More complex zombie design

[LeetgamerBoi]

In short, it would be awesome if zombies took disorganized, shaky steps, their bodies swung more, they tripped over shit, dynamically moving and animated based on a lite physics engine and they did not have scripted animations.

Like, scripted to where they walk, but the rest practically like a ragdoll making a slight effort to walk.

The head just flopping everywhere and jaw dangling.
Some with missing limbs, knives in their chests.

Some with broken legs, skin torn off of most of body, just muscle and bone. 
Make them look creepy like dead bodies!

And most of all- add more sounds.

From mostly hissing, to more vocal groans and roars, Take a page from resident evil 2's zombie style for all this.

And a real pick at it, make them more scary banging on shit.
On windows, make them ram their faces and chests and forarms onto it, like the opening scene of the last of us with jimmy pounding on the glass door.

And them slamming fists into doors and backing up and ramming them.
Allow a learning cognition in sandbox that will allow them to vagely use weapons semi properly by watching a human do it.
Simple things, like swipe at you with a knife in it's hand, or pick up a gun and start wildly pulling the trigger, with a chance of it shooting other zombies or itself, or maybe it even grazing you.

Let them pick up stuff and throw them, like pick up a rock and use it to smash in a window.

It happend in the dawn of the dead and other romero films.

You deviated from brookes because it specifically states zombies ONLY bite, they don't punch you.

You don't follow that in brookes, zombies never give up.
In this game, a zombie will get bored of hitting a strong wall and wander off.

In wwz a zombie spent 6 days digging in the sand for a gopher, but the hole kept refilling itself, but the zombie just kept on trying. relentlessly.

[syfy]

maybe this is just not the game for you.

 

 

zombies do NOT punch anyone in the game.

[LeetgamerBoi]

maybe this is just not the game for you.

 

 

zombies do NOT punch anyone in the game.

When you have the thick skinned perk, sometimes the zombie won't scratch nor bite, but you still take a bit of damage, and for some reason it is called a "Punch" by most, so i only assumed that was what it was supposed to be.

[King jjwpenguin]

 

maybe this is just not the game for you.

 

 

zombies do NOT punch anyone in the game.

When you have the thick skinned perk, sometimes the zombie won't scratch nor bite, but you still take a bit of damage, and for some reason it is called a "Punch" by most, so i only assumed that was what it was supposed to be.

 

Never heard of that... Well good to know.

[Footmuffin]

I can see a failed scratch ending in just a punch or a swat. It isn't that big of a change from a dead walking corpse moving its hand in your direction to reach your arm and tighten and push its unfeeling, ragged fingers into your dermis and muscular tissue, to it moving its hand to reach your arm and fail to penetrate or grip.