Possibly the balance may need tweaking?

[davidgillon]

So last night I settled down to play the first tier five Point of Interest (POI) I've run up against in zombie game Seven Days to Die. Bear in mind my character is now pretty much maxed out on skills, completely maxed out on hit points, with mostly max level weapons and armour.

The POI  was a large factory site which I had to enter, kill all the zombies, and retrieve a hidden courier satchel. I went in with 4 weapons (drum-fed auto shotgun, pistol, assault rifle and silenced sniper rifle) and 750 rounds of ammunition*. Most zombie encounters up to now have been running 1-4 zombies, with maybe 6 to 8 for the boss fight before getting to the main loot. I realized previous rules might not apply when my first encounter threw 8 zombies at me. And they kept on coming.

I'd figured it might take a couple of hours (two in-game days), four hours later I threw myself despairingly off a rooftop, because after what I thought was the boss fight I was swarmed again, trapped in a corner by multiple high-level zombies, and that was the only option that had any chance of not leaving me dead in seconds. It was pure chance there was a lower level roof for me to land on and leg it back to my jeep on 53 hit points out of 200.

By my reckoning I fired about 550 of 300 rounds of pistol ammo (that's not a typo, I managed to find extra just as I was about to run out), 130 rounds from the shotgun, the same from the sniper rifle and about 100 from the assault rifle (I'd held it back for the boss fight). I may well have killed over 200 zombies, it was certainly well past 100. And the factory still beat me.

I can't help feeling that possibly the balance may need tweaking.

* You could totally call this armed for bear as there was a zombie bear in the car park outside.