[2023] I dont like to use separate bases for living and for horde nights

Originally posted by Gards: ...
Anyway i'm not going back until UE5 is running 7days.

Why on earth would you want for the game to be worse than it is now?

Just to clartify something since I don't see it mentioned, the 'Heat Map' is not TEMPERATURE heat (and has since been renamed Activity Map because a surprising number of people don't understand that.)

A heat map is a way of visualizing activity- For example, On a keyboard it would show how often a specific key is hit, and how infrequently others are hit via colors.
https://www.bypeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/keyboard-characters-distribution-heatmap.png
In this pic for example, E is by far and away the most hit key, it's "red hot".


What the zombies are tracking via that Activity Map is You.

They're tracking where You, The Survivor, Are doing things. You're making all this activity in this small condensed area, and it lures them to you. They don't care about your forges, or your generator, or your concrete fortifications, or your torches and lights except in so much that those things are all signs of a survivor living in the area- A survivor which the zombies would very much like to eat.

And for the record, the blood moon is why this event happens on a weekly basis- Whatever is happening on the zombie side is supernatural/beyond our comprehension, and the blood moon rouses them and lets them work together under what is essentially a hive mind.

That's why the horde night is targeted on you- After a week of passively tracking your area of activity, the hive mind wakes up on the blood moon and knows EXACTLY where you are, And goes for You- Not for your things.