Suggestion: zombie speed increase

[max]

The suggestion is to increase the speed of zombies. Personally I first thought this was rubbish, but now I think a slight increase in speed should be fine. I'm thinking about speed +50 for zombies (same as RPG bonus in H&S). What do you think? Should the speed increase be even larger?

[reality]

nooo, its not funny at all if some one is faster then you. It should be the same speed as human.

[Charlie]

I think it will be boring for humans, and hard to try to escape by running away, the zombies will catch up with him in no time.

I would say no for a speed increase.

[derocketsl]

Give one(perhaps the first zombie) a special ability and to even it out add 1 more special ability/gun to humans besides sniper&m4; tho m4 needs to nerfed LITTLE bit I think. Or I was just being unlucky.

[makeveli]

I like Rocket's idea. Only the first zombie has the ability to run faster. For example +20 or so.

[derocketsl]

I actually had another idea about the faster zombies.

There should be some pickable 'item' or something (1 per map/round) for zombies that will make them somewhat faster(+20-35 speed?) but at the same time, they would receive little bit more damage. Seems fair?

[Charlie]

Dec 9, 2010 19:10:24 GMT 1 derocketsl said:

I actually had another idea about the faster zombies.

There should be some pickable 'item' or something (1 per map/round) for zombies that will make them somewhat faster(+20-35 speed?) but at the same time, they would receive little bit more damage. Seems fair?

Ye, but if this item is placed somewhere in the map, the first zombie will always be the one taking it first since there are no other zombies. So basically it's just better to give him this ability in the start lol.

[derocketsl]

ohyeah didn't think of that.
why there's only 1 zombie in the beginning tho ? it would be better if there was 1 zombie for every 5 humans in the beginning, no?

[benj]

definately got to be a no for the speed increase..

[Charlie]

They become more and more anyway. I don't see the need of starting with more zombies at the beginning. Also nobody likes starting as zombie, so better to put all to humans and if they die early in the round > their fault.

A few reasons why. Also I personally like the concept of having 1 start zombie. I don't know if max agrees on this one, but however, as we've been playing now it has turned out well for the first zombie, mp_pra1 is like the golden map for the first zombie as he can easily get at least 5 kills in the beginning by rushing the ladder.

[max]

Right, so let's keep the speed equal for now.

If it turns out that the first zombie needs a powerup, then I think derocketsl idea is great. We can simply increase the speed of the first zombie to make life easier for him!

[~Rafi~]

That would be the best solution

[Nico]

Or make the guns better so the zombies died early and give them some extra speed, or give a zombie with like 1/2/3 kills more speed as reward?

[derocketsl]

Killing spree rewards sound nice for zombies, since zombies feed on other humans and when they get their stomach full, I guess they become somewhat more powerful?

I guess if zombie kills one, it could receive little hp boost (+10hp) and +20speed for 5 seconds? To compensate that, add 1 extra shell in sg clip for humans

[max]

Thread locked: we will keep the speed equal for now. We will discuss (temporary) powerups for zombies in a different thread.