Numbers, speed and awareness

[skaune 0]

I dunno if this has been suggested but I wouldn't be suprised if it has.

Considering the abnormal movement of the zombies, the zig zagginglagging, and the fact that you can run as fast as they can.. Why not just slow them down, increase the number of zombies and to add more difficulty, only doing headshots will bring them down.

And by increasing the numbers, I mean increase it shitloads, especially in cities. So when opening fire, instead of getting like 20-50 zombies on you as it is now... make it a hundred, or even more.

If its possible, change the aggro range but increase the awareness so you don't have all the hundred zombies walking after you for ages. By that I mean, if you open fire a lot of zombies will hear it and move to the origin of the gunshots but they will only continue to chase you if they actually "see" you.

As I am not familiar with the modding capabilites of this game, I have no idea if this is even possible. I'm just putting it out there.

[pogoman979 4]

so basically whenever i agro zombies i can just run away until they give up and then come back?

And your solution to zombies with broken AI is to add more of them and make them harder to kill?

I'd rather see a fix for their AI which makes even one single zombie dangerous and doesn't destroy the server's load capacity.

[skaune 0]

The thing is, if there were a lot of zombies, they would be everywhere. Meaning if you really wanted that piece of loot you'd have to kill some of the zombies, meaning you would attract a lot more zombies. The best loot shouldn't be on the edges of the city or town, but in the city/town center which makes it a lot harder to grab if you have the entire freaking city moving towards you from all directions when you open fire. To get the best loot, you would have to have a team, covering eachother.

What do you mean with broken AI? As far as I am concerned the AI is not really the issue, I mean they notice you and attack you.. that's basically what zombies do.. the real issue for me is the fact that they move so incredibly weird and walk through obstacles and hit through walls.

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It's already been said, that these are not traditional zombies.

[pogoman979 4]

what i mean by broken AI is your ability to walk into a building and have all the zeds chasing you suddenly slow to a walk, making them easy to pick off.

And when you have zombies chasing you outside you can backpedal and they will never catch you even though you are moving at half their speed, because as soon as they reach you they stop to attack, miss, and then have to catch up to you again.

These two strategies render zombies completely harmless except to those that dont know them.