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Loot locations broken - good items now very rare, endorse farming & serverhopping
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With the tent spawns and other previous loot locations broken people tend to farm and serverhop more. It's pretty hard to find certain items now, such as Mosins, maps, high grade vests, scopes, etc.

I liked how cars spawned maps before, now they are too hard to come by. Cars are always empty now. Same goes for military tents - nothing spawns there anymore.

I think to get rid of serverhopping you need to decentralize spawn locations. If military gear only spawns in military structures people are always going to farm those by serverhopping. One just hast to go to such a place and switch servers enough times to fully gear up. So when someone wants to play it the right way those places are always stripped clean. On most servers at the same time. You need to introduce loot spawns on zombies (i.e. the new military zombies who might be wearing/carrying military gear on them). Those zombies should also not be in the same locations, it has to be absolutely random. The only way to prevent serverhopping would be to increase the loot in military areas so that a single group of people is not able to carry everything good in popular farming locations, so that others can gear up too. It should come with a price tho, i.e. much more zombies there so they actually become a threat. And reduce the power of the fireman's axe to the same level of the wood splitting axe so that 2 hits are necessary to kill a zombie - or introduce more agile zombies which are harder to kill especially in high numbers. Or have them have a long range attack like spitting infection goo or something of that sorts. Or have axed zombies burst infectious liquids or gases as they are axed. Also fresh spawns should make less noise while moving (less gear = less rattling of items) so they have an easier time avoiding dangerous zombies which they can't fight off easily with bare hands.

I would also like to encourage random player spawns - all over the map, not only on the coast.

Details

Legacy ID
198255177
Severity
None
Resolution
Fixed
Reproducibility
Always
Additional Information

fix spawns ASAP please. terribly hard to come by Mosins these days. unless you are really lucky. looted entire Berezino the other day without finding a single one (and yes, I know the spawn locations too well).

Event Timeline

app0815 edited Additional Information. (Show Details)Jan 29 2014, 3:49 AM
app0815 set Category to category:items.
app0815 set Reproducibility to Always.
app0815 set Severity to None.
app0815 set Resolution to Fixed.
app0815 set Legacy ID to 198255177.May 8 2016, 4:46 PM

Personally I prefer loot to be harder to find. Sence the purpose of the entire game is about surviving a zombie apocalypse, I find it hard to believe that weapons will be lying around all around the place. (same goes for food and other essential survival items)

I could write some stories down, but three words are enough: No more weapons!

Nam added a subscriber: Nam.May 8 2016, 4:46 PM
Nam added a comment.Mar 1 2014, 4:02 PM

I wouldnt say no more weapons. But less weapons is a good idea. It forces people to play together more. If you want to go around killing people ( thats why some people want military grade loot ), go play Battlefield/CoD... This game is not about running around killing new spawns, or PVP in cities. Its about surviving a zombie apocolypse..

Definitely need more zombies. Especially in cities.

andy added a comment.Nov 13 2014, 12:46 PM

Hi everyone and thank you for your feedback.
I am going to close this ticket as most of these issues have been fixed or tweaked to the point where the state described here does not apply anymore.
We are aware of similar issues being present, please feel free to submit new tickets if you encounter any.
Thanks again,
Andy