mrorgan13 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 At the beginning of the game you start with nothing and use your hands and feet. Baseball cleats or football cleats would be great to stomp on the zombies with and can be worn in the shoes place. I play the game with rare finds and some items are hard to find. Cleats would be a great alternate until we find the baseball bat/axe. This is my first post to any forum so I don't know the proper etiquette but just let me know If I do something wrong! ToastedFishSandwich 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellsempty Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 This is actually a pretty cool idea dude. Granted the spikes of today are certainly not the spikes of olden days, in fact most of them are made with preventing injuries in mind.. I know golf pros still use metal spikes in their cleats, that could be messy. I could see this idea even tying in with the profession system, athlete, rec player, rich investment banker with a tee time etc... Either way they have the stomp in game, adding a bonus to it based on footwear seems obvious. Me wearing combat boots would certainly hurt alot more then my fuzzy bunny slippers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Good idea! I like the sound of this, another good one to hopefully go on the list of 'armors' for the future. Also, welcome to the PZ forums! Glad to have you with us. Fj45 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_234 Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Eh, personally I find this dubious. They're usually fairly soft material for safety and to avoid wearing delicate materials. In a pinch, that might scratch up someone's face, but they're still very light shoes with little force behind them. In fact, they might even injure the person wearing them if they're not practiced. I recall in my stint in sports medicine, there was occasionally the situation where a cleat would leave an athlete very planted to the ground, even as they tripped and wrenched their ankle. Plus, cleats wear out extremely fast compared to normal shoes. Perhaps hobnails would be more effective, but the last pair of shoes I saw with those were reproduction paratrooper boots. If golf shoes really have them, sure, but they're probably also not tough enough to kick someone's face in. IMO, shoes are for your feet, and in a game where you travel huge distances and run for protracted periods of time, that should mean quite a bit. To weaponize them is a bit tricky. Fj45 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheamus Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Cleats are nice and all as long as you're running in grass or dirt, but at pavement they become extremely slippery. I've been playing football for quite a while, and we fell quite a few times while going to the field from the dressing room, even though we were walking, running from zombies in them would be a nightmare, not to say it wrecks your ankles due to the lack of heel support. So I'd say it's a bad idea,unless you want to live in the forest, but then again a steel-toed would be better for that, just like it would be better for dealing with zombies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted December 5, 2013 Share Posted December 5, 2013 They do still make steel cleats. That's the only way I would see this being viable, not the plastic ones generally used in grade school sports and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nokinobu Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I would say focus more on safety boots which have steel tips or even army combat boots which will let you walk faster, less speed minuses, and bonus to stomping. Also when in on armor how about implementing bullet proof vests so people can use them to rip open for the kevlar in them and instead add it to say their jacket wrists and pants and such for light but strong armor that is realistically useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I would say focus more on safety boots which have steel tips or even army combat boots which will let you walk faster, less speed minuses, and bonus to stomping. Also when in on armor how about implementing bullet proof vests so people can use them to rip open for the kevlar in them and instead add it to say their jacket wrists and pants and such for light but strong armor that is realistically useful. I like the boot idea but wouldn't ripping open the vests pretty much destroy the kevlar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Most of the vests are just nylon coating wrapped and sewn around the actual kevlar pads (or a few other such types). You can even buy *just* the kevlar pieces in some stores (including where I work right now). Pretty nifty, but rather uncommon. Even where I work (we have a massive amount of hunting, military surplus, etc.) I think we only have one or two on hand as they're quite expensive and fairly low demand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Most of the vests are just nylon coating wrapped and sewn around the actual kevlar pads (or a few other such types). You can even buy *just* the kevlar pieces in some stores (including where I work right now). Pretty nifty, but rather uncommon. Even where I work (we have a massive amount of hunting, military surplus, etc.) I think we only have one or two on hand as they're quite expensive and fairly low demand. Sounds like those pads would make pretty good armor if you can find them, main problem would be attaching them securely. Also would have to attach them so you don't get really hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_234 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Yeah, no kidding about expensive. I was looking up a set of BALCS cut panels since i want to assemble a PACA armor carrier. $500 for a set in medium Dx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Yeah, no kidding about expensive. I was looking up a set of BALCS cut panels since i want to assemble a PACA armor carrier. $500 for a set in medium Dx *insert whistle here* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberevan Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 You just made me think: What if you had gloves with nails pointing outwards? Well, they'd obviously rip up after 9 or 10 uses per glove, but they'd sure do a lot of damage in that time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathlord Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Putting pressure onto the nails would then force pressure into your hands on the nail heads. Depending the size of the head, it's either going to break your fingers/hand, just fall off, or puncture your own skin. Not something I would recommend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Putting pressure onto the nails would then force pressure into your hands on the nail heads. Depending the size of the head, it's either going to break your fingers/hand, just fall off, or puncture your own skin. Not something I would recommend. How about bear claws? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberevan Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 WANT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fj45 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/1/1c/Heavy_specialweapon02.wav?t=20110320073007 This would be amazing as an Easter egg. Plz devs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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