Maybe not an original idea, but...

[GpB311 236]

...do you ever want to play as a zombie?  I feel like it would be fun to "switch teams" from time to time and play as an unarmed, unarmored zombie, but with other useful/positive attributes that living human players wouldnt have.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

If it was like Nicholas Cage and John Travolta in face off, then yes.

[Khad (DayZ) 293]

Which one must be the Zombie? /o/

[TheWeedMan 132]

It would be fun if once you died you had the option to play as infected or respawn.

If you choose play as infected your dead character gets back up, immediately pulling all infected within a radius towards you and you then become a horde to roam the map.....every town your horde goes through draws more infected into your horde.

You can take your horde anywhere you go but if you logout or die (again) your horde disperses and you respawn as a normal player.

This would add an extra bit of fun and maybe simplify the horde introduction idea.

Edited January 7, 2014 by TheWeedMan

[rossums 2190]

This will just cause far too many problems with abuse.

Zombies by design follow a specific set of rules, they aren't smart enough to set traps - they run after players to eat them.

There really isn't a way to transfer this control over to a player and retain the same 'dumbed down' persona that embodies a zombie, if you can go where YOU want, you're not a zombie.

[doublebrain 255]

I dont think people will play as a zombie, maybe like 2 times when its new in the game but then they will know that all they can do is running around. No looting, no player interaction, no needs. It would just be a waste of time to code something like that.

[thedogfoodyayho 295]

Epoch had that.

it sucked