Can you survive a bite?

[Ives]

My friend got bit by a zombie and tried and tried and tried with painkillers and bandages and disinfectant and none of it worked. He just died by his 1 bite.

[Landor]

you can, but its only around a 5% chance of survival. its around 75% chance of survival with a scratch you get from a zed.

bites will heal normally like any other injury if you do not get infected or play with infection disabled (they will heal even if you do get infected actually, but you generally wont survive long enough for that.)

the zombie infection isnt affected by bandages, antiseptic, or anything, its a direct percentage when you get injured if you are infected, and there is and will never be a cure.

[WillieSea]

Bites are very infectious.

But easy to survive. If you have lots of food, and stay well fed, your health will not lower. And you can sleep, to regain health. When you wake up, eat until your well fed again.

I survived a month with the zombie infection, before I got bored of having to eat all the time. lol

[Ives]

Good to know.

[icarus the improviser]

Originally posted by Landor:

you can, but its only around a 5% chance of survival. its around 75% chance of survival with a scratch you get from a zed.

bites will heal normally like any other injury if you do not get infected or play with infection disabled (they will heal even if you do get infected actually, but you generally wont survive long enough for that.)

the zombie infection isnt affected by bandages, antiseptic, or anything, its a direct percentage when you get injured if you are infected, and there is and will never be a cure.

i am not sure about that, i never survived a scratch, nor anyone in my survivor group, except for one man, ian, that drunk brawler, i saw many friends die of infection slowly, and i was waiting there next to them, to kill them when they where about to become infected.

now on me, i never survived a scratch, i always died of them, so i would suggest that it is a 10% chance of surviving a scratch, not 75%, that number seems impossible to me.

[Quikel]

It's 25% on scratches. A number that is being influenced by the thick and thin skinned traits.


While me and my friends survived numerous scratched in our playtime, we have yet to survive a bite.

[icarus the improviser]

that seems more plausable

[✪ Parriyah]

I've survived a bite twice,i dont know how i did,i guess i got super super lucky i did however die from a 3rd bite.it was about time


keep in mind this was the 3rd time i was playing and i wasnt very familiar.so dont flame me for being ♥♥♥♥ xd

[WillieSea]

I have survived many, many scratches, and several bites.
Of course, I also have over 1000 hours on the game.

[sanguine]

Last time I dove into modding and code, a bite was always deadly. Not sure where the myth of the 95% come from or why it still persists.

[Quikel]

Originally posted by Vive:

Last time I dove into modding and code, a bite was always deadly. Not sure where the myth of the 95% come from or why it still persists.

Ya, I always suspected something like that but all these reports from people that claim to have survived a bite made me unsure.

[icarus the improviser]

rationalizing the devs and how they want to make this game hyper realistc, i don't think they would enable you to survive a zombie bite, unless you where the choosen one.

[WillieSea]

I have no mods. I have been bitten and survived the bite. I had also healed from the bite.
So your wrong to think it is always fatal. Even if you think you looked at the code for it. A vast majority of the time it's fatal, but not 100%.

[Dave Microwave]

I've gotten scratched 5 times and nothing. I guess I'm a lucky duck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbqIVMZnJM

[DeadlyDanDaMan]

Originally posted by Henn0r:

It's 25% on scratches. A number that is being influenced by the thick and thin skinned traits.


While me and my friends survived numerous scratched in our playtime, we have yet to survive a bite.

Thick and Thin Skinned only apply to regular infections, NOT zombie infections. NOTHING in the game can decrease the zombie infection chances. That myth needs to die.

[Quikel]

So the "~13% lower chance of scratches causing an infection." from thick-skinned is solely referring to the infections caused by a dirty wound and does not apply to the zombie virus?

If so, then it is very missleading.