Fort Monroe Virginia - Infection Free Zone Gameplay - 01

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Game Description -
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
“The Mad Virus” has spread throughout the world with the speed of jet planes. The infected are highly aggressive, fast and strong.
In a couple of weeks, society collapsed. Cities are empty. There is no electricity, no water, and no food. Yet, there are a few survivors...
Establish a new “Infection Free Zone” wherever you choose. Set up shelters and production facilities. Adapt existing buildings to new needs. Build new farms and power houses. Establish defenses with walls, gates, and towers.
Utilize your knowledge of the city. What is the best place to defend? Where were the grocery stores, where were the pharmacies? Where would you look for weapons?
Remember that it’s dangerous to search the old buildings, there might be some infected lurking in the dark!
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[@auran_vesdranor]

"We took your people. Pay up." > "You'll release them then?" "Sure, a deal is a deal" > Arrives with the stuff "Well, actually pay double now" > Attacks "Someone doesn't uphold the deal (Surprised Pikachu face)"

[@KnightOps-KO]

😂😂😂

[@Victoria_Bloodmoon]

I ran into those guys for the first time playing in "Fort Eisenhower" GA. Ran my garrison squad "Foehammer" right in there with AK's and riot gear. It was over quick.

[@Victoria_Bloodmoon]

Unfortunately I lost my scouts, as I told the guy off, figuring they were dead anyway. Valkyrie Group will be remembered lol.

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@Victoria_Bloodmoon 😂😂😂😂

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@Victoria_Bloodmoon I love the names for your squads 😂

[@Sparten7F4]

This map seems great for a sorta 'We are the surviving National Guard of Virginia' RP. Take the fort, occupy it, build it up, and use that as a theoretical staging point for Virginians to retake the city, county and state eventually from the INfected and the bandits.

[@KnightOps-KO]

I can't wait for custom start scenarios

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

always a nice scenario or well any ''x group cant run , we need to build a hold out long term , grab the old fort!'' ..though , those walls is not this fortress supposed to be from like 1700 or 1800 ? so should it not be more ''half of the permitted is to the most part slopped ramparts several meters thick to resist artility fire and keep munitions and return heavy canons safe from anything but a direct hit , only top bit is vertical'' soo.. those walls strikes as quite ''used prop at hand to improvise location architecture'' ?

[@nicholaslapointe1776]

This is one of my favorite Virginia facts, so I’ll drop an “umm actually” In Virginia, cities are independent of counties. Hampton, where Ft Monroe is located, is a city. Norfolk, across the HRBT is also a city. And basically all the nearby counties (Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake) incorporated as cities and ceased to be counties. Therefore, technically, any national guard wouldn’t be retaking a surrounding county.

[@takirosh]

Your first raid was on 4th of July. Seems fitting somehow. You lit them up like fireworks.

[@KnightOps-KO]

😂😂😂🔥🔥

[@Steve_With_a_D]

this could be tough, expeditions and farms will be important early. should be fun to watch.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yeaa there's only 2 cars on this map 😂

[@ajmeipalu1051]

@@KnightOps-KO Two?! Tried my home town and got one!

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@ajmeipalu1051 😂😂

[@12ad49]

@@KnightOps-KO i found 6 or 7

[@jumpingtanks8839]

I played this map when the game launched April 11th. I found it fun, and challenging. my run ended when I ran out of buildings to scrap. I made it pretty far before I quit, seeing how hopeless the situation was, I was doomed to a slow death of running out of firewood to keep up the food production.

[@WolfricThorsson]

Something that should be fixed once they implement tree growth in the next update, if that was the only thing you were lacking. Shouldn't be quite so doomed then!

[@draconon7072]

I was at Fort Monroe with my brother a couple weeks ago, really cool place. Bet that's why I got this recommended to me lmao. Highly recommend giving it a visit if you haven't already! I was diasppointed to see that the walls were just thin walls as opposed to the actual Ramparts, but that's probably either a design limitation of the game or a choice because that would probably limit your buildable spaces lol

[@orbital78_]

A pretty cool location with the built in natural wall defenses. Hopefully they get more "recommended" maps done, they seem to be more balanced out than the random local maps or other big cities.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea I plan to do some of the recommended maps in the future since you can build a new HQ your not stuck where they put you

[@JamesBarnes-vn5pq]

Amazing! hope this series last a long time!

[@Skay24]

You choose a empty map, a very empty one... Good luck.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yeaaaa but at least the fort looks cool..... 🤣🤣

[@Skay24]

@@KnightOps-KO Maybe ask devs if they add ships and boats so you can loot oil rigs. 😂😂😂

[@KnightOps-KO]

@Skay24 More like Comercial fishing 😂 drop them nets for food. Catch me some of them swimming infected instead tho with my luck 😂😂

[@epicsnake21]

​@@KnightOps-KOinfected fish xD

[@Skay24]

@@KnightOps-KO Well that is a good idea to use river and lakes in game for food.

[@christlerkylielanguayan8609]

Everyday I always check your channel if there's a new video, idk there's smth that I really love about how you narrate them lmao. But I live in Asia so everytime you post a new video I'm asleep but when I wake up I instantly go to your channel to watch a video because I know there will be a new one❤❤

[@KnightOps-KO]

Thank you it means alot that you guys look forward to and watch my videos! 🫡🔥

[@AyoubusMagnus]

Tbh it's a very good and relaxing video also your voice is pretty smooth. Thank you

[@KnightOps-KO]

Glad you enjoyed! 🫡🫡🫡

[@usersicon]

Love watching you infection free zone series

[@KnightOps-KO]

Thank you! 🫡🔥

[@natheria4933]

that was a clever idea building in a brick and earth fort. I didnt know those actually existed in the game. I should try that sometime

[@neofulcrum5013]

Now I definitely wanna see you tackle Catalina island.

[@KnightOps-KO]

I'll have to take a look at the location 😂

[@MikeD56034]

im having fun with this game, i picked one of my old duty stations from my fun years in the military, while the base itself building layout wise is different from the real base, its super cool to see things i recognize on the base in game. makes building searches easier to prioritize

[@KnightOps-KO]

I thought about that but alot of the bases are just massive buildings making it hard to play in.

[@MikeD56034]

@@KnightOps-KO im definately having that problem ill prolly restart and try and start in the sub division for bas housing. Lots of smaller buildings. But i enjoy a.good challange

[@josiefever]

Love watching your vids on ifz 😊 just subscribed.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Welcome aboard! 🫡

[@ExileRika]

Oh boy! Good luck :3

[@mentura7172]

I'd love to see you take over that fort and fully defend it. It should be EPIC!! As a fellow Army vet, and has Shell Shock. it takes time to mend, it takes time. Have a Great one!!!

[@KnightOps-KO]

Thank you! And yeaaa it's been a wild ride since my injury and discharge from the Army. Thank you again!

[@epicsnake21]

21:44 Go on google street view and check out the fort. I saw 4 bridges, 3 of which could be used by motor traffic and one could be used by pedestrians. If I'm wrong though, feel free to correct me. Great work with the video, it was a fun watch.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea after looking at Google maps after I saw that 😅😂

[@brianhum8765]

The forts are definitively among the most fun locations to play; especially if they're on an island, but the premade locations seemingly have more balanced loot. The Italy premade is a nice, walled island that looks like it might have been a military base.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea the pre-made areas I feel the devs gave a little touch ups to.

[@junior6651]

Very cool series. Does anyone know the developer? It would be cool to do research on housing to be able to have cleaners/decorators to paint the buildings in the base, to refurbish pieces of road chosen by you, so that it gives that vibe of rebuilding society, so that everything doesn't seem so sad anymore. This could also boost morale.

[@TheCAMANDERINCHIEF]

I never show up with the food. I just send my squads in guns blazing lol. That fort strategically is amazing. If you build metal gates blocking the walk paths mannnnn amazing map. I might run my next game here.

[@scp2539]

28:50 not sure how much its changed since i haven't played or watched in a while but the military was constantly losing APCs all over the cities. basically walked them back like the train hat if you know what that is and were insane to repair but they could still fire so it worked out great as a super slow bunker.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea the issue now is that men can get shot in buildings and car now so it's alot harder (current updated) to fight the army. Someone was telling me the other day they had lost like 30 guys fighting the military 😂

[@KnightOps-KO]

And lost by giving in and surrounding 😂😂

[@monstaquest]

I played in a similar place where I was in a walled area surrounded by water. In my case at least the infected could attack the walls from the water and break in. I ended up having to make towers around the perimeter. My area was not as big as yours to cover though.

[@sgtsmith501]

Click and hold when placing farms for more control on rotation

[@alexanderrahl7034]

I really do wish the playable area was bigger. Last time i played was the same month the game released. I was playing in Marblehead MA, on Flying Point ... island? Isthmus? Whatever. But i did pretty great there, first time i successfully survived. But eventually i scavenged almost all my playabe area and had started deconstructing tons of buildings around me. My settlement was getting pretty big. And every attack was more or less dealt with. I started thinking "what now?" And just put the game down. The outer expedition squares seemed worthless. I sent a squad there with a truck, and lost half of them for a couple cans of food. A whole square, and 8 cans of food. For days of work. I definitely would play in that spot again, and probably pick a spot closer to the road leading in, though. Its a good spot

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea late game leaves much to be desired at this point. Once you hit a certain point it just becomes repetitive quick 😅😂

[@MouldedSalad]

Thanks for the entertainment. 🙂

[@KnightOps-KO]

You're welcome! Thank you! I honestly don't know what to say but thank you! 🫡😭😂

[@GGamer-r1j]

Nice vid

[@sophonchear6449]

Best fortress👍

[@usuigremory1981]

Its really a good idea sadly the place is so empty really hard to get supplies in, maybe you can check another place that has a fort with walls? I havent touch the game yet so i dont know if they added that place its called intramuros its located in Philippines in the capital city manila its a walled city within a city good spot for supplies and defence plus another fort is within it named fort Santiago a really awesome place, visited it and its amazing how the walls still stands after decades.

[@jacksongill8880]

It has 2 drivable roads to actually get onto the inner part of the fort.

[@drakehulitt6778]

The zombie ai does look for the easiest path to send the zombies but sometimes it will send them to break the walls

[@sgtsmith501]

With expeditions, best to send the best armed and more veteran teams, ideally two groups to the same expedition zone. Bring at least one ammo pack for em in the car (gotta manually force em back into the car because theres a bug per say they auto try to re enter HQ if they get in a vehicle nearby with resources so as to deposit it). Expedition zones can have an entire horde or more and success is down to vehicle HP and how fast you can kill the infectected

[@KnightOps-KO]

yea im just afraid to lose the vehicles I guess using the APC to clear them out would be best

[@dieseljester3466]

This makes me want to do one for Fort McHenry, MD now.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Ohh ima take a look at that location

[@dieseljester3466]

@@KnightOps-KO you should. Downtown Baltimore along with the Inner Harbor. That’s gonna be one sweet setup.

[@usslaffey1890]

Tbh this seems like a good location, yeah less buildings really open area and the city is far but the good news is the walls are there, only 3 entrances you can block one and leave one entrance as a gate

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea just gotta keep self sufficiency under control. And your pretty much good.

[@usslaffey1890]

@@KnightOps-KO yep and if the progression is good you might be able to expand well covering the two entrances the lead to the city most defences would be there than in the main base mostly likely you would grow lots of grain there too since its such a big open field, food wount be a problem for ya

[@clashcon11]

What a challenge.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea the car situation is rough 😅

[@MrBrassporkchop]

Yeah when I suggested it I figured if anyone could pull it off it would be you haha.

[@KnightOps-KO]

😂 I've had so many people tell me I'm good at this game. I've not watched other people so I'm not sure what the avg skill people have in this 😂😂

[@lucasstpierre4401]

Just started watching might wanna make the "infection free zone" smaller lol and maybe move it off the menu

[@diesal7805]

16:30 Did you realize that you can hold left click and drag the fields out to get them aligned? It will space them a bit more but it will keep them in line.

[@KnightOps-KO]

yea but i tend to have a bit more issues with that then the buttons

[@markjerue9734]

Fun fact - if you click on the Swarm Incoming message, it will show you where they spawned.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Oh that's nice thank you! 🫡🔥

[@ariancortes2095]

So i found something out, if a resource is blocking your way and you cant build a farm, you can start the process of gathering it and even if the workers havent finished it, as long as it is highlighted blue, you can build the farm over the resource.

[@KnightOps-KO]

That's really nice to know! Thank you!!

[@dirkbreusing1006]

geat vid

[@KnightOps-KO]

Thank you 🫡🔥

[@ricorommeldumaplin4822]

This game would be even better if you can make a deconstruction squad that you can assign on a building to collect the materials needed to improve the zone

[@KnightOps-KO]

That would be a cool idea I was thinking the same with repair guys they can auto repair stuff bc with alot of walls it's rough to click each and every one to check there HP.

[@happyguy8725]

They need to add tree farms to replenish trees, and a recycling plant for mettle.

[@KnightOps-KO]

I saw someone make a suggestion in the IFZ discord that they should add green houses and I really liked the idea since you can use it during winter without the debuff to growing. A tree farm could be along the same premise.

[@happyguy8725]

@@KnightOps-KO I like areas down south, no winter, I like how the game already includes that.

[@CommentingPeople]

Like your gameplay. One minor annoyance: it's 'masonry' not ' masonary'

[@KnightOps-KO]

Ima try 😂 to say it right

[@sharkeyt.1266]

Devs. Survivors need to be able to use cars

[@daviddonaghy4723]

FYI There is a “Return to HQ” button (Star) at the bottom of your squad window. I’ve notice you tend to select a squad then scroll all the way back to the HQ to set their destination.🤔

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea its a bad habit from when they removed that button before launch

[@danielg9972]

I don't use it either because sometimes they would head back to HQ on foot and leave the car behind.

[@cafnolichepetla9622]

Be nice we could build bridges or airports

[@alexembsen2145]

At 22:30 you could have asked the survivors where they were attacked and killed more raiders for more guns

[@KnightOps-KO]

ahh thats good to know! Thank You! 🫡🫡

[@CuongNguyen-ri9rj]

i want to ask. How can u expand territory?

[@KnightOps-KO]

You can't at the moment. You can only use expeditions.

[@StyxAnnihilator]

Horrible placing of the farms, OCD triggering! XD If just placed so go clear of the tower and the upper road, then could have a nice rectangle of 2x5.

[@KnightOps-KO]

😂😂 gotta keep them close

[@deltacx1059]

Would be cool if the walls were as thick as they should be.

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea it would look cooler

[@deltacx1059]

@@KnightOps-KO and provide better defense, those walls stood up to cannons I'm sure s few zombies won't be a issue.

[@Ghost34344]

Hey knight ops did u know u can find box trucks on the map i have found 2 in my first game ive started

[@Ghost34344]

But they are pretty rare to come by so if I were u I would look out for them

[@KnightOps-KO]

@Ghost34344 I did not know the box truck was in the game now thats great but also boooo that it's rare 😂

[@Ghost34344]

Ya I didn't know that either my guess is that it could be the area you spawn and that determines what kind of vehicles spawn there im in Atlanta Georgia and I have not even build my antenna yet im on year 3

[@Ghost34344]

And what i mean by box truck i mean its the military truck just a civilian version of it

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@Ghost34344 ahhhhh

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

wait.. a star fortress like that ,its walls is supposed to be full fat sodding ramparts several floors high with a slope on the inside and a partial slope on the outside to leet the stone even if pummelled 'naturally' stay in functional form for the defenders is it not ? just ..thin.. vertical walls , so slim you cant realy even move along their tops.. this feels like using props in 'alternative' ways to improvise a location ?

[@KnightOps-KO]

Currently this is what the game is using. I feel like once elevation gets added in and with how popular forts like this are for bases they will add additional models in for this style of fort. **I Hope**

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

@@KnightOps-KO ah , yes do hoppe so considering the nature of a game like this , and how dependent a large aspect of the mechanics of such things depends on 'land sculpting' and then how it ties into fortifications of this nature be them pre-existing or something to ''research''/develop math for to build fresh it be quite silly or a hint the game been built on the wrong engine if they dont add that after all , while from a game angle players might set up ammo production it be nice with defensive construction able to mimic how in reality passive ways to hold of swarms be critical long term , such as a fortress like this and then rushed new steel gates made from what could be salvaged etc and likely preferred without water mote as stake motes reduce risk ground pollution and make it simpler to 'clean up' aka torch lone corpses or set one aflame and watch the putrid body fat or dry sinews help the flames leap though it also makes me hoppe the game will include some basic piping , solar cells and such things , for more 'high tech' water reclamation or hydroponics to if it been reality avoid risk of soil catched food born contagions , and game vice the potential for year around food production , of course winter hydroponics would demand heating hmm either way hoppe i can keep following this play and see if the game gets 'deep' enough to replace rimworld for me , its map size is already refreshingly large , speaking of map size is it endless 'generating' as you explore new grid squares or set in advance ?

[@marcoyolo22]

You could’ve made that your base by making it the bottom square of the area

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea I thought of that after I had started 😅 but at the same time it leaves the sliver of land that would have been in the lower expedition area of the map and would be spawning swarms/hordes so it's good and bad 😂

[@MidoriOtoko]

​@@KnightOps-KOexactly what I was thinking about

[@austinbowman6177]

Hey hey. I've been watching more content like this (more infection free zone gameplay) and i wanted to share some things with you! I'm sorry if you already know this: 1. I think you can click on the icon's. The yellow one's, i think, you won't get into a fight with. 2. There's a thing where a 3 year old was turned and you'd have to find it and bring it in. Again I'm sorry if you know all this already

[@KnightOps-KO]

The 3 year old must be a new event. I haven't had that one yet 🤔

[@austinbowman6177]

@@KnightOps-KO that's fine. I seen it on another channel that went through alot of apartments and stuff essentially non stop.

[@KnightOps-KO]

@austinbowman6177 most of my game time currently was before release so some of the new events I haven't seen yet so looking forward to that now 😂 I like coming across new events

[@austinbowman6177]

​@@KnightOps-KOthat event was from 7 or 9 days ago. So you should be fine. It happened on a New York playthrough

[@austinbowman6177]

So if any problems arise that should be your one stop shop for that event.

[@jonathanbrooke8556]

To use a hack go in and out of buildings when attacking raiders or infected after they use their first shots. You take less to no damage.

[@KnightOps-KO]

I think they fixed that I tried it in another playthough and it wasn't working I had guys taking damage the moment they entered. But it could of just been a bug where they were still taking damage I've come across some weird bugs with this game so far 😂

[@jonathanbrooke8556]

@@KnightOps-KO not for me as of last night.

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@jonathanbrooke8556 huh ill have to try it again

[@pasculescurazvanandrei9287]

I played this map for 50 days untill i realized that in the long run u cant do shit There is so little to make expeditions that is not playable in the long run

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yea my ultimate goal is to just secure the fort and have sustainable resources.

[@curdev4930]

they can attack form the water

[@KnightOps-KO]

There's only like 1 horde that comes in everyone so often from the south since there's no land mass for the swarms to come from so they all pretty much come from the north.

[@Sparten7F4]

COUNTRY ROOOOOOOOADS TAKE ME HOOOOOOME

[@KnightOps-KO]

To A PLACE I BELONG!!!

[@Sparten7F4]

@@KnightOps-KO WE- Er, uh... EAST VIRGINIAAAAAAA, MOUNTAIN MAMAAAAAAA

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@Sparten7F4 TAKE ME HOME. COUNTRY ROAD! 😂

[@rolandohenriquez3036]

i use numbers keys for my squads.. 1 2 3... easiest to manage...

[@KnightOps-KO]

How do you set your keys for the squads? Mine don't get selected when I use number keys?

[@rolandohenriquez3036]

@@KnightOps-KO select the squad then hold control and 1 key....

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@rolandohenriquez3036 ahh okay thank you!

[@jaffamanchang]

A fort with no medical facilitys?

[@KnightOps-KO]

Yeaaa this map was pretty much void of meds except for expeditions 😂

[@SCHizoFRemik-]

name maps pls?

[@KnightOps-KO]

It's fort Monroe in Virginia

[@Panzer445]

Hello

[@KnightOps-KO]

🫣 hi

[@Panzer445]

@@KnightOps-KOI what to say rip the DC run

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@Panzer445 yeaaa she went and died on us 😂🥲

[@starlinvander103]

this map crashes for me too much

[@KnightOps-KO]

Huh are you on the stable branch or experimental branch?

[@starlinvander103]

@@KnightOps-KO stable.

[@KnightOps-KO]

@@starlinvander103 it could be fixed on experimental and just hasn't been pushed to the stable version.

[@drek9k2]

You know, with better graphics and huge hordes of slow walkers this game could've been really fun. But to me it already just seems so meh tier. Fast zombies is mad dumb. It's like, literally the exactly opposite point to everything what zombies is. It's why Nurgle is so tanky and also a big slow bloater fatguy, not some scrawny glass cannon--and it HAS TO be glass canons for the exact reason in this video, if you have tanky zombies you sure as shit cant make em fast, or if they are fast you can't have too many unless they're basically more brittle than your dudes. Which is fucking stupid. Bunch of shaky survivors with PTSD finally getting nerves of steel and good aim still shouldn't be giving you this impression of like, a bunch of Space Marines mowing down hordes of Gaunts or Squigs or something. It's just like, a few dudes curb stomping. This is why I'm not really interested tbh, you'd think that fast zombies is just a stylistic choice and a personal pet peeve but it doesn't, it DIRECTLY impacts everything else about the gameplay. And which also makes it kinda not as cool tower defense wise, because most tower defense is relying on mowing down these huge swarms of slow but tough movers, I think it pisses me off so much more though because I adored the book World War Z by Max Brooks, not the unrelated bad movie that shared a similar name with the good book. And the Battle of Yonkers being a perfect explanation to why this makes so much difference because you can get steel rain and massive explosions that liquefy slow walkers and it doesn't do anything just makes them more infectious. It directly impacts on gameplay by then underestimating something that is slow but takes eons to whittle down health, unless you have trained marksmen.

[@finkvids837]

Bro said, he's got to edit this video, all the editing I can see is the obnoxiously large banner at the bottom?

[@KnightOps-KO]

@finkvids837 lol it's putting it in editor getting sound right (everything is split on different tracks) also use a chroma keyer to make everything a bit easier to see in video (less dark). And then render in 4k which takes 2 hours. And sometimes gotta put in cuts when the game crashes. Looking to do more in the future but gotta finish my bachelor's first to free up time 😅

[@boomboom9644]

@finkvids837 L Take lol dude thinks edits is only adding in cringe memes and 12 year old screams I bet 😂 Keep it up @KnightOps

[@rickgrims2625]

obnoxioously large banner lol mans coming in with a obnoxiously large ego 😂 isnt going the way you thought huh you man child 😂🔥🤣

[@abrahamjohn3665]

Go through solid walls... weak game

[@KnightOps-KO]

yea sometimes the infected just faze through buildings 😅😂😂