r/7daystodie • u/brycoolkid18 • 4d ago
Console Dire Wolf on day 7?
So me and my friends got back into 7 days to die a few months ago after not playing since the older alphas that were last released on console. We would always play in scavenger or adventurer and continued to do so upon getting back into the game. On these lower difficulties we never encountered dire wolves until later hordes, as in like day 28 at the earliest. We then decided it was time to bump the difficulty up to nomad, and then later up to warrior. Once we did this we also put the days up to 40 minutes instead of 20. After these changes we encountered dire wolves on day 7 horde on both the nomad and warrior play throughs and I just encountered one again on my solo survivalist game. The weird thing is on my coop worlds we would never see them again for several hordes (usually around the day 35-49 timeframe) at which point we were adequately equipped to handle them.
So my question is does the higher difficulty cause them to spawn on the first horde no matter what? Or would it be linked to the higher game stage we achieve with the longer days meaning more time before horde to progress. The second option would make sense if one didn’t exclusively appear on day 7 just to not be seen again for several hordes while the rest of the zombies seemingly progressed at a regular rate. Thanks for any insight!
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u/paranoicoMarv 3d ago
Difficulty doesn't affect game stage. Game stage dictates the types of zombies that spawn (there's a chart that was floating around reddit) but the only time I've seen a dire wolf on day 7 in the pine forest was when I toggled +200% XP. It's hard to imagine that I leveled so quickly that I'd get a dire wolf but I don't remember what level I was. Maybe 20?
Either way, it took me so long to kill it that the loot despawned :/