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  • Zombies don't spawn when activating quests while at max zombie count

    Demon1337

    By Demon1337

      • Version: A21 b324
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    Summary: When activating a quest, the max zombie count is reached and zombies are not spawned. Thus making clear quests impossible. 
     

    Game Version: (A21 b324)

    OS/Version: Windows

    CPU Model: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz

    System Memory: 20G

    GPU Model and VRAM: nVidia Tesla P40 12G VRAM

    Screen Resolution: Server

    Video Settings: Server

    Game mode: Dedicated, RWG

     

    Did you wipe old saves? YES

     

    Did you start a new game? YES

     

    Did you validate your files? NO

     

    Are you using any mods? NO
     

    EAC on or off? ON

     

    Status: ADDITIONAL

     

    Bug Description:

     

    Detailed steps to reproduce the bug:

    1) Have the max number of zombies spawned

    2) Activate a new quest

    3) Zombies do not spawn properly for the quest activation

     

    Actual result: When activating a quest while the max number of zombies are spawned. No zombies past the cap will be spawned. This is much more common in multiplayer servers. our server had 3 people in different quests all experience the issue at the same time. 

     

    Expected result: When you activate a quest the zombies are spawned properly. This should ignore the max zombie count. Even if the zombie count is reached, activating a quest should ignore the cap. Zombies from quest spawn should be decoupled from max zombie count. Likely should also disable accepting quests while in the middle of horde night after 2200. 

     

    My server logs: https://pastebin.com/dAN3JnCX 

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    Zipcore

    Since there is a global zombie limit this is not really a bug.

    But I valued it as one since it's one of the most frustrating things in this game when you and your friends can't do quests at the same time at different locations.

     

    Here is how is solved this "bug" by adding a simple new setting to the game: A 2nd zombie limit for zombies spawned by chunks/biomes, heatmap etc.

    This drastically improved spawning rates of sleepers when doing a quest and my friends complained a lot less, also ignoring the bedroll inside check for being able to start a quest made questing much more smoothly.

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    Jugginator

    Although it's not really a bug due to the zombie count being at the cap like you said and the quests should be completable as long as you don't pass every volume while at the cap (once you go below the cap the untouched volumes should spawn and kick in), there may be some better ways to handle some cases. Will have a look.

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    Jugginator

    This should be better now. We've made lots of changes to how this works, and clear quests now should be able to spawn a reduced amount over the zombie limit cap. Zombie AI will also prioritize based on distance to a player to help out with performance in heavy-cases. 

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