Zombies spawn from dead players (The Walking Dead universe)

[dz302 1]

Just a suggestion that the game take The Walking Dead universe, where everyone is infected already, and a death in any way will result in your body turning into a zombie. (If you don't know, getting bit by a zombie in TWD just gives you an infection that will kill you very quickly, it doesn't actually turn you).

Perhaps there could be a 15 minute timer and when the zombie spawns the body will disappear, this would also give an explanation to why you can't loot a body after x amount of time.

[oktyabr 53]

dev has already stated that the "zombies" in DayZ are not dead. See link at the bottom of this post.

[madsglahder@gmail.com 0]

Players rising from the dead as zombies would still be cool canon be damned.

[dz302 1]

dev has already stated that the "zombies" in DayZ are not dead. See link at the bottom of this post.

...But they aren't dead in The Walking Dead either, the infection restarts their brain after they die, and they turn into a zombie.

'The Walking Dead' refers to those who are still human.

[The Killing Joke 43]

dev has already stated that the "zombies" in DayZ are not dead.

Right. They're undead.

TKJ

[oktyabr 53]

Would it make you feel any better if I told you that I once started a thread almost exactly like this? A dev told me that the back story to this mod, which isn't public yet, does not allow for players coming back as zombies in any way, shape or form. http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=187

Yeah, it's a cool idea but it's not going to happen in this mod.

[VLPR 1]

I guess in unreleased "DayZ lore" the zombie virus is airborne and turns everyone to a rage"zombie" immediately, and survivors are rare people who are immune to this. So survivors can never turn into zombies.

[salty (DayZ) 39]

I guess in unreleased "DayZ lore" the zombie virus is airborne and turns everyone to a rage"zombie" immediately' date=' and survivors are rare people who are immune to this. So survivors can never turn into zombies.

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Correct. Afaik, the survivors are the 2% of the population that is immune to a prion disease pandemic.

[dz302 1]

I guess that makes sense. I wasn't suggesting that players come back to play as zombies, just 15 minutes (or it can be any length of time) after death, their corpses disappear and spawn as NPC zombies. It would give an explanation to why zombies are randomly spawning in areas after you've already cleared them out, and why you can't loot people after x amount of minutes, in a sense a logical way to explain these things, rather than 'just because' or for balance reasons.

In TWD universe everyone got infected by the disease, only once you died the disease kicked in and restarted your brain in zombie mode, the survivors are called The Walking Dead because it means there is essentially no hope, even if all the existing zombies died out, starting a new town or large group of people would result in another outbreak with a single accidental or natural death, essentially every single human being who dies from now on will turn into a zombie. I won't get into any more detail than that since only this much has been explained so far in the TV show (comic explains some more).

[oktyabr 53]

Yeah, DayZ might have some similarities to TWD, at least in some people's vision of the mod, but as it stands once you are dead you are dead and not getting back up ever. Same rule for "zombies" as for humans.

I liked Andrea... kinda hot. But lost interest in the show about half way through the last season.

[The Killing Joke 43]

I liked Andrea... kinda hot. But lost interest in the show about half way through the last season.

I haven't read the comics, but all of my friends say that it's going to pick up BIG TIME next season, with the new character (specifically) as well as the new locale, if they're even CLOSE to the script.

TKJ

[dz302 1]

I can't see it picking up any more than the second half of season 2, but it's going to focus a little more on comic book stuff now with Michonne, they were only on the farm for a brief period in the comics.

This doesn't mean there is going to be more action though, the comic is a drama set in the zombie apocalypse, now that they know there is no hope, it focuses on relationships and whether or not people can survive and live on in those circumstances.