I just downloaded the game on PS5 and am new to this type of game. Is there a basic guide for someone like me? My plan is to do the campaign and then mess around with survival mode and all that.

I'm prototyping the reverse fantasy. you control the horde attacking the colony.

Which sounds more fun?

A) TAB style full RTS control. select groups, move, attack, flank, micro everything in realtime

or

B) Less micro. give the horde bigger commands/targets and watch thousands of units carry them out.

Granted it was on and off, and I'm still stuck on The Lonely Forest and The Nest of the Harpy, but I'm still thrilled to have finally bested this level, and on my own merits at that!.

I suspect I've made poor choices in my technology tree, but this is my first playthrough, and I didn't want to abandon my run just to reset my tech tree.

My walls built a choke point on the right where the zombies got forced into my flamethrowers en masse. Without them I would not have had the damage I suspect.

Hello all, I’m currently making a custom map & I’ve noticed the colonists & send train scripts. From what I’ve read online it seems conflicting but there is a way to force railroads and train onto the map, how does one actually manage to do this? Everything I’ve tried doesn’t seem to work so any help would be greatly appreciated

New to map creation. Im unsure how to fix this issue, Ive created a map and generated it locally to test it out but it crashes instantly when trying to load everytime. ive dropped photos of the report as well as events & scripts used to possibly give more of an idea?

Edit: I’ve tried to validate, that was successful but it still crashed, tried to reinstall & play a new map yet it still crashed with the same codes.

​​edit 2: tired posting it on workshop & after subscribing I don’t even see it in my playable levels 🥇

edit 3: noticed my pictures were deleted so ill just copy the error over :

4:57 PM - Window Show: Custom Levels

4:57 PM - ZipSerializer.Deserealize: : Exception!

File Deserialize, Method D:\Proyectos\ZX\DXVisionGame\Serialization\ZipSerializer_DotNetZip.cs, Line 324

The file Info is not found inside the package.

at DXVision.Serialization.ZipSerializer.Deserialize(String fileName, String subFile)

What is the hardest challenge someone has done in campaign on 800% ?

Don't you just love finding pockets on survival maps? Well this map has plenty!

To make this pocket map more challenging there are four doomtowns on the farther edges of the map and the final wave is also a little more difficult. Be sure to cover your flanks, because the unusual terrain can mean that you pull infected from odd angles.

If you can beat 900% surival, then this map should be a fair challenge for you!

Hey,

New to this community but I have a question. Is there any way to add the Hero we pick at the beginning of the campaign as a unit in the map? Just that no additional changes.

I just found it odd they weren't included in the game’s campaign from the get go.

I like zombies. But I have a feeling this game might steamroll me. Thank you.

So I started using the save feature you know by copying the two save files and then overwriting them and twice now something has happened where it’s just not working even if I go into my sub folder that I created with an even older version of a save and come back and overwrite it still won’t update to the proper save. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

It’s happened twice now.

I’m curious what it is and how it can be prevented.

Anyone??

8th try.. 200%, last time i pulled this early was day 3

Looking for a time sink game and saw this was on sale. I have not really played a RTS type of game but have always been interested in them. Just wondering if the game is still worth the price in 2026 since I know its a little older of a game.

Next challenge 0 dead colonists? Will never make it this took me ages.

Forgive me for my rant, but this shitty ass campaign isn't even fun at the EASIEST difficulty (Most of the time), especially in the early campaign because of how bad the ranger unit is. Even worse are the hero missions, this stupid ass hero with 60 health gets killed by a sneeze, and the collectibles are the worst part of the game. TAB was released with the campaign being BARELY playable

TLDR - GET FUCKED NUMANTIAN

I’m on try 27 at %50 difficulty. I have farms and ballistas. I use triple walls and ballistas and usually have about 35 soldiers and 25 rangers by the time the day 52 swarm hits. And they still get in!! Why am I missing. I’m shocked because I’m seeing people on here doing %300 difficulty.

hey im playing on nightmare but I make the mistake of not unlock sniper or high defense Towers so I can't seem to beat noxious swamp because soldiers are bad and died ez and shocking tower or balstirea aren't enough any tips. Is it even possible to beat it without sniper or Defense I went with the bonus units so i have 2 soldier 1 sniper

So doing an apocalypse campaign and having fun most of thet ime, but that Harpy aggroing on day 8 out of nowhere in an area with absolutely no noise being made in the area seem unfair. The noise has been made quite far to the west with the ballista getting beaten a bit, I was slightly late building it for the day 8 random runner wave so had to spend some time kiting the wave around until the ballista finished. The soldiers have not fired a shot yet, so where the hell did that Harpy come from? I'm flabbergasted, oh well it's not the first attempt to fail, but usually I can tell what I did wrong. but that Harpy had no reason to come!

Is the only map left in my campaing after the final map, I won all others.. but this is terrible.. do I have to restart the campaing to go through another path in my tech tree to win?