This is exactly what I ask for in the standalone.

[JustThatEpic 72]

I was playing with a couple of friends earlier today, and we found a helicopter in Kamyshovo and we're driving around try to find parts to fix it up. My friend chipped a barricade and broke the front left wheel, so we figured it'd just be a quick little repair and then we'd be back on the road. As we got out of the car, my friend forgot to switch the engine off, and we got attacked by, what seemed like, 50-70 zeds.

In a rush to attempt to get the tire on fast enough to just narrowly escape the horde, my friend grabbed the wheel out of the gear and repair it while we were covering him. As the zeds converged on us, my buddy next to me got knocked out. In a panic to revive him, my friend repairing the wheel quickly gets up from repairing the wheel to save him, leaving the wheel unfixed, all while I was still shooting zeds.

Next he goes down, and I'm left to decide if I should run or stay behind and attempt to fight off the zeds for long enough to at least get one of them up so they can revive the other. Unfortunately, the my friend who was guarding with me died, and I just barely managed to get the friend who was repairing the car. He had about 3000 blood from my guess, since he could barely walk straight.

I managed to shoot down most of the zeds, which gave us enough time to repair the wheel and get out of there.

This is what I want in the standalone. I want the zeds to be a problem, rather than just a pest. While this situation was going on, we were all pretty much yelling at each other to "Get that zed!", "Look out to your right", "(Name omitted), behind you!".

Anyone else agree with me.

[rossums 2190]

They are going to be a big problem in the standalone:

• They won't be as buggy, animation wise
  
• They won't stop chasing you just because you got in a doorway
  
• Some will be faster and more aggressive whereas some will be slower and less observant (They are putting in a full zombie lifecycle)
  
• They will spread infection which will be another major part of DayZ
  
• They will actually have multiple models rather than the same few models
  
• They will spawn better too rather than just popping in when someone is in the area
  

Edited December 27, 2012 by Rossums

[Willard1118 31]

awesome story!

I love situations like that, and hope the standalone will lead to many more zombie attacks.

who knows, maybe it will force some survivers to work together just to survive, whether they want to or not.

[zfleming12 395]

That is awesome and I whole heartedly agree! I can not wait for the stand alone version ^.^