Chapter 795 - 357 Winter Chill_3
To everyone’s surprise, by the end of the event, there were still 1,400 players alive.
Dawn was very candid in stating that the difficulty would increase in the future, while also providing a significant benefit: from now on, the death of Hardcore Mode players would no longer result in a deduction of points.
After giving out the carrot, Dawn wielded the stick: starting from 8 o’clock, unless possessing special items, players would be removed from Hardcore Mode upon death. Although Fortress agents would not be removed from Hardcore Mode after dying, their revival time would increase from 24 hours to 48 hours.
Secondly, for the last three quarters, the homeland will be restocked with standard zombies, thus eliminating the zombie refresh mechanism. For example, Left County originally had a population of 600,000, which means there would be 200,000 zombies in Left County. Except within the range covered by Blood Heart, zombies will no longer respawn, and the system will also stop increasing the number of Blood Hearts. Blood Plague zombies will only be active within the Blood Mist range and will not leave the Blood Mist.
This is equivalent to giving players a more realistic world where the behavior of zombies will become unpredictable and illogical, attacking any living creature except their own kind.
Furthermore, except for certain special individuals, any scratch from a zombie will result in certain infection, and the method for creating Serum will also change. It will require 200 milliliters of blood drawn from a Blood Heart as the basic material needed to make one bottle of Serum. All existing Serum in the game will expire after three months, and the new Serum will have no expiration date.
Thirdly, considering the number of players, a base reset event will take place after the winter. Given that there are no surviving bases in mid-size cities, the system will provide a county town and two villages as new scenes, named New Homeland. Players may apply to relocate their bases to this New Homeland in their entirety.
It is recommended that players struggling to survive consider relocating.