First of all, hi everyone. Been playing this awesome game for a few weeks and lurking the forums a bit but just registered now because I have a seriously game-ruining problem So apologies if this is a little wordy (everything I do usually is :p) but it’s storytime.
First of all, a little background: My current survivor, Leonardo Mayfield (badass name :D), was doing really well until about an hour ago. His home shelter is in a very safe location pretty far from town which gave him an easy start, got some good loot, some good mutations after meddling with some mutagen and purifier I found in a lab, all that good stuff. I’m now basically at the point where anything short of a Brute is trivial to kill without taking any damage and trying to get a vehicle together to move into this awesome double garage next a gas station that I already found and cleared.
So I’m just in my boarded up, usually very safe shelter cooking up some food when I get a message about seeing a fat zombie approaching from the north entrance. Okay, I think, weird because I wasn’t making any noise or anything but whatever. I casually walk over to it to chop it into chunks with my machete and suddenly “Safe Mode: You see a x Zombie” times, like, 50. Outside the shelter there’s literally dozens of them just chillin, and they’ve all seen me. Okay, fine, I’ve got the wandering horde thing turned on so this kind of thing happens occasionally. The map only shows one of the green Z horde markers anywhere near me though so it’s weird that the horde is this big. I groan, grab my bow, step outside and slog through them for 15 minutes IRL taking very little damage and losing all my arrows but I get the job done and pulp all the corpses. Check the map, no horde Zs. All is well.
I go back inside and realise that now the north door is broken because of that dick fat zombie and I have no construction skill to make a new one. So I start planning out how to increase my construction without books and start doing some other stuff, then about an in game hour later while I’m walking around I happen to pass by the broken door and “Safe mode, you see a Grabber Zombie” its pretty close and I’ve got nothing to fear from a lone grabber so I walk up to it and guess what… “Safe Mode: You see a x Zombie” times, like, 50. Still no horde markers on the map. This time they’ve got a brute with them and I’m out of arrows (no time to craft any since they are right outside) so it’s a bit harder but again, kill pulp, back inside. Long story a bit shorter I pass by the door an hour while later and it happens again! I repaired my clothes and crafted some more arrows after the last fight so I could kill them all but I don’t want to spend another half hour doing nothing but trivial combat! What the hell is going on! Why are there seemingly permanently massive hordes of zombies outside my base!? I’ve got so much stuff in there and some of it is way to heavy to move without a vehicle like anvils and whatnot. Abandoning all that stuff would set me back so far!
So if anyone knows why my previously secure home base suddenly looks like a zombie music festival, please halp
A fast way to increase my construction without reading material would be helpful too, since if I can block off the door and they can’t see me I might be able to try and just weather the storm. I have plenty of reading and tasks to get on with and I could probably sneak out of the south door at night if I had to.
Edit: Oh, and I’m playing the 0.B stable.