Hostage Negotiations | Infection Free Zone - Part 4 (Zombie Apocalypse City Builder-Early Access)

Infection Free Zone continues and there's a very tense moment as one of our squads gets taken hostage by some troublemakers in one of the buildings near Northampton Market Square!
The baddies are holding our squad at gunpoint unless we deliver them food but there are no guarantees that they'll let our folks free if we give in to their demands. Do we give them what we want or do we go in all guns blazing in an effort to free our friends?
Away from the hostage situation, quite a few new people come to join us which is great news because we need to get lots of people doing a great deal of scavenging for building materials. With wood not overly in abundance in a town centre we decide that dismantling buildings is the way forward so we make a plan to clear an area for farming.
After a bit of work we manage to build a barn! Hooray for chickens and eggs! We don't have much grain to feed the chickens but there are plans afoot to get more fields on the go because our squads have managed to find quite a lot of tools.
Also we build our first proper house, we start work on the giant pile of bricks nearby and we rescue a somewhat odd man...
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“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...
Type in the name of the city or town, download the map and start playing! Thanks to OpenStreetMap’s real-world data you can choose any place in the world for your 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!
Each night your settlement might be attacked by large hordes of the infected. Fight them off with every tool available - melee and ranged weapons, vehicles, walls and light. Research a vaccine or a cure for ultimate victory, or just enjoy rebuilding entire cities!
Your Zone is not the only one that exists. Your survivors will surely find other surviving groups. Some will be friendly and willing to trade, but others will be extremely hostile. There might be some fighting involved!
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[@jagordon1976]

Loving this series! That kidnapping event is one of my favorites in the game. You don't have the voices on, but the guy who does the voice acting of that character is fantastic. As you discovered, the squads do not seem to be tied to a car that you assign them. This will definitely need to be changed before the full release as that requires an amount of micromanagement that is unrealistic - especially if you are having to micromanage several squads while in the middle of a fight. If you want to contact the yellow groups, I have found that you have to get the squad out of the car. I've found it never works in the car, but will work most of the time once you get out to talk to them. Remember when scavenging, you can highlight the entire area of a resource (like the area of bricks), but just take people off that job specifically if you get enough of the resource. That way you can "fire and forget" the job, just add or remove people from it depending on your needs. However, if you don't like all the dots on the screen with unattended jobs you can just remove the entire job (to each their own). Using cars to mow down the zombies is not all that efficient, as you found. When the vehicle deteriorates, it goes slower as well and you will also have to repair the vehicles eventually which is an exorbitant cost, so keep that in mind. Taking out those raider groups is a good way to get more guns and ammo (if they have guns), but there is a bit of risk to your people, of course. I like to use overwhelming force (like using double the number of people than the raiders with the best guns you have available). With driving, it says on the bottom but they don't really tell you, you can hold "ALT" and click to drive offroad. Otherwise, they will drive only on the roads.

[@eiebfiebrkcfne5399]

RIP Lisa White!

[@Lledra]

Really enjoying this series, Penge~! :D Excited for what's next! Keep on Keeping On, and thank you for doing what you do~

[@ChicaItaliana26]

I'd love to see more of this series. You're quite organized. It might be worth it to make more squads to utilize all of the vehicles nearby.

[@DavidDrouant]

loving this series

[@TheGeekCupboard]

Good to hear it! I was a bit concerned it would fizzle out. I do think I need to hurry it along a bit, we need to get more done in each video. Less waffly nonsense from me is required!

[@DavidDrouant]

@@TheGeekCupboard Planning in normal life is hard enough, I can only imagine planning in a zombieland

[@joshuacr]

@@DavidDrouant Apparently I would now be called "Gary." 😁

[@DonGorgen]

From what i've gathered the radio don't guarantee anyone will join you, but it'll increase the chance of random groups of people spawning on the map, both hostile and neutral. No group however are guaranteed to find you, you may have to go out to them and point the way like you did in the beginning of the video.

[@JessieMPhoto]

Loving this series, can't wait for the next episode! And loved the Monty Python reference, although the Lumberjack song is now stuck in my head XD

[@daddykon2344]

You're doing good. That's a hell of a map and you're building like a machine. I wonder how it turns out. EDIT: In fact, I've seen others play this and you're the most organized soo far.

[@joshuacr]

Seconded. I saw somebody in another major city in another European country not as organized, and...let's just say it didn't end too well for them. Slow steady expansion, because if you expand too fast, that also can kill you!

[@CommentingPeople]

Watching this on a phone, the canned goods icon looks like an ET head.

[@joshuacr]

(If it makes you feel any better I refused to negotiate and my *entire* squad died. Still, RIP Lisa.) Well, now you "met" the madman. How can this possibly go wrong? Right "Gary?" Seriously Penge, good job start researching fertilizer! now you learned chemistry! (And yes you are at the point to deconstruct buildings for wood bricks and metal not simply scavenging. Well done!)

[@DonGorgen]

I refused aswell but sent in my other 3 squads and dealt with the bad guys. Beating them will make their leader admit he underestimated you, what happens next idk. Maybe he's building up a army to come attack me lol.

[@joshuacr]

@@DonGorgen The next step has been seen but I'm being very vague because I don't want to ruin anything. But yeah, once bitten twice shy!

[@DonGorgen]

You got burned this time for trusting that guy, but don't let that take away you faith in humanity, they're not all bad. Trying not to give away to much, but there is another group out there you're gonna benefit from trusting.

[@anthonyr.1568]

I trust Penge for trusting people.

[@DonGorgen]

Your crops do still grow during winter, it just takes a lot longer. Fertilizer is a by product from the barn. You could also make it I think, but no need since the barn is gonna produce plenty. You don't have to manually click the base when you call home the squads. Bottom left corner of the info box there is a star button that tell them to go home. Careful about running over zombies with the car, that run you did took 1/3 of your car health. With the large buildings you could do partial adaptation.

[@TheGeekCupboard]

The issue with calling home the squads is, as we saw, that they don't bring the cars back with them. So they'll drive out to a location in the car but then when they're called back they'll walk home, which is a bit of a nuisance!

[@DonGorgen]

@@TheGeekCupboard If you put them back in the car before you call them home they will bring it back. That star button only bring home that 1 squad, so you keep doing it almost like you already do, but instead of scrolling all the way to the base you just tell them to go home. Then go to the next squad.

[@Odeon420]

cant you change your shelters into houses?

[@anthonyr.1568]

0:30 "It entirely slipped my mind, which is quite surprising" Tsk tsk, come on now Penge...

[@TheGeekCupboard]

I thought I might get away with that one...

[@MuazliMarzuki]

Lots of idle workers, hope there’s a feature that turns idle workers to scavengers automatically.. also why there is red highlighted buildings? Candidates for dismantle?

[@anthonyr.1568]

F in the chat for Lisa White ⚰

[@TheGeekCupboard]

I wonder if she came back as a zombie? Not sure how the mad virus thing works.

[@DonGorgen]

When you're low on resources you might be better offf just pausing all building and send everyone scavenging. But you could also micro manage it and remove everyone from the bricks and houses and put everyone on the wood.

[@PaulDozierZZoMBiE13]

I haven't finished the video yet, but, it looks like one squad has two automatic rifles while one squad has only pistols. Would it not be more useful to have one automatic rifle on each team than one with two and one with none? Again, I haven't finished the video so this may be moot.

[@DonGorgen]

Both yes and no. Spreading out the assault rifles will increase the power of all the squads. But having 1 squad with all assault rifles you can take more advantage of the extra range, like if half the squad got pistols and try to attack from the max range of the assault rifles then the pistols will be out of range.

[@anthonyr.1568]

1:03:40 Why do you want to dismantle that middle building and then replace it with a wall? Shouldn't you just keep it and build the wall on either side?

[@TheGeekCupboard]

Just so it clears the space so we can build farms on it. Many farms! ALL THE FARMS

[@anthonyr.1568]

😄OK, that makes sense.

[@helen.highwater]

Interesting Fact: Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Your getaway car's being driven by a doll!

[@DavidDrouant]

The car needs to be pink

[@joshuacr]

@@DavidDrouant I can feel the Kenergy!

[@saethman]

Sam's chickens? Too bad you didn't see that place/name before you placed the barn such a missed opportunity (although an opportunity for me to give a random comment for the youtube algorythm gods)

[@TheGeekCupboard]

It would have worked well!