Only zombie vultures giving Enemy Kills, other animals don't

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seven

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This isn't the way it's supposed to work, is it?

I noticed it in my modded game so tested it in vanilla. Fresh wipe and download of the game, no mods, deleted the appdata folder and the registry key. Still no Enemy Kill count for any hostile animal other than the zombie vultures.

 
Does it increase for zombie bears and zombie dogs?

The kill counter is for Zombie Kills so I would expect it to increase if the player kills any entities with the zombie tag, which would include zombie bears, zombie dogs, and zombie vultures.   Animals like the regular bear and mountain lion don't have that tag, so I would expect the counter not to advance when you kill them.

If it doesn't advance when you kill zombie bears or zombie dogs, then it sounds like a possible bug and should be reported out as a bug.

If it advances for anything killed with the zombie tag, but not other hostile animals, it seems like it is working as intended.

 
No, no credit for zombie dogs or bears. I tested all the hostile animals just to be complete. Only zombie vulture and zombie vulture radiated gave Enemy Kills.

For a bug it seems awfully specific, and I would expect it to have been reported by now. I posted on steam and the one comment I've received said zombie dogs work for them. I'd suspect some error with my install but I can't think of where a problem would be after cleaning things like I did, where else some bad data may exist. Steams download cache? Guess I could wipe that and repeat.

 
I was in my modded game when I saw this, so I checked. I had same result. No kill counted for dogs or zombie bears, count only for vultures. I got full XP but no kill. Weird that I had never noticed. Nice catch.

 
Ok, maybe it is an actual bug then, so I won't bother wiping and downloading again. Thanks for testing that. If some more people can check that would be great.

 
seven said:
Ok, maybe it is an actual bug then, so I won't bother wiping and downloading again. Thanks for testing that. If some more people can check that would be great.
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I will check tonight when I get home.  I never watch the zombie kill count that closely.  I had made some challenge quests in the past that you had to kill something specific and we found some weird behavior regarding what type of entity and how kills are counted.

Most likely, it ties into the same issue I saw back in 2022.




 
Ah, thank you, so it is a bug. I had searched the bug forum and didn't find anything, but I didn't see that list.

 
I found that I could fix this by adding an EntityType property to the zombie animals. For some reason the zombie dogs and bears don't have this.

<property name="EntityType" value="Zombie"/>

 
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