Fast zombies are in the most pain?

[Peepin]

We all know by now that reversed zombie screams are the victim screaming for help and mercy
This is linked to the fact that zombies are still controlled by the headcrab but the victim is fully conscious and still alive feeling every bit of pain it takes
This also leads me to wonder. We established that the victim is still alive so wouldn’t that go for the fast zombies?
Shooting a fast zombie in the head reveals a normal human face (or what’s left of it) and we all know headcrabs need a body to move around quicker
So this would mean fast zombies are in the most pain having their torso hanging on by a thread and their skin is peeled all the way off revealing bone and some flesh from the original person
We even see their spine fully visible
So this proves my statement on how fast zombies are in the most pain

[Witch]

I always felt like the poison zombie has it worse. He has 3 whole extremely poisonous headcrabs attached to him with their sharp legs, his entire back and back bones are showing (you can even see the bones), he's bloated with a very poisonous substance, and he's permanently stuck in a stooped posture while supporting the weight of the headcrabs, which could lead to massive back pain, as if his back wasn't so screwed up already

[England is not a real country]

Either way ,

Shotty is what call "mercy" for them...

Pretty much all zombie variants , they scream to you shoot them...

The zombine is kinda bad too , like hes whole head is gone , yet hes still alive thanks to the freaking head humper...

[Ghidrah1]

I used to call them poison spider taxis

[Cat]

The zombine because their heads are gone, at least the normal, fast and poison still have their skulls intact.

And gonomes, their bodies are filled with acid.

[Peepin]

Originally posted by Cat:

The zombine because their heads are gone, at least the normal, fast and poison still have their skulls intact.

And gonomes, their bodies are filled with acid.

:summercat2023:

True but lets just go with the human zombies since the combine is an alien species
and we never see a metrocop zombine which techincally means human
since barney was able to disguise as one and we hear someone say "i hope we get better food when we join the civil protection"

[Ghidrah1]

Do we know that for sure? Looks like different grades of conditioning to me.

To me the spider taxis and the 1st stage zombies sound the most miserable

[Sandvich Enjoyer]

I don't know if they're in the most pain, but they're pain in the ass for sure

[Hank Newman]

Originally posted by Peepin:

Originally posted by Cat:

The zombine because their heads are gone, at least the normal, fast and poison still have their skulls intact.

And gonomes, their bodies are filled with acid.

:summercat2023:

True but lets just go with the human zombies since the combine is an alien species
and we never see a metrocop zombine which techincally means human
since barney was able to disguise as one and we hear someone say "i hope we get better food when we join the civil protection"

The combine itself are alien, but the soldiers you fight after ravenholm are transhuman, which means they used to be humans. Does it count?

[Peepin]

Originally posted by Hank Newman:

Originally posted by Peepin:

True but lets just go with the human zombies since the combine is an alien species
and we never see a metrocop zombine which techincally means human
since barney was able to disguise as one and we hear someone say "i hope we get better food when we join the civil protection"

The combine itself are alien, but the soldiers you fight after ravenholm are transhuman, which means they used to be humans. Does it count?

possibly but for they aren't "human" anymore but it does raise a good question..
why don't we see any other zombine type? i refuse to believe that the only zombine type is the normal headcrab

[Hank Newman]

Originally posted by Peepin:

Originally posted by Hank Newman:

The combine itself are alien, but the soldiers you fight after ravenholm are transhuman, which means they used to be humans. Does it count?

possibly but for they aren't "human" anymore but it does raise a good question..
why don't we see any other zombine type? i refuse to believe that the only zombine type is the normal headcrab

I dunno too, but I'll take two guesses: Valve probably forgot about the other headcrab types or just didnt feel like adding those, probably to not raise the difficulty too much or just unsure how they'd look like.