We Need More Zombies!

[therandomredstone 432]

DayZ, for an alpha game, is simply amazing don't get me wrong, but PVP is the only really scary and life threatening thing in DayZ for the majority of people! Those few zombie stragglers aren't nothing! 

After Bohemia adds in the new Engine for Standalone, we should be able to support more zombies,  by more zombies, I mean zombies at every corner in big cities like electro and Cherno, and maybe inside of buildings as well.

Here are multiple things that this would cause:

Less Bambi activity: Bambi's wouldn't run around playing music in big cities anymore, because even if they did, they would be dead in a matter of seconds.

Geared people scared of zombies: If you are geared in DayZ, you could run through a city and deal with all the zombies if you wanted to, when a zed at every corner is added, even the most geared of people will be scared, they would have to form groups to enter the city's, to deal with the hordes of zombies in their way.

Buildings would be used as shelter: Buildings as of now, are pretty much only looked at, as "loot spawns here", not, "I need to survive in here". You could somehow have snuck by a horde of zeds, to hold up inside of a building, with all your food and water, till help arrives!

This game wouldn't just be PVP: If the zombies were a hard threat, that could take out any type of players with their excessive numbers, players would have to join sides, to stay alive against the undead.

So far, this game is a PVP survival sandbox, that just happens to have a few hostile entity's here and there. Make this game the ZOMBIE game it was meant to be, and add em them undead numbers!

[creature 1189]

So, do ya like your current frame rate?

[cheeseburger8 80]

Plus, it would add a use for the guns that you keep, besides shooting other players or self-defense.

[GtaSoldierBoy 11]

The frame rate would go crazy, This game would be more or less ruined by the amount of zombies. Look at Dead Rising, They make it pay off because they have weapons that can take 10 zombies out in a fun way. Here you would die within 5 minutes no chance of finding any millitary loot. Also zombies are a hassle when your trying to bandage and you go no ammo in your secondary and if you fire your primary you can attract more players. We don't need more zombies enough to deal with.

 

I think that servers should have more freedom, so they can choose the amount of zombies they want. Low so currently as it is, Medium twice as low and High would be around say 40-50 zombies a city but that would be too crazy. They need to actually start optimising and then they can worry about getting more zombies and stuff.

Edited November 29, 2014 by GtaSoldierBoy

[☣BioHaze☣ 7337]

Thank you.

 

More Zombies has never been suggested before.

 

:facepalm:

[therandomredstone 432]

So, do ya like your current frame rate?

Very much. Would I like my optimization to be truly tested for what it is? I think yes.

[Steak and Potatoes 13480]

Realistically the focus seems to be on fine tuning zombie AI itself once completed or at a comfortable level we will most likely see more introduced.

[Thumper1999 48]

I don't think I want this game to be like the walking dead

[therandomredstone 432]

Realistically the focus seems to be on fine tuning zombie AI itself once completed or at a comfortable level we will most likely see more introduced.

That makes since, before you want to add in more of them, you want to make sure, you aren't adding in a million more buggy zombies. Hell, when I think of it now, and imagine 30 zombies glitching through a wall and killing you, adding more zombies at this state doesn't sound so much like a ray of sunshine. But when zombies are fixed, COMPLELTEY for that matter, absolutely greater numbers should be implemented.

[therandomredstone 432]

I don't think I want this game to be like the walking dead

Well, walking dead is a zombie apocalypse, right now, all this game is, is find things, pick one of few sides society has put together, end up getting killed, and repeat. This game so far, isn't a zombie apocalypse, and if you don't want a game that includes things in this suggestion, I recommend you finding a different game to play, because sooner or later, this game is going to turn into the zombie apocalypse that we all KNOW it will become.