Lost Hope Survival

# Lost Hope Survival

Scavenge. Survive. Adapt. Nizla Island has fallen to the infected, and bandits fight over what is left. You are a survivor who starts at the US main base.

Lost Hope Survival is a persistent PvPvE survival scenario built on the Lost Hope Dynamic Framework (LHDF). You loot, trade, build and fight the infected and bandits. Your character, your money, your vehicles and your base are kept over restarts.

## How it works

- **Base**: you spawn at the US main base. The base and the trader posts are safe zones: no player damage, no explosives.
- **Loot**: search towns, industry, hospitals and military sites. Every area has its own kind of loot, including Project Outbreak barricade materials, tools, lures and infection care, and it comes back after a while.
- **Money**: sell what you find at the traders and complete missions. Your money stays in your account, even when you die.
- **Traders**: general stores, gun store, outfitter, medic, vehicle and helicopter dealers, base building supplies. Somewhere out there is a black market.
- **Vehicles**: vehicles you buy are yours. Lock them and hand out keys to your friends. They are kept over restarts.
- **Bases**: buy building plans and claim your own territory. No building near the traders.

## Features

- **The infected** hold most towns and villages, and hordes roam the land.
- **Bandits** hold the military sites, the industry and some villages, patrol the roads and set up camps and ambushes.
- **The island fights back**: a cleared area does not stay empty. Bandits move into ground taken from the infected, the infected overrun beaten bandit camps, and where players push hard, the enemy digs in.
- **Missions** appear across the island: clear areas, destroy supplies, rescue hostages, hold positions. They pay in money and gear.
- **Your character is saved**: gear, position and health come back when you rejoin, also after a restart.
- **Death is final**: you respawn at the base with a random starter kit (bandit clothes, a pistol or a light gun). Your gear stays on your body until it is cleaned up.
- **No combat logging**: logging out while unconscious counts as death.
- The second weapon slot also takes rifles and other long guns.
- The server rules are shown on join. Open them again with "Server info" in the pause menu or `#info` in the chat.

## Required on server and clients

Yes. Players download the scenario and its dependencies when they join.

## Dependencies

LHDF mods:

- LHDF Core
- LHDF Server Tools
- LHDF Game Master Additions
- LHDF Shop
- LHDF Shop - Misc
- LHDF Shop - Smurfs
- LHDF Shop - RHS
- LHDF Shop - Nasty (and through it LHDF Shop - WCS)
- LHDF Vehicle Lock
- LHDF Loot Spawner
- LHDF Encounters
- LHDF Arsenal
- LHDF Arsenal - Bandit Gear

Content mods, among them Nizla Island, Project Outbreak (zombies) with Special Zombies and Creatures, Bandit Faction, Smurfs Base Building System, RHS: Status Quo, WCS and the Nasty weapons, plus the content mods listed on the Workshop page.

## For server owners

- Select the mission "Lost Hope Survival (Nizla Island)".
- Settings are JSON files in `$profile:LHDF/LHDF_SurvivalCoop_NizlaIsland/`. An empty folder is valid: the server then uses the scenario's defaults.
- Admins and Game Masters without a server config: start the server with `-lhdfAdmins "<identity id>"` and `-lhdfGameMasters "<identity id>"`. Several ids are separated by commas.
- Optional: add LHDF Arsenal - RHS or LHDF Arsenal - WCS to the server's mod list for their backpacks. The scenario does not need them.
- Saves use the vanilla persistence system, in its JSON save format. Start the server with session loading (`-loadSessionSave`) to continue the latest save.

## Known limitations

- Saves of the DLG Survival PvPvE Scenario cannot be loaded. The scenario starts with a fresh world.
- Do not load together with the DLG mods.

Beta: feedback welcome on the Lost Hope Survival Discord: https://discord.gg/uDzYTTdsM6