@smokey very thoughtful words <3 the answer is life sorta got me cooked and ive been meaning to but just been so insanely busy that i havent gotten around to it, but i have been slowly making new zombies with my community, so hopefully we can make smth new soon

@Local Drug Cook oooo thats neat! i def think some zombies that leave behind loot is a great idea! especially ones that are harder to kill

We did add a mailman boomer in the new patch that leaves packages that contain random treats or curses lol

If you can, could you add a idea I have for the sequel which is a tank with 20k hp (maybe 30) that drops loot on death. Similar to a fallen survivor. A fallen Tank if you will.

@Local Drug Cook
dude, this Means so much to me! I am so happy with how it turned out (most of which was an accident)! I also loved turning on the physics of the plane so it looks like it really crashes!
I've been slowly brewing up a sequel and not to spoil too much but Im rly trying to work out some more military enemies.

Taking down the Red baron with a grenade launcher while being swarmed has never felt more satisfying, especially how the plane crumbles apart. 11/10.

Can you make a script version of this to play in cooperative mode and not just mutation? It would be very interesting if it could be used with other mods that give special infected powers, but if it is not compatible or there is a conflict, it doesn't matter

@pablothefirst hey dood, make sure you load this mutation, its named "new strand" in your mutation list! hope that helps

@macc hey macc! not sure why! i do recommend turning off other mods before using this one, thats one of the only conflicts i can imagine.
Code-wise, i did actually make the vehicle tanks invisible and just added models to follow them so maybe the models arent loading for some reason

so i entered the game, but the special infecteds are no different, just normal. i dont know what's happening XD

@JM YOOOOOOOoooooooooo thats a fantastic idea omg! Yo this year i wanna finally dip my toes into model replacing and custom textures & what not! It would be SO sick to do smth like this!

if possible, your previews used as randomly generated graffiti throughout any campaign in order to convey information the same way Valve did with the lore in more believable way would've been icing on the cake, for example:

Prop Hunter: Keep your eyes on objects! / They're alive!
Greedy Grinner: Those bastards steal my shit!
Red Baron: Seems like the military had enough of our shit! / HOLY SHIT THEY'RE DROPPING BOMBS ON US!

@Danizadropper hahah thank you so much for the genuine feedback! yes ive found the airplane bomber to be completely rediculous. In testing it was actually designed to drop bombs much slower, however a bug causes the massive bombing spam, i just thought it was so intense i left it in. So im currently working on a soft sequel to this update, which should add more zombies as well as balance some of the pre-existing ones. I will probably leave this one in its original form but def look out because id love to publish another! You can also follow my YouTube: CodeJockey, where we stream and make new zombies! Thanks again!

Also, the plane sometimes lags and aiming to it is a bit tricky, so I think its health should be nerfed a bit as well.

Also i feel you shoud drastically nerf the airplane tank as its literally too op and a lot of times it crashes the game of my friends due to the massive spam of bombs, the idea of the tank is amazing but you should do a longer cooldown for the bombs as they do a lot of particles and sounds that most of the time it crashes on low quality computers (hope you read this)

@J_henry69 hehe currently working on part 2 :))) dont you worry! join our streams to help design new zombies if you like too! https://www.youtube.com/@codejockey4988

Make part two please

it crashes immediately

@Danizadropper honestly, great idea! At the time of making this mod, i remember struggling with the witches but I did not try hard enuff! I am hoping to do a sequel v soon and i DEF will do my best to f w the witches!

ngl, i hope there gonna be witch variants too

please upload a version where the common spawns are normal i beg. idk how to set the horde limit back to normal

@shrimprecoil i hope its a bug! cuz the basename of this mutation was called new strand from what i remember, I dont think I ever updated it! i actually have been working on a version II with new zombies, I will need to upload eventually :) maybe for halloween!

So I went to the mutations tab, i didn't see 'New Strand' I only saw 'Long Gunman' and 'Last Man On Earth'. Not sure what happened. Probably a glitch.

ok, thank you so much

@sokka hey! glad u liked it! i just looked back and i guess I went with a +20 zombie increase in the mega mobs and the base common limit! I like +20 because I feel like there aren't enough zombies on screen but I don't wanna blow up anybodys computer with like +100 lol

z_mega_mob_size 70;
z_common_limit 50;

cool mod btw

what did you increase the number of commons to?

i would really really REALLY want this as a source mod or even working on a coop or versus type of gamemode rather than mutation

@spaaps I'm not sure! I've never tried!

is this possible for it to be a sourcemod hosted on a local server instead of mutation?

@gromit

Game is GOOD, left for dead 3???? SOOO COOL workshop, add basketball to left for?

hey @apu Nahasapeemapetilon I've never heard of that! Sounds cool though! Hope you enjoyed the mutation!

woahh this reminds me of ultra custom night but with zombies..and in left 4 dead 2

@ K I would absolutely love to! I do have other projects I am working on at this time but if you have ideas, I'd love to hear them. I wanted to tweak some of the existing specials anyway so I have a good reason to update it.

Do you have any plans to add more to this? :D

Fun demonstration basically prop Hunt but they're dangerous

@$T3V3BR0 So glad you enjoy it! & I love your suggestions! It would be cool if I could separate them into standalone scripts and you could pick and choose which zombies to add, unfortunately I've struggled with that. I can however make a survival variation! Something I'd love to do in the future!

This is one of my favorite mutations! It's so challenging, but it's extremely fun to mess with! The only way this could be better was if it had a survival counterpart or if there was a way to use the script outside of the mutation.

@Braix (ve/ver) Yes, it used to be called New Strand. I was worried that it may be hard to find due to the name change! Thank you!

its called new strand in the mutation list

Amazing mutation, I spent hours having fun. This mutation have place in my heart haha

@godkip So glad you had fun! You know that's a good point you bring up, I would be happy to upload alternate versions of this mod. I will say though, in most of my mods, I sneakily turn up the number of commons that can spawn (idk it just always seemed more fun that way) so the feeling of too many commons may be more than just a feeling sorry!

I recently tried this with my friends and we had a lot of fun, I didn't even know this was possible. the only thing that got my personal rating down a bit was the common infected, I felt like I couldn't really give the attention I wanted to the new specials because of the common infected distracting me. I would really love a version of this but like last man on earth. we always play the custom last man on earth 4 player mutations because its so much more fun tbh and these special infected would bring a whole new level of fun to it. thanks

@K Hahah I love how the THING turned out! The animation I found for the way it moves is so freakishly perfect! It totally catches me off all the time! Really happy to hear you're having fun! Add me anytime! I am very busy with college but I won't be busy forever!

I'm playing this rn again and for some reason "the THING" still gets me (also I really love that reference)

I KNOW it's not a friendly and for some reason I still keep pausing and getting caught off guard by it LMAO

@K your kind words mean so much to me! If you want to know how to make stuff like this, please check out my YouTube! There's a link on this page!

P.S Really glad you liked the blinding hunter too, that was one of my top 3 faves!
Also, glad you went in blind, that probably makes for a fun experience!

Also, that blinding hunter WOW. Honestly everything is made so well, I didn't even realize it was possible to do all this haha

This is awesome. I decided to go (mostly) blind and not read all of the pictures yet so I could be surprised and I was LOL. These are really cool and it's so interesting how all of them can be made the way they were. You did a great job!!

@K Aw glad to hear it! Hope you have fun!

This looks amazing! I'm going to try it out rn this idea looks so fun