Infected spawning within my walls?

[redsky1335]

I've had this happen to me three times now. First, in campaign mission with the river splitting the map down the middle, I had everything walled off and all infected killed, waiting for last wave- and suddenly one of the "pockets" of my base (I have multiple lines of walls to fall back to) has a bunch of Infected ripping up tender buildings!

Just now, I was doing the weekly challenge, had both east and west entrances completely walled off and guarded heavily, and suddenly some zombies appeared in the northern starting area's treeline, and they're right on top of all my mineral economy.

Is this because I'm not fully covering my territory with Tesla Towers, like I left 1-2 cells unpowered, and that's "spawn zombie territory"? I'm not complaining, I'm just asking. Idk if it's a mechanic where they spawn a few weak Infected in the middle of your colony to punish you for only focusing your troops on the frontiers... but it does seem a bit too punishing.

[QWEEDDY2]

Did you use (C)hase function? For your troops.
(btw pressing F2 allow you choose all units)

Seems game bug. Not happen for me. But anothe one - research tree reset - happen if it shouldnt. I dot know how but saves/pofile file randomly corrupted.
Usually tht happen if some game files corrupted, you play another version not wipe old saves... well, or warez copy (and old saves).

If you done with campaign or only start it - same for survival and weeks progress - better remove game folder from My Games folder entirely.
Dont forget to turn off Steam Cloud for TAB (or entire in general Stem settings).
That mean start new game. For all modes.

Check game files. Better twice.

[Befuddled Honey Badger]

That happened to me on that exact same mission as well as Cape Storm (defend the bridge) too.

Each time I had a death ball of upgraded Soldiers running around clearing everywhere, each time I had them set to Chase when the bigger concentrations of enemies were taken care of so I didn't have to micro them. Each time they stopped chasing and then a few days after that, I'd get a spot at the edge of the centre of my locked down area get attacked by either a single Executive or 2-5 Fresh. It only has happened on those missions though.

[redsky1335]

Originally posted by Befuddled Honey Badger:

That happened to me on that exact same mission as well as Cape Storm (defend the bridge) too.

Each time I had a death ball of upgraded Soldiers running around clearing everywhere, each time I had them set to Chase when the bigger concentrations of enemies were taken care of so I didn't have to micro them. Each time they stopped chasing and then a few days after that, I'd get a spot at the edge of the centre of my locked down area get attacked by either a single Executive or 2-5 Fresh. It only has happened on those missions though.

Did you happen to check your power grid cells? That was the first thing I did, and on the campaign mission, I definitely had ONE cell tucked up against a cliff that was not getting power. It was visible, had buildings right next to it so I had line of sight on it. I had 4 (probably smaller than your 1) little death balls at each frontier, but because the map is so big and the zombie spawn happened almost like dead center of map... I had NO chance.

The second time I happened to me I made sure to pause and take a good close look before I got overran and lost. I am 100% positive that every spot within my walls were covered by Tesla Towers... and still these f*ckers spawn right inside of my base, inside of my walls.

Again, this seems unfair in an already very unforgiving game. I learned early on how easily a single infected can slip through unguarded frontiers and end your game, so I am very diligent with patrolling and walling off frontiers SOLIDLY. I often test my walls by blocking off the gate and trying to send a unit through- if the unit paths away from the wall, i know the wall is airtight.

Maybe now I just need to keep a ranger patrolling in every quadrant of my base? But that takes them off of the front... ugh.

[Sajonji]

Zombies don't spawn from uncovered cells. If they really do in your game, then it's a bug.

Most likely you missed 1 zombie while clearing. If there is a single tile going "around the corner" or reaching into a forest line then sometimes you need to bring your units really close to reliable check if there is a zombie in it.
Maybe you could post a screenshot of the spot where it happened. Could help in getting precise answers :)

[redsky1335]

Originally posted by Sajonji:

Zombies don't spawn from uncovered cells. If they really do in your game, then it's a bug.

Most likely you missed 1 zombie while clearing. If there is a single tile going "around the corner" or reaching into a forest line then sometimes you need to bring your units really close to reliable check if there is a zombie in it.
Maybe you could post a screenshot of the spot where it happened. Could help in getting precise answers :)

This was also a lesson I learned a while back, when I'm clearing areas I always send RANGERS (not soldiers) to run along tree-lines or cliffs; the Ranger's good vision range helps spot those infected b@stards tucked away in little nooks in trees/rocks. In my incidents, this wasn't the problem- I had been able to build many buildings along the edge where they appeared. If they had been there, I would not have been able to place lumber mills.

And as for a screenshot.... well, that wasn't really on my mind when this happened, as you can imagine me frantically trying to gather my troops and maybe get a chance at containing the threat!

For sure I'll be paying attention for this from now on. If it happens to me again, I'll pause and immediately get a screen.

I appreciate the suggestions! In a game as brutal and punishing as this, we need to pool our knowledge together to overcome the infection!

[Canadian Ninja]

Zombies only spawn in from the map edges. Under no circumstances will a zombie pop into existence inside your base. As far as I can remember that was never a feature, nor ever a bug, even in the early access. Most likely you missed a zombie or two while clearing. It happens.

[Sajonji]

Originally posted by Canadian Ninja:

Zombies only spawn in from the map edges. Under no circumstances will a zombie pop into existence inside your base. As far as I can remember that was never a feature, nor ever a bug, even in the early access. Most likely you missed a zombie or two while clearing. It happens.

a zombie spawning inside your base was (or is) actually a anti-pirate measure in the game.
But this shouldn't be the problem here since OP has the little mouse icon next to their name, meaning they have a legit copy from steam.

[Andrewbh2003]

Originally posted by Sajonji:

Originally posted by Canadian Ninja:

Zombies only spawn in from the map edges. Under no circumstances will a zombie pop into existence inside your base. As far as I can remember that was never a feature, nor ever a bug, even in the early access. Most likely you missed a zombie or two while clearing. It happens.

a zombie spawning inside your base was (or is) actually a anti-pirate measure in the game.
But this shouldn't be the problem here since OP has the little mouse icon next to their name, meaning they have a legit copy from steam.

well that or it bugged out for them

as that has been a on-going trend as far back as 2017 of the occasional person owning a legit copy of the game yet the game "for some reason" thinking its a pirated version so that is a possibility
unlikely but still

[redsky1335]

Originally posted by Sajonji:

Originally posted by Canadian Ninja:

Zombies only spawn in from the map edges. Under no circumstances will a zombie pop into existence inside your base. As far as I can remember that was never a feature, nor ever a bug, even in the early access. Most likely you missed a zombie or two while clearing. It happens.

a zombie spawning inside your base was (or is) actually a anti-pirate measure in the game.
But this shouldn't be the problem here since OP has the little mouse icon next to their name, meaning they have a legit copy from steam.

That's pretty amusing, but I bought this game back before campaign had even begun to be worked on!

Anti-piracy measures like that are way better than stupid nonsense like DRM. Ruin the game for the jerks stealing it from you.