The difficulty level is too high

Difficulty level only affects simulated hp levels. Higher difficulty means that you hit zeds for less, and they hit you for more. It also adjusts the % chance for zombies to enter rage mode.
It does not affect your game stage.

GS13 for playing five days is actually a bit low. Your friends probably have a higher gamestage, and the zeds around them will be based on their GS. Night time has more difficult spawns as well. What biome and POI you are in will additionally adjust gamestage and lootstages.

It isn't black and white. There are a lot of different things to take into account. If you think it's going to be easy mode when you're a nooblet because you are hanging around higher level people, that isn't going to be the case. Higher level players with a higher gamestage will call on higher level enemies. Doesn't matter that you're sitting there with hardly any experience.

Originally posted by повестОЧКА:

Originally posted by SylenThunder: Difficulty level only affects simulated hp levels. Higher difficulty means that you hit zeds for less, and they hit you for more. It also adjusts the % chance for zombies to enter rage mode.
It does not affect your game stage.

GS13 for playing five days is actually a bit low. Your friends probably have a higher gamestage, and the zeds around them will be based on their GS. Night time has more difficult spawns as well. What biome and POI you are in will additionally adjust gamestage and lootstages.

It isn't black and white. There are a lot of different things to take into account. If you think it's going to be easy mode when you're a nooblet because you are hanging around higher level people, that isn't going to be the case. Higher level players with a higher gamestage will call on higher level enemies. Doesn't matter that you're sitting there with hardly any experience.

As I understand it, the game stage increases for everyone if there is a group member who, for example, has stage 15. So, everyone in the group will encounter stronger mobs. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, here's a question: if all the friends in the group have new characters, at game stage 2, and on the second day, mobs with yellow eyes and spiders with yellow eyes are already spawning, is that normal?

At night, and around certain POI's it could be completely normal.