A realistic suggestion for zombies-gunshots.

[richard_b 15]

At the moment, if you fire a weapon, every zombie in range will start sprinting for your beans. And with the latest patches, zombies will hear, run for a bit, and if you're out of sight, they will walk towards your position, slowly, until they reacquire LOS.

But what if this was changed? What if you fired a weapon in a town, and every zombie in range walked toward the general direction of the shot, instead of running like fucking Kenyans for your beans? And then, once they acquire LOS, THEN they chase you?

Now, obviously, there would need to be some fixes. Weapons would maybe need to have their "draw" distances increased, anywhere from doubled to quadrupled.

A G17 shot can be heard by other players for 200 meters, but zombies can only hear for 50 meters? The "draw" range, where zombies will walk towards you, should be increased to something like 150 meters for said weapon. Weapons like the M107 should have draw distances close to a kilometer-how you ever heard one fired? The Lee Enfield should have it increased to about 400 meters, to balance the fact that they kill in one hit in PvP.

I can run into a supermarket, shoot an M4, and maybe only have to kill 8 or 9 zombies, because of tiny aggro distances.

Possible List for zombie draw?: 9mm pistols: 100-150 meters

Makarov: 100 meters

.45 pistols: 200 meters, especially revolver.

Double barrel shotgun: 300 meters

Winchester:250 meters

Most shotguns:200-300 meters, depending on type

M4/M16 family:400 meters

AK family:500 meters

M107, AS.50: 900 meters

Light snipers, such as CZ 550: 500-750 meters, depending on type.

TLDR:Zombies should not immediately run to gunshots, but instead walk towards them, then run when they see a player. Weapons should have draw distances increased, depending on loudness, especially heavy rifles.

[jay.pis 32]

From what I can tell they do just walk towards the direction of the gunshot and only aggro once they spot you.

Edited July 20, 2012 by jay.pis

[Jehangir 52]

I have read your post twice. I am still not sure what you are trying to "fix" exactly...

[Powell (DayZ) 734]

I don't know about you, but I can fire an AK in a large town and only get like 2-3 zombies on me.

Wut. Are zombies deaf? That AK should attract like 80% of the zombies in the town.

[MinxinG 50]

I think the aggro distance right now is too low, once I shot a m1014 in a city, and few zombies came after me, that's bad, because people should care about shooting guns in city, and your suggestion would deal with it.

[BlineQ 0]

Nice idea. I can only agree. Maybe it would be even better with an increment of the count of zombies. (So PvP would be more dangerous)