ok, the fix to keep the console popping up in the cold biomes works perfectly for me. hasn't happened again and i've spent a lot of time there. Thanks for the fast fix. i watched a vid on youtube where the presenter goes into the bunker/lab, 4 tents and 1 big one place. and all hell was breaking loose, explosions, etc, and when he got to (lab 3 ?) with the portal, zombies were pouring out of it until a cop exploded and took it out. he had a ton of loot bags. i went to two of the same lab, and neither portal was generating zombies, also there was much less activity in the whole place. both times. i was really after some research notes but other than laser sabers, laser pistols and energy cells there wasn't anything much different than usual. do the labs have a random activity level?