Infinitely Respawning Zombies -- I thought I was going crazy.

[GrumpyMcElbows]

Biome spawner delays have a 10% random variation

Re-balanced biome entity spawner counts and delays

I did not realize this meant zombies infinitely respawned almost instantly. I thought I was going crazy. I kept having to exit PoIs to clear out aggroed wild zombies. Constantly. After every room. It was taking me almost a full day to complete a t2 quest on day 3. I have 3k hours in 7 Days to Die. I feel like I'm pretty good at the game. It's never been this much of a hassle to complete a quest. Then I saw something similar happen to Guns, Nerds, and Steel in his sewer base video. He'd kill off a group of aggroed zombies in the streets, go back into the sewers, and then immediately aggro another group of zombies above him. Then I saw it with my own eyes. I was in a Crack-a-Book on day 3, aggroed multiple groups of zombies outside the PoI, killed them all, and then turned around to see another group of zombies. I killed them, turned around, and saw another group of zombies spawned. Bewildered, I whipped back around. The zombies I literally just killed less than ten seconds earlier had immediately respawned. Instantly. Almost zero cooldown.

This is insanity. It's obliterating any sense of progression. What's the point? Seriously. I keep asking that; "What's the point?" If zombies are going to instantly respawn as soon as I kill them, what's the point? If I'm just wasting time and effort by killing zombies, what's the point? If my reward for killing an unending chain of 30+ zombies for 10+ in-game hours with a bone knife on day 3-4 is two feral screamers and an abandoned quest, what's the point?

I know you guys can't stand criticism, but... This is an awful change.

 

[Javabean867]

What a waste of words at the end.  People on this forum are incredibly accepting of criticism.   Most people come in here screaming to start drama, so they can go back to where they came from and whine how no one agreed with them.

I like the increased spawn rate, but I agree it's a bit highly tuned.  I always hate when you get further in the week and there are no zombies spawning close to your base.  Although maybe I need to move further into a city?

PS. If you want a discussion about a point, just be chill.  You might not get anyone to agree with you, but that doesn't mean they don't like criticism. 

 

[Riamus]

Sounds like either a bug or a mod.  I have never had zombies respawn that quickly.  The change makes it so they do respawn instead of no longer spawning after a couple of weeks.  It is a good change.  Perhaps it needs some tweaking, but it certainly wasn't set up to cause instant respawns, and as I said, I've never seen such a thing in my game.

 

[WretchedDollie]

Hi Grumpy,

Any chance your zombie feral sense is set to 1, 2, or 3?

Also, anytime you are looking for assistance, the more information you can provide the better. We would like to see things like output logs, dedicated server logs (if applicable), and any other information or observation that can be provided. Are you playing single player or with other people? If you are playing with other people, do they have the same experience?

Providing your output log allows us to see what is happening as it unfolds in game. Without that information, it will be difficult to narrow down what is happening. Please feel free to provide additional details in this thread when you have it available.

Thanks!

Dollie