Zombie spawning issue in the new patch

[wolfgang784 13]

So far the patch is awesome, except for a problem that me and my friends encountered. After the update everyone was off downloading it so when we went back to the server it was just us and like two other people, and about 30 zombies.

We moved into town (Berezino) and when the zombies started spawning only saw about 30. A few more spawned that we didn't see (sun rise) and we had to fight them off.

The problem with this however, was that they just kept spawning. Over and over and over. I killed around fifty zombies in a field on the out skirts of the city and they just kept spawning. Each of the other three members of the group had close to the same from that fight. Some of them put their guns on fully automatic and I didn't take to aiming perfectly before firing. We used two bandages each, all of our morphine and pain pills, lots of ammo of course, had to use four blood bags, and we lost one man.

After I hit around that fifty kills and everyone was exclaiming about the kill count we ran back into the fields outside the city decently far and they still just kept spawning around us. We could see the zombies just spawning everywhere, more and more to pound on us. We ran farther, kept firing, and eventually they stopped spawning. So many zombies.

Really, the zombie spawn is ridiculous. The numbers I have no problem with, I am not a "care bear" and am perfectly fine with the numbers themselves. If I saw 400 zombies in the city, I would be careful to avoid them. But I do not want to scout a city out from the hills, move in, see them spawn in front of me, turn around and see more spawns behind me already. If that happens, I surely do not want them to keep spawning every single time one dies. Also, smokes seem to not affect zombies anymore. We tried throwing one into the city when nobody was aggro'd and they did not care at all. We tried throwing when they were aggro'd, and they did not care. They also do not seem to gravitate toward flares at all anymore although they did in the last patch. I guess not enough in the last patch since the notes said it was fixed, but now they do not gravitate at all.

Hopefully something can be done about how zombies spawn because currently you cannot even assess what you are going up against, and choosing a safe route in and out is useless if they will just spawn behind you when you move into the city.

-wolfgang

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Sounds like you just joined a newly updated/restarted server so perhaps the zombies were only just being populated when you joined. If you try again now on a server that's been up with the new patch for a little while it might be fixed.

[duffbeeer 2]

i tested smoke yesterday and it works fine. just dont throw it too far off.

[thefish 1]

I've noticed something similar in my first couple of hours with 1.5.8.2

I was approaching a barn in the middle of nowhere to take shelter from the rain, observing carefully for a minute or so from a safe distance I figure there's only 2 maybe 3 Zs in the vicinity and decide to get a touch closer and take them out at range, the thing is every time I dropped a couple of them a few more spawned in the area around the barn, right in front of my eyes - in the end I estimate 15 completely dead undead with a handful still milling around outside. but at least I'm out of the rain.

it looked to me like it's possible that if you're sitting around near the edge of the spawn radius the system gets confused and continues to spawn Zs as though you're approaching the area - I could be completely wrong as I have no idea how the system actually works but that's how it seemed from my observations as they continued to spawn a couple at a time even when I stopped shooting but this behaviour ceased as I moved closer.

[wolfgang784 13]

It is not it being in a new server. Today we joined a 50/50 US13 server and killed every zombie in the top half of Berezino. By the time we looted the grocery store, the streets were flooded with zombies and we had to kill them again.

We moved out and watched them spawn around us, and eventually they started spawning on us and they all aggrod. We ran for a barn and killed zombie after zombie as they respawned outside the barn over and over. We each killed ridiculous amounts of zombies holding our doors and one taking the ones that glitched through the walls.

However with all of those deaths they just kept pouring in, and we could see them spawning in the fields around the barn through the windows. Dozens of zombies literally spawning in front of us as we fought, and the number outside was pushing them through the walls. As we retreated to the back, they started spawning there. Now they were spawning inside the barn, spawning outside, and glitching through the walls as we quickly consumed ammo.

Eventually we said fuck it, aborted, and here I am with our second experience with this, and our second time online with the new patch.

[naizarak 41]

i've experienced this, too. i mowed down at least 50 zombies in electro before they stopped spawning around my location.