Z spawns - rise from dormant with audible warning instead of materialising instantly

[n0f8r 0]

Hi y'all,

Zombie uss-enterprise-style-beam-ins break immersion:

So this mod - (but lets be realistic, how many of us bought Arma 2 to play Arma 2? and how many of us only care about Day Z? so in my mind it's always "this game" not this mod) - cares a lot about 'realism' to bring us to a heightened state of fear - and it does that very well, but there are a few immersion breaking niggles. One of them is the way Zombies just appear out of nowhere like they've been beamed down to earth by some zombie invasion fleet - which would be fine, but there's no beam-in effects to go with it, and I don't think these are Alien zombies.

Also apparently - they spawn in response to a player arriving near spawn points to prevent the pointless server load of tracking all zombies all the time all over the map even when players are not close...

Zombies should RISE instead of beaming in. Every dead body can be a zombie spawn point, and when a player arrives in an area it can cause the zombie to "wake up" and rise. Rising should not be an instant event, it would take a few seconds, and there are specific groans/grunts and body twitches to go with it, so that players know new Z's are arriving.

That way you don't get Z-pop-in right beside/behind that immediately aggros, breaking the stealth that you've been maintaining for ages. You can see the spawn point and know a few seconds in advance of the Z-rise and still maintain stealth and immersion.

[fackstah 31]

The big flaw in this is that these are not undead or dead zombies they are infected humans

Humans dont live underground so they wouldnt rise

[n0f8r 0]

The big flaw in this is that these are not undead or dead zombies they are infected humans

Humans dont live underground so they wouldnt rise

no - they rise from specific corpses - which are actually just dormant infected

[fackstah 31]

what corpses ? they are not fucking DEAD jesus christ does anybody even read the front page or do they go right to downloads and get in game >?

"A 225 km2 open world post-soviet state and one of the areas hit by a new and presently unknown infection which has wiped out most of the world's population. You are one of the few who have survived and now you must search this new wasteland in order to fight for your life against what is left of the indigenous population, now infected with the disease.

Go Solo, team up with friends or take on the world as you choose your path in this brutal and chilling landscape using whatever means you stumble upon to survive.

"

[n0f8r 0]

what corpses ? they are not fucking DEAD jesus christ does anybody even read the front page or do they go right to downloads and get in game >?

Have you even watched 28 days later? or 28 weeks?

the infected have a dormant state and rise to activity in response to stimuli.

Spawn points would be "dormant" infected that look like corpses and players would get some warning as infected got up.