THE LARGEST SWARM YET DESTROYS MY AMMO SUPPLY! - Infection Free Zone Gameplay - 09

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[@CharliePryor]

So many bullets! ;)

[@Alice-si8uz]

The RNG was both kind and cruel dude... Sending such a massive swarm but also having set swarm essentially protect you from the army is amusing.

[@cdmabrey1]

pretty sure they are FIGHTING over which cookhouse to put shit in when you have both working the same stuff

[@_TheDinoMaster]

I can't wait for this game to be polished so you can survive longer!

[@gustavmeier1953]

What do you mean by that you can survive till the game breaks because you have too many people walking around and if you mean food wise there are so many houses you dont need to worry for years to come in worst case you send people without weapons out

[@-scorpion-3485]

the weather station in the previous episode, caused the ammo shortage, if you ignored it, and built the ammo factory, you would have been ok on the ammo problem, my 2 cents 🙂 oh b.t.w you can extract fuel from vehicles, if you press the fuel can button inside the vehicle menu, its at the bottom between all the other buttons

[@spade2287]

I have a feeling the hoard took out the army, considering they came from the same direction at the same time.

[@CharliePryor]

Would have been awesome to see it! :P

[@runningrabbit04]

I think the brick wall is covering the walkway to the cookhouses. Could that mess with pathing into the cookhouse buildings?

[@CharliePryor]

It isn’t covering any path

[@patrickbass8181]

Just a thought, maybe they won't bring the meat if you have less meat then people assigned. You had 6 meat and 9 people trying to get the meat. It would be a stupid bug but maybe that's the problem.

[@CharliePryor]

That would be monumentally silly if implemented that way.

[@its__me_partik]

i usually watch your channel for workers and resources but today i watch you play this and i wanna say; keep it coming.... now im interested in this too.

[@shaneglasgow6267]

I am now completely invested in watching you succeed, and I still suggest that you , if it’s even possible, to build a second wall parallel to the existing wall or even “ distraction zones” (buildings set up out the compound solely meant to distract incoming swarms .

[@CharliePryor]

I could totally do this… it’s just the time. It would take 2-3 years to complete it at the rate they build.

[@gc3137]

How about taking all the vehicles that are too damaged to use and line them up outside the wall like Walking dead? Could put them in the areas you seem to get your walls broken all the time.

[@CharliePryor]

@@gc3137 blocking a broken wall with a car or two isn’t a bad idea actually… I’m unsure whether they would actually be blocked by them, or just phase through them (since we aren’t inside them). Might be interesting to try out. After video 11, we’ll see

[@METALFREAK03]

@@CharliePryor Not sure if you done it yet, and you can still do it to see for yourself. BUT just to say, only if you don't like that car! Double walls SEEMS to be the way to go, tons of other playthroughs do this. One playthrough I watched found a bit of a "cheaty" way to play whereby he adapted buildings outside his main area, and the infected are attracted to them instead of his main base. So in that big swarm you just had (and you seemed to had more than the rest I've seen? not sure if that was to do with no army?) he had one squad just pulling them off the distraction building and bringing back to his "killzone". (quite entertaining). Anyway, you were good tactically here, I certainly would have died in your position. Although, I be scav'ing with squads more but it does seem like it takes long to build. So I get your thinking on disbanding them for labour etc. Best, Frank.

[@MrZesty-zu4xj]

I wonder if the swarm took out the enemy army that was coming for you?

[@CharliePryor]

If that’s something possible, that’s awesome.

[@Diesal3]

Maybe there was a temporal disturbance and somehow Michigan or rather Mt Pleasant was transported to Australia while you slept one night. That would explain why it’s 104° in February and 51° in May

[@sirsancti5504]

Always wondered how southern-hemisphere peopke felt while played "our" stabdartized northern-hemisphere games..

[@wolfpack95805]

You've got a real Black Summer going on this playthrough, the great famine of April Fools😂

[@sirsancti5504]

The two people you had on that wall the entire day were unionized! (Couldn't stop myself from the joke. Respect to all workers).

[@Zorogundam19]

Always have someone doing research, I bet upgrading the tools and construction would make the work go faster and more efficient.

[@CharliePryor]

Has no impact on efficiency.

[@basvandalen2093]

if it comes to and end, please do another playthrough, you learned so much.

[@terrymckerral4104]

Thank you - Great video! Where do you think you went wrong (if anywhere)? I know there was a balance in the last update but I dont see how you could have less people working on food or scavenging to focus on ammo. The only thing I can think of is to use a smaller modular footprint to start and then build out adding in sections as you go but I dunno man, seems you had the right idea here

[@shadowgaming8012]

So I'm watching this I think the army ran into this warm or at least a swarm. Lol

[@Lord_Insectious]

Some of your guys must be French and taking 2 hours for lunch 😂😂😂

[@ricorommeldumaplin4822]

That swarm is terrible, they also must have sledgehammers with them to be able to break through a brick wall with ease, it now makes sense as to why the characters on the walking dead placed spiked defenses on their walls

[@METALFREAK03]

They are infected not the dead...I hear Charlie making this mistake. They are more of the types from World Z or I am Legend or Last Man on Earth. Strong, agile, able to climb and jump walls. I am guessing, the game just "destroys" the walls but in reality they are probably doing a World Z final scene, when they all climb on eachother to get over the wall.

[@hiyalovelys-]

Try building a warehouse that may fix the meat transport bug

[@lemon14141]

Regarding the meat \ cookhouse bug: I wonder if it's a mechanic like in "surviving the aftermath". The workers at a kitchen don't bring in their own resources. You need unstaffed workers to act as carriers to distribute resources. Maybe this game has the same mechanic.

[@saisonblue]

meat not getting to cook house, may be there a radius limit.

[@termopylae5506]

The most recent update adresses the food situation, they have buffed food production because it is too low.

[@justmyopinion628]

If you had cooperated with the army you could of called on them to come and help.

[@Coconut-219]

Cute, for a second I almost mistook this for that scam walking dead game - this looks neat.

[@bubbles69138]

Make sure to do expeditions in different area's so u canfind the BIG trucks and the unlimited fuel ;)

[@saisonblue]

the mood d-buff , is a pin in the foot

[@arjunamirzada3688]

I mean since youre really down on people, you can micromanage the towers, in the daytime you de-crew them and re-crew them in the night, if the raiders come in the day i think it wouldnt be a big problem since theyre relatively small, i might jinx it tho ;)

[@CharliePryor]

I usually do, but with a pending Army coming…

[@OsirisReborn666]

If you click the people button in the bottom left you can reassign jobs by role instead of going to every building, helps in finding where everyone is assigned e.g scavengers or builders, and can help moving everyone off guard duty in the day and back again at night (I don't think that panel shows barn workers tho)

[@thedish7969]

Also u shud probably stockpile wood early early on in game

[@cafnolichepetla9622]

Can you show how to produce ammo ? After researching it

[@kevincooper5920]

You need a few more towers to help with coverage.

[@leemaguire4331]

Think you should collect all surrounding vehicles and expedition 100% for a day or two.

[@gc3137]

I just started watching your videos with this game. I think your doing great. Have you had any response to your Tickets from the Devs? I just binge watched all your videos for this game so far and subscribed. Now waiting on the next one.

[@williamrichardson-gm4pt]

Try using a squad to transfer the meat from your headquarters to your cookHouse.

[@totalgamingspectrum8697]

The game really went “Go touch grass” 😂

[@thedish7969]

Watched the whole series so far and I think u should have not built the wall so early on and should have focused more on food and research also a small wall with more gates and towers and focus on ammo conservation will go along way then once u have the means to produce your own ammo you could stop using arrow towers and upgrade to gung ho Charlie mode😊

[@strategygamemike]

No Food, No Ammo, No fuel, No Wood. Easy peasy

[@t.jmaddog2188]

I just a thought why don't you combine the warehouse with the cookhouse.

[@CharliePryor]

Because the game doesn't permit that.

[@t.jmaddog2188]

@@CharliePryor That sucks that would have solved your meat rations problem

[@CharliePryor]

@@t.jmaddog2188 yup. You can’t adapt a single building to multiple purposes. Pretty silly, but that’s the way it is. ;)

[@METALFREAK03]

@@CharliePryor even making your own buildings either. Not sure if its an oversight or their vision. It's cool having the "reclaim this world" ethos with adapting the shells of old buildings to the player's but surely in reality, you would have both self-made, makeshift buildings with large shell buildings being a "rare" occurence. Like it was in the 100 and the tower of Polis.

[@MRFritcher]

Aggravating. I'd want to be able to tell the people not fixing the wall that if they aren't done by nightfall, they're on the other side. Food thing isn't making any sense. Why aren't food stores in the cookhouses? So many people & it's crazy how much isn't being accomplished. I want to try this game out, but I don't have enough patience for the shenanigans. lol

[@CharliePryor]

A warehouse very close to the cookhouses is ideal, and that’s something I’d certainly do next time. - but the workers don’t have to walk all that far to HQ to get the meat… they just aren’t doing it.

[@KirthGersen09]

Definitely, it had potential but basically seems unplayable in the current state.

[@Daanlikkewaan]

Man I love this game, I just wish they'd give the research tree more attention, the rewards seem iffy.

[@dennisp8520]

They need to give an option to make your own buildings. If that means doing research I’m all for it but that is something I would love to see personally. Also for farming their should absolutely be a way to use fuel to do inside growing of crops so your not worried about the weather

[@METALFREAK03]

@@dennisp8520 I can't see why not. It is going into Alpha, it's not the full game releasing this april 11th. So still plenty of time for updates and our input as fans/players.

[@JayJayAY1234]

No clue how I found your channel but I’m loving this survival series. Get home from work and I’ve dived on the couch to watch your uploads. Can’t wait for the bugs to be fixed and giving this game a try myself. Please keep up the content this is awesome. Lived age of empires and Dawn of War Dark crusade as a kid. See a mix and great spin off in this. Would be great for devs to copy some of those features to integrate across. I think this game has legs to go far if they fix the small issues.

[@tylerbeets4016]

Can you move a vehicle closer to the wood gathering so they don’t walk all the way back to HQ?

[@CharliePryor]

No way to make workers use vehicles at all. Only squads will interact with vehicles, in this build.

[@tylerbeets4016]

@@CharliePryor Darn. Really enjoying the series even with the bugs!

[@mbrennecke]

Looking forward to the next playthrough with the updated build that was just released or the full release version. This has been great still even with some of the issues.

[@CharliePryor]

Depends on how the release differs. I would imagine this would be it. We’ll see the update that recently pushed out as of video 11… but with a week left, I can’t imagine it’ll be all that different. Would consider another run if there are sufficient changes to warrant it. I usually don’t play the same game twice without such a thing happening.

[@mbrennecke]

@@CharliePryor Well, we liked it, earned a sub here ;)

[@METALFREAK03]

@@CharliePryor (Preface: with "its your channel do what you like (and scheduling!) but...) My thoughts would be this game has endless opportunity for new, creative and exciting series on XYZ "where in the world". Plus the different tactics you could use and grow. I mean, I like how you play this game honestly. ALL the others, even ones that do this game 24/7 for about a month now, are not as entertaining or...and I be frank here, their narration ("commentary") is lacking. (or the production - like someone I am watching is still pumping out 360p videos...in 2024...) So if you do have the time, the passion and all the rest, I would (for one) LOVE to see more series with this. Even if it's a short episodic series per say quarter. It's why I watch basically all of your series...the only one I don't is the Workers and resources one, I don't know why I just don't like the game. Possibly as I lived through it? Possibly. Anyway, rambling old man again. All the best, Frank.

[@ed4373]

Definitely looks like theres some balance issues? Although maybe its due to the bugs? Do we know if the seasons changing what month they are is a bug or intended ?

[@ed4373]

regarding balance, more the amount of time it takes people to move places. Like it shouldn't take more then 15 mins to get from the HQ to the Northwest Tower (closest one) but it took almost an hour

[@CharliePryor]

🤷‍♂️ no idea

[@Comicsluvr]

I have to say that until and unless the Devs get these issues worked out, I won't be buying the game. I'm okay with the game ending because I messed up, but when I die because of game bugs or bad mechanics, that's a MAJOR turn-off for me.

[@wolfpack95805]

Yep, up until these last 2 videos I had no idea how severe the issues were, seems like save corruption is the source of a lot of it. I hope they don't have to scale back features like the dynamic "start anywhere" gimmick, but over a year with a temperature debuff for food, and cooks and builders stuck in a loop not doing their jobs, isn't playable

[@lordvader4089]

Its almost like you should have built the ammo building instead of the weather building huh?

[@CharliePryor]

I doubt one person doing ammo would be enough. Even so, the expensive research isn’t enough done to build it

[@killermagic890]

If u need ammo why dont u get the police station finished can ammo from there for a day and also while ur out hit the store next to it for some food aswell

[@charlesingram9471]

We need games to be challenging to get a sense of acheivement at the end of it, That is what is being lost in many modern games. You're doing great, keep it up.

[@anthopro477]

this isnt challenging its basically unplayable and unfun

[@josephrobinson8336]

it seem this whole run is badly bugged

[@jessecartagena2830]

I've been watching and enjoying the videos alot but I don't know why you are ignoring the supermarket west of your HQ please get that food

[@CharliePryor]

There’s nothing in there. It’s been searched already, but the icon persists.

[@KirthGersen09]

Can you research greenhouses? Hydroponics? Honestly this game seems designed to be unplayable bullshit foodwise... Definitely needs lots of work unless you're making a lot more mistakes than usual.

[@CharliePryor]

No greenhouses, no hydro, not even any way to generate electricity as far as I can tell. It needs expanded on. - it’s not even out on early access yet, so give it time

[@dargaronsoftsong3193]

It's funny because I looked at a couple let's plays on earlier builds (three months ago, I think?) and the tech tree actually *had* more items on it, including greenhouses and *hunting*. There was an entire branch devoted to researching undead biology in order to do things like craft lures or research pheremones that make your people less likely to get spotted. The tech tree in this playthrough looks bare bones in comparison.

[@destro2008]

MAKE CANNERY !!

[@CharliePryor]

That only matters if your food stocks last a while. ;)

[@aurane24]

Ur wall is way to big .

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

Charlie: 50:41 It's a playability-breaking mechanic I'm "fixated" on, and video Charlie seems to agree. What the devs need to do is make it 1:1, or at least something remotely realistic (isn't a realistic setting one of the game's selling points?). When things get slow, there's already play speed controls to deal with that.

[@CharliePryor]

I absolutely disagree that this time passage is a game breaking mechanic. That’s patently false. In fact one step farther, it is a standard of the genre and is this way for over 90% of all titles I’ve ever played, with the only exceptions being those games which take place outside of a standard time scale, turn based titles, or titles where the time falls upon planets other than earth anyways and colonist productivity has less balance impact on the core game.

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

Okay, so I just measured the E-W length of the block Charlie's compound occupies. It's just under 1100 ft (330m). That would take less than four minutes to cover at a brisk walk, maybe double if you're being particularly leisurely about it. It took HALF AN HOUR to DRIVE from the corner to the center of the compound. The time dilation in this game really, REALLY skroos you over. Work teams spend hours walking distance that would take you minutes IRL. Work sites that are just outside the walls lose a third or more of the work day to walking. Forget the bugs...the game's core mechanics make it unplayable. How are you supposed to grow your base if it takes workers the entire work day to traverse it?

[@CharliePryor]

You seem to really fixate on time dilation, when everything about it is really no different than every other game in the genre. It’s all done for game balance. A game. A science-fiction situation game at that. If it was realistic with time, you’d have to actually play it an entire day to get to night. I’m not sure what you want the devs to do about it.