i tested with 19.5 and there is practically no pauses on spawning any number of UMA zombies. there were a few times where maybe there was a very tiny pause (like a fraction of what we're seeing now on alpha 20), but it was either so negligible or it was just my mind trying to find a pause which wasn't really there.
Yeah in normal play the micro freeze is ignorable, it does however become more annoying on a hoard night (blood moon) but we have managed it twice. I am hopeful that it can be solved before alpha 21 as it does get frustrating at times.
If it becomes too much of a problem for Horde Night, there's always the possibility to comment out / remove that part of the entitygroups.xml so the archetype 'UMA' zombies do not visit for Horde Night while all the rest still do. You'll still get a large variety of the 'boss' zombies as they use a regular zombie model. You'll be good with this based on the custom modding you've already added to your own server set up.
Maybe ErrorNull is a bit wrapped up with bits at the moment to provide an update. I am also using the enZombies and am glad you spotted these because they are something we all need to consider.
I'll make a couple of suggestions as I was still tinkering with the previous post and could check JaxTeller718-ZombieReach Mod as I also use it for players who have latency issues caused by distance.
Hi @Scharie - it looks like the devs removed the zombie challenge quests from alpha 20 for the time being, and also changed some coding for that mechanic. this resulted in errors for my custom challenge quests that were part of the enZombies mod when i created them in alpha 19:
2.60 is the old versio to be honest, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HyHWZ44AVoJn1Eau7I9Xt0Y3yQmb-AdU/view?usp=sharing is the version we are using at mo (fixed my daves mod error, i had forgotten </set> like an idiot...and i was referencing using @class not @name...no idea why. I also merged a lot of the loot mods we had into the loot file of the daves mod which makes looting not have that pause where the computer works out what to put into it...in most cases. We also added two mods @arramussuggested but only server side not in the client side mod file yet (i know they dont have to go there, but i tend to like keeping it the same)....though one of those mods has been a tiny bit annoying us as its putting guards in nearly every drop...I must get around to editing that loot table file lol.i got the chance to start a fresh new map today with your 2.60 mods package. i had to correct an error with "Daves" mod regarding the SET tag on line 44, but didn't seem too big of a deal. i then played in single player mode, played through a few quests.. and using DM mode quickly put myself to level 300 and jumped to day 14 horde night. what i can say is that the stuttering and freezing was very noticeable during the trader quests and during the horde night playthrough. ... to the point i was not happy with the performance. the stuttering would occur almost every 5 or so seconds as i explored inside a POI or while fighting zombies during the horde night.
if i were to remove all the mods within the 2.60 collection and just left in the enzombies, enZombiesAddonSnufkin, and enZombiesHarvest, the freezeups are infrequent and not that noticeable and performance is much better. i didn't get a chance to test the 2.60 mod package on a server with friends, but i'd suspect similar behavior. i'm thinking there is one or more mods in this collection that isn't working well with enZombies. when i get the chance, i'll sort through each mod to see which one(s) introduces the big decrease in performance.. and see if it can be fine-tuned to work better with enZombies. keep me posted any further issues you find.
We do have our base in a city (or large town....hard to tell lol) and hoard nights have been laggy...not enough for us to get rid of the cool zombies though.
