I downloaded version 41.53 the other day and noticed that zombies seemed to be very difficult to shake. I wasn't sure what was causing this at first, but after a little testing, I discovered that zombies have unlimited memory if the player maintains a direct line of sight with the zombie -- even if the player is well outside the zombie's sight range.
Observe:
In the above example, I aggro two zombies. These zombies follow me some distance, then I take off running down the street in a straight line. This is very important. After a couple of blocks, I stop and wait. Despite being well outside the zombie's sight range, they continue to follow.
After that, I get up, run down the street again and take a break after a few blocks. This time, I run even further, and the zombies are still following!
Lastly, I run down the street, climb over several fences, all in a straight line and then take another break. One of the zombies continues to follow, and shows up a minute or so later. The second, zombie, after a quick check, apparently got hung up on something, but was still following me despite having traveled well outside of his sight capabilities!
Now on to the second example: If the player does in fact break the line of sight, zombies will forget and no longer follow the player, as they should. Re-entering a line of sight will not aggro said zombies, allowing the player to elude them like normal:
As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with stealth, and only to do with line of sight. In my proper game, I am playing a stealth character with utterly insane stealth stats (almost like stealth points are bugged...) and she is having the same problem. Zombies continue to follow, no matter what, as long as a direct straight line is maintained -- regardless of how far away the zombies actually are.
Technical information:
No mods
IWBUMS 41.53
GoG Archival Version (not from GoG Galaxy)
Windows 7 Pro
Thanks for reading.
