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[SP] Red Skies

Oh I found the key card, no problem.

I just gave up on all the locked doors with goodies behind them.

Creating scenarios like this are like telling a story. If you tell me that stealth is an important factor, and I try to play it stealthy, but then it turns out that being stealthy is irrelevant because the zombies already know where you are, it kinda spoils it. If you lock up the goodies in locked rooms, but don't provide any hint as to how to access them, all that hand placed stuff becomes irrelevant.

"Chekhov's gun" (Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that every element in a story be necessary, while irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if you tell the reader that there is a pistol hanging on the wall in chapter 1, then by chapter 2 somebody better have been shot with it. (by Anton Chekhov, as advice for young playwrights.)

Keep at it. You'll get better.

I also agree with you on the key card, there's only one and it spawns in the refugee camp in one of the military stilt buildings. There's a scene in there with a dead scientist and some soldiers. But from a game design standpoint, it's a cramped and cluttered area and so the key card is hard to spot. From that standpoint, an improvement would be for me to add more key cards (you would still only need one, but you'd have multiple spots to find it) and/or add another way to get into the locked area if you don't have the key card.
There's also a task towards the end to overload a generator, and admittedly I half assed its implementation. It's not an intuitive task and its method of completion is lazy. I know a lot more about the editor and game design nowadays and would probably redo that too. These things would significantly improve gameplay, in addition to tweaking the zombie spawning mechanics and their reactions to the player. Thank you again for your feedback!

I appreciate your detailed feedback, it's really helpful! I do agree that the zombie spawns should be tweaked. It is meant to be played as more of a zombie shooter as you described your playthrough, something like Left 4 Dead I would say, but I've realized Arma's quirks and also the player's loadout and available loot don't really mesh well with that sort of gameplay, especially with how the Zombies and Demons mod works and how I've used it in the mission. It's a very outdated mod and I would replace it with something more up to date and adjustable like Webknight's Zombies, but I don't presently have much time to work on my workshop projects unfortunately. In the future, I'd like to update this one or maybe make a sequel.

Okay. Just finished this one. I have to agree with previous comments concerning the sheer number of zombies. Several hundred. Even though I stuck to the rules, was as quiet as possible, it didn't seem to matter because zombies that spawned in several hundred meters away, without any sight or sound of me, made a beeline straight towards my position like they'd all gotten a group text of my exact coordinates. My answer to any scenario with an infinite stream of me-seeking zombies is to grant myself weapons with infinite ammo in response. At that point the story goes out the window and the scenario just becomes a walking/zombie killing simulator with occasional easter egg hunts. Which is a shame because I saw some potential there for better. After looking all over for door keys, I just gave up on that and followed the hamster run all the way to the end while playing whack-a-mole.

whoops! will fix, thank you.

COXHOUND Faction mod requires COXHOUND Ordnance and ammo mod.

Not listed in the required mods on the right.

Ok thanks, I understand it. But i feel that there are too much zombis number for my ArmA basic soldier experience. So it isnt possible shodows from them and they can entry within building from doors and walls. I dont know if i will try to play this mission, sorry. But you work is fine.

I actually played it today to see if it's still playable. It is. You just need to explore around. You can check buildings to find boxes that contain ammo, the briefing tab has pictures of the boxes.
Also, go to the police checkpoint and the refugee camp. There's dead soldiers with M16 rifles and you can also find ammo there for the MP5SD that you begin the mission with. There's also an unmarked gun store and a bandit cache you can find, the bandit cache is in a sawmill on the east side of the area and has an M107. Good luck!

95% the horror mission are impossibles for to play.

5 year old mission moment