My humble aggro suggestions

[TheGoldElite 0]

IIRC the intention was to have Zombies with poor eyesight, but enhanced smell/hearing. I seem to remember this being the idea or goal, sorry if I'm wrong.

I think that-

The sight of zombies needs to be way turned down, to near 1.7.0 levels ( prone players should be almost unseeable when still, mega tension as they shuffle past you)

Hearing needs to stay highish, in which case you should remain motionless when they are near. (This means you can be crazy and aggro them all, and try to lose them with LOS/buildings,but if they get a hit on you, as they will often do, they break legs/bleed, unchanged from current. Or you can usually avoid them if your patient.)

And zombies need to be just as tough as now, so you feel their wrath and are scared of being cornered by them/caught with a passing swipe, as currently.

I'm assuming the infinite zombies spawns are bugged and will be fixed.

I suggest these changes because they would be much more of a threat than they were in 1.7.0, what with them being stronger, and spawning in buildings sometimes, and being drawn by gunfire from afar.

This would also make stealth more of an option, especially for weapon-less/low end players. It would also mean much more aggro for whoever fires the first shot, than for a defenseless noob or such, increasing the challenge for better equipped or indiscriminant players.

My main reasoning for this though, would not be to cater to any play-style in particular, but I think this fits well with what was intended to be the zombie style here anyway. It's just a bonus that it should go some way to help level the playing field, not because new spawns should be easy, but because veterans/clans etc. need to be challenged more by the zombies when using all that high end loud loot, being aware that zombies are nearby and will be aggroed easily by the sound.

Beanwars shouldn't cease god forbid it, but the well equipped bandits will have to play abit smarter when hunting their prey :)

Thanks for reading anyway (TLDR etc), please post mature responses. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and this is mine :)