The Walking Dead: Chernarus...

[Diamondback 19]

Those of us who've watched the show understand how the zombie 'virus' is transmitted.

Thinking about the nature of the outbreak on Chenarus got me to thinking about the nature of a player's body post-death. As it is, your body is left where it dropped for however long (no idea on that) but what if, what if upon death the player's body spent a few minutes motionless before getting up to it's feet and joining the horde?

You would spawn, as usual, in another meatbag at some other location on the map. But your recently departed corpse could take up a life of it's own. This wouldn't make too much of a change to the gameplay, but I think it'd add significantly to immersion.

Imagine having to hunt for your own loot because it walked off towards the sound of gunfire in a nearby town. Perhaps the player zombie, being fresh and in possession of a relatively athletic grown man's body, could be extra tough/powerful/smart/persistent etc. Perhaps if these player zombies were a tougher challenge prolific pkers would find themselves thinking twice about dropping another survivor only to add a super-zombie into the mix.

You could have it so a headshot kill results in no zombiefication. You could provide groups of survivors with the option to burn/bury/headshot their fallen team members to stop them reanimating and biting them in the ass.

At least it might go someway to appeasing those who are so ardently against pvp without actually nerfing it for the rest of us.

Hell, you could even give the player momentary zombie control. Like if you were shot in a city you'd have a brief and optional stint as this suped up zombie to give you a chance to get revenge or, at the very least, cause some problems for whoevver shot you.

Essentially I think there's something to be done with dead corpses and the post-death status than what is available currently. A few potentially simple changes could provide a huge deal more immersion to the game... if not some interesting gameplay dynamics.

[puppetmasterjjk 3]

I believe Rocket has said in the past that this sort of re-animation would be impossible with the backstory (not yet released) of Day Z.

[Diamondback 19]

Shame. Oh well.

[nexerius 0]

I just have to point out the zombies aren't walking. :P