Sprinting Zombies

[Bushido]

So I thought this would be an interesting thing to bring up, how many of you actually play with sprinters enabled and what are your experiences with them? I tried playing with them a few times, none of them really went well for me, soon as you step outside you turn into Captain Jack Sparrow running away from all the natives, noping your way back to the Black Pearl, don't get me wrong its fun to play around with them but I don't think i'll ever play with them enabled on a serious playthrough.

[Goof]

try it for a serious challenge to see how long you can hold out. I made it 7 days... once

[Vzzdak]

The OP is asking for what I call the Rage Zombie scenario, something along the lines of the film, 28 Days Later. The basic sandbox setup is:

1. Make all zombies sprinters
   
2. Make them weak
   
3. Reduce their sense of perception to minimum
   
4. Turn off the infection settings (95% infection chance just doesn't work, and the devs don't want to let us adjust this)
   
5. Set the progression of time to a 24-hour clock (i.e., real time)
   
6. Set a medium distribution of zombies

Using these settings basically a stealth game, where you must never run, and never use a gun. To survive, you must be continuously avoiding the risk of facing more than two zombies, otherwise they will wear you down.

To fight zombies using these settings, your best odds are to watch when a lone zombie has broken away from a group, and take it out. If there is a cluster of zombies near something you want, then go away and come back later to check for lone zombies.

Before forcing the window on a house, always patrol the surrounding area and kill the zombies. So if opening the window triggers a house alarm, you won't be immediately overrun, though always know what your escape route will be.

[PusPaw]

Tried it once for a laugh but found it untenable, gameplay speaking. The whole affair lasted five or six minutes.

[Vzzdak]

Originally posted by PusPaw:

Tried it once for a laugh but found it untenable, gameplay speaking. The whole affair lasted five or six minutes.

Long story short, if the only thing you do is make the zombies sprint, then it's a novelty, at best. You need to tweak the settings to make it playable.

[TheSuitedBunny]

if you wanna be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ paranoid about zombies as hell, enable them to open doors and sprint as well.