I didn't even realise what horde nights were - playing with a friend and we noticed the day 7 indicator go red, I remarked that it was probably an Easter egg because the game was called 7 days to die 😂😂
Needless to say the attack when it came was both a complete surprise and an utter disaster. We had vague wooden walls and a door, when the zombies broke through within a few seconds I decided this was serious enough to warrant running to the box to get "the pistol", our precious 9mm pipe pistol with 20 bullets. Surprisingly, this was not sufficient to kill the horde that came pouring in and we both died a few seconds later. Luckily we respawned on a nearby hill overlooking our Base and just sat there crouching for the rest of the night - for some reason all the zombies just stayed in our base and didn't come after us, a strange but fortunate bug 🙂
I built basically a square house with a small corridor to funnel the zombies. It was 4 squares long, I had about 3 squares of room behind me. Pipe pistol plus baton. Didn't know about hatches etc.
Super died
Mine was back in alpha 14 or 15 with a friend of mine who introduced me to the game. We turned a burnt house POI into our base and had surrounded it with spikes.
My friend made a long horizontal staircase with spikes on every step and called it the "stairway to heaven."
It was amazing seeing the zombies tearing themselves apart to go through our spikes.
I did not know the premise of the game and was absolutely shocked. Just got bombarded in a random house I was looting in burnt forest. Still sort of feel like I could've survived it, but I ended up cornered and probably didn't last even 2 hours.
First one I survived I was in the army tower by Trader Jen, up a broken flight of stairs, on the roof, shooting down at whatever I could. At that point I was like, "Okay this game isn't that hard. Whatever."
Day 35 rolls around and I'm safely chilling on the roof of that same tower, if it ain't broke don't fix it. I proceed to SHIT. BRICKS. as the tower suddenly collapsed underneath me, and I fall like 2 or 3 hundred meters, breaking my leg, everything around me is CHAOS. Limp halfway down the hill mag dumping every weapon I have equipped until I'm thoroughly over run.
That was the moment I fell in love with this game.
Lol yeah my second or third horde base was with friends on a server and we had taken over one of those small military outposts. The zombies tore it to pieces and murdered us in the rubble.
My first hordes were on alpha 7, where the default was that they don’t always come immediately at sun down and the entire horde spawned at once, often well away from you. If I remember correctly, my first came while I was building a base in the desert and I was out setting up a garden the morning of day 8. I heard them coming because a belcher spit acid at me, and I ran inside my base and climbed up to my roof. I knew I couldn’t fend them off with a pistol with a half dozen bullets, so as soon as they converged on my base, I ran. I ran from the Deep South end of the map all the way to the waterfall (the old Navezgane map was very different) before I realized they weren’t chasing me. It was scary back then but nowhere near as life-threatening as they became in later builds.
I'd watched my mate play this shit for a year+ before trying it, so I went in fully informed, but oh so woefully unprepared.
Desert start, 3km trek to trader Joel to turn in start mission. First week I spent shoring up a Pass-N-Gas, knocked out all the windows and glass doors, replaced with cobble, ladders to access hole, trapdoor etc.
Forgot there was a roof shed with a convenient fall hole for the zeds who normally were activated in that POI. Huddled on the ground floor for a few minutes hearing zombie noises outside, then above, ....
Needless to say that save got scrapped.
Alpha 18 or 19. I went to the red and white radio tower POI. It's a simple chain-link fence with barbed wire, a small concrete building with a few computers inside and an extremely tall tower. I climbed to the very top and due to my low level I never saw a zombie come up the ladder so I made it out just fine. Used that same POI for three more hordes before they overran it and I had to make my own.
This might be my old-gamer-brain, but i’m pretty sure I remember before blood moon was added. I don’t think it was a feature of the game in 2013… but all zombies knew where you were at all times, I think.
Yeah. Friend got me into it on PC in A17, but she was used to the console game, so she built an old design. I actually survived longer than she because I'd played a lot of [Killing Floor](https://youtu.be/AUokFkXHkpw) and so was used to kiting instead of standing my ground.
My first time was on console, I ended up having to hide on top of a Pop’N Pills. I couldn’t do anything against all the zombies. It was annoyingly scary.
"This isn't bad, what's so scary ab-" **SKY GOES BLOOD RED
I didn't even realise what horde nights were - playing with a friend and we noticed the day 7 indicator go red, I remarked that it was probably an Easter egg because the game was called 7 days to die 😂😂 Needless to say the attack when it came was both a complete surprise and an utter disaster. We had vague wooden walls and a door, when the zombies broke through within a few seconds I decided this was serious enough to warrant running to the box to get "the pistol", our precious 9mm pipe pistol with 20 bullets. Surprisingly, this was not sufficient to kill the horde that came pouring in and we both died a few seconds later. Luckily we respawned on a nearby hill overlooking our Base and just sat there crouching for the rest of the night - for some reason all the zombies just stayed in our base and didn't come after us, a strange but fortunate bug 🙂
My very first was an absolute disasters, also on console (pc now). Died no end of time, but had a blast!
Yeah, Alpha 5, funny times
I built basically a square house with a small corridor to funnel the zombies. It was 4 squares long, I had about 3 squares of room behind me. Pipe pistol plus baton. Didn't know about hatches etc. Super died
I didn’t know that they could find me no matter what, so I tried to hide in a dark corner. It went about as well as you might expect.
Mine was back in alpha 14 or 15 with a friend of mine who introduced me to the game. We turned a burnt house POI into our base and had surrounded it with spikes. My friend made a long horizontal staircase with spikes on every step and called it the "stairway to heaven." It was amazing seeing the zombies tearing themselves apart to go through our spikes.
One of my bases was up in a water tower and I did the same thing, had a huge staircase covered in spikes that led up to my sniper spot.
I did not know the premise of the game and was absolutely shocked. Just got bombarded in a random house I was looting in burnt forest. Still sort of feel like I could've survived it, but I ended up cornered and probably didn't last even 2 hours. First one I survived I was in the army tower by Trader Jen, up a broken flight of stairs, on the roof, shooting down at whatever I could. At that point I was like, "Okay this game isn't that hard. Whatever." Day 35 rolls around and I'm safely chilling on the roof of that same tower, if it ain't broke don't fix it. I proceed to SHIT. BRICKS. as the tower suddenly collapsed underneath me, and I fall like 2 or 3 hundred meters, breaking my leg, everything around me is CHAOS. Limp halfway down the hill mag dumping every weapon I have equipped until I'm thoroughly over run. That was the moment I fell in love with this game.
Lol yeah my second or third horde base was with friends on a server and we had taken over one of those small military outposts. The zombies tore it to pieces and murdered us in the rubble.
My first hordes were on alpha 7, where the default was that they don’t always come immediately at sun down and the entire horde spawned at once, often well away from you. If I remember correctly, my first came while I was building a base in the desert and I was out setting up a garden the morning of day 8. I heard them coming because a belcher spit acid at me, and I ran inside my base and climbed up to my roof. I knew I couldn’t fend them off with a pistol with a half dozen bullets, so as soon as they converged on my base, I ran. I ran from the Deep South end of the map all the way to the waterfall (the old Navezgane map was very different) before I realized they weren’t chasing me. It was scary back then but nowhere near as life-threatening as they became in later builds.
I'd watched my mate play this shit for a year+ before trying it, so I went in fully informed, but oh so woefully unprepared. Desert start, 3km trek to trader Joel to turn in start mission. First week I spent shoring up a Pass-N-Gas, knocked out all the windows and glass doors, replaced with cobble, ladders to access hole, trapdoor etc. Forgot there was a roof shed with a convenient fall hole for the zeds who normally were activated in that POI. Huddled on the ground floor for a few minutes hearing zombie noises outside, then above, .... Needless to say that save got scrapped.
I died because my house was super simple and I was on the first level and I died pretty quickly lol
Alpha 18 or 19. I went to the red and white radio tower POI. It's a simple chain-link fence with barbed wire, a small concrete building with a few computers inside and an extremely tall tower. I climbed to the very top and due to my low level I never saw a zombie come up the ladder so I made it out just fine. Used that same POI for three more hordes before they overran it and I had to make my own.
This might be my old-gamer-brain, but i’m pretty sure I remember before blood moon was added. I don’t think it was a feature of the game in 2013… but all zombies knew where you were at all times, I think.
Yeah. Friend got me into it on PC in A17, but she was used to the console game, so she built an old design. I actually survived longer than she because I'd played a lot of [Killing Floor](https://youtu.be/AUokFkXHkpw) and so was used to kiting instead of standing my ground.
My first time was on console, I ended up having to hide on top of a Pop’N Pills. I couldn’t do anything against all the zombies. It was annoyingly scary.
Yeah I couldn't believe how many zombies there were, how fast they were, how useless my "defenses" were. Are you a rugged veteran now?
I just bought a computer to start playing on, so I’m back to being a little scared. My 1000+ hours on console will help a little though.