Zombies are swimming, going through doors and climbing up ladders(?)

[JotOER 0]

Hey there,

first I have to say that DayZ is so awesome, even it's in an alpha-stadium! Great work!

But there's one, or better three things that keep me off playing DayZ:

Zombies

-Can swim

-Can climb up ladders

-Can pass doors (I think as a result of going through walls)

I totally want the game to be hard and so on, but zombies which are climbing up ladders ... srsly, this is awful! This takes every "Whoa, there's an building! I could climb up there and be safe for a few moments!" away. So you just run and run and run until the zombies are gone - that's lame.

Hopefully this is just a bug or something :)

Letting these three things out of sight: BRILLIANT WORK! :)

Greetz, Jan

[Nuingaer 0]

Its not a bug. The zombies are actually 'infected' - hence being able to run etc. They know how to climb a ladder, and they know how to swim like most animals know how to swim. You can lose them by climbing a ladder and lying down as far as possible on top of the roof - depending on how big it is. Or, sit at the top with a hatchet and wack em, or shoot them with a gun.

It actually still fits that 'I couold climb up there and be safe for a few moments!' - you will be; for a few moments.

Pass through doors is fine too - sometimes you will see them open it (or close it) sometimes they just pop through. Treat all doors as open all the time, and you're good to go.

[JotOER 0]

Its not a bug. The zombies are actually 'infected' - hence being able to run etc. They know how to climb a ladder' date=' and they know how to swim like most animals know how to swim. You can lose them by climbing a ladder and lying down as far as possible on top of the roof - depending on how big it is. Or, sit at the top with a hatchet and wack em, or shoot them with a gun.

It actually still fits that 'I couold climb up there and be safe for a few moments!' - you will be; for a few moments.

Pass through doors is fine too - sometimes you will see them open it (or close it) sometimes they just pop through. Treat all doors as open all the time, and you're good to go.

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But I never saw a zombie doing this stuff, ever!

In my opinion, zombies are a stupid species, which have excellent human-tracking skills but zero motor function. So I think, this is very unrealistic and destroys the (escaping)fun in the game.

[Tox2401 1]

Its not a bug. The zombies are actually 'infected' - hence being able to run etc. They know how to climb a ladder' date=' and they know how to swim like most animals know how to swim. You can lose them by climbing a ladder and lying down as far as possible on top of the roof - depending on how big it is. Or, sit at the top with a hatchet and wack em, or shoot them with a gun.

It actually still fits that 'I couold climb up there and be safe for a few moments!' - you will be; for a few moments.

Pass through doors is fine too - sometimes you will see them open it (or close it) sometimes they just pop through. Treat all doors as open all the time, and you're good to go.

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But I never saw a zombie doing this stuff, ever!

In my opinion, zombies are a stupid species, which have excellent human-tracking skills but zero motor function. So I think, this is very unrealistic and destroys the (escaping)fun in the game.

Some people love to say that they are NOT zombies, they are infected humans, imagine they have flu, instead of sneezing, they kill others... Simple as that, I agree it's stupid little bit but we can't do anything about it...

[Miki (DayZ) 15]

It's actually pretty intense, which makes it more fun for me.

My friend was over at my house and we were playing together, we went towards Balota and climbed up the ledder towards that small guard building, there was a zombie in there so obviously I shot him, while checking out the loot I noticed another one coming up, and couple of more waiting down to climb up after their 'friend'. It was pretty hilarious, all that stress, ended up killed about ten of them and loosing almost two mags.