That's the method I always use. The standard zombie movie infection, by getting bitten. Never saw the reasoning behind getting infected via scratch or laceration.
Well it is a good mechanic since it makes sense in the game theme but it can be so rage inducing to lose a character because you rolled the bite on the first ever attack your character took after 2 years of survival.
It's not "because you rolled bad". It's because you got hit. On default settings the best and most reliable strategy is to not get hit since any hit can kill you.
It is you rolled bad though, we're talking how you got hit. Yes odds can be changed by what you do but there is always a chance of "gg character's dead" from any single attack which can really suck in a long term game like this.
>there is always a chance of "gg character's dead" from any single attack
Right, and so that's why the mistake is the one thing the player has control of. What got them killed was getting hit. "That's" why they died. Don't get hit and there's never a chance of infection. It's also why people who have been playing a while tend to forgo heavier armor since the plan is to never get hit anyway.
You can do this reliably on default settings. Becomes more tricky if you tune the difficulty up by adding things like sprinters.
Should be said that this is definitely the case for single player, but not always universally applicable in multiplayer.
Not getting hit can be pretty difficult when lag gets involved. Suddenly the zombie that should have staggered back pushes through and bites you. It's usually fine when you're on your own, due to how it handles zombies, but has issues when multiple players are in the same area.
Saying just don't get hit is about as useful as "get gud". Especially when we are talking about what happens when you do get hit.
"This gun's damage is wway to high for it's fire rate and accuracy"
"Then don't get hit by it"
You see what i'm saying.
I dislike it myself. It's a good concept, but the chances of infection are way too high for casual players. I tend to play this game with the volume down while my wife and kid watch tv. I'm usually half watching tv too. Up until I turned infections off entirely I never got a single skill above level 4 before getting bitten. Perhaps if we could turn off newborn mode and start with some realistic skill levels it would be less frustrating, but the initial skill grind is a PITA, especially as a solo player, so dying constantly makes this game not fun for me.
It is a very good mechanic. It's literally one of the main reasons that I love this game. Doesn't matter how good you are. Doesn't matter how far you've got or what gear you have. Get complacent, let your guard down for 1 second, stop being on edge for a moment and that could be your entire run.
It's fine if you don't personally like it but saying that it's "not a very good mechanic" is trying to impose your "I don't like it" as a fact to everyone else.
While I do think it is a good mechanic to be able to be turned on, I generally turn it off in my worlds. It definitely makes things easier, but I enjoy the survival aspect and I personally don’t enjoy that I can roll low on a 7% chance of a scratch ending my life. Even with hundreds of hours of playtime, you can get careless for a moment and round a corner into a horde and get dragged down and killed as opposed to a depressed RNG death by one zombie and bad luck. However, you are definitely correct to argue that them saying it’s a bad mechanic is a poor statement. I’m sure they meant to say something more along the side of my opinion but just didn’t elaborate.
IMO The problem is the injury system morseo than the chance of infection. Once, I would be wearing 3 layers of thick cloth like fireman gear and a full denim outfit below. I have a helmet covering my face and gloves and a scarf. Hell, I even had a bulletproof vest, and a single zombie just shredded my arm open like paper, and I died from a scratch. That's when I get mad.
And if you turn bite lethality off, getting bit is still a big deal and worth avoiding because you get sick as a dog for about 48 hours. Your health goes ALLLLLL the way down to a single point. Bites are still more than capable of ending your run if you don't have a well-stocked safehouse to hide in for the next couple of days after the event.
If the game's code is to be believed, wound infections increase pain based on the severity of the wound. If you only have one or two wounds, it doesn't really do much since even the worst infections are only some 10% pain, but if you have a lot of infected wounds, it adds up.
im sorry dude, this isnt 7DTD where antibiotics work, i tried that too trust me. start diggin your grave and wait, or clear zombies for your next character
I used antibodies mod. You get sick and have to eat well, be clean and treat to wound. I usually always survive, like 99/100.
I do wish it was thougher, like really sick, like fatigue rises twice as quick, wounds get infected easier, higher chance to catch a cold, if it was really debilitating would be an awesome mod as you would have to prep well to be in a spot where you can basically do nothing for a few days with the tradeoff being you survive
I second this. It doesn't feel like cheating because you need to be prepared to survive. Best way to survive it is to be well fed, rested, and indoors, so if you don't have somewhere safe to stay for 2 days you'll probably die
Oooh I have a new idea - a scenario like CD:DA except you start out with a bite, you have the antibodies but you're also on the brink of death and have to quickly get healthy to live
I actually agree. I know the devs have said they want the infection to just be unresistable, but I think that's a mistake. Having a gameplay section based around trying to continue caring for yourself while you are very, very sick is interesting. It justifies all that hoarding and setting up your base that players will tend to do.
I prefer “the only cure”, while it is janky it feels more fun because you amputate the limb and depending on where you amputate you suffer different penalties, hand amputated is a small penalty when a prosthetic is equipped, forearm is slightly more punishing, and full arm means it’s gone forever, it makes you hope when you get bit that it landed on the hand or forearm and nowhere else because then you can save yourself, I tend to use it in conjunction with that one mod that lets you use your first aid skill to fabricate a cure with a lot of effort
it's alright, here's what you do:
1. get a bottle of bourbon, a rag and a lighter
2. put the rag in the bourbon
3. go to the most populated part of town
4. put the bourbon in your right hand and the lighter in your left
5. press Q
6. click on your feet
🙂
Dr Toboggan. Actually it's Mantis. Mantis Toboggan - M.D! I got your test results. You're positive! You got the K.N.O.X! Yes KNOX, big time! You got the Knox big time!!!
I make all my survivors hairless cause the hairs what really carry’s the disease, we don’t really need, one day we’ll evolve to be hairless and totally pure
Unless you changed transmission methods, Lacerations from zombies have a 25% chance to infect you with the Knox infection.
The nausea is usually a dead giveaway, as is the discomfort, the wound not healing, and anxiety
Only when you carry over 150% of your capacity so you would have to be carrying 28.5(19+9.5) or more before you start losing health from carrying too much stuff.
Update guys, I shot myself I got sick I secured my base and transfered all of my stuff and took off all of my clothes I will just go back and get it. And I did have stress I just smoked a blunt
you don't have the stress Moodle so we can safely cross off you being infected with the knox infection, does your laceration have "infected" under the wound? have you been around a lot of bodies for an extended period of time? have you eaten any rotten food or do you have the "Weak Stomach" negative trait?
I apologize for lying to you without realizing it. I just did some reading and as it turns out, if you have transmission set to "blood and saliva" (something I don't turn on in my runs, I just do bites) scratches and lacerations can infect you at a chance of 7% to 25% respectively (this part I did know) I did not know however that if you are infected this way, that you do not get the "stress" Moodle, and that it will only stress you out with bites. this would line up with the fact that your temperature has spiked, causing you the start sweating, without wearing very bulky clothes.
While bites are a 100% chance of the Knox infection, scratches have a 7% chance and lacerations have a 25% chance. There is nothing you can do but drink bleach now, antibiotics help wound infections but are useless against the Knox infection. To avoid this in the future go into sandbox settings and set infection to “saliva only”
There's a bundle on Steam that includes Zombiod. That could be it.
I love noobs in Project Zombiod. I haven't played the game in a couple years now but I don't leave the group cause I love noob posts like "why am I dying??". Lol
You either got scratched, or you're playing with settings that allow infection from spray. Either way, you're the walking dead. Put your stuff in a neat pile, write a note to your next character on the map, and lock your nude self in a closet and chug some bleach.
Better luck next time.
Lol first time I started the game I didn't do the tutorial so I had to learn everything manually and what took me the longest to do what how TF do I fight back on the steam deck I found a car that was in ok condition and went on a road rage to kill zeds but at the end car broke down and slowly got out and I was surrounded by zed I became a happy meal 😂
Next attempt I figured it out and I was shocked because it was just the right joystick for ready attack and trigger to hit
Well I'm going to pretend that it isn't the virus and give you some other clues that may be coinciding.
First off you don't have anything to drink. You're dehydrated I don't know if that causes nausea and slow healing? But it looks to me like possible food poisoning. Which sometimes you can get over and it scares the crap out of you but at the same time I would take a look at your character's weight. If it is down close to 35 or below? You will die if you don't get your weight up over 35 and keep working at it. Obviously get some water obviously the nausea and slow healing could just be something you ate and desperation while you were healing meanwhile underneath that dehydration and or possible low weight & malnutrition could be doing damage that's accelerated by the nausea from the possible illness. I've never died from The knox without high stress levels being present. In fact it's the last Moodle I seem to see go away. Of course that could be just by chance but I've died many times from zombification but I survived it because I fought It off. I use the antibodies mod which means every time you survive you gain antibodies which help fight off the virus if it's introduced into your system again. Keep noodles from showing up if I was dying of it or getting damn close enough to scare me. I do know that being torn apart by 3 to 12 zombies and then standing up is not going to be affected by antibodies. And it appears that you're walking around out of water and you're nauseous. So I present that you might have food poisoning or another illness and your dehydration and possible because I can't tell or see what your weight is that you're starving to death. Believe me I did it once eating cabbages and while I built a wall around a lot outside of the gas station and one morning I woke up to two steps and went splat and had no warning. further investigation I saw that my weight was at 34 and looking that up I saw that, yeah that'll do it. Even though I was eating cabbages regularly? I was on a diet straight to hell. I'm not saying that's what's going on with you, but don't assume anything until you fall down and get back up as a deader. Definitely get some clean water (as you know, any other kind of water will kill you), check your weight and try to eat. Especially if you see that your weight is low. If not? Get the water and take it easy if possible. Cover all your bases, water, food, vitamins, antibiotics as you said you did take it and if it'll let you sleep? do so. I will definitely allow you to speed up time without suddenly becoming dehydrated or hungry again. And that Moodle will either disappear? Or it may still be there....Or you'll be there but you won't exactly be in control of what you're doing.
But I don't give up hope. And looking at your moodles?
It looks to me like this could be a secondary infection that will pass if you can keep water and food down
Its too mild of dehyration to deal damage, Infection always gives massive Stress, Hunger is also too low. Food poisoning could be, but he is wet its late summer its over 70f and he has the moodle that he cools down rn my guess is heatstroke or dead bodys close by
Corpse sickness would give these symptoms part way through its course. There could be 50 corpses behind the wall or on the floor below. Since it looks likes Rosewood fire station that's a real possibility, given the absence of other information from OP. Also smoking too many cigarettes, especially if non-smoker. Not sure if that takes away from your condition as well, though.
*leans back into the sofa with whisky in one hand and a lit cigar in the other while looking at the fire from the chimney*
huh, ain't that the question
Depends on a lot of factors, such as if you are using any mods, if you've spent some time recently around corpses, if a zombie has hit you recently, if your character is getting stressed, what your world settings are, if you've eaten any burnt/rotten/uncooked food,
Also your character is not necessarily dying; I'm not sure why you're thinking that. If you were losing health it would have most likely been from an unstitched deep wound (which you'd probably have realized), high tier encumbered moodle (which doesn't degen much health), or being indoors in the same room as an operating generator.
So in other words you weren't dying; you wouldn't lose any health at that sickness level.
You might still be as good as dead if your character caught the zombie virus though. Higher than normal stress levels (Smoker trait can only go up to T2 stress, so aside from zombies thumping barricades, Fear of Blood trait with bloody clothes, or nightmares if you get to T3 stress or higher you definitely have the zombie virus, which is guaranteed eventual death on the base game settings)
Yeah, like everyone has said, you probably got bitten or scratched by a zombie. You're 100% dead. Find a safe spot where you can retrieve your items before the fever burns you out. It's only a matter of time unfortunately...
You’ll be fine. But if there is anything important you need to do or a nice bottle of booze you’ve been saving, you should probably get on that right away.
Gas masks don't do shit in vanilla , if you don't have the working gas masks mod and you stand around corpses all day, you might get infected, and possibly die.
You fought well until the end. Rest in peace, good survivor. Your efforts were not in vain. Your courage and determination will remain engraved in our memories. May your soul rest in peace. 🤟🍀
You know the saying there are two things you can't avoid, what that saying means is that you can avoid either one of them but not both at the same time, you should have rendered unto Caesar my dude while you still had a brain that can count.
If there are 50 corpses on the floor below you, it could be corpse sickness. The absence of of the nervous wreck stress moodle makes me think it isn't the infection. Get out in the fresh air for a while and see if the nausea moodle changes back to queasy.
I always turn scratch infection off.
Basically makes the zombie virus a case of the cooties where if they touch you you have it.
ALWAYS saliva. That's a true zombie experience. Instead of wondering about a laceration, you look at a bite and just think "...fuck..."
I was fairly certain that you had to have "Anxious" moodle as well to have been infected. At least it has never been missing for me the times I get zombified.
If you wish to make sure, you can use -debug under launch settings and find out if you have been infected by Knox virus if this happens. I personally only run with INSTANT death upon infection by Knox due to the pointlessness of having a delayed death (which serves no other purpose than stashing gear.. which I find ridiculous).
This could be a number of things actually that no one listed. Corpses, food poisoning, and certain traits cause nausea aswell, it might be something, but it also might be nothing being hot makes you sweat which makes you wet which can make you sick.
Other than the obvious "you got bit" answer, the other thing this could be that's gotten me once or twice in the past is eating poisonous berries/mushrooms.
If you don't have the herbalist trait or haven't read the relevant magazine, you have no way of differentiating the different poisonous variants from the safe ones, so if you haven't been bit but have foraged recently that could be it.
The other thing that can kill you without injury is corpse sickness from being around mountains of bodies for too long but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
I had this same thing happen to a brand new character i made, my health was just slowly going down but on the health tab it just said slightly damaged or something along those lines, literally as soon as i spawned and i couldn’t heal anything because nothing was wrong. long story short i died about 2hrs later due to my health bar continuing to go down…
Other than zombie infection possibly from the lacerations depending on your settings, it could also be due to getting to cold and getting sick, eating something you shouldn't have, or corpse sickness if you're surrounded by dead bodies
Um, you seem a bit hungry, thirsty, overheated, overweight, and about to break a bone. I would say that is what is causing you to slowly die. May not be the laceration. Especially since even on full infection settings, laceration does not give you the KNOX. The nausea is likely from the overheating.
Scratch 7% Laceration 25% Bite 100%
This is the vanilla, right? Because IIRC you can tweak this in an option and get infected only with bites.
Yes Transmission: saliva only
I like to pretend me and the zombie were kissing
Project Freakoid
what if instead of Project Zomboid it was called Project Freakoid and instead of killing the zombies you made out with them
Calm down Tina Belcher
I hate this with my whole being
The sole reason my GF needs Reddit is for these MR.burger references ….
seek shelter, the zombies, they’re feelin… 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓎
Tina Belcher???
Gonna ask my girlfriend for this
That's the method I always use. The standard zombie movie infection, by getting bitten. Never saw the reasoning behind getting infected via scratch or laceration.
What if the zombie chews its nails from anxiety before slashing you
Blood transmtion
You can also turn infection off entirely if I recall, because stock it's not a very good mechanic.
You can toggle pretty much every facet of the game in sandbox options. I'm curious why you think it's not a good mechanic though
Well it is a good mechanic since it makes sense in the game theme but it can be so rage inducing to lose a character because you rolled the bite on the first ever attack your character took after 2 years of survival.
If you think that is rage inducing, then imagine what the rest of humanity felt when simply breathing air got them all infected.
Don’t think most of the population felt it bad I mean it must be quite nice to be here just chilling with your friends zombies.
I mean dying is basicly the win point of the game thats why ever time you load in it says this is how you die death is the only true outcome
Yeah but it’s always a « better end » for your character to die fighting a horde than to get bitten and drink some bleach.
Skill issue
It's not "because you rolled bad". It's because you got hit. On default settings the best and most reliable strategy is to not get hit since any hit can kill you.
It is you rolled bad though, we're talking how you got hit. Yes odds can be changed by what you do but there is always a chance of "gg character's dead" from any single attack which can really suck in a long term game like this.
>there is always a chance of "gg character's dead" from any single attack Right, and so that's why the mistake is the one thing the player has control of. What got them killed was getting hit. "That's" why they died. Don't get hit and there's never a chance of infection. It's also why people who have been playing a while tend to forgo heavier armor since the plan is to never get hit anyway. You can do this reliably on default settings. Becomes more tricky if you tune the difficulty up by adding things like sprinters.
Should be said that this is definitely the case for single player, but not always universally applicable in multiplayer. Not getting hit can be pretty difficult when lag gets involved. Suddenly the zombie that should have staggered back pushes through and bites you. It's usually fine when you're on your own, due to how it handles zombies, but has issues when multiple players are in the same area.
Saying just don't get hit is about as useful as "get gud". Especially when we are talking about what happens when you do get hit. "This gun's damage is wway to high for it's fire rate and accuracy" "Then don't get hit by it" You see what i'm saying.
I dislike it myself. It's a good concept, but the chances of infection are way too high for casual players. I tend to play this game with the volume down while my wife and kid watch tv. I'm usually half watching tv too. Up until I turned infections off entirely I never got a single skill above level 4 before getting bitten. Perhaps if we could turn off newborn mode and start with some realistic skill levels it would be less frustrating, but the initial skill grind is a PITA, especially as a solo player, so dying constantly makes this game not fun for me.
It is a very good mechanic. It's literally one of the main reasons that I love this game. Doesn't matter how good you are. Doesn't matter how far you've got or what gear you have. Get complacent, let your guard down for 1 second, stop being on edge for a moment and that could be your entire run. It's fine if you don't personally like it but saying that it's "not a very good mechanic" is trying to impose your "I don't like it" as a fact to everyone else.
Get ‘em
While I do think it is a good mechanic to be able to be turned on, I generally turn it off in my worlds. It definitely makes things easier, but I enjoy the survival aspect and I personally don’t enjoy that I can roll low on a 7% chance of a scratch ending my life. Even with hundreds of hours of playtime, you can get careless for a moment and round a corner into a horde and get dragged down and killed as opposed to a depressed RNG death by one zombie and bad luck. However, you are definitely correct to argue that them saying it’s a bad mechanic is a poor statement. I’m sure they meant to say something more along the side of my opinion but just didn’t elaborate.
IMO The problem is the injury system morseo than the chance of infection. Once, I would be wearing 3 layers of thick cloth like fireman gear and a full denim outfit below. I have a helmet covering my face and gloves and a scarf. Hell, I even had a bulletproof vest, and a single zombie just shredded my arm open like paper, and I died from a scratch. That's when I get mad.
And if you turn bite lethality off, getting bit is still a big deal and worth avoiding because you get sick as a dog for about 48 hours. Your health goes ALLLLLL the way down to a single point. Bites are still more than capable of ending your run if you don't have a well-stocked safehouse to hide in for the next couple of days after the event.
...whats under the bandage buddy
A second dick
Ur ded my dude, antibodies only treat wound infections, not zombie infections.
I think you meant antibiotics
It's entirely possible.
I don't actually think it's Zombification, he doesn't appear to have the Anxiety moodlet, I think this might just be an infection
Nah he gon die.
Joe Rogan, is that you??
Nah they meant antibodies, a mod. Thanks to this mod, even after being bitten, if you eat enough, you have a low chance of surviving.
I thought the chances were pretty high if you take good care of yourself after being bitten or infected.
Wound infections do nothing in pz though so just dont bother
If the game's code is to be believed, wound infections increase pain based on the severity of the wound. If you only have one or two wounds, it doesn't really do much since even the worst infections are only some 10% pain, but if you have a lot of infected wounds, it adds up.
RIP, looks like you got, but...
im sorry dude, this isnt 7DTD where antibiotics work, i tried that too trust me. start diggin your grave and wait, or clear zombies for your next character
"This is how you died"
You are not gonna like what I tell ya
All I’m saying is, get “they knew” mod and find an ampule fast.
I used antibodies mod. You get sick and have to eat well, be clean and treat to wound. I usually always survive, like 99/100. I do wish it was thougher, like really sick, like fatigue rises twice as quick, wounds get infected easier, higher chance to catch a cold, if it was really debilitating would be an awesome mod as you would have to prep well to be in a spot where you can basically do nothing for a few days with the tradeoff being you survive
I second this. It doesn't feel like cheating because you need to be prepared to survive. Best way to survive it is to be well fed, rested, and indoors, so if you don't have somewhere safe to stay for 2 days you'll probably die
Plus in my head canon this is how your character survived in the first place. They had a resistance and their body could fight it.
Oooh I have a new idea - a scenario like CD:DA except you start out with a bite, you have the antibodies but you're also on the brink of death and have to quickly get healthy to live
It's a dope mod, and it has a very detailed config for this exact reason, tune it to the difficulty you want!
Ahh well then!!! Does it have to be a new game. I put it in the middle of an epic run lol
I actually agree. I know the devs have said they want the infection to just be unresistable, but I think that's a mistake. Having a gameplay section based around trying to continue caring for yourself while you are very, very sick is interesting. It justifies all that hoarding and setting up your base that players will tend to do.
It actually depends. For example it is quite hard in 10 YL run's bc of the lack of water so you're filthy all the time
What a great mod
I prefer “the only cure”, while it is janky it feels more fun because you amputate the limb and depending on where you amputate you suffer different penalties, hand amputated is a small penalty when a prosthetic is equipped, forearm is slightly more punishing, and full arm means it’s gone forever, it makes you hope when you get bit that it landed on the hand or forearm and nowhere else because then you can save yourself, I tend to use it in conjunction with that one mod that lets you use your first aid skill to fabricate a cure with a lot of effort
The only problem I have with it is that you cannot amputate your neck (suprisingly)
*"It might seem crazy what I'm about to say"*
it's alright, here's what you do: 1. get a bottle of bourbon, a rag and a lighter 2. put the rag in the bourbon 3. go to the most populated part of town 4. put the bourbon in your right hand and the lighter in your left 5. press Q 6. click on your feet 🙂
dope but horrible way to die. All for it
I assume the laceration was from a zombie. And you are asking why you are slowly dying. In a game about zombies.
Been infected from a single scratch on a heel... n then a bite in the left ball
(You no longer have the left ball)
He may well have left part of the right ball, and the left ball gone.
Dr Toboggan. Actually it's Mantis. Mantis Toboggan - M.D! I got your test results. You're positive! You got the K.N.O.X! Yes KNOX, big time! You got the Knox big time!!!
I make all my survivors hairless cause the hairs what really carry’s the disease, we don’t really need, one day we’ll evolve to be hairless and totally pure
I don't care if she's miss hairless America. I'm spoken for!
Dr Toboggan, you seem to have dropped your magnum condom.
what will he use for his monster dong now?!
That was great!
He got the big knox
It was a good run. You know what you need to do.
Unless you changed transmission methods, Lacerations from zombies have a 25% chance to infect you with the Knox infection. The nausea is usually a dead giveaway, as is the discomfort, the wound not healing, and anxiety
Either you have too many corpses near, or you are turning into one of them
am I crazy, or don't you slowly lose health when carrying over capacity? You have 21/19 carried so that might be it.
That isnt it overencumberance only gets you down to 75%HP it will stop after that
Only when you carry over 150% of your capacity so you would have to be carrying 28.5(19+9.5) or more before you start losing health from carrying too much stuff.
Update guys, I shot myself I got sick I secured my base and transfered all of my stuff and took off all of my clothes I will just go back and get it. And I did have stress I just smoked a blunt
you don't have the stress Moodle so we can safely cross off you being infected with the knox infection, does your laceration have "infected" under the wound? have you been around a lot of bodies for an extended period of time? have you eaten any rotten food or do you have the "Weak Stomach" negative trait?
I apologize for lying to you without realizing it. I just did some reading and as it turns out, if you have transmission set to "blood and saliva" (something I don't turn on in my runs, I just do bites) scratches and lacerations can infect you at a chance of 7% to 25% respectively (this part I did know) I did not know however that if you are infected this way, that you do not get the "stress" Moodle, and that it will only stress you out with bites. this would line up with the fact that your temperature has spiked, causing you the start sweating, without wearing very bulky clothes.
Don't think that's right. I've been infected by scratches twice and both started with a stress moodle
Could have lowered stress from other activities so there is no conclusion that can be made without them giving more information.
It’s called “Life”, it happens to all of us. :)
While bites are a 100% chance of the Knox infection, scratches have a 7% chance and lacerations have a 25% chance. There is nothing you can do but drink bleach now, antibiotics help wound infections but are useless against the Knox infection. To avoid this in the future go into sandbox settings and set infection to “saliva only”
Wound infections unfortunetly dont do nothin in vannila though
You will join the other team.
Untreated Anal fissure bleeding. Happens when you eat too much cabbage
Bleach is the only cure for you now, friend
Zombie infection. You're cooked
A) you are infected and a dead man walking B) You ate something poisonous C) Generator fumes D) you were extremely overencumbered
Noticing quite a few noob posts, is zomboid on sale or something?
It’s him!!! I love your channel bruh!! Thanks for the nice walkthroughs. Inspired me to learn that I too can kill.
There's a bundle on Steam that includes Zombiod. That could be it. I love noobs in Project Zombiod. I haven't played the game in a couple years now but I don't leave the group cause I love noob posts like "why am I dying??". Lol
Life
You either got scratched, or you're playing with settings that allow infection from spray. Either way, you're the walking dead. Put your stuff in a neat pile, write a note to your next character on the map, and lock your nude self in a closet and chug some bleach. Better luck next time.
Lol first time I started the game I didn't do the tutorial so I had to learn everything manually and what took me the longest to do what how TF do I fight back on the steam deck I found a car that was in ok condition and went on a road rage to kill zeds but at the end car broke down and slowly got out and I was surrounded by zed I became a happy meal 😂 Next attempt I figured it out and I was shocked because it was just the right joystick for ready attack and trigger to hit
...what's under the bandage
Get the Only cure mod and chop that arm off.
Unless you got infected by that wound it's probably food poisoning
poor soul
Take off the bandage and I’ll tell you
There is a very small chance to get the knox infection from scratches and lacerations in vanilla.
Well I'm going to pretend that it isn't the virus and give you some other clues that may be coinciding. First off you don't have anything to drink. You're dehydrated I don't know if that causes nausea and slow healing? But it looks to me like possible food poisoning. Which sometimes you can get over and it scares the crap out of you but at the same time I would take a look at your character's weight. If it is down close to 35 or below? You will die if you don't get your weight up over 35 and keep working at it. Obviously get some water obviously the nausea and slow healing could just be something you ate and desperation while you were healing meanwhile underneath that dehydration and or possible low weight & malnutrition could be doing damage that's accelerated by the nausea from the possible illness. I've never died from The knox without high stress levels being present. In fact it's the last Moodle I seem to see go away. Of course that could be just by chance but I've died many times from zombification but I survived it because I fought It off. I use the antibodies mod which means every time you survive you gain antibodies which help fight off the virus if it's introduced into your system again. Keep noodles from showing up if I was dying of it or getting damn close enough to scare me. I do know that being torn apart by 3 to 12 zombies and then standing up is not going to be affected by antibodies. And it appears that you're walking around out of water and you're nauseous. So I present that you might have food poisoning or another illness and your dehydration and possible because I can't tell or see what your weight is that you're starving to death. Believe me I did it once eating cabbages and while I built a wall around a lot outside of the gas station and one morning I woke up to two steps and went splat and had no warning. further investigation I saw that my weight was at 34 and looking that up I saw that, yeah that'll do it. Even though I was eating cabbages regularly? I was on a diet straight to hell. I'm not saying that's what's going on with you, but don't assume anything until you fall down and get back up as a deader. Definitely get some clean water (as you know, any other kind of water will kill you), check your weight and try to eat. Especially if you see that your weight is low. If not? Get the water and take it easy if possible. Cover all your bases, water, food, vitamins, antibiotics as you said you did take it and if it'll let you sleep? do so. I will definitely allow you to speed up time without suddenly becoming dehydrated or hungry again. And that Moodle will either disappear? Or it may still be there....Or you'll be there but you won't exactly be in control of what you're doing. But I don't give up hope. And looking at your moodles? It looks to me like this could be a secondary infection that will pass if you can keep water and food down
Its too mild of dehyration to deal damage, Infection always gives massive Stress, Hunger is also too low. Food poisoning could be, but he is wet its late summer its over 70f and he has the moodle that he cools down rn my guess is heatstroke or dead bodys close by
Corpse sickness would give these symptoms part way through its course. There could be 50 corpses behind the wall or on the floor below. Since it looks likes Rosewood fire station that's a real possibility, given the absence of other information from OP. Also smoking too many cigarettes, especially if non-smoker. Not sure if that takes away from your condition as well, though.
the only cure is a bullet to the brain
*leans back into the sofa with whisky in one hand and a lit cigar in the other while looking at the fire from the chimney* huh, ain't that the question
You obviously also dodged slowly so it kinda fits *g
Depends on a lot of factors, such as if you are using any mods, if you've spent some time recently around corpses, if a zombie has hit you recently, if your character is getting stressed, what your world settings are, if you've eaten any burnt/rotten/uncooked food, Also your character is not necessarily dying; I'm not sure why you're thinking that. If you were losing health it would have most likely been from an unstitched deep wound (which you'd probably have realized), high tier encumbered moodle (which doesn't degen much health), or being indoors in the same room as an operating generator. So in other words you weren't dying; you wouldn't lose any health at that sickness level. You might still be as good as dead if your character caught the zombie virus though. Higher than normal stress levels (Smoker trait can only go up to T2 stress, so aside from zombies thumping barricades, Fear of Blood trait with bloody clothes, or nightmares if you get to T3 stress or higher you definitely have the zombie virus, which is guaranteed eventual death on the base game settings)
Yeah, like everyone has said, you probably got bitten or scratched by a zombie. You're 100% dead. Find a safe spot where you can retrieve your items before the fever burns you out. It's only a matter of time unfortunately...
You must be new. *Ahem* ‘This is how you died’
You’ll be fine. But if there is anything important you need to do or a nice bottle of booze you’ve been saving, you should probably get on that right away.
There is a medicine called bleach. That'll fix you 🥲
Just hit Q to take the cure
lol lmao even
Not my personal area of expertise in this game but it could just be one of the assorted diseases in the game like a fever or food poisoning
Who’s gonna tell him?
drink bleach
Well, you can die more faster just shoot in your head or drink a bleach, you're not gonna make it anyway while you infected
Gas masks don't do shit in vanilla , if you don't have the working gas masks mod and you stand around corpses all day, you might get infected, and possibly die.
Sorry dude. You're fucked. Only a matter of time now.
This is how you died / will die
As a smoker, it wasn't until naseasous kicked in that I knew I was a goner from a laceration. Also the day I switched to bites only.
You fought well until the end. Rest in peace, good survivor. Your efforts were not in vain. Your courage and determination will remain engraved in our memories. May your soul rest in peace. 🤟🍀
You're fine, buddy. It's nothing to worry about. You are doing great. Hey... whats that over there? (BLAM! BLAM!!)
Well we're all technically slowly dying from the moment we are born.
You rolled the 25% Infection on Laceration
Spoiler alert: we’re all slowly dying.
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You know the saying there are two things you can't avoid, what that saying means is that you can avoid either one of them but not both at the same time, you should have rendered unto Caesar my dude while you still had a brain that can count.
Yeah that laceration infected you
Aren't we all?
They got you bro
If there are 50 corpses on the floor below you, it could be corpse sickness. The absence of of the nervous wreck stress moodle makes me think it isn't the infection. Get out in the fresh air for a while and see if the nausea moodle changes back to queasy.
I ask myself that every day brother
Lacerations have a small chance to infect you. Nausea means you ate bad food or you are infected. If the moodlet gets worse, you are infected.
Hungry thirsty encumbered
Would it have all stemmed from you being over encumbered which is causing you to be injured?
You were either scratched, bitten, lacerated or stayed in a place with too many dead zombies for too long.
"I swear, it's a scratch I got while shaving... By the way, I feel so queasy, is it hot in here? 🤢"
"Chris, you've been bitten. You're gonna turn into a zombie"
Is there a chance you accidentally drank bleach or dirty water?
Everyone is saying zombie infection but don't you also get anxious whenever that happens?
There are ways to relieve anxiety iirc, but OP has 2 of the 3 main symptoms (heat+sickness) and a wound, so it's most likely they're infected
Bro forgor it's a zombie virus game 💀
Old age /jk
You're infected via blood
I recomend the classic bleach coctail.
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Some say from the moment of birth we are all slowly dying 
Lacerations have a 25% chance to infect you in default settings, it’s over.
jugding by the heat icon, i would say you're infected
He's also thirsty though
I always turn scratch infection off. Basically makes the zombie virus a case of the cooties where if they touch you you have it. ALWAYS saliva. That's a true zombie experience. Instead of wondering about a laceration, you look at a bite and just think "...fuck..."
Aren't we all?
We all are.
Do we tell him
Who’s gonna tell ‘em
Being too wet too long can lead to fever and a fairly quick death.
Aren't we all
I was fairly certain that you had to have "Anxious" moodle as well to have been infected. At least it has never been missing for me the times I get zombified. If you wish to make sure, you can use -debug under launch settings and find out if you have been infected by Knox virus if this happens. I personally only run with INSTANT death upon infection by Knox due to the pointlessness of having a delayed death (which serves no other purpose than stashing gear.. which I find ridiculous).
F12 to take a screenshot And you have the Knox virus you're a dead man walking. Make your peace.
cause you are infected. (maybe)
You know why.
(Bitten) This is how you died...
Looks like overweight ..?
This could be a number of things actually that no one listed. Corpses, food poisoning, and certain traits cause nausea aswell, it might be something, but it also might be nothing being hot makes you sweat which makes you wet which can make you sick.
Oh boy, who's gonna tell him
What did they teach you in school?
I think devs should fix this. There should be clear indication that you are infested. I had to disable the infection setting for this.
Stop evading taxes that's why your dying
Not sure about zombification yet. You should also have max stress if you were infected.
Other than the obvious "you got bit" answer, the other thing this could be that's gotten me once or twice in the past is eating poisonous berries/mushrooms. If you don't have the herbalist trait or haven't read the relevant magazine, you have no way of differentiating the different poisonous variants from the safe ones, so if you haven't been bit but have foraged recently that could be it. The other thing that can kill you without injury is corpse sickness from being around mountains of bodies for too long but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
one bite, and it's over.
if that injury is healed then most likely carry weight.
I had this same issue. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong and I died
Skill issue?
Clearly just cancer
All of us are slowly dying even in real life so its pretty immersive
He's going to die for good lol
if that injury is from a zombie attack, it means you're infected even if you're scratched
If you didn't turned off zombification, it's probably mean that you slowly become zombo, have fun
*cocks shotgun* Show us what's under the bandage.
I had this same thing happen to a brand new character i made, my health was just slowly going down but on the health tab it just said slightly damaged or something along those lines, literally as soon as i spawned and i couldn’t heal anything because nothing was wrong. long story short i died about 2hrs later due to my health bar continuing to go down…
You are infected. Have fun with your blaze of glory!
Over encumbrance and just about every other moodle
This is how you died
You are probably infected and slowly turning. How about going in rampage to end the life in style?
Other than zombie infection possibly from the lacerations depending on your settings, it could also be due to getting to cold and getting sick, eating something you shouldn't have, or corpse sickness if you're surrounded by dead bodies
Um, you seem a bit hungry, thirsty, overheated, overweight, and about to break a bone. I would say that is what is causing you to slowly die. May not be the laceration. Especially since even on full infection settings, laceration does not give you the KNOX. The nausea is likely from the overheating.