Starship Zedsurprise

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Twice over the last couple nights I've found myself awash in zeds - because I shot one.

In the first instance, it was in a small town, a partner and I held up in a structure, and they just kept coming. There was no way out but to abort - they were coming through the walls toward the end. Perhaps, I told myself, it was fair enough, I'd attracted the whole town and made my own bed - but then:

Instance two. I was hard up for food, and having found none in the barn I just looted, I figured why not pop the zed lumbering around outside and see if he's carrying some beans. I shot him. He fell. Five zeds beamed in from nowhere - just spawned right on top of the dead one.

I appreciate that the game can not be a true sim insofar as we don't want to be able to just wipe out some set number of zeds then start playing a version of The Sims. And the art of spawning new mobs is perhaps a crafty coding trick - in order to keep it believable. But there's got to be a better way than this! A timer? A proximity requirement? If PLAYER at X then MOBS spawn 100M from X? Something like that?

Because it's starting to feel a little like Gauntlet at times.

[panteraforlife 2]

Its in alpha you dick.

[evolution (DayZ) 51]

hai der fellow forum user.

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Furthermore, what this gentlemen said

Its in alpha you dick.

That is all

[Cinc 3]

... 2 above are idiots. Just ignore them.

Also, i dont think its that new zombies are spawning right on top of others, i think its that the sound of the guns has been dramatically scaled up. Once, when i was above a town walking away, a zombie started chasing me. So i just turned around and shot him with my AKM. Immediately, the entire town started running up the hill at me.

I dont think its any problem with spawning, its more likely that the amount of noise a gun makes has been improved. Dont use an assault rifle in a city/town, period.

Edited July 29, 2012 by Cinc