Ok, so I tried with a non-steam server and the settings work great. I set the zombies to low sprinters, 8 months in, erosion full, rotten food, everything. Seems like everything works with non steam servers. However, the steam version is still not work. I even tried starting the server and allowing it to create the serverVAR.lua file from default, then closing the server, editing the settings in serversettings.exe and then re-launching the server. Just to be extra sure I tried setting it to no zombies at all. When I start the game there are still a normal amount of zombies and everything. However, if I edit it and change to sprinters, they become sprinters. It's like the server is picking and choosing which settings are applied to the game. I don't know what is going, but I'm trying my best to do a bunch of troubleshooting. If anyone else has this problem or knows a fix, please help.