Of Chairs and Barricades

[TheWraithPlayer]

Me and a friend of mine where taking turns on my PC playing zomboid. At one point he got trapped upstairs in his house and was barricading a room to hide in/possibly make a stand. He is a recent player, and asked if he could move things to barricade. I said yes, and his first move was to place a normal chair that you can walk through in front of the door.

Me: "What did you do that for?'

Friend: 'I set the chair in front of it to block the zombies'

Me: 'they can just walk through it like u can.'

Friend: "Can I put it under the doorknob to jam the door?"

Me: "No.'

Friend: 'why not?! That's just kinda stupid'

So I thought about this for a while, and he has a point. Chairs should have some functionality other than resting and sleepingn

As always, thanks for reading.

[GHawkins]

Zombies are kind of in de habbit of knocking, but not using the door knobs, opting instead to break down the door. So jamming a chair against the door to keep zombies out is kind of useless, since they don't use them like we do.

 

Against other survivors in MP I can see use for this. But not so much in the scenario you described.

 

 

[xXxFANCYCAPYBARA36xXx]

Chairs and couches and actually pretty much every piece of furniture should have a use for barricading, chairs shouldnt block a door like that but they should make you move slower when walking past them so you could put up a lot of chairs at the door to slow the zombies down a lil

couches and all that on the other hand should make it harder for zombies to break through doors and slow them down considerably but you would have to be a strong character and need some tools to move those

Edited April 15, 2017 by zoeyflower

[TheWraithPlayer]

Thanks for the comments, they make a lot of sense. On the part about tools for moving couches, you've lsot me. I never understood why you need a hammer just to move a cabinet or a bookshelf.

[Tomwa]

On 4/15/2017 at 2:46 PM, GHawkins said:

Zombies are kind of in de habbit of knocking, but not using the door knobs, opting instead to break down the door. So jamming a chair against the door to keep zombies out is kind of useless, since they don't use them like we do.

 

Against other survivors in MP I can see use for this. But not so much in the scenario you described.

 

 

Would be nice (and slightly more realistic IMHO) for the zombies to have a chance of knocking the door open rather than obliterating it to it's components.

[ProjectSky]

You can use TV to block any place, because it is invincible.

[wsensor]

I thought the tv's could break now.

[Margera]

On 23.04.2017 at 0:48 PM, Sky_Orc_Mm said:

You can use TV to block any place, because it is invincible.

 

it's little sad  

[ProjectSky]

31 minutes ago, Margera said:

 

it's little sad  

Some objects are invincible, not just televisions. I have repeatedly reported the issue, it seems that only part of the fix.

[Margera]

Oh, i have a Question!

Do you know, the roof of the houses still still remains whole without the walls around?

 

3 minutes ago, Sky_Orc_Mm said:

Some objects are invincible, not just televisions. I have repeatedly reported the issue, it seems that only part of the fix.

 

Like there was some kind of mod for this thing, but I do not know whether its developers took it into their arsenal...

[xXxFANCYCAPYBARA36xXx]

On 16.4.2017 at 6:43 PM, TheWraithPlayer said:

Thanks for the comments, they make a lot of sense. On the part about tools for moving couches, you've lsot me. I never understood why you need a hammer just to move a cabinet or a bookshelf.

Balancing, I know it doesnt really make sense but if anyone could just immediately move those around with just their bare hands, multiplayer would be a clusterfuck and every single building would be completely empty and void of furniture or stuff to loot

[Kuren]

On 4/15/2017 at 1:14 PM, TheWraithPlayer said:

Can I put it under the doorknob to jam the door?

I really like this as an idea It could be a way of barricading a door if you don't have nails, a hammer or a plank, just adding a little hp to the door

[Zombadger]

12 hours ago, Kuren said:

I really like this as an idea It could be a way of barricading a door if you don't have nails, a hammer or a plank, just adding a little hp to the door

Much like OP's pal, I did this for the longest time thinking it did something. It just made so much sense.