New players first impression

[bjarnidk 9]

I started playing this game with my friend yesterday and we've played it for about 12 hours...It's really good and we had a lot of good times and experiences.

However, the AI seems unpredictable at times as we witnessed when we were scavenging in a small town with about 5 zombies. We went in stealth mode and tried to grab some supplies but a zombie pretty far away (maybe spawned there since we didn't see him before and we tried scouting really well) just starting sprinting towards us and we had to put it down. That alerted about 20 zombies all around the area that we didn't even know were there.. I'm guessing it spawns all zombies in a 500 meter radius or something when you shoot.. Needless to say, our adventure was cut short.

There should be SOME way to salvage a situation like that other than just sprinting and glitching them (like I did in the end but my friend got his bones broken and was devoured). I feel that sprinting zombies are a little TOO dangerous in this game. They should rather wobble and we should be able to sprint away from them but of course attracting more zombies along the way.

This could be balanced by adding more damage to their attacks. The danger would be in the fact that when you enter buildings to scavenge the zombies could swarm you while you are inside and therefore blocking your entrance.. Me and my buddy only had just about enough bullets to kill these zombies that we encountered, but maybe not because of the next issue:

The zombies zig zag and avoid your bullets like ninjas. They sprint so fast that you can't get a shot off before they are in your face.. That's why I think that their speed needs to be fixed. Now they could chase you but only so far.. We don't want zombies to be underpowered but having your adventure cut short because the AI is a little off is disappointing indeed. I don't know if there's a way to fix the fact that they die like 2 seconds AFTER you shoot them.. Making us spend too many bullets because they are still squirming when they are technically dead (and still do damage).

In the zombie movies we see, people walk in, shoot the zombies in the way in the head, grab what they can and then leg it to the car. Now I don't think everyone should have a car but maybe having bicycles readily available for most people would solve this as you could hop on your bike and be off..Well something to get away from the horde that's chasing you.. SOME way to salvage the situation.. This is perma death and that's awesome. But it's not so awesome getting jackhammered by 30 super speed zombies that you can't kill because they dodge your bullets and sometimes don't even care, the bullets seem to go through them.. The shooting system is very much off I have to say.

But these are only criticizing points. This game is the best I have played in my life even though it's in Alpha stage and with these issues.. With this issues addressed, this game would be a complete masterpiece!

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A video that shows a similar thing happening:

At 4:30.

They enter a town which seems deserted and then zombies pour out from EVERYWHERE before even a shot is fired.. The even come from behind them up the hills.. And there's like 40 of them.

These are impossible odds, even for that many players.