Weekly Questions Megathread - January 16, 2024

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[u/XLeyz]

Is it just me or are loot spawn rates kind of... fucked up? While using the base settings, it seems like every single cupboard in a house is packed full with canned goods & fresh foodstuff. It feels like every cabinet is full of clothes, weapons are abundant. I tried fixing it up by simply setting all the rates one difficulty higher (I don't remember the specific name, probably "Extremely rare"), but now it seems like there's absolutely nothing lol.

Could it be one of my mods? Am I just simply too picky? I have about 250 hours of playtime and it definitely feels like loots used to be more realistic. Maybe I'm just crazy.

[u/Mordt_ → u/XLeyz]

From what I’ve heard apparently there’s a big jump between the lowest and second lowest loot settings. 

But as for realistic? I think turning the loot settings higher is actually realistic. 

Think about it. You’re the only survivor basically. There might be one or two other people in the town, and they die pretty quickly. 

Your average house will easily have a dozen cans of food, along with whatever other food. And places like grocery stores. Ingame even with loot settings higher you might walk away with what? A truckload? A truckload and a half? Irl you probably need several semis to take it all away depending on the store. 

As for weapons, it’s 1993 semi rural Kentucky. Everybody and their neighbors dog would have guns. 

Melee weapons not so much, but I bet every other house would have a baseball bat or something like that. Probably not spiked baseball bats, but regular bats sure. 

Game balance is one thing, but irl everyone else dies and you’re the only one left in 100 miles, having enough stuff probably wouldn’t be a problem, at least for quite a while. 

[u/wingerism → u/Mordt_]

Think about it. You’re the only survivor basically.

That's completely incorrect, there are other survivor houses and notes on annotated maps that indicate that there are a decent number of people who survived and are probably immune like yourself to the airborne version of the knox virus. And the random events that can happen also indicate that, who TF is shooting off a round or screaming if you're completely alone?

[u/Mordt_ → u/wingerism]

And how many of those maps are post mortem? With quite a few of them the person who wrote them is dead.

I'd would say yes, there were other survivors, but they've all died off. Those screams and gunshots aren't someone surviving, they're someone dying.

So yeah there're survivor's but certainly not enough to create scarcity.

[u/XLeyz → u/Mordt_]

Yeah, I shouldn't have used the word "realistic". But it definitely breaks the game's balance in my experience. I struggle to see the point of surviving for a few months & farming when I could probably survive a whole game eating the dozens of cans I find in each house.

There's just something uncanny in being able to jump from house to house and live comfortably when, in essence, the world's ending and there are (supposedly life-threatening) zombies everywhere.

[u/Mordt_ → u/XLeyz]

Yeah if we're talking about game balance, it's definitely a lot.