No more running Zs

[delta5 237]

I'd love DayZ 9000x more if zombies didn't run. Esp when going into a small house with 1 way in/out. It would also be nice to have some sort of pushback option like in L4D2 and a block option.

[Rekli 995]

So you want to be able to jog past a zombie and loot 3 buildings before the zombie takes 10 steps?...no.

[dutch_miller 159]

The point of the zombies are to be a threat and a huge deterrent from just running in and looting. Even now when they do run they aren't that much of a threat.

 

Slow zombies would require hundreds or thousands more zombies on the server at one time, something I'd rather not have and I'm sure the devs wouldn't want either

[Mr Yoloswag 13]

If they didn't run but were insanely powerful, i'd like that.

2 hit kill but they could only walk, that would be sweet

[OfficerRaymond 2064]

Only ONE possible way I'd support this idea, and that is if the amount of zombies was 100-200x what it is now. Hordes of 300-400 zombies > Running Zombies.

[delta5 237]

If they didn't run but were insanely powerful, i'd like that.

2 hit kill but they could only walk, that would be sweet

 

This would work for me. Maybe add in being infected by a scratch or something. 

[Mr Yoloswag 13]

Only ONE possible way I'd support this idea, and that is if the amount of zombies was 100-200x what it is now. Hordes of 300-400 zombies > Running Zombies.

Only if they sort out the horrendous frame drops that some people get when they see a group of 30+ zombies

[delta5 237]

Only if they sort out the horrendous frame drops that some people get when they see a group of 30+ zombies

 

I don't see having hundreds of zombies on screen a problem. Heck I can play Mount and Blade: Warband with the mod that lets you have over 300 soldiers on screen.

[OfficerRaymond 2064]

Only if they sort out the horrendous frame drops that some people get when they see a group of 30+ zombies

 

 

MY 600th can of beans!!!! WOOOHOOOO

 

 

Edited August 10, 2013 by OfficerRaymond

[OfficerRaymond 2064]

I don't see having hundreds of zombies on screen a problem. Heck I can play Mount and Blade: Warband with the mod that lets you have over 300 soldiers on screen.

Dead Rising has it as well.

[chakijz 174]

I don't see having hundreds of zombies on screen a problem. Heck I can play Mount and Blade: Warband with the mod that lets you have over 300 soldiers on screen.

Yeah, Mount and Blade. It's not ArmA.

[Mr Yoloswag 13]

I don't see having hundreds of zombies on screen a problem. Heck I can play Mount and Blade: Warband with the mod that lets you have over 300 soldiers on screen.

DayZ mod has a load of articulation on the zombies which causes massive load on the PC, M&B doesn't have all that articualtion, hence why it can have a tonne of NPCs on screen at the same time without causing horrendous frame drops.

 

 

MY 600th can of beans!!!! WOOOHOOOO

Congrats :P

[applejaxc 2500]

DAYZ DOESN'T HAVE ZOMBIES GOD DAMMIT

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Those are still two very different games than DayZ/Arma2.  I mean you might as well be comparing DayZ to Microsoft Flight or Train Simulator.  DayZ has many things to calculate where something like Dead Rising just has a few, so it can denote more resources to having more zombies.

I honestly don't like the idea of 'walker only' zombies.  Maybe add in a new 'type' that can only walk/crawl, but if it spots you it alerts the other zombies.  To be honest, zombies should be feared more than players, not just something that's a minor annoyance during a PVP fest.  If I can just walk through a town with a baseball bat, swing away and kill 20 zombies without being touched, it's not gonna be fun, in fact I'm gonna question how humanity fell to such slow moving gimps.

We have to remember, these are not Undead, these are living, rabid animals that were once human.  If I just want a zombie slaughtering simulation, I'll go find a copy of Dead Rising and play that.

[Mr Yoloswag 13]

Those are still two very different games than DayZ/Arma2.  I mean you might as well be comparing DayZ to Microsoft Flight or Train Simulator.  DayZ has many things to calculate where something like Dead Rising just has a few, so it can denote more resources to having more zombies.

I honestly don't like the idea of 'walker only' zombies.  Maybe add in a new 'type' that can only walk/crawl, but if it spots you it alerts the other zombies.  To be honest, zombies should be feared more than players, not just something that's a minor annoyance during a PVP fest.  If I can just walk through a town with a baseball bat, swing away and kill 20 zombies without being touched, it's not gonna be fun, in fact I'm gonna question how humanity fell to such slow moving gimps.

We have to remember, these are not Undead, these are living, rabid animals that were once human.  If I just want a zombie slaughtering simulation, I'll go find a copy of Dead Rising and play that.

That's a lot of very good points, I retract my argument and submit to you fine sir.

[dutch_miller 159]

I don't see having hundreds of zombies on screen a problem. Heck I can play Mount and Blade: Warband with the mod that lets you have over 300 soldiers on screen.

 

Sure, and Shogun 2 Total War lets you have 40,000.

 

Comparisons are pointless in this discussion.

[Dancing.Russian.Man 1631]

I don't see having hundreds of zombies on screen a problem. Heck I can play Mount and Blade: Warband with the mod that lets you have over 300 soldiers on screen.

Mount and Blade doesn't require nearly as many resources as ARMA 2 does.

You can sit in an empty city and you still have a chance of dropping below 30 FPS.

[methr1k2dop3 323]

i like the idea of slow zombies.

Definitely be more deadly.

Maybe have your walkers, crawlers, and your occasional fast walking zed.

running fast is great but in current mod gameplay is just so sloppy because they are running around more like meth heads than infected. 

[King of kong 1117]

I hate the idea of slow zombies. In my opinion, it just takes away the scares you get when being chased through a city at night. I mean, aren't they kind of unrealistic? I like my running infected thank you very much. Slow zombies just make the game too easy, not scary.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

i like the idea of slow zombies.

Definitely be more deadly.

Maybe have your walkers, crawlers, and your occasional fast walking zed.

running fast is great but in current mod gameplay is just so sloppy because they are running around more like meth heads than infected. 

What if...*checks a dead zombie's pockets and finds a baggie with some blue powder in it* DAMN YOU HISENBURG!

[OfficerRaymond 2064]

DAYZ DOESN'T HAVE ZOMBIES GOD DAMMIT

They're zombies, okay? Get over it.

[applejaxc 2500]

They're zombies, okay? Get over it.

No, they aren't.

[King of kong 1117]

Zombies are, (By popular Haitian culture) people who hae been brought back to life by a witch-docter using a special powder or liquid concoction, the "Zombies" would carry out their master's orders. (If my information is correct)

[OfficerRaymond 2064]

No, they aren't.

Yes, they are.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DayZ_%28mod%29

"DayZ is an award winning 2012 multiplayer open world survival horror mod designed by Dean Hall for the 2009 tactical shooter video game ARMA 2 and its 2010 expansion pack, ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead. The mod places the player in the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, where an unknown virus has turned most of the population into undead, violent zombies"

 

http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Zombies

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+dayz

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie#In_popular_culture

"In modern times, the term "zombie" has been applied to an undead being in horror fiction, often drawing from the depiction of zombies in George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead.^[2][3] They have appeared as plot devices in various books, films, television shows, video games and comics."

Edited August 10, 2013 by OfficerRaymond

[OfficerRaymond 2064]

Zombies are, (By popular Haitian culture) people who hae been brought back to life by a witch-docter using a special powder or liquid concoction, the "Zombies" would carry out their master's orders. (If my information is correct)

While yes, that one of the meanings of the word zombie, the word has other meanings. The other meanings are mainly derived from popular culture; i.e: movies, comics, literature and TV shows.