Can you instantly die from zombie attacks if 3+ instant kill is off?

[H4xX]

I just died after 12500 kills, cause a zombie touched me from side/back while I fought a few infront -> made the sound you get when you kill a zed, but instead I instantly dropped to the ground from 100% life :|
Perhaps it has to do with using the sprint button?
It was pretty instant and I was unwounded before that, no negative moodlets, so it's unlikely that I died of neck bleeding.

[clover <3]

sounds like something to do with mods, or you have their strength set to superhuman since that increases the damage they do i believe. ive never really been instantly killed by a zombie myself tho

[H4xX]

Might be the first time for me, too. Only got a zombie cure mod (a simple drop chance cure item), 1 for more cars, 2 vanilla stat clothing mods.
Perhaps you get damage when you sprint against a zombie and it infinitely repeated it within a half second?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

A bite to the neck if you didn't reduce/disable rear vulnerability will typically kill instantly, or nearly instantly without time to react to the bloodloss.

[H4xX]

By random initial damage? Although I have default settings besides from the instant kills being off, the neck blood loss usually takes 10+ seconds to cause death for me - though, if zombie attacks cause initial damage in general, perhaps the others added a bit.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

A bite to the neck if you didn't reduce/disable rear vulnerability will typically kill instantly, or nearly instantly without time to react to the bloodloss.

nah, thats not really true, instantly and taking three seconds are two very diffrent things and you wont bleed out in under three seconds from a single injury. the only thing that really insta kills you is car crashes and jumping of builidngs

[H4xX]

What many don't know is that the health loss slows down near death :3

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by H4xX:

By random initial damage? Although I have default settings besides from the instant kills being off, the neck blood loss usually takes 10+ seconds to cause death for me - though, if zombie attacks cause initial damage in general, perhaps the others added a bit.

So instant death turned off, you mean you turned off the setting where you instantly die if you get infected right?
Because if so, you actually most likely enabled it. Because on default it is turned off, so if you changed that from default you enabled it:) ->because as you describe it seems more like a got infected and instantly died.
Or you mean the drag down kill? Where zombies instantly drag you down and then you die? (Cuz how many zombies is needed also depends on your nimble skills, i once survived 5 zombies trying to drag a char of mine down)

Cuz the details are i have to say not really clear. How were you fighting them?
try to position it something like this:
you the X, 0 the zeds:D

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Since yuo did not take a screenshot;) Also the easiest option to check out what happened, is to try to get into a similar situation and test it. It is why i keep backups. There are many things that players do not know about and discover themselves or via the forum or guides.

[Silamon]

I'm pretty sure he meant Dragged Down

[H4xX]

@Nordil: nah, the dragdown, the option which makes you unable to flee once 3 grab you is the one I turned off ^^
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X being me. I sprinted into them to provoke a fall to escape as usual, as the one diagonally behind got me cause I got low fps there due to old blood stains from nearby ~4k kills (already reduced blood).

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by H4xX:

@Nordil: nah, the dragdown, the option which makes you unable to flee once 3 grab you is the one I turned off ^^
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X being me. I sprinted into them to provoke a fall to escape as usual, as the one diagonally behind got me cause I got low fps there due to old blood stains from nearby ~4k kills (already reduced blood).

What is your infection mortality set to, then? Because if that's set to instant, then any injury that infects you will instantly kill your character.

[H4xX]

Just the default settings, already was infected before and cured it with a mod.

[Grizzly]

my guess would just be a mod problem tbh

[PoorUglyPeasant]

na he just got dragged down

[Great_Puffer]

you got bit in the same spot, as im pretty sure thats a problem if the bite heals with infection on so thats probably it

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Grizzly:

my guess would just be a mod problem tbh

Yes. Curing infection with a mod is known to cause occasionally strange behaviour. So most likely that thingie about the infection level becoming suddenly 100% happened. I don't know and understand that system there was some stuff explained about it, and if i understood well in most cases when you "cure infection" via mods, debug etc, some kind of a bug might occur making you not cured fully but stuck on a certain level, and being hit can get that level to 100% instantly and you die. ->this is my best bet. If i did not misunderstand that whole discussion.
The other option would be instant death settings for infection, but since you already cured one that is not likely.
The dragdown as you mentioned is turned off so that is not a cause.

Sadly i would need to replicate the issue, but i dont wish to mod my game further(i just have pillows rs). What i can suggest to you is to try and replicate the issue that way you might figure something out.