Instant death from single bite that didn't even appear to connect?

[Joe]

So, I was just playing and was wearing a tank top, a t-shirt, a formal shirt, a hoodie with the hood up, and a leather jacket, along with long johns, a pair of military pants, and military shoes.

On my screen, I avoided the bite. I guess I didn't, because my character literally died instantly, he just fell over right there on the spot.

I have always played very carefully and spent literal hours building up my skills and everything else. I don't want to do it all again, only to have the same thing happen. I understand the point of the game is to die, but that feels incredibly cheap and an undeserved death, especially for having survived for as long as I did. It was a single zombie, no others around, so I was taking my time to be precise and careful, yet I die instantly from a bite that didn't even appear to connect.

What happened? Other than not engaging that zombie, what could I have done to prevent an instant death like that from occurring? Keep in mind all the layers I described above, as well as being in good health.

[=7Cav=CPT.Maddox.D]

Do you have instant zombification on? Maybe he didnt bite you but you got scratched or lacerated.

[Joe]

Hmm, it looks like there is "bite-only/fast infection" per the server description
That might explain it

[Psycha]

Originally posted by joedkat:

Hmm, it looks like there is "bite-only/fast infection" per the server description
That might explain it

Keep in mind this happens in singleplayer as well. Even if I had infection enabled and mortality at 2 weeks it still on the first scratch or hit has a tiny chance to insta kill you. also no I dont mean your health drops quickly I mean you drop flat dead on the spot.

This does happen on servers even if they dont specify this exactly as a instant death from zombie bite or scratch.

THIS IS A BUG.

[Seedling]

Had this happen to me two days ago in a solo game.
I think the cause is a glitch where you are infected by a zombie attack and the infection timer is starting, but something causes the zombie infection flag not to be set (or in my case, was toggled by the debug menu.) So the next time you get even a tiny scratch, let's say two weeks later, due to the timer accumulating, you instantly lose all your health and zombify before the injured moodle even has a chance to show.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Seedling:

Had this happen to me two days ago in a solo game.
I think the cause is a glitch where you are infected by a zombie attack and the infection timer is starting, but something causes the zombie infection flag not to be set (or in my case, was toggled by the debug menu.) So the next time you get even a tiny scratch, let's say two weeks later, due to the timer accumulating, you instantly lose all your health and zombify before the injured moodle even has a chance to show.

if you want to post something and mention a 1 year old discussion, make a link to it in a new discussion, dont necro

[Kaldrak]

Originally posted by Underestimated:

Originally posted by Seedling:

Had this happen to me two days ago in a solo game.
I think the cause is a glitch where you are infected by a zombie attack and the infection timer is starting, but something causes the zombie infection flag not to be set (or in my case, was toggled by the debug menu.) So the next time you get even a tiny scratch, let's say two weeks later, due to the timer accumulating, you instantly lose all your health and zombify before the injured moodle even has a chance to show.

if you want to post something and mention a 1 year old discussion, make a link to it in a new discussion, dont necro

A lot of people don't notice the dates on threads if they do a search for them in the forum. His theory is interesting, anyway.

[RudyTheNinja]

Originally posted by Underestimated:

Originally posted by Seedling:

Had this happen to me two days ago in a solo game.
I think the cause is a glitch where you are infected by a zombie attack and the infection timer is starting, but something causes the zombie infection flag not to be set (or in my case, was toggled by the debug menu.) So the next time you get even a tiny scratch, let's say two weeks later, due to the timer accumulating, you instantly lose all your health and zombify before the injured moodle even has a chance to show.

if you want to post something and mention a 1 year old discussion, make a link to it in a new discussion, dont necro

You can also unsub from discussion to not get a notification
Kinda ridiculous when ppl get mad about necro and expect someone to go through extra steps to not ping them. When they can just click the unsub button

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by RudyTheNinja:

Originally posted by Underestimated:

if you want to post something and mention a 1 year old discussion, make a link to it in a new discussion, dont necro

You can also unsub from discussion to not get a notification
Kinda ridiculous when ppl get mad about necro and expect someone to go through extra steps to not ping them. When they can just click the unsub button :DSTsmallbird:

or just make a link to the old post? where is that an extra step? do you call it an extra step if you need to move 1 finger? the reason why you shouldnt necro is that ♥♥♥♥ is out-dated and therefore infos not right anymore. so you make a new post, and link the old one if you want to talk about that old post in any way.


kinda ridiculous that people dont have common sense anymore

[Puppers]

Originally posted by Underestimated:

Originally posted by RudyTheNinja:

You can also unsub from discussion to not get a notification
Kinda ridiculous when ppl get mad about necro and expect someone to go through extra steps to not ping them. When they can just click the unsub button :DSTsmallbird:

or just make a link to the old post? where is that an extra step? do you call it an extra step if you need to move 1 finger? the reason why you shouldnt necro is that ♥♥♥♥ is out-dated and therefore infos not right anymore. so you make a new post, and link the old one if you want to talk about that old post in any way.


kinda ridiculous that people dont have common sense anymore

Maybe have a little patience. New people coming to the forums and gettiing slapped on the wrist because they're looking for help or information and may have overlooked something such as a date isn't very welcoming.

Usually google searches bring up posts from any year. I think if it is an issue a mod will lock the thread. But there have been times where someone has necrod some piece of information that was useful and I was not aware of.