REDMAGE628

What bothers me is how there's no happy medium between boringly slow and olympic sprinter fast. Couldn't there be a quicker shambling speed? Not a full out sprint but the equivalent of a slow jog? Enough that survivor didn't need to sprint for their life but couldn't get away by walking on their hands?

I love the natural selection thing going on with this game. Weak people who are bad at the game quit. This is amazing and I wish every other online game I played was like that.

Wow that's heroicly stupid.

Wow. This is totally incomprehensible. What the hell are you talking about?

I don't know why people assume that wanting to start with a weapon = sprinting through towns like a jackass. It's pretty insulting really. Until they get their zombie detection right they really shouldn't leave players defenseless from the get go. You can sprint into a building with 2 exits but those are rare in comparison to buildings with < 1 exit. I like the idea of spawning without a weapon, but let's fix the zombie aggro before we do that. Get it to the point where it's consistent.

Something like 6.7 billion people in the world. 99% of that turns to zombies and you think the best course of action would be to go it alone? Killing any of the 1% remaining humans that you come across? Brilliant. In a real zombie outbreak, your best course of action would be to get as many people with as many guns as you can find. Strength in numbers.

I don't think it's that people sprint around. I think it's that the detection is buggy as shit and zombies see you from half a town away, through walls, etc... Which isn't that big a deal, except for the fact that you can't defend yourself. No weapons = fine Glitchy detection = fine Glitchy detection + no weapons = bad Oh.. please tell me to prone from 2km out. Because they see you when you're prone now. From 1m away? 10m away? 30m away? Who knows? It changes every time.

If you look at a zombie you shit yourself in terror... which the zombie detects and aggros you.

Could be playing an older version.

You're kidding' date=' right? You would use an exploit to do something simple enough to do in game, as designed? I have not noticed any significant change in drawing aggro, but I've always been *really* paranoid. I have noticed dropping it is freaking easy. [/quote'] Have you been playing with the latest version? The only time I can drop aggro is running into a building with 2 exits.

Anyways I just read the post where rocket explained detection is fucked and they're fixing it. So hopefully it'll get better soon. Judging from everyone's response the best option to deal with the fucked up detection is to crawl everywhere I go chucking tin cans. So I don't think I'll be playing until the next hotfix. It's about as easy as being an asshole on the forums is... My sneaking is just fine btw. I am patient and I have common sense. Detection is fucked and fresh spawns are defenseless. That's the QQ. Please stop telling me to sneak, and please don't respond with troll bullshit like the above quote.

Wow I hadn't thought of this until now. Thanks for your help!

It's not the perspective that's the problem. I see and hear the zombies just fine in either 1st or 3rd person. It's the detection. Basing it on LoS is an awesome idea but these are some eagle eyed fucking zombies. Then when you do draw aggro you'd better pray to god there's a building nearby or else you literally can't deal with them. Even if you started with a crap melee weapon that had to hit 3+ times to kill them it would be better than this. To find a weapon you have to sneak past zombies without making a single mistake. What's the point of even having weapons? If you're good enough to get to one then you don't need it.