Are there ANY Zombies in this game now?!?

[Houdini]

Hi so I played DayZ years ago and havn't played for a very long time! Last time i played there were hardly any Zed in the game, it was basically a free for all deathmatch game on a huge map and was just pointless. I want to know if the zombies are actually present now and pose a threat? or is it still just a stupid deathmatch game on a huge and empty map? cheers

[R[e]venge®-uk*]

There have never been any zombies in this game, only Infected ... if your refering to them, yes but not the completed article, go read the dev blogs on AI and infected spawn rates along with whole new animation systems! in EXP they now vault and so on, current issue is that when they are dead new ones dont "re spawn" as such, so the servers get empty of infected quickly once cleared, however again this is being looked at.
All here:
https://www.dayz.com/

Quick Edit:
https://trello.com/c/JifzAiCw/92-dynamic-spawning-of-infected

[Gargomel]

Unless you get into a map after the server resets then you wont see any zombies because they aren't able to optimise the servers well enough to get respawning zombies. This issue has never been addressed and I doubt it will be for some time if ever.

[QLS Desert Rat]

Originally posted by David El Trigger:

Unless you get into a map after the server resets then you wont see any zombies because they aren't able to optimise the servers well enough to get respawning zombies. This issue has never been addressed and I doubt it will be for some time if ever.

I have seen infected spawn in .59 at NWAF and some of the cities. I think this will be addressed in .60 or .61, I am not sure. Anyway, the z in Dayz is for zero, not zombies.

[Shiney Squirrels]

Originally posted by Houdini Harden:

Are there ANY Zombies in this game now?!?

Yes.

0.59:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M954Hs1u1OY

0.60:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YX_9gUoRO4

Originally posted by Houdini Harden:

the zombies are actually present now and pose a threat?

Meh... more like a nuisance then a threat. Then again they never were much a threat in the mod either. Hopefully in the future they will be more and better infected ( "zombies" ) ect....

Originally posted by Houdini Harden:

or is it still just a stupid deathmatch game on a huge and empty map

Yes... no matter how many "zombies" there will be, it's going to be a first person shooter. You can thank the player base for that, this will never be a "survival" or "zombie" game.

[Thac0]

Originally posted by SaS|Revenge®-uk*:

There have never been any zombies in this game, only Infected ...

Jesus Christ......so this is you. This is what you are like. Awesome.

[Heat, the Genius]

Originally posted by SaS|Revenge®-uk*:

There have never been any zombies in this game, only Infected ...

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[R[e]venge®-uk*]

DayZ does not have "zombies" it refers to them as infected and not reanimated, check the links above i posted.

[Houdini]

Thanks for the replies guys, sorry for the confusion! Zombies/Infected, its all the same to me! Basically something to shoot at that isnt a player, that can kill you and mess up your day! But you all seem to say that they are not really present atm which is disapointing. But yea, thanks for the replies guys cheers

[teepee]

Originally posted by SaS|Revenge®-uk*:

There have never been any zombies in this game, only Infected ...

Infected, Zombies - same thing.

[R[e]venge®-uk*]

Originally posted by Houdini Harden:

Thanks for the replies guys, sorry for the confusion! Zombies/Infected, its all the same to me! Basically something to shoot at that isnt a player, that can kill you and mess up your day! But you all seem to say that they are not really present atm which is disapointing. But yea, thanks for the replies guys cheers

Check the links i posted, they give a brief over view of how they are adaptivly spawning the infected in meaning much more! also soon we should have our first look at zombie hords!!

[troj]

Originally posted by SaS|Revenge®-uk*:

There have never been any zombies in this game, only Infected ... if your refering to them, yes but not the completed article, go read the dev blogs on AI and infected spawn rates along with whole new animation systems! in EXP they now vault and so on, current issue is that when they are dead new ones dont "re spawn" as such, so the servers get empty of infected quickly once cleared, however again this is being looked at.
All here:
https://www.dayz.com/

Quick Edit:
https://trello.com/c/JifzAiCw/92-dynamic-spawning-of-infected

Originally posted by Shiney Squirrels:

Originally posted by Houdini Harden:

Are there ANY Zombies in this game now?!?

Yes.

0.59:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M954Hs1u1OY

0.60:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YX_9gUoRO4

Originally posted by Houdini Harden:

the zombies are actually present now and pose a threat?

Meh... more like a nuisance then a threat. Then again they never were much a threat in the mod either. Hopefully in the future they will be more and better infected ( "zombies" ) ect....

Originally posted by Houdini Harden:

or is it still just a stupid deathmatch game on a huge and empty map

Yes... no matter how many "zombies" there will be, it's going to be a first person shooter. You can thank the player base for that, this will never be a "survival" or "zombie" game.

So the players are at fault for switching to shooting because there's nothing else to do (realizing this is alpha)?

[Damnagic]

Originally posted by \SpecOE/ artsnoob:

Originally posted by SaS|Revenge®-uk*:

There have never been any zombies in this game, only Infected ... if your refering to them, yes but not the completed article, go read the dev blogs on AI and infected spawn rates along with whole new animation systems! in EXP they now vault and so on, current issue is that when they are dead new ones dont "re spawn" as such, so the servers get empty of infected quickly once cleared, however again this is being looked at.
All here:
https://www.dayz.com/

Quick Edit:
https://trello.com/c/JifzAiCw/92-dynamic-spawning-of-infected

Originally posted by Shiney Squirrels:

Yes.

0.59:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M954Hs1u1OY

0.60:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YX_9gUoRO4



Meh... more like a nuisance then a threat. Then again they never were much a threat in the mod either. Hopefully in the future they will be more and better infected ( "zombies" ) ect....



Yes... no matter how many "zombies" there will be, it's going to be a first person shooter. You can thank the player base for that, this will never be a "survival" or "zombie" game.

So the players are at fault for switching to shooting because there's nothing else to do (realizing this is alpha)?

Can't be the dev team or the game at fault so that just leaves players.

[Shiney Squirrels]

Originally posted by \SpecOE/ artsnoob:

So the players are at fault for switching to shooting because there's nothing else to do (realizing this is alpha)?

"Switching" would mean it was different at some time.

Arma2 DayZ Mod was a millitary simulation game with some "infected" as a gimick, it was and still is a FIrst Person Shooter, and you ran around / past the "Infected"

DayZ Standalone has the same gimick "infected"... is still a millitary simulation game, it's not going to be H1Z1, Left 4 Dead, Dead Effect, or any other game you can find when you put "zombie" in the search on Steam, the other players are the threat.

The lame "because there's nothing else to do" stopped being an excuse when in 0.58 there were no "infected" to shoot at... and when they came back in 0.59, nothing changed.

Calling DayZ a game about surviving an outbreak of "infected" because there are some in the game, is like calling DayZ a game about wearing hats because there are hats in the game.

I'm saying....

Be wary of the "infected"

Be afraid of the other players.

[Frawg]

Ive played from .50-.60 i run into a decent amount of infected. i choose to stay away ♥♥♥♥ those guys

[FantomX]

This is one of the most dissapointg features of the standalone DayZ over the mod. I remember fighting off hordes of zombies in the mod with little ammo while cornered inside a bulding back in the day. And all that shotting lured other players to the frey, it was awesome. Now with the standalone what we get is a ghost town, and lower fps.