I Do NOT like running zombies

[jojobe]

It just kills it for me. IF you could not run fast when you were alive how are you running like Carl lewis when your dead. It just kills immersion for me.

[Herr Morlock]

There is no such thing as a running zombie. There is only a proper zombie who is slow, or some action blockbuster ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ schmock out of the cinema of the past years...

Nonetheless: Are you talking about sandbox mode or regular survival? Because in regular survival, there should not be sprinters enabled, at all...

[RaideR]

If b41
Shift is a jog
L Alt is a sprint
Try it

[Stone Cold Steve Harvey]

If its not fun for you, why do you use that option? Sprinters are great in my opinion, I love them and they make the game much more unforgiving and I cannot play without them, I also know a few others who always play them as well.

Also what is a "proper zombie"? There are many different variations of a zombie over the past few decades, proper zombies can be interpreted differently by anybody.

Plus how is there no such thing as a running zombie? Zombies are a work of fiction, the undead kind is the type we're talking about. How could some guy just come back from the dead like that and start eating people because of some disease? If "proper zombies" can do that, whats stopping running zombies?

But yeah running zombies definitely should stay as sandbox exclusive.

[milkinaction]

Sprinting zombies is just a trick lazy screenwriters use to make bad movies prove me wrong

[Stone Cold Steve Harvey]

Originally posted by milkinaction:

Sprinting zombies is just a trick lazy screenwriters use to make bad movies prove me wrong :spiffo:

Ok so 28 days later is just a terrible movie by lazy screenwriters? Yes they technically aren't zombies, they're infected with the rage-virus but that movie wouldn't exist without the zombie genre and I'd argue you its a part of the zombie genre and was their own take on a zombie/sprinting zombie.

Also you could say that zombie films, shows or games that keep using the same undead shamblers with no variation are just lazy since they're just re-using a zombie type that is from over fifty years ago and not trying to be creative about it. At least the sprinters were kind of an attempt to add something new to a genre that was/is at the risk of becoming stale.

[milkinaction]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Ok so 28 days later is just a terrible movie by lazy screenwriters? Yes they technically aren't zombies, they're infected with the rage-virus

Answered your own question 28 days is fine though the beginning is 100% ♥♥♥♥ writing you can't lie in a coma unattended for a month and then just get up a bit thirsty lol

[Stone Cold Steve Harvey]

Originally posted by milkinaction:

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Ok so 28 days later is just a terrible movie by lazy screenwriters? Yes they technically aren't zombies, they're infected with the rage-virus

Answered your own question 28 days is fine though the beginning is 100% ♥♥♥♥ writing you can't lie in a coma unattended for a month and then just get up a bit thirsty lol

Yes, that part makes no sense but sometimes you gotta sacrifice realism, Like those rage virus infected make no sense if you think about it, Those guys running constantly and not drinking any fluids? I'd say a day or a few until pretty much nearly or most of them have died.

[milkinaction]

Originally posted by Grumpy:

Also you could say that zombie films, shows or games that keep using the same undead shamblers with no variation are just lazy since they're just re-using a zombie type that is from over fifty years ago and not trying to be creative about it. At least the sprinters were kind of an attempt to add something new to a genre that was/is at the risk of becoming stale.

The old zombies still have way more depth imo, modern zombies are all the same snarling screeching animals thanks mainly to 28 days later and it's so boring. The moaning, mournful dead coming back to hunt us is way more unsettling than people with rabies.

[RaideR]

Old zombies? Like the one raised by black magic?
That how deep it gets, just that, magic .... done
And that is not lazy? I mean, virus taking away zombie "romantic" and spookiness for sure, i like an mystic behind it, but magic or something along like demons ect still kinda lazy, and zombie from those setting ARE actually just shamblers from the grave or just turned people, with not other perks or unique behaviour, where "virus infected" zombies can be anything from walking to sprinting or wall climbing or else.
For me, i dont care, aslong there is lots of them to pacify

[𝔗𝔢𝔞 ❀]

Originally posted by RaideR:

If b41
Shift is a jog
L Alt is a sprint
Try it

That led to a spectacular fall and nice little foot injury. Recovering now.

[milkinaction]

If you say it's just mystic black magic or spooky space radiation I can at least suspend my disbelief but a virus that turns you into a parkour expert is dumb no matter how you slice it. Besides I never said anything about the cause I don't wanna know what brought them back because the explanation is always going to be stupid. Just give me shambling corpses and leave it at that.

[𝔗𝔢𝔞 ❀]

Originally posted by Not Yoshimitsu:

Originally posted by milkinaction:

Answered your own question 28 days is fine though the beginning is 100% ♥♥♥♥ writing you can't lie in a coma unattended for a month and then just get up a bit thirsty lol

Can you please explain to me how Flesh doesn't rot (especially while moving and being eaten by bacteria) while Damp+Hot?

Or Freeze completely in Snow?

The only "Writing" to ever address this issue was the World War Z Book.

Btw, Mountains were safe, Summer rotted zombies and naturally killed most of them off.

See what happens when you have good writing? You make the same plot over and over again because there is only one -real- outcome.

Also any modern Military would actually decimate/quarantine a Zombie outbreak realistically in a few days, week max.

Stop using that writing argument, 28 days later was absolutely splendidly written.

I more side with you on 28 days (Train to Busan is superior though), but any modern military would have trouble with a virus that was rapidly infecting their soldiers, spreading quickly, and proving impossible to contain.

China has a massive military, currently active in many regions to prevent riots and treason/secession, but they are having real trouble effectively containing a nasty variant of the flu, and have been unable to stop it spreading to nearby regions.

If the 40,000+ infected got up and started eating everyone else uninfected, all hell would break loose, and the military could certainly lose. They could nuke an industrial centre like Wuhan... and still lose (radiation may not be that effective on them either).

Some of the best parts of this game are the radio broadcasts revealing it all going to... Self-styled Zed-experts have said the military could handle it, but I really do wonder.

Speaking on Zomboid's Zeds, unless you have a shotty they are very effective at soaking ammunition. Even if you are using a trained character so many rounds can be wasted on them. That would cause panic and problems in dealing with them.

Have a good one. Stay healthy!

[Brother Frederick]

Damn, everything that came after Romero that was about "zombies" was utter garbagio.

Especially those movies where you have rabid people called zombies even though they defy the what zambie was established - dead with poor motoric skills due to brain not functioning correctly and only supporting basic movement and hunger which could not be quelched.

Not some half-as*ed running around like on 10tons of cocaine humans that look like rabid junkies 3 seconds before heart attack.

And yes, it was done because you need stuff like that when you are lacking ideas about interesting story and characters.

[Death]

I don't subscribe to running zombies, so I don't use that option. But why would you play with an option you don't like? You literally have to set them to runners. It isn't like that is the default setting.

[EnvyDemon]

Originally posted by Death:

I don't subscribe to running zombies, so I don't use that option. But why would you play with an option you don't like? You literally have to set them to runners. It isn't like that is the default setting.

This.

The option is there for those who want it. The great part about PZ is that the Devs go through the extra effort to make the game settings modular.