Do common infected feel pain?

[Geebanger0]

I think there's enough evidence to suggest that they would feel pain.

1) If you shoot their jaws off, they'll clutch at the wound and look around to determine the source of the attack. If they couldn't feel it, then they wouldn't do this.

2) They have specific sound effects for when they die. This is easy to notice if you kill them with a melee while they're idle, or if they're set on fire.

3) All Special infected have specific sound effects for when they die or get shot at (most notably, Witches, Hunters, Spitters, Tanks and Chargers). It wouldn't make sense for the flu to give the special infected the ability to feel pain if the common infected didn't have it, since there's no advantage for them feeling it. Only the Hunters actually retreat when shot at; every other special infected just runs at you no matter what, so not feeling any pain would be beneficial.

All of this means that they must be in complete agony when they jump off of buildings or high ledges to chase you. It would probably destroy their legs, and then they have to run after you in a full sprint.

Also setting them on fire or using a low damage weapon like an SMG or shotgun at mid range is cruel because it makes them feel more pain.

We should start a zombie rights organisation to ban these practices

[cyanide]

obviously they still feel pain green flu is just a mutated rabies theyre still humans just in a fit of rage

[Geebanger0]

Originally posted by cyanide:

obviously they still feel pain green flu is just a mutated rabies theyre still humans just in a fit of rage

well ive heard a few people say they dont

[DimTheEnderman]

Originally posted by Geebanger0:

Originally posted by cyanide:

obviously they still feel pain green flu is just a mutated rabies theyre still humans just in a fit of rage

well ive heard a few people say they dont

The sounds they make when set on fire say otherwise

[Z]

Im conviced they do, but just dont have the brain capacity to express pain like uninfected/carriers. its also likely their brain part responsible for receiving pain signals partially/completely shutdown, explaining them not taking fall damage/not reacting to their entire limb being chopped off (some wanderers have missing limbs)

[Geebanger0]

Originally posted by DimTheEnderman:

Originally posted by Geebanger0:

well ive heard a few people say they dont

The sounds they make when set on fire say otherwise

hence this post

[JAiZ]

They likely feel pain, but to a lesser degree than a regular person, since the virus makes them amped up on all sorts of hormones, like adrenaline.

[Hex ึ]

Originally posted by JAiZ:

They likely feel pain, but to a lesser degree than a regular person, since the virus makes them amped up on all sorts of hormones, like adrenaline.

jaiz, does it queef?

[JAiZ]

Originally posted by Echo:

Originally posted by JAiZ:

They likely feel pain, but to a lesser degree than a regular person, since the virus makes them amped up on all sorts of hormones, like adrenaline.

jaiz, does it queef?

What

[Zulxx]

I hope they do

[geordiebroon58]

yes and no

well yes because as mentioned you can hear them be in agony meany of occasions however due to them being infected by the green flu they dont really care for it and just ignore it all together

if you want to go by the aspect the person is still actually consious through the infection then they are in a lot worse than just pain id say, and well if you want to go that the green flu has taken over to the point theres no consiousness then that pain doesnt really mean anything to it

[ZeroSorrow™]

If the infected can feel pain and everything that's happening to them, I couldn't imagine how much pain the special infected must constantly be in. Some of those mutations look terrible, especially the spitter.

[Gena Cider]

why wouldn't they? it's not like pain itself kills something

common are always slowly starving, including the special infected who are mutated physically

[R3N]

I do not think they common feel much pain since they hit me with their chopped-off arm bone.
Special do since they make pain sound when you hit them.
Tanks seems to be less prone to pain unless you blow up a gas tank on it.
I am guessing in L4d1 tanks due feel a lot of pain when you burn them since they become more aggressive and run faster.

[geordiebroon58]

Originally posted by R3N:

I do not think they common feel much pain since they hit me with their chopped-off arm bone.
Special do since they make pain sound when you hit them.
Tanks seems to be less prone to pain unless you blow up a gas tank on it.
I am guessing in L4d1 tanks due feel a lot of pain when you burn them since they become more aggressive and run faster.

id say its more tat the tank has so much muccle that the bullet impact isnt strong enough to slow it down (to a significent degree, shooting a tank does slow it down but the minigun is the only one to do it to a significent degree, so a powerful explosion has the same sort of impact

to me its more likely the tank die to blood loss than fatal wounds

i think the nervse responding to pain is still there but any consionce feeling or decision is so far gone its not actually aware to me if there is some consiousness left inside them (i dont think so at all) then its numbed to the point it cant feel it or have any sense of awareness

but to me its most likely that it has zero cognitive or frontal lobe function. no thought no memories no awareness

[supersand]

they probably feel about 10% of the normal pain, its likely heavily suppressed by the green flu