Solution to Fighting Zombies

[therandomredstone 431]

Fighting zombies has been a major issue in DayZ Standalone currently...

 

But I PRESENT TO YOU..

 

THE SOLUTION!!

 

 

So lets get started.. :)

 

 

Lets say the time it takes a zombie to successfully swing and hit you is 3 seconds. When you fight zombies, every SINGLE TIME they are always swinging at you when you are hitting and causing damage to them. What should be implemented, is sort of a "flinch" or "jolt". When you hit a zombie, it resets it's hit counter (3 seconds) back to zero. So a zombie is about to swing, but you punch it, so it flinches, and you keep hitting it, so it KEEPS flinching which keeps the zombie from being able to even lift its arm to hit you. This would make zombies wayy more easier to fight and kill, and will allow even the most bambiest of bambis to take out a zombie with their fists. But it would take time, and if this is implemented they would be able to add more zombies in the game, since its considerably more easier to kill them. Currently in city's there (at most) are 4-8 zombies. Because any more zombies would be overwhelming if you only had a dumb pitchfork, but if they were this easy to kill, they could add another 5-8 zombies to the zombies that are already there! That would make a zombie around every corner, so running straight through a town would make a pretty decent horde be behind you. But then they would have to make it to where its much harder for zombies to see you. So if your crouching and walking behind a zombie, it cant turn around and charge at you, but if you were walking or jogging behind it, and it just heard you it would go to "search the area". This is in The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. So if the zombie's "search and kill" method was the same as in TWD:SI, the game would be THAT much better. Considering the fact that if a zombie is 300 yards in front of you and your just walking and looking at it, it wont turn around and spend a minute running towards you, that's just stupid. This is pretty much THE ONLY change that they have to implement in our dumb zombies. If the rumors I heard about DayZ Standalone getting a different/better engine, these brilliant ideas would be THAT much easier to implement in DayZ.

 

Dev Team, Forum Team, if you are seeing this, then show/send it to your supervisor or a higher-ranked member of your group. Someone that can make a difference HAS to see this. This text above, will be DayZ's savior.

 

Cheers! Stay Warm and Don't Lose Your Beans! :lol:  ;)  :beans:  :thumbsup: 

 

[Jhunt7507 29]

I thought hitting them in the head already does that. Fighting zombies isn't like fighting humans, its more like fighting animals. If you've ever been attacked by a dog you should know that they kicking them does absolutely nothing. They won't feel the pain and will just start biting your leg. Fighting zombies is supposed to be hard, the problem with them is the bugginess and their ability to see you through walls and miles away which should be fixed.

[Caboose187 (DayZ) 3036]

They are infected humans with something similar to the rage virus.  They most likely don't feel much pain if any at all so chances are they are not going to flinch or even care that you hit them with an axe.  Also this isn't like wrestling where a person starts flailing backwards in dramatic fashion when getting slapped around.