Zombie numbers

[Mr DK 0]

Hello everyone.

First of all sry for not reading all the posts here in suggestion but its 4 am in germany and im feeling like i wanted to say this.
As you all may have noticed DayZ claims itself to be a ZOMBIE survival game. And while there are zombies they are basicly no part of the game. If I walk through a City no matter which one it is you basicly meet 10 Zonks spread aroudn the whole city and its absicly of no dificulty to get through there especally if you got a gun. Every other player is more of a threath than those zombies. Dieing with a single axe hit.

For me this agme beacame a runing though the world ignoring all zombies game and thats not how it should end. I dont know much about the capability of your game engine but groups of zombies seem to me a possible thing to achive. I suggest a complete rework of the spawn mechanics by defining spots I will from now one call Points of Infection (POI). You could basicly spread out diffrent scale of this points all across the map. Lets say you have 3-10 sizes of POIS:

1. Small (2-4) Zombiez

2. not thats small (4-6) Zs
3. medium (6-10)

And in adition to that you could stop them standing around and make them walk spesific routs within the towns.
I know thats a ton more work from the current mechanic but the acual one is like removing them^^

Besides that i recomend zombies not to be despawned and basicly be spawnd on server start. So you dont run in and out before even 2 are spawned.
Also you could enhence the system by spawning aditional ones from dead corpes.

Hope youll think about the idea.

MR DK - 3 Uhr ganking squad
 

[Khad (DayZ) 293]

I'm going to make this short: 

http://dayz.gamepedia.com/DayZ_Standalone#AI

[Mr DK 0]

Thx but those 2 sentences dont really say something about my point. It only said that it would enhance pathfinding.

Edited January 4, 2014 by Mr DK

[Wolfguarde 108]

Basically, zombie AI/code isn't properly polished yet, and probably won't be in the game for some time. I think I recall someone (possibly Rocket) mentioning that larger numbers of zombies aren't viable due to stability issues, and that for the moment there aren't going to be too many of them.

In short: Patience :P It is coming, if not as quickly as we might like. Other things are higher on the list.

Edited January 4, 2014 by Wolfguarde

[Bush_Wookie10-4 61]

Does anyone know if the ability to have the roam in packs are in the works? I know in Arma2 editor, on custom MP missions I used to make, I have squads roam for miles all over the place.