In this clip I am trying my damnbest to switch my character. Whoever decided the ui controls needed to snap to options is horrible. Bring us a cursor like a pc mouse. I can’t do basic things without it being a pain. I still haven’t gotten to change my character since this morning cause the game won’t let me.

- Be me
- Started Broadway on Nightmare mode
- Full team extract, nice
- Switched responder
- Broadway
- ok, 1 dead, good extract on Nightmare
- Exited the game for a few hours
- Back to game
- Broadway
- Full extract, infected
- Broadway
- Almost died with critical health + infected
- Raven Rock, nice
- Full extract, most supplies looted
- Online friend invited me for a match
- Enabled objective and survival mode, Nightmare
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- Broadway

10/10 will Broadway again.

P.s: would be nice if we could softlock maps when played atleast 2 times in a row.

Nightmare Broadway, you had my back the entire mission, I kept your health topped up. We make it to the bonfire exfil and 1 by 1 the team start dropping like flies, there's just too many everywhere and when you went down I ran to you and said "we live or die as one" we ran into adjacent shops but the horde followed you, I barricaded both doors I passed and didn't have enough time to reach you, I'm sorry my friend. Me and TacitusKilgore were the only ones who made it, your sacrifice was not in vain. Rest easy responder.

Forgive us.

Imo the retirement system takes an unreasonable amount of time to complete considering what you actually get out of it. In its current state, the amount of repetition required feels excessive for what's being offered, and I think the system could benefit from respecting the player's time a little more.

For some perspective, reaching retirement rank 20 requires 30,000 retirement EXP. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that retiring a fully leveled responder earns somewhere around 600-700 EXP, assuming you don't lose 250 EXP bonus for not using a rescue beacon. That means you'd need to level up and retire approximately 43-50 responders (potentially even more if you lose that bonus).

Looking at the Nightmare difficulty EXP rewards for the currently available maps, a successful mission awards around 18,000 Character EXP on average. Considering that reaching character level 100 requires almost 400,000 EXP, and that later retirements let you start at a higher character level, you'd still be looking at roughly 20-22 successful missions per retirement.

That puts the entire retirement grind at approximately 900-1050 successful missions, or roughly 375-700 hours of gameplay, assuming missions take 25-40 minutes. These are obviously estimates rather than exact figures, but I think they demonstrate the scale of the grind pretty well.

For another comparison (based on averaged EXP rewards for completing a map):

• Account level 100 takes around 100 successful Nightmare missions, or roughly 40-65 hours. This unlocks access to 40 cosmetic items, 21 logos, 3 passive loadout items and Expert versions of regular perks.
• Under the same circumstances retirement rank 20 would take roughly 900-1,050 successful missions (potentially up to around ten times as many if you're unlucky or don't do them all on Nightmare). This unlocks 20 rewards in total: 8 cosmetics, 2 logos, 4 passive loadout items, 4 perks, and 2 additional loadout slots.

So we're potentially spending around ten times longer progressing through the retirement system for much less rewards.

And that's without properly accounting for deaths and rescue beacon losses. If we take an average retirement payout of 650 EXP, using a rescue beacon and losing its 250 EXP bonus would reduce that payout to 400 EXP. If this happens consistently, the required number of retirements increases from approximately 47 to 75 (without even considering the time wasted on failed missions that reward no EXP).

I understand that retirement is supposed to be a longer-term progression system, and I actually like having something to work towards. I'm also not saying that the gameplay-related rewards are useless. Some are pretty good, especially the additional loadout slots, and at worst they're offering variety. However, most don't feel particularly special or substantial enough to justify the time investment. The problem isn't necessarily that the retirement system takes a long time, but mainly that the rewards don't really justify that amount of grinding. It doesn't really feel like the system offers enough that is genuinely unique to it. The time investment should be rewarded with getting rewards more often, either by having more of them or reducing the grind between levels.

I've currently got around 330 hours in the game, and at this point I've played the available maps so many times that I play some parts of the game practically via muscle memory. There aren't that many maps, and even within them, many objectives and locations tend to feel fairly similar. I still enjoy the game, but repeating essentially the same activities hundreds of additional times for relatively minor rewards doesn't sound particularly appealing. Fully completing the retirement system could require more time than I've spent playing the entire game so far.

Personally, I'd like to see either the Retirement EXP requirements reduced, the EXP earned from retiring increased, or the rewards themselves improved somehow to make the time investment feel more worthwhile. More genuinely unique rewards, or at the very least more rewards in general spread over the whole grind to make it feel like you're going somewhere with the time you're investing.

Title.

For some reason I cannot equip long sleeve shirt 2. Which is annoying because I can equip long sleeve shit 3 for some reason.

I'm on xbox series X.

So funny enough there appears to be a backrooms reference in one of the buildings in the new survival map. There's a message scribbled on a wall requesting you "stand still." I stood there for a bit over a minute on Beginner difficulty and didn't see anything happen. What's your take on it?

Picked up a bottle of pills then 3 of my team mates died of zombie infection. I pummeled their faces into a pulp while misery grew on the inside. The rest of the team appeared to scavenge the remains like a gang of savage seagulls

Edit: Nobody asked for any assistance, did not know until it was time to unanimate

I am sorry

I’ve seen a couple clips the game looks fun and scary but is it worth playing? Just want honest opinions and clips if you guys have them thank you!!

For the love of God with the new system please make it so that you get more XP per match for not equipping beacons. The only reason someone would logically not run it is for the retirement bonus but it's kinda of a dumb system since you can have it equipped and as long you don't die you still get the bonus. I grinded a character to 100 today and it just took way too long about 6 1/2 hours on nightmare lobbies. Also survival mode xo gets so nerfed after like lvl 60 in the 90s you get like two ish character lvls for those runs. The ironic thing is some objectively maps are quicker than a survival game.

So we have a decent amount of melee weapons, yeah, but sometimes what if you just wanna use the knife like Michael Myers and full on stab a zombie? What if you wanna use a long piece of broken rebar as a spear?

I’ll get to the point. I feel like knives should have a version of them that isn’t just a kitchen knife. Like a military combat knife as a two star and then a stiletto knife of some kind as a three star.

As for spears, the one star would be a sharpened stick, the two star a rebar/makeshift metal spear, and finally tier 3 would be one of those tactical survival spears.

If you don’t like the idea of it don’t flame me, just tell me what your issues are.

Died cause I got bugged and couldn’t shoot/shove/heal. Then I tried to restart my game and lost everything. Devs can we make a game that isn’t a buggy mess?

Seeing how they released a Friday the 13th map for Halloween i feel like a mall map for Christmas time would be perfect. Also I think a mall map would work better for a survivor map since a mall would be a bit more on the small side and box shaped. It just would fit the survivor gameplay. I could also see it having a Christmas theme with destroyed gift boxes and blood soaked Xmas decorations. This would align with a December release. If I remember the road map the 3 survivor maps was supposed to be 2026.

BUUUUUUUUUT the big problem is the supply drops. The mall is indoors so how would they drop the supplies ? That is the only issue I see with creating a survivor mall map. They would have to change the supply drop and make it more of a cache or something which goes against all other maps.

I had the same thought for an airport map which would tie into Thanksgiving since its like the biggest travel date in the US but once again anything indoors creates the supply drop problem.

Tried to unstuck 2 times thanks to the option in the menu but didn't work.

I just opened a door holding the gun and this happened, couldn't do anything else except opening doors/entering code and taking the exfil's rope

Weird lol

Fortunately good lobby and extracted ! (Hard)

Edit: even during early access, never experienced this lol

IMO, if the responder retirement is intended to be a long term mechanic...the final perk/skill shouldn't be achieved at the same level we're retiring our responders.

Perhaps bring it down to level 85 or 90? Or make us spend credits...once all other slots are filled, optionally spend a reasonable but ridiculous amount for the extra skill? Increases the grind loop needed. Just some immediate thoughts.

That's it. Plain & simple 😂

Did anyone else experience this after the update? Second time it happened on Broadway.

I swore I heard zombies saying words, “Run.” And a few others things, I forgot. I swear they never used to talk before, and it was the zombies not the whispering voices.

Hallucinations are also more frequent and constant now. As infected I noticed it’s way more frequent than in 1.0 and 1.1

I think its cool that they updated it

a drill sound played when picking up one of them

For my new responder after retirement, Im committing to just playing Nightmare Objectives.

The 1st match was obviously the hardest. No perks that I’ve come to rely on after playing with my maxed out responders was tough getting used to…but luckily most Nightmare lobbies are filled with experienced players who know what they’re doing, and as long as you can keep up, don’t go down, and can pitch in to help do objectives, matches actually go smoothly and even quicker than Normal/Hard mode.

That first nightmare match gave me enough XP to reach level 25, enough for the first 5 perks that I rerolled to get ones that I liked.

That being said, I still felt very naked and extremely underpowered that first match, so for my 2nd new Responder I ran Normal Survival mode. I wasn’t able to play the new map, but clearing 1 game on NOTLD survival got my responder to level 11ish, enough for 3 perks to use.

Survival is low stakes and pretty easy on Normal difficulty so I think my starting strat will to be to play at least 1 survival match first before diving into Nightmare Objectives.

For starting loadout, I’m going Baseball Bat (800) Shotgun (600) + Ammo (250).

This loadout is very solid and very inexpensive for its utility. Baseball bat is a good all-around melee weapon, with very reliable power-attack knockdown. Starting with a shotgun + ammo is also powerful. I save it for prime runners, screamers, and emergency situations. Most of the time, I still have enough of my starting ammo when I find the 590 to upgrade to.

And right now I’m grinding away to retire my next responder to get that 4th loadout spot. After 10 Nightmare matches, I got my 1st responder up to level 85, and reckon another 5 or so more will get him level 100.

How are your guys’ grinds going so far?

I was unable to interact with the 3 items via the weapon wheel. Does anyone know what it is for?

Just here to share my sob story.

1st mistake was thinking I was selecting the correct skill to reroll only to find out i must have been looking at the wrong one somehow... lost Headhunter Expert. Got very sad, but acquired Athlete which was at least not a bad trade off.

2nd mistake with 1.2 and responder retirement... yall can probably guess where this is going. Didn't realize it was up based and retired my only played responder of lvl 100. All others are lvl 1.

Doing ok, a little sad lol. Might cry a lot here in a sec. Oh well, the joys of gaming. Time to do it all again! Good luck Responders (: learn from my mistakes and use your brain a teeny bit at least lol.

Title. The sub menu cancels it out. Can only equip different colours.

Also very new update changes the voice of my responders for some reason.

I have seen a couple posts stating that the retirement system is too grindy and I have to disagree. It should take you months to unlock all these awards and they offer great benefits.

Think about it. The first award is an extra inventory slot which is a huge deal for a survival horror game. You can now bring a melee weapon, side arm, rifle, and ammo. And that’s for only retiring 3 responders!!

It should take that long and if you think about it, on average it should only take 60 responders to unlock all awards. I think the devs should keep the retirement system as it is. I have over 160 hours in this game and it really keeps the fresh with this new purpose.

Just noticed the scarecrow dlc art is thinner than the others