Now i remember why i quit this game.

[Segert]

After a while i though hey. It would be fun to play again.. But i remember why i quit this game.. Too many frustrations

. Characters dying out of nothing. Lost medical expert suddenly even while i was not playing him and my home secure.
. My character decides that ladders are for losers and jumps of a building and dies... She was my main gun expert.. Like wtf.... man. This is just stupid.

So no i have 2 characters left out of 4.. yeah i remember why i quit this game. Illogical. Stupid and frustrating. It has signs of being something good. But the these things are just too frustrating.

[Panic Fire]

?? Sounds like user error though.

[Cat]

I understand the frustration.

I can't really explain your first point, because sometimes if you're near your base regular zombies and freak zombies can still enter your base and maim and/or kill your survivors.

For your second point, I found that aiming (holding right click on your mouse) and walking towards the ladder automatically has your character magnetize to the ladder, so you don't walk past it, fall off, and break your player's back near a group of zombies. I hope that helps.

[Protectron]

Originally posted by Cat:

I understand the frustration.

I can't really explain your first point, because sometimes if you're near your base regular zombies and freak zombies can still enter your base and maim and/or kill your survivors.

They can not. They only exist in a 100-200m radius around you. A more likely explanation is that one of his NPC survivors got Blood Plague from a Siege or something, but the game doesn't always warn you of this. You have to manually check for it.

[BAZ]

I have never ever got a mate to die on my base when i was outside scavenger :)

The ladder bug idk about it but i know about the health link bug but there is no way if you know what your doing that you gonna die so easy ....

Playing on the hardest difficulty uhm kinda but is not a game that is rush and run and as always you can have a team mate with you friend or AI

Games good man

[Mystyk]

I've had the ladder problem now and then. It happens in the first game, too, so I'm sort of used to it.
Unlike the first game there's no one to sometimes help you, even if you have a follower.

When up on cell towers, especially, I just shuffle (move slightly) towards the ladder and they grab it when they're supposed to.

I don't know why ladders are such a problem in some games. I even have the same issue in Watch Dogs Legion. Shuffling towards it, rather than walking or running seems to help.

[MngrlMatt]

I had issues with the ladders in the early days, but I'm sure they patched something years ago to make that less likely. I can't say I've ever had issues with ladders on cell towers etc, at least not after it was initially patched.
I do get the odd issue with other ladders, though frequently this is due to me hugging the edge of a roof to try and scope out and kill the freak below (usually a feral or 5) and often times i'll end up jumping off the roof right next to the ladder. again, being right on the edge, and off center on the ladder is usually the issue.

Any time I WANT to go down a ladder, it works.

As for the random death. Who knows about that. Since the latest update I've not really had any sieges. Try and take out the plague hearts ASAP and if they wake up, they are my primary focus.

I usually play on standard because I was never bothered about the harder difficulties, but I initially bought the game from the windows store when it released. I got the steam version from a humble bundle where there were other games I wanted, so a fortuitous thing.

Since starting it up on steam (and learning that basically everything other than like survivor pool etc) has been transferred over. My achievements, my unlocks, my previous legacies etc, I've started my first ever Nightmare run and working on doing my legacies for that. First map was Drucker, just about looted the entire map and have 1 plague heart left to take out. No survivor deaths. Going good.

I love this game, but I can't wait for SOD3 - though it seems theres been no news on that for a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time now.

[Segert]

Originally posted by ✩ mystyk:

I've had the ladder problem now and then. It happens in the first game, too, so I'm sort of used to it.
Unlike the first game there's no one to sometimes help you, even if you have a follower.

When up on cell towers, especially, I just shuffle (move slightly) towards the ladder and they grab it when they're supposed to.

I don't know why ladders are such a problem in some games. I even have the same issue in Watch Dogs Legion. Shuffling towards it, rather than walking or running seems to help.

The solution is simple. Have a simple button promt to use the ladder. That way you dont jump off accidentally. You know when to press the button. that is how many games with ladders do it safely. Never fell of in those games.

[League of Extraordinary Trolls]

Originally posted by Segert:

After a while i though hey. It would be fun to play again.. But i remember why i quit this game.. Too many frustrations
. My character decides that ladders are for losers and jumps of a building and dies... She was my main gun expert.. Like wtf.... man. This is just stupid.

Gotta love NPCs
Also the "co-op" is terrible.

[Segert]

Oh yeah i never enlist another NPCs to do runs. because. they always in the way of your shooting the enemy. And they tend to get themselves killed. charging headlong into a horde.

[Mystyk]

Originally posted by Segert:

Originally posted by ✩ mystyk:

I've had the ladder problem now and then. It happens in the first game, too, so I'm sort of used to it.
Unlike the first game there's no one to sometimes help you, even if you have a follower.

When up on cell towers, especially, I just shuffle (move slightly) towards the ladder and they grab it when they're supposed to.

I don't know why ladders are such a problem in some games. I even have the same issue in Watch Dogs Legion. Shuffling towards it, rather than walking or running seems to help.

The solution is simple. Have a simple button promt to use the ladder. That way you dont jump off accidentally. You know when to press the button. that is how many games with ladders do it safely. Never fell of in those games.

Watch Dogs Legion does have a prompt but it doesn't always show. Same for some ledges but they're usually a short drop that it doesn't matter.

But yes, if SOD2 had a [Climb Down] prompt, too there'd likely be less deaths in communities :-)

[BamseLeo]

Enter the ladder in crouch stance and you should never fall down again.

[Glip Glop]

I still have a guilty pleasure for this game, but yeah, it does have its issues. My favourite was doing a merchant run and getting to the final mission, only for EVERY npc to freeze and do nothing. Not even counter attack zombies, just standing in one place. Somehow I still won despite being on lethal difficulty.

[Miles Teg]

Weird deaths happen at times so I understand. My problem with the game is that the difficulty never ramps up as in Breakdown. Even on nightmare it's not very challenging. I don't like insta headshots so I stay away from Lethal.

[Fennel]

I feel like in the current update, freaks spawn a little too frequently close to the base. Even on Dread difficulty, it's not uncommon to have two plague juggernauts just hanging around on the outskirts, waiting to get triggered by gunfire.

Hell, juggernaut spawns in general seem to be a bit higher than necessary overall, seems they're just everywhere nowadays. I wouldn't complain except for the fact that they seem to take so much effort to kill for virtually no reward, especially since they seem to respawn so quickly.

[Segert]

Originally posted by Fennel:

I feel like in the current update, freaks spawn a little too frequently close to the base. Even on Dread difficulty, it's not uncommon to have two plague juggernauts just hanging around on the outskirts, waiting to get triggered by gunfire.

Hell, juggernaut spawns in general seem to be a bit higher than necessary overall, seems they're just everywhere nowadays. I wouldn't complain except for the fact that they seem to take so much effort to kill for virtually no reward, especially since they seem to respawn so quickly.

Juggernouts are bullet sponges for some reason a few High powered shots at its head doesnt seem to do the trick. Which is. for all intends and purposes unrealistic. Since a 50. call should just punch a hole in his skull. Sure they have to make it harder. But do it like the ferals. High speed zombies that ambush you. Or events with a zombie ambush where you are blocked by a horde. ect..