7 Days to Die

  Customizable Settings: Weather and Infection  One of the things I like about 7 Days is the option to customize my playthroughs by tweaking the settings to add new challenges. I play with more frequent horde nights (every 3 days, 60 zombies), delete gear/backpack on death, and insane base difficulty. To compensate for the sense of urgency this creates, and to keep the game moving, I turn up XP gain (300%) and loot (200%). I enjoy the challenge of playing on these settings but the majority of folks I’ve played with hate, hate, hate losing everything if they die, like having ample time to build sick horde bases, and generally just wanna’ loot and shred zombies. That’s fine, there’s settings for that, just as there are mods for more and terrifying zombies. Without going down “mod overhaul” road though there’s still a few vanilla version settings that could be added to make the game more immersive. Weather: It’s afternoon of day 2 in the snow biome and I’m running pretty m...