State of shock should be much more frequent. Hear me out.

[toanjo 0]

State of shock makes it so that if you disconnect while in shock, you will be unconscious when you reconnect.

With the huge problem that is going on with how easy it is to simply disconnect to avoid dying, I feel like making shock a bigger and more frequent part of the game could really help. Also, it only makes sense from a realistic stand point.

Think about it, you're alone in an apocalyptic, zombie-filled world, you should panic a lot. As the game is right now, and specially since humanity was "removed", you can just murder someone and move on like nothing happened.

Right now, you'll only be in shock if you get shot at, and (very rarely) if zombies attack you. What I propose is more frequent, longer shock situations. For example:

- Hearing a gunshot within a certain radius would leave you in shock for a minute or so.

- Getting chased by a horde (5 or so) of zombies would leave you in shock until you lose them.

- Murdering someone would leave you in shock for 20 minutes or something.

These are just a couple ideas, but if well implemented, "buffing" the shock could help with the disconnect problem, would make people think twice before shooting on sight, and would make the game more immersive and realistic.

Tell me what you think, because I feel like this could really improve gameplay. Also, apologies if this has been suggested before.

TL;DR : Make shock more frequent and last longer, it could help with the disconnect problem and the bandit mentality.

[Specter911 2]

I once got in shock by pitching a tent, as well it broke my bone.

Besides that, essentially what your trying to solve is disconnecting with a side of bandit mentality as you have already stated.

But there are already many different suggestions about solving disconnecting, many are good yet its up to rocket if its able to be implemented as well as choose the best one that suits the game.

As for murdering someone putting you in shock, I'd say from a logical stand point that if you are going around murdering people, you will not be put in shock, you may pitch a tent for whatever reason as you are considered insane by then, but you won't be in shock.

I do see the benefits of it, but if implemented it means even if a survivor defends their self they would be in shock which makes sense, but sucks as you are now obligated to stay on, or find somewhere safe to pass out later.