Sending Out An SOS | Infection Free Zone - Part 3 (Zombie Apocalypse City Builder-Early Access)

Infection Free Zone continues and we finally build our antenna in Northampton market square! It takes quite a lot of metal to get it done but we work on it so the good people of the Northamptonshire wasteland can hear us say "Hello Lovely People, welcome to the wasteland, I am Penge and I'm not being eaten by a zombie!"!
Other than the antenna things do go quite well. We happen across enough pistols to both get one of the towers properly armed and also form a third squad to go exploring!
The new squad pick up a new vehicle, which is helpful, and all of our scavenging brings back quite a bit of useful research material. We unlock a few things and also build ourselves a new medical building.
We do encounter some other survivors but some of them aren't overly friendly and we have to have a little bit of a battle with them.
Also we get another farm set up, we find quite a bit of fuel and we consider building some slightly fancier housing...
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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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[@danielleoliver1734]

You can pull down some of the houses around you’re area that you aren’t interested in using to give you more supplies and better line of sight

[@joshuacr]

29:30 Cheers on finally being able to get those pistols/arms factory to get that third Betty squad running! 37:50 *apparently, screaming "click the push to talk button" at the screen does not work* 51:35 You forgot the tower recalls all squads. 1:00:15 Some squad does need to pick up that found car. Finally you *can run over* zombies in vehicles, so more "zombie skittles" please!

[@danielleoliver1734]

The poor housing stat is probably because they are damaged and need repair, not the people being fussy.

[@Unni_Havas]

No, it's because some people don't have a shelter to live in.

[@daddykon2344]

Bricks: there is a giant lot of rubble right across the street from your HQ. Use the scavenge tool to collect the bricks.

[@jagordon1976]

Another great episode! The base is expanding nicely. Be sure to hit the Invite button on the tower every day to get more people coming into the base. The button next to "Exchange" on the squad is split squad. This is useful for (among other things) picking up those extra cars you see around the map. Split one member of the squad off set them to get to car and then you won't have to have a whole squad walk halfway across the map to get it. As other have said, you can get more wood, brick, and metal by destroying buildings. You are able to do that by clicking on a building and then hitting the icon of the hammer hitting something in the lower right corner. However, buildings can also be used as a wall, so do probably don't want to destroy any around your courtyard (maybe across the street would be a good place to start. There are also some partially fallen buildings from which you can scavenge bricks. You will be getting bigger and bigger swarms of zombies coming at you every 2-4 days so you might also want to put up some more defenses such as walls and gates. If you research the "Advanced Masonry" (which you looked at near the end of the video) you can build fortified walls which use a lot of mats, but are 2-3 times stronger than just regular walls and gates. Instead of stationing people in the warehouse in the middle of the your base (by the mall), stationing them on the corners of your base (the medbay or cookhouse) would be better to give them better sight and range - but it also does open up your squads to more risk from the zombies so it is a calculated risk. It would save your buildings from being freely attacked (like the medbay was in this episode). As for the car-kiting, you did it well, just need to get to the hordes sooner so they start chasing your car. After they are already locked onto the towers which fire at them, the only way to get them off is to step out of the car so they turn away from the tower and then you can get back in the car and kite. Edit: The people do not like living in the HQ or underground and I don't think with the two shelters you built that you have room for all 49 of your people. If that is the case, then that would be why you are getting the mood debuff. Once you get enough houses for everybody, it will take care of this problem and give you a nice mood buff.

[@ACPionnier]

When you are hovering over a building to construct, you have "partial adaptation" at the middle bottom of the screen, i wonder if you can drag and drop a part of the building to a point you still have the necessary amount of ressources to build. Could be useful for the massive buildings :D (Watching you almost every day, thanks for all the work! ^^ )

[@DonGorgen]

You get bricks from demolishing other buildings. And btw, when you're calling home your squads use the star button next to the item transfer button, it tells them to go home.

[@MrSquark]

Penge, might be an idea to get your workers to demolish those tiny buildings around the base

[@TheGeekCupboard]

I don't want to leave anything exposed to the zombies though. I think we'll demolish things a bit further away and leave things round us nice and intact!

[@MrSquark]

@@TheGeekCupboard they're could be obscuring the lines of fire from your defended buildings

[@sharkytheshark5939]

you can get wood briks and metal if you demolish buildings

[@PaulDozierZZoMBiE13]

🎵🎵Summertime 🎵🎵Summertime 🎵🎵Sum-Sum 🎵🎵Summertime

[@sharkytheshark5939]

Briks you cab pick up like wood and metal - There is a pile a cross the road from you HQ

[@danielleoliver1734]

I’ve been waiting for the rubble to be salvaged since we started 😂

[@TheGeekCupboard]

So there is! I should probably get on that!

[@chant15165]

FYI when using rifles in cars u should give the rifles to the 2,3,&4th persons cause the driver can’t shoot a rifle while driving. They have to exit the car to fire the rifle. They can fire a pistol from the car while driving though. Just a word of advice.

[@DonGorgen]

Learned the hard way you need bo be careful about arming too many people, specially with assault rifles. They're gonna run through ammo quite fast and you'll run out before you know it and get overrun. Also it appears the stronger your camp is the bigger the attacks get.

[@saethman]

@51.51 I guess we now know what the swarm-message was about :o

[@DonGorgen]

The gun was red because she had no ammo yet, wich she automatically picked up when you left the menu.

[@TheGeekCupboard]

Ooohhh, I see! That makes sense.

[@TGSpectre1]

You get resources by breaking down blinds you don't want to keep. Click on a building and there are two buttons. Adapt and disassemble.

[@DavidDrouant]

There was in fact a corner zone shelters in the plaza

[@TheGeekCupboard]

There were! I had to go back and check but we did have two shelters in the corner, you're right. A slightly weird game glitch got rid of those, thanks game!

[@alexblueification]

I think demolishing abndoned buildings provides bricks.

[@XercinVex]

Demolishing buildings and scavenging areas like the huge pile of rubble in the top right quadrant of the screen at 1:03:18 work

[@MrSquark]

I think you might need to start making ammo fairly soon

[@danielleoliver1734]

Maybe save some guns for more defence towers or as back ups?

[@daddykon2344]

Wise observation. You thought there were buildings there and you backed it up with the evidence of the people running from that empty area. Never become a politician. You would have to lose all that common sense ;) Good vid.

[@philip-wj2wg]

No Tea squad?!?

[@TheGeekCupboard]

I couldn't deal with what would happen if we lost them...

[@mistermaestersirthomas9164]

34:36 not sure how the rules work, but do you need to blur the word? I know some news-type YT shows say certain words in quotes but blur the written quote, not sure if it applies to your thing or not. Personally I don’t care but here’s a timestamp just in case.

[@TheGeekCupboard]

It's fine if it's just a little thing like that, you have to say there's a little bit of swearing in the video setup thing. I'll be honest I entirely forgot about it, normally I'd throw a Decency Mug on something like that but it entirely slipped my mind!

[@JungianStar25]

This game has some weird glitches just like Universim, hyperlube dissapearing and now the shelters 🤔

[@TheGeekCupboard]

What if the shelters turn up in the Universim and a hyperlube appears in post-apocalyptic Northampton?!

[@JungianStar25]

@@TheGeekCupboard 😯