Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

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Oct 13, 2022 @ 5:53am
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Lingering Whispers...

Description
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Throughout your play-through, you may hear a singular murmur in the horde, a contorted voice at the door as it tries to break in, pleading souls hidden away, fleeting minds of men giving guidance or begging for mercy as well as lot more.

This occurrence is exceptional rare (0.1% chance but adjustable), you may forget this mod even exists. Their minds are extremely broken & degraded, but despite it all, you can sometimes witness 1-4 understandable words amongst the endless thrum of undeciphered protospeech. This mod is purely text-based (no voice acting) as well as state-sensitive depending on what the zombie is doing, it is meant to be an immersive, somewhat vanilla-friendly, creepy horror mod & works in Multiplayer.

This is my first mod, hope you enjoy :) There is a lot that i'd like to add to this, such as even more whispers, multi-speak lines, state-sensitivity based on current zombie decay level (how far they are gone), a whole bunch more creepy scenarios where they can talk & so on but unfortunately I am not a very competent coder, so if you'd be interested in helping out with this or future projects, let me know.

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STORY VIDEO NARRATION:
"Dwindling minds...

Trapped bodies no longer their own, an internal struggle takes root... Festering psyches on fire, it sputters & cracks with madness! The horrors they've committed... the loved ones they betrayed... And the struggle for control through waves of insanity & the tortuous decay of thoughts and flesh!...

...But somehow, through that seemingly endless ocean of hallucinogenic thought, rare cases of unfathomable mental resilience somehow occurs... Is this the human spirit...?! Or echos of deeply nested psyche barely holding on! Whatever it may be, through that manic & necrotic choir, Lingering Whispers are heard!

. . . █ █ █ █ █ █ . . .

What was that.... real?!

Or is it just a cruel trick of the dwindling mind of my own...?"

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Also, check out Lingering Reflexes, a mod created by Mr Sunshine that expands upon this concept and takes these dwindling minds a little further!

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Special thank you to Albion for assisting with fixes & additional content this mod!

ᵀʰᵃᵗ ᵈᵉᵉʳ...
ᴰᶦᵈⁿ'ᵗ ʲᵘˢᵗ ˢᵖᵉᵃᵏ...
ᴿᶦᵍʰᵗ...ˀ

Credit for the original code goes to Morry - Creator of the Talking Dead mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1135650782

Workshop ID: 2874678809
Mod ID: Lingering Voices

Workshop ID: 2874678809
Mod ID: Lingering Voices
Popular Discussions View All (16)
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Sep 14, 2025 @ 7:25pm
Suggestions? And or bugs?
YepThatsMyName
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Jan 24, 2025 @ 10:21pm
voice overs is it possible?
RE7RO
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Oct 21, 2022 @ 1:39pm
possible bug report
SK1107
476 Comments
Sewer Boy Mar 23 @ 4:02pm 
Working for me in 42.15
Drperky3780 Mar 16 @ 9:09pm 
does this work in b42.15?
campcrabb Feb 24 @ 3:27pm 
@CurryNaeDoot Official did you figure it out? Im only getting error messages
Malala Feb 20 @ 5:20am 
such an artistic concept! simple idea gave so much immersion to the game!
The1pj Feb 7 @ 5:03pm 
IDK why, but reading the description got the song "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson stuck in my head. Fire song, fire concept, 10/10.
Greg Arthur (SCPeach) Jan 15 @ 11:29am 
Trying to add custom lines and now it just spams errors in the console, looked for solutions but can't seem to find any
cybercloud03 Jan 3 @ 10:21am 
Are there admin commands to enable/modify lingering whispers on a multiplayer server? It says I have it installed but i dont see options for time settings.
CurryNaeDoot Official Jan 1 @ 6:22am 
i might have it, will post if im correct
CurryNaeDoot Official Jan 1 @ 5:39am 
how do i add custom lines? i have vsc so i'm assuming i can just add them in a list style? or is there an command required per line?
Sebastian  [author] Dec 18, 2025 @ 9:04pm 
@Gyrgon thanks for the kind words! It's something that deeply disturbed me with the possibility of something like that occurring. Like for the potential chance of a brief flickerly utterance from a fragmented consciousness, barely structuring itself somehow in a long decayed mind, or the hallucination or misidentification of that occurring before your eyes due to the mental torment of having to survive in such a chaotic situation.

Was a fun creative project to work on in exploring thematics around those concepts, both the creating writing and the voice acting in the trailer, funny seeing the positive reception for it still years after it's creation. I gotta continue experimenting with making more stuff like this for my own projects haha.

Also thanks for people letting me know it's working well in the latest build, hope ya enjoy it :D