Watch timer went off, tons of zombies, what to do?

[Craig1287]

So clearly at a certain time, things get crazy and the streets get flooded with walkers. What do I do? It looks like the watch no longer is passing time. Am I just stuck in this "walkers everywhere" time until I die or can I actually wait it out? I am very early on and have almost no medicine and supplies to get me through it all.

[Harry101UK]

You go back to your boat and sleep until the next day. Every day has a time limit.

[Id]

RUN!!!

[ChaseFace]

It's basically designed with the intention to light a fire under your ass so you don't take your ginger time looting 100% of every building. Pay attention to the beeps, loot accordingly and run for the exit once you think you can make it.

[Craig1287]

Originally posted by Harry101UK:

You go back to your boat and sleep until the next day. Every day has a time limit.

Well dang. I don't have enough stamina or supplies to get back to my boat. I really wish we could wait out the night (or whatever the bells signify). I guess I'll just die.

I know I'm in a minority but I really dislike the current gaming trend of having "survival elements" in game with having to eat/drink to keep stats up. It feels like 90% of my bag in this is full of drinks and snacks to keep my max stamina at a decent amount to be able to run longer than 10 seconds or swing my weapon more than once, but then all those things just deplete my max health so much that I can't take more than a few bite encounters.

The stamina depletes so fast that, if it runs out while I'm just trying to go down a road, then I can't pull out my bag and find a drink and hold it up to my face and do all that before getting eaten alive.

Yes, keeping our energy up is something we have to account for in life but it's not something that is depleted in minutes. I like the game but I just don't want to be micro managing two little bars the whole time. I want to kill some zombies and see the cool environment.

It would be cool if there was a difficulty option for people like me that don't want to micro manage stats (like how the Mass Effect games had the "just here for the story" option, the "just here for the action" option, and then the "balanced, here for both" option).

[anti-fox]

Just fyi, but I've been inside looting before and had the watch cycle just fine, but if I go outside and it's near 12:00, then the horde comes. Once the horde comes, it seems to never end, period. No matter how many I kill, no matter if I go in a house upstairs and shut every door behind me and hide in a room far enough behind a door that it won't be broken. The music keeps playing and the horde is still there. The map is unavailable on any of the 3 boats on my current map because of the horde. They infinitely respawn basically wherever I'm not. It's like Call of Duty where the spawns flip. At this point, I do not want to load anything, so I may just let myself die, then go grab my bag and get out.

[PeaceMaker]

You know what to do.

Get to da Choppa- Or boat.

[TheOrigin]

One word: RUN!!!

[Kengine]

Originally posted by Socratatus:

You know what to do.

Get to da Choppa- Or boat.

LOL

[anti-fox]

So to add on to my comment, I don't know if my game was bugged at that point in time or what, but any boat I went to, the map was not there. I had to kill myself and go get my bag back, then go to a boat and the map was there. Since then though, I have had the bell go off, and though the red ! is over the boats, the map is at least there and I'm able to leave. Not sure what would cause the map to disappear entirely.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

Originally posted by Craig1287:

Originally posted by Harry101UK:

You go back to your boat and sleep until the next day. Every day has a time limit.

Well dang. I don't have enough stamina or supplies to get back to my boat. I really wish we could wait out the night (or whatever the bells signify). I guess I'll just die.

I know I'm in a minority but I really dislike the current gaming trend of having "survival elements" in game with having to eat/drink to keep stats up. It feels like 90% of my bag in this is full of drinks and snacks to keep my max stamina at a decent amount to be able to run longer than 10 seconds or swing my weapon more than once, but then all those things just deplete my max health so much that I can't take more than a few bite encounters.

The stamina depletes so fast that, if it runs out while I'm just trying to go down a road, then I can't pull out my bag and find a drink and hold it up to my face and do all that before getting eaten alive.

Yes, keeping our energy up is something we have to account for in life but it's not something that is depleted in minutes. I like the game but I just don't want to be micro managing two little bars the whole time. I want to kill some zombies and see the cool environment.

It would be cool if there was a difficulty option for people like me that don't want to micro manage stats (like how the Mass Effect games had the "just here for the story" option, the "just here for the action" option, and then the "balanced, here for both" option).

I carry at most, 2 bandages, 1 meds (if I have them) and a soup with me. I refill my health and stamina every time I go to the bus before I go out for a new day and I rarely have to heal on site, it's almost a non-issue for me. I don't run more than a few seconds at a time, and I don't take on a group of 3 or more zombies with hand to hand combat. It feels quite balanced to me actually. But I do agree they should have some sort of difficulty options that limits the amount of upkeep you need to do to your character and maybe decrease stamina draw, but you get plenty upgrades to your stamina. Just gotta be a little more patient. As for the bells, pay attention to your watch. I usually start heading back to the boat when I have just under 1/4 of time left, unless im close and I know how long itll take me to get to a boat. I havent once yet fought a bell horde.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

Originally posted by anti-fox:

Just fyi, but I've been inside looting before and had the watch cycle just fine, but if I go outside and it's near 12:00, then the horde comes. Once the horde comes, it seems to never end, period. No matter how many I kill, no matter if I go in a house upstairs and shut every door behind me and hide in a room far enough behind a door that it won't be broken. The music keeps playing and the horde is still there. The map is unavailable on any of the 3 boats on my current map because of the horde. They infinitely respawn basically wherever I'm not. It's like Call of Duty where the spawns flip. At this point, I do not want to load anything, so I may just let myself die, then go grab my bag and get out.

I've had the map not appear for me once too, I cant remember if I just loaded my save or what I did. as for the Horde, i don't think it stops, I would assume your boat was bugged because as far as I know, youre supposed to get back to your boat, I don't believe you can pass time and survive a night in a map.

[Dah 1]

don't eat or drink food of street you will survive longer as each time you do you take health down permantly till get ill and stuck with stupid cough and constant 2 swings no stamina and no chance of running away, only use bandages you have crafted as it. replenishes health as with overall.health same with stamina only eat. food you have crafted, you will have a lot more chance of survival

[anti-fox]

Like I mentioned, I just killed myself. Every time you go to an area, it's always different. I had decent loot I didn't want to give up, so I just died and grabbed my bag before leaving.

My first time in The Shallows, a random guy tried to strong arm me for food. I killed him but instead of getting his gun, I got the frame, so I reloaded thinking I could redo it, but I never saw him again.

As you get further in the game, you'll have enemies that emit a bile when they die, and if you get hit, it knocks like 15% health or so off, so you'll have to decide if you want to shoot them or not.

Bows are quiet if you want to be stealthy and shoot them, but both bows are too unreliable right now. No way to aim them, the bow wiggles (like anything in this game when you use two hands), the shots are too random, and I'm touching the back of my ear just to get a full draw out of either one.

My go to gear is the Katana on my back, AR-15 style rifle on the side of my bag, M92F on my right hip, and Samedi's Hand on my left hip, although I'm right hand dominant and don't melee with my left hand.

The Katana is just too good. You don't even need two hands, because it doesn't wobble, and you can easily decapitate zombies or humans you want to prevent from turning into zombies.

[Tegzy]

Later in the game it tells you about special zombies with their intestines hanging out. If you kill them and cut their stomachs open you get some drops that let you blend in with zombies if you rub it on yourself and don't run.

[Splean]

F%&k I hate this game & that I wasted $50 on it. I wish I had read threads like this before buying this pathetic s^%t, I love the Walking Dead & have clocked virtually every zombie game ever released so assumed this would be the game for me given it somehow got such great reviews (what f'n game were they even reviewing, not the crap I wasted $50 on). Why the advice to RUN by everyone? That is so clearly not an option, as mentioned by others you can only run about 10 meters before gassing & becoming completely defenseless which just in itself is so f'n pathetic. You can't loot very much because it takes too much time & the level becomes quickly inundated with countless re spawning zombies so it's impossible to leave the level without dying. So you have to be real quick in any area, loot virtually nothing & yet somehow come up with countless supplies to make special weapons that might actually last more than a couple of uses before breaking. Seriously these clowns couldn't have made a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ zombie VR experience if they tried, again I'm not sure what game people who like it are actually playing