A different kind of sickness

[Barthebius 2]

I was thinking, if a zombie is attacking you with his putrid flesh flaps, and manages to make you bleed, perhaps there could be a very small chance that you catch a disease from that. Something that isn't immediately threatening, but would make life overall more difficult, and possibly lead to your death down the road.

I mean, if you have an open wound and rub rotten meat into it, I'm sure you'd catch something eventually, or maybe it can be considered the same disease that made the zed in the first place. Was thinking maybe it could something nagging, maybe -10 blood per minute, 100 blood per 10 minutes, 600 blood per hour etc etc, maybe not those numbers but something like that. Nothing immediately threatening, but something that should be taken care of quickly. Make the cure incredibly difficult to find, and requires someone else to apply, similar to the blood bag.

I think this would add a bit more fear of the zed, and would force you to find some help from another player if you are unlucky enough to contract this disease. Well, I guess it wouldn't force you, but it would get difficult quickly without, I think.

Just a thought. A thought, that isn't typed out well, but a thought anyway.

[x7steelers7x 1]

>Putrid flesh flaps

what.

On the contrary not a bad idea...

[prospekt 8]

Suddenly, dead bodies everywhere :D

I like it!

[Nate (DayZ) 7]

I actually like this idea. This would definitely make people more frightened of Z's, knowing that there is a possibility of becoming one of them.

Yeah It'd be cool to see something like this.

[Barthebius 2]

Well, one of the main reasons I thought something like this would be cool is, currently, everything that could possibly happen to you, you can fix by yourself without help from any other player. This would require you to either live with the constant nagging and slow drain of your life, eventually making survival many times more difficult than before, or find someone to help you. Lone wolf play is fine, and is how I usually play. But even a lone wolf should need help every now and then.

That, and the fact the only time I've been killed by zombies was due to glitches, and I have more fear of glitches than the zombies themselves.

[Leechman 8]

his putrid flesh flaps

I'm scared mommy. :-/