agathangalos

Far as I know there wasn't even a melee mechanic in Arma. You're not even 'meleeing' with those weapons, they're still technically guns as far as the game is concerned. So that it works even as well as it does is impressive as far as I'm concerned. As for the zombies, I too would love a more zombie horde variety of undead, rather than the super man zombies. Ideally we could have both types, but I don't think the engine can really handle scores(or hundreds) of zombies coming at you at once without going totally bonkers. Maybe later on, or when it moves to Arma III, but I think the super zombies are as much Rocket's personal preference as forced in by the game's limitations.

While its longterm effects on Arma as a whole can be debated, it'll be much more interesting to see the DayZ 'clones' that will pop up from other developers in the years to come. The basic formula for DayZ is quite incredible and if someone made a much more 'forgiving' game based around it, they could make a looooooot of money from those CoD kids. I'm not to sure I myself would be interested in a total carebear DayZ clone, but it would still be interesting. I mean could you imagine DayZ as an MMO (or something like it), a persistent world with hundreds or thousands of players at least? Building micro-communities and clans and fighting between each other for scarce resources and surviving against the zombie hordes? *drool*

I spawn, I walk towards a town to start looking for stuff. I have no weapon now, omg the game is like 20 times more intense and my hair is all standing on end and stuff. I feel so hardcore now, so much in fact I think I could plug Old Faithful with my schlong and gargle molten rock right before impregnating the women of the world with my superior seed simply by breathing on them. :cool: Zombies see by line of sight now? Great! I just have to actually be careful around them. Oh no, I hear them in the street there! I'll just slow crouch/prone my way around this house here and take a look around the yard and such, maybe finding a gun I can use to dispense righteous justice upon the fiends. Oh snap, the infected...heard me? The game indicated I wasn't making any sound! So it saw me...through that brick wall? :huh: No problem, I say to myself! I run a marathon every morning before breakfast and every night after dinner, sprinting across the entire wilderness of Eastern Europe in one go is no problem for me! Even better, zombies drop aggro! This is going to be a piece of cake. 4 minutes later: These guys sure are persistent! But I'll shake them sooner or later! 9 minutes later: Boy, I must smell GOOD or something... 50 minutes later: I've yet to once put more than a couple yards between us once. Hmmm...:s So you're saying I should just hide from them? Oh, that sounds swell...let me just dash into that building there. I'm sure the zombies a few feet behind me at all times wont notice my stealthy move. And all that noise I'm making running towards the building...surely wont alert more zombies? No? Great! :@ At what point in anyone's mind did it make ANY logical sense WHATSOEVER to create this situation. The zombies run faster than you. You CANNOT and WILL NOT ever outrun them. I have never dropped aggro by running into a building and shutting the door to break line of sight because...they were within spitting distance the entire time and saw me go in. Sometimes they still glitch through the door after me, sometimes they just sit outside screeching at me, but either way they still know I'm there. I don't mind not spawning with a weapon, and that's not really my complaint anyway. My gripe is spawning without a weapon while the zombies are completely broken. If you aggro a zombie you are dead, you really might as well just alt+f4 because you have ZERO chance of survival unless you happen to have a friend who can kill it for you, which...since you just spawned, short of running for 30 minutes or being extremely lucky, you simply WILL NOT HAVE AVAILABLE. If you're lucky you MIGHT come across a kind soul who will rescue you, but that will more than likely involve a bullet in your face as payment. Let us defend ourselves or slow the damn zombies down. The game is just retarded as it stands. If I wanted to run for an hour I'd go outside. At least in that case I'd actually accomplish something and not be right back where I started (read: a zombie gnashing at my asshole).

As it was in 1.7 Er, I mean, every slot filled with beans and bandages obviously.

Oh sure they're an actual threat now, that is pretty cool actually. Just don't aggro them before you find a weapon. Unless, that is, you enjoy playing Arma as a cross-country running simulator.

Ohhhhkaaaaaaaay sounds cool bro! You got a remedy for 'zombies stuck so far up your ass they may as well be hanging onto you with their teeth'? No? You don't? Oh, so I guess you just magically run faster than the zombies that run faster than player characters can run. Ok bro. Or maybe, just maybe, you're so freaking ugly and smell so freaking bad, the zombies cant stand to be anywhere near you for long. I'm just too sexy for the zombie apocalypse, I guess. Damn. Wish I had your problems. Oh wait, no I don't.

Anyone with a brain would just respawn if you did this to them, so you'd just be wasting bullets unless you planned on killing them. Even then, since they don't even have BEANS now, you're still wasting bullets.

I ran for like 10 minutes and never once shook the two chasing me. I decided to keep going to try things out. I had ~20 after me at one point, most of them fell off after a short while (LIKE THEY FREAKING SHOULD), but there were always 3-4 breathing right down my neck no matter what I did. Honestly, they should add another zombie type. A very rare and very obvious type that never stops following you, but can be outrun. The others should be even FASTER, but lose interest fairly quickly.

Yea, that'd be great if it actually did that. In fact I'm sure it would, but the zombies...ARE NEVER MORE THAN A FEW FEET BEHIND YOU AT ALL TIMES. You can NEVER break line of sight like that. The house thing would probably work, but the likelihood of finding one while running from the zombies? Yea, good luck, especially with getting out the other side without aggroing even more..

Oh I agree these could all work, except for the fact it requires the zombies to not be right on your ass testing the firmness of your buns. Zig zagging is completely worthless. The zombies move around everything perfectly without missing a beat. In my experience, not even buildings stop them.

Well, I'm not exactly sure on the specifics of how these zombies are made...it seems like a virus that infects living people, so they're not rotting corpses running around (or are they?). Rather they're living organisms driven mad/possessed by the virus they contracted, or something. Either way it doesn't matter. They should run slower or give up as you said. 25 minutes is still incredibly ridiculous, but it would be better than nothing I suppose.