Moorpheusl9

If the player is hurt enough to start bleeding, this starts to smell - bandages stop bleeding and so stop the character from smelling stronger. Change clothes to drastically reduce the smell of blood too. Also - aftershave/perfume items as loot etc. can mask the smell. Zombies within a certain distance smell the blood and start moving in your general direction. Perhaps this could also lead to the introduction of wind - could carry the scent more in whatever direction the wind is blowing. Could also have a 'sniff' action (could be a way of indicating nearby players) - for the wind direction, the player could do the ol' 'lick finger' test, or take a grass cutting and throw it in the air. That way, if the player has been bleeding, they know what direction the wind is carrying their scent. Thoughts?

Zombie herds - groups of 10+ zombies would probably make even fully geared players change direction. "Events" - as you're running through the woods, you see an NPC being chased. If they die you might get a little loot, if you save them, the NPC will give you some good loot. The NPC then just runs off and isn't really interact-able (although there is potential for NPC buddies). Safe zones? Could introduce a money system and then have a shop of some sort within the safe zone - no weapons allowed etc. Not sure on that one in terms of the game mechanics but thought I'd post it.

I'd prefer floating nametags personally. The issue of people waving their mouse over an area to locate people could be solved by a key press as others have suggested. You could also have it so that the nametags only appear at a certain distance - that way, Mr Sniper can't press the 'identify' key constantly whilst scanning an area.

Cool thanks for letting me know - I've bought it now so will check it out soon :D

Hi - first post :D Laptop running W7 Home Premium SP1 Resolution: 1366x768 Processor: Intel Core i5-3210M @ 2.50GHz RAM: 8GB (I believe DDR3) GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4000 (total available memory = 1760MB of which 128MB is dedicated graphics memory) DirectX = DirectX 10 HDD: 282 GB free Re. the GPU - my laptop is an Acer Aspire V3-571G, when I look into Device Manager it also tells me that there is an Nvidia GeForce GT 630M with 1GB VRAM but when I look at the Windows Experience Index it only talks about the Intel HD Graphics 4000. Hope that's enough info - I could hook the laptop up to my PC monitor (PC not as powerful), which is 1920x1080. I get the impression looking at the above that it's the GPU that'll let me down...