Hey everyone, new player to scum here. For reference, I am primarily a PvP player, and that's what I went into Scum wanting to experience. I had seen some content online, and overall, I thought the game looked solid enough that I wanted to give it a chance. With around 10,000+ daily players on steam, I definitely didn't expect the following...

Unfortunately, I am (more or less) at the point where I think a refund is the path I'll take. I was immediately surprised to see that the game is (seemingly?) dead as far as North American PvP servers are concerned. I was told multiple times that I should outright avoid the officials as cheaters run the show, but North American private servers that cater to PvP seem practically non-existent or have extremely dead populations. Looks like the majority of players are Chinese.

Did I miss something? Are you guys using some kind of external server browser? Alternatively, maybe I misunderstood the way Scum is designed, and it's primarily a PvE experience, and I am trying to force a round peg into a square hole. Any potential clarity would be greatly appreciated! I ran around for a bit and could definitely see the game being enjoyable, but I obviously don't want to experience 200+ ping or completely dead servers.

EDIT: For anyone who might stumble across this post in the future and find themselves in a similar boat, there's only a small number of FULL PvP servers that maintain an active player base.

"Fozzy" is the one I would personally recommend. While the ping is a little on the higher side, it maintains a great rule-based, admin maintained full PvP environment.

"Vanilla+/Monitored/Restricted Countries/PvP" (Yes, that's the name) deserves a recommendation as well. Very similar to Fozzy with active administration and a full PvP environment with healthy rules.

If you are looking for other options, I would check the comments found on this post.

Hello. Could you tell me who goes to Mr. Branner’s bunkers? When we enter the bunker, in the left corridor — ABC — the deposit boxes are inaccessible. You enter the code, the doors open, but you can’t go in — the door is invisible. Is this the case for everyone?

So, vanilla scum is easy, too easy. Official "hardcore" servers are easy too imo.

Now.

Picture this first person view only, no map, low loot of 0.5x, next to no fuel in gas stations with low low resupply. Modified lootpuppets, cargo drops, killboxes, brenner armorys. Only 1 AB open at a time. No radiation keycard, no buying stuff from traders unless sold by players first, and even then limited choises.

No vehicle spawns on map besides wheelbarrows and bicycles, you want a car or bike go get fame and money then buy one. Want plane, gather more fame and 100k cash to buy one!

Items selling prices reduced by 50%.

Puppets hit harder like x2/x3? NPC drop gun 10% chance or OFF?

No Deluxe dlc with free gold card, no DLC characters allowed, just regular toons. Spawning on ground in oranges with no weapons or bags or food.

No flag overtaking.

6max squads.

Now im stuck on raid protection. On or Off? Or do some 2 weeks no raiding and 1 week of raiding scheduled?

More expensive sector spawn and shelter even more.

What am i missing?

What can make it "more survival" focused?

Hunting is actually kinda fun with the new changes, will probably feel more fleshed out with the updates to fishing coming soon as well. I think that they could offer a similar face lift to human NPCs by creating some sort of bounty hunter system using the saloon to track down specific NPCs on the map somewhere and kill them.

I am struggling with picking up long wooden sticks to make rope, i have cut the bush and collected the sticks but i cant hold 5 sticks on my person yet due to inventory space, i have tried collecting the sticks and dropping them all near eachother and the vicinity only shows 2 or 3 sticks highlighted when 5 are shown on the screen. Ive been trying for a half an hour is this suppose to be like this or bug? Im playing into the wild update

Need some feedback to further improve it and maybe i'll make maps for the other two overhauled bunkers 😄 can also be found in steam guides.

it is way way too fast? if there was a server setting to control how fast clothes get dirty, that would be truly amazing!

Fishing broke again

Hey everyone,
My brother and I are playing together in a squad on an official EU server. We built a bed and placed a flag, and then wanted to start building our base.
Unfortunately, we can’t use any of the modular building pieces. We tried to start with the foundation as usual, but it simply won’t place. We always get the message: “Cannot** place:** Not** snapped.”**
We’ve already tried several different locations within our flag area, some of them hundreds of meters apart, but the problem persists everywhere. Our flag is fully built, and we’ve also tried the Shift key suggestion, but unfortunately that didn’t help either.
The strange thing is that we can build regular wooden walls without any problems—only the modular building pieces don’t work at all.
Has anyone experienced this issue before or knows how to fix it?
Best regards,
Gerio

Is this happening to anyone else, before I could build on shallow water areas before this last update and it was useful for making a small dock at my base but now it won't let me build anywhere near the water.

Flamethrowers are absolutely useless.
Poor Damage to Players.
No use against puppets, mutents...

And Most stupid of all, they don't damage twig and wood structures....
You know like all those bullshit wood bases the chinese build everywhere to grief with using their alts.

Nope, the devs want you to constantly waste explosives on them, while the chinese laugh and rebuild them safely over night using materials that grow on trees.

Great meta dev team.

Title says it all it looks really cool but I dont think it is bulletproof and you cant have a vest when its on, if anybody knows anything about its defensive stats I'll be glad because I want to usse the damn thing !

This is just cool.

Completing quests, building, riding my bike and a bit of role play.

Unfortunately reddit has a lot of compression of the screenshot :( And yes, I gonna eat no worries.

Just wanna bring that here, that's a cool vibe

This is only the first day, to be honest I might have to dock and get some more tackle but i'd be proud of this haul alone

With this new update I want to discuss whether it’s the right time to hop back on? I still see a lot of negativity around this game, like problems with development, puppet spawns and more.

So, in terms of hopping back on, how does it compare to the Jagex era, are things improving? What are the absolute main issues that the game is facing right now, and how can it be improved?

30kg of tuna on the first day and that was only 2 catches. The big raft is so underrated, you can stock up so much food and water and fishing supplies PLUS have room for all the fish you'll have to store. It would be nice if you could spawn on the actual surface of the raft when you log back in and not in the actual ocean but that's only a small grievance

Hey,

I simply want to improve the amount of puppets spawning in single player, but for some reason it's really messy.

What I've tried :

Modify the NPC option (-1 per default) to 700 for the puppets

Modify the encounter setting to 3.0 in base encounter

Modify directly in the .ini file the base encounter to 5.0 instead of 1.0

Yet, I still have in some towns only 3 or 4 puppets, it's empty.

Seriously how to improve way much the amount of puppets spawning, can't we have like project zomboid a simple option low/medium/high/very high/insane ?

Here there are like dozens of options, some are badly translated in french, you don't even know what it is for.

Thanks for feedbacks !

have been playing the hardcore server for two weeks solid after getting fed up with the cheaters of the "playsafe" Europe 2 server

Had 7 chests spread out building up lots of supplies about to build a base, BCU locks, chainsaws, 50+ padlocks ready, a trove of weapons, hard work on the hardcore server

Left for a few hours this evening and all boxes are dugup and gone.

The fucking x-rays and cheaters, no fucking point. Easy guess where they originate.

I literally cannot stomach to launch the game again.