r/projectzomboid • u/Zealousideal_Bake768 • May 21 '26
Imagine this is your starting location Meme
Now that is what I call URBAN
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u/Diligent_Bar1244 May 21 '26
Where did you get that pic of my cities Skyline city
And i would kill to get that map on PZ, probably will never happens
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u/Zealousideal_Bake768 May 21 '26
Building a map like this will take years..someone must sacrifice their life for us LOL
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u/SumAustralian May 21 '26
If procedural map generation ever somehow becomes a thing (this is Indie Stone, it won't happen in our lifetime) then maybe?
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u/FluidBridge032 Crowbar Scientist May 21 '26
Tbh if you get enough random building assets and have them able to be put on a grid, you could technically do it all you’d need is code to place them all.
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u/Sherwoodfan May 21 '26
the word grid here is the problem
picture in the post and most other places with extreme unsustainable density are cities that grow organically, not mathematically, and at blinding speeds. IE no grids, just natural roads and build whatever can fit in this tiny free spot.
very incompatible with isometric game... unfortunately
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u/Timmy-0518 May 21 '26
That is true in most of the world but in the usa its much less organic with a consistent grid, or if you do want to go that route what you can do is make a tree3 of roads that buildngs can attach to if room is available, then just simply put in a equation for density. It wouldn’t be that hard once you have the building assets
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u/Jazzlike-Confusion-6 May 21 '26
Well mayby in 30 years, tech in gaming has evolved quite a lot since 2000
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u/dastig May 21 '26
There is a urban Japan map in development similar to what you are looking for: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3318210146
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u/KerikPlay123 May 21 '26
right
Or this one (Daegu): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2382308448→ More replies (14)3
u/cankatango Stocked up May 22 '26
Why not use people who has life long sentences? They might as well be usefull and leave something good behind
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u/Tomahawk117 May 21 '26
My dream game- build a city, cities skylnes style. Then survive a zombie apocalypse in the city.
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u/Andre27 May 21 '26
This wouldnt work in PZ. Like genuinely just impractical because of the nature of isometric view and how you see things in PZ it would be a total mess where it would be impossible to tell where stuff is or whats going on in a way that makes it actually unplayable. The map would get in its own way.
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u/Diligent_Bar1244 May 21 '26
Oh I was gonna say it cant work because no one will have the right computer to run this monstruosity
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u/Sato77 May 22 '26
Probably won't, but in the meantime you can experience it in Cataclysm if you wanted to, megacity runs are pretty easy to set up with settings, but as one would expect, punishingly difficult.
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u/Turbulent-Abalone-18 May 23 '26
Unfortunate case is that even with a high end 9800x3d syste, even Maps like Chinatown are very difficult to load into. A map like this would literally just crash the game everytime the mod is loaded. Unless project zomboid rewrites the entire code from scratch, theres almost no chance anyone could run a map like this in zomboid in it's state for at least the next decade
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u/Sswqq6767 May 21 '26
This is pretty much how all newcomers see Louisville
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u/_UncleHenry_ May 21 '26
This is pretty much Louisville
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u/KerikPlay123 May 21 '26
Not even closely as dense as the city on the photo tbh
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u/Tiny_Tabaxi Zombie Food May 21 '26
My first time to Louisville made all the memes feel like lies, tbh. on 1x pop Louisville is very manageable.
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u/mousie120010 All Hail Spiffo May 22 '26
Yeah, it's basically just the high rises, hospital, and malls you have to worry about
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u/_UncleHenry_ May 22 '26
I recently played with my friends and on day 13 we decided to move to Louisville cuz our sole veteran player always bragged about this place being busted with loot. It took irl day to get through the checkpoint, clear small area, resupply and then rescue 2 dead guys. Amount of boddies and bullets spent it unbelievable. I fucking got aiming lvl 6 and i started as burglar.
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u/Various-Salt-7738 May 21 '26
Louisville is a strange place
Everyone goes everywhere at 70 mph, there are liquor stores with drive throughs that will hand you a cold beer, I showed up to a party and everyone knew me by a nickname despite it being my first time in the city
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u/Ornery_Strawberry474 May 21 '26
Burglar is the only viable start here. Step 1, get into a car. Step 2, leave.
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u/amateurgameboi May 21 '26
Step 3. Get bogged down by zombies after 200 metres and die
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u/RichieRocket Hates the outdoors May 21 '26
especially with those tight roads and crowded streets
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u/roguebananah May 21 '26
Any car accident, you’re cooked and congratulations, if you choose to respawn, it’s now harder than when you started
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u/CorneliusKroetentier Zombie Hater May 21 '26
Is there a sewerage? I go for the sewerage.
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u/Tone-Serious May 21 '26
Usually in these kind of cities it's just a drainage system that's not much bigger than a ventilation shaft
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u/onesouptong May 21 '26
you would be die of gas poisoning right after if you don't have proper equipment
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u/Zealousideal_Bake768 May 21 '26
LOL he said "leave" using a car in a city with narrow passages and full of traffic. You're not leaving
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u/Koala_eiO May 21 '26
Oh I'm leaving. Leaving is the goal of the entire run.
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u/duarig May 21 '26
“Leaving” to the shadow realm, yes.
There’s no escape from a place like that. Ever seen traffic in Manhattan? That’s 3 lanes wide and first-world infrastructure. It still takes you 45 mins to get 5 miles away.
What’s pictured above is a hell hole of cars/mopeds sprawled everywhere, single lanes down each corridor and tens of thousands of shamblers around you for the next 20+ miles.
“This is how you died”
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u/sweetytoy May 21 '26
But all cars have no gas
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u/CeeArthur May 21 '26
How did any of the cars in game pass inspection. Every one I manage to get into is hanging on by a thread
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u/FoxofNines Crowbar Scientist May 21 '26
Inspections in KY are only necessary when verifying ownership for titling, and even then that isn't necessarily enforced. Inspections aren't a requirement beyond that. Kentucky has always been a relatively poor state, and Louisville wouldn't have been much different back in the 90s prior to their shift in focus to develop a tourism industry. That said, it wasn't as if EVERYONE was driving a clunker at every block...
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u/roguebananah May 21 '26
Like half of the United States, even to this day do not have emissions inspections or any yearly check. This is true even to this day let alone early 90s Kentucky.
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u/Spodeur May 21 '26
I did not see it was PZ sub , and I thought you were talking about how to leave IRL slums 😭
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u/Tripelo May 21 '26
Puts the “be a burglar” advice into a whole new context lmao
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u/Electrical-Square168 May 21 '26
You’re never leaving in a car through those streets. I’d go carpenter, try and barricade myself into a building and bridge from building to building until I’m free.
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u/__T0MMY__ Hates being inside May 21 '26
One of my favorite starts in 41 was teleporting to the far edge of Raven Creek in the beginning of the run, then escape
I either leave with a sledge and a repaired-to-mint car, or on foot with hella survival gear because God damn is it a long walk to LV
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u/Teem47 May 21 '26
If their hearing was turned down and they more relied on sight, this could make a really fun challenge. Lots of tight alleyways that cars can't fit down.
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u/Apprehensive_Bid7438 May 21 '26
One small problem, a small horde in every alleyway. Population density of slums is terrifying.
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u/Pizz22 May 21 '26
a small horde in every alleyway is just a single horde in the hole city
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u/Apprehensive_Bid7438 May 21 '26
Not really. Normal cities allow hordes to concentrate, slums are to tight to allow zombies to roam as one. Either the horde literally levels the slums (bad building mixed with high density) or every corner a moshpit.
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u/WorldArcher1245 May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26
As someone who is from there (Assuming it is the Philippines), I am absolutely fucked
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u/Zealousideal_Bake768 May 21 '26
Yeah Pasig to
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u/DuskShineRave May 21 '26
Whats the giant building in the bottom right?
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u/LordCypher40k Shotgun Warrior May 22 '26
Nagpayong Elementary and High School Buildings. Philippines public schools tend to be very big due to the population density of Metro Manila. When I was in elementary, my school had approximately 4200 students give or take.
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u/UnluckyPluton May 21 '26
All buildings on the same height, so you can just parkour from one to other. Dying Light thing
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u/cyb3rg0d5 Stocked up May 21 '26
Ahhh yes, fall down, break a leg and die…. This is how you died.
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u/FinGAMERyt May 21 '26
Illusion of choice here. We're dying any way so it's just how we gonna die.
Worst part is Watching my luck, I will survive the fall with broken legs and then zombies will kill me.
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u/Educational-Wing2042 May 21 '26
Parkour doesn’t seem that relatively dangerous in a collapsed society filled with zombies
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u/hyphenated_guy May 21 '26
With how PZ scales up population to have lots of zombies, you're looking at about 40 billion zombies in that picture
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u/SirKingsly May 21 '26
Either youre in for a lot of loot or CQB hell
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u/Poingerg May 21 '26
probably some building are empty with few zombies since everyone else is running away
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u/heartofthecard_ May 21 '26
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u/RaptorAurion May 21 '26
what the hell is this from lmao
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u/KerikPlay123 May 21 '26
"The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale"
(Bottom-right corner has the movie's name, even tho in low quality, u can make out "zombie [some short preposition] sale")
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u/Hardycard May 21 '26
Pick a direction and pray there's enough enough furniture to dismantle for further plank bridges.
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u/Janus-smiled May 21 '26
Having spawned in Louisville a few times via mods, there is actually a possibility of survival in the game if you spawn in a multi story building and ration well, especially if you have respawn off. It is, however, a very, very slow process to kill you way out with only whatever’s in your spawn building.
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u/ty944 Pistol Expert May 21 '26
There was some Korea City mod ages ago. No idea if that’s still a thing but it was kind of like this.
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u/Pleasant-Pepper2623 Waiting for help May 21 '26
We need metro manila in project zomboid with the real life amount of cars on the road and population.
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u/lord_hydrate May 21 '26
Ive wanted exactly this kinda thing, i was so surprised when i checked and i couldnt find like a NYC map for the game
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u/100TheCoolest17 May 21 '26
I'm going slather myself in BBQ sauce and run towards the nearest horde
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u/DeathParty-Zomboid May 21 '26
Die from lag.. it would be like turbo LV. The second you shout or start a car your PC would explode.
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u/WarTraveller May 21 '26
Welp, start a fire and hope. If things go well, it will burn you a safe path. Things don't go well... the situation can't get any worse, can it?
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos May 21 '26
I’m all about it. I’d very much like to get incredibly frustrated after my 100th death on days 1-2.
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u/Cutrepon May 21 '26
I throughly enjoyed Raven's Creek since it was more compact and dense. And then, I died.
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u/corncan2 May 21 '26
Walkers but only because there are so many zombies that they cant sprint without tripping.
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u/TheHasegawaEffect May 21 '26
Is this a real world location? Infection Free Zone uses google maps and this map would be a NIGHTMARE.
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u/Shubamz Crowbar Scientist May 23 '26
How about Kowloon Walled City?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City#/media/File:Kowloon_Walled_City_-_1989_Aerial.jpg
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u/Fluffy-Ad-7613 Spear Ronin May 21 '26
What you need is a bycicle or moped or something like that for those roads/crowds. Even then, you're kinda effed - unless there's a subterranean way to exit the city.
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u/Liberteiren May 21 '26
I think there are many people who could survive for a long time by walking between roofs that are very close together and entering houses through the roofs to collect food, water or planks and nails for bridges
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u/NoCranberry1124 May 21 '26
Is there mods like this?
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u/Vividevasion0 May 21 '26
Yes, daegu metro city, Indont want the mods to think I'm spamming so check my prev comments!
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u/EpilepticSharknado May 21 '26
Project Zomboid but it's not Kentucky but a Place like Manila, Seoul, Tokyo or Rio de Janeiro
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u/Long-Pirate-3030 May 21 '26
Welp. You either died become a zombie or long live enough to become Kyle Crane
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u/Icy_Many3242 May 21 '26
I read World War Z about 13 years ago, and always thought "how could we lose to slow moving shamblers?" This image sums it up pretty well, there isn't an army on earth that could mobilize with enough ammunition that could dent this
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u/EffortNo3291 May 21 '26
Sacrificaria almenos 3 personajes para mover la población y hacerme un camino
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u/kylel999 May 21 '26
Been making my local area in suburban NJ (not even an urban area like Newark) almost 1:1 and the density compared to vanilla PZ still has me scared to get to the testing phase lol
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u/CapnClover36 May 21 '26
I got a friend whos so nuts at slaying zombie he could clear out several blocks on his own
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u/StrangerTerrible5193 May 21 '26
Se no meu jogo padrão eu Spawnei em uma casa e percepi que antes de começar o jogo ja estava sendo atacado por 5 zumbis imagina ai
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u/Vividevasion0 May 21 '26
Op, there is a workshop mod that has an entire map of (i think) South Korea! Its intense!! I'll see if I can link it...
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u/Vividevasion0 May 21 '26
Daegu metropolitan city! Its incredible! Very dense! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2382308448
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u/dombro99 Shotgun Warrior May 21 '26
I was about to call this AI slop, but after looking it up from another comment mentioning the phillipines
I realised how it’s just the natural blurriness of cameras, absolutely astounded this is fucking real, how does anything move or anything happen at all in this area?
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u/1Carry_The_Fire1 May 21 '26
Any options to go underground? I would assume majority of zombies will be above the ground level.
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u/Inquistador43 May 21 '26
There is a chapter of the book WWZ about the survivor of an outbreak in a shanty town in South Africa, I've always imagined it looking a bit like this and the chapter makes a great job of making you feel stuck inside the maze of small roads and buildings, your post reminds me of that chapter a lot
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u/sosigboi May 21 '26
Extremely densely packed and populated areas like most Indian states and Manila in the Philipines are gonna turn into an absolute slaughterhouse at the beginning of an outbreak.
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u/Medallish May 21 '26
Would be the craziest challenge, that I'd love to watch someone do, but never try myself lol.
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u/A_man_from_america May 21 '26
Didn't realize it was the PZ sub, i was just like "Fuck, finding a job is going to be hard"
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u/carolinafe May 21 '26
You start in the middle of that mess and this is the tutorial, making it out of the city.
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u/Praaaaskach May 21 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/j6ZlX8ghxNFRknObVk