Killed by zombies = become a zombie

[Delta426 23]

Not suggesting you start playing as a zombie, but rather your corpse and all the gear that was on it at time of death, starts wandering around looking for brains.

[kichilron 8550]

No. In my oppinion this doesn't have a place in DayZ.

 

If you want that, you can play the Epoch-Mod of DayZ on ARMA 2.

[Jock McScottish 216]

nah, no-one would take "zombieing" seriously. It would be comedy and trolling zeds left right and centre, and theres enough of that with the survivors already.

[Vector636 30]

Yeah in Epoch you can be a zombie or a sub infected because other zeds still attacked you. I think Rocket has said he does not want to have players turn into zeds or for the dead bodies of players to get back up, something about the zeds having too diffrent textures or something like that, I think its brought up in the E3 interviews.

[chompster 171]

ehh.. did any of you even read the OP??

 

he clearly says:

 

when you die.

 

Your character turns into a Ai ZOMBIE

 

NOT that YOU actually play as a zombie.

 

 

Anyhoo, idk about that. it could be cool but at the same time you could see a ton of stacked zombies running around.

[ep_metheus 75]

If you die you respawn on the coast but your old character will turn into an AI zombie and roam the area where you died. Now if you want your gear back you first need to kill that ballistic helmet & body armor wearing brains gobbler! Hope that it won't figure out what the M4 in it's hands is for.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Will never happen, no player zombies in any form (playable or AI).  These are not Walking Dead type zombies, they're 28 Days later type zombies, alive and rabid.  Players are Immune to the virus.

[Vector636 30]

It dosent really matter what type they are, you could still just fight a infected version of yourself(not much more immersion breaking then finding your own body twilight zone style). It dose not really matter like I said before Rocket he dose not want players bodies to become AI. They did do that for the wiiU zombie game I think.

[Hama 60]

This is suggested with a new topic almost every single day since SA release, and the answer is still "no". The zeds in DayZ are infected not undead, and all players are immune to the zombie virus.

[Rkelt 46]

The virus has no effect to the survivors...they are immune...

[Vector636 30]

When have they said survivors are immune, in the mod you could get sick from zed attacks I think you can currently to its just hard you usually get knocked out 1st, although the infection the the SA maybe just be a general infection.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

We are Immune to the Zombie Virus and the Zombie Virus only, whatever infection we get from them is not the zombie virus, (after I stopped playing the mod they split infection into two types, don't remember the names), hell for all I know we can get chicken pox from zombies.  And it does mater what type they are, Walking Dead zombies are dead bodies that are reanimated, DayZ zombies are living people that have become infected with a virus and have gone rabid, which is why we can kill them with non head shots.

[Delta426 23]

The argument has taken a left turn into zombie physiology and lore territory. The game is in alpha, if this is a feature players want and the devs can implement, then lore can be rewritten. Anyone remember Tali?

 

If this breaks the game or immersion for the majority of the players that's a different story.

[Chaingunfighter 917]

I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every time this (or something similar) was suggested. 

Rocket has already said that it would not be possible to have zombies with in-game clothes and gear spawn because it would heavily reduce performance, and I'm guessing that this falls under the same category. Besides that, it seems to make sense that the in-game survivors are immune.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

The argument has taken a left turn into zombie physiology and lore territory. The game is in alpha, if this is a feature players want and the devs can implement, then lore can be rewritten. Anyone remember Tali?

 

If this breaks the game or immersion for the majority of the players that's a different story.

I use the lore and physiology because whenever I say it bluntly: 'Rocket said NO many times and very loudly.'  The next line is always 'well zombies from x universe raise from the dead'.  Here's another reason, this one technical: Player models are much more complex than zombies, consisting of multiple layers as opposed to the zombie's 1-2 layers (I think).

 

That equals lag on the server...now think of how many people suicide in a feeble attempt to get a better spawn, the servers would probably explode under the stress, catch the buildings they're housed in on fire, wiping out the internet as a whole and bringing about a new dark age as our electronically dependent population gets unplugged and goes into withdrawals and die in the riots.  I'd say I'd be the king of my District but considering I'm probably the only person in this valley with a computer with parts made in this decade they'ed probably band together to capture me to repair their stolen Iphones, which is why I need to get money to buy weapons and explosives to defend myself...what were we talking about now?

[DayzForumer 284]

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Edited January 23, 2014 by DayzForumer