Zombie Apocalypse?

[foamninja 77]

Does anyone feel like they're partaking in a Zed Apoc? I mean you go around you see zombies yeah that we know. However what about buildings and other areas? I walk into a building and 99% of the time it looks like a normal house, with the off take off the house with SOME blood in it. Understanding not all houses are going to be blood infested, however I want to walk into a town and see a quarantined off house or two that you can't enter unless you have a gas mask. And upon entering? Maybe a mangled corpse or two, blood everywhere, broken windows, body parts and a few dead soldiers with gear you have to use Disinfectant Spray on before use, that way we can get some military style gear outside of the camps. I mean something that FEELS like an infested "some shit went down here" house. Also I would like to see some sort of Lab area like a Make Shift CDC or something. An area that is surrounded by towers and fence. And upon entering those? You find high loot medical on rare occasion and some Zeds that take more than one person to put down. Also before someone goes off with the "That's too gruesome" thing remember this IS NOT a childs game.  

[Spidey (DayZ) 78]

im totally for this. You have all my beans. This game just doesn't feel like a zombie apocalypse AT ALL. It feels like free running KOS you-have-to-eat-or-die game. Basically a call of duty with persistent world, nothing more or less.

[King Tubbs 224]

this had been gone over before

 

rocket want anythigng you find like that to be real (eg player created)

 

so you find a load of dead bodys (zombies) and a player dead in the corner

 

that way you know that things happened there instead of someone trying to make it look like something hapend there

 

 

the game dose need alot more zombies and fast though

Edited December 23, 2013 by King Tubbs

[Combine (DayZ) 247]

I support this. Could have more "biohazard" feel instead of "war came and left" or "central anarchy party". Put the Z in DayZ, if you know what I mean.

 

I mean, it's good and all. But could be slightly better.

[Khad (DayZ) 293]

I would love to see more gore and creepy shit at all. 

[Diggydug (DayZ) 331]

Well we are still in Alpha and I do believe Rocket has intentions for a backstory to how all this came to be. Let's see if there's official lore behind it before we try to say how it SHOULD be based on our interpretations.

 

More zombies are going to come, it's been about a week and you think this is how it's going to stay? Everyone expects and wants more, don't worry.

[King Tubbs 224]

Well we are still in Alpha and I do believe Rocket has intentions for a backstory to how all this came to be. Let's see if there's official lore behind it before we try to say how it SHOULD be based on our interpretations.

 

More zombies are going to come, it's been about a week and you think this is how it's going to stay? Everyone expects and wants more, don't worry.

 

 

my problems with lack of zombies is thet is causes kos, i know it will change they are currently at 700 per server they want to get to atlest 3000 mybee 5000

 

i just hope they hurry to 2000+

[nickholder85@gmail.com 19]

 

Does anyone feel like they're partaking in a Zed Apoc? I mean you go around you see zombies yeah that we know. However what about buildings and other areas? I walk into a building and 99% of the time it looks like a normal house, with the off take off the house with SOME blood in it. Understanding not all houses are going to be blood infested, however I want to walk into a town and see a quarantined off house or two that you can't enter unless you have a gas mask. And upon entering? Maybe a mangled corpse or two, blood everywhere, broken windows, body parts and a few dead soldiers with gear you have to use Disinfectant Spray on before use, that way we can get some military style gear outside of the camps. I mean something that FEELS like an infested "some shit went down here" house. Also I would like to see some sort of Lab area like a Make Shift CDC or something. An area that is surrounded by towers and fence. And upon entering those? You find high loot medical on rare occasion and some Zeds that take more than one person to put down. Also before someone goes off with the "That's too gruesome" thing remember this IS NOT a childs game.  

 

 

Yep I agree. I think (although this would be down on the list of priorities of course) that they should add more history of the events leading up to the outbreak. Really like the idea of a medical lab things, would be really cool to find one where there are unique zombies in NBC suits or medical attire.

 

I hope they add small details unique to towns or even houses which tell individual stories, like writings on walls, notes left behind, photos and pictures on walls, something to add uniqueness to different areas. They could, for example, have boarded up windows or a small town which was taken over by the CDC (bio-hazard symbols and yellow tape for instance) for testing/isolation (think of the film Outbreak).

 

They could add things which set the 'scene' that something bad went down, like the residents upped sticks and got out of there quickly leaving things how they were like a time capsule, letting the player make their own mini story about what happened in that house or town.

 

Like I said this would be way down on the list of things as it's purley cosmetic, but I think it adds a layer of ambiguous back story where players can fill in the blanks. More Zombies will help when they are implemented too, as now the towns are a bit empty but will seem a bit more living (or un-living lol).

[Combine (DayZ) 247]

The earlier we mention it, the better, though. Can give more ideas for the future.

 

Also, to avoid copying "messes" into house types I'd advise some sort of manual editing of the landscape / map. You don't even have to do that to every place. You could start slowly by adding that stuff to major areas such as Cherno, Electro, etc.

 

Smaller places may have seen less chaos, were simply abandoned, etc. That way you avoid copy-pasting the same into every house type but also avoid having to place it manually across the whole map. Just an idea.

[Clarkeh 58]

Agreed im hoping these features are implemented in the future, maybe burnt/burning buildings, i can imagine they will add dead soldiers around the military sites like they did in the mod but heres hoping they add a bit more flair down the road.