Where is the apocalypse?

[hulahuga 29]

So one thing that has been bothering me a bit is how the game has zombies and everything, and we know from the lore and information that an apocalypse has erupted and that we now live in the aftermath/during it. But hardly nowhere around me do I see traces of it to a sufficient degree.

Currently in the game there are some dead bodies glitching out the graphics in some tows, and some burned out trucks and roadblocks (along almost every frigging road rendering many of the near unusable, no one has thought of making us actually make our tank traps useful?). There are no destroyed buildings, no craters, no burning tanks, no defensive positions with zombie bodies strewn around them, no military bunkers with commanders, now dead, having tried to make a last stand before falling to the ultimate sacrifice, basically nothing that points significantly to a real apocalypse having taken place.

In my opinion some more work on the map (of course incremental, given the maps quite huge scale) would significantly improve the feeling of the game, create more oppurtunities for cover and interesting movements/firefights and also do a great bit to further improve the immersion and authenticity of the game.

Would love to hear what your thoughts are on this, and if you have any suggestions then feel free to say them! :)

Edited August 2, 2012 by Hulahuga

[tsandrey 379]

It's a Zombie outbreak, not a war. Why would they make bunkers and use tanks? They use medical stuff to try to cure it and military to kill some of them!

[hulahuga 29]

It's a Zombie outbreak, not a war. Why would they make bunkers and use tanks? They use medical stuff to try to cure it and military to kill some of them!

I would advise you to please take a look at some zombie movies or series (i.e Dawn of the Dead or the Walking Dead).

The zombies would grow everywhere and they would try to fiercly fend them off with everything they've got. Think boardplanked buildings, more dead bodies, burned out buidlings, tanks in the streets, crasched vehicles and whatnot...

[Herb (DayZ) 121]

tanks in the streets, crasched vehicles and whatnot...

have you looked on any streets? at all? ever?

[hulahuga 29]

Yes, and it looks very unrealistic right now, with only some car husks tanding aroudn coupled with a couple of blockades here and there. And as I said, as soon as you go away from the streets you don't find a single frigging trace of the apocalypse...

[Bobcomss 189]

I have to agree, but sorry to say it, it's still in alpha so we just have to wait and see :D

I like the idea of more mass killing grounds, there are a few mass graves dotted around e.g. at green mountain and the occasional military base with dozens of dead soldiers but would like to see entire fields of dead infected and survivors added in, nothing to help people, just a visual thing :)

Not sure if glitch but it seems "RED" buildings can be destroyed by smoke grenades...lollolol! but I think Rocket will add more in as time goes on :D

Good thoughts though but just remember alpha means glitches bugs and general craziness.

Nice.

AJ

[hulahuga 29]

Of course man ;). I develop stuff myself so I know. But Rocket doesn't actually have to be the one to do this, I am sure he has someone who can help him do some of the level design, and as I said, they can do it incremental :)

[levithan 1]

It's a Zombie outbreak, not a war. Why would they make bunkers and use tanks? They use medical stuff to try to cure it and military to kill some of them!

Ever seen the movies "28 days" or "I am" ?

Another Idea would be a hostile zombie free zones keeping all not from the town out as they are bandits or infected a xenophobic civilisation. Then depending on how well the server participates or reduces the zombie populace this population increases and starts hunting the survivors and bandits.

[hulahuga 29]

Ever seen the movies "28 days" or "I am" ?

Another Idea would be a hostile zombie free zones keeping all not from the town out as they are bandits or infected a xenophobic civilisation. Then depending on how well the server participates or reduces the zombie populace this population increases and starts hunting the survivors and bandits.

That would be interesting if it is a singleplayer or low amount of player game. But if you've heard some of the interviews you will know that Rocket is gearing this to be a very high amount of players, and that people themselves would be able to build such factions in the game :)

[Flying Mathias 18]

I would advise you to please take a look at some zombie movies or series (i.e Dawn of the Dead or the Walking Dead).

The zombies would grow everywhere and they would try to fiercly fend them off with everything they've got. Think boardplanked buildings, more dead bodies, burned out buidlings, tanks in the streets, crasched vehicles and whatnot...

Clearly you didn't pay enough attention to The Walking Dead. In that show, when you're far enough from the cities, everything looks normal, apart from the zombies.

And really, what could you do to show evidence of a zombie apocalypse, other then a few boarded buildings, and, of course, the zombies?

[hulahuga 29]

What I have already said?

Think boarded up buildings, dead bodies of men and women fending off the zombie hordes, more realistically spaced out wrecks and raod blocks along the roads and open fields, carcasses of dead, eaten animals, people in the fields and forests, traces of battle between the military and the zombies, command posts where the officers have made a desperate last stand, burning vehicles, buldings, objects. I mean just imagine the possibilities :)

Edited August 2, 2012 by Hulahuga

[Bobcomss 189]

Clearly you didn't pay enough attention to The Walking Dead. In that show, when you're far enough from the cities, everything looks normal, apart from the zombies.

And really, what could you do to show evidence of a zombie apocalypse, other then a few boarded buildings, and, of course, the zombies?

Have to agree with the further afield from large cities, the motorway would probably be clogged but farms and small villages would be largely untouched.

AJ

[Flying Mathias 18]

What I have already said?

Think boarded up buildings, dead bodies of men and women fending off the zombie hordes, more realistically spaced out wrecks and raod blocks along the roads and open fields, carcasses of dead, eaten animals, people in the fields and forests, traces of battle between the military and the zombies, command posts where the officers have made a desperate last stand, burning vehicles, buldings, objects. I mean just imagine the possibilities :)

I imagine that there wouldn't be many wrecks in a zombie apocalypse. It's not an earthquake, the cars wouldn't crash any more than normal. I also imagine that the military wouldn't just start driving tanks through the street at blowing up shit.

[hulahuga 29]

I imagine that there wouldn't be many wrecks in a zombie apocalypse. It's not an earthquake, the cars wouldn't crash any more than normal. I also imagine that the military wouldn't just start driving tanks through the street at blowing up shit.

What? If people hit each other from a bit of snow on the streets, then what do you think will happen if they face a zombie horde running towards them? Also, tanks WOULD roll out if that was what it took to try and make the cities safe... They do it even if there is a severe terror threat so...