Balancing Zomboid Unstable Build 42 for Build 41 Standards - Balanced Unstable 42 // EP1

[@anon_234]

At 23:20 you just hit pure gold. That's the March Ridge apartment complex survivor map. Every apartment on every floor will be counted as a survivor house, and there are 4 floors with 9 or 10 apartments on each floor, each slightly bigger than that survivor house you found.

[@Rhadamant]

Hmm good to know

[@plasmaburndeath]

Wow nice, this is where it has a zombie spawn bug and we see 10 episodes of Rhadamant killing zombie after zombie before realizing they are all clones lol,.

[@MavwolfPrime]

The holy grail of annotated maps

[@jr6366]

Thx for playing and having some actual critique. Much better then their early testers that basically just ignored many of the pitfalls and glazed.

[@Rhadamant]

Ultimately I think my feelings boil down to this: my two main complaints is that the effort versus reward seems off balance and the barrier to every for new players just got far worse. Whatever you may think of PZ; this update makes learning to play the much more time, effort and labor intensive and with the effort and reward balance as it is i bet a lot of new players bail feeling the game isn't fun.

[@fuglaa4766]

Is I enjoy the difficulty increase less valid an opinion than I don’t enjoy feeling less powerful? I just find it funny the same people who play with multihit on and hate things like strain also get bored so quickly and need NPCs to give them purpose. They wanted to slow the game down, strain is tied to strength and weapon skill, they changed dismantling for loot respawn - you can make stairs from watching two days of tv which was the big reason to dismantle so much in b41. I have my gripes with TIS considering the millions of dollars they’ve made but to act like the changes are without purpose is silly.

[@fuglaa4766]

@@RhadamantHow else do you combat the ability to essentially speedrun the game? Spawn rosewood, fire station has weapons and tools, police station has guns, loot the supermarket for food and a freezer, throw everything upstairs in the church, hit the bookstore, dismantle all the pews, build a staircase and rain collector barrels, grab a generator from the garages drive over to the farm store and get cabbage seeds and you essentially have nothing left to do. This is doable in 5 hours, things like strain, reduced loot pools, growing seasons, variable zombies, stam regen rate are all meant to slow that process down and hopefully make it more rewarding.

[@Rhadamant]

@@fuglaa4766 All opinions are totally valid

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

​@@fuglaa4766speedruns are more of a experienced player thing. New people getting into the game aren't going to have the meta knowledge to do all that, let alone the basic knowledge needed to survive a week.

[@Cntrysky]

16:40 In regards to keys, I'd say that once you've opened the doors of a house or car that you don't intend to return to (when marking off a house on the map) then leave that key on the ground by the main door. That will lower your key inventory.

[@Rhadamant]

For house keys I don't mind them despawning entirely, for car keys I can leave them in the ignition

[@krisztiankohut3241]

Sterilizing wounds+sterilized rags works together to lower infection chance, its not redundant

[@Rhadamant]

TIL

[@bakabule]

Back in college i worked at mcdonalds and steak n shake, I would finish a shift at mcdonalds on the weekends and walk across the street to the steak n shake, the manager told me I wasn't allowed to be in my mcdonalds uniform when I came into work

[@Rhadamant]

Hah sounds about right. When I used to work in a restaurant we'd often trade take out with nearby restaurants so we could eat something different and the employees of the other places could do the same.

[@gtbkts]

Thanks for all the amazing videos and epic content!!

[@Rhadamant]

Appreciated.

[@Cntrysky]

Try using the timer on the stove. Maybe all stews cook at the same length of time? I'd also suggest doing a quick forage sweep of houses before marking them off. Forage around cars for dropped keys. That'll help on the XP there.

[@Rhadamant]

Thanks for the tips

[@ScorpiusZA.]

I liked this video. I don't own PZ (and might never just due to time constraints, etc) It was good to see how a setup is actually done.

[@Rhadamant]

I suspect people don't slowly go through the setup process often, but I figured I would =]

[@sezarsezar2830]

I think they should allow us to start in all of the towns.

[@plasmaburndeath]

I want to start in Chicago ;-)

[@Rhadamant]

Mayhaps

[@PhunnyConflicts]

ive been testing out muscle strain, and currently have it at 0.35 on high zombie pop. its still annoying in the first few weeks, but drastically gets more manageable after a month or two. but currently at default 1, its annoying all the time combined with how fast you gain exhaustion no matter how long you have survived.

[@Rhadamant]

I feel like it needs to be handled sort of like panic where early game its an issue but later on it goes away as you're used to the combat

[@vc6094]

Hey you should get a smithy early and explore the crafting system more with wildlife as a food source/exploring GL

[@Rhadamant]

We'll see how it all polls

[@Draconicacidic]

I love how some people insist its pronounced "luahville"... like yeah, named after the famous King Luah

[@Rhadamant]

Haha

[@WakkaWakka25]

Currently should take conspicuous for the points since zombies see you at their max distance always if you cross their sight lines. If you had inconspicuous it only muffs your foot steps, still not the sight sadly.

[@Rhadamant]

I know

[@nerys71]

Interestingly enough the drain on car batteries is actually realistic for today at least most cars today can only go two or three weeks before they drain the internal battery just running the alarm and the electronics that can interact with your little key fob however this is 1993 in which case it usually takes 6 months to a year before you drain those batteries because the car is back then were far simpler and basically the battery was not used at all when the car was turned off. I'm guessing it's some sort of game mechanic balancing?

[@Rhadamant]

I don't think its a game balancing mechanic, I think its a bug.

[@Lost-Mind]

I didn't know you add free points to your characters, good to know.

[@Rhadamant]

Yup go wild!

[@yurisonovab3892]

as far as car batteries on MP servers goes, it's not too bad to have them drained it's already a thing if a server starts out with a 6 months later setting fortunately, any car batteries found as loot are all generated fully charged

[@Rhadamant]

True enough but it does make hotwiring cars to use much more difficult

[@yurisonovab3892]

@@Rhadamant yeah, hotwiring cars and MP servers tend to cause disagreements when mixed together

[@Scriptures_K]

I tend to just shove & stomp zombies instead of using my weapon (if there aren't many to fight ofc), do you know if that wears you down more or uses more calories?

[@Rhadamant]

It will tire your legs and wear down your shoes. Just make sure to check your shoes for holes or you might get injured.

[@Scriptures_K]

@@Rhadamant Oh wow, didn't even know about that, thanks for the answer

[@WakkaWakka25]

​@@Scriptures_Kdefinitely check your shoes. I stomped many zombies, then jumped through a window after clearing the glass...i did not realize my boots where gone and got glass stuck in my feet.....😂

[@gabrielacelasi1792]

Nice. luv new runs. Alos pls add ur advice/opinion as a veteran player. There is mod that adds clothing items, such as vest and new tshirts etc, but also lets you wear open jackets, or tie sweaters around ur waist. how OP or Unbalanced is this ? i kinda dig it. also for future runs may i recomend u set infection to 1 minute or less? that way u kill any suspense about restarting or not. Since ur not using cure or journal mods.

[@Rhadamant]

I don't use mods like that so I have no input about their balance

[@anonymousdaniel7267]

It is a survivor house. There are bandages in the bathroom.

[@Rhadamant]

True

[@coldbreeze6344]

First 👍

[@Rhadamant]

Yes you are!