Zombles and Gear Degradation

[Dagwood 680]

Wrote up a big long explanation for this once and then my phone died so you're getting the short and sweet. You're welcome.

Gear degradation has been confirmed.

Some people think players should not be able to loot their "own" corpse.

Idea: zeds will attack and mangle fresh corpses; especially if they were in pursuit of the person when they died. If they killed the player, it's game over for anything fragile (GPS, scope, etc.)

Everyone has been raving about gear degradation stopping KOS and promoting "banditry". I think zeds ripping your body to shreds (or the body of the guy you just shot in the middle of town) is more likely to make players think twice.

Thoughts?

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

That's...actually a very good suggestion.  I mean after all with degradation we'll have to be careful where we shoot.  Our standard headshot might damage that NVG we were killing for.  Spray and pray will turn that warm jacket we needed into bandages.  I think we will take some item damage from zombies just in the course of their normal attacks, but them beating on/eating the corpse would degrade a lot of things.  Sure you might still get something off of your corpse but it'd be a crap shoot.

[Ratsmon 131]

This is the best idea I've heard this week. I doubt there's anything much to add, have some beans.

[fluxley 2228]

It's been suggested a few times and i really like the idea.

Not only does it give greater consequences to dying it also makes killing people from a distance less rewarding because by the time you get to the corpse much of the gear could be ruined, and so encourages bandits to get up close and personal and take more risks.

Edited December 1, 2013 by Fluxley

[Dagwood 680]

The biggest hurdle to implementing this that I see (furthest thing from a programmer or developer) is creating animations for infected beating and tearing at downed bodies. Maybe they already have it in place for unconscious bodies.

But in addition to altering gameplay, I see this feature adding some much needed gore which is missing in the mod.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Think they already did some mocap for that.  Rocket (I think) was beating on a CPR dummy while wearing the pingpong suit.