Was this zombie update really the most important thing right now? The game is not fun at all after this. Why would anyone bother to pick up a melee weapon to kill zombies if they immediately respawn in your face? Farming hoe and pitchfork...I really don't know how I survived without these... You should delete all melee weapons from the game and replace them with can openers, those at least have some purpose. There is no such thing as clearing a town from zombies anymore so why bother going there anyway? If I wanted to play a multiplayer game to kill zombies 24/7, I had plenty other choices than DayZ...this game should be about surviving, but right now surviving became the last thing. Their speed is just one thing, it's not that bad (although they could be way slower), but along with the other things people alredy mentioned here, the game just got much worse. Try to balance: - line of sight - speed - direction of attack Respawn: - if you insist on respawning in an area close to where they were killed, make it delayed (a few minutes would be enough) - or there could be zombie spawn areas outside residental zones (fields, forests...etc). There could be plenty of Z's wandering around in these areas , and if anyone comes nearby, some of them would leave the zone to hunt you down and stop when they lost your track. Then if they got killed, they respawn in a Z spawn area. Waiting impatiently for the next (hopefully better) patch...