Demolishers showing up early

A couple possibilities:

• How high exactly was your gamestage and what was the gamestage of your nearby teammates? There's a party gamestage which is calculated here: https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Gamestage#Calculation_-_Party the BM difficulty doesn't simply use the highest player's GS - it has something kind of like a weighted average.
• Do you know if there other people playing nearby that wasn't in your party? according to wiki, the gamestage is calculated based on people nearby (not necessarily in the same party as you) https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Gamestage#Calculation_-_Blood_Moon_Horde_on_Multiplayer_Servers

Well after two levels gained during the blood moon we are both at game stage of 106. Each. No one else is playing on our server. Unless it counted the drones

We will at minimum need the output log for each client and the dedi server, and if you can reproduce the issue in a vanilla game with no mods, screenshot of your gamestage AND the output log from that session would be useful information.

Also can you post your gamestages.xml and spawning.xml from your modded dump configs?

On Windows (For clients) :

1. Win+R (Paste this into the box):  %APPDATA%\7DaysToDie\Saves\
2. Navigate to the folder in the following format:  [MAP NAME]\[GAME NAME]\ConfigsDump

Thanks for the additional info in advance!

Well all this happened on a Pingperfect server so i have nothing client side that coincides with the instructions you posted. I did download the file contents off of the server in a zip file...but i cant find a way to add it to the comments. Should i email it somewhere?

Do you know how long the files would go back? Cause afterwards i started having issues which was fixed by updating the server to 20.5, so i would think that the info i just downloaded would be recent and after the update. Unsure if that would screw up any possible information yall would need. 
Im afraid to mess with the server, like turning on cheat menu to change day and such to give it a test to repeat it as well. It might be a couple of weeks but my buddy and i can try to get to the next bloodmoon and see if we get demolishers again.

Your initial post indicates A20.4, is that the version you are using or are you on the latest Public build A20.5 b2?

If you're on A20.5 b2 and still experiencing this issue in a vanilla game (with no mods -- We can't account for changes made by running mods), please upload the contents of the log files on your PC per the instructions here, specifically the Pastebin section:

 

Thank you!

Yeah the issue happened when we were playing the 20.4 version, then afterwards we started having issues with the drones, causing major lag and such so we updated to 20.5. I can definitely open another post if need be, but i know that the mods we had were for QoL stuff like backpack size and stack size of other items, nothing that should affect the zombies.

Just to be clear, you are or are not having the issue in A20.5 b2?

We just upgraded and we will have to play some to get to the next blood moon. So as of now no we are not having issue, but unsure cause no bloodmoon

 

	<entitygroup name="feralHordeStageGS147">
		zombieTomClarkRadiated, .41
		zombieYoRadiated, .38
		zombieJoeRadiated, .52
		zombieDemolition, .15
		zombieJoe
		zombieFatCopFeral, .75
		zombieBikerFeral, .77
		zombieJanitor
		zombieSpiderRadiated, .23
		zombieMaleHazmatFeral, .83
		zombiePartyGirlFeral, .96
		zombieJanitorRadiated, .54

 

(106 * 1.0) + (106 * 0.5) = 159

 

On 6/6/2022 at 6:26 PM, W3REWOLFE said:

we are both at game stage of 106

 

Unless you can show your gamestages with a demo spawn that the group GS is less than 147 it's not a bug. Could be bad XML's from the server, but by code it's impossible and both being 106 gamestage is well over the threshold for demo zombies.

Edited June 8, 2022 by Jugginator (see edit history)

Well definitely a surprise, mightve been something new, but remember being similar level and days with no demos. But if its what we are to expect from here on out its good to know now.

Yeah at that gamestage it's rather hard to get that roll for a demo (that's the earliest GS), but it's there.