Does killing a plague heart wake another plague heart nearby?

[user1854669]

I could have swore they said on stream that it wouldnt. I had only one PH awake and after finishing one I saw on the map another was awake.

[Vexov]

Just highlight the heart or building to see how many hearts are in range. They light up and also shows a counter.

Hearts do wake up other hearts. I have not tried to weaken it and then melt it with a powerful silenced weapon to see if it can be prevented. I been going loud with 7.76 and a break on it.

I think it ma be possible that a heart can be barely out of range. Running around the building causing noise could wake a heart not seen to be in range.

[user1854669]

I knew hearts could be very close to one another especially on lethal I just remember on a dev stream them saying that only killing plague zombies would awaken hearts.

I would usually go guns blazing too but I wanted to see if I could kill all the hearts without waking others up. I guess thats just lethal for you. It is suppose to be the hardest and hearts are always in clusters.

[Morbidius]

Yes plague hearts can wake up other plague hearts if they are close enough to each other.

When I played now after the newest update I started a new map with fresh survivors. Then I went around and scouted the whole map during the day without waking up any plague hearts. After that I gathered supplies for 5 full days.

One of my survivors had max powerhouse by then and max discipline. Brought my handgun with suppressor and a repeater crossbow that I bought from echo lab trader which was my first trader to show up! =)
I also brought 80 small bolts and lots of firecrackers, fire bombs, all energy drinks that I had managed to scavenge, and some extra ammo for my handgun.

Then I targeted an area where there was 6 plague hearts. I wanted to settle down there in that area and also loot that area. So when daytime started I switched character and went on a spree and killed those 6 plague hearts.

And yes since the plague hearts where so close to each other they ended up waking up each other when I started to attack a plague heart. But since I managed to take out all 6 hearts during the daytime with my powerhouse character it didn't matter that they woke each other up. I could then set up a my new base and peacefully loot that area without any plague hearts being awake.

[Drubus Games]

The cell tower outpost has the ability to cause the hearts to be "confused" and won't wake up when activated. Very useful now. Never used the cell tower before update 33.
Also I have found that if a heart has not been scouted, (does not show up on the map) It will not count toward and outpost. In other words you could have an outpost that says there is only 2 hearts covering it when in reality it could be 3 or more. On lethal anyway.

[user1854669]

oh wow thats quite the buff they gave cell towers. Might actually be worth having one now.