All the Random Vehicle Scenes in Project Zomboid - What's in each and what to keep an eye out for!

[@redfield7389]

I like to think the ambulance crash is more of an ambulance escape. That's why we find more than one patient nearby. I mean think about it, hospital being overrun, patients and doctors alike trying to get out if they can. No one notices one of the individuals in the back looking paler than normal in the panic. At least until they sink their teeth into someone's neck. A single distraction from the road. A final mistake.

[@The-Backlog]

Ohhhhhhh! Head cannon approved!

[@Gead_Hiver]

Maybe instead of the patient hiding. The staff were also trying to evacuate patients to escape

[@slothsong080]

I wasn't even aware those were single crashed cars were supposed to be burnt, or that there was a difference between two crashed cars and a failed bandit attack. Plus those acted backstories are great.

[@The-Backlog]

Thanks! Yeah, some of the burnt cars are more obvious, but you know it's one of those when it won't let you into the car. And with the bandit attack you have to be careful not to let the loot filled zeds wander off!

[@Handles_arent_a_needed_feature]

I dont think they are burnt. The ones that are bunt look all grey

[@tecslicer]

@@Handles_arent_a_needed_feature he addressed that in today's video. Basically there is a burnt car model, but there is also a scene that is labeled "burnt car" but spawns in those cars. It SHOULD be the burnt car model, but it's not 😂

[@gasmask7064]

The ambulance is always, always restocked after a shift cycle. Makes sense it’s full of medical supplies. My EMT class all agreed we would sadly be first to get infected, the firefighters swear they would never let themselves get bit though lol.

[@The-Backlog]

LOL! Yeah most likely, but I'm working on the "Survivor Stories" and there are plenty of Firefighters with holes in their suits!

[@nickrustyson8124]

Which given how thick those suits are, yeah it kinda make sense

[@ander-oid4853]

The burnt vehicles can actually be dismantled in vanilla I believe, it just takes a lot of propane to do so.

[@The-Backlog]

Can they? I've spent so much time with mods that allow it that I just assumed...

[@technology2598]

Can actually confirm, I’ve done this myself to clear roads for better access to certain areas for vehicles and so I can actually gun it down the highways without worrying about crashing into something other than the occasional zombie.

[@ruthglass4510]

and propane accessories?

[@O_vk]

Speaking of non-vehicle related events, I had a 2 month run end because of a looter random encounter. I drove into rosewood looking for a place to sleep as my character was about to pass out and I walked by a store that had 4 looter zombies inside, they spotted me and broke the glass to get out which triggered a alarm and a runner amongst the hordes got me.

[@ethanthereenactorguy4829]

My favorite is and always will be the blockade. It was the first of these scenes I encountered, and man, there is something so eerie about the lights still being on. It's as if it had happened only 10 minutes prior, creating this sense of "damn, I'm too late".

[@PotatoLad430]

I believe it might be a part of a mod but once I found a van with suits, mask and duffel bags parked right across from a bank filled with jewelry.

[@PlagueIsBadAtVideoGames]

this might fall under emergency interrupted but I once found a mailtruck with 4 mailmen surrounding it. In the trunk was a whole lot of books and whatnot.

[@The-Backlog]

I think that's one of the "Annotated Maps" Which is a different category of "Scene" in the PZ code. There is also what the game calls, "Chunk Stories" and all three of those are randomly generated static scenes. They have said they will also be making Basements as a fourth category in the V42 release.

[@9KingP]

I love analysis over these little story things you just come across without thinking much about. Great video to watch while eating something

[@orangejuice3971]

I love your storytelling in this video! Very excited for the next.

[@ciguy9505]

I have to owe it to the ambulance crash for teaching me the value of the search mode. I stumbled across it really early in the game and I check both cars. The first car was unlocked but had nothing while the ambulance was locked. I desperately needed medical supplies and I was going through the menus and accidentally open search mode and turned it on. Just a few feet away was the icon for some keys. I wondered over and sure enough it was the keys to the ambulance! I opened the back and found three trauma bags full of all the medication I needed! Ever since that day I started using search mode more often and it has helped me a ton.

[@imarandomgamer2]

I’m 6 months late, but search mode is good on a lot of fronts. There’s an entire skill for it (foraging), and you can use it to find things like food, medicinal herbs (if you have the herbalist trait or have read the appropriate magazine), etc. depending on where you’re searching and how good your foraging level is.

[@endergamerm]

When adding mods the crashed events become so goofy I once saw a military tank that got totaled by a lawnmower

[@The-Backlog]

How fast was that lawnmower going?!?!

[@endergamerm]

@@The-Backlog crackhead redneck speeds probably Or the tank was at 1% hood condition

[@jasdanvm3845]

What mods do this?

[@tecslicer]

@@jasdanvm3845 there's tons of mods that add more cars. And when the random events spawn they will just pick from the available vehicles.

[@mercifulbutbroken6675]

I am so thankful for this video, it’s nearly impossible to find a concise video showing all of the vehicle events. Great work!

[@The-Backlog]

Glad you liked it! I try to make concise video guides, since that's the kind of video I want to watch! Also the "Zone" events video should be out on Saturday!

[@panda_phat]

Gotta be honest, the writing and narration of this video is top notch. Great stuff and useful info

[@The-Backlog]

Much appreciated! I've been doing that narration part for years, but only recently started working on my writing skills.

[@MrAGNTJ]

this one was super fun!, also i love the scenes cause it practically shows us that.... things just went to hell out of nowhere, and the non-vehicles scenes will make this even more clear

[@tenacityxl]

Me and my friends were at a large highway intersection scrapping the massive pileup for metal while I looted the cars that I could when I stumbled upon an interesting find. I look in the back of a random white SUV to find SEVERAL *POUNDS* of explosives(pipe bombs, Molotovs, grenades, you name it, it was there). Laying amongst those weapons was a pillow and a sheet. I immediately thought that I found the car of an arsonist who abandoned their car when the Knox Event started. It was a really cool find and probably one of my favorite PZ moments due to the sheer surprise of it all lol.

[@The-Backlog]

Nice! I love how the game has like 5 different entire systems to drop down pre-set scenes, but the loot pool can also just be like... "His life had led him to this point, and now the zombies..." All on its own.

[@drawndreary]

Why did I first think you meant in real life

[@Impactjunky]

3:55 It sucks that you hit a deer. Good thing you weren't hurt though. In 13 years of driving my 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner has killed 3 deer without taking any damage. The fourth one did some minor damage but I fixed it with a replacement grille and hood for $400. Cars made a couple years newer from 1973 to some time in the early 80s had even tougher front ends and were required by US law to be able to hit a solid object like a wall going at least 5MPH without taking any damage.

[@The-Backlog]

LOL! Yeah. Aluminum is really light and flexible and handy, but not very resilient.

[@SineN0mine3]

I hope this isn't too weird to say but you have an incredible voice and you would make a great voice actor in my humble opinion. The character voices you do on occasion and the melodic way you speak would make just about anything interesting to listen to. The fact that the video's contents are interesting is just the icing on the cake. If you are already acting in some way that wouldn't surprise me but if you aren't you should definitely give it a go one day if that's something you'd enjoy. Thanks for the videos, sorry my comment hasn't got much to do with this one.

[@The-Backlog]

LOL! Yeah I'm already a voice talent! I do self-help books mostly, nothing very flashy but get to flex my vocal muscles occasionally! (As it were) Glad you like it... I do have lot's more videos...?

[@2atman]

Im enjoying this game so much and i don't even own it yet,looking forward to fixing my pc to play it.

[@matthewclark7955]

Your over dramatic, carnival american accent is jokes 😂. Love it

[@KermittingWarcrimes]

I think the reason why the car parts are in better condition is because trailers make cats generally slower as they add more weight to them 5:32

[@Ryuko-T72]

I found a manhole construction outside my base. Since im new, I was also super surprised to see it also had a sledgehammer there.

[@leszas872]

Every time I see a zombie horde respawn after clearing up a city full of them, I would literally just roleplay it as: "Well crap, it seems like the zombies next town finally got here. No way- there are police officers with them too? Were they all dispatched to deal with a riot and unintentionally got bitten by zombies? Looks like the fireteams also got their share too..."

[@l9m241]

Now here's a fun fact: All the vehicles in the game actually have their interiors modeled! Even the steering wheel. And if you look at the minimap your character will be in a "Driving" pose but the windows are opaque and you can never see inside! Even when they're removed!

[@Drie_Kleuren]

i love these random stories the game gives you. it teaches you how to play by just finding stuff... on my first playtough I found a car with a jack and tyre and it taught me how to change a tyre... very cool. Also i have found a car with a sledge hammer just on the floor. these are great small hints on how to do stuff. this game is very good at teaching the player stuff by just making a scene and you can just figure it out by yourself hahahaha

[@medichap4626]

not really an CAR specific event but i remember once finding a corpse in the trunk of a car.

[@justinv7151]

I once found a corpse in the backseat of a car, never happened again either I feel PZ has alot of surprises that most dont see regularly

[@The-Backlog]

Yeah, corpses can also spawn as loot in the seats of cars. It's not one of the random "Scenes" that the game can spawn, but it IS intentionally added to the car loot pool! Kind of like the bathroom orgy. That's not even an annotated map thing, just part of the zombie spawn settings that it CAN happen!

[@UnkleSanik]

Your voice is like a mix of the average British challenge youtuber and Markiplier... Very calming, plus it's very good content!

[@matique04]

There's still 2 more i guess, the fire truck nearby a burnt house, in which you can find some fireman zeds, that give you good armor early on, and the police car with escaped prisoners nearby

[@The-Backlog]

Those are both random "House" stories. I'll get to those soon enough, but they are a different category.

[@falloutfart9917]

I was thinking it was all encounters with vehicles but it’s only the ones that happen on the road

[@The-Backlog]

Yep, those are separated in the game into their own category. There are some "chunk stories" that have cars in them, but I'm doing that one next. Also these only happen on some roads. The larger ones don't allow them to spawn.

[@jesusestrada5543]

The construction/ sewer trucks almost always have 100 quality engines, which allow you to tow everything at 90mph.

[@shrimp5353]

Your narration is awesome

[@The-Backlog]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! I either get comments from people that like it or HATE it!! 😂

[@MassiveMaleMonkey]

On my current character. I've made a base in the fire department of rosewood and right outside is the car that's wheels are being exchanged

[@The-Backlog]

Nice!

[@captainloser6237]

The thing that always confuses me about the 2 car crashes is that it's always a T bone but in a place where it makes absolutely no sense for one of the vehicles to be traveling in the direction that it's facing

[@albertoandrade9807]

One driver got zombified

[@america2793]

Thanks

[@katherynj7263]

But what about that Opening OST? IT'S A BOP. LOVE THE zomboid content!

[@The-Backlog]

Sorry I looked all over and can't find it! It's a track from the KZbin Media Library that just sounded fun.

[@CosyMatt]

There must be a mod I have but those “burnt” cars are ACTUALLY all black and burnt with no tires on it lol

[@The-Backlog]

no, there is also a car model named burnt car that looks all burned up too. This scene is just called burnt car by the game.

[@drawndreary]

@@The-Backlog they might mean “burnt” referring to out of gas, or something similar!

[@aelitastones3110]

Backlog what the heck, are you a voice actor in your spare time or something? seriously, I could listen to your stories for hours.

[@Holyduck777]

I know lie found two sledgehammers during a Emergency Interrupted event.

[@djaccountisbfisbx3880]

The first few seconds sounded like a truck ad

[@The-Backlog]

Brought to you by FORD... We'll get you out of Dodge!!!

[@d.k8257]

I wish they added some military events to the game, currently the whole army aspect (and even police to a certain extent) are very underused

[@The-Backlog]

I agree! Even the "Zone" events (Video out Saturday) are missing the military element. It's not like there would not be plenty of military scenes in a real American Apocalypse.

[@d.k8257]

@@The-Backlog Absolutely, also the lack of car wrecks and congestions is kinda off putting, like it's an abandoned *city* there must be some sort of pileup (The only pileup on the whole map is on the crossroads near Muldraugh)

[@The-Backlog]

@@d.k8257 Yup. I usually set car spawns as high as possible yet it's still not enough!... wonder if there's a mod...

[@d.k8257]

@@The-Backlog One could wish

[@The-Backlog]

@@d.k8257 Great! Now you've given me a fantastic idea for another video... "Scenes that SHOULD be in the game- Indystone Please take these ideas!"

[@ERROR_F1LE]

I’ve found a flipped cop car surrounded by 10+ zombods : edit it’s apart of the interrupted crashed

[@dennmarkserenilla4665]

Well I have encountered that some park cars have one dead body inside a trunk or A back sit it spawn %1 times parking lot

[@The-Backlog]

Yup, the game does have some fun loot spawn occurrences. It's not a random "Story" as the came calls it, but it does tell a story!

[@gamerman782]

I thought the bandits were unlucky survivors that escaped a town because of their gear.

[@grease_monkey6078]

the crashed cars are great to siphon gas from

[@nfwrambo]

There should be a scene where a zombie can be in a trunk

[@The-Backlog]

It's not so much a scene. Corpses are part of the trunk lootpool, so they appear randomly but rarely. PZ does a great job of using zombie spawns, and the 4 different story scene events to mix together and tell great stories!

[@noscopfollout1041]

4:01 that happen to my dads truck a deer got in front of it and went flying

[@9enickymamudi742]

Your voice is calming

[@The-Backlog]

Thank you!

[@gwg2813]

could someone please remind you when the every scenes video is posted? I'd keep a lookout if I didn't clear my notifications every time, thanks in advance :)

[@The-Backlog]

Here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWGwZ59vpMitapY I'm also working on an annotated maps series and a "Survivor" stories video!

[@gwg2813]

@@The-Backlog thanks dude!

[@randomweeb4032]

The accent at 2:27 threw me off guard lmao

[@The-Backlog]

Sorry! It's an occupational hazard of being a voice talent! Whenever I'm writing a script I listen to all the voices in my head and whichever one is loudest gets to read it!

[@seela1924]

wasnt there also one random road encounter with broken down ambulance and 2 zomboids in underwear too?

[@The-Backlog]

Yeah, that one is called "sexy time" but it's classified as A Zone Story, because it can happen off the road as well as on. You can even find it off in a forest somewhere.

[@caliosaly]

somehow i found my first construction car event or story or what ever its called and it had a sledge hammer the only bad thing that was my 1st play through so i used it to kill zombie's only to make 1 mistake and for a zombie to sneak up on me and bite me never found that story again since and have still not found a sledge hammer in my other play throughs and my current one

[@TerryOCarroll]

Couple of gripes. You called broken-down cars "burned-out". Burned out cars are the grey cars you see every so often. The cars you referred to are just wrecks. You also said you need "mods" to disassemble wrecks, in fact you just need a propane torch and welder's mask

[@The-Backlog]

Well, I am not calling them burned out. That's what the game itself calls them, even though they don't look like the "burned out" car model. And yeah I've been using a dismantle all cars mod for so long I forgot that we can dismantle the wrecks in vanilla.

[@NovaGirl8]

Missing are the body in the seat and the body in the trunk.

[@The-Backlog]

There's a category of random events called scenes, And these are all of those. There are a bunch of Annotated maps that setup certain conditions, and another category of Map Chunk scenes, but just finding a body in the trunk or seat is just a loot pool thing, I think.

[@awuza7045]

Jack got got... Rip bozo shoulda specced into tailoring

[@Cacowninja]

Where can I find police cars/events in Riverside? For some reason there weren't any at the police station.

[@The-Backlog]

It's random, but keep searching along the roadways and you'll find them eventually

[@trickbaitman]

how do you do so many 'character' voices AND do all of them well?

[@The-Backlog]

Thanks. I've been practicing for years and years!

[@alexanderthegreat2678]

8:48 i thought zombies didnt come with keys spawning on them

[@The-Backlog]

This one defiantly can!

[@kurniawanhartonoherjana7923]

My start of this game when near military base by kill zombified female military high rank officer as female veteran officer who took military Humvee from zombified female military officer

[@manwithamustache1506]

What modd did you use for the mustang?

[@The-Backlog]

Filibuster Rhymes' Used Cars!

[@manwithamustache1506]

@@The-Backlog Thanks!

[@Patrik1342yt]

Hello you missed one the post van

[@The-Backlog]

No. These are the official random scenes that spawn. They are specifically a different sort of random spawn like the "House" stories, the "Zone" stories the "Survivor" stories, and these are all the stories in the definitions file.

[@Patrik1342yt]

@@The-Backlog but it stil spawns a post van so i tought

[@tecslicer]

@@Patrik1342yt yeah, the game can spawn a post van, but it's just a van. It's not specifically trying to tell a story.

[@The-Backlog]

@@Patrik1342yt Right, there is a lootpool that will spawn in random appropriate loot, A carpool that will spawn in random (Sometimes appropriate) cars, and then Annotated stash maps that are not random, but only some will spawn in each world, there are also random "Survivor", "House" and "Zone" "STORIES" that are trying to tell stories. Yet sometimes the loot and carpools and even the random house events can coincide to seemingly tell a story, but they are not intentional.

[@Patrik1342yt]

@@The-Backlog i came bc i was thinking abou sm there are cars you can find that have electronics and wood in the back but i only seem to find them in bad conditon so i had a guess 1 i can find thease in good conditon and the stuff is indeed belongs to a company or its only a lot of trash in a bad car

[@Wyr3d]

It's not a mod,, it's default gameplay to scrap wrecked cars ==

[@drawndreary]

He addressed it under some comments. He was using the dismantle all cars mod for so long he just forgot about that lol

[@jorgeperezsoto3853]

Where is the sexy time story

[@The-Backlog]

That's not actually a Vehicle scene. It's considered a "Zone Story" by the game, so it can spawn off roads to. I just did a video about those too!

[@Nolls_Kc]

You sound like yungjunko lol