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Aesthetic Zombie Spawning Enhancement

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As it currently is, zombies just appear out of thin air. This definitely can hurt immersion. Why not just add a "climbing out of the ground" animation for zombies when they first spawn?

CONS: Rocket has stated that the zombies are "infected" rather than reanimated. Therefore, there would be no reason for them to be "rising" from the ground and this idea isn't exactly in keeping with the game's lore.

PROS: This might be preferable to zombies appearing out of thin air, which is inconsistent with all zombie backstories with which I'm familiar. Ideally, zombies would spawn inconspicuously out of the view of all players, but that seems like it would be complicated to execute effectively (not to mention potentially resource intensive). This would at least provide a somewhat inconsistent (although at least not entirely illogical) way to dump zombies into the game.

The only other alternative I can think of essentially involves a "monster closet" that spits out zombies. Come to think of it, all those non-enterable buildings could be useful for something...

Thoughts?

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