Can't see any zombies?

[SlithMan 0]

If I'm doing something completely wrong let me know, but I played the mod before and I remember there being a lot of zombies. Got the official game today and played on a bunch of different servers, I hear zombies snarling and ran into a few other players but I don't see ANY zombies, ive played multiple servers for about 5 hours now and not a single zombie?  

[Baker. 1484]

If I'm doing something completely wrong let me know, but I played the mod before and I remember there being a lot of zombies. Got the official game today and played on a bunch of different servers, I hear zombies snarling and ran into a few other players but I don't see ANY zombies, ive played multiple servers for about 5 hours now and not a single zombie?  

In the mod they spawn as an agent of the client, in the SA they spawn with the server, for the most part if they get killed they are then gone from that area. They are out there.......

[r0ck 22]

in the SA they spawn with the server

 

Can you explain what that means. I found the OP's zombies. Every time I spawn, I spawn right next to a zombie. Sometimes more than one, and one time 4 at once. I climbed to the top of a hospital with 3 zombies waiting at the bottom. They never went away. I jumped to a different server, and 2 zombies were still on the ground outside of the hospital waiting.

Edited September 11, 2014 by r0ck

[SlithMan 0]

In the mod they spawn as an agent of the client, in the SA they spawn with the server, for the most part if they get killed they are then gone from that area. They are out there.......

 

Cool thanks I will keep looking!

[SlithMan 0]

Can you explain what that means. I found the OP's zombies. Every time I spawn, I spawn right next to a zombie. Sometimes more than one, and one time 4 at once. 

I literally haven't seen one and been through some big towns and forests. But I head them growling if I run fast?

[Baker. 1484]

Can you explain what that means. I found the OP's zombies. Every time I spawn, I spawn right next to a zombie. Sometimes more than one, and one time 4 at once. I climbed to the top of a hospital with 3 zombies waiting at the bottom. They never went away. I jumped to a different server, and 2 zombies were still on the ground outside of the hospital waiting.

In the mod the zombies aren't "real", their AI and presence is triggered by the players proximity to certain objects then spawned off the client and so forth. It's one of the reasons DayZ Mod is so CPU intensive, In the standalone these units are spawned by the server. Therefore there existence is is unrelated to whether a player is in the are or not. In the mod if you d/c or move outside of a certain range the zombies disappear (extended range of a client from an AI unit causes d-sync), not so in the SA they are there or not there regardless. For the OP if someone has already killed the Zeds in the area he is presently in then we he gets there it will appear barren. Were it the mod they just keep re spawning. Hope this makes sense.

[Baker. 1484]

I literally haven't seen one and been through some big towns and forests. But I head them growling if I run fast?

This may be a different issue than the one I'm describing 

[r0ck 22]

In the mod the zombies aren't "real", their AI and presence is triggered by the players proximity to certain objects then spawned off the client and so forth. It's one of the reasons DayZ Mod is so CPU intensive, In the standalone these units are spawned by the server. Therefore there existence is is unrelated to whether a player is in the are or not. In the mod if you d/c or move outside of a certain range the zombies disappear (extended range of a client from an AI unit causes d-sync), not so in the SA they are there or not there regardless. For the OP if someone has already killed the Zeds in the area he is presently in then we he gets there it will appear barren. Were it the mod they just keep re spawning. Hope this makes sense.

Thanks.