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ways i have done it is as previously mentioned run into buildings, get up a ladder ( pop a few if you want ), docks are good although ive been hit through the floor by zombies below me and smoke grenades/ flares apparently help but i have yet to get this to work personally. when dealing with large groups it will help to run through multiple buildings, but dont stay too long in one, ive been surrounded in a red brick house before now with about 60 zombies coming in both doors luckly i survived by carving my way through them while sprinting and running a few laps round the village, got about 130 kills when i was done. if you just keep running ive found that they catch up to you eventually even if you leave them in buildings, one example is hoppers, i had 5 chasing me but i carried on sprinting only to find that as i was looting a building miles from my previous location that all 5 of them were not coming through the door blocking my exit. oh and one i dont think was mentioned is survivors, if your lucky a survivor who is unaware of your approach and may attract the zombies aggro, leaving the unsuspecting fool with every zombie following you, feels great when your not the victim in that situation ;)

personally i trust completly whoever im on mic with, and i will be ok with anyone joining the group without them joining our mic chat or being the same number as we are. my reasons are that i dont want them to know everything we are saying for lots of different things. if they give us a reason not to trust them, we can give the kill word and remove them before they kill us. and we can monitor them without them realising, if we outnumber the stragglers joining us they can never have a clean shot on us directly without great risk, and if they do try to pick us off, refer to my second point. if im on my own, i will almost never hang around someone else unless i have nothing to lose.

bicycles, essential to any zombie apocalypse, but not too common dont want this to turn into a bike ride simulator, and the stats should be changed to reflect the increase in speed while still being slightly more efficient than running.

zombie buff? yes please :P

i like the idea that screaming alerts other zombies, you can alert one or two zombies in the streets but some only a little extra distance away don't notice you, so when the zombie screams i think a good alert area would be interesting. especially considering this is supposed to be a survival horror, why not make it a little harder? more fun and rewarding if you survive.

OMG i saw big foot in dayz I was with my freind looting when we took sniper fire, so we legged it into the nearest woods, when we heard this wierd growling noise, thinking it was a zombie i turned round quick as hell to catch a glimpse of it as it seemingly vanished, i just managed to get a head shot of it before it was gone for good. has anyone else ever seen the dayz big foot? :angel: