Knocking you out and spawning...

[shastadude17 2]

The game is extremely difficult as it is, especially if you're a lone wolf or only pair up with a buddy like myself. It's extremely frustrating when you're crouch walking through an area with no zombies, then all of a sudden, 11 spawn next to you and you startle them before you even realize they just spawned in. Now you have a horde chasing you down. You try to time it just right to shoot them as they kite....but then one of them Mike Tyson's your ass and knocks you to the ground and you get eaten and die. Come on. Really? The game is difficult enough with the bugs (a lot of it is just limitations of the ARMA engine, I'm not necessarily blaming the devs), but I think the knock-out needs to be completely removed from the game, and I think that there needs to if possible be a limit on zombie spawns, for example...zombies can not spawn within 100 meters of a player. I can't even begin to tell you how many times Goatsenator and I have been taking every precaution being stealthy as possible, and then a zombie spawns literally within 10 feet of you and instantly aggros. Come on now. This is just getting ridiculous... /endrant

[goatsenator 11]

It's not hard, you clearly just suck, especially if you fall off the top of a ladder or a zombie spawns on your head while crawling. I think knockouts should be made more common, like a 75% chance.

[Midaychi 9]

Trolls trolling trolls in order to troll for things to troll? I don't get it.

The knockout chance tends to be a bit much though. It's supposed to be a 5% chance, but it happens so often, almost like the random number generator they're using favors small numbers.

[sgtsnug 26]

I wouldn't change the chance lower then 5% but I would change the length of a knock-out down some depending on how healthy your character is, say higher your blood the shorter your unconscious. To avoid a full health death by 1 zombie and a 45 second moment of unconsciousness.

[Otis (DayZ) 1]

Don't worry bro, i know your pain. I found an M4 in a fire station in Elektro, try my best to avoid zombies and they spawn around me becoming startled. The FIRST hit and i'm out cold, along with a horde to come finish me off while all i can do is watch.

Stuff like that can be really frustrating but you know... shit happens.