Players turning into zombies

[ejones7761 9]

First off I just wanted to apologize if there is another topic for this, but i couldn't find it. 

 

I think it would be a cool feature if once a player died, (starvation, blood loss, elements, etc.) they turned into a zombie after a couple of minutes. Unless they were shot or hit in the head (similar to the walking dead). If players who 'turned' could keep some of their loot, just in a damaged or ruined form this would allow for a more random looting of zombie corpses, but this may risk disease if you are not wearing proper materials, such as gloves or a mask. Also depending on what type of gear they were wearing could determine what their health / difficulty to kill is. This system would obviously need to be very balanced, but I thought it would be kind of fun to seek out zombies with gear, and even though a zombie would be harder to kill, the reward would show for it.

 

Just another quick thought, it might be fun if you could tie up o zombie with duct tape and be able to lead them around or tie them to a fence post with rope. Just an extra thought.

 

Post what you guys thing of my ideas ot if you have any ideas of your own.

 

Just to clarify, players would respawn as normal but their deceased bodies would then be controled by the zombie AI. 

Edited April 10, 2015 by ejones7761

[Baker. 1484]

This idea was actually implemented in the Epoch Mod, what sounds good in theory just had people begging for death

[soulfirez 901]

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Many people do think that is a cool idea but it wont make it into Dayz SA (although someone might mod it in after the full release of the game) . Why wont it be put in well what little back story we know is this , They are not undead zeds they are alive people infected with a rage like virus (the Z in DayZ actually stands for zero as in day zero the start of etc etc).

 

Players are immune to the virus, hence why we are not running around chewing on peoples legs ( well some are as cannibals now) the infected are only able to (or will be not sure if they do yet ) pass diseases onto to players and also give infected wounds etc..

[SuperSavage300 2]

"Simply put - the hostile humanoid A.I. in the DayZ universe are not zombies. The angry, screaming, filthy A.I. you encounter scattered throughout the Chernarusian country side are human beings infected with a highly communicable virus that drives them into a blood thirsty rage.

These people are very much alive, unlike the traditional "zombie", and thus can be killed with shots to the body - rather than just headshots. The player characters in DayZ are immune to this virus, and thus do not "turn" into the infected when attacked."  -DayZ Dev Team.

[sgtpotatoes@gmail.com 30]

It's already established that players are immune to the infection, but it would be cool to see infected that have a backpack or other goods, like they dodged the outbreak for a little while longer than everyone else before succumbing to it.

[soulfirez 901]

It's already established that players are immune to the infection, but it would be cool to see infected that have a backpack or other goods, like they dodged the outbreak for a little while longer than everyone else before succumbing to it.

Im pretty sure its planned at some point to put inventory on some zeds/infected

[Max Planck 7174]

Suggestion forum --> http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/forum/128-suggestions/

List of repeatedly suggested suggestions --> http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/186014-list-of-already-existing-suggestions/

'Dead players become zombies' suggestion --> http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/187280-dead-players-turn-to-zombies/

 

Keep in mind that the zeds in DayZ aren't dead, they are living people infected with a virus, like the rage virus in '28 Days Later'.