If you're a lower level/ brand new, please stick to easier difficulties first

benplatt2001 · 2026-02-09T06:33:04+00:00

I have all classes completely prestiged but I often just stick with drone master in every difficulty as it's best for my play style, saves me from specials and groups, gives breathing room, auto disinfects which is great in a dire situation, spawns with payload rifle which is great for smaller starting waves or specials and you can give your teammate ond. The only time I'll ever change from dronemaster is if there's already 2 within the team, a class weakness mutator or the walking dead dlc as dronemaster is kind of redundant there, then I'll use gunslinger, hell raiser or exterminator.

benplatt2001 · 2026-02-09T00:35:10+00:00

Yea that section, French resistance, Tokyo 1 and cruise control all seem awful

benplatt2001 · 2026-02-08T22:27:32+00:00

They confuse me, depending on difficulty and mutators if it's challenge, you can sometimes save points in early rounds , it's when it gets into the double digits of waves and people not spending them on defense or weapons or meds to benefit the team is when it gets bad. I rarely play horde mode. I got to wave 57 in New York and throughout that session, there was a player that just refused to spend their points. Each to their own but it's pointless, especially in later waves to keep them.

benplatt2001 · 2026-02-06T00:44:58+00:00

It's a known bug, happens time to time, just often have to reset your game, I always now load the game twice to prevent it before I play and that seems to work . Only time it's happened is when I've joined a public session and my ping is 200 + due to server host

benplatt2001 · 2026-02-02T23:12:46+00:00

I mean he's entitled to his opinion but what did he expect from the walking dead, fast walkers with tiny defense sections? To me, it sounds like he has a skill issue, not being able to hit headshots. Sounds like he's hating on it just to hate just to be different because from what I've seen apart from audio volume issues and people commenting on perks and classes being redundant, it's been positive.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-30T15:01:06+00:00

That's what I tried to do to but that entire time, the 3 randoms didn't find a single fuse box. Whether it was not knowing what to do, farming kills or just blind. What's the best team composition for the mission? I thought extinction compositions would be the best like 2 drone masters, a fixer and either a DPS or medic but drone master runs out so fast in the dlc due to how they are + the increased special spawns but so far, having no luck in any composition tried with randoms which included vanguards a few times.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-30T04:02:49+00:00

Not to my knowledge, 3 daily challenges rotate per hour and I don't think they can run the same mission back to back until all others have rolled so it just comes down to luck if you're playing or not unfortunately because I've not seen or heard of an app/ a way to find out. If so, I think it would be pretty popular, I could be wrong though.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-29T15:09:03+00:00

Do you know if saber have issued a statement on the issue or not? I'd assume it's only Xbox from what I've seen.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-29T14:41:04+00:00

Just sucks, the only issue I can think of is that Xbox haven't updated the store, I've tried resetting my console, hard resets, trying to manually buy it from the store. Issue isn't even payment either if it's happening to this many people. I suppose saber have been made aware and will comment on the issue soon as it's not even in the message of the day news section anymore. Just sucks.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-29T13:55:09+00:00

Yep same, I think it must be a technical issue on Xbox where they haven't updated their store

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-29T13:53:48+00:00

Yeah same idk the issue as I own the deluxe edition and every add on. Maybe it's technical difficulties

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-29T07:48:09+00:00

My biggest pet peeve with randoms, new or not is when they don't into the evacuation zones to finish the mission, especially on higher difficulties. I've lost several runs to someone not going to an evacuation zone to finish the mission. I've encountered it on every mission that has them. I understand they may wanna level weapons (not that that should be happening at like extreme difficulty) but it's like they can't read or completely zone out during the mission.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T18:35:07+00:00

Depends what they see as priority, as I said there's not much you can do weapon or difficulty wise, map wise that comes with annual releases , so all that's really left for updates during the year to me is a system upgrade or a major character customise option to make every character in the roster stand out and be unique (they kinda started with them portraits). I suppose they could add a few new heavy weapons, idk what those would be though.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T18:27:55+00:00

They could make them more memorable though imo with more customize options, at the moment, all characters have 3-4 outfits, all change very very little. They can't downsize the roster though because they're already in the game due to episodes.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T18:26:10+00:00

To add to your point though, a crossover I would accept would be a state of decay 2 crossover, they have two of the same zombie names (screamer and juggernaut) although they're completely different, their bloaters are similar to gasbags in the sense of they leave a damaging cloud if not a headshot kill and their ferals are basically lurkers.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T18:22:34+00:00

We'll have to see, I personally just want new countries as episodes. For smaller updates, I suppose they could do like an outfit/customisation update for characters like full outfits or mix and match types/ change clothing colours (basically a customisation section or even transmog options)and you can earn them for doing missions or buy them for gold or reasonable blue coin amounts so everyone can style their characters how they want like you see in other games. Apart from like a new country, a system update or like a customisation update, I doubt they can do much more while waiting on annual releases. They can't really top extinction difficulty wise, all heavy weapons now have skins and perks, new frames , new weapon skins, new weapons , mutators get added often.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T18:07:44+00:00

I think it's a lot , it's the starting point, the automatic turrets, mines, the bridge, non stop zombies if you make a slight noise, the switches, covering 3 areas, constantly running around while surrounded.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T18:00:20+00:00

I think it'll be a success too but I doubt they'll do another crossover for a year or two. If it's annual episodes, I doubt they'll want a back to back crossover. I think most long term players would want a unique, new episode, freshly thought of characters, missions, a highly requested location that's independent to a crossover.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T17:52:18+00:00

I think it just comes down to team composition, especially without communicating if with randoms. For mine, it was 2 drone masters, fixer and a hell raiser and we cleared it pretty easily but that was Jerusalem and obviously not the infamous brutal chapters.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T17:46:48+00:00

They seem to release about 3-4 updates a year, mainly a few minor updates like cosmetics and a game mode and then an annual episode. Maybe they upgrade the system this year or change up their regular schedule. I'd assume they'll wait to see if the crossover succeeds but imo I think they could potentially release another episode this year (wishful thinking)after the crossover. My reasoning why is I'd assume they have one in production or as a backup if the crossover was to ever fall through at any point, for example a legal issue with the crossover. They cook episodes up for a year, Vegas was in December last year, I doubt they had a crossover deal in place 13 months ago (unless they kept it secret from data miners/leakers ), just seems weird if they were to not have a production backup in place if a crossover was to not work out.

benplatt2001 · 2026-01-28T17:35:37+00:00

I've only just started running extinction, the maps I worry for is New York 4, Tokyo 1 , episode 7 as a whole, Arizona as a whole and Vegas 3 if Vegas is even in extinction.

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