What about some zombie´s skills? and a way to "punish" banditry

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

I'm gonna just give away my idea straight ahead, what about making the zombies harder by creating some kind of "skills" for them? for example:

1: Some type of zombies can tackle you throwing you into the ground and making some damage, that would be annoying and terrifying at the same time!

2: Some Zombies can just grab you and hold you for a couple of seconds biting you if you let them stay too close to you, imagine the horror... don't about you guys but i would shit my pants!

3: There is a chance that if a zombie or many zombies are on you they can hit you in the hand and make you drop your primary weapon in the ground, how many times that happens in a movie? and we all know the results! shit bricks!

4: Maybe someone posted it before but well it was a good idea! Zombies should be able to break through doors and windows to get to you, of course Day Z team would have to improve that wall hacking the zombies do! i would just love to be trapped in the super market and see zombies all around the windows hitting them and knowing that once they destroy the window... you will have a bad time! >_>

5: i know it sounds weird and stuff but what about making some zombies a little bit more... smart, the idea its simple maybe they can create some kind of ambush sometimes in certain places! i mean not like they will plan it or anything but maybe sometimes you can randomly be trapped in a place really easily by them.

6: Military Zombies should be waaaaaay stronger due to their training when they were alive, maybe they will hit harder and can be more aggressive and of course they would be able to perform almost every single skill previously stated.

And last but not least! my idea to "punish" banditry would be this one! and guess what!! it would be realistic! here it is!

1: When you are an extreme bandit or got too much innocent blood in your hands you can get some kind of hallucinations! memories of you that appear randomly blocking your sight for a couple of seconds with horrifying scenes of you shooting your victims! or seeing people dying in front of you! kinda like a war madness! i am half bandit and half survivor because you can never be just one! don't like to be extreme!

And well those are my ideas! one important thing to remember is that these ideas are not for the mod since it would take AGES to implement or maybe it can be impossible so... i would aim for the standalone game! for me the problem is that the zombies are not dangerous enough right now! banditry isn't a deal its just that we need more deadly zombies and situations that will distract people from the "main" goal that we all know, Kill on Sight! Thanks for reading this in advance!

PS: Fix the duplicating tents when you pick them up again, they re appear in the place you set it in the first place and of course repair the missing gear from them =( its kinda annoying to make try and error for like 2 days until the tent decides to store your stuff properly! and when you raid some tents in the next restart the gear re appear! ugghhh! but well this is not the place for bug fixes so that's it! >_> and be free to post more ideas like the ones i just gave! I WANT DEADLIER ZOMBIES!!

Edited August 19, 2012 by Reino

[Bianca 92]

If you want to punish bandits grab a sniper rifle, start a campfire in the middle of the forest and let them fly around it

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

If you want to punish bandits grab a sniper rifle, start a campfire in the middle of the forest and let them fly around it

Lets just change the word punish then because its really hated right now, lets call it! Bandit side effect! and its done! i don't care about punishing them i just want some effects =P

[Frozen (DayZ) 144]

troll`s dinner has been served...

[JamesButlin 108]

I LOVE all of your first ideas. This (well, the standalone) is what's going to be one of the (if not the) best zombie survival game in the making and I want to be fucking terrified of these things! :)

I want genuine panic and horror while playing this game :D

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

I LOVE all of your first ideas. This (well, the standalone) is what's going to be one of the (if not the) best zombie survival game in the making and I want to be fucking terrified of these things! :)

I want genuine panic and horror while playing this game :D

Thanks! that's the idea! just making you think too much before doing something hasty or be terrified by the idea of making things in a rush!

[I2ejected 25]

The only thing I do kind of like is the Bandit deal after killing so many innocent you should start going crazy, but maybe not like your thinking, maybe you see bloodied corpses lying around or hung from certain areas or you see flashes of survivors and such.

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

The only thing I do kind of like is the Bandit deal after killing so many innocent you should start going crazy, but maybe not like your thinking, maybe you see bloodied corpses lying around or hung from certain areas or you see flashes of survivors and such.

My idea just aims for some more difficulty for them! i don't really find banditry an issue like i stated before, i just want for them some realistic side effects! i mean i would love to go insane by killing people haha! and another thing that creates too much banditry its the lack of peril from zombies situations! fix it! make the environment more creepy and dangerous and maybe people will be distracted from just killing on sight!

[BathSalts 4]

Here we go again with the friggin hallucinations.....

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

Here we go again with the friggin hallucinations.....

Remember that the bandit idea its secondary and not really really important! if you don't like its fine! just remember there is another half of the post you can comment on! and the zombies skills are my priority! i want to be afraid of the game again!!!

[slonlo 43]

I love the zombie idea. And I think that is part of the plan with the Zombie "life cycle." The newly infected will be stronger, smarter, faster, and deadlier. I love the idea of the them being able to hold you and knock the weapon from your hands etc.

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

I love the zombie idea. And I think that is part of the plan with the Zombie "life cycle." The newly infected will be stronger, smarter, faster, and deadlier. I love the idea of the them being able to hold you and knock the weapon from your hands etc.

Hopefully they will! i mean we all want to be afraid of zeds again right?

[The OCD 10]

Rocket has said that he doesn't want to balance towards one play-style or another, so any kind of benefit or detriment towards heroes or survivors can just be thrown out.

[MrBrown (DayZ) 26]

To be honest I'm more concerned about the hatchet being to powerful when it comes to thinking about how to buff the zombies a bit.

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

Rocket has said that he doesn't want to balance towards one play-style or another, so any kind of benefit or detriment towards heroes or survivors can just be thrown out.

Like i said in a previous reply, the bandit thing was supposed to be more like a feature! something funny that occurs and i said it was secondary for me and kinda unimportant, i mostly want to focus on how zombies will be! environment and stuff! i want the game creepy and mysterious again! the unexpected its always awesome! imagine being tackled all of a sudden by a zombie with no warning or sound!i would shit bricks!

[JamesButlin 108]

I think you should have probably seperated the two ideas into seperate threads so that there's not so many mixed reactions in one thread! :')

Since I first got DayZ I wanted the zombies to be able to grab you/make you fall over and for players to be able to do the same to zombies, imagine a zombie sprinting at you, you shoot him in the arm causing him to veer off from the impact and he runs into a wall and falls over ;) Moments like that make a game for me!

Personally, I disagree with adding any types of hallucinations, too instrusive in my opinion, but there should be definately be subtle differences when you're a bandit yes.

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

I think you should have probably seperated the two ideas into seperate threads so that there's not so many mixed reactions in one thread! :')

Since I first got DayZ I wanted the zombies to be able to grab you/make you fall over and for players to be able to do the same to zombies, imagine a zombie sprinting at you, you shoot him in the arm causing him to veer off from the impact and he runs into a wall and falls over ;) Moments like that make a game for me!

Personally, I disagree with adding any types of hallucinations, too instrusive in my opinion, but there should be definately be subtle differences when you're a bandit yes.

I agree, maybe it wasnt the best idea to put both ideas in the same tread, im gonna start a new one and erase this one!

[esteban_haas@hotmail.com 4]

Ill make a new tread with just the zombies skills ideas! if a mod see this please erase this tread!