Another easy way to check is to enable debug mode and detach camara and fly around outside like in my video.
Same for me. I currently play with a 4x more Zombies setting, with a 0.5 respawn rate, on a 4k map. I dont see that kind of excessive behavior that the OP talks about, except on few occasions that i break a window, wrench a radiator, axe a door. I take it like i make noise or i generate a heat signature. Just like i does happen when i use many workstations in my hideout.They were on their way. If you would have stayed outside just a little longer they would have shown up...
Another way to test whether they are bee lining to YOU or just following your smell trail as Atomic pointed out is to throw a rock out a window and se if they abandon the poi to go chase the rock. If they do then you know they are not aware of you because if they were, they would ignore the rock.
I don’t see the problem with staggered zombie spawning outside while you are inside. The OP is complaining about something that only has a noticeable and annoying impact when the game is modded. It’s doubtful the devs are going to compensate for a mod.
When I first started playing around with this part of the xml I went crazy with 8x the normal zombie counts because why not? I noticed what the OP is talking about right away and it made it impossible to fully explore- especially POIs with basements. Those were 100% death traps.
Eventually, I settled on 2x with a shorter respawn rate because that gave more outdoor zombies without the constant visitors to POIs Inwas clearing. You still get some but it doesn’t bother me. Sometimes they get in and find their way to where I am but most of the time they are just banging on the walls in a nonaggro state.
Yes, and someone winning on his first lottery ticket will tell you you win all the time. Not saying you are wrong, but you should at least try this 3 times with varying durations of staying outside before you claim this is anything but a coincidence.
As already explained from others above. There are random world spawns. There will ALWAYS spawn zombies. But they do spawn anywhere and are not heading towards you but wandering around randomly. That the world feels so empty is pushed by this behaviour. If you wrench the cars around the tower, once you reach the backside, zombies may spawn on the frontside and just walk away and you will never notice that there even has been a zombie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias maybe? (that happens to everyone. I often mistrust my own observations until I got some numbers to show me I'm right or wrong. And I have been wrong lots of times)
First, selective perception. Second mentioned already above, because they indeed do lead by the breadcrumb system, especially if you increased the zombie count. And there are actions to make them come to you, e.g. noise. And staying in a limited area will increase the chance to meet zombies in general. If you loot a building, you stay a long time in a small area which means e.g. wandering hordes will come close to you (afaik they spawn somewhere and walk the direction to you where you have been while they spawned) and little noise may then draw their attention. If you are outside people usually move a lot in a short time. Looting the cars around higashi does not even take 5 minutes, looting higashi takes an hour or more.
Hard to say. Right now their first priority is to add all the features and so whenever they make gains it is make it possible for them to add in whatever new feature they want. At some point perhaps gains in performance will be translated to having more spawning enemies.
