How long is the Zombie Mode available?

[SAINT WEST]

Im seriously considering buying this game just for that mode alone. Looks super atmospheric

[Hodz]

Lmao same, shame if its over

[Lt. Heinz Becker]

Until the 14th of November.

[TawGrey3AR]

hope it'll be a good deal longer - cannot hardly get more than 2 or 3 bloaters per 24 hours D:

[Ninja Gaijin]

6 more hours or so

Originally posted by TawGrey3AR:

hope it'll be a good deal longer - cannot hardly get more than 2 or 3 bloaters per 24 hours D:

Just kamikazi into them and stab them, easy does it

[Festus]

Yep its gone. This time last week at 12am there were full servers and now there are none. Ya, I get it, players will become bored of it but players also become bored of the regular game so why not leave zombie mode in? CYA next year.

[Ninja Gaijin]

Originally posted by Mushy:

Yep its gone. This time last week at 12am there were full servers and now there are none. Ya, I get it, players will become bored of it but players also become bored of the regular game so why not leave zombie mode in? CYA next year.

Yeah I don't agree with not giving server owners options to play different modes like Risen, Onslaught, snow and autumn maps.

Maybe they don't want to 'have to' support bug fixes and stuff for zombie modes through the year, but you could leave it as is for both risen + onslaught modes and people would still have fun. And there's no reason/excuse to not give the option for snow or autumn maps year round.

[TawGrey3AR]

I wonder that there may be a potential for a special limited time to make each mode open as a community appreciation thing or some such - maybe occasionally, ay, DEVs ?

April Fools "Wildcard Day" or somethin ;D

[Riley]

damn i didn't even know this existed. i missed out... blows if they don't have at least one server going with it. looks like a ton of fun.

[Ninja Gaijin]

Originally posted by Riley:

damn i didn't even know this existed. i missed out... blows if they don't have at least one server going with it. looks like a ton of fun.

Devs made it time limited, 2 weeks a year only, and so far the game mode has changed the two years it's run. So who knows what next year will bring. I wish they would allow server owners to choose this mode as a permanent option.

[Spooky Boi]

Oh I just bought it for the zombies mode, guess that's a refund for me. :(

[Ninja Gaijin]

Originally posted by Spooky Boi:

Oh I just bought it for the zombies mode, guess that's a refund for me. :(

Yep, 2 weeks a year starting halloween

[Zach]

Wow, there's no way to play it with like, private servers or something? Well, out of my cart this goes now.

[Ninja Gaijin]

Originally posted by Zach Fett:

Wow, there's no way to play it with like, private servers or something? Well, out of my cart this goes now.

They only allow it for 2 weeks a year, it's ♥♥♥♥. There's only one official server usually, the other 90 are private GPortal servers. They did say they were opening up to dedicated servers and other hosts a while back but it still hasn't happened. Private servers are stupidly expensive to run too.

I think they don't allow zombie mode all year around because they don't have the time or resources to be responding to bugs / bug fixing for this mode and are focused on the primary game. BUT.. I don't think that's a good excuse. It should be allowed to be played all year for those that want it.

However, I think it's a bit boring to play too long.. another reason to only allow for a couple of weeks is that it does get stale after enough plays. I preferred last year's 'Risen' mode.. they should bring that one back as a permanent option and I'd play that more throughout the year though. It was better because there were 2 maps and the points rotated endlessly, you weren't stuck defending the same point round after round.

[espritcrafter]

Saw a zombie mode vid on youtube and was going to buy the game, especially with the sale... but not going to buy it w/o zombie mode.

[Ninja Gaijin]

Originally posted by espritcrafter:

Saw a zombie mode vid on youtube and was going to buy the game, especially with the sale... but not going to buy it w/o zombie mode.

It will be back next Halloween, but I agree it sucks they don't allow it all year.