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Are zombies anything more than a nuisance?
AlexMako replied to jonahcutter's topic in DayZ Mod General Discussion
The issue is, outside exploiting the AI, zombies are a huge threat. In a perfectly flat, empty field, a player faced with the number of zombies that usually run around towns will have a huge issue. The zombies jerk around spastically, and teleport while they're attacking the player, making backpedaling the only viable strategy to fight aggroed zombies, and even then, it's unreliable. Thankfully, they're easy to lose, and running into a building stops them cold. Fixing zombies to not zigzag and teleport, and to run slower, and then fixing the AI exploits to lose them, would make them much more of a real threat. That way, if you aggroed zombies, you'd have to fight them, but fighting them itself would be pretty easy. I'd like to see all the vets here sneering at people who "think zombies are a threat" fight a horde on a perfectly flat, open field with no way to escape.