All the Curveballs in State of Decay 2 - Explained as Quickly as Possible

[@naico144]

One thing to note about the Broken Heart is that it gets immediately awakened, if you let the event go by without destroying it, it will remain awakened. So if you get the event it's best you take advantage from it as soon as possible.

[@Maklagen]

Ooohh.. I just started to play and had this curveball and didn't know what to do and now I have awakened plague heart and I was wondering why it's awake..thanks!

[@NootandBoots]

Yep that happened to me i was so confused when it wasn't there anymore and then i remembered that it was now timed, it was on nightmare too

[@Scorp721]

Fueling the Plague is one of my favorite Curveballs. Just constant chaos. I got it with the more Toxic Bloaters in one game, and it was crazy. Not even Juggs could survive that combo. The zoms would line up at the edge of my base for a Siege, and as soon as one purple zom died, the whole wave went out like a string of Firecrackers. On the other hand, I got Heightened Senses with Strange Mutation in one game, and the area they overlapped was hell. It was absolutely a 'no go zone'. They had better hearing, sight, and smell, plus they dropped lures when they died to bring in more zoms, and they had Headless so they kept fighting until they bled out. Awesome vid, I imagine it took quite a while to get footage of every Curveball with how random they are.

[@StateofDecayScience]

Took a lot of time to even get them all

[@captaintuna1323]

I prefer hearing Rvid’s actual voice, it feels more authentic and is what I’m used to from way back when I was confused at first when I heard someone else speaking during some of his other longer videos After revisiting older videos I was appalled and infuriated at the amount of comments I saw making fun of his accent Keep up the hard work Rvid! Don’t let them get you down🙌👑

[@whatisbestinlife8112]

I like the curveballs and the variations and mixups they add to the gameplay. My one dislike is not being able to turn them off and on individually. Some of the curveballs are massively out of scale with the others. Black Plague Heart is very very potentially a full wipe, for example. Whereas most of the others are more of gameplay mixups, BPH is a completely dominating new questline essentially that must be dealt with immediately to the detriment of every other concern (and it still can easily wipe you). I'd like to be able to select which curveballs you're exposed to individually. Or at least have two classes of them with the bigger, more extensive ones with a separate ability to turn off/on when you don't feel like having to deal with them in any particular playthrough.

[@BLRodgers]

I like the suggestion, but if that's too much work to allow them to be individually allowed or disallowed, I'd settle for being able to turn off the Black Plague Heart. Of course, to balance that out, doing so would have to disable the Broken Plague Heart, but I'd take that tradeoff. I downloaded the game a couple of months ago, and my first community, while I was still learning the game, got hit with the BPH that drained fuel and drained health. I'm just glad its weakness wasn't melee because at that point, meleeing plague hearts wasn't something I enjoyed until I learned about the infectious gas phase and stuff. I was able to eventually take it down with a lot of preparation and online research, but it definitely temporarily soured my experience as a new player. Since then, I've generally kept the curveballs off until I clear a map of plague hearts, because I really don't want to randomly be thrown into "masochist mode". I get that some people like the game to be hard to the point of frustration, but I prefer a more balanced gameplay experience. Since the BPH is on a completely different scale of difficulty to the other negative curveballs, being able to turn it off allow the masochists their fun while preserving the fun of the other curveballs for the rest of us.

[@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034]

Thank you for the updated list! Fueling the plague is a blessing in disguise since it's a high risk, high reward way to efficiently destroy all the plague hearts in an area.

[@PositivEddie]

This looks like so much work! How do you know this is all of them? Outstanding video!

[@StateofDecayScience]

The list was displayed in the official stream. So I used that to make sure I got everything.

[@Demonsouls1993]

its great that they are still supporting the game but it would be nice if they gave those types of things as options used to play this game to chill out and mess around cant even do that anymore

[@robd5886]

You can turn off the curveballs once they start

[@8969phineas]

how???@@robd5886

[@fearlesswee5036]

Getting "fueling the plague" on lethal zone is nutty in my experience, especially if you aren't in a good state to deal with it early on. You end up with a HUGE area of the map where it's almost su1c1d3 to drive a car, and fighting the heart itself is a complete death trap if it's in a small building.

[@dreground]

Hi. Thank you so much for your reviews and your hard work!🤝

[@Jackfromshack]

Thank you for high quality SoD content!

[@metalred1]

Thank you for this fast and simple explanation

[@miikhei]

Bullet benefactor can be way more useful than it first appears. The exact effects vary, but you can get a supply drop of weapons or ammo and you can also get additional weapons, ammo or consumables from containers. For some reason you always seem to get two of the same item: I've gotten 2*custom AK, 2*spec ops AW, 2*thermite grenade, 2*pentamezin. I'm fairly certain "higher chance to find X" means items are added to two containers in the area, whether they have already been searched or not, and the extra items disappear if not collected in time. I just got 2 AKs from containers even though the description says "higher chance to find ammo".

[@mesquiteaviation]

RvidD, do you ever do play throughs? I would love to see how you tackle a lethal game.

[@StateofDecayScience]

I have no plans to do playthrough videos.

[@nezzysan]

Please do bro I'm sure so many people will find it entertaining ​@@StateofDecayScience

[@robdead4550]

Great list, concise as always...However... Just one thing RvidD. I played a couple of months ago and got the "Radio Silence" effect right in the middle of a 4 heart cluster so I couldn't do anything about it (Lethal, fresh start). I shrugged and carried on plying planing to attack the area when I could, but the curve ball ended before I did anything. The hearts where still there (and asleep) and I never visited the tower. I don't know if this has changed in an update as my gaming computer's SSHD broke and I'm having to replace it so I can't test/use it right now.

[@AzconaxZ]

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[@NnNeo-ql2kq]

Black plague heart event is a very fun event. I hope it appear more frequently

[@MarksmanGamingPk90]

is that true high moral give positive curveballs and low moral gives negative curveballs?

[@StateofDecayScience]

You get helpful curveballs when you struggle. For example, you have the chance of getting influx of meds when you have low meds. When you do all the missions and destroy plague hearts, you have the chance of getting news travels. The opposite is, viscous rumors. Each curveball has a trigger. I don't know all of them.

[@thiagoperrotti5482]

About lone raider and Ransackers post: I dont k'now if its a bug but my map wont show where is the hostile enclave. I'm pretty sure i've searched the entire area... I've tried to abandon and reclaim outposts, wiping other enclaves from the map, logging in and out... It's my first Lethal zone playthrough and i've put a lot of time and effort into it. Can someone help me?

[@NervousWreck4891]

Out for Blood is my fav👍🏻

[@StateofDecayScience]

Oh Wreck! Long time!

[@NervousWreck4891]

@@StateofDecayScience I am still alive and playing sod2🤣🤣🤣

[@StateofDecayScience]

Why removed everything from the channel? People at least can use the information

[@NervousWreck4891]

@@StateofDecayScience that's a question that we could discuss about for hours. I like my privacy, you tube is not for everyone. There are some new kids on the block, let them have fun! Stay safe survivor ;)

[@Bigchungus52227]

@@NervousWreck4891Hey Nervous! It’s been a while 😂

[@CalDoggyDaddu]

How many curveballs can be active at once? And whats the frequency of them triggering?

[@StateofDecayScience]

3 at once. You can except 1 every game day. Could be faster than this.

[@ME-lp5vj]

I recently downloaded this game, do these go in order? I already had purple goo zombies and have the lone raider right now.

[@StateofDecayScience]

Only the 1st 2 will come in order

[@ME-lp5vj]

@StateofDecayScience oh thanks u earned a sub for replying

[@KyubiHitashi]

well fucking A, i just downloaded the fucking game to finally play for the first time, and i got head on with such thing, nice... i am fucked

[@normcummins2719]

Did you find plague hearts were affected by the soft skins curve ball?

[@StateofDecayScience]

No, I haven't tested that. But that shouldn't affect hearts.

[@Macros198]

"Up and at them." Is that a Simpsons reference? 😆

[@MarksmanGamingPk90]

How many curveballs can be active at a time ? i saw 3 max.

[@StateofDecayScience]

3 max

[@MarksmanGamingPk90]

@@StateofDecayScience thanks

[@razerbsaa5034]

does curveball repeat or it one time only?

[@StateofDecayScience]

repeat!

[@mvp3100]

Does this happen randomly through the game?

[@StateofDecayScience]

yes

[@Teezythadon]

I got highly combustible last week.

[@everettlunday8855]

I can't stand some of these curveballs, especially the Black Plague heart. Whenever it appears, I leave the county for another territory.

[@Jackfromshack]

Wuss

[@sashapinesnguyenhienhoa8003]

Just learn to play the game better you have all the tool to cheese the game you know

[@everettlunday8855]

@@Jackfromshack 🤣

[@deathmoverz]

Never seen influx of meds

[@StateofDecayScience]

If you are low on meds, there is a chance to get it

[@hyudlet2289]

to bad this garbo breaks the game

[@johndarkorlean8308]

I can't stand the curveball. All the extra announcements take away from the overall feel of playing. Starting to feel more like a child's fast food gimmick for something that was already worth ordering. Now it's getting too cheesey.

[@JChozen01]

You can turn it off in the settings.

[@CookiCrsp]

coool

[@bloxfruitschildsupport]

Highly combustible isn't deleted

[@StateofDecayScience]

Did you get this recently? Undeadlabs announced that it was removed

[@bloxfruitschildsupport]

@@StateofDecayScience Yeah I got it and it was horrible for close combat

[@StateofDecayScience]

what was the curveball goals? any changes?

[@smotbutterman1127]

Number 15 should be the standard setting, tbh. It's immersive.

[@diamadragonz]

Wtf why chicken tikka masala teaching us SOD 😂

[@StateofDecayScience]

Because hamburgers suck at teaching this!

[@snowmon4243]

For me, those difficulty curveballs are Explosive Gunk Zeds, Purple Toxic Bloater (1 hit kill when you are in vehicle), and Zeds Hearing Sense Increasing (Unlimited spawning Zeds in Lethal Zone when you are detected by 1 Zed). The worst curveball is Blackheart which will keep hurting you slowly.😢