Suggestion: Loot off of zombies.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Alright I did a quick (but not through) search and didn't see any posts related to this.

As of right now most of the loot you get off of zombies is empty bottles and cans, cans of food and soda, flares and chemlights, and occasionally ammo. My suggestion is to add a little more loot to zombies and make things a bit more visible on them. For example a zombie might have an empty vodka bottle in its hand or sticking out of its pocket, a hiker zombie might have a larger backpack and some canned food or something and of course army and police zombies having themed ammo on them. Could even expand this so that (VERY low chance) weapons would be on certain zombies, IE a Policeman/Army Officer Zombie might still have its gun in its holster or possibly in its hand, Hunter zombie may have a hunting rifle or shotgun on a sling, an Army Zombie could have a higher end pistol or possibly a rifle on a sling still on its back. Mechanic zombies might have a toolbelt on them

This could also expand to clothing or accessories (with a HIGH chance of infection if worn, with the possibility of washing/sanitizing them before wearing to get rid of that). Kill a zombie and take his ushanka and boots and maybe his warm jacket. very small chance of things like NVG being found on related zombies as well as protective gear (with body damage of course coming into effect as wanted, IE headshoting that Pilot zombie wearing NVG will destroy the NVG and his snazzy helmet)

[burritoman259 593]

I like this, good work.

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

the zeds are infected, they would not be carrying anything bigger than they have now, certainly not weapons, their minds are not normal so they would prolly just try and eat your brains and not carry anything around. I found it unbelievable when I found NVG's of a pilot corpse.

there may be engine issues if every other Zed hassomething attached, one bug and its a chopper in his pocket.

I suggest leave it as it is.

but take their clothing.

Edited January 18, 2013 by Michaelvoodoo25

[UmBe 125]

Add junk items to be looted of of "Zombies" like Money, smokes, cellphones that have Run Out of battery, headphones and so on.

Also make watches a very Common item to be found with geeks, because a Lot of People have watches, but their condition should be random ranging from fubar to working nicely.

Off topic:

There should be different sorts of watches like digital or old School, and also have varying Looks.

Furthermore watches should be Seen on a characers Arm, and when The Player wants to know The Time The Char should Look on his Arm. (Instead of The watch appearing Out of nowhere)

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

the zeds are infected, they would not be carrying anything bigger than they have now, certainly not weapons, their minds are not normal so they would prolly just try and eat your brains and not carry anything around. I found it unbelievable when I found NVG's of a pilot corpse.

there may be engine issues if every other Zed hassomething attached, one bug and its a chopper in his pocket.

I suggest leave it as it is.

but take their clothing.

I don't mean zombies would pick up weapons and start useing em, just saying that a soldier who got infected and killed might still have his AK slung to his shoulder. Basically what they were killed with, and as I said, VERY low chance and only certain weapons (make it so you'll NEVER see a zombie with an AS50 behind it)

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Add junk items to be looted of of "Zombies" like Money, smokes, cellphones that have Run Out of battery, headphones and so on.

Also make watches a very Common item to be found with geeks, because a Lot of People have watches, but their condition should be random ranging from fubar to working nicely.

YES! Small stuff you could salvage/use, like you could smoke the cigs, the zombie might have a box of matches or lighter on him as well, cellphone could be broken down for small electronic parts for fixing other things, and I was actually thinking of adding watches to the list of lootables (their already fairly common IMO)

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

not being pedantic here but if "zombie" came at me I'd have my weapon aimed at the thing, the last place it would be would be on my back.

It could be another place to get military weapons like a chopper crash site or barracks though.

I find the balance is goint to be off with military weapons all over the place, police, soldiers they will have some good gear, the servers will become flooded with gear real quick and ammo too.

[Guest]

not being pedantic here but if "zombie" came at me I'd have my weapon aimed at the thing, the last place it would be would be on my back.

It could be another place to get military weapons like a chopper crash site or barracks though.

I find the balance is goint to be off with military weapons all over the place, police, soldiers they will have some good gear, the servers will become flooded with gear real quick and ammo too.

Yeah this, I don't want to go into a server where I can get good gear within 5 mins because I killed an army,hunting and police zombie with my hatchet

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

not being pedantic here but if "zombie" came at me I'd have my weapon aimed at the thing, the last place it would be would be on my back.

It could be another place to get military weapons like a chopper crash site or barracks though.

I find the balance is goint to be off with military weapons all over the place, police, soldiers they will have some good gear, the servers will become flooded with gear real quick and ammo too.

Which is why I say VERY low chance of getting a weapon off a zombie, and said zombie not spawning everywhere, (military zombies at bases or the few checkpoints in large cities, police in 'large' numbers in big cities only, maybe one or two in towns, hunting zombies at dearstands which may/maynot have gear in them anyway)

Yeah this, I don't want to go into a server where I can get good gear within 5 mins because I killed an army,hunting and police zombie with my hatchet

With what Rocket has already said about having clothes carry infection make it a very high chance of getting infected from grabbing the gear, so you'd have to not only find it but disinfect it to be able to use it safely. After all your namesake flat out refused to wear any of the Riot Zombie gear in one of the WD episodes.

In this game right now its all about luck and RNGs gear wise: Spawn in Electro and you can get a good military grade gun, ammo, food, backpack, tools in 10 mins or so if the loot gods favor you.

[Michaelvoodoo25 3120]

Still not a fan of weapons on "zombies", but hey thats my opinion.

You would think twice about taking clothing off dead bodies and zombies, anything taken would be infected. I'll stick to ghillies and camo clothing which are available everywhere (as I'm sure other items of clothing will be also in residential areas ect), and have a tactical advantage. Devs have stated snow is difficult for now without a new map so i won't be bothered with cold weather gear and Chernarus has a lot of trees for firewood, so I won't be going cold anytime soon.

More enterable buildings if done right will offer players an alternative as shelter also. One more hospital would offer players enough to find any means to combat infections. I think too much emphasis has been put on infections because there has to be a way of overcoming the effects, personal hygeine would stop or minimise infections.

Zombies carrying weapons is too much even if they are rare spawns. Weapons have been added to the SA, there will be more choice but I doubt they will be on zeds considering the buildings now having interiors (And new areas). if dead corpses are found near bases and such then the content inside the base would need to be nerfed because there would be no point in exploring areas is you can kit yourself out before you got to them. I think gong to areas and exploring places is a better way of finding loot.

A lot of work was / has being done on zed physics so adding weapons or other beneficial gear would add more complexity to them, It's easier to have players loot and find gear themselves as opposed to finding them on zeds.

On the plus side, the development of the game is going to be a while so it may be implimented down the road (If not on release)

Edited January 18, 2013 by Michaelvoodoo25