Do Zombies Dream Of A Good Nights Sleep? (Zombie feedback)

[ruax 32]

I just did it for science.

1 hit = 1 animation.

Perhaps your issue is related to desync or lag because without lag and desync every animation of an attack lead to only 1 hit on my screen.

Zombies are hard, When you shoot with an ak101 pretty much every zombie nearby comes running, I love it.

Its not just me lol, there are many many comments about it! Also watching streamers like mrblackout81 is same thing, I am sure its not just a lagg thing the zombies were like that in the arma2 mod too. Basicly moving and hiting at same time ( no hiting animation just hitting really fast ) 

[archone88 29]

Ive read through the forums, and people seem to not understand that there always are new problems with the new patches. If zombies are OP now because of invis/speed/glitching etc, it will for sure get fixed eventually. Just be sure to report the "bugs".

 

However, I dont even have 160hours in this game yet. Even though Ive had it from the start. And Ive got over 2000 hours Dayz Mod.

 

Why? (several reasons) But mostly due to the zeds being alot harder, and in HIGH numbers in the mod!

Edited April 2, 2015 by archone88

[KewDok 1]

I really like them as well. I am now scared shitless when running around a city using my binoculars to scout how many of them are around. I used to only be scared of players, Not any more!

 

Loot distribution seems to be a little off though, Ran to the western military camp to stock up on ammo after killing many Z's and there was nothing, absolutely no bullets except two spawns of Winchester ammo. Found quite a bit of civilian loot though, and I hear military loot spawns all over the map now. 

So now it is back to running all over the map to find stuff, and not just around barracks and military camps... 

 

 

[blacklabel79 949]

dident even made it out of berezino. Damm Z´s. Had to hide on a Kiosk pinging Z´s with the sporter i had from pre .55

 

Gosh was it glorious....bring the good times YEAH !!!!

 

Another char was in the North allready and now i COULD have had a mp40 AND a rak with several mags. Pretty crazy and those weapons are crazy for keeping Z´s at bay.

 

LOVE the new loot Distribution too and man i meet some mad Folks who cried fool because they couldent find anything in electro....buahahaha

Edited April 2, 2015 by {Core}BlackLabel

[KewDok 1]

Ok, maybe they are a little OP. Got killed in 5 seconds in full gear, while at the same time my three hits with a fire axe had no effect. It was fun, and I will never ever try to kill one without a gun again.  :P

[blacklabel79 949]

I loved how i had to flee in Terror to a higherground and ping them with the sporter. Also the "pushback" Looks really nice. Finaly some visual Feedback.

[SonicSonedit 36]

Ok, maybe they are a little OP. Got killed in 5 seconds in full gear, while at the same time my three hits with a fire axe had no effect. It was fun, and I will never ever try to kill one without a gun again.  :P

You can still kill them with melee, but it requires some brain now: it's harder to spin around them and body/leg hits do very little damage to them.

The best thing is the Axe To The Head - solves all the problems since...since axe was invented. 2 head hits and new "OP" zombie is dead, not very OP to me. I also noticed that despite they still ruin your gear very quickly and break your bones quite often, the actual damage per hit was greatly reduced. But yeah if there are 3 of them or more melee is pretty much suicide right now.

I certainly hope that Rocket will drastically reduce a chance of our gear being ruined by zombies. I'm ok with zombie breaking my limbs though. I wish instead of gear-ruining-limb-breaking-fist-of-the-north-star zombies we had "Grab & Bite" classic zombies instead.

Edited April 2, 2015 by SonicSonedit

[PlasticAssasin8 (DayZ) 78]

"Ok, I believe you,,, even if thousands don't..."

 

Really. ?

Not once had i said that the zombies were bad  where have you been in that cocoon?

 

Honestly i am moving around rather well, but i dont need to find old shoes on army tanks for god sake.

 

Earlier i saw a back pack a cereal box and a rifle on a wood stove in a house all screwed up.

 

And really one hit from a zed and my leg is broken after i hit it 5 times with an axe, wow now thats a good change isnt it?

Edited April 2, 2015 by PlasticAssasin8

[Wumby 0]

Now i understand that the dev team would like players to move up inland on the map. I get it. I mean, if there is no loot by the coast i guess it forces us, right? Also, im all for the new loot economy. I think it was a much needed adjustment for some of the players that have been playing for quite a long time. I think it refreshes the game in a way. BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON I FEEL THE NEED TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT JUST TO POST TO THIS FORUM. IF I WANTED TO FIGHT IRON MAN I WOULD BUY A MARVEL GAME. WHY MUST THE ZOMBIES BE SO OVER POWERED AND DOWNRIGHT INVINCIBLE. 

 

On another note i enjoy the new stealth system. Round of applause for that one. Now i only complain about this zombie AI because of the fact that if a zombie sees you and you are not Rambo geared. You are basically sort of screwed. Now one zombie could be manageable. But lets say while fighting this Sith Lord of a zombie another spots you. Now you have TWO. PLUS, weapons such as the fire ax and sledge hammer do not a bit of damage? 4-5 hits with a fire ax? If you are going for the realistic approach then you are sure far from it. 

 

I just hope this is one big April Fools joke and things will be okay in a week. 

[HarryPotter (DayZ) 172]

Are you high? I killed a zed with few punches to the head tonight and was not damaged in any way, neither was any of my stuff!

[sausagekingofchicago 4711]

2-3 hits to the head with a screwdriver, brass knuckles, or similar weapon and they drop but they'll get their licks in too. So either you have to learn to stealth or carry a lot of bandages and a splint.

[too-easy 56]

It is still possible to kill them with one hit to the face with the axe. But you need to be very lucky. My friend only managed it one time when we played yesterday. The other times it took 2-5 hits to kill them.

[ASTINvlogs 44]

A few things I've noticed

1. They're fast as hell. ( I'm ok with that. )

2. They don't make any sounds at all. Occasionally I hear a moan or a grumble but only when they're not agrod.

3. If they touch you, you get hit. Even if they're falling down because you killed them if you're in their path as they're falling you get hit.

4. They STILL (STILL!!!!!!!!) no-clip through doors and walls and fences and buildings and cars and apcs ( armored personnel carriers for the ignorant ) and lighthouses and trees. They STILL clip through all of that.

So to sum it up. I'm not really complaining to hard. This update sure has changed the point of the game for me at least. Almost entirely.

However, I feel we need a break here. Fix it somehow either fix the herpes touch, or the speed or the no clipping or the sound. Give us something here cause as it sits. This is a nogo. Anyone that says they can dance with a few zombies using melee weapons and not get bloodied or make it from one end of the map to another without getting worked at least twice is liar. It is nigh impossible to walk into a small town and walk out better than when you went in.

RvR

[Reacher (DayZ) 15]

As a new player (30-35 hrs of gametime) I find these "new" zombies a bit too strong.

Took on 2 of them with a fire axe and got beat up pretty darn bad. Lost a lot of blood. Ofcourse it should be hard to survive but there´s a thin line between "hard" and "darn right rage quitting impossible". As a fresh spawn now you will not stand a chance. Especially we who play alone. If you got a crew the fine, I get it. But not all do.

If you don´t have guns you are scr***d. And to get guns you need to stay alive longer than 5 mins.

I agree that the zombies were a bit weak before the exp update, they didn´t feel like a big threat. But now they are too strong for fresh spawns.

Geared crews will take over the game and guys like me will be respawning and respawning all night long.

Besides this, I really enjoy the game.

 

/Reacher

[KewDok 1]

I believe a helmet is more important than before when being attacked by Z's. After donning one I have survived two and three attacking me with little healing to do afterwards. During the attack my pants, helmet and vest was damaged, telling me they hit all over. Plate carrier and helmet is maybe the way to go for people chancing running around in cities...  :)

[sachad 1016]

Now i understand that the dev team would like players to move up inland on the map. I get it. I mean, if there is no loot by the coast i guess it forces us, right? Also, im all for the new loot economy. I think it was a much needed adjustment for some of the players that have been playing for quite a long time. I think it refreshes the game in a way. BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON I FEEL THE NEED TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT JUST TO POST TO THIS FORUM. IF I WANTED TO FIGHT IRON MAN I WOULD BUY A MARVEL GAME. WHY MUST THE ZOMBIES BE SO OVER POWERED AND DOWNRIGHT INVINCIBLE. 

 

On another note i enjoy the new stealth system. Round of applause for that one. Now i only complain about this zombie AI because of the fact that if a zombie sees you and you are not Rambo geared. You are basically sort of screwed. Now one zombie could be manageable. But lets say while fighting this Sith Lord of a zombie another spots you. Now you have TWO. PLUS, weapons such as the fire ax and sledge hammer do not a bit of damage? 4-5 hits with a fire ax? If you are going for the realistic approach then you are sure far from it. 

 

I just hope this is one big April Fools joke and things will be okay in a week. 

 

Overpowered? Perhaps. Invincible? Hardly. 

 

Keep in mind these are not the slow, stupid, shambling corpses from The Walking Dead. They are live human beings infected with a rage virus, like in 28 Days Later. They are supposed to be difficult to kill. They still need tweaking, for instance their Mike Tyson-like punching speed and high 'hit points' need to be toned down a bit, but besides that, they are a vast improvement over the last builds. 

 

Yesterday I managed to kill eight zombies that were chasing me around the Pavlovo base. It took time and effort to separate them and take them on, but in the end, I got out alive. Battered and bruised, but alive. And for the first time since I started playing, I got a real sense of accomplishment from killing them. 

[XallZall (DayZ) 22]

New Zombies are horrible.

Hello community,
What do you think of the new Zombies AI, movement etc?

I have to say that I hate it.
They attack like crazy, I know, most of the people wanted stronger zombies.

But this? I go behind the zombie, and it seems it has 4 arms or something because the damn thing can attack me from behind. Just be remotely close to the things and they will attack you 360 degrees auto hit, is how it feels to me.

Then there is speed, they make the living world Olympics champions look bad, and they are dead.
Being dead, I'd imagine that they would not take very good care of themselves, having broken bones etc, but these Zombies, holy cow are they fast. It is getting annoying more then anything. Annoying that you have to either run or fight.

And speaking about fighting, unless you got guns, or a firefighters axe, I don't really see a point of fighting them with their 360 degrees auto rapid attack system. Either you will start bleeding, or you start going grey really fast, like one zombie can do the job now, or your gear just gets wrecked. So not a wise thing to fight them.

I tried and my gear is always damaged.

They are now so strong and fast that, a simple mistake is enough to get you killed.

I was running away from one of these annoying things, I had a cantine in my hand, and by a mistake I pressed drink all.
I tried cancel current action but of course this only works when your NOT in a crisis situation, which its designed for.

So unable to stop my current action, the zombie killed me within that small time gab.

Of course I get spawned millions of miles away, lost all my great stuff, for such a silly reason.

Zombies should be slow or medium speed and in great numbers.

Not freaking Olympics sprinters that have 360 auto rapid hit systems.

I smack em in the head with the fire axe and they just continue their "new awesome" ignore rapid attack.

Even the older AI was better then this, were that felt that they were broken, now it feels like they are just cheating.

I understand that there is a reason to fear them now, but that is the issue, they are not scary, they are just annoying. Annoying enough for me to stop playing this until they do something reasonable with these zombies.

Bodies also fade to fast, they should not even fade at all, I know that currently fade to reduce lag etc, but still, they need to stay, this needs to be implemented.


What do you guys think? Are these the zombies that everyone wanted? Are the Zombies now better or worse?
Was this a great or horrible choice from the devs.

And having white text on a black background is not very nice for the eyes, makes reading annoying here as well. My eyes start feeling strange after a few moments reading anything on these forums.

Edited April 5, 2015 by Boneboys

[Max Planck 7174]

Hello community

 

Hello!

 

 

Then there is speed, they make the living world Olympics champions look bad, and they are dead.

 

They aren't dead, they are living human being suffering from a 'rage virus', like in '28 Days Later'.

 

 

And having white text on a black background is not very nice for the eyes, makes reading annoying here as well. My eyes start feeling strange after a few moments reading anything on these forums.

 

In the bottom left corner of the forums, very bottom, there's a 'Change Theme' button. You can set it to a nice white and blue skin, which is what I use. It's a lot better in my opinion.

 

 

EDIT:

Oh, the zombies. They are a work in progress, Things will improve over time like they have in the past.

Edited April 4, 2015 by Max Planck

[freethink 984]

Hello!

It's shocking how much of a laugh I got out of that!

 

Love the new zombies. Wish there were more. Love the old homeless/farmer zombie.

[BCBasher 2465]

These new zombies are a hell of allot better now you can use stealth one them. Before .55 they could see you from 1000m crouched inside a building on the second floor in a room with no windows.

[XallZall (DayZ) 22]

Hello Max Planck, thank you so much for the theme change advise, this is so much better, my eyes were starting to hurt.

Also, thanks for the info about the zombies not being dead, which is new to me but even so, they should not be in top notch conditions for the way they look.

And last but not least, I am very glad to hear that, I just can hope that they will be optimized soon. It has been a long time since anything annoyed me this much in Dayz, up until now I liked  all the improvements, anti cheat system, new items etc. The last time I was annoyed to the point where I took the advise to stop playing this game for half a year, was when walking up stairs would kill you in the firestation.

By the amount of time that has passed, I also would have expected to see at least bikes by now, as in bicycles... I hope that, that will be coming soon.

Edited April 4, 2015 by XallZall

[BroskyBro 21]

Guns literally are useless as crap if you have more than one zombie lol. I wish you guys would add more zombies but nerf them, a little at least. They hit me while I run, they kill you easily as a new spawn, they take a million .357 rounds to kill too xD. For real, I love this game, but I think this was a poor move (imo) I wish there were hundreds that swarmed cities but didn't run 100 mph and be able to hit at the same time. Will we ever be able to run and shoot/attack...?

[freethink 984]

Guns literally are useless as crap if you have more than one zombie lol. I wish you guys would add more zombies but nerf them, a little at least. They hit me while I run, they kill you easily as a new spawn, they take a million .357 rounds to kill too xD. For real, I love this game, but I think this was a poor move (imo) I wish there were hundreds that swarmed cities but didn't run 100 mph and be able to hit at the same time. Will we ever be able to run and shoot/attack...?

 

What? If you just relax and pick your shots you will never be overwhelmed by zombies. It's one head shot with most weapons. Two body shots.

 

I love the new way they stagger back when shot too.

[XallZall (DayZ) 22]

Guns literally are useless as crap if you have more than one zombie lol. I wish you guys would add more zombies but nerf them, a little at least. They hit me while I run, they kill you easily as a new spawn, they take a million .357 rounds to kill too xD. For real, I love this game, but I think this was a poor move (imo) I wish there were hundreds that swarmed cities but didn't run 100 mph and be able to hit at the same time. Will we ever be able to run and shoot/attack...?

Hmm, you got a point there with the guns.

I feel also much like this, there should be hordes, and zombies should not be super strong, at least the common ones. Implementation of Zombie types would be great, making fast types tank types, or even zombie animals, we have normal animals now, we could have infected ones as well etc. There is so much potential.

 

[BCBasher 2465]

Guns literally are useless as crap if you have more than one zombie lol. I wish you guys would add more zombies but nerf them, a little at least. They hit me while I run, they kill you easily as a new spawn, they take a million .357 rounds to kill too xD. For real, I love this game, but I think this was a poor move (imo) I wish there were hundreds that swarmed cities but didn't run 100 mph and be able to hit at the same time. Will we ever be able to run and shoot/attack...?

 

There is some desync going on with them so it's like you're shooting right through them if they're too close. You have to backpedal and not get cornered  to take them down at closer ranges with a pistol or smg.