Special Zombie Ideas

[Ramblin Bob]

Flamer:
Zombie with flame retardant hazmat suit. Immune to fire damage. Has a fuel tank on his back that can be blown up, and is dragging a flame thrower that leaves a fire trail.

Stinker:
Fat zombies with a green stink cloud around them. They make the player vomit, giving them the dysentery debuff and removing all food and med buffs.

Shredder:
Zombie that is covered in broken glass and splintery/ spikey bits. Getting hit by it always causes bleeding.

Hugger:
A zombie that can grab and hold the player in place, and disables the use of ranged weapons.

Bomb Disposal Zombie:
Just an armored up zombie that takes very little damage and is almost immune to fire and explosion damage.

Condor:
A giant vulture that can pick up players.

Chimera:
A high hp patchwork zombie with the body of a direwolf, head of a screamer, snake tail, whatever you want really.

I really think the devs need to spice up the game with some sick special infected for late game. Let the devs and modders know if this is the kind of stuff you want to see in the future. As a fan of L4D and L4D2, I'd love to see more of this kind of stuff.

[God Bless The Dead]

Good ideas! but wont happen, I've been wanting more zombies for 10 years, we just got a handful since then.. devs would rather keep the same old zombies but now they wear different clothes... WOW lol

I gave up hope completely on new zombies when the devs basically finished the giant mutated zombie Behemoth, then they bailed on it..

[onanonehand8]

Originally posted by Ramblin Bob:

Flamer:
Zombie with flame retardant hazmat suit. Immune to fire damage. Has a fuel tank on his back that can be blown up, and is dragging a flame thrower that leaves a fire trail.

Stinker:
Fat zombies with a green stink cloud around them. They make the player vomit, giving them the dysentery debuff and removing all food and med buffs.

Shredder:
Zombie that is covered in broken glass and splintery/ spikey bits. Getting hit by it always causes bleeding.

Hugger:
A zombie that can grab and hold the player in place, and disables the use of ranged weapons.

Bomb Disposal Zombie:
Just an armored up zombie that takes very little damage and is almost immune to fire and explosion damage.

Condor:
A giant vulture that can pick up players.

Chimera:
A high hp patchwork zombie with the body of a direwolf, head of a screamer, snake tail, whatever you want really.

I really think the devs need to spice up the game with some sick special infected for late game. Let the devs and modders know if this is the kind of stuff you want to see in the future. As a fan of L4D and L4D2, I'd love to see more of this kind of stuff.

I too think there are some good ideas here. And without trying to discount, with the AI as it is, I highly doubt the implementation.

But a good imagination on your part.

[TheChoccoBiccy09]

I agree, I would love some more zombie types. Check out dead ahead zombie warfare, although yes it is a dreaded mobile game, it has a HUGE variety of different zombies. 7DTD could definitely take a note out of their book on zombie variety.

[Pain Weasel]

I like those ideas.

I've always wanted to see a commander or mastermind zombie that changes the behavior of other nearby zombies during a blood moon. Send them into area attack mode or something, anything to make them behave in a less predictable way. Take out the commander and they go back to the path of least resistance AI.

I also feel like all zombies should grab, or at least have the ability to grab, rather than just slapping us.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

I'd like to see a goliath zombie that was 3-4 blocks tall and had longer melee range that could roar and frenzy the zombies around it to increase their attack and movement speed.

Generally speaking I think the zombies in this game are just outright not much of a threat and it's due to their movement speed. Unless they can at least sprint they can't really catch you and then it doesn't matter what their HP and damage is they aren't a threat.

The game is sorely lacking zombies that can limit your mobility. Something like the smoker from left 4 dead that can reel you in, a zombie that spits webs that stop you from moving or slow you down, a zombie that spits gunk that glues you to surfaces, something that can counter player mobility.

It would also be nice if there was a charger type zombie that could move extremely fast but can't turn well so it could at least outrun you and force you to stop and deal with it giving the other's a chance to catch you.

Long story short we need some zombies you can't beat by simply backpedaling.

[DarkFaceGlow]

Good ideas!

[Kraftkanzler]

Hans the Flammenwerfer: Longrange. Does a debuff on you.

Jamaine: Daze on hit. Chance to loot items from you. Outrun you. Special procchance: Bycicle. Usual spawns: Backyards or 24/7 shops.

[Dreaming Prince]

McZombie: perfectly preserved, dont decompose. blood like the alien monster

smart zombie: only walks around aimlessly looking at her hands. dangerous to motorbikes.

lawyer zombie: loose all your money if it gets within speaking range, even if you ignore it.

clown zombie: sneaks into little girls birthday parties, is actually a president

doctor zombie: will poison you and then try to sell you a pop n pills lifetime plus membership

teacher zombie: same as before the apocalypse, except less annoying, retains ability to cause a permanent state of mental derangement

toilet inspector zombie: the main character, often heard muttering about "my bottles"

[Nerevar]

well there is a new zombie comeing in next alpha end of the year.

given the devs mentality to counter player metas itll be :

the roof hoper : zombie which can climb vertical walls without needing a ladder.

[thestile]

Yep, I'd love those kind of guys in the game.
I would be really happy if games didn't limit to zombies and just started adding other horrible abominations to the game.

The Demolisher is cool, I'd love to have have 5-6 other big powerful freaks like that guy.

[onanonehand8]

Originally posted by Nerevar:

the roof hoper : zombie which can climb vertical walls without needing a ladder.

That was the last version of the spider zombie. And the work around was an over hanging block to stop the wall climbing.

The new dire wolf is a step in the right direction, lots of hit points and lots of damage given.

Would love to see an infectious type zombie that made an area highly toxic for several game days, that would include a player's base.