Yeah thats fair enough, me and my buddy play on console
Bandits and zombies will fight, though there's an order to who takes priority if it's a choice between attacking a player, an animal, a zombie, or a bandit. Faatal gave the order in another thread a month or two ago if you want to try to find it. But I don't think you'll see any bandits being turned into zombies.
Speaking of bandits, do you suppose they'll be added on update 2.6?
Would love it if we could set how frequently screamers come around, or turn em off. They're annoying, they come around out of the blue while i'm trying to improve my base. The "heat" nonsense needs to stop, can't sense heat when it's 3°F or lower in the snow biome. Hell, a zombie or man would be frozen stiff at 3°F, especially when they hardly have any clothes on, like the screamers.
Ignore the word heat. A heat map isn't specifically related to actual heat, both in this game and when used as a general mapping term. A heat map is a map that shows how dense/congested/etc. some statistic is in an area. For example, a heat map of population could show a change in color based on density. In the game, the heat map relates to activity and not to heat. So doing actions like forging something or using a cement mixer or firing a gun will increase this activity level. Now, that activity can include things like sound or actual heat as well. Anything that would indicate to something that there is a person nearby.
My base is in the middle of nowhere and have stuff like the forge in the underground basement, where they shouldn't be able to sense it. Dealing with screamers aren't easy to deal with, at least at my current state where i'm still using a tier 3 pipe rifle and a tier 1 pistol I luckily found in the toilet that doesn't do much damage and not ample enough ammo. When you have 2 screamers that call 10-15 zombies, things become unmanageable quickly.
You can deal with screamers with a T1 Q1 weapon once you see how it works. In most cases without even having them scream. There are a variety of ways to deal with them. In the early game, the easiest passive method is to just drop a few wooden spike traps outside near the corners of your base where they'll hit them when going around a corner and a couple near whatever entrance they might be trying to reach. A single wooden spike trap will kill a regular screamer easily and unless you're in the open when they arrive, they won't scream at all. All you need to work on is placement. For actively killing them, they normally die from a single power attack to the head with any melee weapon, including a T1 Q1 weapon. If you sprint to them and immediately power attack them, you can usually kill them before the scream. Even with two, it can usually be done quickly enough. And worst case, all early enemies are also easy to kill. If you don't let them group up and instead rush out to each one, you can kill them one at a time, which isn't too hard. Make use of knockdowns and be sure you kill the screamers first. Later in the game, when you get the higher tier screamers, it can take a couple of hits to kill them, depending on your weapon. But even then, the same method of sprinting to them and doing a power attack to their head is still very effective. They won't scream if they are knocked down.
