Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid

[B41/B42] Day One (Bandits)
Yuri-chan Sep 12, 2024 @ 9:50am
Opinion about mod
I have no words to express how wonderful this mod is. I haven't had such childish happiness playing Project Zomboid for a long time. This mod really changes the gameplay of the game to what I've always dreamed of. This atmosphere of chaos and panic is simply indescribable.
Having played a little with this mod, I was already able to participate in stories that I will be able to use for a long time to tell my friends who survived, around the campfire. Starting from protecting the police station with a large number of city residents, trying to escape from a burning city that was engulfed in panic and shooting, to a cinematic defense of a workshop in the rain at night with a couple of survivors while bombs explode all over the street, illuminating the remains of the destroyed city with fire.
In general, I don't want to spoil what awaits people, so read on at your own risk.
I understand that the mod is only a couple of days old and therefore I hope that in future updates its quality will only improve. At the moment, it has a lot of problems to continue playing with this mod:
* The car spawn feature is very cool, but the fact that cars spawn as if on a timer leads to a situation when after a walk deep into the forest along an old country road, you will return back to find a bunch of cars in working order, which were not there 1-2 minutes ago. On one hand, this is awesome in the city, but in the forest it does not look right.
* As many have said, almost all friendly NPCs run in a bunch to you and stay around you, creating a huge living wall. I think it would be a hundred times better if these NPCs ignored the player and did their own thing, because after running through the city, it seems like you are the leader of a tribe, and not an ordinary random survivor. In general, there are a lot of problems with NPCs now. They do not always attack zombies until they are bitten. They do not become aggressive if you attack them and sometimes they walk in place or walk unnaturally slowly or run at supersonic speed. But I think that with time all this will be fixed.
* The most interesting and main feature because of which it is impossible to continue playing is the bombing by fighters. God, how cool it is, but how it does not allow you to play. It would be cool to have a setting when the bombs start dropping, because it seems strange to me that on the first day, together with the police, the military blows up the entire city. It is also a shame that the explosions occur around the player, which leads to situations like "you are sitting in a dense forest, where there is not a soul and then they start bombing you."

So far, these are all the problems that I can remember. I may forget to mention smth but it's already pretty big comment and I'm sorry for using topic function since I really wanted to say it all...
Again, I want to thank you for such a unique and amazing mod. I hope you will continue to develop it!
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Skidmark Steve Sep 12, 2024 @ 10:20am 
Came here to post something similar. This mod is probably the most fun I've ever had on Zomboid. It completely changes the vibe of the start of the game from eerie and quiet to complete chaos. I ran 4 different survivor attempts on it yesterday and here are the things I ran into.

- I LOVE THE BOMBING! I started with a Lousiville spawn and immediately was on the edge of my seat with the siren and the explosions in the distance. Having whole streets blocked by a bombing was cool as hell. I think the fire left behind should actually last a bit longer and spread some more damage. I went straight into a wooded area behind the mall and expected to probably perish in a forest fire. I was really surprised when the flames almost instantly went out.

- Random placement of different NPC's is great. I thought I would be so clever and head to the water line on the edge of LV, only to find a police SUV with 10 soldiers surrounding it! I immediately veered off into the forest only to find that they'd followed me. It was scary as hell seeing them draw down on me and shout stuff. I should also mention this is my first experience with Bandits mod.

-The parts I didn't love... The heatseeking all knowing biker gang. I was so pleased with myself for making it to the farmhouse near LV power station and finally finding a place to let my character sleep. At full exhaustion dude couldn't do much to protect himself. As the sleep time lapse happened, I knew everything was wrong when I saw about 10,000 NPC dialogue lines pop on screen. I went downstairs to find like 30 or so bikers who proceeded to smash my head in and then curse me while smoking all my cigarettes. Why do they know where I am so well?

-I play with a number of QOL mods, nothing too crazy (I don't even use Brita's), but I was immediately smashed over the head with 500+ errors on my first game. I was basically able to know when an NPC had spawned in around me because an error would pop. When I went to look at what the debug log was saying it was this endless chain of something like "NPC moving to deferred location but location equals NULL" This resulted in a lot of bandits getting stuck unable to move. It was very strange... especially considering the next thing.

-How fast are these damn bandits? I was having bandits keep up with my car at 30 mph on foot!

But other than that, I think this mod has amazing potential. It shapes the entire world and changes things drastically. Oh! And to everyone who was griping about it, THE BOMBING DOES STOP! You just have to survive long enough...
Last edited by Skidmark Steve; Sep 12, 2024 @ 10:20am
GoofBall Sep 12, 2024 @ 10:31am 
hey one question do yall get tons of errors too? i removed ALL mods but bandits and bandits day1, still thousands of errors when i just start the game. did i do something wrong?
GoofBall Sep 12, 2024 @ 10:34am 
typed this just to sub to this discussion
Yuri-chan Sep 12, 2024 @ 10:50am 
I wasn't using any other mods much so it was only one time I got errors but there wasn't any critical one.
aquelarrefox Sep 12, 2024 @ 11:54am 
I love bombing, I wish a effect like extended helicopter with bombardment in urban zones random (space). I want to chestown and it great with destruction in the streets like eerie country streets
GoofBall Sep 12, 2024 @ 12:02pm 
lmao i just survived muldraugh bombing, escaped into the drug den in the forest and after waking up i see at least 50 people from different gangs raiding my house and just gunning me down
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