I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing the invincible zombies im hearing about

[billyangstadt 272]

I killed a zombie in 5 hits with a lug wrench (multiple times), and 3 with an axe.

 

I'm hearing people hitting zeds with a crowbar 25 times and the zed not dying, I'm guessing they're not hitting them in the head. The zombies are much harder to kill, but I'm suspecting people are just making up ridiculous numbers in hopes that the devs will send it back to easy mode.

 

Zombies should not be attacked, as it should be. Sprinting at them with a melee and trying to deke and swing should not be acceptable, be defensive first. This is where people are having issues, I believe. Stealth mode works, it just takes patience and waiting sometimes. Even if you aggro a zed, run in and out of barns..after about 200 meters..they give up or lose you. The zombies are harder to kill, yes, but much easier to shake.

[fg45rr1 16]

I'm sorry, but I'm not hearing about the zombies able to take 25 axe hits

[billyangstadt 272]

I'm sorry, but I'm not hearing about the zombies able to take 25 axe hits

I didn't say 25 axe hits, I said crowbar.

[Jonah_Hobbes 171]

If you have any lag issues that's when meleeing a Z becomes silly. I suspect that's why most people are taking a lot of hits to kill them. I find with a sledge hammer it's taking between 5-9 hits and I'm aiming for the head and not moving.

[Mullucka 34]

I think it great. The whiners will whine.

scout out a town before you go in, pick them off from afar if you have a gun. Always check your back.

Run

[lavolpe 10]

My problem with them mainly occurs because of my bad internet, we continuously have 5-10% packet loss due to an old modem (and that can't be fixed right now even though I would love to.). And due to this the Zombies are just jumping around, stealth only works sometimes when the Zombies are actually where they are on server side. Other times they'll be 200m away and aggro, and you only actually see them when they click too and have already bashed the shite out of you, or when they're yo-yo-ing when they get 10m away and still hitting you. Running away also isn't really an option half the time because of desync the zombies just continuously teleport beside you no matter how far you run.

 

I've tested melee weapons but with sporadic results occasionally killing in 2 hits to the head others 14 to whenever I give up.

 

I have 1k hours and I've played on the same modem and with the same packet loss for the whole time, its only gotten bad with the last two patches, the one before just bouncing me around occasionally but this one just bouncing me and the zombies nearly constantly.

 

And no I don't want the devs to turn the Zeds back to easy mode, and I don't want them to fix the random loot, I only want them to fix the fact that if I'm lagging the tiniest bit I don't want the game to be unplayable.