I'm still receiving the error. I'm running version 3.8 so I don't understand the issue.

I also had problems with my account saying user not found for a while when creating, but eventually it worked

I still can't believe I made a silly mistake like that though. Buying a gamer account when I already had one, I actually had no idea that I'd made one in the firstplace which shows how much I used it haha. I'm just wondering, what has happened now that I've accidentally made that second purchase and clicked the link to activate it, before realizing I had one. I didn't realize until it said the username had been taken, tried entering it into the forgot password field, and vwala, I got access to my previous account which uses the same email address and I've had kicking around for a year! But, has that second account now become useless because I've clicked that activation link, or is there anything I can do with that link? Can Aprone maybe do something with it? Am I aloud to somehow give someone else the chance to register because I don't need it? What do I do?

Hi Aprone,
I've sent you an email. Just wondering what to do about this account when it might not be needed by me because my old account works fine.

Yes definitely.  I haven't responded to your email yet Aaron, but if you would like I can simply merge the new account into your existing one, adding a year to it.

@2738 Have you tried running the checkup.exe file? that should register all the necessary components.

I finally got access to my account. I had to reset my password because the program doesn't seem to recognize special punctuation. I'm back with my level 11 character that I haven't touch for almost two years. What is the best way to earn experience? I've heard that different weapons give you different amounts of experience and reputation. What weapon gives you the most? Should I stay on map 2? Do the zombies give more experience? I want to try the defender missions again. They sound really awesome especially with the recent experience tweaks.

@Aprone,

I'll just start off by stating the obvious, but it really can't be said enough: I, and I'm sure many other people from the Swamp community are ever-grateful for all the work you've done, and what you continue to do to help breathe some new life into Swamp - and for fixing those pesky bugs which are extremely resilient (and I can personally confirm the bug where zombies are sometimes not spawning is indeed present once again (it seems more likely to occur if one is alone on a map, if that helps you track it down)).

With all that said, though, I find myself quite often wishing that there could be a new map added, as it's been such a long, long time since the last map was added to the game (and I'm not including the CTF map since that's a mission-specific map, and I'm speaking of the main/sub maps).

It seems to me that when you have added new maps to Swamp in the past, you've wanted something about them to be quite unique to the map in question - something new to make the map different from the others, besides just the different setting.

Assuming that is the case, I agree, new things like that do indeed make the map more interesting and make it a nice change from the other maps. I think a new type of zombie and some new map-specific weapons would also breathe a big dose of new life into the game, and make the new map more interesting for us all to play on.

I of course can understand what a big undertaking it must be for you to put together a new map, complete with all the relevant names for the different areas etc, but I can only say that I myself have found new maps and new weapons to have been the most exciting things to have been implemented back in the day, and would most definitely be the same if such a thing were to happen again.

I believe you have/had your own idea for what could be added in terms of new environments for any future maps that you could have implemented, but I have personally had an idea for a map which would be linked to M5 (the one with the mall and the raiders), via the northern map boarder which Bentley Road turns and connects to.

The idea is for it to lead to a main map which is the grounds and interior of Apronic Industries, which, perhaps going off some clues in the map itself and some information in the safe zone story messages, could be the source of the zombie outbreak.

Hehe, well that's the idea that I've had kicking around for a long time, but honestly, if you yourself have your own ideas for what could be added in terms of new maps, I can only say that I would really appreciate such a new addition.

I know you've added some new things such as bots for the previously mentioned CTF mode, which from the little I've experienced of them, does add more fun to that mode, and other, smaller things here and there, but having a new map complete with some new weapons (which you've previously mentioned is a possibility), and perhaps even a new type of enemy would, for want of a better term, make Swamp new again, in a fashion.

I believe you're working on implementing the Behemoth to the online mode which would I imagine include the map which it's currently featured on in the offline mode, and I admit that sounds rather exciting, but, again, I'm meaning non-mission maps.

Anyway, I feel I'm waffling on a bit here, so I shall finish off simply by asking you if you could at least give what I've said above some thought, and whether you decide to maybe work on doing any of it or not, I thank you again, for having made Swamp the fun game it has been for all these years - and indeed, continues to be!

Maybe try running Swamp in compatibility mode for an earlier version of Windows?

Only a thing, in Sub 1 the zombies continues appearing if one player is alone in that map, but if other people enters to it —even if they leave the map quickly— the zombies stop appearing.
That is the case of a particular map; I hope that this info can help.
Thanks for the gift event! It's great! I can't wait for the next update.

at post 2741:

i agree with you about breething new life into swamp regarding a new map.

the source of the outbreak? i wonder if we could take that a little further. if we can get to the source of the outbreak and affect it maybe this could affect zombie numbers on all maps. the longer someone leaves it to go to the new map to try and affect the source of the outbreak the greater the zombie numbers and swarms get on other maps including m1. i think something like that would be cool.

kay guys, so let me just write a way that should definitely get swamp working, you need the following things, swamp and the swamp patch, now after those are downloaded extract them, make sure the swamp folder, is extracted into your main directory, now, get the swamp.exe from the swamp patch, and paste it into the full swamp folder, when it asks to replace, press yes, this method worked for me, I hope this works for you