"If this was real life"

[sostronk 334]

Wouldn't I become a Zombie after being killed by one?

[Father Time 15]

Don't think zombies are real life, but I hear you on that note.

[adamtheheretic 106]

If this was real life the military would contain the infection before it was able to spread, I wouldn't mind dead survivors standing up though (similar to The Walking Dead would be ideal in my opinion.)

Edited August 9, 2012 by FishIsTwonk

[Dimes123 60]

no bcs we would live in a world of teleportation wizards

[Psyl3nt 125]

No, cause it's an "infection", if you are not a zombie now after the outbreak then you are one of the lucky few who must be immune to it.

[panque 45]

Zombies on DayZ don't follow the rules zombies follow on other games and movies. There is no such thing as a "real life" zombie.

Edited August 9, 2012 by Panque

[Banicks 55]

Have you not seen most Zombie movies?

Sometimes the Zombie will eat your brain or destroy the majority of your body and you dont turn.

[sostronk 334]

No, cause it's an "infection", if you are not a zombie now after the outbreak then you are one of the lucky few who must be immune to it.

Due to having many girlfriends who turned out to be hoes, I became very resistant to infection and it took the weakening of my body from a Zombie attack to fully turn me. Now I wants your survivor brains.

[aussiestig 681]

This is like those people that think their are a specific set of rules regarding to what zombies would be like.

The answer is also an almost certain no. Despite what most teenagers chose to believe, the chances of a virus being spread the way it is in movies is almost impossible. Transferring a virus through saliva into a blood stream would be near on impossible. If a virus that gave us a bad fever and fried our brain, it would most likely be transferred the same as a common cold, but even then, when 1 person gets a cold, the whole world doesn't get it do they? So it pretty much disproves zombies.

[sostronk 334]

I don't believe Zombies would ever exist lol. I just would like the option to become one in game if bitten.

[Cooperal 16]

I would like to point out that zombification would not likely be the straight-forward result of death. Bringing in a (probable) developer oversight into account, this mods zombies give off a warm heat signature in thermal vision, making it much more likely that they are of the infected variety rather than undead.

If this was the case, the playable survivors could easily be written off as immune to the infections symptoms, making them only into carriers in a worst case scenario.

Let the debate begin!

[oldfossil 59]

... I just would like the option to become one in game if bitten.

Yes, it could be a cool opportunity for the player to continue the game as a Z or to decide for rebirth.

Maybe blurring the sight as when you are low in blood pressure to simulate the loss of senses and adding some other handicap...the only problem would be the greater intelligence (not for all cases :) ) of the player than the true Z.

The great Celery already did it in his multiplayer mission called Infection if I'm not wrong.

[Inception. 9443]

No, you would merely become infected like them, unless they actually kill you.

[aru_azif 70]

infected beeing possible: yes

undead beeing possible: no