"Am I being dragged away by a zombie? COOL!" (thought)

[Slim Skizzzle 14]

That was what I thought after being knocked unconscious and watching trees and buildings go by as I called to my friends to come kill the zombie and revive me. When they left the houses they were looting and got there, the zombie was attacking a wall of a shack (apparently glitching), and they saw my body over on a hill, sliding up it. Sliding uphill at walking pace, all on it's own (another part of the glitch, sliding South)! They ran around buildings and uphill to reach me, wasted some time and energy following me, trying to stop me, brink me back with epinephrine, but they couldn't interact with my body in this glitch. There was nothing they could do, but follow me to the ocean and see me slip into the sea. They didn't, that would have taken all night.

But it got me thinking how cool it would be for zombies to have the AI to drag your body toward other zombies so they could work together to attack and try to eat your body. A friend can be sacrificed as a distraction for a group to escape zombies.
As I've been wanting also to suggest there been streams of wandering zombies, like some unknown force is driving them out of graves and toward populated areas on the coast. And I've also been wanting to suggest players can turn into zombies if they don't cure sickness, too. Let's take it a step further and have your players able to get bit, then say he feels sick. He/she starts sweating, getting pale, coughing. Players nearby can hear and see him start to be taken over by the sickness. They need antibiotics, or donated blood, get full on food and water, stay warm. If not, they get worse and worse. Maybe stumbling a little when he/she walks when their real close to dying. Then they finally fall and don't get up, and their items are ruined and plagued. A minute goes by and he/she's now a roaming zombie. Friends can either stick around and kill him/her, or leave and let them become someone else's problem. Could provide a good variation for zombies. See my attached MAP for a generalized hypothetical scenario of where graveyards could be and which directions they would migrate.
 

Edited January 6, 2014 by Slim Skizzzle

[Slyguy65 499]

Brainstorm HOOOOOOO. Prepare the sails men.

 

But seriously ya I do recall them wanting wandering hordes, but ya zombies dragging you ehhhh. BUT If you played mod that was a legit tactic I remember seeing a video with guys running and one fell and died and the zombies just huddled around him and yaaa...the others used that to escape, so don't worry that will be in later. They are rebuilding from the ground up so all the advances in the mod will come later.

Edited January 6, 2014 by Slyguy65

[Slim Skizzzle 14]

I didn't play the mod. Can't wait for next alpha update.

[TYS 25]

:emptycan: Disagree.

 

Sobaka,

TYS

 

Edit: You should play the Mod.

Edited January 14, 2014 by TYS