Question about zombies on highway

[left lotus]

Why is there zombies every 20 meters on literally every highway I drive on? It's kinda annoying cuz I can't just drive at a normal speed but instead have to go really slow and dodge zombies...
On the screenshot I'm on a highway that goes through a forest in the middle of nowhere far away from any inhabited places and even there are zombies all over the highway. Is it normal that they like to go on highways or does it have something to do with my sandbox settings (see attached screenshot)? Anything I can do to fix this? I just wanna be able to drive fast and in a straight line on the highways :'/

Another sandbox option that might be relevant is that zombies spawn in urban locations. Only reason for this issue that I could think of is that because zombies redistribute (every 48 hours) they move to the highway cuz there's no zombies there but idk....

[blissful flicker]

@left lotus the peak population multiplyer is 2.0, which is apocalypse settings if i recall.. how far are you into the world? if you’re in the first week, that is weird about how many there are.. but if its 3 weeks or more then it makes sense

well looking at the erosion you look far in

unless u changed erosion setting’s also

[left lotus]

Apocalypse peak pop is 1.5 I think but doesn't matter. I'm 1 month in

[blissful flicker]

alr then this makes some sense- if ur a month in then new chunks u explore will have apocalypse population zeds basically

what highway are you on?

some highways just have lots of zeds for whatever reasonn

[left lotus]

Do they spawn on the highways or is it just that so much time has passed and they have randomly been moving around and ended on the highway?

[blissful flicker]

like rosewood-intersection has a lot for no reason

[left lotus]

I'm on a highway that I've traveled many times before since week 1 so no new chunks

[blissful flicker]

no, highways dont have increased spawns most of the time, only exception is muldraugh highway

[blissful flicker]

hmm alr- can you screenshot which highway it is?

so i can see if that highway is one with lots of zeds, or if its just the redistribution

[left lotus]

Between Rosewood and Muldraugh

really long one

[blissful flicker]

ah alr yeah that one has a good amount of zeds

[left lotus]

Anything I can do in settings to fix it?

[blissful flicker]

for no reason lol but yeah- its likely just the starting zeds from start of game. and since that highway has lots of spawns theres gonna be a good amount of zeds

[blissful flicker]

turn off distribution likely

[left lotus]

Oh ok

[blissful flicker]

even with ur low pop settings

[left lotus]

Well thank you for help, I appreciate it!

[blissful flicker]

yeah of course if u wanna speed down that highway tho i would just clear it, and since ur respawn is off u should be fine, no more zeds after u kill em

[left lotus]

Even with the redistribute on or should I turn it of and then kill them?

I dont really know how the redistribution works...

[blissful flicker]

its basically if parts of a chunk/cell are empty, the other zeds in that chunk/cell will distribute over to the empty side, so colour dye in water lol

but since the surrounding area is just trees

if u kill em i doubt theres many in the trees that’ll come out

[left lotus]

Oh ok makes sense

Thanks for the info!

[night sluice]

Yeah it doesn’t really matter where you are, even in the middle of nowhere. On the pz heat map, it shows that all major highways spawn zombies. And with your 2x peak multiplier and being a month in, it will have quite a few zombies. Since respawn is off you can clear it without to many worries. Basically every road in the game can spawn zombies, and most road events (crashed cars ect) spawn zombies too