CatKiss

At the current moment, zombies are not a serious threat to the players. They can be killed easily even with bare hands, and cannot climb to high surfaces. Proposals to increase environmental hazards that will change the rules of the "survival" game and will make it survival at last: 1. Make zombies much stronger against the irons and punches, increasing their resistance against these methods by 10-20 times. Make close combat with the zombies almost meaningless so that players start to survive, and not kill zombies like they were a chickens. 2. The only way to quickly kill a civilian zombie is a few bullets to the head. Military zombies should be 3-5 times more stronger. Body resistance must be very high, zombies don't die from body shots. 3. Hits from zombies should give a real threat, each hit is minus a third of health.

If the zombies are recent, they have enough water and mutagenic protein in their bodies to move fast driven by the Z-virus. The natural law of the survival of any organism causes them to keep stasis as long as there is no potential food nearby.

It would be nice if infected players became zombies after death. No ability to use your loot, no any options other than infinite stamina and increased hitting power. You can use the screaming to summon NPC zombies into the crowd and lead them along.🙂

The easiest solution is to increase the durability of zombies many times over if they are shot in the body or in melee combat. Before dying, zombies must fall into unconsciousness several times and then return to "life" before becoming completely dead.

The color of their skin and traces of cadaverous decomposition say that they are real zombies. They are already dead, but the Z-virus controls the dead body.

The game does not have complex damage mechanics, and if you follow the classics of zombies, then you can only kill them with headshots. A great addition would be if zombies don't die from body shots, but only fall into unconsciousness for a while.

Adding the ability to take a pose for the driver and passengers in which they bend down. This will increase the chances of surviving under the shooting. The driver, of course, will not see the road at 1pp servers. As the left pose at the image below

I think it's not possible to shoot from a car due to the limitations of the Dayz' engine. But to make the animation and pose of safe position is not a big issue for the devs. This will make the players in the car not so defenseless and will increase the chances of surviving against armed players. Especially if it were possible to attach metal sheets as protection to car parts.

At the moment, the players can defend themself with a hand block (with bare hands or when holding some object) for unlimited time against zombies or vs hits from other players. I suggest making the stamina decrease when the player gets hit. For example, stamina drops by 10% from punches, or 15% from hits with a medium object and 25% from a large object. At zero stamina, the player will not be able to use the block with his hands and must wait until it recovers to 10% minimum.