generally useless junk and stuff that would normally drop. Instead, when loot -does- drop, it's more substantial and will show up in a separate rucksack. You'll definately see it when it happens.

otherwise, zeds are just exp filled slabs of dead meat

[Bodean Abernathy II]

Zombies don't often drop loot. You get loot by looting houses. Most houses are designed to be sort of like a maze you have to get through. At the end of most of them you get a loot cache of maybe a weapons, tool, food, med, ETC. and a chest of some sort you can loot with some other things around it. The larger the building the normally the better the loot. Also, do the tutorial missions it tells you to do if you haven't already. It's really only an inkling of info but it's a good start. Good luck!

[xycotta]

Originally posted by Twelfth Night:

So I just bought this game and I'm now on day 3? not a single zombie is dropping any loot. What is going on?

The zombies never dropping loot besides random loot bags always bugged me. Small little items would be fine, a couple bullets, a few dukes, some seeds. Items that would of been in the pockets when they died type thing.

[Dagoth Earth]

As has been said, this was a feature in earlier alphas, but was ultimately culled as part of an optimisation parse. I think it happened with the A17 release.

On the one hand, it's more realistic for zombies to have some pocket lint, but on the other, it's nice to not need to search every shambling corpse, particularly when they disappear so quickly...

[Thompson]

TL;DR: Zombies rarely ever drop loot, and you are a low level right now so the chances of loot drops are very low (2% chance). Play longer to level up to increase your chances.

There's only a 2-30% chance of zombies ever dropping loot in this game based 4 types of zombies. Right now, your character is a low level so you will most likely only see "normal zombies" with the occasional "feral"--especially with feral sense on. As you level up, your game stage will increase with it and you will start to encounter more "strong and special zombies" who have a slightly higher chance of dropping loot bags. And eventually demos in late game.

Early game; Normal zombies = 2% chance (or 1 in 50)
Early/Mid/late; Strong (feral) = 3% chance (or 1.5 in 50)
Mid/late game; Special (radiated/screamers) = 3% chance
Late game; Boss zombie (Demolition) = 30% chance (1 in 3.33)

Note; Zombie bears, dogs, vultures, and Grace do NOT count since they cannot drop loot bags.

You can also find "lucky looter" books and after you find all 7 volumes then you will get a 20% increase bonus to all values above.

There are also 3 types of loot bags that zombies have a chance of dropping and each of them contain different tiers of loot.

Yellow bag = Common loot (Can be dropped by all normal/strong/special zombies)
Blue bag = Uncommon loot (Can be dropped by strong/special zombies
Red bag = Rare loot (Can be dropped by boss zombies)

Small Tip; This also has a combined loot multiplier based on biomes. Meaning if you want better loot when they do drop bags then kill them in the wasteland and snow biomes.

[DthBlayde]

Originally posted by xycotta:

Originally posted by Twelfth Night:

So I just bought this game and I'm now on day 3? not a single zombie is dropping any loot. What is going on?

The zombies never dropping loot besides random loot bags always bugged me. Small little items would be fine, a couple bullets, a few dukes, some seeds. Items that would of been in the pockets when they died type thing.

Which is how it used to be. Now imagine having to do cleanup after a horde night (corpses did not despawn and had to be destroyed by the players to get rid of them), dealing with 100+ corpses and getting nothing by grass, paper, 3 dozen white t-shirts, maaaaaaybe a gun or two with ammo, Maybe a few cans of food etc.

The time/ effort vs reward for that day or more of cleaning up was not worth it.

[Twelfth Night]

Thanks guys for the info your awesome :). I use to play on console so this is a whole new experience for me. I'm so grateful for this community and how kind and helpful you guys are. I about to hop on now. Thanks for everything guys.

[DthBlayde]

Originally posted by Twelfth Night:

Thanks guys for the info your awesome :). I use to play on console so this is a whole new experience for me. I'm so grateful for this community and how kind and helpful you guys are. I about to hop on now. Thanks for everything guys.

Happy hunting!