SUP! I love this mod. This mod basically makes the game for me because just zombies is kinda boring I M O. So I will post here basically a journal of what I am doing with the mod settings on my server, things I observe, likes, dislikes ETC. Hopefully this will help you guys as you're constantly developing it. I know the mod changes QUICKLY and my friends and I are playing on my dedi every day so I will try to update here at least once every day/ every other day.

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Mods currently in use that I think interact with bandits (probably have others)

- AuthenticZ
- Weapon condition indicator (yes the error spammer, unfortunately you know when bandits are near when it starts spitting errors)
- Horde night (more on this later)
- Brita's packs
- Arsenal gunfighter
- Mad zombie loot???
- melee weapon overhaull
- RV interiors?????

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8/22

I have 8 or 9 bandit clans enabled. They can start spawning on day 1 with 5 people.. I have all but one set to "wanderer" with a 2% chance to spawn. So with 3-4 people playing together that seems to end up being a decent amount of wanderers on the map. All of them are set to spawn with NO GUNS except the one friendly police force that helps us out occasionally. The only clans I am using ATM are:

Desperate citizens
psychos (turning these guys off maybe there will be less chainsaws)
inmates
cannibals
criminals
police

I have bandit defenders and bandit camps spawn set to 0% because our last save got weirdly cluttered with every building in rosewood colonized by bandits and WAY WAY WAY Too much food spawning in the containers, so we felt like getting food was way to easy. Like, we had 100 butter and cheese at one point, I had to throw it out because i felt like we were cheating lol.

I set bandit camps to 0% spawn because one spawned behind our house and deleted half our (pre-existing) wall we were relying on for some defense. I love the Idea of those camps though.

Car jacking/stripping disabled.

Break down doors disabled (we got sick of rebuilding our outer door and having to find doorknob with lock) But unfortunately this means bandit will sit at a door in town bashing on it , unable to get through. Is it possible to make it "bandits cannot break down safe house door" ??? Or perhaps have bandits ignore doors and go for windows? Or have them realize the door isn't gonna break after X time and try another route?

I give bandits infinite stamina which helps them get in range to melee attack without stopping to huff and puff all the time.

Bandits can't destroy player structures. CAN smash windows, CANremove planks/sheets.

Bandits do not trigger temp panic, bandit marker is OFF.

I assume bandit sound volume is the little sound they make when they're spawning like tire screeching, helicopter etc? Turning that off. I don't want any notification that bandits are around, but unfortunately the weapon condition mod shoots out errors when they're around :[

I had them set to "occasional marksmen" for the police to be fairly accurate in our game, but I'm not sure if this also effects melee accuracy? So I set it back to stormtrooper for now. In our last game where bandits had guns, we were always riddled with bullets even with stormtrooper accuracy. But then again we always increased their spawn number lol so...yea


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MELEE FEEDBACK

In this fresh start I wanted to pretend like the knox virus doesn't zombify everyone, some people just went ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crazy because of it, but became too stupid to use guns.

So because we have the bandits set to use melee weapons only, I noticed some things:

1. They can sorta glitch out when you face them and stutter step in one spot close to the player, but as soon as you turn around they properly run up to you. This doesnt happen ALL the time... gotta test more? maybe its already fixed.

2. Their melee attacks are STRONG. One guy ran up to me and wacked me twice and I was a gonner with somewhat good defense leather padded armor on. I kinda wish their attacks would injure more, maybe even lop limbs off, rather than straight up dunking huge amounts of HP so quickly so there's some time to fight back, maybe take on 2 or 3 of them at a time melee vs melee. They also seems to attack very quickly, and #4 adds to their deadliness melee v melee. Perhaps its some of the weapons from mods that I have that are doing too much damage? I know there are some really strong machetes.

3. They are very, very fast. This is very scary. I'm not sure how to feel about it right now. I kinda wish they were slightly slower.

4. Sometimes they don't seem to give a ♥♥♥♥ about being attacked or shoved and don't stagger at all, so fighting them melee vs melee is super scary. Gotta observe more on this and test things.

5. Spear seems to be my best option against them because of the reach.

6. CHAINSAWS from AuthenticZ ? Man I hate these things coz of the sound effect. The bandits will spawn and the chainsaw effect will stay on, glitched in the spot they spawned at. It is SO ♥♥♥♥♥♥ LOUD lmao. Sometimes it clears itself when you stick around where the noise is loudest for a bit, but often we have to quit the server to get it to stop. I wish i knew modding I would go in and delete that damn sound. My personal request here is if you can disable the chainsaw spawning with the bandits that'd be amazing, even though its kinda cool :\

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OTHER MODS AND CONFLICTS/INTERACTIONS

So about the HORDE NIGHT mod. I think there's an interesting interaction between bandits and horde night. When the horde night spawns it seems to also drag any wanderers in the area to where the horde is aggroing as well, which makes the horde night extra SPICY. Not a bad thing really, it's kinda like the bandits are sensing an opportunity to attack, but maybe get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up by the horde as well.

However, I am concerned there are conflicts with these two mods???

Also concerned about bad interactions with RV interiors. I presume bandits will spawn around the player still even when inside RV interior, which is technically another part of the map? Will they come mess with the hidden structures around the RVs like the rain barrels n stuff I wonder? Guess we'll find out, we just started using the mod.

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Is it possible to give the bandits some footsteps sounds? There is basically no indication they're anywhere near you from their actual body it seems. Zombies will at least groan a bit. I just really wish there were some faint footsteps or something that helped hear them if you're paying attention. Maybe hearing them better if your character has the hearing boost trait.