Horde beacons auto-destructing

[ur dream gurl]

soo i just wanted to completed the horde beacon quests...i have completed the one at the airport,and when i wanted to complete the zavod one too,the horde beacon got destryoed for no reason
i didnt get out of the range for sure (i was in the middle of the location)
does that mean the zombies can destroy it?or just a bug?
sorry for bad engliski

[(EE)Monkey]

zombies attack buildables or you got too far from it

[Mushroom Steve]

I'm pretty sure beacons are destroyed after the final zombie dies.

Haven't used beacons in a while, so I might be wrong.

[MechWarden]

That is the whole point of a Horde Beacon when it was first introduced; to have an interesting way to generate more loot.

Once you complete the Horde Beacon event, the placed Horde Beacon auto destructs and drops high quality items. You should have some pretty good loot in the spot the Horde Beacon was if you did things right.

[ur dream gurl]

Guys i didnt complete the beacon....ive done many before (i think i forgot to mention this important part,sorry)
i know that it requires you to kill 100 zombies + a mega zombie
i killed like 40-50 zombies,when i thought it was a tank throwing a rock,but it was actually the beacon destroying itself(i realised it when the zombies's eyes were not red anymore)

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Vine Iarna:

Guys i didnt complete the beacon....ive done many before (i think i forgot to mention this important part,sorry)
i know that it requires you to kill 100 zombies + a mega zombie
i killed like 40-50 zombies,when i thought it was a tank throwing a rock,but it was actually the beacon destroying itself(i realised it when the zombies's eyes were not red anymore)

You likely wandered out of the arbitrary and unmarked navigation node of the zombies in that area.

You literally have to hold out a Horde Beacon and poke around the edges of the zombie navigation node, checking to see where it says 'too far' or is OK to place, and remember that invisible line, and make sure at least one person stays in that area (via not walking out or dying)

You 'went too far away', based on the game's point of view, and need to redo it again.

Honestly, it is a bunch of crap, for the game to not show where the all important boundary line is. I messed up a Horde Beacon attempt for a quest all because I barely touched an arbitrary indention in the navigation node on the far side of the airport runway while kiting zombies. I only found out where the stupid notch was after I had another Horde Beacon in hand and poked around for the odd boundary lines. It made little sense why such an area was removed. Sure, it was near the break in the fence, but much of the boundary also didn't include the rest of the fence on that very side. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was done to just troll people trying to just do Horde Beacons on foot, rather than exploit the limited movement zombies have.

[ur dream gurl]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Originally posted by Vine Iarna:

Guys i didnt complete the beacon....ive done many before (i think i forgot to mention this important part,sorry)
i know that it requires you to kill 100 zombies + a mega zombie
i killed like 40-50 zombies,when i thought it was a tank throwing a rock,but it was actually the beacon destroying itself(i realised it when the zombies's eyes were not red anymore)

You likely wandered out of the arbitrary and unmarked navigation node of the zombies in that area.

You literally have to hold out a Horde Beacon and poke around the edges of the zombie navigation node, checking to see where it says 'too far' or is OK to place, and remember that invisible line, and make sure at least one person stays in that area (via not walking out or dying)

You 'went too far away', based on the game's point of view, and need to redo it again.

Honestly, it is a bunch of crap, for the game to not show where the all important boundary line is. I messed up a Horde Beacon attempt for a quest all because I barely touched an arbitrary indention in the navigation node on the far side of the airport runway while kiting zombies. I only found out where the stupid notch was after I had another Horde Beacon in hand and poked around for the odd boundary lines. It made little sense why such an area was removed. Sure, it was near the break in the fence, but much of the boundary also didn't include the rest of the fence on that very side. If I didn't know any better, I'd say it was done to just troll people trying to just do Horde Beacons on foot, rather than exploit the limited movement zombies have.

im gonna sound crazy if i say i did the same thing
i did the same thing
i checked to see where the invisible line is becuase of the same mistake you did at shereyavo and i had to redo it
but im being dead serious....you know where that rock with bushes around it in zavod is?
yes,i was wandering around that rock and killing zombies
i didnt get out of the line...i thought i didnt have to check for the invisible lines since i was in the middle of the location
im guessing it was just a bug
i repeat myself:im pretty sure i didnt get out of the radius and there was no mega zombie appearing
i saw the zombies's eyes turn back to normal,and then i realised something might've happened,and im not that guy that loses memory in 10 seconds,and becuase of that i have to say i didnt kill any mega zombie nor 100 zombies (i wasted like 2 full ranger drums,and thats definetly not enough for 100 zombies and a mega one)
mightve been the zombies destryoing it....didnt have that kind of incident before though
thats why i decided to make this post at first
sorry for bad english

[MechWarden]

There might be a maximum distance that you can move away from a Horde Beacon as well before it breaks, so that could mess things up... but who knows...

I can believe that there could be a hole on the navigation node in the tank factory, so jumping on top of those rocks in the center could void your Horde Beacon as well.

Long story short: Just do cheap tricks on completing the Horde Beacon quests, since the system is more than willing to hit you with cheap tricks as well.

Build yourself a 3-4 story tall wooden tower, with a hole in the center, snipe spitter zombies and the Mega zombie, and casually shoot the rest of them at your leisure (preferably with cheap ammo), and stay well within the node and find that one or two stupid zombies that always gets stuck during a Horde Beacon challenge.

[ur dream gurl]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

There might be a maximum distance that you can move away from a Horde Beacon as well before it breaks, so that could mess things up... but who knows...

I can believe that there could be a hole on the navigation node in the tank factory, so jumping on top of those rocks in the center could void your Horde Beacon as well.

Long story short: Just do cheap tricks on completing the Horde Beacon quests, since the system is more than willing to hit you with cheap tricks as well.

Build yourself a 3-4 story tall wooden tower, with a hole in the center, snipe spitter zombies and the Mega zombie, and casually shoot the rest of them at your leisure (preferably with cheap ammo), and stay well within the node and find that one or two stupid zombies that always gets stuck during a Horde Beacon challenge.

good sugestion,thanks
i think ill just mess around with the horde beacon range for a bit to see whats up,maybe see if you're actually correct with the climbing on the top of the rocks thing

[MechWarden]

Originally posted by Vine Iarna:

Originally posted by MechWarden:

There might be a maximum distance that you can move away from a Horde Beacon as well before it breaks, so that could mess things up... but who knows...

I can believe that there could be a hole on the navigation node in the tank factory, so jumping on top of those rocks in the center could void your Horde Beacon as well.

Long story short: Just do cheap tricks on completing the Horde Beacon quests, since the system is more than willing to hit you with cheap tricks as well.

Build yourself a 3-4 story tall wooden tower, with a hole in the center, snipe spitter zombies and the Mega zombie, and casually shoot the rest of them at your leisure (preferably with cheap ammo), and stay well within the node and find that one or two stupid zombies that always gets stuck during a Horde Beacon challenge.

good sugestion,thanks
i think ill just mess around with the horde beacon range for a bit to see whats up,maybe see if you're actually correct with the climbing on the top of the rocks thing

To find the hole, just have a Horde Beacon in hand and see if it says 'too far from town' when next to it. Don't confuse it with the 'Blocked' error message.

[The Floofy Foxxo~]

I hate to necropost, but I would like to say thanks. I had a couple troubles with the horde beacons, namely my first beacon on Zavod going kapoof because OoB, and the second one being destroyed by zombies, beat it on my third beacon, and after that, I found this forum, which helped greatly with clearing out Silo 22's beacon, as I used the trick you supplied, with using the beacon to find the boundaries, to figure out how far away from the silo I could fight them. Thanks to you, I was able to semi-safely beat Silo 22! Now for the stupid bloody Oil Rig. This is going to be painful. Thanks again for the help!

[Big d energy]

Probably the zombies got it

[76561198417008573]

so i crafted myself a horde beacon put in down the far left of the airport runway next to the fence i killed alot of zombies and got no loot then another wave of zombies came i killed them and no loot and then i killed about 2-3 zombies pretty close to the horde beacon and then it broke why?

[CrashLogger]

If you are out of the zone in which zombies can go, even if you're close to the beacon, it will break

Just don't leave the area in which zombies follow you in that location and you'll be fine. It's done like that, so you don't just snipe them off from miles away.