Rear Counter Attack

[Nowthere27]

Allowing the player to knock a zombie off when being grabbed from behind would be boss. 

 

This would start off with the rear elbow strike where the player strikes their elbow either against the zombies upper head or their torso to knock them off. Kind of like in real life. 

 

Spacebar could be pressed to achieve this when the player is grabbed from behind. As opposed to mere squirming or trying to grab the zombie off.

 

This would obviously have to be done very fast otherwise the player will be instantly killed or infected to the point of eventually dying. 

 

Also if you're holding a melee weapon you could strike that into the zombie as well! With a gun, you'd either shoot them or simply hit them. Spacebar to hit them off with the gun right click held down with left click to shoot them.

 

Before anyone says "Zombies don't feel pain." the thing is they can still be damaged as well as jostled so unarmed this attack would operate based on sheer force with them. As for the NPCs I imagine the hostile ones would feel pain so they'd be easier to knock off. Since there are hostile players in multiplayer this attack could be used against those guys.

 

So I'm thinking it'd take 1 to 5 hits to knock a single zombie off and definitely more than that range if multiple zombies are even possible to knock off with the attack. Less hits if used with a melee weapon and instantaneous death when shot by a gun.

 

If being attacked from both the rear and front I was thinking the player could elbow the one in back with one hand and push the other in front with the other hand. This attack would also be done with spacebar. A similar attack could be done with a melee weapon where the player strikes the rear one with the weapon and pushes with the other hand or kicks with one foot.

 

I've seen all these playthroughs (including my own) where people get chomped on by one or more zombies and I think "Wouldn't it be cool if you could save yourself with a rear counter attack?"

 

No attack is perfect of course but it'd add more combat function rather than the player having no options but to lament they didn't watch their back well enough.

 

Technically the player still does have to watch their back (prevention is key) but with this attack it doesn't have to necessarily be the end. 

 

In short, the player should be able to rear counter attack to save their back!