A 19 exp - Blood moon ends early?

[Bushybeard123.TTV]

for the 2nd blood moon in a row our horde has fizzled out at 1:30 on the dot, it used it go from 22 to 4 but now its stopped at exactly 1:30, has this been happening to anyone else or is it just us?

[Niuq]

Based on game stage and number of players it will spawn a set number of zombies.
So you killed all the zombies.
The set number will increase and you will be fighting till 4am soon enough.

Horde night every night is the easiest way to test this the day 1 horde is usually 8-20 zombies single player.

[Bushybeard123.TTV]

is this something new with alpha 19? it never did this in alpha 17 or alpha 18 we would have a constant stream of zombies from 22 til 4 am every single time, this is the first time this has ever happened , well the 2nd time now. and there were 4 of us all gamestage 80-90 and it still fizzled out at 1:30 the same exact time it fizzled out last blood moon when our game stage was considerably lower

[Bushybeard123.TTV]

ill add in over 500 hours of playing across maybe 5 different servers this is the first time it has ever fizzled out when we switched to alpha 19

[aY227]

In A19 progression was slowed down and BM adjusted to it. So first hordes should be easier.

Enemy progression has been re-balanced. The chosen game difficulty no longer affects the game-stage value and player parties accumulate roughly 2/3 of the combined game-stage that they used to. This makes the enemy difficulty grow slower you won’t see high end enemies on the 2nd blood moon.

(but it was possible to do in A18 also)

[RasaNova]

I noticed this happening in a18 as well, for the early blood moons. The first one would often just be 1 or 2 waves of zombies, the 2nd one would often fizzle out shortly after midnight.

It's all about the game stage. Also, if a new player were to log in it seems that would cut the hordes short for others as well but I think that was a bug in a18.

[zz]

I jumped down out of my base once and ran around a bit and then went back up. The zombies stopped spawning and the existing ones must stopped tracking me or became stuck somewhere.

[Henry]

This "mechanic" is present since at least A18, potentially earlier. So it is not new in A19.

If you WANT to fight more zombies for exp just exit the game to the main menu and load it back once they stop spawning. This resets the horde and the zombies spawn again. I frequently do this if my base is still largely intact to gain a few more levels.

[JimmyIowa]

Originally posted by Bushybeard123/Twitch:

is this something new with alpha 19? it never did this in alpha 17 or alpha 18

It has been possible to totally wipe hordes, at least early game ones, since at least A16.

One strategy we have used for years is once the zombies stop, exit and reenter the game, the blood moon zombie count resets to zero and they start pouring in again. :)

[aY227]

Originally posted by Henry:

If you WANT to fight more zombies for exp just exit the game to the main menu and load it back once they stop spawning. This resets the horde and the zombies spawn again.

Yeah, I learned this by accidentally restarting horde in my main base - RIP :)