How Many Zombies On Screen At Once? - 11/6/08

The question has been asked in many pre-release interviews: How many zombies can there be on screen at once? With the release of the demo we figured we'd find out. The following video was taken on my computer (at 20x speed):

I stopped counting at 1,200. I was running at 1920x1080 with most settings at max so I'm sure people will be able to lower everything and get more.

If you want to mess around, we found some nifty console commands. You need to start a single player game and open your console with the '~' key first, and then type these commands directly into it.

Console commands

• sv_cheats 1 - Must be done first for any of these to work.
• god 1 - Enables god mode - cannot be hurt
• noclip - Enables/disables flying around
• nb_blind 1 - Makes the zombies unable to see you (they can still sense when you touch them)
• nb_delete_all - Clears all infected/infected bosses/Survivors
• z_add - Adds a single infected. We bound this to a key to do the above video.
• z_spawn bossname - Spawns a boss infected at your crosshairs. Put whatever boss name you wish: tank, boomer, smoker, witch, hunter
• give weaponname - Equips your with that weapon
• cl_drawhud 0 - So you can't see the HUD
• r_drawviewmodel 0 - Makes your weapon invisible

Have fun with these console commands, you can find more in the cvar list. Give yourself a pipe bomb with all those zombies on screen and see what happens!