No Z's on the server? It's happened twice now

[River Lizard 47]

OK, so I logged into a East coast server last night and two things were strange.

1. It was 0:35 am and it was light out.  (No I wasn't on a server that was daylight all the time)

2. There was ZERO zombies in towns.  I went to 6 different towns last night and didn't see the first Z the whole time.  When the server restarted I joined another one and finally saw 3 Z's....but only 3 and I was in a pretty good sized town too.  That's not normal at all.  Have they changed something that I missed...patch? Update?

 

Also, no...as far as I could tell no one had been to the town before me and cleaned up the Z's.  All the doors were shut in the town and there was at least 12 players on the server (night time server OR at least it was suppose to be a night time server).  Really weird.  I don't like the daylight bug on a night server but it was really strange to not see the first Z in several hours of game play.

 

Anyone else seen this before?

 

[Bubbled Luff 27]

There do seem to be less Z about since the loot spawn hotfix, but, have only played on a 'night' server since that point (and that was broad daylight). Need to try another server to see if it is the time of day or hotfix that caused this.

[kichilron 8550]

Are you playing on Experimental by any chance?

 

Please note, that on experimental either loot or zombies or both are sometimes deactivated.

[randomspawn 215]

On the servers with the loot fix(is that all servers now, or still just multiplay?), the zombie count is WAY lower, perhaps 75% lower than it was before the loot fix. 

[Munson_fry (DayZ) 312]

jep its boring again...

[Martmital 436]

Zombies are nothing but annoying at the moment anyway, would probably enhance the game if they removed em...

[Bubbled Luff 27]

Are you playing on Experimental by any chance?

Please note, that on experimental either loot or zombies or both are sometimes deactivated.

Stable branch. Even after a restart Z numbers are down compared to pre-hotfix, some places have none at all now. Some of the towns I visited do still seem to have the same Z population as pre-hotfix though. So not entirely sure this is intentional by the devs.

Just been playing some 'daytime' so it isn't just night affecting as I speculated on my previous post.

[River Lizard 47]

I've been playing on regular servers.  Today I logged on to one and there was plenty of Z's and very laggy too...had a tough time connecting my axe to their heads!  Fractured my arm and during the 4 hours of game play I probably bled 4 quarts of blood!  Completely ruined my tactical shirt and black cowboy hat...them baztards!!  Only thing that was black on me was my backpack....and don't think I haven't tried repeatedly to spray paint it with black spray paint....of course with no luck. 

Z's were so bad this morning I had to throw my 357 away to make room for bandages and food in my backpack.  I started out with 2 full rolls of bandages, went through them within about an hour and a half, so my mission changed mid-stream to hunting for bandages to restock.  I think I went through almost 4 full rolls during the 4 hours and one morphine 

Back on topic.....I sure hope there's nothing wrong with the night servers....the two times I've tried logging on to the regular servers that are scheduled for night time, ended up being daylight at 23:35 and 00:35...both servers should have been set at night but for some reason they were not.  It's just not the same around GM during daylight hours!

[Etherious 907]

On the servers with the loot fix(is that all servers now, or still just multiplay?), the zombie count is WAY lower, perhaps 75% lower than it was before the loot fix. 

The loot fix has been updated to all servers.

[Facetentacles 92]

I was on an empty server the other night showing my fiancé how to play and different little tips and tricks and the weirdest thing was happening... There were zombies everywhere... But they didn't aggro. At all. She ended up rubberbanding and falling off the police station roof, so I stayed with her body while she made it back and there was a zombie 10 feet away from me the whole time just hanging out. I named him Fred and we became good pals.

Then we carried on running through the streets, passing tons of zombies that didn't even bat an eye at us.

Very creepy.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

Hmmm, I was just in Zelenogorsk and I did not see a single infected anywhere.  This also could be due to the desync that I've been getting lately and I immediately left the city for fear of being killed by invisible angry infected.

Edited April 13, 2014 by Caboose187

[River Lizard 47]

Something is going on with the Z's....tonight I only find 4 of them with hours in the game. I got so bored I fired my 45 at a couple just to see if it would bring more of them..1 that's it.  Either enough people bitched about the Z's and the devs reset the level of hardness of the Z's or there's another bug that half the players will like and the other half won't...count me in the latter group.  Yes, they can be a pain...but that's what they''re suppose to be......it's not suppose to be an easy game to play.