Should we be able to play as zombie?

[xwhitemousex 67]

If you wanted to, you could discourage killing by using this as a karma system. After your survivor dies, they become a zombie, and you can't start a new survivor until you've eaten as many brains as you had 'murders'.

Absolutely brilliant. It would be rage inducing for sure.

The problem would of course be knowing when it's a murder and when it's self defense.

E.g. 1 - If someone shoots at you and miss, and you shoot back and kill them... will the game be able to recognize it as self-defense?

E.g. 2 - If you are in the woods providing overwatch with binoculars while your friend is raiding the supermarket and you see another survivor that starts shooting at your friend, and you proceed to kill the other survivor, did you committ a murder or was it self-defence?

Anyways, being forced to be a zombie as punishment for murders would be brilliant.

It could also be a timer thing, i.e. if you have 20 murders you get 20 x 10 minutes of being a zombie = 200 minutes where you'll be unable to do anything but eat brains :D

[dutchmuffin 11]

I haven't had the time to read each reply so I don't know if my suggestion has already been suggested.

* Seeing how in the SA, every Zombie is going to be created on server start ( correct me if I'm wrong ) I think that, when killed, a player should have the option to take control of their body, and play as the Zombie their Survivor became.

One problem I see with this, is someone becomes a Zombie, and essential scouts out for their teammates via TeamSpeak / Skype / ect, and does so without the threat of death.

I said 'yes' on the basis that this would be really fun, if it could be pulled off correctly.

[_Anubis_ (DayZ) 139]

Add the possibility for the zombie-player to pick up an hatchet and it would be incredibly funny.

_Anubis_

[dutchmuffin 11]

I like your style.

[timboski 618]

This is a survival game.

No.

Survival from the infected though for some reason you can't become infected yourself? (the current coughing and losing some blood really doesn't look authentic tbh).

I don't think you should be able to play as a zombie but when you become infected you will have to deal with it (both good and bad points) as it slowly takes over. If you can cure the infection then great and if not you die. It would be even better if your zombie corpse started wandering around still carrying whatever you had on you and would need to be killed before being looted. That would mean you would at least need to grab a hatchet while high tailing it back to where you died and even then you will need to search about for your zombie :D (Rocket has said that player specific zombies is not really possible unfortunately).

[MissSweeney 105]

I reckon it would be fun, but not as part of the game. Maybe if there was a dedicated server for zed vs survivor. A server I was on had a hacker who zombies himself, it was fun to try kill each other, would love to do it again, just without the hacks of course. Only hacker who didn't kill me :)