THE NEW ZOMBIE?

[KernelKlink 1]

THIS POST IS ONLY FOR  DISCUSSION ON STAND-ALONE ZOMBIES (DO NOT SPAM IT WITH RANDOM TOPICS)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Watched the latest Dev-blog demo, new graphics and inventory are lookin very good, but the zombies are basicly at 0% completion. There is still time to pitch ideas to create some dangerous zombies into the game.

 

1) Fixing the AI pathfinding: DayZ Arma2 zombies move like tweaked out monkeys, lose all motivation to run indoors, and end up fused into sides of buildings. 

 

Sometimes a more basic AI pattern can still be incredibly effective, zombies dont need cordination they just lock onto target and kill  A => B ,  crawling or running.

 

2) Decapitation: Using certain high calibre weapons and grenades  rip off limbs or explode heads, there needs be more damage patterns and physical loss of body meshes on zombies.

 

3) Increasing Zombie encounters random%generator: Making encounters actually dangerous by overwhelming players with massive  gangs of zombies in random areas at random times, never encountered more than gang of 14 zombies max in city areas always predictable, I would like see some more epic encounters (50-80 zombies) forcing players to barricade buidling and fight or retreat from deadly odds.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Zombies as they are in Arma2 mod are not a threat, almost funny how bad they are at moving and killing you.

 

The Stand-Alone release should have deadly, focused, swarming masses of flesh-eating infected cannibals making players piss themselves in terror at the coming wave of death to make the game a real challenge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

1) From my understanding this will be/has been improved.  Zombies will run indoors now.  They won't just forget about you if you go behind a bush, they'll keep hunting you down for a while.

 

2) This would require a lot of work and would probably get the game banned in a few countries with overly protective censors.

 

3) Hordes are something Rocket wants to get around to eventually.

[Korsbaek 1778]

1) From my understanding this will be/has been improved.  Zombies will run indoors now.  They won't just forget about you if you go behind a bush, they'll keep hunting you down for a while.

 

2) This would require a lot of work and would probably get the game banned in a few countries with overly protective censors.

 

3) Hordes are something Rocket wants to get around to eventually.

 

This. 1 and 3 have been confirmed already.