Look it. I can't believe I'm dropping the red thumb on this one after enjoying the game for about 420 hours.

The last time I actively played was during the Plague Territory update. Everything was fine and dandy back then. I was grinding the 100 day achievement on Nightmare and actually got it while playing the beta. Then the beta ends and to the joy of the ever-loving W key of my keyboard, that community got rolled back to Day 85-ish. And hold on, that's not what the negative review is for. Due to that and the burnout that same achievement can bring to someone, I stopped playing.

Come March 2022, I decided to play again. The plan was to change map with the same community and finish the game to get those characters into my Legacy Pool.

At some point between Update 25 and March 2022, Undead Labs seemed to have doubled down on the issue of zombie spawns. It is ridiculous. It has always been a problem before but the way it's happening now makes the Nightmare Zone of Update 25 seem like Green Zone. It is almost as if every single noise you make corresponds to a number of zombie spawns outside of your line of sight.

And boy oh boy, how quickly a 1 survivor vs 2 zombies can turn into 1 survivor vs 2 hordes. Especially when you let that one other zombie that spotted you scream.

Here's an example of how solid of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ it is:

I saw a horde passing in front of my base, so I was like, free clear = free influence. So I engaged it, hit and kill a few and when I thought I'm gonna get surrounded, I ran back to the base to let my community gun them down. Then alright, they're few enough, I ran back outside and behold a new Travis Scott concert was happening just in front of my base.

What was a clear space is now full of red zeds... FROM WHERE.

Like come on, I played for 400+ hours/7 finished legacies/heartland at this point. 400 hours enough to know this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.