Infected Population Guesses

[long token]

So I'm doing a "Clear the Map" challenge, and for some godforsaken reason I decided to add in all of these. I wanna know if anyone has an idea of how many infected I'm gonna have to take down. So far I've cleared Kingsmouth island, and I'm in the Leavenburg and Jasperville area.

[livid jackal]

that depends on your population settings but i would say around 500-600k

can you post the mod list so i can add myself some new maps?

[naive canopy]

As Wolf says it depends on pop settings, but I'm gonna guess higher than that. Close to 1 mill or more. But you will come across a lot of previously cleared places being repopulated when you clear out a lot of zeds somewhere else. My map doesn't look too different and I often come back to "old" spots that are heavily populated again after clearing out a new section.

It kind of seems like the game allocates a certain baseline for each city, but does have a maximum number of zeds it can allocate. Kill 500 zeds in one area and another 500 is spawned somewhere else.

Until you've actually cleared out enough for the game to understand what's going on.

[long token]

@livid jackalhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2968702010 I used this as my initial set and I think I swapped some out depending on conflicts with other maps I prefer

[long token]

So I cleared out Kingsmouth island first, are you saying I could go back and find it repopulated?

[naive canopy]

If you kill enough zeds on the mainland you're likely to find more zeds there next time around tbh.

My server is set up for no respawns and after murdering 2-3K zeds in a new area I have on many occasions come back to areas that have been cleared out for months to find new clusters of zeds. The only shot I have is this little cluster of zeds that suddenly showed up near my base in RW after I explored and killed off about 5K zeds in WP. And I cleared the road going down there thoroughly several times. Lots of news zeds showed up in Klin as well.

[long token]

I was thinking maybe the meta events pull 'em

[naive canopy]

And this was after about 7 months since the last time I saw anyone even near my base. My base is basically the whole uncovered area you can see on the mini map. I've torn down the forrest and make a parking lot for my car collection almost all the way out to the road. But every time I go out and kill more zeds tend to turn up even now.

[naive canopy]

Maybe. But I don't usually kill a lot of zeds at once. I clear out one area and collect cars. Collecting the cars can take weeks, if not months. But every time I go somewhere new and kill a bunch of zeds new ones tend to turn up in areas that have been previously empty for months.

But I guess it could be meta events. My char has the "Hard of hearing" trait so I really wouldn't know. I don't hear those distant gunshots. I just notice the zeds swarming towards a certain area.

[livid jackal]

if you turned off the respawn they don t repopulate what you already cleared, only if you missed some and they migrate to that area and the meta events happens only around the player

[olive owl]

holy shit

that is a big map

[long token]

Almost three months in game and not very far yet lol

[olive owl]

my 2015 laptop would explode 💀

[olive owl]

also is it a hostable i got nobody to play with