is day 49 hardest?

[76561198022317461]

i heard day 49 is the hardest, but also that even after that it still gets harder since one has survived longer without deaths (playing perma death) and a higher level. is this correct?

[vgifford]

Not in my opinion. I am over day 100 and the hordes are still getting stronger. Horde strength is based on your gamestage.

[Shurenai]

In the current version of the game, the difficulty no longer goes up with every passing 7 days like it used to, its now entirely tied to your game stage.. And gamestage does have a cap that is higher on each difficulty than the last (Meaning on easy you get capped at a really low gamestage, and on insane, it takes a looong while to cap out)

[Niuq]

Number of days has an effect on the game stage calculation, unless something has changed.

Hordes get stronger to a point, but so do you. If you are playing on 7 day hordes around 225ish game stage is around when i felt like they topped out on nomad. 275 ish on warrior.

165 days without a death was my longest run 1 hour days. Stepped on a landmine and due to how they are working in 17.4 killed a full health full tank character.
Horde night every night for 165 days is a bit of a grind =P

[76561198022317461]

thanks again Shurenai

[Crater Creator]

Years ago, the game worked on a set 7-week cycle, getting harder at a fixed pace every week culminating on Day 49, and then looping back so a Day 56 horde was the same as a Day 7 horde. That had some serious disadvantages, including that someone could join a server for the first time on, say, Day 95 and be horribly outmatched.

So that’s where Day 49 comes from; it was the hardest day in some previous Alphas.