Realistic Types Of Zombies

[silver227 2]

When you first look at the title your probably thinking of an insane zombie that shoots spit at you and that's not what I'm suggesting. I thinking of zombies that would truly be out in a zombie apocalypse. I came up with a few ideas that I think would be realistic. Vote for the ones you think would be good or vote that they should stay how they are now. (you can vote for more than 1 zombie) 

 

Early Infected- this guy is a zombie that was infected in the early days of the infection, and due to the fact that he is a rotting corpse he is slower because his muscles have started to leave him although maybe the bones and fingers have started to be destroyed and because of that his hands have become deadly weapons. (slow moving, higher damage )   

 

Newly Infected-this is a zombie that was recently infected so, his body is still in good condition but unlike the early infected he has not started to decompose and so his hand wont be as deadly (fast moving, lower damage)

 

Classic DayZ Zombie- we all know this guy classic dayz zombie (normal speed, normal damage)  no vote because obviously he will be in the game.

 

The Hopper- same kind from the original dayz mod (hopping, normal damage)

 

Survivor Zombie - just like in real life there will be people who try to stay alive but fail. this zombie was one of them, so basically your normal zombie but drops stuff when you kill him (normal damage, normal speed, drops rarer items when killed) 

 

Marsh Zombie - this is a zombie that was in a crash or infected  near a swampy or wet environment. their body is weaker due to the elements, although it can spread infection better. (weaker defense, spreads infection ) From -Vector636

 

These are all the ideas I thought would work well with dayz. If you have an idea of a zombie that is realistic then wright a comment and I will add it to the poll and I will describe it in this post, and if you think a zombie is OP then wright something about it and ill change it.

Edited January 23, 2014 by silver227

[Vector636 30]

They will all drop items eventually they did in the mod its just not working at the moment, but some good ideas also Rocket does want to do a life cycle for zeds. I believe rocket wants to do the infected style instead of the undead so maybe the early infected and the Newly infected descriptions could be switched. The reason being the body might have to get used to the infection and would not have as great of coordination.

 

Since I do believe that all the zeds types will have loot maybe the survivor type would have rarer loot. The survivor type wouldn't be a recently dead player since Rocket expressed not wanting them but maybe they would just wear typical clothes survivors might wear(mismatched civ/mili) and they would be really rare. By hoppers do you mean the ones that ran crouched and when docile they just kinda hoped around, lol at 1st I thought you meant something like a snork.

 

Maybe marsh zeds similar to the mudmen in L4D2. They could be infected survivors form ship crashes, their bodies would be weaker due to being in the water to long but maybe they could have a grater chance for infection.