Zombie Hordes!

[ZiGGYiPoP 3]

Just a little though i had one night while playing DayZ. What if there was like just 1 big zombie horde per server that just walks from one side of the map to the other, starting from the North making its way south or north west to south east? 
Maybe its starts from a random north point and is influenced by the closest noise to its position and is directed that way and that keeps happening until all of the zombies in the horde have been killed? (until server restart and then there's another one by default)

Sort of like 'The Walking Dead' Season 2 last episode where the farm is overrun by a horde from Atlantic City which was influenced by a helicopter and starting walking in that direction until they hit the farm.

I think it can potentially help make airfields a lot harder to get to and obtain the military loot.

Im not saying zombies are hard, they are more of an 'annoyance' at the moment (more dangerous after the 0.44 patch) but in a huge number then its a big challenge.

I think it would also help encourage some player friendliness and teaming up if they start to move further north due to the fact that if you're alone when you come across the horde, then you may not have a chance to survive.

Picture it now, the horde making it down to cherno apartment area and a group of people hiding upstairs fighting for their lives. That's what DayZ is right there, thats a challenge... not just a random bandit killing fresh spawns on the coast all the time.

I'd like to hear opinions on this, a good and simple add to the gaming experience of DayZ(; 

(ATTACHED FILE: An image from 'The Walking Dead' TV Show of a large horde. Not meaning it should be as large as this one because i dont think a whole server of people and maybe the server itself could handle it, but scaled down so it's still LARGE where it can influence player friendliness and maybe make having VEHICLES more worth while in the game when they are released.)


"EDIT- I WANT A PERSONAL OPINION/FEEDBACK ON THE SUGGESTION FROM ROCKET HIMSELF SO LET HIM KNOW ;DDD"

Edited April 29, 2014 by ZiGGYiPoP

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

Hordes have been mentioned/suggested many many many times before.  Right now it's not really viable as the zombies are simple placeholders.  After they get their 'final' AI done for zombies hordes might be viable.  I believe Rocket has mentioned them before, I forget exactly what he's said but I'm pretty sure it's something he wants.  As for Rocket personally responding to this?  Not gonna happen.  He doesn't lurk around here anymore (he hangs out on Redit if anything) if he's not busy with working on the game.

[Skyelur 57]

Agree would definitley add more experiences and zombies are simply nuisances as you stated, not a challenge

[DMentMan 707]

suggested before like 20 times. 

 

i want hordes 

[ZiGGYiPoP 3]

Thanks for the replies guys;
@BigMike- I assumed it had been mentioned before,just didn't see a post so just reminding everyone of the idea is a good excuse? ;D hahaha i know wishful thinking ;3

@Skyelur- You could imagine it right now.. running you're a** off across fields with +50 zombies, maybe using a walkie to talk to some randomer in a car/heli (when released) for a quick pick up. That would be a youtube clip worth watching(;

@DMentMan- Hahaa and you replied 20 times "i want hordes" ;D

[No One Knows 10]

Sup.

 

Sorry but i think that idea would be nuts in the state that SA is right now. Even in the future, making a horde like you said would break the game i think.

As far i see SA, i would dare to say that a viable "horde" would be like 4 or 8 zombies together :| (if they are difficult enough to kill them, would be a challenge)

Also if you are a newspawn without weapons and there is a horde incoming into you, the first thing that you would do is lock yourself into a house and change servers as you can't do nothing against a horde.

 

Is not a bad idea, but difficult to implement it. If you search my topic at this forum, i kinda touched the theme of "hordes" and "waves of zeds", come by and throw me some feedback  :beans: 

 

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/189570-a-fix-for-zombie-spawn/

[gannon46 788]

if they don't add hordes that number at least 100 then this is not a zed game. other games I've seen in dev already have working hordes and zeds. I don't understand why they weren't worked on and implemented before alpha.

[Guest]

it may be more practical on game resources if there was a way to have the big clumps not be individual zombies.... and then place the individual zombies around that.