Zombies visibility

[Des4nn]

Hello,
I'm a beginner and the main reason I lose is because I can't see the zombies rushing my base. Is there an option to make them more visible ?

[jballar]

There are buildings you can research to have more vision, but the best way, IMO, is to put us "scratching posts." This is a wood wall, or single piece of a wall out near the edge of your vision. Most of the time, a zombie will go towards that and not your base. You get an alarm that says that they are trying to destroy your base, and deal with it. As you expand, you destroy and make new scratching posts.

This game shows no mercy so do not get too frustrated. Everyone has died with a single zombie wandering into the base. Hope this helps

[Andrewbh2003]

well if you hold TAB then you can see hp bars

really the main way to "see" infected aproaching is

1- lock down all entrances to the colony as soon as possible

2- develop better awareness though this one only comes with experience so may not be helpfull advice for a begginer

[Sajonji]

Originally posted by Jeff:

Hello,
I'm a beginner and the main reason I lose is because I can't see the zombies rushing my base. Is there an option to make them more visible ?

You can also always show the health bars of units, meaning every zombie has a big red bar over its head. How to do that:
- Select custom keybinds in options
- Bind "show healthbars" to any number key on the numpad
- ingame have numpad activated, press your bound number key, hold it down and press num
- now numpad is deactivated but the healthbars stay until you either Save & Reload or Alt+Tab out of the window

[猪皮蜜蜂]

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[11:11]

I think,they are just rushing from edge of map. Because I manually patrol the base perimeter while waiting for the resources and didn't found anything but after I got opposite side of the base there is one coming from the other side. As long as they are walking it is easy to kill them but in my game after Day 6 the fresh zombies starting to rush my base. When they hit from the two flanks and hit the tents, it is game over for me.

I am currently facing some rushing zombies.If you are also encountering like this after Days 5, I hope it is bug and will fix by devs.

[BigTurnip]

scratching posts help in the early game.

place a single wall on the perimeter of your base, the rushing zombies will attack it giving you time to move troops there and kill them.