Meatham

I just started playing again after a year and I for one just find the new zombies extremely irritating. The Walking Dead is a great example, but we both have different opinions in regards to it. The Walking Dead first and foremost is about the human condition, and the walkers are just the catalyst for character development. The zombies are slow, dumb, and predictable.. and they only want to eat your flesh. They sit in the background until the shit hits the fan, and they all come running. The humans, on the other hand, are intelligent, deceitful, greedy, desperate.. they need supplies, bullets.. and their minds crack under pressure. The zombies take a back seat as they learn the walkers are a manageable threat. I thought the old DayZ was actually pretty good in regards to that. You started out fearing the zombies, but then they became manageable.. you could avoid them.. you could learn to not shoot a lee enfield in a city unless you were ready to deal with a horde. But with the new DayZ, I feel like you can't even crawl into the entrance of a city without them seeing you. Sneaking seems absolutely pointless, and almost a good way to get hit (and infected). The method that seemed to work more was fast crouching through the entire city and ditching them in houses or bushes.. and it seemed like half the people I saw were doing the same thing. Heck, I can't even google "avoiding zombies dayz" without finding millions of videos of people sprinting into bushes. lol.. not very often actually sneaking into a city. The infection thing seemed pretty interesting at first. Not a big deal. I would make some trips to the city for supplies. ..but, sneaking (especially crawling) would frequently end in me getting hit. Even just running through the woods, there'd be that one zombie that somehow zigzagged around a corner and hit me miraculously.. or the zombie that would walk through a wall.. or the zombie that just wouldn't die. After a while we realized we couldn't actually head north without raiding the hospitals in cherno and elektro.. because getting hit once by a zombie was ultimately inevitable. ... But, I guess everyone else had the same idea, because we hardly ever found supplies there. In my experience, I'm not here for PvE. I like a nice blend of PvP and PvE in my games, but I like DayZ because of the interaction between players.. getting shot at, being lied to, finding allies, stealing supplies, going to 'war', negotiating peace, being scared as hell after hearing footsteps in a grocery store, being betrayed. I don't find these see-all ultra deadly zombies scary.. I find them irritating. Instead of crawling through the pitch black of night with a zombie two feet away afraid as hell that he would attack and alert the whole city, or a player would attack and we'd have no escape without alerting a horde of zombies.. I just feel irritated. I'm open for any tips honestly. I joined a server where the zombies don't seem to spot me as much and enjoyed it a ton.. especially with the ability to ditch them and hide.