youngjediknight 51 Posted November 13, 2014 Ok devs, just cos I complain on these forums that we need more zombies and that will alleviate KOS'ing, dude don't listen to me. Don't you know forum chest pounding when you see it??? LOL Seriously wtf with last night. I had just gotten offed pretty bad the night before so I was starting over and I picked a relatively low population server so I can take it easy. I was in the upper NE coastline and made it to the first house ... 2 zombies, no sweat, off em with my fire extinguisher. I decided to mozy on over to the next town which I think was Kamiwobo. Ok another pair of zombies ... hmmm thats the second time these bastards are attacking me in a pair in as many minutes. Ok whatever off em with the fire extinguisher. But as I'm knocking their heads, I hear TWO more come at me. Then TWO more. Next thing I know, I got like SEVEN zombies on me WTF?! I got blood spurting out like crazy so I'm running like hell from SEVEN (may have been eight I forgot the screenshot at home I'm posting from work lol) zeds running after me!!!!! Are people experiencing an increased number of zombies just since last night? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
☣BioHaze☣ 7337 Posted November 13, 2014 Low pop servers are more likely to have zombies as people have not come through and whacked them yet. On stable the zombie numbers may have risen a little from the last build and they are certainly aggroing fairly easily if you RUN everywhere. Try crawling/walking more possibly. Experimental build has been fairly zombieless currently as I have seen only 3 in 5 hours play time. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kirby12352 67 Posted November 13, 2014 I had to fight off a group of about 5 when I was in Elektro. There would have been more but I tend to take the sneaky ninja approach and sneak up on them and take them out one by one, so I had cleared about half the zombies in the city by that point and hadn't been detected by more than one zombie at a time yet. But I had two notice me, so I had to stand up and kill them both not quite so sneakily, so that alerted the rest of them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jukaga 271 Posted November 13, 2014 They still come in a trickle, not a horde. They still spawn in behind you where you just were 10 seconds ago. We still have nothing like the hordes the mod could put out: 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paxom (DayZ) 30 Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) Ok devs, just cos I complain on these forums that we need more zombies and that will alleviate KOS'ing, dude don't listen to me. Don't you know forum chest pounding when you see it??? LOL Seriously wtf with last night. I had just gotten offed pretty bad the night before so I was starting over and I picked a relatively low population server so I can take it easy. I was in the upper NE coastline and made it to the first house ... 2 zombies, no sweat, off em with my fire extinguisher. I decided to mozy on over to the next town which I think was Kamiwobo. Ok another pair of zombies ... hmmm thats the second time these bastards are attacking me in a pair in as many minutes. Ok whatever off em with the fire extinguisher. But as I'm knocking their heads, I hear TWO more come at me. Then TWO more. Next thing I know, I got like SEVEN zombies on me WTF?! I got blood spurting out like crazy so I'm running like hell from SEVEN (may have been eight I forgot the screenshot at home I'm posting from work lol) zeds running after me!!!!! Are people experiencing an increased number of zombies just since last night? Yes.My observations from last night about zeds grouping:Zeds now have something like hive mind, and they do seems communicate with each other somehow telepathically.They see you from about 500 meters, and alert others nearby, from about next 500 meters from them, which means 1000 meters from you.On running to you to kill you they tend to form a proper mob group. Not always, sometimes.When attack they try to hit you both, at the same time, simultaneously. Not always, sometimes, but its deadly. Zeds attack range seems been reduced from previous 20 meters, to 3 - 5 meters. Hard to say, due to lags desync and all that. So now I try to separate the group by sprinting thru obstacles, and shoot one zed at a time, from distance, and immediately sprint further, to prevent immediate aggroed zeds respawn. Melee strife against zeds group didn't work for me, may be I did it wrong, still. Edited November 13, 2014 by Paxom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geckofrog7 1168 Posted November 13, 2014 KamiwoboKamyshovo, lol. Cyrillic letters don't mean quite the same thing as they do in latin letters. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youngjediknight 51 Posted November 13, 2014 Zeds now have something like hive mind, and they do seems communicate with each other somehow telepathically. Yes, thats exactly what I was thinking as well!!!! Like the first alerted the second that alerted etc etc!! Kamyshovo, lol. Cyrillic letters don't mean quite the same thing as they do in latin letters. LOL I know sorry, I just get so used to just looking at the cyrillic when reading the map that I got used to calling them by what the cyrllici looks phonetically. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
igor-vk 909 Posted November 13, 2014 Kamyshovo, lol. Cyrillic letters don't mean quite the same thing as they do in latin letters.Its "Kambiwobo"! ;-) Its so strange for me to hear things like that, or "Hobo". I learned Cyrillic at school some 25 years ago, and I have to teach my American friends how to pronounce and read road signs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
igor-vk 909 Posted November 13, 2014 When I'm bored I log to dayz mod and just go killing zombies. I have 1000 killed zombies on one character in Origins mod. Looting towns and bases in SA is so boring without dozens of zombies growling everywhere. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5p4rtan (DayZ) 35 Posted November 13, 2014 Ok devs, just cos I complain on these forums that we need more zombies and that will alleviate KOS'ing, dude don't listen to me. Don't you know forum chest pounding when you see it??? LOL Seriously wtf with last night. I had just gotten offed pretty bad the night before so I was starting over and I picked a relatively low population server so I can take it easy. I was in the upper NE coastline and made it to the first house ... 2 zombies, no sweat, off em with my fire extinguisher. I decided to mozy on over to the next town which I think was Kamiwobo. Ok another pair of zombies ... hmmm thats the second time these bastards are attacking me in a pair in as many minutes. Ok whatever off em with the fire extinguisher. But as I'm knocking their heads, I hear TWO more come at me. Then TWO more. Next thing I know, I got like SEVEN zombies on me WTF?! I got blood spurting out like crazy so I'm running like hell from SEVEN (may have been eight I forgot the screenshot at home I'm posting from work lol) zeds running after me!!!!! Are people experiencing an increased number of zombies just since last night? I found that on bugged servers that have tons of loot that the zombies seem to spawn in very quickly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kavemandayz 14 Posted November 13, 2014 Yes.My observations from last night about zeds grouping:Zeds now have something like hive mind, and they do seems communicate with each other somehow telepathically.They see you from about 500 meters, and alert others nearby, from about next 500 meters from them, which means 1000 meters from you.On running to you to kill you So now I try to separate the group by sprinting thru obstacles, and shoot one zed at a time, from distance,I'm fairly certain that it's your gunshots giving you away from those distances, not just other zombies. Melee works just fine and is quiet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youngjediknight 51 Posted November 13, 2014 I found that on bugged servers that have tons of loot that the zombies seem to spawn in very quickly. There was hardly any loot anywhere!! LOL I'm fairly certain that it's your gunshots giving you away from those distances, not just other zombies. Melee works just fine and is quiet. I had no bullets dude LOL!! I did luck out on an SKS but no bullets. It did seem, like someone mentioned earlier, that their annoying growling seemed to call on more zeds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kermo50 31 Posted November 13, 2014 (edited) I can't wait for the final version of the game and there will be zeds everywher like the mod, I remember the zeds at nwaf were crazy the only way I could loot the area by myself was using my truck to run over the horde over and over, not the most stealthy approach but much fun was had. Done this once while a group were looting all stealthy and I scared the shit out of em driving my truck around like a madman Edited November 13, 2014 by kermo50 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kavemandayz 14 Posted November 13, 2014 Kamyshovo, lol. Cyrillic letters don't mean quite the same thing as they do in latin letters. And not quite Northeast, either :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
