10 years later

[Horse with no game.]

So I'm sure most of you have seen the ten years later mod by now. If not download it now!!
I have been recently doing a playthrough with the ten years later mod. I have started to build a temporary base in morris' bait shop in valley station. The wrecks on the road and the high levels of vegetation have made the road practically unusable even if I could get a car working. This makes your playthrough allot more focused on one particular area as moving round the map freely is near impossible.
This got me thinking about build 42, build 42 will see the introduction of animal npcs from rats to cows and deer this should go along way to make the world seem allot more alive (zombie pun intended).
Imagine animals in ten years later.
You walk into a ruined gig mart to find a herd of deer rummaging round for food or you wander into a rural fishing store only to find an adolescent bear trying to get into the bait boxes. These dynamic encounters would add so much to an already very immersive game.
It just made me wonder what animal encounters do you guys hope to be seeing in the future??

[Puppers]

Glorious chaos!!

[pozertron]

There shouldn't be any zombies 1 month in, let alone 10 years later. The body is dead and can't sustain itself.

[xKilroyx]

Originally posted by pozertron:

There shouldn't be any zombies 1 month in, let alone 10 years later. The body is dead and can't sustain itself.

Yeah true You would think the zeds would eventually deteriorate to the point they could no longer function after this amount of time.

[Sir Nils Olav]

Originally posted by pozertron:

There shouldn't be any zombies 1 month in, let alone 10 years later. The body is dead and can't sustain itself.

Depends on how the zombie infection is caused.
If we're assuming some sort of 'scientific' cause then yes, probably makes sense the body would expire and become worthless, incapable of movement etc. You could possibly have some infection that somehow prolongs how the body can last at the cost of higher cognitive functions - but there should be some sort of limit....

The other option is if the cause is somehow supernatural. I don't think this is that common in zombie movies/games/books but I've read at least one set of books that had the cause of the infection supernatural, with those infection being possessed by evil spirits that desired to kill other lifeforms in order to let their other evil spirits in the 'other dimension' inhabit the corpse.... I suppose if there's any sort of element of this at all (which to be fair, I've seen nothing in Zomboid to suggest this) then it's possible.

[xKilroyx]

To further on my previous comment. Would be cool to have a 10 years later playthrough with minimal zeds but high population of possibly mutated or just plain ravenous animals that are now the danger.(Looking forward to see what modders come up with) Some of the mods that could supplement this theme would be weather or environment related such as cryogenic winter or bleak winter, radiated zones Anomalous storm etc.

[philaletheist]

Originally posted by pozertron:

There shouldn't be any zombies 1 month in, let alone 10 years later. The body is dead and can't sustain itself.

i know, right? devs are so lazy. they claim they're making the "most realistic" survival game, but then they put stuff like zombies in? c'mon, everyone knows zombies aren't real

[pzhda'tan]

Mules, donkeys and horses for transporting myself and my ♥♥♥♥ and then cows, deer, sheep and mutton, goats and poultry for dinner. Everything else would be a luxury tbh.

[pozertron]

Originally posted by philaletheist:

Originally posted by pozertron:

There shouldn't be any zombies 1 month in, let alone 10 years later. The body is dead and can't sustain itself.

i know, right? devs are so lazy. they claim they're making the "most realistic" survival game, but then they put stuff like zombies in? c'mon, everyone knows zombies aren't real

Exactly my point

[Animalman]

They'll need to expand on the Resurrection lore.
Add more crawlers.
Maybe add a only torso and arms zombie crawler variant.
One arm zombies.
Maybe one whose head is barely hanging onto the body. The Scratcher.

[BadAssAtron]

guys ever seen bath salts... made a guy strip naked and eat his friend... jsut saying. was shot several times and never went down....