Standalone Suggestion: Infected Players

[MrTombadil 7]

I was thinking about the standalone the other night, and I came up with this neat idea that I think would be nice to see in the Standalone

The idea is simple, if you are killed by a Zed or die of a status effect inflicted by a Zed, (Bleeding, Infection, Bitchslap, etc) after a short amount of time, your body would re animate as a Zed, with all your gear still attached of course. The undead player would be faster, do more damage, and be harder to kill. I think this would add a bit more variety to the game and make it more exciting, (for example a zombie with a ghillie suit walking into your camp)

Edit:Removed bullet idea to not spark any further arguments or debates, it was a stupid idea anyways.

Thanks for reading.

Edited February 8, 2013 by MrTombadil

[Lupatchi 143]

I like the first idea, it sounds practicle... but poison bullets? Its a Apocalyps simulator, poison bullets arent really 'practicle'

[krihelion 175]

posion bullets

sounds retarded as fuck, considering every shot should be heading towards a kill zone

poison darts

[Dayz Steve 26]

Player Zeds sound good to me!

[CreepySalad 108]

The reanimating players have been suggested a bunch of times. I like it, but some don't for some reason.

The "poison bullets" thing really doesn't fit. It would also be really tedious.

At least, it should be.

[Les_Stroud 6]

Support. I like the Zed engine from LFD. lets encorp it.

Poison bullets are useless.

[Fenrod 60]

Rocket said : no special zombies.

So if that idea ever came to be implementend, the dead player would be a normal zombie.

[MrTombadil 7]

posion bullets

sounds retarded as fuck, considering every shot should be heading towards a kill zone

poison darts

Yes, every shot should be aimed towards a killzone, but that doesn't mean it will hit the KZ, I've been shot at and hit several times, but I managed to survive and kill the person shooting at me. So, a bit of "vengeance from beyond the grave" esque stuff would be cool.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Player Zombies has been pretty much confirmed as a no (either player's bodies becoming NPCs after death, or players becoming zombies when they die). Storywise we (survivors) are all Immune to the zombie virus.

As for poisoning bullets/weapons, the way you described it probably wouldn't work (fact that players cant get infected with the Z Virus aside) very well and might actually cause your weapon to jam faster (gunk on the bullet building up in the mechanisms and barrel).

Now this could work for say crossbows or melee weapons to increase chance of infection (not Zed infection, just 'normal' infections) by say rubbing the arrowheads in zombie guts, mounting zombie teeth on a baseball bat, rubbing the blade of the axhead in shit, ect.

[Lupatchi 143]

okay, if real life doesn't have poison bullets... why should DayZ?

[MrTombadil 7]

I was thinking about that scene in Jaws, where Brody was poisoning his revolver bullets with cyanide.

But yeah, looking back at it now it doesn't make that much sense.

I like the crossbow idea though, would make the crossbow more unique.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

I was thinking about that scene in Jaws, where Brody was poisoning his revolver bullets with cyanide.

But yeah, looking back at it now it doesn't make that much sense.

I like the crossbow idea though, would make the crossbow more unique.

Don't remember the movie very well, but thought he was just coating the bullets with wax so that when they don't deform instantly when they hit the water and lose like 90% of their energy?

[DemonGroover 8836]

A few people are new here and it seems to be a hard concept for a lot of people to grasp but here it is again...

The zombies in DayZ are not dead. They are Infected, sick, cannibalistic humans who want to rip you apart and eat you (as you do).

See the great movie 28 Days Later for reference.

You shoot them enough times or get a head shot they die. Players who die will not reanimate....because they are dead.

Poison bullets? Is this even plausible?

Edited February 8, 2013 by DemonGroover

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Poison bullets? Is this even plausible?

If it's literally bullets, it wouldn't be possible in terms of realism.

A bullet cannot be coated with a liquid of any kind, as the friction with air would burn it completely off within a couple meters of travel.

Edit; For example, there was a myth about a female soldier becoming impregnated after a bullet from an enemy rifle had shot through another soldier's ball sack, and somehow into the woman without actually killing her. (Yeah, as if that wasn't ridiculous on its own.) It was proven to not be possible because of the fact that anything on the bullet would 'die' or get burned/dripped off even if it did fly through a bag of any liquid.

So, soaking your magazine with infected blood wouldn't probably do much else but wet the gunpowder in the bullets, making them unusable.

Edited February 8, 2013 by Dancing.Russian.Man

[MrTombadil 7]

Bullet poisoning is possible in hollow point bullets, filling the cavity with your choice of poison then sealing the top of the cavity with a plastic or wax seal.

But we're getting a bit off topic, idea was removed, move along.

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

Bullet poisoning is possible in hollow point bullets, filling the cavity with your choice of poison then sealing the top of the cavity with a plastic or wax seal.

But we're getting a bit off topic, idea was removed, move along.

Nothing here was 'getting off-topic' as far as I can tell.

And the hollow-point bullets would actually work, even though I don't think there would be a lot of them to find in a zombie apocalypse.

[Fenrod 60]

Al Capone used to rub the tip of his bullets with garlic, so that the target would die of blood poisoning / gangrene.

So why not.

[Jars (DayZ) 63]

How does a dead person come back to life ?

That's the first question that needs to be answered , and Jesus doesn't count .

[Supercuate 9]

This is a great idea!, personally I would only like to see it implemented when killed by zeds. Every time they kill me I have to go find my body, I would love to see it walking with all the gear, I don´t like the idea of it being more powerfull.

I really hope this one gets implemented, it´s awesome.

[Grodenn 53]

How does a dead person come back to life ?

That's the first question that needs to be answered , and Jesus doesn't count .

Obviously because he never did.

OT: As many other ppl have said the zombies are not dead they are infected, and as far as I remember rocket have pretty much confirmed that this will never happen.