Zombie migration, no respawn inside map

[Rugoz 2]

I think we can all agree that current zombie respawning is unrealistic and has no legitimation in this game. Instead zombies should travel through the map along migration routes, for example from south-east to north-west (of course they would spawn and disappear at the borders of the map). To make cities more interesting, the zombies could be programmed such that they feel incited to sniff around in built-up areas (you know maybe they have some vague memories of their past as humans..:-))

I think that would bring along some gameplay improvements, for example the need to avoid zombie migration routes and the ability to clear and hold cities against the zombie onslaught. One could also include "seasonal" variation in zombie migration.

Edited February 3, 2013 by Rugoz

[lowkey 14]

This is something I would have liked in the 2017 mod. Not sure about dayz day1. Maybe make it so if a zed chases someone, it just keeps wondering in the last direction till something else catches it's eye.

[PigKiller 26]

Good idea. I hate coming into a small town and seeing a group of zeds walk out of a building like they were on a coffee break. Big groups walking the roads would be cool.

[Gyallarhorn 0]

You could even make them spawn everywhere on the borders of the map with maybe some destroyed Ships or Airplanes at the costs to explain zombies coming from there. The possibility to defend Citys from Zombies would be great. And a constantly increasing number of zombies would make Zombie hunting not this useless. But I think it would only end in Cherno and Elektro beeing still overrun by Bandits but without beeing bothered by Zombies.

[logan23 118]

You could even make them spawn everywhere on the borders of the map with maybe some destroyed Ships or Airplanes at the costs to explain zombies coming from there. The possibility to defend Citys from Zombies would be great. And a constantly increasing number of zombies would make Zombie hunting not this useless. But I think it would only end in Cherno and Elektro beeing still overrun by Bandits but without beeing bothered by Zombies.

Could be centered around player deaths by non Infected.

These fresh dead bodies could lure Zeds from off the map to the map.

[jayman9696 14]

The only Problem is that this would be very resource demanding and cause a lot of lag on servers