escaping zombies?

[gabezila]

so i find that it is much harder to escape zombies in the standalone than it is in the mod. In the mod you could stand in a bush or in the leaves of an evergreen, but that doesn't seem to work here, and in the mod you could sometimes rely on running into a building and letting them follow you in, then turn as many corners as possible and run back out and close the door behind you, hoping that they don't glitch and just walk though the wall (which happened often), but now they will ALWAYS walk straight through a wall.

my point is... does anyone have any ways of getting away from zombies because it is a needed skill when you have no weapons

[Calamity]

I've never had a problem finding a weapon fast... it's usually a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one but good enough to fend off a few. Don't go to a busy city, if possible. The smaller ones have less players and zombies.

[Bedeutung]

well in the mod its a common bug/exploit that zombies cant hit you in trees, and zombies in the standalone really need to get fixed running insides houses is good but running through damn solid walls is not lol, to the poing of escaping zombies holster your weapon and run they are pretty easy to lose in the standalone in my opinion at least

[Soulvex]

stairs help, also, the piles of hay are great for luring many zombies into it, you can get ontop and they cant, after a few minutes they seem to forget where they are and you can run off, sometimes with none following. either that, or jut run flat out for ages..

[TemplarGFX]

for aaages and aaages. I had one bastard fast zombie chase me for 30 minutes. I gave up in the end and just let him kill me.

[gabezila]

the thing is you have to remember to double tap w when running from zombies so that you'll sprint
but yeah i was trying to do some things like finding a wall and running around it so that it would lose track of me but it seemed to always know where i was and i kept trying to serpentine through trees and around corners to cut line of sight but it never seems to help. and the thing with weps is that the only melee weps that seem to do significant damage is the two handed ones like the shovel or axe or baseball bat. the kitchen knife and screwdriver are absolute ♥♥♥♥ and you might as well use fists

[gabezila]

i've also found that when you fight zombies with melee, it's best to keep running in circles with your sights on them and hitting them because if you keep moving side ways they can't hit you when they lunge at you. it works most of the time and really reduces the number of times you get hit.

[Game Over]

To be honest, I was going to post how it is too easy to get away from sombies, if you sprint you can lose them in 30 seconds. There are so few zombies at this time, I would like them to be more dangerous and scarry. For one thing, make the zombies just slightly faster than the player and fix zombies being able to walk through doors and walls.
This would force you to either face and fight the zombie or try to get to a safe place like a house to close a door and hide from the zombie till enough time goes by that the zombie gives up and will return to where he was when you alerted him.

If you can not make the zombie as fast or faster than the player, then let the zombie/s that detected/saw you and started to chase you get a scent for you and will continue to follow your trail till they find you or you kill them

Or you can make the zombies a one hit/bite kill. if you bleed from a zombie and survive, you are now infected and will continue to get sicker and sicker untill you die or.. you find someone to give you a blood transfusion.

Anything to make a zombie something to be feared in the game, as of now they are just a slight annoyance.

[gabezila]

i've only ever died from zombies in this game. never from players, so i don't know what game you're playing but the zombies scare the living hell out of me on here. mostly because there is no hiding from them

[gabezila]

and zombies are more than enough of a threat as it is. i feel there is no need to buff them because they already one hit bleed (which is one hit death with no bandage) and they have chance to cause infection