Change How Zombie Spawning Works

[Zamary 0]

Right now zombie spawns are so broken. If I shoot 1 zombie the whole town of zombies will come after me and its either run until you lose them or go into a building and face endless waves of them. By endless waves I mean, if I shoot one zombie and run into a barn to take out the other 5 zombies chasing me, by the time I kill those 5 zombies another 10 will have spawned in their place and since the only viable way to kill a zombie without risking getting hit is to shoot them which will create noise and you will keep attracting more and more zombies thus creating an endless wave of them. This makes the game feel very cheep and the only way to actually get a zombie away from you is to run away until you lose it or kite 50 zombies around and wasting all of ur ammo just to loot a few buildings.

Im not sure exactly how zombie spawns work but if you could increase the the time between zombie spawns I think this could make the game a lot more enjoyable. it would also make the game more realistic because in real life more zombies (assuming zombies would ever be in real life) would not keep spawning out of mid air.

[Hydra (DayZ) 472]

Or you could stop bitching and adapt like the rest of us.

Got zombies? Run directly though a building with a back door.

Edited August 15, 2012 by Hydra

[butterz (DayZ) 0]

Or you could stop bitching and adapt like the rest of us.

Got zombies? Run directly though a building with a back door.

or you can stop being a full retard and realize OP has a point. I am not saying OP is not a pussy either, it's just that you have to realize the whole "running into buildings to loose the zombies" trick is nothing more than an exploit at the moment to take advantage of the flawed AI. What if they patched that AI and you can't do that to loose the zombies anymore? Remember, the zombies do run faster than you, so you will never loose them if it wasn't for the suddent stop that the AI was forced to take to slow down. Trust me, people like you will be the first to rage quit from what I seen from other games.

[SalamanderAnder (DayZ) 1747]

The pressure the zombies put on you to survive is part of many elements that combine to create a pressured relationship between players - which is the truly unique aspect of the game. Making zombies easier will only degrade the gameplay at this point.

Edited August 15, 2012 by Metal_Mavrik

[Zamary 0]

I disagree, when I say "endless wave" I mean a god damn endless wave. Btw i never said make them easier, just make the spawning fair because I don't see how it is fun to sit in a building and unload 8 clips of an M4 into zombie after zombie only to just have to run away anyway after I run out of ammo. The spawning system is flawed atm and I feel like no matter how many zombies I kill there will always be more that will flood through the door. Obviously in big cities like Cherno there should be a lot of zombie that you will need to kill if you alert them, but what I'm saying is that they will just keep respawning forever and I end up just saying fuck it and disconnecting after like 40-50 zombie kills. It get's annoying after a while.

butterz brought up a good point, if they do fix the AI to not slow down and be half retarded in buildings then it will end up being if you shoot once and aggro a decent amount of zombie then the only way to get rid of them will be running a good distance away from the place you aggro'ed them and then shoot them. So basicly it becomes a stealth game where if you alert a zombie you will be running a marathon just so you can take a couple shots....fun eh?

[Zamary 0]

This is a video I found explaining kind of what I mean.