this is a really great mod, it does not fuck around. make sure to extremely prepare because there will be a lot of zombies. really hard to survive.

STFR firepumper spotted in the screenshots.
GREAT MOD YOU GOT HERE!!!
Keep up the great work. :3

@morti Look into Zombie Culling, google it.

IF we disable zombie respawn , can this mod work ?

Sadly didn't work for my group as the zombies kept walking back and forth. A lot of hordes were clumped up which made performance quite terrible but they never seemed to attack. Hopefully this gets resolved and allows for an actual multiplayer experience as I truly love the concept.

my calm phase keeps restarting every time i log back in. It was at 8000 seconds roughly 141 minutes. Now after logging in again it is at 9000 something seconds roughly 166 minutes. I started on July 9th and it is currently July 21st and have not seen a single horde. The mod is working and i am alone in mp. Not sure what is causing the prep phase to keep resetting

☮Morti, you can check your console.txt log file to see if CBTS is working, and what phase it is in.

It is different for each player, but you can check on your own horde.

It is possible that you've set the distance to be too great, and the duration to be too short, so that the distance is greater than the horde can travel in that time.

One problem with CBTS working independently for each player is that if the phase are overlapping out of sync, another player entering the calm phase during your storm phase could be stealing your horde.
If that happened, the zombies would just walk backwards and forwards a short distance as the phase updates happened.

That's why I really think this mod should be updated to be synchronization with the server on login.

At several occasions we run into a group that is larger than what is set in the server's sandbox settings, so I'm assuming this is horde that has been gathered. But driving back they're suddenly gone; like they're migrating away from us. Naturally I'd assume that this has to do with the 'calm phase' where zombies form hordes away from the player in order to gather for an attack. But the attack never seems to happen, and we never see the horde again.

Got a server running for about a 5 in-game months. We had a total of one mini-horde in the beginning of the wipe and never seen any again. The towns seem to be deserted, as stated before migrating phase, so I'm guessing their migrating but never seem to attack. Rather confusing as it seems like the mod doesn't work properly? Or it might be my settings.

I hear the sound of the horde event starting, as do other players on their own individual timers, but there is never an attack. This leaves me wondering if (a) hordes disappears or (b) the horde gets stuck somewhere, or (c) the hordes migrate to far away to take to long to get to our base.

The best solution i could come up with to ensure everyone's timers went off at the same time was to set the Cooldown to an obscenely long value in advance to ensure it didn't go off prematurely.
Then immediately before we wanted to hold the event, changed the settings to 0 Cooldown, 1 hour Calm, 2 hours Storm, and restarted the server.
Everyone logged in within a few minutes of each other, their timers started from 0, and our phases all triggered at the same time. (I used the StormAlertMessage to verify)

This was a kludge solution to a ridiculous problem that I only confirmed by reading the LUA files.

You shouldn't be claiming to support multiplayer without declaring the HUGE caveat that this is mod is NOT synchronized in multiplayer.

I'm an admin on a server which just added this mod, and we're trying to coordinate times for having a streamed event, so I tried to figure out the nuts and bolts of this mod.

The first odd thing I noticed is that the debug counter in console.txt only counts when I'm logged in.
The second odd thing I noticed is that all the logic for the hordes is in the client lua.
The third odd thing I noticed is that when I logged in as a test account, the debug counter in console.txt is completely different.

As far as I can tell, all the logic for this mod - including the event phases - is done by each client, separately. So everyone has their own horde, and separate times, which only counts down when they're logged in.

Is that correct?

is it possible to put a limit on the size of the horde? this feature would help a lot with a large pop

cant hear the sound and when turn text on nothing pops up there also no way to tell when horde thing is over if its ever over cause would stop trickling in 6 at a time every 2mins htis was after the 50+ major horde

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fun mod,but not recomend to use on 2.5pop and above for obivous reason

@guardians25 Just added it. Hope it helps

I can't hear well when I start. Can you add an option to tell me in text?

where is exactly the setting that makes zombies not knowing where you are? couldn't find it server side

Could it be that the zombies disappear with this mod? Because this is happening to me, I have a horde of 1000 zombies and I walk a block and go to the place where the zombies were and they all disappeared. The mods I have on the list are these

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2458631365

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?edit=true&id=3010852743

Ironically, this makes Raven Creek easier.

Because now I can just wait for the horde gathering phase to clear the area, find a second-floor apartment and drop a TV in front of the door to cheese an impregnable fortress. xD

How do you recommend that I configure the mod to generate crowded and stuck hordes that move from city to city and that there are also some solitary zs (when I say that they are stuck together, it means that they go very close together, literally, it may be difficult for you to separate them to kill them, I plan to put The maximum zombie generation that allows pz is 1000)

you should've made this mod exactly like don't escape.

@3lfu84 Wandering Zombies should work fine. I haven't tested Definitive Zombies yet, but I don't think there should be any major conflicts.

@SocialTroglodyte im testing with wandering zombie and definitive zombie Should I expect stranger things or do they work well together? https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2983905789&searchtext=wandering https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2981571303&searchtext=definitive .
however ty for your great mod

@SocialTroglodyte great thanks

@RKZ Use the Storm Phase Update Frequency option and set it to the max value

I'm actually not seeing the setting that denies the horde the information on the players location

do the zombies knows where you are or they just wander in a group

@Definitely a Virus
Dev said in previous page:
'Storm Phase Update Frequency is what you're looking for. Increasing it will call them in longer intervals rather than every minute. It replaced an old tickbox option in a recent update, so that part of the description is a bit outdated and needs a rewrite. Hope this helps.'

He didn't rewrite the description.

Additionally, for random duration value override - is it randomly chosen each time the phase changes? For instance if I have Minimum Cooldown at 84 and Maximum Cooldown at 252, will one cooldown phase be at 130 and the next at 90 and so on? Or will the game just pick one number, and it will always be at that duration?

Hi! Your mod suggestion states that we can disable zombies always knowing the player position during the Storm phase, but I do not see that option in your sandbox settings. Am I missing something? I'd like fleeing from the horde to be an option.

Are the zombies infinite or they just gather all around the town???

@Sens - i play the same way. i experienced that the horde gets smaller. therefore i increase the radius and the phase periods. cooldown phase may fill up the cleared areas again until calm phase begins.

Will this mod work properly if i disable zombies respawn? I like when i clear an entire city to remain cleared, but i like the idea to have a massive horde attacking once in a while, to make the late game more intersting.

really neat mod, but i personally want to thank you for not adding some stupid restrictions on sandbox settings. such stuff is really great for completely changing mod's purpose in example, without the need of installing other mods. i just made infinite horde, with really large offset, which just made all the zombies wander around world rapidly.

is this compatible with wandering zombies

There is a bug in the multiplayer that causes each player storm to be triggered.

For example, if player 1 first starts and player 2 comes in four days after in-game time, each step is set to 180, 24, 12 hours

Storms are triggered on Day 10, Day 14
if this interval is in a Calm phase superimposed state, only a few of the gathered zombies point to the player and the remaining zombies wander.
The wind at the start of the storm can also be heard only by individuals.

is there any way to use the console to immediately trigger another Calm phase?

Hi, regard the "Calm Phase Update Frequency" & "Storm Phase Update Frequency" i still dont really get what it does.

Could you means explain in more details ?

Example
"@AbsoluteGato Storm Phase Update Frequency is what you're looking for. Increasing it will call them in longer intervals rather than every minute."


How does it relate to "Zombies are always aware of the player's position", does it means update player frequency per in-game minutes?


If so does that means by increasing the value from 1 to 10 the zombie tracking ability will get worst ?

ive been playing around with this mod with debug zombie population on and have noticed a few things:
there is a culling square around the player that determines if a zombie is rendered or not. (zombie represented by yellow dot) When the calm phase is active i see the zombies all moving toward the horde rally point which by default is outside of the culling square. Once the zombies move outside the culling square they are un-rendered.
This is where the issue comes in: Once storm phase hits the horde rally point which is outside the culling square doesnt do anything. i can see on the zombie population map as soon as they are rendered and become a yellow dot they all get my location and head towards me. Is there some kind of workaround to extend the culling square and/or have zombies that arent rendered receive the ping to move to the player?

@AbsoluteGato Storm Phase Update Frequency is what you're looking for. Increasing it will call them in longer intervals rather than every minute. It replaced an old tickbox option in a recent update, so that part of the description is a bit outdated and needs a rewrite. Hope this helps.

kek made mistake of ignoring the strange wind sound and made a camp on top of rosewood prison's guard office
woke up surrounded by 200+ zombies and the game got so laggy i have to teleport myself far from the location. the wind sound is very distinct and you can easily tell that "this one must be the indication". very good job sir

by the way, how to edit this section "Zombies are always aware of the player's position (this can be disabled in custom sandbox)". cant find anything read "zombies aware of player position" both in sandbox setting and game setting. am i doing something wrong? sorry for asking too many question

How to you view the logs about the storm? Can you do it live in game or is it stored in a file?

@Package It starts at the end of the storm phase

Does the cool down phase start at the end of a storm phase, or the beginning of a calm phase? i.e. on default settings is an event going to occur every 7 days, or every 8 days and 6 hours?

@AbsoluteGato Nope. It's just the wind/zombie sounds that indicate the start of the storm phase.

is there any indication other than sound of wind and zombie noises? like icons or something saying "everything is strangely quiet today..." during calm phase and the day before the storm phase the icon changes to "my intuition is telling me to be very careful..." or something so that we can predict it the day before and not at the start of storm phase?

"this does not spawn any zombies, but rather moves the existing ones in the world to form hordes."
what a badass man. thank you for making this

your mod is very good!

It is the only mod that can accumulate more zombies than the chunk can support, one question, can you make a huge horde? and that this horde goes together migrating across the map until it meets the player? like in the walking dead

Cool mod...

Was walking around the whole Eerie Country, looting houses, gaining weapons,
confused why there is nothing alive in all the locations I went through...

Then... I reach the sawmill, loot it and decide to continue by crossing the bridge and get on the highway...
About 2 minutes driving, I see all the zombies marching towards me.

That was a great moment of surprise.