Decrease Zombies Hunting Time when unarmed

[subvision 14]

Hello People.

What do you think of decreasing the hunting Time of enemy Zombies when unarmed. Means, that they won't follow the player so long. The Zombies are hunting me for a ridiculous long time and also long range. So unarmed players would get at least a chance of getting a weapon sometime and not being eaten alive every start of the Game.

This would be a relatively easy if...then... script and should be easy to be intergrated in the Game.

Remember: I only want a shorter hunting Range for unarmed Players. If you have a Weapon, it stays at it is in the Moment.

What do you think about it? Especially new Players are experiencing such Problems, that Zombies don't loose Track of the Player.

[oWn4g3 7]

Don't think this is a good idea. Those zombies want your freaking brain, not your weapon!

[Jenga22 22]

In my opinion the hunting time is too long anyway but there is ways of losing them such as building, once i started in Kamenka so i went north east and kept going i found a lee enfield in a house and then met up with my friends so, being carefull helps aswell, but i agree :D

[Vipeax 318]

You can get rid of zombies by passing a sharp corner (IE a house) or by running into a pine tree or bush and then immediately switching to either crouch or prone position. I'm sure I have some footage of myself getting rid of zombies within seconds plenty of times if you need a video example...

[subvision 14]

Well, it was my thoughts of making the Game more Newbie friendly, It's just a Suggestion. I have no idea if it is worth being implemented or not.

I just hope "Yes". :D

[malphos101 71]

You can get rid of zombies by passing a sharp corner (IE a house) or by running into a pine tree or bush and then immediately switching to either crouch or prone position. I'm sure I have some footage of myself getting rid of zombies within seconds plenty of times if you need a video example...

I always just find a thick part of the woods with lots of shrubs and crouch run through it. Between the trees and bushes the zed will lose their line of sight almost immediately.

Edited July 19, 2012 by malphos101

[Mi'BalzEzHari 1]

Arma 2 will never be newbie friendly . Hence any simulator requires the user to pull out the handbook and do a little reasherach on how to combat a brain eating zombie. So i think this code update would be small potatoes for now.

[Zheiko (DayZ) 10]

Nope, this is something I do not agree with, those zombies would be annoying in real life, and they really do not care whether you have weapon or not, so leave it as it is, maybe fix a little the fact that once you run inside the building, they stop chasing you imediately, I'd give them at least the option to run inside with you before loosing you completely, and then loose you when you lets say run the stairs, or use second exit out of building... could be however deadly if the building had only one entrance:D

Like its today, I see many players just runing through the town with no caution, pulling 5-10 zombies, and loosing them after runing through first building... and then I am like, 'why the hell am I even trying to crouch here and go as quietly as possible, if this is doable this other way?'

[gutzdorf 29]

No chance. This is trying to be a realism (as much as you can where zombies are involved) mod, making additions like that goes against that philosophy.

Besides, I'm no veteran and on my current life I spawned at Drakon, accidentally aggroed right away, thought 'Fck it' and ran through Elektro trailing zeds, zig zagging through gardens and buildings until I got to the church. Once I got inside (praying there was a weapon) there was only one left following me.

It really is easy to break their line of sight and lose them - just don't forget to crouch walk again so you don't re-aggro them.

Edited July 19, 2012 by gutzdorf

[CarloNord 29]

You can get rid of zombies by passing a sharp corner (IE a house) or by running into a pine tree or bush and then immediately switching to either crouch or prone position. I'm sure I have some footage of myself getting rid of zombies within seconds plenty of times if you need a video example...

You've got video examples of losing zombies? Mind if you post one or two of losing em in forests? I can't seem to pull it off.

[Ophidion 11]

There are a multitude of ways to get rid of zombies.

- Get a friend or someone else to kill them.

- Break line of sight.

- Buildings.

- Use steep hills to make them walk.

- Not getting caught in the first place.

There you go, the zombie chase time is fine as long as they can't hit you while you're running.

[subvision 14]

There are a multitude of ways to get rid of zombies.

- Get a friend or someone else to kill them.

- Break line of sight.

- Buildings.

- Use steep hills to make them walk.

- Not getting caught in the first place.

There you go, the zombie chase time is fine as long as they can't hit you while you're running.

Well, as you can guess, I'm new to DayZ and this is only annoying me. Maybe this are only Newbie-Problems. Thanks for your Advice, btw. We will see if Rocket likes the idea. I'm not the only one voting for more User-Friendlyness.

[maever 0]

I wonder if you would still agree with your current philosophy after a good month+ of playing.

A lot of initial annoyances within te community seem to originate from lack of experience in the game, I will admit, the game has a fairly steep learning curve (as well as a good few quirks).

The game is very rewarding to those who understand it's rules.

It really gives a sense of accomplishment and when that fades you can always boost your ego by sniping helpless players for no reason in Cherno / Elektro ;p (as many seem to do).

Edited July 19, 2012 by maever

[jcb022 2]

If rocket decides to shorten zombie 'hunting' time, which I don't think he will, the majority of the populous would be displeased, this is not meant to be a game that is easy on the new player, it's meant to test your wit's and strength's to try and survive in this alternate reality, if these types of zombies were in reality, I believe the hunting time would be drastically longer.

please do not complain about how the zombies are enjoying a fine dine on your intestines, because not everyone has that same problem, you will get better with time, knowledge, and skill.

[Mook 11]

In fact zombies should chase you longer if you have no weapon because you're easier catch to them (If zombies could think that way :P). But that wouldn't be cool though and I'm not suggesting to add it to this game.

[GeeksterDayZ 55]

Pfffft, learn to lose the zombies like the rest of us have. It's not that hard, plenty of tactics have been posted above on how to do it.

Reducing the hunting time for unarmed players just makes it easier for n00bs, which is not something this mod is about, its supposed to be a frustrating, learn-from-your-mistakes-or-die-quickly type of game.

[razzi 25]

No. Infected are way too easy nowadays, you don't even have to kill them.

[terrvik 2409]

Why? Because the infected feels pity or no pride in killing umarmed players? :)