What should be a zombie in DAYZ

[stsu*eromusha 1]

Firstly Thanks for your work, which is still remarkable that already we are only in alpha.

It seems to me that we DayZ sum in the presence of infected zombies as those described in the books of max brooks and in the Walking dead BD and series.

But in Dayz The zombies do not yet represent a real danger.

I think that adding a few points along the Z correspond more to what we want and be more dangerous and unpredictable. So players can keep more bullets for zombies and don’t  for conspecifics.

 

1. Zombies and damage:

In DayZ  the zombies die no matter where you pull or hit.

A zombie must have destroyed the brain to no longer exist, thus in the reference cited above and many more. Should the zombie dies by head shot. Body blows that should slow them down. Blows to leg should, as soldier of Arma 2 and 3, forced to crawl but not kill them. Whether shot or stabbed it should be the same result, with more or less rapidity

• Head = death with one or multiple strokes according weapon  

1. Light object (kitchen knife, hammer, shovel) 3-4 shots

2. Heavy blunt object (Wrench, baseball bat, crowbar) 2-3 shots

3. Sharp object (bayonet, machete) 1-2 shots

4. Sharp object heavy, firearms or arrows (crossbow, axe firefighter or lumberjack, firearms) 1 shots

• Chest and arm = deterioration of their strength.

Their strength is expected to decrease happened to be near zero

• Leg = change of velocity and displacement of the form

Running> Walking> Limping> Crawling

2. Player’s detection

- At present zombies do not smell the arrived player. We can arrived behind a zombie and to kill him( without he is react. Except zombies smell their preys he should thus react when we approach.

The creation of a radiation around the character representing its smell would allow the zombie in case of detection to put it in search of this smell.

Reference: the episode of walking dead or they cover themselves with entrails for unnoticed.

- When zombies spot a prey his cry must attract others. It’s can be already but i don’t see that yet.

3. The damage are zombies

Zombies should do more damage to their meeting is synonymous with danger. Two shots of a zombie received without a helmet should always be equal to bleeding, taking care to share before a zombie can not hit us when it is 2 meters from us.

When wearing a helmet should deteriorated over the helmet (already exists), our clothes and create wounds to be treated (broken arm or leg) it would make the use of splints and more frequent analgesics. And transmit diseases like you've already provided.

4. The zombies Movements and their spawn points.

Day Z zombies are too static. To make them dangerous they must be unpredictable and they can appear in places where they are not expected or more.

In the state are still audible zombie before we see them and are almost always alone.

They should pass completely through the map, completely autonomously in order to find prey and not remained static in their spawn area. Permettrais find it in the drill.   It would find in the forest. This would allow some zombies fall on campers waiting quietly on the outskirts of a city that another player passes for be shoot him.

They should allow them to market group if it occurs, for the horde effect that makes it even more dangerous. The choice of following the path that is being made ​​by a grade as compared to the soldier in Arma. It is certainly possible to give them a grade invisible to us but whose AI consciousness. And two zombies in the same grade who can match perfectly to ignore.

Urban areas should have more zombies than the countryside but must still meet the horde is possible for the rural routes more dangerous.

For more hordes proposed above grouping system. Be little need there be spawn group several zombies, which will begin to move together as the principle of patrol soldiers in Arma.

Ideally also include zombies spawn in buildings, finally not that it is inconsistent with a made ​​to evolve in the whole map it must absolutely can not cross more textures this is the condition that will keep them in their walls.

I think the meeting of several zombies in a building would be an additional source of stress that would make much more interesting exploration.

Example:

The floor of a hospital infested with ten zombies,

A family still present in his country house

Or 4 or 5 zombie fireman in a barracks and its surroundings.

STSU EroMusha

I very much hope to see some of these points in the future, appear in DayZ.

Sorry for my bad english. He’s very poor. :(

Edited January 17, 2014 by EroMusha

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Zombies are not the undead,  they are Infected as in 28 days later.  They are living humans that have become rabid in some way, thats the reason why we can kill them with a (lot of) blows to the body or shooting them in the heart.  For everything else keep in mind the zombies are currently placeholders as they work on the 'final' zombies.  There's only a few spawning because the servers cannot currently handle the intended numbers without lagging out or blowing up.

[stsu*eromusha 1]

Zombies are not the undead

Are you sure? Dean Hall speaks well of zombie in his interviews and not infected.

Is this an abuse of language on his part?

I confess that at present and even more since the update it looks more like  infected . But it would be very valuable to really know if have zombies or not.

If a dev could respond on this point it would be nice.

Edited March 24, 2014 by EroMusha

[SGT. Kalme 106]

At least Dean have called them Infected so far. The zombies came from DayZ name where Z actually stands for Zero not Zombie. The look on the infected and name of game has brought the zombie part in discussions. No confirmation has been that the infected are undead, they are just sick of some sort of disease.

[mgc 92]

It appears that the Z are not undead for realism's sake.

This doesn't mean they can't behave as classic undead Z.

I see it as a ploy to keep the realism fans happy.

But is it really necessary?

Devs?

[entspeak 374]

Zombie, in this case, refers to something under the control of something else - much like voodoo zombies were under the control of witch doctors. So, it's a looser use of the word, but not a usage without precedent. There are references now to zombifying parasites like Toxoplasma gondii and Cordyceps fungi (the basis for the zombies in The Last of Us). These parasites take control of the body in some way. Toxoplasma gondii is believed to be a cause of schizophrenia and Rocket has mentioned it specifically when it comes to DayZ. He hasn't said it is Toxoplasmosis, but said it may be something along those lines.

So, the zombies in DayZ are the result of either a zombifying parasite or virus. Survivors are said to be immune - which is why you don't turn when you die.

[Kenny Kyle 138]

i love the dispute about zombies and infected-.-

 

 

all zombies in every movie and game are the same archtype. the difference is the level of the "dead" and how long can they walk with a hole in the body.. how fast how strong and why. dark magic? a virus? alien tec?(husks from mass effect)

same thing with warewolfs and vampires. how much percent wolf parts have my creation insteat of human parts.

what jaw will have my vampire?can he split his jaw? can he hide his teeth. what will he drink? blood?...souls?

 

we always talk about zombies. the classic horror that works since generations in movies and books.

[merlointhesky 20]

i just hope that the final version of these zombies will have some more gore to it... like... being able to blast off their legs and they will still try to crawl to you...