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[B42.1.0.25882] Garden Fork (or Spears) cause zombies to become statues (or frozen animation)
So I've attempted to stab the zombie with a Garden Fork. What happened, was that when I did a crit, and a thrust forward, the zombie froze in this pose:

https://i.gyazo.com/f4d5e4c1396426b1ed3d6068c8db745a.png

What's more, the zombie does not turn 2D and as I walk against it in this 'statue' form I can physically push it with my character. There were no errors in the console at all as well.

Some 'statuised' zombies have accessible inventory, some don't.

Video with no mods, inside debug mode

https://youtu.be/Enz28ufeaO4

Console.txt:
https://limewire.com/d/9b02198d-adc9-49cc-b9f1-d2797c9b3afe#slozx54ewk1FOUQmZgtsj1HKD6WmWSujyVGk2PqlCF8

I assume this same thing will happen with other weapons that behave like Garden Fork (spears for example). I didn't test this with other weapons but this, as you can see, has rather high chance of happening during normal combat.
Last edited by Alabeo; Jan 22 @ 8:18pm
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Krexent Jan 22 @ 7:55pm 
Yes happens with wooden spears also. Didn't occur in 42.0.
Alabeo Jan 22 @ 8:17pm 
Related topic confirming its spears too, as well as the user above:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/108600/discussions/6/592887031601856735/
Ragnarok Jan 23 @ 1:27pm 
how did you access debug mode? i know before it was "-debug" for the startup but it doesnt work for me anymore
I'm seeing the same bug, v. 42.3.1 over here, I've seen this with the garden fork, I think around 50% of the zombies I hit end up frozen, unfortunately. Once frozen they don't seem to be dead, the character reacts to them with panic etc, but they're stuck in place and don't move or attack anymore.
Nv11 Feb 17 @ 3:09am 
It will happen with spears with both carved and binded heads.

Frozen zombies can be "killed", they seem to be both downed and standing up at the same time. Sometimes they will fall to the ground and reset their state to the kind of living one which they try to bite you and are not bugged.

Also when thrusting spears sometimes play the hit sound effect two times: at the start of the thrust and at the hit.
This is still happening, unfortunately.
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Date Posted: Jan 22 @ 3:46pm
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