The Best Zombie Population Settings in Project Zomboid

project zomboid is a difficult and unforgiving game it is one of the only zombie games i know where one bite can end it all for your character even i struggle to survive longer than a week in this game one of the main reasons for this insane difficulty in the game is due to the large amount of zombies that inhabit the world of project zomboid and when i say a large amount i mean a large amount like i swear to god i will walk out of my spawn house and within five minutes i will have the entire population of kentucky on my ass trying to get some of these cheeks but i found a solution if you struggle with project zomboid and think that the amount of zombies in the world is too high there are a few different things you can do the first and most direct approach is to change the zombie population from normal to low in the settings when you make your world but for me personally i find that the low population makes this game too easy and i have trouble even finding zombies when it's set to the low population so what do you do there's no in between with low and normal well there's this beautiful tab down here called advanced zombie options you go to that and there's all of these different options there's a few that i want you to focus on so the population multiplier basically is the population of the zombie count so if you set it to normal it'll be one but if you set it to low it'll be 0.35 0.35 is too low and 1 is too high so what do you do well what i do is i will set it to normal but i will change this right here population star multiplier basically what that does is that makes it so at the start of the game whatever you set this number to is the amount of zombies that will be there at the start and it will slowly increase up to the regular population multiplier and then increase to the peak multiplier which is the peak amount of zombies that will be in the game at whichever day that you set this number to right here so at default it's set to 28 so on day 28 the zombie peak multiplayer will be at 1.5 so on that day there will be the highest amount of zombies that can be in the game at one time so what i usually do is i will set this to 0.5 so at the start of the game when you basically have nothing the zombie population will be halved it makes it a lot easier to get loot and basically start off in the game but it makes it so that it will increasingly get harder and harder as you go along but as you go along you'll get better and better loot so you'll be able to fight against the higher populations so at the beginning of the game it makes the game a lot easier and a lot more accessible but as the game goes on it becomes more and more difficult but that's not the only thing i changed in this section personally i don't like zombies respawning i like it so that if i clear a house or a section of a town i like it so that that place stays clear i don't want there to be zombies spawning in there so what i'll usually do is i'll just set all these values that say respawn to zero and that just makes it so that zombies do not respawn and i'm pretty sure you don't need to set all these to zero i think you only need to set like one like this one right here to zero but just to be safe i set them all to zero and then there's one more thing in this section that i change now rally group separation so rally groups are basically the mini hordes that will come together in the zombor world and i'm pretty sure you've come across these and at the default setting for group rally group separation it will be at 15 and what rally group separation is is basically it is the distance that these little mini hordes can be apart personally i find that 15 is too low because when it's set to 15 which is the default i will pretty much run into one of these mini hordes every other minute and that's pretty ridiculous so what i'll do is i'll set it to the max it can go which is 25 and that makes it a lot easier so i'm not constantly running into these little mini hordes that makes the game pretty much impossible to play so i'm just constantly running away from countless zombies and this is pretty much what i do i set the population start multiplier to 0.5 so at the beginning of the game it's a little easier for me to get started but the population is still set to normal all that changes is that at the beginning it will be easier and it will slowly increase to the normal amount and then i turn off respawning and then make it so that the little mini hordes will spawn further away from each other and that's what i do to make the game a little easier because personally i find it on the default settings it's really really hard to play this game if you found the video helpful a like and subscribe would be greatly appreciated hope you have a great day and i'll see you guys later

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Published: Sat Jan 29 2022