For the love of DayZ, fix zombie pathing

[Shanefromwalkingdead 4]

I love the idea of fast zombies, in fact I would love it if zombies could hit you while running. But with the pathing now its like they are kenyan track stars high on meth. They zig zag everywhere in this weird motion at the speed of light. If the zombies could be slowed down a TAD and run toward you, or atleast in a linear path, it would make the experience much better. Right now most people are only shooting zombies when they stop right in front of you, to get a guaranteed shot. But when they are spazzing its pretty much a waste of ammo to try and kill them.

Fixing zombie pathing would make the experience much better.

On an unrelated note, rocket if your reading this, please dont ever listen to the people trying to favor one playstyle over another. The reason this mod gained massive popularity is the degree of freedom players are allowed. Ive seen many great sandbox games die off to developers listening to the bitching minority

[lmlm 0]

Yeah if the animations hinted and transitioned so that the sprinting zombies direction wasn't so disjointed it would be a big improvement. They are extremely difficult to hit when sprinting *like that*.

[GENDERS 3]

Also clipping, if it's not already been done. Fix that. To be able to escape into a building and then see a Zombie walk through a wall...uggghhh

[geekcream 12]

I must agree my only issue with the game is the pathing. Also the magnetic way in which zombies catch up with you. I really doubt that was intended. This should be a priority.

[Jhenryis1 0]

Million upon millions of other posts that mention this very thing. But yes it does need to be fixed and rocket mentioned about the event Rezzed and 1.7.2 could fix something to do with the zombies behavior. Im sure Rocket is well aware of the Frantic running zombies.

[alucarddraven 0]

yeah the zombies need to be fixed the pathing for them is ridiculous and a lot of the time they will do a huge lap before coming at you

[WhiteTigerShiro 25]

Please learn to use the forum search. It's very well-known that the zombie AI as a whole needs a lot of work. At no point was this NOT known, because it's been temperamental since day one. Keep in mind that this is a mod, which means they had to work from resources from the original game, which means that in order to get zombies in the game in the first place, they had to convert the pigs from the original game into zombies, and since the pig AI was nothing more than "stand there and move around sometimes maybe", they've had to do a LOT of work on the AI just to get it running as well as it does.

Don't forget that this game is still in alpha. The devs know it isn't finished yet. So try to keep the suggestions to things that they can add, and worry about what they need to fix for when the game is at least in beta.